16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. Johnson & Johnson knew there was Asbestos in Baby Powder for decades. – Source
17. Humans enjoy spicy foods, depressing songs, and roller coasters because of “benign masochism”. – Source
18. In 1942, the BBC issued an appeal for postcards and photographs of the coast of Europe from Norway to the Pyrenees. It was actually an intelligence-gathering exercise, they were sent to the War Office to help determine a suitable location (Normandy) for the eventual D-Day landings of 1944. – Source
19. The Pascha is a 12 story 9,000 square meter brothel in Cologne, Germany. With about 120 prostitutes, over 80 employees and up to 1000 customers per day, it is the largest brothel in Europe. – Source
20. A man named Robert Shields wrote the longest diary in history, 37.5 million words written over a 25 year period until he was disabled by a stroke. He spent hours every day chronically the most minute details of his daily life and even limited sleep to 2 hours at a time to record his dreams. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. Bill Millin, a bagpiper was one of the first soldiers to charge on D-day. While playing the pipes, his comrades fell around him. He said he only survived because German snipers thought he was too crazy to shoot. – Source
22. In 1976, the Chicago Sun-Times bought a bar so they could expose the corruption of city inspectors extracting bribes from local businesses. – Source
23. The aviation distress call “Mayday” was created in 1923 and derives from the French “m’aidez” or “help me”. – Source
24. Great White Sharks will flee their hunting grounds and won’t return for up to a year when killer whales pass by. – Source
25. Einstein never received a Nobel prize for relativity and he did not attend his prize giving, Despite being informed that he was about to receive the prize, he chose to continue with a lecture tour of Japan, because he simply no longer valued it. – Source
You need a rewrite of #25 ‘ Einstein never received a Nobel prize for relativity and he did not attend his prize giving,’…. so he never received one but he also didn’t attend when he did receive one? Here’s the facts:
Did Albert Einstein attend the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony?
Answer: The Nobel Prize was announced on 9 November 1922. Being too remote from Sweden, Albert Einstein could not attend the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December the same year.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1921/einstein/questions-and-answers/