Here is 25 Kickass Random Facts List #76.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. Liam Neeson only agreed to sign on for Taken 3 “as long as nobody gets taken.” – Source
2. Comcast has prevented PS3 users from using HBO GO since March and Roku users since 2011, but not XBOX 360 and Apple TV. – Source
3. Before escaping prison, Winston Churchill left a letter of apology on his bed. The letter began: “I have the honor to inform you that as I do not consider that your Government have any right to detain me as a military prisoner, I have decided to escape from your custody.” – Source
4. In an experiment known as The Broken Toy Experiment, 2 year old kids were given toys that were rigged to break spectacularly. Those who showed the most guilt went on to have fewer behavioral problems later on. – Source
5. In 1983, a man confessed to his wife’s murder after part of a female skull was discovered in a peat bog near their home in England. He was convicted based on this confession. The skull turned out to be from someone who actually died about 1750 years earlier. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. Pope Pius XII, who is often criticized for not speaking forcefully against Hitler, supervised a rescue network which saved 860,000 Jewish lives, more than all the international agencies combined. – Source
7. The plane crash deaths of Stephen Colbert’s father and two brothers was the catalyst for the “sterile cockpit” rule, prohibiting flight crews from participating in any activities or conversation outside of their flying duties while the aircraft is below 10,000 feet. – Source
8. Members of Westboro Baptist Church have been specifically banned from entering Canada for hate speech. – Source
9. After 200 women in India attacked and killed a serial rapist, the five women who were originally arrested got released when every woman from their slum claimed responsibility. – Source
10. In March 2003, Denmark became the first country to regulate on trans fats in foods (2% limit on ingredients) and has since seen a 50% decrease in ischemic heart disease. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. The couple hugging wrapped in a blanket on the cover of the “Woodstock” film are still together, married, with two adult children. – Source
12. In “Team America”, originally, Matt Damon was going to be portrayed as intelligent and articulate, but when they saw the puppet, they noted that it made him “look retarded” and decided to portray him as such. – Source
13. Bill Gates has donated over $28 Billion to charity and has stated he wishes to donate a further 95% of his wealth to charity. – Source
14. Jack Daniels sent a cease and desist letter to an author who blatantly mimicked their label for his book cover 2 years ago, but instead of being angrily demanding, Jack Daniels offered to pay for the cost of reprinting the book. – Source
15. There’s an annual lying competition in England, and competitors from around the world have five minutes to tell the biggest and most convincing lie they can. Politicians and lawyers are banned from entering because they’re thought to be too good at it. – Source
16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. Wombat poop is cube shaped. Wombats “produce” 80-100 cubes per day, and carefully place them on rocks, logs, and in front of Burroughs to mark their territory. The unique shape prevents the droppings from rolling away. – Source
17. The word quarantine is derived from the days of the Black Plague when ships entering Venice were forced to anchor offshore for forty (or quaranta in Italian) days before being permitted to unload. – Source
18. The fake phone number from “Bruce Almighty”, was actually called by many people who asked “are you God?” One man with the number was a priest, who would reply “No, but I can take a message.” – Source
19. In 2011, the FOX Network threatened to cancel The Simpsons if production costs weren’t lowered. All the voice actors accepted a 30% paycut to each earn $300,000 per episode. – Source
20. Gordon Ramsay loved In N Out so much that after finishing his burger, he went through the drive thru and ordered the same meal again to take home. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. Contrary to popular belief, Leonidas of Sparta was not a young man at the Battle of Thermopylae. He was actually around 60 years old. – Source
22. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written during a six-day cocaine high during which he generated 60,000 words. – Source
23. Rob Lowe, Robert Downey Jr., Charlie Sheen, and Sean Penn all went to the same high school and were friends. – Source
24. Salvador Dalí condemned clichés, stating: “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” Ironically, in stating this he himself was repeating the words of poet Gérard de Nerval. – Source
25. Hugh Trenchard, a British soldier in the Boer War, was shot in the chest and spine, becoming partially paralyzed. He took up bobsledding as a hobby, and after a major accident regained use of his legs. – Source
