16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. The average Philadelphian consumes twelve times as many pretzels as the national average. – Source
17. In 2010, a gunman took people hostage inside the Discovery Channel HQ. His reasoning was because he hated the company’s shows such as “Kate Plus 8” because they promote population growth and its environmental programming because it did little to save the planet. – Source
18. An Australian beer company had to change the design of its beer bootle because male jewel beetles were mating with the bottle thinking it was a female. This odd behavior was observed in 1983 by two biologists. – Source
19. When the Notre Dame Cathedral was on fire, some 200,000 bees that live in the roof were thought to be dead, but in fact they were still alive after the fire. – Source
20. In 1851, because it was too expensive to import ice from the United States and Norway, an Australian man invented the ice-making machine, and its first application, aside from making ice, was to cool beer. He was James Harrison, “the father of refrigeration”. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. Some apartments in Hong Kong are so small they are called “coffin homes”. They are so small that the UN called it an “insult to human dignity” with some being around 15 square feet”. – Source
22. On 22 Nov. 1963 while watching TV reports of JFK’s death, Annie Shapiro had a stroke and slipped into a coma. 29 years later she awoke in bed as a 79-year-old grandmother still married to her husband. Her first words upon sitting up were “Turn on the television. I want to watch I Love Lucy”. – Source
23. The Montezuma Castle National Monument in Arizona was named by white settlers who assumed the Aztecs were responsible for all archeological sites but it turns out the monument has nothing to do with Montezuma or the Aztecs and yet no one bothered to rename it. – Source
24. On 5 September 1942, the United States Navy Petty Officer First Class Charles Jackson French, of Omaha Nebraska, swam through the night for 6 – 8 hours pulling a raft of 15 wounded sailors with a rope around his stomach through shark-infested waters after the USS Gregory was hit. – Source
25. Airplane tires leave between 1 to 1.5 pounds of rubber on the runway when they land. – Source
