16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. Alfred Hitchcock originally didn’t want music for the shower scene in the movie “Psycho”. The film’s music composer, Bernard Herrmann, asked him to listen to the music Herrmann had written for the scene. Hitchcock thought it really improved the scene and nearly doubled Herrmann’s salary. – Source
17. Gayle Grinds spent 6 years living on her couch to the point where the fabric became infused to her back. She died during surgery in an attempt to remove the piece of furniture. – Source
18. Some monkeys, like the Japanese Macaque, have the necessary vocal anatomy to produce human-like speech, only inhibited by the fact that their brain lacks the capability to control the muscles responsible for speech. – Source
19. In 2017, a 10-minute song of silence entitled “A a a a a Very Good Song” became one of the top-selling songs on iTunes because it helped solve the problem of car stereos playing the first song from an iPhone playlist in alphabetical order, giving people enough time to pick a song. – Source
20. Norway’s first plane hijacking was in 1985 and was committed by an alcoholic who ransomed the passengers for a beer after having drunk the aircraft’s whole beer stash. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. Abigail Adams Smith, daughter of President John Adams, underwent a mastectomy in a room of the Adams home at age 46. The operation was performed without the benefit of anesthesia. – Source
22. A guard in India discovered a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons, 5,000 meters above sea level in the Himalayan Mountains. – Source
23. In 2005, the Smurfs were featured in a UNICEF ad in which their village was bombed by warplanes, and the Smurfs were shown burned and crushed to death under debris. It only aired after 9 PM to prevent children from seeing it. – Source
24. Lars Ulrich was gonna be fired from Metallica after the band stopped touring for Master of Puppets, however in the wake of Cliff Burton’s death, the band became closer together and they decided not to go through with the firing. – Source
25. In 1997, Lottie Williams of Tulsa Oklahoma, was struck harmlessly in the shoulder by a 15cm piece of metallic material which was determined to be a piece of a Delta II rocket that had been launched eight months earlier. Williams is the only known person to have been struck by space debris. – Source
