Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 637, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Fact
1. The dollar bill has been the same since 1929. The reason is that the government thinks no one would take the trouble of counterfeiting such a low denomination currency and hence it does not need the fancy updates or security features seen in the higher value currencies. – Source
2. The world record for eating three 72-oz steaks is held by a 120lb woman who ate them in 20 minutes. – Source
3. Babe Ruth was the guest of honor at a Harlem fundraiser for the benefit of a local African-American church. Other white celebrities had similarly committed to attend, but only Babe kept his word. He contributed some autographed balls along with twenty bucks out of his pocket. – Source
4. The first doughnut machine was made in 1920 to meet the demand for doughnuts as a breakfast food item following WWI. Adolph Levitt, a Jewish refugee who came to America fleeing czarist Russia, designed the machine and began selling fried doughnuts from his Harlem bakery in NYC. – Source
5. Metallica bought the rights to the movie “Johnny Got His Gun.” This was to use clips of it in their 1988 Song “One” without having to pay copyright to show it. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. Juno Beach was originally going to be named Jelly Beach, but Churchill disapproved of the name, finding it to be undignified “for a beach on which so many men might die”. – Source
7. Kalpana Chawla, one of the astronauts killed in the Columbia tragedy, knew Steve Morse of Deep Purple and had even taken the band’s “Machine Head” album to space with her on the mission. Morse wrote a song called “Contact Lost” as a tribute to her. – Source
8. The USDA requires Salisbury Steaks to be a minimum of 65% meat, of which up to 25% can be pork. – Source
9. In 2019, Pope Francis approved changing the lord’s prayer. The phrase “lead us not into temptation” changed to “do not let us fall into temptation”. He said the original was a bad translation because it suggested God caused the temptation. – Source
10. The Goodyear Tire company was not founded by Charles Goodyear, the inventor of rubber vulcanizing. Charles had died penniless trying in vain to protect his patents. Brothers Frank and Charles Seiberling started the rubber company in 1898 and named it in honor of Goodyear. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. Thomas Selfridge was the first person to be killed in an airplane crash in 1908. The propeller shattered in mid-flight and the plane nose-dived into the ground. Selfridge hit his head on the framework and died from a skull fracture. The pilot was Orville Wright. – Source
12. In 2018, a French historical theme park named Puy du Fou trained six Rooks, a member of the crow family, to pick up cigarette butts and trash. When one of them takes a piece of trash to a special box the device dispenses bird food. – Source
13. Thomas Edison proposed to his future wife in morse code, she accepted in the same way. – Source
14. Australians developed Vegemite because they couldn’t wait for Marmite supplies to resume after World War I. – Source
15. Dmitry Glukhovsky wrote the novel ‘Metro 2033’ when he was 18. He published the novel on his website available for free. This eventually led to a video game deal with 4A Games & a comic deal with Dark Horse comics. – Source
