16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. Lolita is the last Southern Resident Orca in captivity at Miami Seaquarium. Captured in 1970, it is thought that her ~92-year-old mother, L-95, is still alive in the wild with the rest of Lolita’s L-Pod Family. Southern Resident Orca stays with their Mother & pod their whole life. – Source
17. When John DeLorean was busted buying cocaine, undercover agents thought he had paid by signing over control of his car company. At trial, it came out that he had signed over rights to a worthless holding company instead. – Source
18. George C. Parker, the conman who fraudulently “sold” the Brooklyn Bridge multiple times, dodged his first prison sentence by grabbing a sheriff’s uniform and walking out of the courthouse. – Source
19. Dennis Quaid’s face appeared on warning labels of vials of blood thinner Heparin to remind nurses not to accidentally inject patients with high concentration doses after Quaid’s newborn twins almost died of an accidental overdose. – Source
20. The first stall in public restrooms is most likely to be the cleanest. According to studies, people tend to choose the middle one because of the “centrality preference.” On the other hand, the first stall, which is the least used, is likely to be the cleanest. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. A 2×2 brick of Legos can withstand an excess of 950 pounds. – Source
22. In 2013, Lucasarts games had a game in development following Boba Fett going through the criminal underworld of Coruscant’s level 1313. According to interviews, the staff was inspired by the GTA series. The Game was canceled when Lucasarts was acquired by Disney and laid off most of their staff. – Source
23. Theoretical physicist Abraham (Avi) Loeb made the case that microbes could have been ejected into space from the earth by asteroid impacts billions of years ago, in a reverse kind of panspermia, theoretically leading to life being spread across the solar system or further. – Source
24. The world record for most monogamous marriages (31 times) is held by the late Glynn Wolfe. He was a Baptist minister. Neither his widow nor any ex-wife attended the funeral. One child out of 40 attended. His body was unclaimed. – Source
25. In 1995, Nick Leeson single-handedly bankrupted Britain’s oldest merchant bank by losing $1.4 B dollars in bad trades. – Source
