26Golden Records
The Golden Records on the Voyager probes includes copyrighted material that aliens will be able to access and use completely for free, but we can't.
27. When asked to investigate the space shuttle Challenger disaster, Richard Feynman wrote a very critical report about NASA's safety policy concluding: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
28. Research suggests that playing Tetris can give a “quick and manageable” fix for people struggling to stick to diets or quit smoking or drinking.
29. There was not one single bank robbery in the Americas for the first 80 years of its existence, so they virtually had no security. Then there was an explosion of bank robberies.
30. For the past 50 years, the Skilcraft US Government ballpoint pen has been produced by sight-impaired workers under an 80-year-old program dating to the New Deal to employ blind Americans.
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31Goats
Goats, like us, have regional accents, and goats from different regions can have trouble understanding each other.
32. Coors wasn't available in all 50 states until 1991. Hence the movie “Smokey and the Bandit” was about running Coors illegally from Texas to Georgia.
33. Deep into the night during an HBO broadcast of The Falcon and the Snowman in April 1986, subscribers were startled to see the start of the action interrupted by a four-and-a-half-minute transmission from a certain “Captain Midnight.” A Florida man in the mask of Captain Midnight had hijacked HBO’s satellite feed to protest their high prices.
34. Tom Petty had a severe cold during the recording of "I Won't Back Down". George Harrison, whose vocals are featured on the recording, bought a ginger root, boiled it, and had Petty put his head in the pot to clear his sinuses. The final version was recorded moments after.
35. In “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”, the newspapers reported about the fraudulent “winner” of the fifth golden ticket in Paraguay. The man pictured in the paper was a real-life Nazi named Martin Bormann. The joke by the director was that he had fled like many other Nazis to South America.
