16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. Many chewing gums are pink because the inventor of Double Bubble (the first bubble gum) only had pink food coloring in his factory, and others copied his invention. – Source
17. Saudi Arabia only abolished slavery in 1962 under pressure from the USA and GB. – Source
18. Hagfish were being transported to South Korea where they are eaten as a delicacy, but instead covered the car and road in slime. Hagfish slime expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second. It is 100,000 times softer than Jell-O. Hagfish produce slime when attacked or stressed. – Source
19. The male vocals in Evanescence’s “Bring Me To Life” was added because radio stations thought the song was “too feminine.” – Source
20. Ara Abrahamian, the Greco-Roman wrestler for the Swedes in the 2008 Olympics, lost a semifinal due to a controversial ruling. The refs refused to review the match video. Ara calmly accepted the bronze medal, then placed it on the mat and walked off. The IOC gave him a lifetime ban from the Olympics. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. So many aircraft were assembled for the filming of Battle of Britain (1969) that it was the 35th largest air force in the world. – Source
22. Former Manson Family member Barbara Hoyt was poisoned by a hamburger with several doses of LSD in it. This was meant to prevent her from testifying in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. The plan backfired when she survived. After the attempt to silence her, her reticence disappeared. – Source
23. Until the 1970s, the words m*ron, imbecile, and idiot were actually medical diagnoses. – Source
24. In 2019, a saxophonist was hired to compose a song for the critically endangered New Zealand bird, the Kakapo, in order to put them in a romantic mood for mating. It seems to have worked as 249 eggs were laid and 76 hatched during the breeding season. – Source
25. Viruses (100nm) are smaller than the wavelength of visible light (380-740nm), so light doesn’t bounce off of them. They are therefore invisible, and can only be seen with electron microscopes. – Source
