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1. The Phantom of the Opera was originally a book written by Gaston Leroux in 1911.
2. In 1965, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, and Richard Feynman won a Nobel-Bel prize for quantum electrodynamics (???).
3. In the first Nightmare on Elm Street, Nancy watches Evil Dead the movie in order to stay awake.
4. The state flower of Kansas is a sunflower.
5. Gerald Ford (a former president) worked as a male model and once appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan.
6. Pol Pot, former lead of the Khmer Rouge, died on April, 15 1998.
7. Despite that Helen Keller (1880-1968) was both deaf and blind, she wrote a fair amount of novels: The Story of my Life (1902), The World I Live In (1908), Out of the Dark (1913), The Open Door (1952), etc...
8. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
9. Nelson Rolishlahla Mandela (1918-) was the first black president of South Africa (1994-1999) and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
10. Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and she used the Prize-money to continue helping the poor.
11. Before Michael Crichton was a writer, he was a teacher at University of Cambridge in England who taught Anthropology
12. Planet of the Apes the movie was based on a novel Planeta des Singes by Pierre Boulle.
13. Costa Rico means "Rich Coast" in English.
14. George Lucas was born in Modesto, California and educated at Modesto Junior College.
15. Harriet Ross Tubman (1820?-1913) served as a scout and nurse for the United States Amry, during the American Civil War (1861-1865).
16. Robinson Jeffers died in 1962 at the age of 75. He spent his life writing poetry.
17. After Darwin's Voyage to the Galapagos, he fell ill. He suffered from nausea, anxiety, boils, dizziness, eczema, flatulence, gout, headaches, and insomnia.
18. No one won a Nobel Prize in Physics, during the years 1931, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1916
19. Cesar Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association ((NFWA) in 1963.
20. Time Magazine was founded in 1923.
21. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote.
22. In 1927, Babe Ruth (a baseball player) hits sixty home runs in one season.
23. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while watching the play Our American Cousin in the Ford's Theater (1865).
24. Gandhi was educated in law at University College, London.
25. The first woman president of Finland is/was Tarja Halonen
26. Vulcan's hemoglobin is based on copper, not iron like ours, so that would explain why vulcans have green blood.
27. Thermasilk makes the coolest commercials
28 Neo stands for: Near Earth Object. This terminology is used when in outer space an object of great size is about to nail our planet.
29 A man named Marvin Killgore is known to search for Merterorites that might have hit earth. He sometimes take his family with him to search for these delicate rocks. He is known as a Meteorite Humter.