26Mauritania's Female Obesity Tradition
Mauritania's Moor population historically views female obesity as a status symbol, and higher-income girls are fattened with milk to make them more desirable to potential suitors.
27. The British company Kiddicraft produced a building toy in 1947 that served as the inspiration for the first LEGO building blocks. LEGO started selling their redesigned version in 1949. In the late '50s, LEGO contacted Kiddicraft to ask if they objected to LEGO bricks. They did not, and they wished LEGO good luck with them.
28. Albuquerque's Minor League Baseball team is called the Isotopes and is named so due to the Simpsons episode where the Springfield Isotopes had a secret plan to move to Albuquerque.
29. Confectioner's glaze, a common glaze on candy, is made from shellac, which is a secretion secreted by lac insects.
30. Project Steve, a list of scientists with the first name Steven or Stephen who support evolution, has had 1400 signatures since 2003. It was made in response to a 2001 petition, "A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism," collecting the signatures of 700 scientists critical of evolution.
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31Big Mac's Big Boy Copycat Origin
Even though Jim Delligatti is often regarded as the creator of the Big Mac, he admitted that he didn't invent the Big Mac but merely copied the "double deck hamburger" marketed by the Big Boy hamburger chain since the 1940s. The actual Big Mac was created to compete with the Big Boy.
32. Franken Berry Cereal caused a boy to be hospitalized for days due to the dye causing pink poop, which led to worries about rectal bleeding.
33. Shotgun houses are narrow rectangular houses about 12 feet wide that were popular in the Southern United States from the end of the American Civil War through the 1920s.
34. Oilbirds (Guácharos) are cave-dwelling nocturnal fruiteaters that breed and roost in large colonies in lightless South American caves. They echolocate, use whiskers to sense surfaces, and have eyes with the highest light-gathering capacity of any bird. Their chicks are rich in fat.
35. In earlier space toilets, including the Shuttle, wastewater was vented into space. A robotic arm had to remove a buildup of frozen excrement outside the orbiter during Discovery's first flight.
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RE: Fact #33 (Shotgun Houses: Southern Architectural Trend) – Wow….I live in a house that would be considered a shotgun house. I also live in the south. Alabama to be exact.