16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. Telling other people about your goals can impede you from accomplishing them because it makes you feel like you’re already closer to your goal. – Source
17. Although nearly 80% of incoming community college students intend to go onto get a bachelor’s degree, only 14% actually do so within 6 years, and less than 9% in 4 years. – Source
18. One of the “hazards” of the Baja 1000 rally race is the spectators themselves, who are known to sabotage the tracks and create booby-traps. Some of those include digging holes, blocking a river to create a makeshift water splash, or burying and hiding obstacles. – Source
19. The very first Nobel Prize in Physics went to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays. – Source
20. Quokkas don’t throw their babies at predators like the rumors said. Instead, the mothers will make their kids lay writhing and hissing on the ground to attract predators (while they escape). – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) propels Protons so quickly, that it takes less than 90 Microseconds for a Proton to travel 26.7 km (16.6m) around the main ring. In just one full second, a Proton will make 11,245 revolutions. – Source
22. Sealed Shafts were opened in the Great Pyramid of Giza in 1872. A Wood Plank was found within but went missing. Radiocarbon dating could have determined the Age of the Pyramid indirectly. Last year it was rediscovered and successfully dated, disproving the idea that the pyramid is much older. – Source
23. In 1963, disc jockey Wolfman Jack started broadcasting from a station across the U.S.-Mexico border whose high-powered border blaster signal was picked up across much of the United States and at night as far away as Europe and the Soviet Union. – Source
24. The oldest known flag in the United States is the “Bedford Flag” it shows an armored arm grasping a sword with the motto “conquer or die” it was used by the Minutemen at Lexington. – Source
25. There are over 7.2 million foxes in Australia thanks to British settlers who imported them for the purpose of fox hunting. – Source
