26Åland & Öland Coat of Arms
The coat of arms of the Swedish islands of Åland and Öland was accidentally swapped when they were granted in 1560s. This mistake not noticed until 1944.
27. Palm trees aren't trees. They are just massive plants like bamboo or banana 'trees.'
28. The United States is home to about 43% of Golf courses worldwide, more than any other nation.
29. Jack Barsky was a former KGB agent who lived in the US. The FBI bought the property next door and monitored him for 3 years. When he was caught, he confessed. He later became close friends with the FBI agent tasked with monitoring him. That FBI agent is now a godfather to Barsky’s child.
30. The Sultanate of Women was a period in Ottoman history that lasted for a century where the wives and mothers of the sultans held incredible political power. It all started with Hürrem Sultan, the wife of Suleiman the magnificent.
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31James Marsters
James Marsters worked outside of his contracts to voice Zamasu in Dragon Ball Super entirely for free. He did so to redeem himself to the Dragon Ball community, having previously played King Piccolo in the critically-panned Dragon Ball Evolution.
32. During the production of The Godfather, actor James Caan used to hang out with Carmine Persico, a.k.a. “The Snake”, who was a notorious Mafioso and later head of the Colombo crime family. Government agents briefly mistook Caan, who was relatively unknown at that time, as an aspiring mobster.
33. The Wright Brothers' first patent wasn't for their airplane. It was for the system of controls they built to control their airplane.
34. "Slack Fill" lawsuits are suits aimed at food companies for packing their food only a fraction of each container's capacity. Most of these are class-action suits and the majority of the U.S. suits are filed from Northern California. In fact, lawyers call San Francisco the "Food Court."
35. Iceland was once covered in trees until the Vikings came and cut them down to make room for sheep.
