Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 705, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Fact
1. The first movie about the Titanic was released just 29 days after the sinking. It was written by and starred a survivor, who had a mental breakdown after filming. The film was destroyed in a fire and only a few stills survive. – Source
2. One of the co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W., asked for whiskey on his death bed, but was denied and died 36 years sober. – Source
3. In houses built before 1971 it was common to have a medicine cabinet that allowed razor blades to be disposed of in a slot that would drop the razor blades into the bathroom wall. – Source
4. People built a statue of “Kabang” a hero dog that got her face disfigured after saving two girls from a speeding motorcycle. She died last year, almost a decade after her heroic action. – Source
5. Since 1953, every King of Saudi Arabia has been the son of the first king, Abdulaziz. His oldest son was born in 1900 and the youngest in 1952. He has roughly 1,000 grandchildren. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. Due to their high fat and low water content, pistachios can self-heat and spontaneously combust if stored improperly. – Source
7. Chase National Bank helped raise over $20 million for the Nazis between 1936-1941, by selling Reichmarks to German-American citizens at a discounted rate, and escaping federal prosecution through threatening to leak FBI secrets. – Source
8. In 2017, scientists began a global search to find a mate for Jeremy, a rare left-coiled snail. Since his shell coiled in the opposite direction of most snails, his organs couldn’t align with others. Two contenders were found, but they mated with each other instead of Jeremy. – Source
9. When Dune (1984) was originally released in theaters, some locations gave out “cheat sheets” for people confused with the terminology of the Dune universe. – Source
10. Britain had become the biggest drug dealer ever by the turn of the 20th century; at the expense of China which had developed the biggest drug addiction problem ever. In 1906, 23.3% of adult Chinese men were addicted to opium. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. The Marbled Crayfish is an all-female species of crayfish that is capable of cloning itself and was first discovered in a German pet store in the 1990s without any known wild populations. – Source
12. During the Han dynasty, unmarried women and their families had to pay a special tax for their singleness. On the other hand, women with babies didn’t have to pay taxes for three years and their husbands didn’t have to pay taxes for one year. – Source
13. The first movie accidental death ever involved people drowning in quicksand, justifying the overrepresentation of quicksand danger throughout movies history. – Source
14. The NFL requires every team to be owned by one owner or a small group, one of which must hold 1/3+ of the shares. The Packers are the only exception, community-owned disallowing any single owner to own more than 200,000 shares. – Source
15. A boy in Pakistan was 100% immune to physical pain due to a genetic condition. He would stab his arm without flinching and walk on hot coals barefoot during street performances. He died in 2006 after jumping off a roof for performance. – Source
