16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt started a production company while they were married, and Pitt is the current owner and CEO. The company has produced over 30 movies, including The Departed, 12 Years a Slave, Moonlight, The Big Short, MoneyBall, Vice, Selma, Okja, Eat Pray Love, Troy, and The King. – Source
17. Volkswagen was sued by the Czechoslovakian car maker Tatra before WWII because the KdF-Wagen (the original Beetle) was so similar to the Tatra 97. Porsche was willing to settle but Hitler said he would “would settle the matter.” After Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, T97 production was stopped. – Source
18. Worker ants take up to 250 naps every day, with each nap lasting just over a minute. This equates to 4 hours and 48 minutes of sleep per day. – Source
19. Richard Feynman was present at the Rogers Commission, investigating the Challenger Disaster. Feynman was famously critical of NASA, at one point placing an o-ring sample in a glass of cold water as a demonstration. The leader of the investigation commented, “Feynman is becoming a real pain.” – Source
20. A newly developed camera is capable of taking as many as 70 trillion frames per second. That is fast enough to see waves of light traveling and the fluorescent decay of molecules. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. Since religion was largely ignored in Randy Newman’s childhood home, when Newman was informed that he couldn’t come to a country club cotillion because he was a Jew, he had to ask his father what a “Jew” was. – Source
22. Chuck Schuldiner, often regarded as The Godfather of Death Metal, described himself as “a lover of life, friendship, and animals.” He also disavowed the metal musician stereotype of being “anti-life” and was openly against the use of hard drugs. – Source
23. Every night the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence are lowered underground into a bomb-proof vault. – Source
24. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and oversaw mass arrests of up to 38,000 antiwar protesters and journalists in the North. – Source
25. The city Pawnee in the TV show Parks and Recreation uses the map of Christchurch, New Zealand with the names changed. – Source
