Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 316, click here.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. Programmers for Atari in the late 70s went to the CEO of the company asking for royalties and their names be included on the boxes, when he turned them down they went and formed their own company – Activision. – Source
2. Steve Wozniak went to a juvenile detention center for a day for building a fake bomb in high school. He spent the night teaching prisoners how to disconnect wires from fans and connect them to the bars, so people get shocked when they touch them. – Source
3. The Church of Satan does not worship or even believe in the existence of Satan. – Source
4. Dr.James Watson, Nobel Prize winner & co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix structure, believed that babies shouldn’t be considered alive until 3 days after birth so that if the baby is sick, disabled, deformed, or deemed otherwise unacceptable, the baby can be legally left to die or euthanized. – Source
5. Modern day Japanese swordsmiths are required by law to use traditional Katana forging techniques, despite the fact that modern day steel does not need to be folded multiple times. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. A small lake in Africa killed 1,700 villagers and 3,500 livestock overnight when it suddenly released 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide, suffocating everything within 16 miles. Scientists still don’t know what triggered the event. – Source
7. A commando unit of 12 men sabotaged a heavy water plant in Norway in WWII, crippling Nazi attempts at developing an atomic bomb. – Source
8. During WWII British spies posed as fake charity groups to hand out special monopoly games to allied prisoners of war. These games had compasses, maps, real money, and other useful tools for escaping. – Source
9. Braille was based on a tactile military code called night writing, developed in response to Napoleon’s demand for a means for soldiers to communicate silently at night and without a light source. It proved to be too difficult for soldiers to recognize by touch, and was rejected by the military. – Source
10. “Seaspeak” allows navigators around the world to communicate regardless of the mariner’s language. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. At the age of 22, Cameron Crowe decided to re-attend high school since he had graduated at the young age of 15. He then wrote his experience as Fast Times at Ridgemont High. – Source
12. After WWII, the Soviet Union presented a wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States to Ambassador Averell Harriman who hung it in his office. Seven years later, a routine inspection revealed the gift contained a bugging device the Soviets had used to spy on the ambassador. – Source
13. After Czech resistance assassinated brutal Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, the Czech town of Lidice was razed and nearly all of its citizens, pets and livestock were shot. In response to Hitler’s desire to wipe Lidice off the map, Venezuela, Brazil, Panama and Mexico renamed towns to Lidice. – Source
14. The hole in the ozone layer is expected to be completely healed by 2050 thanks to the Montreal Protocol signed in 1987, limiting the use of CFC’s. – Source
15. Black soup was a standard meal for Spartan warriors made from boiled pigs’ legs, blood, salt & vinegar – after tasting it one commentator remarked “Now I know why the Spartans do not fear death”. – Source
Kinda sad that the web editors feel the need to censor the word “ejaculate”. They have previously censored”p*rn” and “sex”. Please could you be relaxed and normal? These are not wrong, dirty, sinful or offensive words….