16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. During a flight to America the ‘Hindenburg’ hovered over a random English town and dropped a bouquet of flowers, then ascended and continued its journey. A note attached to the bouquet read: please deposit these flowers and cross on the grave of my dear brother, POW [in the local cemetery]”. – Source
17. Annie Murphy (Alexis from Schitt’s Creek) almost quit her acting career after her apartment burnt to the ground and she had $3 in her bank account. A couple of days later she secured her audition for Alexis. – Source
18. Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. It has a mass 4 million times that of our Sun, but a diameter only 31 times the Sun’s. It is so dense that it could fit in the space between the Earth and the Sun, but can attract things 50k light-years away. – Source
19. In April 2008, Comcast sued the Chattanooga Electric Power Board (EPB) to prevent it from building a fiber network to serve residents who were getting slow speeds from the incumbent cable provider, and lost. After EPB launched in 2009, Comcast and AT&T finally started upgrading their services. – Source
20.The liquid inside a blister is actually called serum, not pus, and is essentially blood without red blood cells and clotting agents. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. The Whole Shabang is a brand of chips that were initially only sold at prison commissary stores. The chips were so popular amongst ex-inmates that it became a grey market commodity and finally was sold to the general public. – Source
22. The Japanese Navy always eat curry on Fridays to help sailors keep track of which day it is. – Source
23. Polish Catholic midwife Stanisława Leszczyńska delivered 3,000 babies at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland. She also smuggled false documents and food to Jews inside the ghetto as part of growing Polish resistance. – Source
24. Coney Island hasn’t been an island since the 1930s. Landfill efforts turned the once Island into a peninsula. – Source
25. In 2000, ABBA was offered $1 billion to reunite for a 100-show world tour, working out to a $2.5m paycheck per member per show. The band turned it down. – Source
