Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 743, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Fact
1. The new Rolls-Royce Ghost soundproofing was so overengineered that occupants in the car found the near-total silence disorienting, and some felt sick. Acoustic engineers had to go back and work on “harmonizing” various sounds in the car to add a continuous soft whisper. – Source
2. Unisexual mole salamanders are an all-female complex of salamanders that ‘steal’ sperm from up to five different species of salamanders in the genus Ambystoma and recombine it to produce female hybrid offspring. This method of reproduction is called kleptogenesis. – Source
3. American ice cream company Häagen-Dazs sued American ice cream company Frusen Glädjé to stop them from using a “Scandinavian marketing theme”. The court ruled against Häagen-Dazs as they had also marketed themselves as Scandinavian without having any real connection to the region. – Source
4. During the Vietnam war, soldiers built “gun trucks” on their own to defend supply convoys. These 5-ton behemoths were heavily armored, DEADLY (.50 cal machine guns and mini guns!), and even had names like Brutus, Eve of Destruction, King Kong, Ace of Spades, and The Untouchable. – Source
5. Bradford Bishop allegedly killed his wife, mother, and three sons in 1976. Bishop was only removed from the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted List in 2018, due to his advanced age, and is still being pursued by the FBI, as there have been sightings of Bishop across Europe for 40 years. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. For the production of ‘The Bellboy ‘ (1960) Jerry Lewis was an actor and director, so he invented a system of multiple cameras and monitors enabling him to act, review the performance, and reshoot immediately. Lewis received the Golden Light Technical Achievement award for the invention. – Source
7. A Canadian makeup developer helped Crayola create “Colors of the World” crayons that are meant to accurately reflect human skin tones. He pared down the 40 shades he had created for Cover FX to 24 distinct colors that kids can use to draw themselves – Source
8. The Harlem Globetrotters had one officially recognized loss in 1971 and other rumored losses in the 1950s that aren’t recognized. – Source
9. Operation ABSCAM was an FBI sting operation carried out in 1980 to trap corrupt politicians which included a senator and six congressmen. – Source
10. Ancient civilizations developed iron tools well before the Iron Age by finding meteorites made of iron and nickel that didn’t require smelting. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. Harry Glicken and his mentor David Johnston were assigned to Mount St. Helens on the day of the eruption. Johnston was killed but Glicken was reassigned the day before. 11 years later Glicken died in the eruption of Mount Unzen. They remain the only US volcanologists killed by volcanos 31 years later. – Source
12. After Apollo astronaut Al Worden left NASA, he moved to San Francisco, grew out his hair, and became a quasi-hippie. Worden was also a frequent guest on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, telling children what it was like to be an astronaut. – Source
13. The Marshall Islands is the only sovereign nation not to have had a national soccer team. – Source
14. Your body has a relatively constant total daily energy expenditure. It will allow temporarily elevated caloric burns but the more days that you increase your expenditure, it will normalize your daily expenditure by showing or shutting down other processes. – Source
15. Burning fat through food deprivation or just general metabolism causes THC to go back into the bloodstream for smokers of marijuana. – Source
