26Hiram Maxim
American-born British inventor Hiram Maxim took out ads in the local paper to warn his neighbors in West Norwood on the days he was planning to test-fire his prototype machine gun in the back garden.
27. In an ant colony, there are ant ‘undertakers’ whose sole job is to remove dead ants from the nest and take them to a trash pile.
28. Cortlandt Alley in New York City serves as the movie shoot location for almost all alley scenes filmed in the city. This is because, contrary to popular conception, there are not many alleys in New York City.
29. Denver, Colorado rejected the 1976 Winter Olympics by referendum after bidding for and winning selection to hold the Games. It is the only time a city has rejected the Games after they had been awarded.
30. The first road vehicle to go over 100 kilometers per hour (62 mph) was a Belgian electric vehicle. Camille Jenatzy accomplished this feat in a car he designed himself, "La Jamais contente" (Never Satisfied), set a road speed record of 105.88 km/h on 29 April 1899, in Achères.
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31Button Capital of the World
The Chinese town of Qiaotou has been nicknamed the “button capital of the world.” Around 60% of the world’s supply of clothing buttons is produced there, as well as 80% of the world’s zippers.
32. Burger King discontinued its Halloween Whopper that had a black dyed bun after customers started reporting that their poop was turning green after eating it.
33. The “singing” Colossi of Memnon are two large statues of Pharoah Amenhotep III that have been described throughout history to be making low moaning, whistling, or blowing noises due to vaporizing dew escaping from cracks within the statues.
34. King’s Hawaiian Bread was founded by an Okinawan immigrant to Hawaii who based it on the sweet bread that fellow sugar plantation workers from Portugal made and is no longer made in Hawaii but comes from Torrance in Los Angeles
35. The Italian dessert, Tiramisù, was meant to be a natural aphrodisiac as it was invented in a brothel and it literally means “pick me up.”
