26German child
German parents not allowed to name their child Lucifer.
27. A major reason Los Angeles grew to be so huge was that they controlled the entire area's water supply (Los Angeles Aqueduct) - the only way surrounding towns could get water was to annex themselves to Los Angeles.
28. Abercrombie & Fitch used to sell outdoor goods such as camping gear and guns, and their main store had a shooting range.
29. In India there are 29 caves joined together (Ajanta Caves) which are filled with paintings from over 3 religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism), which were constructed in 520 B.C.E. and has a size of 8,242 hectares, making it one of the largest man-made cave structures ever built.
30. During the mid-1990s, due to stress from acting and promotion of his films, Jean-Claude Van Damme developed a cocaine addiction. He spent up to $10,000 a week and snorted up to 10 grams per day by 1996.
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31Peter Gabriel
During the production of the music video for Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel had to lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while the stop-motion effects were animated one frame at a time.
