26Macbeth Superstition and Curses
The Macbeth superstition states that if anyone says the name "Macbeth" outside of rehearsals or a performance in a theater, the production of the play will be cursed.
27. Exercise Tiger, a large-scale practice run months before the D-Day invasion, resulted in the deaths of 749 men due to friendly fire from communication errors and attacks from Nazi E-Boats. Eisenhower ordered all servicemen to be sworn to secrecy, and the incident was publicly unknown until the 1980s.
28. Air Force One has had more takeoffs than landings. When Gerald Ford was sworn in, the aircraft SAM 27000 was airborne with Nixon onboard. As a result, the callsign changed from Air Force One to SAM 27000 mid-flight.
29. The largest diamond known in the universe can be found on a white dwarf named BPM 37093, whose core crystallized, turning it mostly into a diamond. The diamond is 10 billion trillion trillion carats, leading scientists to give it the nickname Lucy after the iconic Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."
30. A glue fire in 1889 destroyed 31 blocks of Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood. The streets were later elevated, leaving a network of unused underground passageways and basements.