1Jelly Babies & Beatles
Paul McCartney once mentioned that he liked Jelly Babies. Later his fans started throwing them at the Beatles during live concerts. In the USA, fans started throwing jelly beans at them after mistaking them to be the same thing. One concert had to be stopped twice because the Beatles members kept getting hit.
2. The first international war crime trial took place in the Holy Roman Empire in 1474. Peter Von Hagenbauch was found guilty of atrocities committed during the occupation of Breisach and beheaded.
3. In 2004, Reason Magazine sent out 40,000 special magazine prints, tailored to every subscriber, which surprised and terrified each one of them. Each cover of the magazine displayed the satellite photo of the subscriber’s house. The featured article was about how databases can be utilized on a mass scale with automation.
4. In the 4th century C.E., Roman bishop Acacius of Amida sold all of his church's treasures to free 7000 Persian prisoners captured by the Romans during the war. Theodosius II, the Persian emperor was so impressed by the act that he ordered an end to Christian persecution throughout his empire.
5. Buddhists create sand mandalas only to destroy them, to teach the belief that nothing lasts forever.
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6Palm Fronds
Palm fronds are extremely hardy and are difficult to process into mulch or compost and can take up to 50 years to decompose on their own. The fronds also account for 3.4% of the 1 million tons of waste each year in Phoenix, Arizona landfills.
7. In Iceland, Arctic foxes were the only land-based mammals roaming the landmass before humans arrived.
8. Grateful Dead concerts were so crucial to the LSD market that Jerry Garcia's death in 1995 contributed to a nationwide decline in LSD use.
9. During a contentious White House meeting about patronage appointments for customs officers in the Northeast, Treasury Secretary William H. Crawford became so angry at president James Monroe that he began whipping his cane at the president, forcing Monroe to use fireplace tongs to defend himself.
10. Self-taught inventor/engineer E. Lilian Todd was the first woman to design and build an airplane, only 3 years after the Wright brothers' first flight. However, she did not pilot the aircraft herself because she was denied a permit.
111995 Toyota Scandal
The Toyota team was caught cheating in the 1995 World Rally Championship. Its engineers had developed a mechanism to temporarily remove the mandated turbo restrictor plate and give their Celica an extra 50 BHP.
12. Daniel 'Rudy' Ruettiger, the football player who became the basis of the classic sports film "Rudy", once ran a pump and dump scheme. He was charged with stock fraud charges and settled for $4.5 million.
13. Lynyrd Skynyrd based the group's name as a mocking tribute to a P.E. teacher named Leonard Skinner. He disciplined two of the band's members for letting their hair grow long.
14. Moe Howard of 'The Three Stooges' once broke three ribs filming a pratfall. Dazed, he managed to pick himself up off the ground and slap Curly in the face before passing out. The footage ended up being used in the finished short.
15. Gelatin is obtained by boiling cattle and pig carcasses.
16Potato's Origin
Potatoes are native to South America. They were introduced to the rest of the world only in the last 500 years.
17. Banjo player Bela Fleck has been nominated in more Grammy categories than any other musician and won Grammys in bluegrass, country, folk, pop, jazz, classical, and world music categories.
18. Fabric can be made from milk. In 1935, due to the Italian government wanting to reduce wool imports, Antonio Ferretti created a milk fiber derived from the casein protein in skimmed milk. Milk wool was soft, warm, and shrink resistant, but smelled like spoiled milk or cheese when wet.
19. The fat Chinese buddha is actually "Budai," a Chinese monk from the 10th century.
20. Nebraska's USPS abbreviation was original "NB". However, it was changed to "NE" at the request of Canada to avoid confusion with New Brunswick. It is the only time a state territory has changed its USPS abbreviation since the introduction of the system in 1963.
21Ponytail Headaches
Ponytail headaches are a type of extracranial headache arising from pericranial muscle fascia and tendon traction. Essentially, if your hair is tied too tightly, you can get a nasty headache.
22. The US Navy was going to name a submarine, "USS Corpus Christi", after the city in Texas, but Catholic politicians objected to a navy ship which would translate to USS Body of Christ. It was instead named the USS City of Corpus Christi, a formulation that remains unique in the names of naval ships.
23. Under Article 28 of the Geneva Convention, canteens should be installed in all POW camps, where prisoners can procure foodstuffs, soap, tobacco, and other ordinary articles of daily use. The tariff should never be in excess of local market prices.
24. Naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen by metabolizing fructose instead of glucose.
25. The Bronx has 'the' in front of it because it's named after the Bronx River and was original "The Borough of The Bronx [River]."
