16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. In the early days of home computers, late 70’s to early ’80s, computer magazines featured code listings that readers would spend hours typing into their computer in order to play a game or have a certain program. – Source
17. In Back to the Future, the theatre in the background behind the clock tower shows “Orgy American Style”. This is an actual porno from 1973. The male star from that porno played Red the Bum in the film, calling Marty a crazy drunk driver when returns to the present. – Source
18. The oldest continuously operating Chinese restaurant in the US is not in New York or San Francisco, but Butte, Montana. Pekin Noodle Parlor opened in 1911 and is still open today. – Source
19. Shavarsh Karapetyan is a retired Armenian swimmer. In 1976, after completing his daily 20-km run, he came upon an accident scene where a trolleybus had fallen into a reservoir. Karapetyan dived 10 meters into the water and pulled 46 people out of the bus, 20 of whom survived. – Source
20. The Japanese usually leave out most of their history from the early 1900s to WWII from their high school curriculum. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. Perpetual Stews were common in the middle ages. The pot was never or rarely emptied, and whatever food was found was placed inside and cooked. – Source
22. Florida passed a bill in 1967 which would allow Disney to build their own nuclear power plant at Disney World, that law still stands. – Source
23. “Celebrity psychiatrist” Dr. Isaac Herschkopf manipulated a patient into cutting off his family, giving him his home, signing over his bank account, and amending his will to leave everything to the doctor’s wife. Yet Dr. Herschkopf still maintains his medical license in New York City today. – Source
24. Sir James Matthew Barrie assigned the copyright in Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. Peter Pan is the only copyright in the UK that has been extended in perpetuity, meaning the Hospital can receive royalties forever. It is the copyright which never grows old. – Source
25. In 2017, Frankfurt police found a car belonging to a 76-year-old man who had forgotten where he had parked it 20 years earlier. – Source
