Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 368, click here.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. HBO had to hire a team of 160 lawyers before releasing its film “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief” because of the Church’s litigious nature. – Source
2. In 2010, Microsoft banned a user from Xbox Live for putting Fort Gay as his address. When he tried to tell them that Fort Gay actually exists in West Virginia, it took an appeal from the town’s mayor for it to be corrected. – Source
3. Pornhub displayed a message that said it automatically shared the video you were watching on social media for April Fools. –Source
4. A group of undercover Detroit police posing as drug dealers tried to arrest another group of undercover police posing as drug buyers. – Source
5. The CIA once “kidnapped” a Soviet spacecraft overnight, took it apart, studied it, reassembled it, & sent it back without the Soviets realizing. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. There have been nine different studies on DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) and all agree that the program does nothing or worsens the problem. – Source
7. Robin Williams wanted to play Hagrid in the Harry Potter films but was turned down because J.K. Rowling and director Chris Columbus only wanted British and Irish actors. – Source
8. The Nazis took over a high-end Berlin brothel commonly used by prominent Germans and foreign dignitaries, replaced all the prostitutes with spies, and continued business until a British air raid demolished the building in 1942. – Source
9. A Chicago high school played Justin Bieber’s “Baby” in between classes in the hallways. As a fundraising technique, they made students pay to stop the song. They raised $1,000 in three days. – Source
10. The Legend of Zelda was principally inspired by creator Shigeru Miyamoto’s explorations as a young boy in the hillsides, forests, and caves surrounding his childhood home in Sonobe, Japan where he ventured into forests with secluded lakes, caves, and rural villages. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, but never tried to make an antibiotic out of it. It was not until a decade later that a man named Howard Florey found Fleming’s little-known paper and realized the mold’s potential. Florey’s work is estimated to have saved up to 200,000,000 lives. – Source
12. Bob Ebeling, the challenger engineer who warned of shuttle disaster, died two years ago at 89 after blaming himself his whole life for their deaths. – Source
13. The city of London still pays rent to the Queen on land it leased in 1211. Nobody even knows where the land is located anymore. But over the past centuries, the city has paid the same flat rate: a knife, an axe, six oversized horseshoes, and 61 nails. – Source
14. The rapper Logic played Mario Kart against different rappers every night on stage for one of his tours and won all 35 games. – Source1
15. Philadelphia outfielder Richie Ashburn once fouled off 14 pitches in a row. One foul bowl struck a woman, breaking her nose. While being carried off the field, she was struck by another foul ball hit by Richie during the same at-bat. – Source
17. Ended sadly considering Paret was essentially beaten to death on live television and the referee allowed it to continue as did Paret’s coach. His use of an anti-gay slur was likely just machismo and Griffith felt guilty about Paret’s death the rest of his life.