25 Kickass Random Facts List #79

Here is 25 Kickass Random Facts List #79.

1-5 Kickass Random Facts

1. The world’s first bio-adaptive building facade in Hamburg uses algae-filled biomass panels to capture heat, reflect light and generate electricity. “It is, in essence, an architectural ecosystem.” – Source

2. John Michell, a scientist of the 1700s was described as being “so far ahead of his scientific contemporaries that his ideas languished in obscurity, until they were re-invented more than a century later.” He was the first person to propose the existence of black holes among many other things. – Source

3. California police officer Jed Blair reported fellow cops for planting evidence. After that his colleagues “allegedly stole his equipment, interfered with his radio calls, threatened to kill him and his family, and scrawled the word “rat” on his locker.” – Source

4. German chocolate cake is not German, it is from Texas, named after the “German chocolate” used in the cake, which is also not German. – Source

5. The only thing that is keeping China from claiming part of the South China Sea is an old partially-sunken WWII era US warship, which the Filipino government refuses to decommission, thus making it an extension of its government. – Source

6-10 Kickass Random Facts

6. Licence plates in the Northwest Territories of Canada are shaped like polar bears – Source

7. Manson family did burglary missions they called “creepy-crawling” where they would break into random homes at night while the residents slept, rearrange their furniture, and steal items. – Source

8. In the late 70’s, in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness in Sweden, Swedes called in sick for work with a case of “feeling a bit homosexual – Source

9. All of the 14 billion publicly accessible websites are connected to each other by 19 clicks or less. – Source

10. In 1919, a man named Michael Keogh stopped an angry mob of 200 men (some with bayonets) from killing two right winged political agents they were beating up. In 1930, at a Nuremburg rally, Keogh recognized one of the agents he had saved. It was Adolf Hitler. – Source

11-15 Kickass Random Facts

11. A baseball player only needs to spend one day in the major leagues to earn free healthcare for life. – Source

12. Half of Harvard’s entire class of 2010 went into finance and consulting. – Source

13. Aerosmith had once written the music for a song, but couldn’t come up with any words. They finally got their inspiration when they went to see the movie Young Frankenstein. The song, Walk This Way, became one of the band’s biggest hits. – Source

14. In 1989, Disney threatened to sue three daycare centers for painting Disney characters on their walls. – Source

15. The movie “Borat” was a huge hit in Israel, in part because Borat’s “Kazakh” lines were all actually in Hebrew – Source

16-20 Kickass Random Facts

16. Nectarines and peaches are the same species, with a gene controlling whether the skin is fuzzy or smooth. – Source

17. When Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773, it made the price of the tea (even with the tax included) cheaper than the competing smuggled Dutch tea. Americans refused to buy the cheaper tea because to do so would recognize Parliament’s right to tax the colonies. – Source

18. Charlie Chaplin was intricately tied in with Disney. Chaplin was one of the inspirations for Mickey Mouse. He would later go on to work with Disney as a distributor, and help Disney in their negotiations for Snow White. – Source

19. In 400 BC, Persian engineers were able to store ice, in the desert, in the middle of summer. – Source

20. If a member of the US military or a US official is detained by the International Court in the Hague, the US has a law allowing it to invade the Netherlands to release them. – Source

21-25 Kickass Random Facts

21. The B-58 Hustler bomber did not have ejection seats. Instead they had ejection capsules that would enclose the pilot into an egg-shaped capsule to allow a safer ejection at speeds up to Mach 2 and altitudes higher than 35,000 feet. – Source

22. M. Night Shyamalan created a hoax trying to convince people that his obsession with the supernatural came from a near death experience during his childhood. He went as far as getting a Sci-Fi Channel documentary crew to sign non-disclosure agreements. – Source

23. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s image was put on the US dime, in part to honor his effort in founding the March of Dimes, a charity established to combat the spread of polio. – Source

24. Camels were brought to Canada in 1862 to haul gold. The disastrous experiment ended in only one year after the camels terrorized horses and ate miners’ clothes and soap. – Source

25. Architects designed an ‘Earthscraper’ in response to a 10-story height limit on buildings in Mexico City. Reaching 1000 feet deep and shaped like an inverted pyramid, pedestrians walking over its transparent top (‘base’) can look down toward the bottom (‘peak’) of the structure. – Source