Here is 25 Kickass Random Facts List #282.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. The town of Shitterton, England, changed its town sign to a 1.5 ton boulder to stop people from repeatedly stealing it. – Source
2. In “Monty Python And The Holy Grail” during the Black Knight battle, when the Black Knight is down to one leg left, he is played by a real one legged man because John Cleese could not balance well on one leg. – Source
3. In 2012, Nestlé used a picture of a bear using Kit Kats as drumsticks to announce their Instagram account. They almost immediately had to take it down due to its resemblance to Pedobear. – Source
4. When Rodney Dangerfield was asked how long he’d be hospitalized for brain surgery, he responded, “If all goes well, about a week. If not, about an hour and a half.” – Source
5. Johnny Depp dropped out of high school to become a rock musician, and when he attempted to go back to school two weeks later, the principal told him to follow his dream of being a musician. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. Reinhold Messner, the first man to summit Everest without oxygen, was also the first to summit all of the fourteen 8000+ meter peaks, reaching those without oxygen as well. – Source
7. While Nixon was on his way to Syria, Syrian fighter jets intercepted Air Force One to act as escorts, however the pilot was not informed and he took evasive action, sending passengers flying throughout the plane. – Source
8. A man avoided human contact for 27 years in the Maine wilderness. He committed more than 1000 burglaries and faded into myth and legend. When asked if he was happy he replied, “No, I’m content. They’re two different things.” – Source
9. “Bennie And The Jets” by Elton John isn’t a live recording. Producer Gus Dudgeon wanted a live feel on the recording, so he mixed in crowd noise and whistles into the song. – Source
10. Google’s Artificial-Intelligence Bot says the purpose of living is ‘to live forever.’ – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. In North America and India, ‘lemonade’ is not a carbonated soft drink, but is actually made from lemon juice, water and sugar. – Source
12. The US Federal Register is still using floppy disks sent by courier because a secure e-mail system is “too expensive.” – Source
13. The “Burning of Atlanta” scene in “Gone with the Wind” was shot with full-size burning facades and all of the only seven Technicolor cameras in existence at the time. – Source
14. Soccer player Ronaldinho came to media attention at 13 years old when his team won 23-0. He’d scored all 23 goals. – Source
15. The distorted power chord sound of “You Really Got Me” by The Kinks was achieved when guitarist Dave Davies slashed the speaker on his amp with a razor blade. This sound went on to influence heavy metal and punk rock. – Source
16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. Uluru is taller than both the Eiffel Tower and the Chrysler Building. – Source
17. Chlorine-trifluoride is so unstable it sets seemingly fire retardant objects like concrete and sand on fire. In the 1950’s, some was accidentally spilled in a warehouse and it burned through a foot of concrete while simultaneously releasing a deadly cloud of gas that corroded anything it touched. – Source
18. There are more nuclear reactors powering ships (mostly military) than there are generating electric power in commercial power plants worldwide. – Source
19. The word ‘dollar’ comes from the word ‘thaler’ which comes from ‘Joachimstaler’. Joachimsthal was a silver-miner from Bohemia. – Source
20. Actor Wallace Shawn, while playing Vizzini (“Inconceivable!”) in The Princess Bride, didn’t understand the movie’s sense of humor. Director Rob Reiner gave him line readings, and he merely imitated them. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. When flown at half-staff, the American flag should be first hoisted to the peak for an instant and then lowered to the half-staff position. – Source
22. Michael Jackson’s autopsy report confirms he tattooed his lips pink and his eyebrows black. He was also partially bald and wore wigs to conceal it, with the front of his scalp also being tattooed black. – Source
23. The phrase “as smooth as a milkmaid’s skin” comes from the fact that milkmaids were often exposed to cowpox, giving them partial immunity to smallpox and leaving their skin free of pox scars. – Source
24. In 1906 when Dr. Alois Alzheimer presented his groundbreaking research on the disease which would later be known as Alzheimer’s Disease, the audience asked zero questions and made zero comments because they simply wanted to hear the next lecture (which was about compulsive masturbation). – Source
25. On August 13, 1966, in response to John Lennon’s “More popular than Jesus” comment, a radio station in Texas held a burning of Beatles merchandise. The next day, the broadcast tower was struck by lightning, damaging much of their equipment and sending the news director to the hospital. – Source
Wait, lemonade is a soda outside North America?
Yes.
My thought was “what the h#ll is it everywhere else”?
Also, it’s called “pop”. The south lost, deal with it.
Apparently, if you ask for a lemonade in UK, you will be given a Sprite. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
I’ve lived in the Netherlands almost my entire life, now I live in Senegal. In both countries lemonade actually means the same as in north america, and I find it hard to believe that in all other countries it’s ‘pop’.
soda*, not pop, sorry 🙂
Yes.
You would also be given a Sprite in Australia (well, that syle of drink, there are others). I presume this would be true in many other Commonwealth countries.
More likely Whites lemonade but they are basically the same thing. I cant believe your lemonade isn’t fizzy! So weird!!
Not a Sprite but a lemon flavour carbonated beverage (Sprite is lemon and lime). Thing is that we also call the lemon juice, water and sugar drink “lemonade”, but you would normally be able to tell what you are getting by looking at it in a shop or if you need to differentiate (at a restaurant for example) then you might ask for “still lemonade”… Almost no-one ever drinks still lemonade here, it’s getting a bit more popular in the organic whole food type places where they throw a bit of mint in to make it a bit more refreshing and to seem more healthy (loads of sugar in water and lemon juice isn’t really that good for you). It’s not usually as hot here in the summer as it gets in many (especially mid) US states which is when you really want the refreshment of still lemonade. We get ice tea too, but it’s rarer and when you ask for tea without specifying, it comes hot. Also while on the subject of UK/US drinks, the reason that US coffee drinkers think tea is weak by comparison is that you guys get terrible tea. Really bad tea. I know you have started to get PG Tips in some ‘stores’ recently but most places in the US seem to have some sort of Twinings plastic teabags which do not work. Getting Twinings here is the exception and not the rule, they are usually considered to be fancier teas but weak as hell not really drunk by true tea drinkers. Also your PG tips bags are tiny (called one cup, but actually not enough for one cup) so there is never enough tea in the teabag to brew properly. While on the subject of teas, any ‘tea’ that does not contain the tea plant, is not a tea, it is a herbal infusion. They are marketed as ‘tea’ here too but if I ask for a cup of tea and you offer me some camomile BS then you are basically saying that you would like me to throw that weak boiled herb water in your face. It’s like offering a smoker a cigarette and then handing them a twig from a tree. It’s not tea. Also, there is a law here about alcoholic drinks (the weights and measurements act 1865) which means that alcoholic drinks must be served with the correct amount of alcohol. A shot is 25ml and a double is 50ml. I know in the US when you ask for a shot they will just glug loads into a glass and judge it by eye. You get a much better deal that way but you also don’t know how much you’ve had when you need to drive home. In the UK we use standardised steel measures. It looks less cool but you won’t order one cocktail with a single shot in it and end up losing your license by being over the drink drive limit. If you take anything away from reading this very long and tangential comment it’s that we take our tea seriously and that you are asking for some serious football (soccer) stadium scale violence if you try to pass off a non tea herbal infusion as tea. Oh yeah and something about lemonade, wow, I really lost my way there.