Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 518, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. There’s a chef that lost all of his taste due to radiation in curing his stage four cancer. He regained his taste back eventually, but slowly. Now he owns a three Michelin star restaurant in Chicago and is praised by his unique flavor combinations. – Source
2. Seth Putnam, lead singer of the grindcore band an*l c**t, wrote a song making fun of comatose people called ‘You’re in a Coma’. Putnam himself was in a coma years later, and after waking remarked that “being in a coma was just as f**kin’ stupid as I wrote it was”. – Source
3. Fred Rogers proposed to his wife Joanne via letter. When she received it, Joanne rushed to a payphone to respond. She was so nervous that when Fred answered the phone she was focused on the phone booth graffiti and greeted him by saying, “sh*t.” Fred laughed and she agreed to marry him. – Source
4. Five Lithuanian soldiers serving in a reconnaissance unit were declared missing during a military exercise. They thought the drill was ongoing and successfully evaded all forces sent to find them, including trained dogs and a helicopter. – Source
5. Earlier this year, Eminem’s Marshall Mathers Foundation donated over 400 meals of “Mom’s Spaghetti” to Detroit area frontline hospital workers. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. There is a town in the UK that publicly weighs their Mayor before and after their term to ensure they haven’t gained weight at the taxpayers’ expense. If they have gained weight they are publicly booed. – Source
7. Turkeys will attack or attempt to dominate humans they view as subordinate. – Source
8. During WWII, Canada gave out buttons to people who tried to enlist but were refused due to medical reasons to show their willingness to fight. – Source
9. The price of pizza has matched, with uncanny precision, the cost of an NYC subway ride for 50 years. Economists have named it “The Pizza Principle.” – Source
10. The man known as “Hide the Pain Harold” is named Arató András. He is a retired Hungarian electrical engineer turned stock photography model and stumbled upon himself as a meme when he was looking up stock photos of himself to see how they turned out. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. Many elements of Harry Potter are very similar to a book written 3 years before. The Secret of Platform 13 features a boy of magical lineage who lives within an abusive house with a spoilt another child, and you get to the magical world through a platform at King’s Cross. – Source
12. Scotland re-established its parliament in 1999 after the Scotland Act (1998) was passed by the British parliament after a referendum. One of the first words spoken in the Parliament were, “The Scottish Parliament, which adjourned on March 25, 1707, is hereby reconvened.” – Dr. Ewing. – Source
13. Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He earned enough money to buy his freedom at age 27. The following year he married his wife Tina and purchased her freedom as well. – Source
14. The last thylacine captured on film bit the cameraman on the ass. – Source
15. While only 2 percent of Europeans lack the genes for smelly armpits, most East Asians and almost all Koreans lack this gene. – Source
Jason Alexander could not have been in his 20’s when Seinfeld was on. He was born in 1959, and Seinfeld began in 1989, at which time he would have been 30!
So I guess someone whoopsed on that one 🙂