Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 392, click here.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. When Pokemon Go first came out, it increased U.S. activity levels by 144 billion steps in just 30 days. – Source
2. Cards Against Humanity joked that they could buy an island with the money they donate to charity, so they bought an island in Maine to preserve wildlife. They named it “Hawaii 2” because “it’s on the Maine land.” – Source
3. Chris Pratt stole his Peter Quill/Star-Lord costumes, including the jacket, from the set of “Guardians of the Galaxy” so that he could wear them to visit sick children at the hospital if the film was a hit. – Source
4. Stephen Hawking liked “The Theory Of Everything” so much that he allowed the filmmakers to use his trademarked computerized voice on it. He called the film “broadly true” and emailed the filmmakers that there were certain points when he thought he was watching himself, which left him tearful. – Source
5. A couple invited Queen Elizabeth to their wedding as a joke and she actually showed up. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. Tug-of-war used to be an Olympic sport. In the 1912 Olympics in Sweden, the host nation took gold, Great Britain took silver, and no one won bronze because only two teams showed up. – Source
7. Fake oil paintings can be detected because of nuclear bombs detonated in 1945 because of the fact that isotopes such as strontium-90 and cesium-137 that can be found in oil did not exist in nature previously. If a picture contains these isotopes, it is certainly painted after the year 1945. – Source
8. Samsung accidentally issued 2,000 employees 1,000 shares of stock for 37 minutes before realizing the error. 16 employees sold during that time for approx. $9,000,000 each. – Source
9. In 2001, India started building roads that hold together using polymer glues made from shredded plastic wastes. These plastic roads have developed no potholes and cracks after years of use, and they are cheaper to build. As of 2016, there are more than 21,000 miles of plastic roads. – Source
10. Owen Wilson attempted suicide in 2007, which led to Matthew McConaughey taking his role in the film “Tropic Thunder”. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. Audie Murphy was awarded every military combat award for valor available from the U.S. Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism. – Source
12. When severely depressed patients were treated with psilocybin, all enjoyed some improvement, 2/3rds were in remission at 1 week, and 42% remained depression-free at 3 months. – Source
13. An article in 1968 revealed widespread marijuana use among U.S. soldiers in Vietnam. As a result of the media uproar stateside and subsequent crackdown by the army, soldiers shifted to heroin, which was odorless and harder to detect. By 1973, up to 20% of the soldiers were habitual heroin users. – Source
14. “He never married” was commonly used by obituary writers in the United Kingdom as a euphemism for the deceased having to be homosexual. – Source
15. All men have a scar of what was supposed to be the vagina. During embryotic development, everyone has a genital opening. In females, it develops into the labia and vagina. When male hormones enter, it is fused together, leaving a scar that runs from the anus, over the scrotum, and up the penis. – Source
