25 Kickass Random Facts List #161

Here is 25 Kickass Random Facts List #161.

1-5 Kickass Random Facts

1. The light bulb is the universal symbol for a new idea because of Felix the Cat cartoons. – Source

2. The site where Julius Caesar was assassinated by the Roman senate in 44 B.C. is now a no-kill sanctuary for homeless cats. – Source

3. On September 11, 2001, Delta flight 15 had to land near Lewisporte, Newfoundland (population 4000). The town took care of 800 passengers for 3 days with homemade food, toiletries and fresh blankets daily. Since then, Flight 15 Fund has raised 1.5 million dollars and has presented 134 scholarships. – Source

4. The Postmaster general is the second highest paid government official after the President – Source

5. When demolishing the house of serial killers Fred and Rosemary West, every brick was crushed and every timber beam burned in order to discourage souvenir hunters. – Source

6-10 Kickass Random Facts

6. Peter O’Toole found his camel saddle uncomfortable while filming Lawrence of Arabia, so he put a piece of foam rubber under it. The film’s Bedouin extras saw this and copied it, and today the practice has spread to become Bedouin tradition. They call O’Toole “Father of the Sponge.” – Source

7. In an interview Dave Grohl was asked “If you could spare one object from your house if it was on fire, what would it be?” Dave replied with “A letter Kurt Cobain gave me in ‘92 that said ‘I love you like a brother.’” – Source

8. From a century after the Norman invasion of England in 1066, social status is more inheritable than height: “English people whose ancestors were elite in the 1100s are still likely part of the upper crust today.” – Source

9. Sir Robert Watson-Watt, the inventor of RADAR was caught speeding with a RADAR gun and reportedly said, “My God, if I’d known what they were going to do with it, I’d have never have invented it!” – Source

10. Pornhub, Brazzers, YouPorn, Mofos, Digital Playground, Redtube, Reality Kings and many many other p*rn sites, production studios and cam sites are all owned by a company called MindGeek, giving it a near-absolute monopoly on the way mainstream pornography is manufactured and distributed. – Source

11-15 Kickass Random Facts

11. When Tobey Maguire was in sixth grade, he dreamed of becoming a chef and asked his mother to sign him up for a home economics class. His mother bribed him with $100 to take an acting class instead. Maguire agreed to the deal. – Source

12. Los Angeles consumes the same amount of water today as it did in 1970, with 1 million more residents. The city consumes approximately 123 gallons per capita, per day, which is the best in the entire nation. – Source

13. The ‘ghost orchid’ has no leaves or stem, and is simply a system of roots when it is not flowering. – Source

14. There is a correlation to long life spans and intelligence, and it is just as strong as the correlation between smoking and early death. – Source

15. In the 70’s McDonald’s was forced to redesign its coffee spoon because it was being used for snorting and measuring cocaine. – Source

16-20 Kickass Random Facts

16. In the early days of the Post Office, people would continue writing text on the same page at 90 degrees to the original text to reduce expensive postage costs. – Source

17. The tree where Isaac Newton discovered gravity is still alive and well, outside of his childhood home. – Source

18. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security intentionally dropped USB sticks in government building parking lots to see what would happen. Up to 90% of them were then plugged into government or government contractors’ computers by curious employees, exposing a major security problem. – Source

19. Cigarette butts are the most polluted items in the world, accounting for 2 billion pounds of waste per year. To combat this, entrepreneurs have developed eco-friendly butts that decompose in 2-6 weeks and then sprout into trees. – Source

20. Scientists have found that the perception of time varies as a function of mass and metabolic rate across species. Smaller animals with faster metabolisms can respond to visual stimuli at a faster rate because they perceive movements and events to unfold more slowly. – Source

21-25 Kickass Random Facts

21. Reese’s Pieces aren’t made with peanut butter. Instead it is fudge like filling flavored like peanuts. – Source

22. In WWII, the Germans used “anti-officer crooked picture bombs.” They left paintings on the wall, skewed to the side and rigged to explode when straightened. – Source

23. 13 year old Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) played on a BBC talent show in 1957. When asked what he wanted to do after schooling, Page said “I want to do biological research and find a cure for cancer.”- Source

24. The Areni-1 shoe is a 5,500-year-old leather shoe that was found in 2008 in near perfect condition. For perspective, the shoes are 400 years older than those found at Stonehenge, and 1,000 years older than those found at the Great Pyramid of Giza. – Source

25. You only need 27% of the U.S. population to vote for you to become president. – Source