16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. The world’s first animated feature film was made in Argentina. 20 years earlier than Walt Disney’s 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was a political satire called El Apóstol made up of 58,000 drawings and had a running time of 70 minutes. – Source
17. Two billion years ago, a uranium deposit at the present-day location of the Oklo mine in Gabon, west Africa, had just the right environmental characteristics to sustain a nuclear chain reaction. With ground water acting as a moderator, it operated like a natural version of a nuclear reactor. – Source
18. Victorian London was frantically looking for a solution for what to do with all their dead, and Architect Thomas Wilson proposed the Metropolitan Sepulchre, a 94 story “Death Pyramid.” It would have dominated London’s skyline and housed up to 5 million bodies, and even received financial support. – Source
19. The CIA paid Vietnam War spies by ordering them items from the Sears catalog because the spies operated in areas that had a barter economy and didn’t rely on cash. – Source
20. When Sweden switched one day from driving on the left to driving on the right, it was feared that it’d result a huge increase in road death that year. In fact, the rate decreased, which was put down to Swedes driving extra cautiously. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. Cargo Cults is an indigenist belief system in which adherents perform rituals which they believe will cause a more technologically advanced society to deliver goods. These cults were first described in Melanesia in the wake of contact with allied military forces during the 2nd World War. – Source
22. Beethoven was one of the first composers to use a metronome but he used it incorrectly leading to musicians not knowing what true speed was intended. – Source
23. A 47-year-old man had an Esophageal Rupture after eating a ghost pepper, resulting in a visit to emergency, full thoracotomy, intubation, ICU observation totaling 22 days stay at the hospital. – Source
24. The Disney film Pocahontas originally had a role written for John Candy. He was supposed to voice a turkey named Redfeather. – Source
25. NASA has a man that sniffs everything before it goes to space and if he doesn’t like the smell, the object doesn’t go into space. – Source
