16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. The Salish Wool Dog is an extinct breed of dog that was bred to produce wool that was prized among the Northwestern Salish Tribe. – Source
17. The longest-running video game series is, by far: The Oregon Trail. First published in 1971 by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium, it beats out the next series (Pac-Man) by almost a decade. – Source
18. Despite the popular depiction in films and television, Manhattan has almost no alleys. The Commissioners Plan of 1811 designed the city’s grid layout without alleyways to maximize the limited space. The few alleys that remain mostly predate that plan. – Source
19. The movie poster for the 1983 film, Spring Break, featured the hips of 18 y.o. bikini model Tammy Leppert (who also had a bit part in the film) however she vanished in mysterious circumstances not long after the film release and has never been found since. – Source
20. 70% of Apple App Store revenue comes from a small fraction of customers playing games. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. During a flight from Taipei to Los Angeles a Chinese Airlines Boeing 747SP not only performed a 360-degree roll but also pulled 5 gs twice after their #4 engine failed. Aside from a broken foot and strained back, all passengers and crew were unharmed. – Source
22. Jerry Lawson was a gaming pioneer, and one of the few Black engineers working in the tech industry in the 1970s. In 1976, Lawson led a team of engineers that developed and released the first removable video game cartridges. – Source
23. The Nazi Germany Parliament was derisively referred to by Germans as “the most expensive singing club in Germany” since it couldn’t do much other than sing the National Anthem during its sessions. – Source
24. Thomas Edison thought that humans were inhabited by swarms of millions of ghosts that, upon a person’s death, would seek to inhabit another lifeform or maybe create new life. He attempted to devise a telephone to contact these spirits. – Source
25. Paganism was still practiced in parts of Ireland as late as the 1850s. The idol, Naomhóg was worshiped in the Inishkea Islands and was credited with power over weather, health, and potatoes. It was allegedly thrown into the sea by a catholic priest called ‘Big Paddy’ O’Reilly in the 1890s. – Source
