Here is 25 Kickass Random Facts List #244.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. 1960’s counterculture singer Phil Ochs would go on paranoid drunken rants about the FBI watching him. After hanging himself in his sister’s home, it was revealed that the FBI had a 500 page file on him. – Source
2. Inmates of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department can get free laser tattoo removal, e.g., gang sign tattoos they want to break from. Over 2,200 inmates have had tattoos removed. The removal incurs no cost to the public as it is paid for in part by the charity Homeboy Industries. – Source
3. There are no more WW1 veterans left. – Source
4. There’s a 300-page book called ‘A Void’ that was written without ever using the letter “e”. The original book is in French but there are over a dozen versions in different languages written by translators who also managed to compose them without using the most common letter of the alphabet. – Source
5. Gladiators carried out product endorsements in the arena. Ridley Scott left this tidbit out of the movie “Gladiator” for fear that this would seem anachronistic. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. In WW2, an American popular culture trend resulted in people graffiti-ing “Killroy was here” across Europe, which convinced Hitler that Kilroy was a spy and Stalin even investigated trying to find out who Kilroy was. – Source
7. The assertion from Jurassic Park that T-Rex was unable to see anything not moving is false and a study suggests that they even had better vision than modern day hawks and eagles. – Source
8. The University of California pays its coaches more than they do their Nobel winning professors. They are paid on average, three times more than the system’s full-time Nobel laureates. – Source
9. Both a new species of Iranian spider, Filistata maguirei, and a genus of spider crabs, Maguimithrax, have been named after Tobey Maguire because of his role as Spiderman. – Source
10. 63.2% of Americans consider their pets to be family members, 1% consider their pets to be property. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. Adding a trace of blue dye to laundry is called “bluing.” It actually makes the whites appear whiter. It is a technique also used on white hair, thus “blue haired old ladies.” – Source
12. There are hundreds of thousands of unexploded Allied bombs in Germany. An average of 15 bombs are discovered daily. – Source
13. The Coca-Cola Company was ordered by a US judge to turn over their secret formula twice. They refused both times. – Source
14. A black hole 12 billion light years away holds at least 140 trillion times the water in all of Earth’s oceans combined, making it the largest known reservoir of water. – Source
15. Deadpool videogame cost more to make than Deadpool the movie. $100 million vs $60 million – Source
16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. NBA player Steven Adams is the youngest of 18 children. The boys in his family have an average height of 6 feet 9 inches and the girls average at 6 feet. One of his sister is an Olympic Gold Medalist in shot put. – Source
17. Members of Egyptian royalty were expected to marry within the family. Due to the commonality, the ancient Greeks created a word to describe them-philadelphoi. The word was transformed into Philadelphia (the City of Brotherly Love). – Source
18. Positronium is a nearly massless element made out of a meta-stable mix of matter and antimatter with no protons or neutrons. It can even form chemical compounds such as Positronium Hydride. When it does collapse, it releases pure energy as flash of gamma radiation, leaving nothing behind. – Source
19. When Eisenhower planned to visit Japan in 1960, the Japanese government called on yakuza bosses to lend tens of thousands of their men as security guards. – Source
20. When the United States started taxing tires imported from China, China retaliated by taxing chicken feet imported from the United States, costing American poultry farmers $1 billion in sales. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. German boxer Max Schmeling who was viewed as a “Nazi Puppet” personally saved the lives of two Jewish children by hiding them in his apartment during the Nazi purge of Jews from Berlin. – Source
22. Buffalo Commons is a conceptual proposal to create a vast nature preserve in USA by returning 139,000 square miles of the Great Plains to native prairie, and by reintroducing the American bison. – Source
23. New York City has started replacing the swords stolen from public statues decades ago as crime has gone down and the city has become a “safer place.”- Source
24. The ‘loneliest organism’ in the world is a single, lone cycad tree, the dominant tree during the dinosaur era. It was discovered in Africa in 1895. They have yet to find a mate to pollinate it. – Source
25. In 1932 a riot invaded Newfoundland’s government building. The prime minister barely escaped injury and resigned. In 1933 the country – like Canada, an independent English-speaking country neighboring the U, gave up self-government and voluntarily became a British colony again. – Source
