16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. A dozen years after Hurricane Katrina, Amtrak has still hasn’t restored coast-to-coast service in the South despite the rails being up and running. – Source
17. The once-thought useless human appendix has evolved at least 29 times, and been lost a maximum of 12 times, but evolution keeps bringing it back, possibly due to it having an important role in immune function. – Source
18. Ants can combine multiple colonies into “Supercolonies” which contain multiple queens. One of the largest on record included an estimated 306 million worker ants and one million queen ants living in 45,000 interconnected nests. – Source
19. Ben Schulz (more infamously known as Leeroy Jenkins) had a written role in the script for the Warcraft movie. Pvt Jenkins was to break rank “with a zealous battlecry” and be immediately cut down by orcs. The part was ultimately cut from the movie. – Source
20. The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum is powered by solar energy. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. Henry Moseley, rearranged the Periodic Table based on atomic mass and died aged only 27 in WW1. Isaac Asimov said of his death, ‘in view of what he might still have accomplished, his death might well have been the most costly single death of the War to mankind generally’. – Source
22. Robert Downey Jr. was paid 100X for Iron Man 3, than he was for Iron Man 1. (500K for Iron Man 1 vs. 50 Million for Iron Man 3. – Source
23. Tom Cruise sent letters and gifts to the boy who originally played the little boy in “Jerry Maguire” but was replaced by Jonathan Lipnicki, because he “just didn’t want that first actor to go to the movies, look at the screen and think he’d failed. I wanted him to love movies his entire life.” – Source
24. Many wineries use barn owls instead of poison for rodent control. – Source
25. The name “Six Flags” refers to the flags of the six different nations that have governed Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States, and the Confederate States of America. – Source
