26Auschwitz pool
There was a swimming pool at Auschwitz
27. Barns were traditionally red because farmers mixed rust with their DIY sealant mixture to resist fungus and moss, turning the mixture red
28. Approximately 75% of France's total electricity generation is derived from its 58 fission reactors, and it is the largest net exporter of electricity in the world.
29. EU citizens have a right to consular protection by diplomatic authorities of any EU member if their own homeland doesn't have any offices in the country they visit. (E.g.: if an Italian is in a place where there is no Italian embassy, but there is a German or French one, he can call them.)
30. As 2015 there are 130 prison escapees that have never been captured, including one from Alabama that escaped in 1929.
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31Ice ship
Canadians attempted to build a ship out of ice during WWII.
32. Moments after U.S. President William McKinley was shot, his assassin (Leon Czolgosz) was rushed and severely beaten by the crowd. McKinley slumped back and said, "go easy on him boys."
33. King Louis XIV's daily schedule was filled with ceremonies, including a waking-up ceremony, where important members of the court would watch while the sovereign was washed, combed and shaved.
34. The oldest yo mama joke is on a 3500-year-old Babylonian tablet
35. A hacker used a botnet of about 420,00 devices to measure the extent of the internet. This is known as the Internet Census of 2012.
36Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary wrote a massive screenplay in 1987 called 'The Open Road', which would later get split into two separate screenplays called 'True Romance' and 'Natural Born Killers'.
37. The Basra Prison Incident where British special forces raided an Iraqi prison to free 2 undercover SAS soldiers. The raid also freed approximately 150 prisoners.
38. Clams add a layer to their shell for every annual growth cycle they undergo, so by counting layers of the shell, you can determine its age.
39. China produces 67% of the world's watermelons. They produce 20 times more than the second highest producer.
40. In baseball, a left-handed specialist is a relief pitcher who throws left-handed and specializes in pitching to left-handed batters. They frequently enjoy long careers since their pitching arm suffers less stress.
41Self kidnapping
In 1974, a 20-year-old man named Kenneth Lutz kidnapped himself in an attempt to get $5000 from his parents. He was found a couple hours later in a camper van behind his house.
42. Conrad Hilton was sentenced after threatening airline crew and calling passengers 'peasants'
