1George Washington
George Washington moved his slaves in and out of Pennsylvania every 6 months to avoid them taking advantage of a law that meant slaves residing in the state longer than half a year could claim freedom.
2. Dwayne Johnson was the 2nd person on earth to publicly report the news of Osama bin Laden's death, only 47 seconds after a navy intel officer leaked it from official sources.
3. When Usain Bolt broke the 100 m world record at the 2009 Berlin World Championships, the mayor of Berlin awarded him a 12 foot long, 6000-pound piece of the Berlin Wall. Bolt accepted and it is now housed at the Jamaica Military Museum.
4. The Murchison meteorite, which fell to earth in 1969 contained high levels of organic compounds. It came from a parent body that had liquid water, and the amino acids it contained could not have been synthesized on earth because they consisted of both left- and right- isomers.
5. The Golden State Killer attended a public information meeting about his own attacks. A husband stood up and mocked the notion that the killer would attack if a man was present in the home. The killer followed the couple home to see where they live and returned 6 months later to attack them.
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6David Prowse
After realizing his voice would be dubbed, David Prowse, the actor for Darth Vader, often improvised his lines which resulted in his co-stars having to respond to the correct lines anyway.
7. In the 1980s Janet Jackson was criticized for not writing her own music and being dependent on producers. In response, she wrote and co-produced every song on her following album, which ended up being her best-selling album ever.
8. Jackie Coogan, the silent film child actor who was famously exploited by his parents for his earnings, found renewed screen success later in life playing Uncle Fester on the Addams Family.
9. Film score composer Hans Zimmer saw the Lion King as a metaphor of a son losing his father at a young age, which tragically also happened to him. "Suddenly I am writing a requiem for my father, and the whole thing became intensely personal”. The score landed him an Oscar for best music.
10. Danny Trejo has been in over 353 movies, and when IMDB tested his knowledge of which movies he had been in, he passed with flying colors.
11Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur was a ballet dancer and played the role of the Mouse King in The Nutcracker.
12. Chimpanzees have been known to steal alcohol, get drunk, then attack humans after mistaking them for monkeys.
13. In 2006 Prince did a 'Willy Wonka' and made Universal hide 14 purple tickets—seven in the U.S. and seven internationally—inside his latest album, 3121. Fans who found a purple ticket were invited to attend a private performance at Prince's Los Angeles home.
14. Scientists proposed a “Minimal Turing Test” where you get to use only one word to convince others you are human and not a machine. The single word that people found most likely to distinguish a human from a machine based on a new study was the word “poop”.
15. While hospitalized after a 2008 plane crash, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker was in so much pain that he repeatedly called friends and offered them $1 million to assist him in committing suicide. Hospital staff eventually took his phone away.
16Oldest human cancer
Scientists have found cancer in a 1.7 million-year-old foot bone and a 2 million-year-old spine from two ancient hominin specimens in South Africa. Before these finds, the oldest dated cancer in a human was only 120,000 years old.
17. An FDA study requested by the military found 90% of more than 100 drugs, both prescription and over-the-counter, were still safe and effective even 15 years after the expiration date. Expiration dates don’t really indicate a point at which the medication is no longer effective or unsafe to use.
18. Prince backed out of singing with Michael Jackson on Bad, because of the line “your butt is mine.” Prince said “Now, who is going to sing that to whom? Cause [he] sure ain’t singing that to me, and I sure ain’t singing it to [him].”
19. Chickens produced in the US has been banned in the EU since 1997 as it is washed in a strong chlorine solution. The chlorine washing is popular in the US due to poor hygiene standards in abattoirs.
20. In 2017, undercover officers from two different precincts in Detroit tried to arrest each other in a drug sting. Both precincts had undercover officers as drug dealers/buyers and they didn't know about each other. When they tried to deal drugs with each other, guns were drawn and a fight started as both of them claimed to be the police.
21Percy Spencer
In 1945, a school dropout and self-taught electrical engineer named Percy Spencer was working at Raytheon. Once when he stepped in front of a magnetron, a device that powers radars, he noticed that chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. Later that year, he filed a patent for the first microwave oven.
22. Patton Oswalt once stood absolutely motionless during an entire 3-minute opening scene on the sitcom "King of Queens," and no one noticed it until years later.
23. A deer's eyes are more sensitive to light than ours. That's why when a deer is suddenly struck by the beam of a car’s headlights, its fully dilated pupils become blinded by the abundance of light, so it cannot see anything at all. This is why they just stand still in front of an incoming car.
24. The reason the film ‘Selma’ didn't use MLK’s actual speeches is because Steven Spielberg has the sole film rights to all of MLK's speeches which he bought in 2009. Ava DuVernay wrote speeches that were plausible, but different enough to avoid a copyright battle.
25. After "Rocky IV," a joke circulated around Hollywood that Rocky had run out of earthly opponents and would have to fight an alien if a fifth film was made. That joke inspired the script for "Predator."
