16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. Nintendo’s character Mario is named after Mario Segale, who was the company’s landlord in 1981. All Segale has publicly said about this is “I’m still waiting for my royalty checks”. – Source
17. A Curaçao woman rescued a flamingo that crashed into a window, nursing it back to health, and after realizing she couldn’t release it back to the wild, made it an ambassador for his species, visiting schools with her to teach children about island wildlife and the importance of conservation. – Source
18. Italy didn’t have tomatoes and India didn’t have peppers until the Americas were discovered. – Source
19. In 1971, Nike paid a college student $35 for the “swoosh” logo she designed. – Source
20. In 1936, King George V was injected with 1g of cocaine and 750mg of morphine enough to kill him twice to make sure he died in time for printing presses which rolled at midnight. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. The oldest surviving work of Latin prose is a guide to farmers by Cato the Elder. Along with detailed instructions on running a farm, it contains a guide to brewing wine and many cooking recipes, including one for cheesecake. – Source
22. Paleontology is experiencing a golden age, with a new dinosaur species discovered every 10 days on average. – Source
23. Marriott was fined $600,000 by the FCC in 2014 for blocking customers’ personal Wi-Fi so customers were forced to pay for internet. – Source
24. It’s legal in New York to own a monkey if you’re paralyzed and the monkey is trained to perform household tasks for you. – Source
25. Actor Brian Blessed is a fully trained astronaut, having completed over 800 hours of “space training” in Moscow, and “remains the number one civilian on the wait list for the International Space Station.” – Source
