Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 658, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Fact
1. Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts, but very few scientists have the patience to try and study them. – Source
2. A woman quit her job to search for her border collie who escaped from a hotel room during a thunderstorm while on vacation in Kalispell, Montana. After 57 days of searching and posting hundreds of flyers around town, she finally found ‘Katie’ who was starving, but otherwise OK. – Source
3. Dr. Heimlich fought against the Red Cross for 20 years over the practice of giving “5 back slaps” being a better alternative to the Heimlich Maneuver. – Source
4. The last French soldier to die in WWI was killed 15 minutes before the ceasefire. He was delivering a message to his unit that soup would be served for lunch. – Source
5. Busch Beer was created to spite Major League Baseball. STL Cardinals owner August Busch Jr was told by MLB he couldn’t name their ballpark Budweiser Stadium. He got approval to name it after his family and then ordered his brewers to create the new beer. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. After finishing the 2012 Olympics as the most successful swimmer of the meet for the third Olympics in a row, Michael Phelps contemplated suicide. – Source
7. Al Green has stated that Take Me to the River has earned him more royalties from being featured on the animatronic singing fish Big Mouth Billy Bass than from any other recordings of the song. – Source
8. When mummification became accessible to middle/lower classes in ancient Egypt, embalmers started secretly cutting out the hearts of the lower classes so the elite wouldn’t have to share the afterlife with them. The heart was considered the seat of the soul and vital to access the afterlife. – Source
9. The NY Yankees used to play the Frank Sinatra version of “New York, New York” after wins and the Liza Minnelli version after losses. Minnelli complained and asked them to play her version after wins or not at all. So the Yankees began playing the Sinatra version after every game, win or lose. – Source
10. The US is one of 3 countries on Earth not using the metric system, but the US N.I.S.T. says that’s a myth because the US has been metric for years. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. Otis Redding’s widow, Zelma Redding, wrote a letter to Michael Bolton saying his cover of “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” was her favorite. She remarked that it brought tears to her eyes as it reminded her so much of her husband. Bolton had the letter framed and it hangs on his office wall. – Source
12. The first Ford Mustang (Serial #000001) got delivered and sold before anyone noticed, and they had to trade the 1,000,001st to the owner to get it back. – Source
13. The Tennessee Valley Authority, now known as one of the largest electricity producers in the U.S., was created by Congress and Roosevelt in 1936 to improve the infrastructure and economy of the Appalachia region which, at the time, was one of the most impoverished parts of the country. – Source
14. Wiz Khalifa sparked outrage in 2017 during a visit to Pablo Escobar’s grave when he posted pictures of flowers at the grave’s headstone. Medellin’s mayor, Federico Gutierrez, called the rapper disrespectful saying he should have brought flowers to the victims of Escobar’s violence instead. – Source
15. The American Cold War-era stealth plane, the Lockheed SR-71, was made of 92% titanium. Most of this titanium was bought through shell companies directly from the USSR. Enough was supplied to build 32 planes. – Source
