Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 514, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. Admiral Ackbar was voted by students to be the Ole Miss Rebel’s mascot. Lucasfilm declined to allow the characters to use for the role stating he would have trouble finding time to attend games as he was leading the Rebel Alliance Fleet. – Source
2. As a child, Jimi Hendrix carried an actual broom with him everywhere around the school for over a year, as a pretend guitar. The school’s social worker tried to get funding for a real guitar, insisting that leaving him without one might result in psychological damage. – Source
3. When a 30-yr-old woman in Canada was shot in her left breast, her silicone breast implant deflected the bullet away from her vital organs; her injuries were only broken ribs and damaged implants. It’s the first recorded incident of a breast implant deflecting a bullet. – Source
4. The car JFK was assassinated in was cleaned and repurposed back into rotation and served as the presidential limo for Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter before being retired in 1977. – Source
5. For the first time, all 5,000 objects found inside King Tutankhamun’s tomb will be displayed together in the world’s largest archeological museum dedicated to a single civilization: Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza, Egypt, in the next year (2021). – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. The US Department of Defense withdrew its financial and logistical support for the TV series The Lieutenant (1963–1964) after its creator Gene Roddenberry pressed ahead with a plot titled “To Set It Right” in which a white and a black man find a common cause in their roles as Marines. – Source
7. Mae Jemison was the first African American woman in space. She also was a doctor in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, started her own business, writes children’s books, has produced and directed modern dance plays, and was also in a few episodes of Star Trek. – Source
8. Phil Collins of Genesis is the largest private collector of Alamo Memorabilia valued in the tens of millions. He donated the collection to the state-owned historical site. He is also considered a leading expert on the battle and wrote a book documenting the collection and history. – Source
9. Ivy League schools all had ties to the Opium trade in the late 19th century with major benefactors using their drug money to fund libraries, societies, and even Princeton itself. Undergrads even began running opium dens from Boston to New York until a Harvard student OD’d in 1889. – Source
10. Movie ratings are decided by a board of up to 10 parents who are all anonymous and all live in Los Angeles. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. In WWII, there was a Nazi sailor who flushed his toilet incorrectly, causing his submarine to flood with seawater. The sub was forced to surface in view of the British who then attacked, resulting in the vessel’s destruction, 4 Nazi deaths, and 46 Nazis captured. – Source
12. “Fart” is one of the oldest words in the English language, and can be traced back to its Proto-Indo-European roots through its cognates in other European languages and Sanskrit. – Source
13. A disgruntled game dev student made a hilariously terrible animation of a dancing bear as a protest that he learned nothing from an animation class, by only utilizing techniques taught in the class. It became a meme after a friend uploaded it to youtube; he also got an A. – Source
14. Venice does not have a complete modern sewage system, meaning its canals are also its sewer system. – Source
15. In 1941 the President of Haiti declared war on Japan, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. Only Romania bothered to declare war on Haiti in return. – Source
