26Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin and his wife were first cousins. They had 10 kids of which only 7 made it to adulthood. Worried that his marriage had something to do with the deaths, he began to experiment with plants. He learned that with any kind of breeding, it's better to cross-breed than to keep relatives together.
27. There is a small café named La Petite Syrah in France that sells coffee to rude customers for €7 while polite customers get coffee for €1.40.
28. A man named Dean Karnazes can run without ever getting tired due to his exponentially high lactate threshold. He was able to run a Marathon in the south pole at -25°C and run for three consecutive nights before having to stop for sleep.
29. Wyatt Earp was the last surviving participant of the OK Corral shootout, dying in 1929, aged 80. He'd held many jobs throughout his career, one of which was as an enforcer at a brothel. In his later years, he’d consulted on Hollywood westerns and got to know various actors and directors.
30. Tom Hanks refused to get paid for his roles in Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan, preferring to take percentages of the movies’ worldwide total gross instead. He got almost $60 million from Forrest Gump and between $30 million and $40 million from Saving Private Ryan.
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31Identical twins
There have been several cases whereby identical twins are acquitted of crimes even though one of them is a definite guilty as identical twins have almost identical DNA and legal system cannot afford to punish the wrong twin for the crime.
32. Due to a 4-year-old boy misunderstanding his mother, young children diagnosed with cystic fibrosis are taught to say "65 roses" to help them pronounce the condition.
