Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 353, click here.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. James Cameron decided to quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry after watching Star Wars. – Source
2. A 3M adhesive tape plant accidentally created a force field of static electricity that was strong enough to prevent humans from passing through. A person near this wall was unable to turn, and so had to walk back to retreat from it. – Source
3. Monster and similar companies make cans of water, so it appears that celebrities are drinking their product while actually just drinking water. – Source
4. IBM purged Urban Dictionary’s data from IBM Watson’s memory because it learned to swear. – Source
5. Phyllis Smith who portrayed Phyllis on “The Office” did not audition for the part. She was a member of the casting crew, the director liked her demeanor so much that he offered her a role in the show. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. Douglas Albert Munro was the only US Coast Guard to receive the Medal of Honor. Whilst providing cover for ground troops with his boat, Munro was fatally wounded. The last words he said were, “did they get off?” referring to the soldiers he’d saved. He was 22 years old. – Source
7. Dung beetles are currently the only known non-human animal to navigate and orient themselves using the Milky Way. – Source
8. Communist leader Vladimir Lenin spoke English with a strong Irish accent. – Source
9. After Hurricane Katrina, a group of Benedictine monks in Louisiana began selling low-cost, handmade cypress caskets. The state’s Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors issued a cease-and-desist order, claiming that only funeral homes could sell caskets. A judge ruled in favor of the monks. – Source
10. Carl Linnaeus was invited by the mayor of Hamburg to see his taxidermied 7-headed hydra. Linnaeus quickly determined it was a fake held together with glue and had to flee the city after he publicly said so, ruining the mayor’s hopes of selling it for a large fortune. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. Prince Yasuhiko, the perpetrator of Nanjing massacre was never charged after the war because of he was a member of the Imperial family. General Matsui was executed despite forbidding his men to loot and expressed grief in his diary when his order was disobeyed. – Source
12. The Harvard Jail House was put on sale by accident. Robert Pinckney bought the jailhouse for $1.50 and successfully sued the town for rent when they continued putting criminals in there. He then sold the place to Charlie McCarthy, a ventriloquist’s dummy, for $10,000 in war bonds. – Source
13. There is a crocodile named Gustave who allegedly killed as many as 300 people. – Source
14. Popeye has four nephews called Pupeye, Pipeye, Peepeye, and Poopeye. – Source
15. Trent Reznor felt his song “A Warm Place” was too good to be his own work. After the song had been released, he was horrified to discover that he had indeed copied the melody from a piece by David Bowie called “Crystal Japan”, written for a Japanese gin advert. Bowie found this hilarious. – Source
