26Silkie
There is a breed of chicken called the Silkie, which has black skin and black bones.
27. A book named Agrippa was released in 1992 that can only be read once before it destroys itself. It also includes a floppy disk with a 300-word poem designed to corrupt itself after a single read. It cost $450.
28. A corrupt U.S. immigration official named Mai Nhu Nguyen once accepted 200 eggrolls in exchange for granting citizenship.
29. Hermit crabs form gangs to steal other hermit crabs' shells.
30. A woman named Jessica Sandy Booth mistook some cheese for cocaine and so she hired a hit-man to kill a house full of people to steal it. The hit-man then turned out to be a police officer.
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31Pneumatic tube mail
Until 1953, New York City had a pneumatic tube mail network that spanned 27 miles and connected 23 post offices. At its peak, the system moved 95,000 letters a day.
32. When Liam Neeson read the script for the Taken movie, he thought the movie would go straight to DVD.
33. In 1985, a rock band named Simple Minds rearranged and recorded "Don't You Forget about Me" in 3 hours then forgot about it until The Breakfast Club came out and it became a #1 hit.
34. In 1953, the City of Niagara Falls bought a plot of land called "Love Canal" for $1 from a chemical company that had used the area as a dump. Despite warnings from the company, a school was built on the land. From 1974–1978, 56% of children in the area were born with birth defects.
35. Herbert Hoover and his wife learned Mandarin when living in China during the Boxer Rebellion, and used to speak it in the White House to foil eavesdroppers.
36Jerry Parr
A Secret Service agent named Jerry Parr that saved President Reagan's life after an assassination attempt had become a Secret Service agent after seeing movies as a child about the Secret Service. Those movies starred Ronald Reagan.
37. The whiptail lizard from Mexico and the U.S. Southwest is an all-female species. The males have gone completely extinct. These lizards manage to produce well-bred offspring without the aid of male fertilization. They're not hermaphroditic. The females actually lay and hatch from unfertilized eggs.
