16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. The “Dumbest Member of Congress” William L. Scott was a U.S. Senator from Virginia who being briefed by members of the military about missile silos in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, reportedly said “Wait a minute! I’m not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff.” – Source
17. The guy who had that $240,000 gold shirt made for him was invited to a party, but when he arrived was beaten to death in front of his son by 12 assailants. – Source
18. The impossible-to-remove-cleanly foil seal on medication bottles was developed because someone poisoned 7 people by adding cyanide to Tylenol bottles in Chicago drug stores in 1982. – Source
19. Robin Williams had Diffuse Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson’s which [his wife believes] led him to kill himself. His wife says depression had very little to do with it. – Source
20. According to Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus, the Greek King of Ithaca, had a dog named Argos. When Odysseus left for the war on Troy, Argos waited for 20 years for him to return, and died as soon as he saw his master had come back safe and sound. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. The software to create the black hole in the movie “Interstellar” is a full implementation of Einstein’s equations in 40,000 lines of C++, and rendered thousands of 23-megapixel IMAX frames on a 32,000-core render farm at about 20 core-hours per frame. – Source
22. George R.R. Martin made Game of Thrones show creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff correctly guesses the identity of Jon Snow’s mother before he allowed them to adapt his novels. – Source
23. In 2009, four prison inmates saved a prison guard from another inmate. The heroes were in prison for crimes like assault and armed robbery and saved the guard because he treated them with a lot of respect. – Source
24. Two high school kids did a science experiment and solved the civil war mystery known as the angels glow. – Source
25. In 2004, corporate attorney Nathan Sawaya quit his lucrative job to build Lego professionally so he could “get away from the daily grind”. His sculptures now command six-figure prices each. – Source
