26Frans de Waal's Ig NOble

Frans de Waal won an Ig Noble Prize for discovering that chimpanzees can identify other chimpanzees individually by seeing photographs of their anogenital regions.
27. In the 18th century, rich people usually owned a large wig for formal occasions and a smaller one to wear at home. Wigs were a status symbol and were also the target of thieves due to how costly some of them were. Those who couldn't afford wigs tried to make their real hair look like one.
28. Greg "Pappy" Boyington was the commander of the legendary Marine jet fighter ‘Black Sheep Squadron’ during World War 2. He was captured by the Japanese and held as a POW. He admitted his health drastically improved during his imprisonment as a result of the enforced sobriety.
29. The United States Camel Corps was a mid-19th-century experiment by the United States Army in using camels as pack animals in the Southwestern United States. Civil War interfered with the experiment and it was eventually abandoned. The animals were sold at an auction.
30. The song "I Knew You Were Waiting For Me'' was supposed to be a duet between George Michael and Michael Jackson until Jackson dropped out and then they tried to get Stevie Wonder but due to the timing issue that fell off until it went to Aretha Franklin.
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31Splatometer

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has developed a 'splatometer' for insect analysis which is a postcard-sized piece of plastic attached to a car that catches bugs as one drives it.
32. Butterflies like to "mud puddle" where they basically extract and eat the salts they find in mud, blood, feces, and dead animals, because it's extremely nutritious for them.
33. Fast-food chain Burger Chef pioneered kids' meals that included toys in the early 1970s, with their Funmeals. They later unsuccessfully sued McDonald's after the introduction of the Happy Meal in 1979.
34. Polaris, the North Star, is a star system of three stars gravitationally bound to one another.
35. The popular manga/anime, 'One Punch Man' was inspired by the even more popular children's anime An Pan Man. The characters are a play on each other with their color schemes reversed and the play on names (One Punch Man is pronounced Wan Pan Man in Japanese).