26Häagen-Dazs
Foreign branding is the process of naming a product to sound exotic. An example is Häagen-Dazs, which was invented in the Bronx.
27. An astronomer named Jamie Lomax was frightened by the jumping spiders on her ceiling, but after she discovered that they were capable of seeing the moon, she said “They can see the moon just like me! I can't kill them now that I know that.”
28. DJ Khaled used his baby son Asahd Tuck Khaled's reactions to the sounds to gauge the quality of songs for the album "Grateful" (the baby vomiting indicated the best quality), and then had the baby legally declared the album's executive producer.
29. Astronauts of Apollo 16 and 17 reported Moondust to be "soft like snow, yet strangely abrasive, with a taste and smell of gunpowder."
30. The TV host of The Soupy Sales Show was once suspended for asking his young viewers to send him "little green pieces of paper" taken from their parents' wallets.
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31Cute aggression
There exists a psychological phenomenon called “cute aggression” where people will react to seeing cute things with violent impulses.
32. GravityLight is an LED light powered by a bag filled with 20 lbs of rocks or earth, attached to a cord, which slowly descends and powers the light for up to 20 minutes and takes only seconds to reset. Intended as a replacement for kerosene lamps in the developing world it has no operating costs.
33. Actress Constance Smith went to jail for stabbing her boyfriend (Paul Rotha) in 1962. She stabbed him again in 1968 and was charged with attempted murder. They married in 1974.
34. The "General Sherman" tree in the Giant Forest is approximately 2200 years old. It would have been a little sapling 200 years before Jesus walked the earth.
35. In 2011, Staples licensed the name "Dunder Mifflin" from NBC to sell their own paper products under that brand.
36Virginia Apgar
Virginia Apgar invented the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child, and ended up saving countless lives.
37. The name Scotch Tape comes from a racial stereotype that Scottish people are cheap. When a painter was testing the product, he complained that the makers were “Scotch” with the amount of adhesive on the tape.
38. While recording the album "Rumours", the members of Fleetwood Mac said that cocaine was more of a necessity than a pleasure, and seriously considered thanking their drug dealer in the album credits.
