Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 323, click here.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. Steve Comisar, sold a ‘solar-powered clothes dryer’ for $39.99. Customers would then receive a clothesline. – Source
2. A rodent that was believed to be extinct for 113 years casually showed up on the handrail on the front porch of an ecolodge in Colombia and let researchers photograph it for two hours before disappearing into the night, after which it was never seen again. – Source
3. Homeopathy ‘treatments’ must be labeled to say they do not work in the U.S. – Source
4. Former president of Liberia Charles King holds the Guinness World record for the most fraudulent election ever having won the 1927 election with 234,000 votes in a country of 15,000 voters. – Source
5. “Call of the void” is that feeling when you think for a second about steering into oncoming traffic or jumping off a cliff for no reason although you would never do it. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. Wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube men are banned in Houston for being a “blight on the aesthetic environment”. – Source
7. Canada’s CANDU nuclear reactors are designed to use fuel from decommissioned nuclear weapons, can be refueled while running at full power, and are considered among the safest and most cost-effective in the world. – Source
8. Highway hypnosis is a mental state where a person can drive a vehicle great distances responding to external events in the expected safe & correct manner with no recollection of having consciously done so. Partial or complete amnesia related to the time spent driving can develop for the driver. – Source
9. DC Comics’ original candidate for its first headlining black superhero was the Black Bomber, a white racist who would turn into a black superhero under stress. Comics historian Don Markstein called it “an insult to practically everybody with any point of view at all.” – Source
10. Comcast sent bills and eventually collection notices to customers that lost their cable, phone, and internet equipment due to Hurricane Ike. The largest reported charge was $1000, but that bill was reduced to $931 to make up for the interruption of her phone service during the storm. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. Nixon sent champagne and a note saying “Justice ultimately prevails” to Mark Felt after he was pardoned by Reagan. 30 years later, it was revealed Mark Felt was “Deep Throat” who helped bring the Watergate cover-up to light. – Source
12. During the production of Goldeneye 007, developers considered having players unplug and reinsert the N64 rumble pack every time they wanted to reload their weapon. – Source
13. The United States Constitution is the only constitution from the 18th century that’s still in use. – Source
14. After the publication of 1984, George Orwell sent a copy to his high school French teacher, Aldous Huxley, who responded with a letter commending the book and contrasting it with his own Brave New World. – Source
15. Charlie Chaplin had almost been assassinated by the assassins of Japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi, hoping to instigate a war with the USA. Chaplin, however, escaped this fate as he had gone with the prime minister’s son to a sumo wrestling match. – Source
