Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 362, click here.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. There’s a restaurant in New York that doesn’t employ chefs; they employ grandmas. Every day, a different grandma from around the world designs her own menu. – Source
2. Comedian Ryan Stiles from Whose Line is it Anyway? has been a frequent fundraiser for children with burn injuries, raising over $500,000 for the Burned Children Recovery Center since 2009, helping the foundation to recover from the economic crash of 2008. – Source
3. In one of Thomas Jefferson’s letters to James Madison in 1789, he stated that the Constitution and laws should expire after 19 years. This was to allow the new generations to learn from the past and change accordingly, it was also to prevent older generations from “binding” subsequent ones. – Source
4. Avocados depended on megafaunas to disperse its seeds. However, when the megafaunas became extinct, avocados survived primarily due to human cultivation. – Source
5. A chimpanzee became the 22nd most successful money manager on Wall St after choosing stocks by throwing darts at a board of 133 tech companies. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. The aviation industry always uses “deaths per km” to quote safety to the public, while internally insurers use “deaths per journey”, where air travel is more dangerous than most other forms of transportation. – Source
7. The 90s sketch comedy show “In Living Color” drew away 22% of Super Bowl XXVI’s viewers during its halftime show by doing a special live episode of their own, which is why subsequent Super Bowls got A-List performers and dropped the previous themed marching band format. – Source
8. No symphony orchestra can ever make a profit on its own, even if it sold out tickets at every show. This is mainly because the show consists of 40-100 fully salaried members who only perform the same piece 2 or 3 times. Most orchestras rely heavily on donators to be profitable. – Source
9. President LBJ was a competitive womanizer, and whenever people mentioned Kennedy’s many affairs, LBJ would bang the table and declare that he had more women by accident than Kennedy ever had on purpose. – Source
10. Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, began life in a mud hut. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish was created in 1962 for Catholics abstaining from meat on Fridays during Lent. According to McDonald’s, a quarter of all its Filet-O-Fish sandwiches were sold during Lent last year. – Source
12. A New Zealand couple disappeared after $6M was accidentally credited to their bank account. – Source
13. “Happy Birthday” is now in the Public Domain after Time Warner was sued in 2016. – Source
14. The engine on the BMW M5 is so quiet that the company plays fake engine noises through the speakers to “remind” drivers of their car’s performance. – Source
15. Orcas and other marine mammals are given a plethora of drugs to deal with their captivity. These drugs include antacids (to treat ulcers from stress), antibiotics (for injuries and infections), antipsychotics, benzodiazepines (valium, again for stress), and contraceptives. – Source
For no.5, they watched ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ one too many times.