Here is 25 Kickass Random Facts List #220.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. Two tablespoons of honey would be enough to fuel a bee’s entire flight around the world. – Source
2. The Apollo space suits were made by the bra company Playtex. After years of failures, they threw together a design in just 6 weeks and beat the aerospace companies. This was because one competitor’s design couldn’t fit through the door, and the other competitor had its suit helmet explode. – Source
3. In 2014, serial killer Charles Manson was granted a marriage license, but the wedding was cancelled after it was discovered that 26-year-old Afton Elaine “Star” Burton only wanted to marry Manson so she and a friend Craig “Gray Wolf” Hammond could use his corpse as a tourist attraction after he dies. – Source
4. Disney considered creating a park called “Shadowland” or “Dark Kingdom” dedicated to villains. – Source
5. Dr Pepper sued Coca-Cola for making a similar beverage and naming it “Peppo”. Coca-Cola renamed it Dr. Pibb, were sued again and then settled on Mr. Pibb. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. Actor David Zayas who played Detective Angel Batista in the show Dexter, was an actual police officer in the NYPD for 15 years. – Source
7. Refried beans aren’t fried twice or “fried again”, but its re-prefix comes from the Spanish word “refritos”, meaning well-fried. – Source
8. The head of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy is called the First Sea Lord. – Source
9. A McDonald’s franchisee invented the Filet-O-Fish as an option for Lent. McDonald’s owner Ray Kroc wanted to sell the Hula burger (Pineapple on a bun) instead and held a sales contest. The Filet-O-Fish won hands down. – Source
10. After a 1942 shipwreck off Newfoundland, locals having never seen blacks before tried to scrub clean those survivors thinking they were covered in oil. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. Slash and burn practices in Indonesia have essentially turned the whole country into a perpetual forest fire, causing widespread pollution problems across all of Southeast Asia every year in the dry season. – Source
12. The longest mathematical proof is 15000 pages long, involved more than 100 mathematicians and took 30 years just to complete it. – Source
13. Lexington Kentucky accepts canned food as payment for parking fines to feed the homeless. – Source
14. Musician Prince, a Jehovah’s Witness since 2001, occasionally leaves his gated community to go door knocking. – Source
15. Norway reserves the right to repurchase Orkney and Shetland (and its billions in oil reserves) for a fixed sum of gold and silver, worth around £800,000. – Source
16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. Fulmars, a type of seabird, vomits putrid fishy oil on their assailants in self-defense. Not only does it smell horrific, but it’s lethal to predatory birds because it permanently glues their feathers together. – Source
17. In 2007, Quebec police sent provocateurs disguised as demonstrators to a protest at the North American Leaders’ Summit in Montebello, Quebec to incite a riot and justify dispersing the otherwise legal and constitutionally protected peaceful assembly. – Source
18. Guy Fawkes is the reason men are called “guys.” – Source
19. Albinos genitals and bones are used in witchcraft rituals and a complete albino skeleton is worth as much as $75,000, according to the Red Cross. – Source
20. Drug companies that manufacture opioids like OxiContin, manufacture the pills with an opioid negating core. When the pill is crushed, it prevents the rapid release of the drug by inactivating most of it. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. If you have blue eyes, you may be related to every other blue-eyed person in the world. Researchers in Denmark have found that every person with blue eyes descends from just one “founder,” an ancestor whose genes mutated 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Before then, everyone had brown eyes. – Source
22. One man’s gene from 4000-6000 years ago contributes to approximately 50% of the male population in 11 European countries. – Source
23. Billiards tables are sometimes referred to as pool tables because back in the 1800’s men used to pool together bets for horse races. These “pools” were held in special rooms called poolrooms where owners placed billiard tables to pass the time. – Source
24. It is estimated more than half a million people die in China every year from overworking. – Source
25. Bobby Bonilla, a former baseball player, agreed to be bought out and defer his $5.9 million contract in 2000, so that the New York Mets would pay him $1.19 million every year from 2011 to 2035, totaling $29.8 million for a year he didn’t even play. The owners of the Mets thought this was a great deal because they had all their money tied up in investments with Bernie Madoff. Madoff was getting them returns of 12-18% annually, and they were compounding. – Source
