26Pulp fiction
Jules Winfield, the character that Samuel L. Jackson played in “Pulp Fiction,” was never supposed to have jheri curls. That wig was brought to the set by mistake. Instead, Jules was supposed to have an afro.
27. A man named Valentine Tapley swore to never shave again if Abraham Lincoln were to be elected president, and he kept his promise. His beard eventually grew so long that most days he tied it in a knot and stuffed it into a silk bag that he wore beneath his vest. He died 50 years later at the age of 80 with a beard 12.5 feet long.
28. Before he became a founding father of the United States, Benjamin Franklin established one of America’s first volunteer fire departments.
29. In 2014, a sinkhole opened up under the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky. The 40 foot wide sinkhole swallowed eight rare or one-of-a-kind cars but didn't impact the structural integrity of the building.
30. Cruise ships are required to carry body bags and maintain a small morgue in the event of a death onboard.
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31Back to the Future
The original ending to 'Back to the Future' would have Marty driving 88 mph towards a nuclear blast in a nuclear test site. However, Universal deemed it too expensive to shoot in the desert, so the lightning scene was instead shot at the Universal backlot and is shown in the final version.
32. In 1984, an animator named Jim Jenkins had a rough breakup and suffered injuries in a biking accident. He gained a new outlook on life and desired a world “where there is no overdue rent and no delinquent phone bills”. This inspired the creation of Bluffington, the hometown of Nickelodeon's Doug.
33. A completely blind atheist named Thomas Gore was Oklahoma's first US Senator.
34. A library named Biblioteca Joanina in Portugal unleashes a swarm of bats every night to combat book-damaging pests.
