16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. In 2005, a nonverbal man found wandering the streets was taken into care. When first given access to a piano, he played anything from Tchaikovsky to the Beatles non-stop for four hours. It took four months of media attention to reunite him with his family. – Source
17. Since 2012, 6 people have choked to death during competitive eating contests. – Source
18. A former Google employee bought the Google domain for $12 from Google’s very own domain registrar. He owned the domain for one minute before the purchase was rescinded, and he was later offered $6006.13 due to the incident. – Source
19. The 2,000-year-old ‘masturbating’ Pompeii man wasn’t caught in the act. He is in that position due to the contraction of limbs from the lava heat. – Source
20. The marriage of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is the longest presidential marriage in US history. They had already been married for 30 years when Carter was sworn in as president in 1977. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. The Roman Emperor Vespasian wanted to see the Dead Sea for himself. Once there, he ordered certain persons who were unable to swim to be flung into the deep water with their hands tied behind them. Naturally, they rose to the surface and floated. – Source
22. Henry Heimlich, the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, has a son, Peter, who is devoted to exposing him as a serial liar and con artist. Peter says his father paid off the study that persuaded the American Red Cross to change its response to choking to Heimlich’s. – Source
23. Rockstar Games felt that the Skatt Brothers song “Walk the Night” was so essential to GTA IV’s soundtrack that they hired a private investigator to fly to Orem, Utah, and track down the lead singer Sean Delaney’s surviving relatives (he died in 2003) to secure the rights of the song. – Source
24. In 1965, California City, located in the Mojave desert, was designed to be a metropolis built to rival Los Angeles. But lack of funds caused the city to never be built. The city currently has a population of around 15,000 and has a size of 125 square miles. – Source
25. The residents of Glasgow, Scotland, donated more money to the UK’s WWI tank program than any other city. A year later, tanks were sent into Glasgow to help suppress a strike of workers demanding higher post-war wages. – Source
