Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 526, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. Louis Vuitton burns surplus bags and products at the end of each year. This maintains the exclusivity of the brand and ensures that their products are never sold at a discounted rate. – Source
2. “Military Grade” is just a marketing ploy. In the actual military, “military grade” means “meeting the bare-minimum requirements of durability, while also costing the least.” – Source
3. The Seminole Tribe of Florida generated so much revenue from opening tax-free smoke shops and organizing high-stakes bingo games that in 2007 they bought Hard Rock Cafe International. The tribe still owns it today, with 180 Restaurants, 24 Hotels, and 11 Casinos in 74 different countries. – Source
4. Marie Antoinette built an entire fake village, complete with a working farm and fake villagers, in the backyard of Chateau de Versailles, so she could pretend to be a “peasant” whenever she felt like it. – Source
5. A couple spent 26 years replanting a rain forest in 1991 and now it covers over 300 acres of wildlife that is home to more than 200 globally endangered species of plants and animals, including Asian elephants and Bengal tigers. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s father descended from Black Loyalists, who escaped to Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War on the promise of British emancipation. – Source
7. From 1513 to 1972, the Danish Kings were named Christian, Frederick, Christian, Frederick, Christian, Frederick, Christian, Frederick, Christian, Frederick, Christian, Frederick, Christian, Frederick, Christian, Frederick, Christian, Frederick (it ended with the current monarch, a Queen). – Source
8. In order to popularize potatoes in France, a pharmacist by the name of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier acquired a large plot of land from the king and hired guards to watch over them with instructions to allow thieves to getaway. The plan worked and the potatoes helped fight off famine. – Source
9. Three cows that were swept off an island in North Carolina during Hurricane Dorian were found alive on a different island. Cape Lookout National Seashore Park officials say they believe the three-stranded cows swam up to five miles. – Source
10. 50 years ago, fried chicken tycoon David Bamberger used his fortune to purchase 5,500 acres of overgrazed land in the Texas Hill Country. Planting grasses to soak in rains and fill hillside aquifers, Bamberger devoted the rest of his life to restoring the degraded landscape. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. The cost of acquiring the rights to use The Beatles’ music in “Yesterday” was around $10 million, nearly 40% of the movie’s total cost. – Source
12. A Latvian man evaded the Soviets in bunkers in the woods for the entirety of the 50-year Soviet occupation. He came put when the last Soviet troops left, age 70. – Source
13. A producer on Family Ties felt Michael J. Fox was too short for the role and tried to have him replaced saying “this isn’t the face you’ll see on a lunch-box.” Fox later gave him a custom-made lunch-box with the inscription “this is for you to put your crow in. Love and Kisses, Michael J. Fox.” – Source
14. In Japan, there is a fire alarm that can wake deaf people by spraying wasabi in the air. – Source
15. In 2008, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, refused to give his assent to a Euthanasia bill passed by the Chamber of Deputies. In response, the Chamber amended the constitution so that bills no longer require the Duke’s assent, rendering the Duke symbolic. – Source
