16-20 Kickass Random Facts
Image credit: en.wikipedia.org16. Charlie No-Face or the Green Man was an urban legend about a monster who walked along the side of a highway at night in Pennsylvania. In reality, he was a man named Raymond Robinson, and he went out at night so that his face, disfigured in a childhood accident, wouldn’t scare people. – Source
17. Adding an additional 20 minutes of commuting per day has the same negative effect on job satisfaction as receiving a 19% pay cut. – Source
18. In 1140, a German King captured a castle and ordered all the women of the castle to leave with whatever they could carry on their backs. Thinking quickly, the women carried their men on their backs. The King kept his word and let the men live. – Source
19. Charles Schulz always disliked the title of Peanuts, which was given to his comic strip by the syndicate. In a 1987 interview, Schulz said of it: “It’s totally ridiculous, has no meaning, is simply confusing, and has no dignity and I think my humor has dignity.” – Source
20. Michael Jordan took home economics in high school to learn to cook because he was worried his big ears would make it hard to find a woman who would want to marry him. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
Image credit: ven.wikipedia.org21. Within hours of its release in 1993, the video game DOOM was banned from numerous university networks as a rush of players overwhelmed their systems with deathmatches. – Source
22. The Code of Hammurabi (1754 BC) has 282 laws inscribed on stone. It includes the concept of “eye for an eye” and “tooth for a tooth” more than 500 years before the Torah. – Source
23. George Clooney had a cameo on South Park in which he provided all the barks, growls, and yips for Sparky, the gay dog in the “Big Gay Al’s Big Gay Boat Ride.” – Source
24. Crows in urban Japan and the United States have innovated a technique to crack hard-shelled nuts by dropping them onto crosswalks and letting them be run over and cracked by cars. Then they retrieve the cracked nuts when the cars are stopped at the red light. – Source
25. 3 cameras were standard in multi-cam tv filming prior to the 70s, then Garry Marshall needed the 4th camera to solely follow Robin Williams during Mork & Mindy filming since Williams was so unpredictable with his physical comedy. – Source
