16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. Scientists discovered broadcasting the sound of a healthy coral reef on underwater speakers in dead areas along the Great Barrier Reef resulted in life returning and thriving. Twice as many fish visited those areas with speakers compared to spots on the reef without speakers. – Source
17. Danny Trejo got his first acting job when visiting a patient he was doing substance abuse counseling for on the set of “Runaway Train”. He was offered a job as an extra in the film’s prison scenes. – Source
18. Spider-Man’s trademark web-swinging technique in “The Amazing Spider-Man” was done using practical effects instead of the CGI used in the previous films. They built a giant rig that allowed a stuntman to swing from a thin cable attached to a winch over and through the real streets of NYC. – Source
19. From 1965 to 1968, the United States was dropping 32 tons of bombs per hour on North Vietnam. 7 million tons of bombs including 400,000 tons of napalm were dropped in Southeast Asia during the conflict. This is more than three times as many tons of bombs than were dropped in all of World War II. – Source
20. In 2005, a group of reporters swab tested 46 bathrooms in the EU parliament for traces of drugs. 41 of them tested positive for cocaine. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. The Microsoft Surface Laptop is built in such a way that it is impossible to open one for repairs without destroying it. – Source
22. Jason Alexander (George Costanza from Seinfeld) was still only in his 20s when Seinfeld debuted. – Source
23. Because of its massive size, a T-Rex could only run at 12 miles per hour. If it ran any faster, its bones would’ve shattered. – Source
24. When in 2013 5-year-old Alanah Poullard asked the US President for an excuse note during a Wounded Warriors and families tour of the White House on a school day, the President ended up writing that excuse note. – Source
25. A mathematician named Nicolas Bourbaki who has made many strides in mathematics, never even was a real person, but was a collective pseudonym for a group of mathematicians who wrote their own textbooks. – 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 🙂