26Painted cows
During the Blitz in World War 2, some British farmers painted their cows with white stripes in case they wondered onto roads in the dark during blackouts.
27. The original Volkswagen Beetle would temporarily float on water because of a sealed steel bottom with nothing exposed beneath it. Volkswagen even created a 1972 television commercial which demonstrated its ability to float. It sold for $1999 (roughly equivalent to $12,000 today).
28. English comedian Russell Brand was originally a host for MTV UK but was fired for arriving at work dressed as Osama bin Laden the day after 9/11 and taking his drug dealer to the studio.
29. Anatomist Antonio Valsalva sometimes tasted the fluids of cadavers he performed autopsies on. One of his quotes was, “Gangrenous pus does not taste good...leaving the tongue tingling unpleasantly for the better part of the day.”
30. In East Asia, 80-90% of children are myopic (nearsighted) and require glasses. Scientists theorize that their eyes aren't developing properly because eyes require exposure to natural sunlight to develop, and the kids spend all their time indoors, studying.
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31A Fish Called Wanda
In 1989, a Danish audiologist named Ole Bentzen was watching the screening of the 1988 comedy film “A Fish Called Wanda” and laughed uncontrollably to the point that his heart rate rose to an estimated 250–500 beats per minute, leading to a fatal heart attack.
32. Vic Tandy who was a British lecturer for information technology at Coventry University in Warwickshire and he discovered the “fear frequency.” Tandy and his coworkers at the Warwick Laboratory experienced “ghost” sightings with feelings of fear and depression. He discovered that a new extractor fan was emitting sound waves at low frequencies known as infrasound, which was causing the disturbance.
33. Saint Patrick's color was blue, not green. St. Patrick's blue, can be seen on ancient Irish flags and was used on armbands and flags by the Irish Citizen Army up until the 1798 Irish Rebellion. This is when the clover and the color green taken from Irelands lush fields became symbols for Ireland.
