26Demilitarized Zone
The Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea has created an ecological oasis where otherwise rare or extinct species are thriving.
27. American actress Candice Bergen’s ventriloquist father left $10,000 to his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, and $0 to her. Charlie also had his own bedroom, which was bigger than hers. She also recalls "A gentle squeeze on the back of my neck was my cue to open and shut my mouth so he could ventriloquize me.”
28. Digital VHS tapes from 1998 could store 50GB of 1080i on a normal sized tape, the only way to get HD commercial films until Blu-ray technology was developed in 2004.
29. Hajime Isayama, the creator of the “Attack on Titan” manga, came up with the idea for the Titans after of an encounter with a drunken customer in an internet cafe he worked at.
30. Heavy metal band “Megadeth” was given $8000 to record their first album. After spending half of it on drugs and food, they proceeded to fire the original producer and finished the album on their own.
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In 2017, Sony and IBM produced a new tape system that could store nearly 3 times the total number of books ever published in all of history. It is capable of storing 201 gigabits of data per square inch, for a max theoretical capacity of 330 terabytes in a single palm-sized cartridge.
32. Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to go into space. In 1963, she spent almost 3 days in space and orbited Earth 48 times in her space capsule, Vostok 6.
33. In 2006, a man in Sudan was forced to marry a goat by his local council of elders after being caught in the act with it by the goat's owner. He also had to pay a $50 dowry to the owner. It is not clear if they are still together.
34. Osama Bin Laden had a Steam account, which had Batman Gotham Knight and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, among many other such items.
