16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. The American pronghorn ‘antelope’ is the second-fastest land animal in the world, likely evolved its speed to outrun the now-extinct American cheetah. – Source
17. Alfred Hitchcock used to play sadistic pranks on his coworkers. Once he had a bet with the prop guy to spend a night tied to the camera. The man agreed and had a drink with Alfred but Alfred put laxatives in his drink. When people came in the morning, he was found crying in his own poop’s puddle. – Source
18. While evaluating security at a Fortune 5 company, a penetration tester was suspicious that the small-town restaurant across the street served black duck eggs, a rare Chinese delicacy. The restaurant was reported to the FBI and was revealed to be a front for a Chinese espionage operation. – Source
19. A zookeeper secretly grew a cannabis plantation inside the rhino enclosure at an Austrian zoo for years. He was the only one who had access to the enclosure and police made the discovery after a tip from a drug user. – Source
20. There is a mutated gene in fruit flies which causes them to die in 2 days when infected by a certain bacteria. This gene is named Kenny, after Kenny McCormick from South Park. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. “Georgian swimming” is a swimming style where swimmer’s hands and feet are bound together. It was re-discovered in the 60s after a swimming enthusiast decided to fact-check a legend about ancient warriors training by swimming in this manner. – Source
22. Most cigarette tobacco is in fact “reconstituted tobacco”, sheets of waste material sprayed with nicotine and other chemicals, which are then cut to look like a leaf. – Source
23. The Superman actor Henry Cavil has been an avid PC gamer since childhood and even missed the call to play Superman because he was playing the game World of Warcraft. – Source
24. There is a dialect of Arabic that isn’t naturally spoken anywhere, but which is understandable to all speakers of Arabic. While people from Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, or Syria might not understand each other, they can understand the same news report. – Source
25. 75 percent of all silent films ever made are estimated to be completely lost, as well as half of all films made from 1927 to 1950. – Source
