16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. During the filming of The 3 Stooges’ second anti-Nazi comedy film “I’ll Never Heil Again”, Moe Howard has rushed from the set wearing his “Hitleresque” costume to get to his daughter’s birthday party. Bystanders have reported that Hitler was running red lights to the LAPD. – Source
17. It takes the poop excreted by the climbers at Mt Everest’s highest base camp five to move through the ice and arrive at the lowest base camp, where it is consumed by climbers in the drinking water. – Source
18. A truck carrying six torpedoes overturned in Denver causing an eight-hour traffic jam after no one picked up the emergency number with the Navy and the Army couldn’t find anyone to fly an EOD team. – Source
19.The opening song sung by the prisoners in O Brother Where Art Thou (2000) is actually a recording from the 1950s sung by real prisoners. The lead prisoner singing in the recording, James Carter, received a royalty check four decades after having originally sung the piece. – Source
20. A man spent his $2,600 life savings at a carnival game in hopes of winning an Xbox Kinect only to walk away with a stuffed banana with dreadlocks. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. The ocarina belongs to a very old family of instruments, believed to date back over 12,000 years. Games such as The Legend of Zelda have been credited for increasing the popularity of ocarinas and the sale of them. – Source
22. The founding father of modern Vietnam is Ho Chi Minh that led Vietnam’s communist revolution against French colonial rule and then took on the US has long had an admiration for the US and repeatedly sought the country’s help in the decades before the Vietnam War. – Source
23. In 1978, the Equatorial Guinea dictator Macías Nguema declared that ‘There is no other God than Macias Nguema’. He was deposed and executed a year later and has since been classed as a psychopath. – Source
24. Nova Scotia sends Boston a Christmas Tree every year to thank them for their assistance after the Halifax Explosion. For Nova Scotians, it is considered a great honor to have your tree selected, and often times the trees are donated in honor of a survivor or casualty of the explosion. – Source
25. Barry White spent 4 months in jail for stealing $30,000 worth of Cadillac tires when he was 16. While behind bars, he heard Elvis Presley’s “It’s Now or Never” which he stated inspired him to become a singer. – Source
