25 Kickass Random Facts List #44

Here is 25 Kickass Random Facts List #44.

1-5 Random Facts List

1. Glucose (sugar) has an opposite “handed” isomer L-glucose, that tastes identical and isn’t metabolized as sugar, also safe for diabetics. Unfortunately, L-glucose costs 50% more than gold. – Source

2. Actor Andre Royo’s performance as “Bubbles” on The Wire was so convincing that a Baltimore resident gave the in-character Royo a small package of heroine. He calls this moment his ‘street Oscar.’ – Source

3. The 1946 ‘Adventures of Superman’ radioshow revealed the ‘secret’ codes and rituals of the KKK, making it a laughingstock and drying up Klan recruitment almost overnight – Source

4. During the Spanish-American war (1898), a warship sent by USA to capture Guam. It fired 13 shots at the harbor fort without receiving return fire. The Spanish sent an officer out to apologies for not returning the ‘salute’ as they were out of gunpowder. They hadn’t been informed that they were at war. – Source

5. In 2000, Pope John Paul II gave his blessing to the Pokémon franchise, saying the games did not have “any harmful moral side effects” and were based on “ties of intense friendship”. – Source

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6. Lulu the kangaroo was rescued as a joey and hand-reared by an Australian farmer and his family. When a branch knocked the farmer unconscious, Lulu stayed with him and ‘barked’ until the man’s family came, likely saving his life. – Source

7. After betraying their mission and informing the FBI about Nazi agents on U.S. soil, the two men who saved America from Nazi infiltration were greeted with life imprisonment, threat of execution, and deportation. – Source

8. There is an atomic bomb museum in New Mexico, where the first a-bomb was detonated. The museum is only open 12 hours each year. – Source

9. 10 Downing Street, the residence of the Prime minister of the UK, has a cat with a government title of Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. His day-to-day responsibilities include contemplating a solution to the mouse occupancy of the house. – Source

10. A “dash” is 1/8 of a teaspoon, a “pinch” is 1/16 of a teaspoon, and a “smidgen” is 1/32 of a teaspoon. – Source

11-15 Random Facts List

11. American Mobster, John Gotti’s neighbor accidentally ran over and killed Gotti’s son. He was abducted 3 months later and never heard from again. – Source

12. Before the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther confessed for hours at a time. Annoyed, the priest told him “If you’re going to confess so much, why don’t you go do something worth confessing? Kill your mother or father! Commit adultery! Quit coming in here with such flummery and fake sins.” – Source

13. Members of the Nazi Party and KKK shot five unarmed protesters to death in North Carolina in 1979, in broad daylight, while being filmed and all of them were acquitted in two separate trials. – Source

14. Many girls in China pay $700 for a surgery to restore their hymen before their wedding night to fake virginity so that husbands can see blood on the sheets during the honeymoon night. – Source

15. GZA of Wu Tang Clan is working on an album focused on educating children about the science. It is also believed Neil deGrasse Tyson helped inspire it. – Source

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16. More than 2,500 of the 3,250 crosswalk buttons in New York City function essentially as mechanical placebos. They haven’t worked since the late 1980’s. – Source

17. At it’s top speed of 254 MPH, the Bugatti Veyron averages only 3 MPG. – Source

18. Actor Paul Walker was in a jewelry store one day when he noticed a young U.S. military veteran with his fiancée shopping for a wedding ring. Paul went to the manager and said “Put that girl’s ring on my tab.” – Source

19. There was a batman villain named Condiment King and he was defeated by slipping on his own ketchup. – Source

20. An extinct bird called Rodrigues Solitaire had strange knob-like balls on its wings. These balls were used by the bird as a deadly weapon to defend its territory and its mate, and the noise it made sounded like thunder in the distance – Source

21-25 Random Facts List

21. Obsidian blades are so sharp (3 nm thickness) that, on a cellular level, obsidian knives will cut between cells rather than tear the cells as steel knives would do – Source

22. The last native Prince of Wales disappeared at the end of his rebellion in 1412 and managed to remain hidden despite a large bounty and an eventual pardon. His fate and location have remained a closely guarded family secret for over 600 years. – Source

23. German scientist, Gerhard Domagk, developed the antibacterial agent Prontosil, a sulfonamide. He used this agent to treat his own daughter, preventing her from an arm amputation. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1939. – Source

24. The word “Bupkis,” common slang for “nothing,” comes from the Yiddish phrase meaning “having about as much worth as goat turds.” – Source

25. A small number of prostitutes in Majengo, a slum in Nairobi, have shown immunity to AIDS. In the past 30 years, one prostitute named Agnes, has had unprotected sex with approximately 2,000 infected men and still shows no signs of the disease. – Source