Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 546, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. In Albania, some women choose to become “sworn virgins” in order to live life as a man, get the rights and privileges of a man, and are, for the rest of their lives, never addressed as female again. – Source
2. In 1989, a man placed a £30 bet that as of 1 January 2000: U2 would still be active; Cliff Richard would be knighted; EastEnders would still be a weekly BBC show, and Neighbours and Home and Away would still be on British TV. He was given odds of 6,479-1, and in January 2000 collected £194,400. – Source
3. In 2004, the father of Professional Golfer Rory McIlroy placed a £200 ($341) bet, at 500-1 odds, that his son would win the British Open within the next 10 years when his son was just 15 years old. In 2014, McIlroy won the tournament earning his father $171,000 from the wager. – Source
4. Before playing Drago in Rocky IV, Dolph Lundgren earned a master’s degree in chemical engineering and won a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT. – Source
5. In 2014, due to a glitch in the Canadian version of iTunes, a Taylor Swift song titled “Track 3” was released and immediately shot to the top of the charts. Fans who downloaded the song had purchased eight seconds of static noise for $1.29. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. In 2009, 107 Million spiders were found in 4-acre spiderweb at Baltimore Wastewater Plant in Maryland, U.S.A. Equating to 35,000 Spiders/m³. – Source
7. In 1965, the future Canadian prime minister John Turner was vacationing in Barbados when he noticed someone struggling in rough surf at the beach; being a strong swimmer, he instinctively entered the water and unknowingly saved the life of former Canadian PM John Diefenbaker. – Source
8. Bruce Springsteen went to a Ramones show & met Joey Ramone, who asked him to write a song for them. Springsteen wrote “Hungry Heart” for them, and his manager implored him to keep it for himself instead. It became Bruce Springsteen’s first Top 10 hit as a performer. – Source
9. Robert Rozier is a former NFL player. He killed 7 people on behalf of a cult, went into the witness protection program, did 22 years in prison, got out, became a web developer, and then was sentenced to 25 years to life for passing $2,200 worth of bad checks. – Source
10. When a peacock shakes his tail, it produces a low pitched sound human can’t hear despite the noise is about as loud as a car going past a few meters away. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. A man attempted to sue his date for texting throughout the movie they went to. He wanted to sue her for $17.31 which is the price of the movie ticket. – Source
12. A cat that had been hit by a car and buried for five days managed to crawl out of its grave, only suffering a broken jaw and the loss of one eye. – Source
13. The world’s first astronomical site, Nabta Playa, was built in Africa and is 2,000 years older than Stonehenge. Located in the Sahara desert, the 7,000-year-old stone circle was used to track the summer solstice and the arrival of the annual monsoon season. – Source
14. Due to gravitational time dilation the earth’s core is 2.5 years younger than the surface. This is the effect whereby time passes slower the closer you are to a source of gravitation (as depicted in Interstellar). – Source
15. A chocolate river existed in 1971. The famous chocolate river from the original Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory film was made with 15,000 gallons of water mixed with chocolate and cream. The river spoiled fairly quickly due to the cream and the cast said it stank. – Source
