Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 739, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Fact
1. The Greek orator Demosthenes was said to treat his speech impediment by talking with pebbles in his mouth and shouting above the roar of the ocean waves. – Source
2. The Wright Brothers only flew together on the same flight one time, a six-minute flight on 25 May 1910. They promised their father, Milton, they would never fly together to avoid the chance of a double tragedy and to ensure one brother would remain to continue their flight experiments. – Source
3. There was a plot to kill or kidnap George Washington early in the Revolutionary War – the traitors were from Washington’s Life Guards, similar to today’s Secret Service. One of the traitors was the first person to be put to death for treason, Thomas Hickey, in front of 20,000 people. – Source
4. George Michael donated money to a woman he saw on Deal or No Deal for IVF who could not get pregnant. She later discovered she was pregnant on Christmas day. – Source
5. When his film Uncut Gems began to receive critical acclaim, Adam Sandler threatened the world with making “the worst movie ever” if he did not receive a nomination for Best Actor at the Oscars. He was not nominated. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. In 1979, Black-footed ferrets were thought to be extinct until in 1981, a Wyoming ranch dog brought home a black-footed ferret. Researchers discovered the last 120 ferrets in Meeteetse, Wyoming. – Source
7. The Dutch secret service set up a fake pro-China communist party to gather information on the Chinese government. The party’s leader, secret agent Pieter Boevé, developed warm relations with the Chinese government and even met Mao Zedong himself. – Source
8. In 2021, classified details of the British Army’s Challenger 2 tank were leaked online. A War Thunder player leaked details after a disagreement over the tank’s in-game design. However, the classified documents weren’t considered “valid source material” & no changes were made to the in-game design. – Source
9. 1.6% of the general population has Borderline Personality Disorder: a disorder that is characterized by hypersensitivity to rejection and resulting instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, affect, and behavior. – Source
10. The rusty-spotted cat is a very rare wild cat native to India and Sri Lanka. Referred to as the hummingbird of the cat family, they weigh in at 2-4 pounds and are thought to be the smallest wild cat species. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. The Guinness World Records title for the most children delivered at a single birth to survive is held by nonuplets from Mali. There are only two other recorded cases of nonuplets in the world ever, in Australia (1971) and in Malaysia (1999), which all the babies died. – Source
12. The Yardbirds had 3 of the top 5 guitarists on Rolling Stones’ list of top 100 guitarists of all time (Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page). – Source
13. Lisan Al-Din Ibn Al-Khatib was an Andalusian polymath who proposed the idea of transmissible diseases, and more precisely that the Bubonic Plague was transmitted from person to person, centuries before Louis Pasteur and John Snow. – Source
14. Mutilation practices (e.g. cutting of hands etc.) did not just occur in the Congo Free State under Leopold II but also in British Sierra Leone, German Kamerun and French Equatorial Africa. – Source
15. The only vertebrates to be preserved mating are a pair of 47 million-year-old turtles that were attached by their genitals as they got buried alive. – Source
