25 Kickass Random Facts List #344

16-20 Kickass Random Facts

16. There was a French colony in Texas in the 1680’s which was wiped out by Karankawa Native Americans in 1688 and the four surviving children of the colonists were adopted by the tribe. – Source

17. The gender-neutral “they” was used as the 3rd person singular in English until about 1800, when “he” and “she” became widespread to make English more like Latin. – Source

18. Carl Haber created a machine that can read the surface of very old audio recordings and reproduce them without anything having to touch them; using the same type of technology that was used to see the Higgs boson particle. – Source

19. After the festival Burning Man, a cleaning crew combs through the grounds to clean up “MOOP” or trash as small as single hairs from wigs in order to pass a federal inspection. – Source

20. In 1977 Pradyumna Kumar Mahanandia, a poor Indian artist, rode a second-hand bicycle for 4 weeks and 3 days from New Delhi to Gothenburg in Sweden to meet his love Charlotte Von Schedvin because he didn’t have enough money. They are married and have 2 children. – Source

21-25 Kickass Random Facts

21. In 1168 AD, Fustat, the then-capital of Egypt was ordered to be burnt to the ground by its own vizier to stop it falling into the hands of the crusaders. – Source

22. From 1933 until 1977 there was a Presidential Yacht, but it was sold off by Jimmy Carter, and today raccoons live in it. – Source

23. Microsoft once held a funeral to mark the death of the iPhone when it launched its own line of phones. – Source

24. If you fold a paper in half 103 times it’ll get as thick as the Universe. – Source

25. The film The China Syndrome, a movie about a nuclear meltdown caused by a faulty sensor reading and a stuck-open pressure release valve, aired only 12 days before the 3 Mile Island Meltdown, caused by a faulty sensor reading and a stuck open pressure release valve. – Source