25 Kickass Random Facts List #180

Here is 25 Kickass Random Facts List #180.

1-5 Kickass Random Facts

1. Language learning site Duolingo makes its money from having its users practice translating a real-world document (e.g. from CNN). Duolingo has contracts from these websites to translate stories and is earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with this business model. – Source

2. Andre the Giant always wanted to see a show on Broadway, but never attended one because he was concerned about blocking the view of others. – Source

3. While a person who inherits two copies of a cystic fibrosis mutation has a terrible disease, someone who only has one (a carrier) has an inborn resistance to cholera, typhoid fever, and tuberculosis. This is an example of heterozygote advantage. – Source

4. A study surveying 5000 children on video game and social habits came to a conclusion that those playing video games on a regular basis are more satisfied with their lives, are less prone to being hyperactive, have less emotional issues than those who don’t play video games at all – Source

5. Dogs can suffer from PTSD, and it affects 5% of military service dogs. – Source

6-10 Kickass Random Facts

6. 10% of people don’t like Cilantro because when they eat it, they taste soap. – Source

7. Wildlife researchers around the world have caught deer on film eating birds, in some cases “actually eating living baby birds right out of the nests.” – Source

8. “Pandora’s Box” was actually “Pandora’s Jar.” A translation error made 500 years ago has persisted to this day. – Source

9. The Pledge of Allegiance did not include any religious language until 61 years ago when, “under God” was added. – Source

10. In 2001, a teenager in Sweden was arrested for suspicion of treason after throwing a strawberry tart at the King. – Source

11-15 Kickass Random Facts

11. There exists a less venomous, invasive Brown Widow Spider that is slowly replacing the Black Widow. – Source

12. Highest paid across all U.S. Department of Defense employees are three football coaches of the service branch teams. – Source

13. Film scores were not originally done for artistic reasons, but to drown out the sound of the projector. – Source

14. Strom Thurmond holds the record for the longest filibuster by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes. He was opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He also later opposed ending segregation. – Source

15. In a 1888, Friedrich Engels wrote that Germany’s next war will be a world war, “eight to ten million soldiers will massacre one another” and “the devastations of the Thirty Years’ War” will be “compressed into three or four years, and spread over the whole Continent.” – Source

16-20 Kickass Random Facts

16. Haggis is illegal in the US because one of its key ingredients is sheep lungs. – Source

17. There is a haunted house that lasts 7 hours and requires a very long, comprehensive legal waiver to be signed before you enter. – Source

18. George Boole, the mathematician and philosopher renowned mostly for his logic, died when his wife, in an effort to cure his pneumonia, poured buckets of cold water all over him, believing that “remedies should resemble their cause.” – Source

19. The Adventures of Superman radio program incorporated KKK terms and secrets into a villain that Superman fought every week. Southern Klansmen suddenly began noticing their children dressing up as superman and fighting “klan-man,” which lead to a membership decline as a result. – Source

20. While awaiting sentencing for income tax evasion and obstruction of justice, David Friedland went scuba diving, faked his own death, and fled to the Maldives where he built a chain of scuba diving shops, the success of which helped him get caught. – Source

21-25 Kickass Random Facts

21. In 2004, a group in Melbourne, Victoria organized an event where 30 men would grow a moustache for 30 days in order to raise awareness for prostate cancer and depression in men. The group later formed into the “Movember Foundation Charity” which has since raised $174 million worldwide. – Source

22. Herbert C. Brown’s wife, bought him the book ‘The Hydrides of Boron and Silicon’ by Alfred Stock as a graduation gift. The book was chosen because at $2 it was the cheapest in the University of Chicago bookstore. In 1979, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with boron. – Source

23. In the United States any violent crime committed with a gun equipped with a suppressor has a minimum prison sentence of 30 years. – Source

24. A British man holds the record for the world’s longest recorded fart, 59 seconds of uninterrupted flatulence. – Source

25. White Hands is a nonprofit organization in Japan that has a service called Ejaculation Help where medical sex workers help people with disabilities reach orgasms. – Source