26Patient Zero
The term 'patient 0' is based on a misunderstanding. An early HIV patient was named 'patient O', standing for 'patient OUT of California'. People misinterpreted this letter as the numeral 0, leading to its widespread usage today.
27. A grown cat can jump between 5-8 times its height. That would be the equivalent of a human being able to jump from the ground up to the 3rd or 4th floor.
28. Even though humans are on average getting taller for the past several thousand years, we're still not as tall as we used to be pre-civilization.
29. The Mummy (1999) helped Universal studios gross over $1 billion in home video sales.
30. The village of Tryweryn, which is now lost, was a Welsh village and one of the last predominantly Welsh-speaking communities. The village was forcibly vacated, destroyed, and purposely flooded by the British government in 1965 in order to create a reservoir to provide water for the English city of Liverpool.
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31Morgan's Sphinx Moth
When Charles Darwin was sent some flowers from a friend, he noticed that one of the flowers was extremely long and he bet some kind of moth with a really long mouth must exist to pollinate it. A few years later Morgan's sphinx moth was discovered which had a really long proboscis.
32. Willie O'Ree, the first black man to play in the NHL, was blind in one eye. It was caused by a ricocheting puck that hit him in the face when he was 18 and he kept it a secret for his entire 21-year career.
33. The average NBA player has a wingspan-to-height ratio greater than the diagnostic criteria for Marfan syndrome; a disorder that results in abnormally long limbs.
34. Catacomb saints are skeletons exhumed from Roman catacombs and decorated with gold and jewels to serve as "replacement relics" for those destroyed during the Protestant Reformation. It is unlikely that any of those skeletons are actually of the people they are reputed by tradition to be.
35. Emerson Romero was a silent film actor who was deaf. When movies with sound were invented, deaf actors got fewer roles and the intertitle text was removed. This led him to make an early form of movie captioning in 1947 so that movies would still be accessible to deaf people.
