Here is 25 Kickass Random Facts List #151.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. For one week in 1994, Tim Allen had the #1 movie at the box office (The Santa Clause), The #1 rated TV show (Home Improvement), and the #1 NY Times bestselling book (Don’t Stand Too Close to a Naked Man). – Source
2. Judge Judy makes $45 million per year and only works 52 days. – Source
3. Alzheimer’s Disease does not affect emotional memory as strongly as informational memory. As a result, Alzheimer’s patients given bad news will quickly forget the news, but will remain sad and have no idea why. – Source
4. Only two groups of people in Sparta could have their names inscribed on their tombstones: women who died in childbirth and men who fell in combat. – Source
5. On 23 August 1989, around 2 million people joined hands in a human chain that stretched 600 kilometers across the three Baltic countries, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. They did this to protest their countries’ forced inclusion in the Soviet Union. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. Due to heavy inbreeding, Louis XIV of France (17th century) is descended from Louis IX of France (13th century) in 368 different ways. – Source
7. Daylight Savings Time causes a 24% increase in heart attacks every day when the clocks move forward, and a 21% decrease in heart attacks every time the clocks move back. – Source
8. The “there are people starving in Africa so your suffering is invalid” argument has a name: Fallacy of relative privation. – Source
9. The same $99 microphone has been used by every president since 1965. – Source
10. Detroit Tiger pitcher Daniel Norris purposely lives off just $800 a month, despite a $2 million signing bonus. When asked why he chooses to continue to live so conservatively. He asked back, “Who am I to deserve that? What have I really done?” – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. Nas listed his daughter as an executive producer on his album Stillmatic so that she could always receive royalty checks from the album’s sales. – Source
12. If you are 27, half of India is younger than you. If you are 30, already half of the world is younger than you. – Source
13. Directly after JFK was assassinated, his wife Jackie refused to remove her blood-stained clothes or have the blood washed from her face and hands. She continued like this aboard Air Force 1 during LBJ’s oath-of-office, telling Lady Bird Johnson, “I want them to see what they have done…” – Source
14. In 1971, LANSA Flight 508 crashed over the Amazon Jungle, killing all crew and 85 of 86 passengers. The sole survivor was a 17-year-old girl, who fell 2 miles down into the rain forest strapped to her seat, survived the fall, and walked the jungle injured for 10 days until she was rescued by locals. – Source
15. There are over 100 million people in the world today who have Irish ancestry, which is more than fifteen times the population of 6.4 million on the entire island of Ireland. – Source
16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. King Leopold II of Belgium was responsible for the genocide of 10 million Congolese in the late 1800’s.- Source
17. The Caesar Salad is named after Caesar Cardini, an Italian American hotel owner. – Source
18. J.D. Salinger never relinquished rights for audiobooks. The only legal way to obtain a Catcher in the Rye audiobook, is to have “permission” from a physician or ophthalmologist to listen to a “legal audiobook” recorded for the Library of Congress, who can do so by law, but only for the blind. – Source
19. The number of administrators at U.S. universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, vastly outpacing the increase in students and teaching faculty. – Source
20. Over 684 species of plants have been identified at the Roman Colosseum. Many of the seeds were planted through fecal matter of the many exotic animals brought from the far reaches of the Roman Empire. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. The US supported Dictator Ferdinand Marcos during most of his 20 year reign of The Philippines giving him billions in aid. During this time, he imposed martial law, stole billions from the people of The Philippines and imprisoned or killed those who opposed him. – Source
22. An Ebola outbreak in Atlanta, a toxic explosion in Louisiana and a police shooting were all faked by armies of Russian social media accounts and knockoffs of US news sites posting fake eyewitness stories, screenshots, photos and videos of fake American crises. – Source
23. Funk band Vulfpeck released an album on Spotify titled “Sleepify” consisting entirely of silence. They encouraged listeners to stream the album while sleeping, and used the royalties (nearly $20,000) to fund an admission-free concert tour. – Source
24. When a born deaf person thinks, they feel themselves signing in their head. – Source
25. A respected German anthropologist whose ‘discoveries’ helped shape our understanding of modern man, was found to have falsified most of his data. One skeleton he claimed was from 27,400 BC was later dated to 1750 AD. – Source
