25 Kickass Random Facts List #204

Here is 25 Kickass Random Facts List #204.

1-5 Kickass Random Facts

1. When the University of Sheffield polled 250 children, all 250 reported that they disliked clowns as hospital décor. – Source

2. Tom Moore Jr., a member of the Texas House of Representatives, introduced an April Fools resolution to illustrate how some of his colleagues didn’t read things they voted on. The bill passed in 1971, officially commending The Boston Strangler for his work in population control. – Source

3. There is a battery powered bell at Oxford University that has been continuously ringing for over 175 years. No one knows what the battery is composed of and no one wants to take the device apart in order to figure it out. – Source

4. Hydrogen bombs usually do not contain hydrogen because it is difficult to store. They instead use lithium that is split into hydrogen by an atomic bomb. It worked so well that the first bomb went off with 3 times the expected yield, set the world record, and it still holds the US record for yield. – Source

5. There was a plot to kill the Vice President and Secretary of State concurrently with the Lincoln assassination. The Secretary of State was stabbed in the face but lived, and the assailant who was to kill the Vice President got drunk instead. – Source

6-10 Kickass Random Facts

6. The interior of the Skylab space station was so enormous that astronauts could get “stuck” in the middle, and had to either try and “swim” or wait for air currents to blow them back to a wall. – Source

7. Dark roast coffee actually has less caffeine than light roasts. – Source

8. In 2003, archaeologists found 20,000 year old human footprints in the Australian Outback of a male they called T8. Scientists determined he was running 23 mph in mud, barefoot, and was even accelerating before the tracks stopped. Usain Bolt’s record for running speed is 27.44 mph. – Source

9. As a child, French designer Christian Louboutin, being darker-skinned than the rest of his family, invented his own history of being Egyptian, due to his fascination with Pharaohs. At the age of 50, Louboutin discovered that his biological father was in fact an Egyptian man. – Source

10. Ernest Hemingway was not the only one in his family to commit suicide. His father, sister, brother, son, and granddaughter also committed suicide. This is the origin of the term “Hemingway curse.” – Source

11-15 Kickass Random Facts

11. Betty Crocker never existed as a real person, and her image has changed to match the tastes of the American public. – Source

12. Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of Propaganda, who targeted people with birth defects, was born with a deformed right leg. – Source

13. For 256 years, Irish beer company Guinness used fish bladders to filter their iconic Dark Stout. In late 2015, the company agreed to change this centuries-old tradition to accommodate vegans. – Source

14. In 2015, a group of inmates from a maximum security prison in New York beat the Harvard debate team in a debate competition – Source

15. In a poll of incoming Princeton University freshman in 1939, Adolf Hitler was chosen as the “greatest living person.” Albert Einstein who was a Princeton professor at the time came in second. – Source

16-20 Kickass Random Facts

16. Villagers in the India village of Marottichal began playing chess as an alternative to drinking after a ban on alcohol. The village is now known as ‘Chess Village’ due to its near 100% chess literacy. – Source

17. The Latin name for the American Plains Bison is “Bison bison bison.” – Source

18. From 2005-2010, Prague had a brothel where men paid a one-time $23 fee, and women and couples entered for free. The catch was that their exploits were filmed and streamed online to paying customers. – Source

19. The words “something” and “nothing” were Elizabethan slang for “penis” and “vagina,” respectively. Thus, the title of Shakespeare’s play “Much Ado About Nothing” is actually a dirty pun. – Source

20. Adopting two puppies from the same litter can be detrimental to the puppies and their ability to bond with their owner. This is referred to as “littermate syndrome.” – Source

21-25 Kickass Random Facts

21. Before Champagne became popular, fizz in wine was considered a bad thing and Benedictine monk Dom Perignon worked to eliminate it. Wines from Champagne had a tendency to fizz because early frosts often led to incomplete fermentation during the manufacturing process. – Source

22. In 1986, a Soviet pilot made a bet with his co-pilot that he could land the airplane blind. He curtained all cockpit windows and crashed the plane into the landing strip killing 70 out of 87 passengers. – Source

23. A man named Peter Skyllberg was trapped for two months in his car after it became bogged down in snow drifts near the town of Umea in Sweden. He survived on just snow and snacks and went into a state of hibernation. This slowed his metabolism and left him emaciated, barely able to speak or move. – Source

24. The modern polo shirt was designed so that the collar could intentionally be popped, preventing the sun from burning tennis players’ necks. – Source

25. In 2013, a Chinese woman went on trial for murder after she squeezed a shopkeeper’s testicles so hard that he died. – Source