Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 762, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Fact
1. BASE jumping is one of the most dangerous sports in the world. The sport has a death and injury rate 43 times higher than parachuting from a plane, and according to one study, a fatality rate of 1 out of every 60 jumpers. – Source
2. Andromachi Papanicolaou, the wife of the man who invented the Pap smear volunteered to have her cervix sampled every day for 21 years to help with his research. Their findings went on to save the lives of millions of women by preventing the development of cervical cancer through early detection. – Source
3. Billie Joe Armstrong once dropkicked a guy in the middle of a Green Day concert after he saw him roughing up a young girl. He stopped the show and challenged him to a fight before jumping into the crowd. – Source
4. In 2006, a mother and son were convicted of trying to extort money from Cracker Barrel by claiming they found a dead mouse in her soup. Charges were filed after a necropsy showed the mouse had no soup in its lungs and had not been cooked, signs that it was dropped into the soup after its death. – Source
5. During WWII, the Obo Monuvo tribe of the Philippines fought the Japanese by serving them “Kallot”, a poisonous yam that requires a special procedure for eating. The Japanese have no idea about the poison, and they were hacked to death by the tribes after they stopped moving from the poison. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. Mount Thor in Canada has the world’s longest vertical drop. If you fell off it, you would fall for over a kilometer before you hit anything. – Source
7. The artist who created Mike Tyson’s face tattoo sued Warner Bros because the same design was used on Ed Helms’ face in ‘Hangover II’. The artist had previously copyrighted the image and Warner Bros ended up setting the lawsuit. – Source
8. Members of Black Sabbath almost killed their drummer, Bill Ward, by painting him in gold paint and lacquer when he passed out after a night of drinking. – Source
9. The famous Kirk and Uhura kiss wasn’t the first interracial kiss on television. It was preceded by several others, including one in 1958 in which William Shatner was also a participant. – Source
10. When the Stanley Cup runs out of space, the oldest of the 5 bands is removed and relocated to the hockey hall of fame, and a new band is added for the new champions. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. No babies are born with freckles because they haven’t been in the sun long enough for specks to develop. – Source
12. The 97-kilogram Welcome Stranger, the biggest gold nugget ever found, wasn’t discovered deep beneath the earth in a mine, it was only 3 cm below the surface. – Source
13. In the 1971 INDO-PAK war, BBC once mistakenly reported that the Indian Air Force had air-dropped 5,000 soldiers, 13 times more than the actual number of 384. The incorrect report scared Pakistan and hastened the surrender of Pakistani soldiers which eventually led to the liberation of Bangladesh. – Source
14. Darwin, Australia was named after Charles Darwin but before he published his theory of evolution. Captain Wickham sailed with Darwin during HMS Beagle’s first voyage, then he named the area after his old crewmate during the second voyage when he surveyed Northern Australia. – Source
15. If you bought a lottery ticket in 16th Century England it came with the added bonus of being a ‘get out of jail free card’. Every participant was granted immunity from one arrest, as long as the crime wasn’t extremely serious, like murder or treason. – Source
