16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. It takes approximately seven minutes for a raindrop to fall from the cloud to the ground. – Source
17. If you ever got shrunk down to the size of an ant, not only would everything look bigger to you, but the world would also appear almost a million times darker, the light would no longer appear straight meaning that the world around you would be covered in a haze of blurriness and shadow. – Source
18. In 2013, a 31-year-old woman in New Zealand died from a cardiac arrhythmia linked to her habit of drinking 6-10 liters a day of Coca-Cola. – Source
19. In U.S. criminal cases, more than 90% of defendants plead guilty rather than go to trial. – Source
20. In 2015, people who ate the Burger King Halloween Special had their poop turn bright green. This was due to the combination of food colorings in the burger’s bun, which was black for the occasion. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. The first computer game was Nim, released in April 1940 on a computer called the Nimatron, which weighed over a ton. The designer was a nuclear physicist and quantum mechanics pioneer who later participated in the Manhattan Project. 100,000 games were played, with the computer winning ~90%. – Source
22. The cornea is the only part of the body with no blood supply and it gets its oxygen directly from the air. – Source
23. One of the reasons the highest rank in the US army is “General of the Army” instead of Field Marshall (as in other countries) was to avoid insulting Gen. George Marshall by calling him Field Marshal Marshall. – Source
24. The USS William D. Porter was the only vessel in US Navy history to have its entire crew placed under arrest after accidentally firing a live torpedo at a vessel carrying the President of the United States and the Secretary of State. – Source
25. According to an MI5 agent who infiltrated the Provisional IRA, Irish Republican chiefs couldn’t bring themselves to attack targets in Scotland during the Troubles because they viewed them as “Celtic cousins”. – Source
