16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. The person who voiced the iconic whispered line, “If you Build It, He Will Come”, in the 1989 film, “Field of Dreams”, has never been confirmed. – Source
17. In 1896, American taxidermist Carl Akeley was attacked by a leopard while on a visit to Africa and killed it with his bare hands by ramming his hand down the leopard’s throat and choking it to death. – Source
18. In 1323, the Mexica, founders of the Aztec Empire, asked the King of Culhuacan for his daughter, to which the King of Culhuacan agreed. The Mexica then sacrificed her and flayed her skin, and invited the King of Culhuacan to a feast, during which a Mexica priest came out wearing her flayed skin. – Source
19. During the Fall of Tenochtitlan, the Conquistadors were joined by thousands of native allies who resented the Aztecs. – Source
20. Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese Opera Singer turned spy who obtained secrets from a French embassy worker for twenty years by masquerading as a woman during their sexual affair. He even took a child and pretended it was theirs. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. During the recording of the Guns and Roses album “Chinese Democracy” Guitarist Buckethead quit the band. He was persuaded to rejoin by the band’s manager who built him a chicken coop in the studio to work out of. He later used it to watch hardcore p*rn, disturbing Axl Rose. – Source
22. Texas Instruments has gone back and forth on how their calculators handle implicit multiplication with ambiguous notation, e.g. 8÷2(2+2). Different products will give different answers. – Source
23. 3% of the general population has antisocial personality disorder: a mental health disorder characterized by a disregard for other people. – Source
24. There is one Academy Award-winning performance that is lost: Emil Jannings won the first Best Actor prize for ‘The Way of All Flesh’, which has no known surviving complete copies. – Source
25. Sir James Chadwick, the English physicist who discovered the neutron and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935, actually enrolled in Physics by mistake when he was a University student. He wanted to study maths. He also led the British team on the Manhattan project. – Source
