26Bicycles
Bicycles have no speed limits in the United Kingdom, but you can get charged with 'cycling furiously'.
27. Animators and visual effects artists for Disney's Frozen were sent to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to experience walking, running, and falling in deep snow. Both male and female personnel tried on long skirts to see how they interacted with the snow.
28. The disclaimer "No animals were harmed during the making of this film" can be put on movies, even if animals died during the production, as long as cameras weren't rolling at the time.
29. For the Guinness World Records, it is required in the guidelines of all "large food" type records that the item be fully edible, and distributed to the public for consumption, to prevent food wastage.
30. A Formula One driver named Alan Stacey was killed when a bird flew into his face during a race in 1960.
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31Billy Hunt
A convict named Billy Hunt tried to escape Port Arthur Prison (Tasmania) by disguising himself as a kangaroo. The plan worked until a couple of hungry guards decided to supplement their rations with some kangaroo meat and took him. Billy had no choice but to surrender.
32. The "Sailors' Handshake" is a special handshake that can detect if a potential partner has Syphilis.
33. Although Martin Luther King Jr. was only 39 at the time of his death, autopsy results revealed that he had the heart of a 60-year-old. Doctors believed this was a result of stress.
34. A Croatian man named Frane Selak, escaped death several times throughout the mid-1900s, including (but not limited to) falling out of an airplane, being hit by a bus, and swerving off a road and over a cliff to avoid an auto accident. In 2003, he purchased his first lottery ticket and won.
35. George R.R. Martin bought the first ticket to the first Comic-Con in 1964.
