Here is 25 Kickass Random Facts List #154.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. Verizon developed a special knife that uses pressurized air to slice through lawns so fiber optic lines can be buried. The tool cuts through grass but does not break sprinkler pipes and gas lines. – Source
2. Morgan Freeman didn’t appear in a movie until the age of 34, and didn’t get a big role until he was 52, with Driving Miss Daisy and Glory. – Source
3. Christine Maggiore, AIDS skeptic who wrote the book “What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?” ultimately died from AIDS-related pneumonia. – Source
4. There is a programming language called INTERCAL which has keywords like IGNORE, PLEASE, FORGET. If you don’t use PLEASE enough times while coding, compiler rejects the code. – Source
5. In the late 19th century, there was a dog named Bob, who would hitch rides all over the South Australian railway system. He had no owner but was widely known to railway men of the day. When he died he was eulogized around the world and was lauded as “the king of outcasts.” – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. You should not use flame or salt to remove a leech, as it may regurgitate its stomach contents into the wound. – Source
7. 10,000 Iowan farmers built 380 miles of road (entire width of the state) in one hour on a Saturday morning in 1910. – Source
8. If you confess that you murdered someone to a priest, your secret is protected by Catholic law. – Source
9. There is a whole genus of spiders whose scientific names all derive from characters from the movie “Predator.” – Source
10. In the 1980s, India released 25,000 flesh-eating turtles into the Ganges River in an attempt to clean up corpse-pollution. The turtles were raised on dead fish so that they wouldn’t develop a taste for the living, as they ate mostly everything. The $32 million plan failed due to corruption and mismanagement. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. Neil Patrick Harris earned $210,000 per episode of How I Met Your Mother, while the rest of the main cast earned $120,000 per episode. – Source
12. Philip A. Contos was a motorcyclist who died at an anti-helmet rally after he flipped over his handlebars and hit his head on the pavement. – Source
13. In 1998, a British man faked his own death to make his wife realize how much she missed him. He left his clothes on the beach and hid. It backfired as his wife divorced him after learning about his prank. – Source
14. The National Weather Service’s chief meteorologist suspected Hurricane Sandy would be a devastating storm 6 days before it struck the east coast, and included his personal phone number in the warning for anyone to call and complain if he was wrong. It was the 2nd costliest storm in US history. – Source
15. Walt Disney had to fight to get Snow White made. His brother and business partner Roy Disney and his wife Lillian attempted to talk him out of it, and the movie industry referred to it as “Disney’s Folly” while it was in production. He had to mortgage his house to help finance the film. – Source
16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. ‘Mine flails’ are armored vehicles that detonate mines by whipping them with heavy chains. – Source
17. The meals mentioned by Pippin in Lord of the Rings (breakfast, second breakfast, brunch, elevenses, lunch, tea, dinner, supper, and snack) are considered actual meal times. – Source
18. In 1966, Ronald Reagan wrote Jelly Belly a thank you letter for “keeping the state gov running smoothly” as the jelly beans worked as an alternative to smoking, allowing them to get through meetings and make decisions. – Source
19. Antonio Banderas, the star of “Puss in Boots” watched the red carpet premiere alone in a giant theater with 25 cats wearing 3D glasses. – Source
20. The term “football” did not originally have anything to do with kicking a ball with your feet, but instead meant that the game was played on foot as opposed to on a horse, and hence was a game for “commoners.” – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. There is a wheel chair bound pig named Chris P. Bacon that does hospital visits and even has a book written after him. – Source
22. Contrary to popular belief, asphalt paving is the most recycled material in the United States. Despite its classification as industrial waste, up to 99% of reclaimed asphalt pavement is recycled into new paving. – Source
23. The US Navy had two flying aircraft carriers. – Source
24. Jimmy Carter was the only President to have ever lived in public housing. His father died shortly after Carter had led a team disassembling a Canadian nuclear reactor, so he went home to run the family farm. A drought killed his first crop and drove him into debt, but eventually he made it. – Source
25. Saddam Hussein made all education, including Higher Education, free for all Iraqis. – Source
