Here is 25 Kickass Random Facts List #111.
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1. In the 1957 film “12 Angry Men” the focal length of the lenses in the cameras used were gradually increased to create a feeling of claustrophobia. – Source
2. Obsidian can be made into a scalpel with a cutting edge of 3 nanometers. A strand of DNA is 2.5 nm and a sheet of paper is 100,000 nm – Source
3. The movie John Wick was directed by two of Keanu Reeves’ former stunt doubles. – Source
4. When the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous phrase “Where they burn books, they will also in the end burn people.” – Source
5. Freddie Mercury was ashamed to admit that his favorite song was one that he wrote – “Somebody to Love.” He often avoided the question because he didn’t want people to think that he preferred his own music and have his words turned around in print. – Source
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6. When a factory worker from Wonka was asked about the production of Nerds candy, he said “Basically we start off with a sugar crystal and we just keep coating it with more sugar.” – Source
7. Identical twin boys were raised as a brother-sister pair (botched circumcision). The truth came when the one being raised as a girl insisted that he was a boy. The parents admitted he was the subject of an experiment trying to prove gender identity was nurture, not nature. He later committed suicide. – Source
8. After being caught by casino owners and prosecuted in court for cheating, the Hyland card counting team was acquitted of all charges after the judge ruled that the players’ conduct was not cheating, but merely the use of intelligent strategy. – Source
9. In a 60’s US government funded LSD study, “26 men unleashed a slew of widely embraced innovations shortly after their LSD experiences, including a mathematical theorem for NOR gate circuits, a conceptual model of a photon, a linear electron accelerator beam-steering device,” [and more…] – Source
10. Honeyguide bird leads humans (and other large mammals) to beehives. Once the hive is broken and the human has removed the honey, the bird feeds on the beeswax and larvae. – Source
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11. Mr Rogers, when receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Daytime Emmys, asked his audience to take “ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are,” causing many to cry. – Source
12. The Scottish army tried to take advantage of the Black Plague in England through an invasion, but caught it themselves and brought it back to Scotland, killing half of the native population. – Source
13. The Thirteen Club met in the 1880s to debunk the superstition about the number 13 by dining 13 to a table, walking under ladders, and spilling salt on Friday 13th. They had 5 US Presidents as members, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. – Source
14. The Rothschilds had such an efficient system of couriers that they knew Napoleon had lost at Waterloo a day before the government did. Nathan Rothschild kept it secret and immediately bought up the government bond market. He then sold the bonds for an enormous 40% profit two years later. – Source
15. In 1994, the pilot of an Aeroflot Airbus A310 allowed his son to sit at the controls during a flight. The boy inadvertently turned off the autopilot controls, sending the plane into hillside and killing all 75 aboard. – Source
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16. There is a Russian cult that worships the character Gadget from the TV show Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers. – Source
17. If all the LEGO bricks ever produced were shared out equally every single person on Earth would own 86 LEGO bricks.
18. For the interrogation scene in the movie “Safe House”, Denzel Washington volunteered to actually be water boarded, albeit for a few seconds at a time. Co-star Ryan Reynolds called it “one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen.” – Source
19. There have been 18 incidences of theft or loss of highly enriched uranium and plutonium confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency in the last 12 years. – Source
20. Hans Island is a disputed territory between Canada and Denmark. When the Danish visit, they leave a bottle of Schnapps for the Canadians. When the Canadians visit, they leave a bottle of Canadian Club for the Danish. – Source
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21. Benjamin Kyle, a man found unconscious behind the dumpster of a Burger King in 2004, is the only American citizen officially listed as missing despite his whereabouts being known. He has amnesia and doesn’t remember who he is. – Source
22. The Canadian $100 banknote featured an Asian woman on the back using a microscope. People complained that it was stereotyping Asians as being good at technology. She was replaced with a Caucasian woman, and then more people complained that Caucasians were being favored. – Source
23. During the Korean War, American soldiers gave the codename “Tootsie Rolls” to 60MM mortar ammo and on one occasion they were accidentally sent crates full of Tootsie Rolls after requesting more ammo. – Source
24. In February 2014, snipers attacked a California power station, took out 17 transformers after cutting phone lines. They disappeared one minute before the police arrived, never to be caught or identified. – Source
25. In 1978, then-NBA center Clifford Ray saved a dolphin’s life by using his 45 inch hand reach to grab a screw the dolphin had swallowed. He received instructions over the phone from a veterinarian, who told him how to reach up and into the dolphin’s second stomach to extract the screw. – Source
