16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. In 1920, a 4th-century lead tablet was discovered in which Silvanus asked the god Nodens to curse the thief that stole his ring. The ring, interestingly, has been identified as one found 130km from the tablet 200 years prior. – Source
17. The title of the Radiohead album “OK Computer” comes from a line in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “OK, computer, I want full manual control now.” The song “Paranoid Android” refers to “Hitchhiker” character Marvin, the Paranoid Android. – Source
18. Canadians in WWI regularly executed prisoners and exploited truces. “[He] described the practice of lobbing tins of corned beef into a neighboring German trench. When the Canadians started hearing happy shouts of “More! Give us more!” they then let loose with an armload of grenades.” – Source
19. Queen Elizabeth’s grandfather, King George V, was euthanized by his physician. The physician wrote in his journal that he euthanized the King so that his death would be announced in the morning newspapers, rather than the “less appropriate evening journals”. – Source
20. In 1928, the third richest man in the world disappeared from his private airplane midflight. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. Dogs would often dig up bodies and tombs in ancient Egypt, which was a problem because the dead and their belongings were sacred. So, the Egyptians gave the god Anubis a canine head and made him “protector of the dead.” – Source
22. The Hadza tribe from Tanzania finds honey by whistling a special tune to a “honeyguide” bird that then leads them to a nearby beehive. – Source
23. The novel Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is so incomprehensible that no two plot summaries made have ever agreed with each other. Some have even said any attempt to work out the plot is impossible and a waste of time. – Source
24. In Bugattis, world record video of the Chiron going from 0-400kmph-0, the one-shot scene of the car accelerating was achieved by simply using another Bugatti Chiron as the camera car because nothing else on set was fast enough to record the shot. – Source
25. Mel Gibson and Liam Neeson were largely considered to play James Bond in the movie “Goldeneye”. Neeson turned it down because he wasn’t interested in action films at the time and Gibson was too busy with his project “Braveheart” despite being recommended by Sean Connery. – Source
