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31Whiskey

After his presidency, George Washington owned the largest whiskey distillery in the U.S.

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32Mt. Townsend and Mt. Kosciuszko

Mount Kosciuszko was thought to be the highest mountain in Australia until Mount Townsend was found to be slightly taller. Rather than re-educating the public that Townsend was the new highest mountain, the New South Wales Lands Department simply switched their names.

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33Bill Gates

In 1997, Bill Gates invested $150 million in Apple to save it from going bankrupt.

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34Alabama bloodhound

In 2016, a bloodhound joined a half marathon in Alabama after her owner let her out to go pee. She ran the entire 13.1 miles and finished 7th.

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35Erfurt latrine disaster

During the Erfurt latrine disaster of 1184, a party of nobles gathered in a room within the Church of St. Peter in Erfurt, right above the latrine pit of the monks. Due to the weight of the party, the floor of the room collapsed and up to 100 nobles died plummeting into the fecal pool.

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36Dutch Height

Dutch people, currently the tallest population in the world, actually used to be the shortest population in Europe just 150-200 years ago.

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37Emma Watson

Rupert Grint and Emma Watson stated in an interview that while filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows they both had casts made of their buttocks (“bum casts”) which were used to make the bicycle-like seats mounted on the broomsticks in order to make them more comfortable to ride.

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38VHS/Betamax war

The VHS/Betamax war of the 80s/90s spawned a little known 10-hour VHS cassette, enough to record the entire LOTR trilogy on one tape.

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39Rutherford Hayes

President Rutherford B. Hayes is remembered in the US mostly for being the first president to lose the popular vote and win the electoral vote. He is remembered very fondly in Paraguay for his help in settling a territorial dispute that ensured "its survival as a country."

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40Federal Tea Testers

From 1897 until 1996 the federal government had a board of tea testers whose job was to make sure that imported tea was good enough to be sold in the US.

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