Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 352, click here.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. Angelina Jolie once tried to hire a hitman to kill her, because she felt that a murder would be easier on her family than her committing suicide. The would-be-hitman talked her out of it by asking her to wait a month. – Source
2. An Alabama bloodhound joined a half marathon after her owner let her out to go pee. She ran the entire 13.1 miles and finished 7th. – Source
3. Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger) auditioned for the role of Han Solo and after he got back from the audition, he pushed his friend Mark Hamill, who was sleeping on Englund’s couch at the time, to audition for Luke Skywalker. – Source
4. Rodents living outside of captivity still enjoy running in wheels because it gives them a self-rewarding runner’s high. – Source
5. AT&T only put the * and # buttons on the phone keypad because they had extra space, and they figured maybe someone someday will find some use for them. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. Nellie Bly was a 19th-century female journalist who went around the world in 72 days, pretended to be insane in order to expose the deplorable conditions in mental asylums, patented two designs for steel cans and ran a million-dollar iron manufacturing business, all before the age of 40. – Source
7. A North Korean defector escaped to China, returned to see his family, then escaped again to Thailand, went to Argentina, then trekked through South and Central America to sneak into the US through Mexico. He is now a US citizen. – Source
8. There was a Russian family who was cut off from all human contact for 40 years in the Siberian wilderness. They were completely unaware that WWII had occurred. – Source
9. The Mask of Warka, the oldest discovered accurate depiction of a human face (3100 BC), disappeared from the National Museum of Iraq after the 2003 US invasion. A US military mission to recover lost artifacts found the mask, undamaged, buried in a farmer’s backyard. – Source
10. After Bugs Bunny referred to Elmer Fudd as a nimrod, the word began being misinterpreted to mean a dimwitted person. In reality, he was referring to the mighty Biblical hunter of the same name. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. Willie Nelson used to smoke 2-3 packs of cigarettes a day on top of smoking marijuana. After suffering pneumonia several times, he knew he had to quit one or the other. He chose to quit tobacco. – Source
12. The patent for toilet paper (1891) features an illustration that would imply the correct way the roll should be placed would be so the paper hangs over, and not under. – Source
13. GPS signals are being spoofed in some areas of Moscow: The fake signal, which seems to center on the Kremlin, relocates anyone nearby to Vnukovo Airport, 32 km away. The scale of the problem did not become apparent until people began trying to play Pokemon Go. – Source
14. Foo Fighters trolled the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas City by dressing up as cowboys and singing a gay love song called Keep it Clean (Hot Buns) in front of them. – Source
15. While repairing a whale enclosure divers during the cold war heard a human-like voice saying “out, out, out,” and got out of the water to see nobody. A beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech and attempted to communicate with them. – Source
So Harvard an institution that takes in massive amounts of money to do research doesn’t think it should pay others for their research.
you have that bass ackwards. they want the research to be free, like beer