26Racist camera
Nikon was once accused of racist face-detection software in its cameras. When Asian faces were photographed, a message would pop up on the camera screen asking, “Did someone blink?”
27. In Alaska, it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they are moose hunting.
28. Humans have the ability to see ultraviolet (UV) light, but it is filtered by the eye’s lens. People who have surgery to remove the lens can see UV light. The condition is known as Aphakia.
29. Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was the first person to suggest that unsterile working practices by doctors caused infections that killed patients. Later in life, he went mad because nobody would believe him. Now he’s known as the “Savior of Mothers.”
30. Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backward and their wings can beat at up to 80 times per second.
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31The Vault
There is a coffee shop named The Vault in North Dakota that has no employees staffing it. It runs entirely on the honor system and its working.
32. A man in Pennsylvania found an original copy of the Declaration of Independence hidden in the frame of a $4 painting he bought at a garage sale.
33. In 1799, when English scientists first saw a platypus, they thought it was a prank and one zoologist tried removing the platypus' bill.
34. In an emergency coconut water can be used as blood plasma.
35. The CIA spent $20 million in the 60s training cats to spy on the Soviets. The first spy cat was hit by a taxi.
