26Kate Capshaw
During the filming of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Kate Capshaw's custom-made beaded dress was hanging on a tree for a background shot. An elephant ate most of the back of it. Because of the dress' value, the production submitted an insurance claim, noting "dress eaten by elephant."
27. Anybody traveling on the International Space Station needs to have both metric and imperial tools with them. This is because the American portion has been built in 'imperial' and the rest in metric.
28. Maryland passed the United States' first campaign finance reform law in 1811. It prohibited candidates from purchasing alcohol for voters, which was an extremely common practice at that time.
29. A fake smile is called 'The Pan Am smile', named after the airline Pan American World Airways, whose flight attendants would always flash every passenger the same superficial smile.
30. The reason we have 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour and 360 degrees in a circle is because the Sumerians used a counting system with a base 60, which was then passed on to the Babylonians.
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31The Bloody Benders
‘The Bloody Benders’ were America’s first serial killer family. They are known to have killed 11 people between 1868 and 1872, luring each of them into their hotel in Cherryvale, Kansas. They disappeared before their crimes were discovered and were never seen again.
32. Hatuey was an anti-colonial revolutionary in Cuba during the 16th century. Upon being captured by the Spaniards he was sentenced to be burned. Before being burned a priest offered to baptize him so he may go to heaven. To this, he said, "If the Spaniards go to this heaven, I don't want to go."
33. Around 200,000 tonnes of rock was removed to build the ancient Indian temple called Kailasa. This megalith was carved out of one single rock. Carvers started at the top of the original rock and excavated downward.
34. Although it is commonly shown in medical dramas, you do not shock someone with a flatline. You only use defibrillators on people with ventricular fibrillation, and pulseless ventricular tachycardia (heart beats out of rhythm or heartbeats that are really fast and out of sync).
35. 10 minutes before the Titanic hit an iceberg, the nearby SS Californian's sole radio operator (Stanley Lord) shut his set down for the night and went to bed. They were only 10-12 miles away, while the RMS Carpathia, which was 58 miles away, arrived 1.5 hours after the Titanic Sank.
