16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. A Judas goat is a trained goat that herds or leads its peers. In stockyards, a Judas goat will lead sheep to the slaughter, while its own life is spared. Judas goats can also be used by hunters to find and capture feral herds. There are also Judas steers for cows. – Source
17. A man called Roland the Farter was required to perform one jump, one whistle, and one fart each Christmas for King Henry II in return for a 30-acre estate. – Source
18. Three-quarters of U.S. teens and adults are deficient in vitamin D, the so-called “sunshine vitamin” whose deficits are increasingly blamed for everything from cancer and heart disease to diabetes, according to new research. – Source
19. Alan Turing volunteered during the war and in the application form he answered a question that asked the applicant if they understood that by signing up they place themselves liable to military law as “No”. No one noticed, he became a fine marksman and then got out by citing this technicality. – Source
20. Alchemist Hennig Brand believed that he could distill gold from human urine. After stockpiling 1,500 gallons of urine and boiling it, he discovered phosphorus. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. McDonald’s used to use an ingredient known as beef tallow, the rendered form of beef fat that’s solid at room temperature that gave McDonald’s fries their signature rich and buttery flavor. However, this was replaced with 100% vegetable oil over concerns of high-cholesterol menu items. – Source
22. Tree experts pointed out a mistake in current Canadian currency. Instead of its notes featuring Canadian maple leaves, it instead features Norwegian maple leaves. Although, both look fairly similar. – Source
23. Despite his success as a musician, Harry Chapin left little money when he died. His widow was reportedly quoted saying with only with slight exaggeration that “Harry was supporting 17 relatives, 14 associations, 7 foundations & 82 charities. He always said, ‘Money is for people.’ – Source
24. In the book “Gulliver’s Travels”, the laputans, scientists who live on a magnetically levitating island, discovered two moons of Mars. This was 150 years before we actually discovered Mars had moons. – Source
25. The officers that made the watergate arrests were dressed as hippies because they had just been undercover to find drug dealers. – Source
