Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 384, click here.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. In 2004, Sylvia Browne, a psychic, told the mother of a Cleveland kidnapping victim (Amanda Berry) on the Montel Williams Show her daughter was dead. In 2006, the mother passed away without ever knowing her daughter was still alive and being held captive. – Source
2. A British bomb detection dog named Theo died from stress a few hours after seeing his handler get shot. The pair had set a record for bomb detection, and the dog was posthumously awarded an honor equivalent to the Victoria Cross. – Source
3. A 5-year-old called 911 after his mother collapsed in her bedroom. The operator hung on the kid saying he was fake calling 911 after 3 hours he called again and another operator said he should not play games and hung up him, Mother of 10 was found dead shortly after. – Source
4. Sears once sold on mail order an entire house as a giant DIY kit. There were over 370 home designs, and the house had over 30,000 parts worth 25 tons. Sears claimed a man of “average” abilities could assemble it in 90 days. – Source
5. In the 1980’s, people living in the borders of forests in India and Bangladesh were issued plastic face masks to wear on the back of their heads. Tiger attacks virtually stopped because the tigers thought people were looking at them when their backs were turned. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. Killing Fields, a movie about the Cambodian Genocide, starred Haing Ngor, an actual genocide survivor. Co-star John Malkovich defended Ngor’s lack of prior acting experience, saying he had to be a pretty good actor to survive the Khmer Rouge. Ngor went on to win an Oscar for his performance. – Source
7. Alan Shepard pulled out a makeshift six-iron he smuggled on board Apollo 14 and hit two golf balls on the lunar surface, becoming the first and only person to play golf anywhere other than Earth. – Source
8. Roselle is a seeing-eye dog that led her blind owner, Michael Hingson, down 1,463 steps from the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Dog and owner exited just before the South Tower collapsed, and both survived. – Source
9. There is a mutation that causes bones to become 8 times denser than normal that allow people to walk away from car accidents without a single fracture but with a trade-off of being unable to swim. – Source
10. A hijacked Ethiopian Airlines plane was headed to Switzerland but had to be intercepted by French/Italian fighter jets because the Swiss Airforce doesn’t work on nights and weekends. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. In 2004, Seth Putnam, vocalist of the grindcore band an*l C**t, whose offensive song titles included “You’re Gay” and “You’re in a Coma” overdosed and ironically lapsed into a brief coma. He later stated that actually being in a coma “was just as gay [and] f*ckin’ stupid as I wrote it was.” – Source
12. A Scottish parliamentarian introduced a bill to decriminalize homosexuality in England after his gay brother killed himself. It passed. He wrote another bill to protect badgers. It failed. When asked why the latter didn’t pass, he snorted “There are not many badgers in the House of Lords.” – Source
13. 2 guys without proper permits, equipment and no food and money, climbed Mt. Everest, and then paraglided and kayaked into the Indian Ocean in one trip. – Source
14. A group of sperm whales adopted a bottlenose dolphin with a spinal deformation after it was lost from its own dolphin group. – Source
15. In 1947, the Superman radio show did a series called “Clan of the Fiery Cross” in which they exposed many of the KKK’s most guarded secrets. Within two weeks of the broadcast, KKK recruitment was down to zero. And by 1948, people were showing up to Klan rallies just to mock them. – Source
