Here is 25 Kickass Random Facts List #157.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. British researchers found a 60-year-old woman who has been unable to recognize voices, not even her own daughter’s. Unless she sees the face of the person speaking, she has no idea who is talking to her. After university research, she was found to recognize only one voice-that of Sean Connery. – Source
2. U.S. Air Force learned that by flying its C-17s in a large V formation similar to geese, they saved more than 10 percent of fuel or millions of dollars. – Source
3. Breastfeeding invokes in the mother the neurochemical oxytocin, otherwise known as the “love drug,” which helps to focus her attention and affection on her baby. It has now been theorized that men who do nipple foreplay and stimulation during sex can make themselves more desirable. – Source
4. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service can summon any person aged 18 to 50 in their jurisdiction to help fight a wildfire or for use of their property in assisting, and it is a crime to refuse. – Source
5. Fatal Familial Insomnia is a brain disease that takes away your ability to sleep. You sink into horrible psychosis and inevitably die over the course of a few months. There is no cure and there are no viable treatments. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. Due to human interaction, Domestic Sheep have evolved to require humans to shear them. Their wool never sheds. – Source
7. Homosexual black swans form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs and then drive them away. – Source
8. TV show Scrubs used a real phone number on an episode that went to a prepaid cell phone that the cast would hand around to each other, and would answer. – Source
9. There is an 80% chance that a “megadrought” lasting 35+ years will hit the American West before 2100. – Source
10. Discarded pet goldfish can grow very large in the wild and are causing serious environmental problems. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. “The Walkie-Talkie” building in London unintentionally melted cars and changed weather patterns due to its concave design which focused a beam of light 6 times brighter than sunlight and heated the pavement to nearly 250°F at certain spots. – Source
12. Tech companies often test new products in New Zealand because they’re an ethnically diverse, tech-savvy, and English-speaking nation, yet still relatively isolated. If a product is a flop there, news is unlikely to spread quickly to the rest of the world and damage a company’s reputation. – Source
13. In 2004, 12 PTSD sufferers were trialed on MDMA. After the trial, 10 of the 12 no longer qualified as a sufferer of PTSD. – Source
14. In 1982, A South Korean man named Woo Bum-kon committed a mass murder(killing 56 people) after he snapped when his girlfriend woke him up trying to swat a fly on his chest while he was asleep. – Source
15. The pilot and co-pilot of a flight never eat the same meals, in case one causes food poisoning – Source
16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. Passenger pigeons were once the most abundant bird in the world. John James Audubon once saw a flock that took three days to pass. Alexander Wilson reckoned that a flock he saw contained 2,230,272,000 individuals. The bird was hunted to its extinction by 1914. – Source
17. Penn Jillette from Penn & Teller has a patented “hot-tub with a jet specially angled for a woman’s pleasure” called Jill-Jet. – Source
18. The phrase “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” isn’t a line from Shakespeare. It’s a paraphrase from a play by William Congreve. The full line is, “Heavan has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” – Source
19. Continually getting promoted until you reach the point of incompetence compared to your peers is called the Peter Principle. – Source
20. Dr. Asperger’s real accomplishment was identifying the full autism spectrum. He identified “higher functioning” autistic children to the Nazis in an effort to save them from mass murder in their eugenics program. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. Microwaves use the 2.4 Ghz frequency to cook your food which is the same frequency that WIFI uses. This sometimes causes interference. – Source
22. In China, if you hit someone with your car you pay for their medical care. Killing someone, however, is a onetime fine. For this reason, people have gone back to kill someone they accidentally hit. – Source
23. The word “Nonchalant” has no opposite. There’s no “chalant,” just “nonchalant.” Only the negative form of the word has found a home in English. – Source
24. A “Desire Path” is the worn track that multiple people mark on grass or other surfaces because it’s the most easily navigated route between places. In Finland, desire paths made by footprints in snow in winter are used to design purpose-built pathways. – Source
25. After instituting blind auditions, taking careful measures to avoid knowing anything about the applicants other than their musical ability, the top five orchestras in the US tripled the number of female musicians they hired. – Source
