16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. Dread Zeppelin is an American reggae rock band. They are best known for performing the songs of Led Zeppelin in a reggae style as sung by a Las Vegas Elvis impersonator. Over the years they have also performed songs originally by Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, and The Yardbirds. – Source
17. Chornobyl is actually a haven for wildlife. Paradoxically, the environment has become a sanctuary for biodiversity, due to the lack of human activity and interactions in the area. – Source
18. Huey Lewis suffered from a sudden loss of hearing in 2018, which led to his recent decision to sell his music catalog. – Source
19. If you experience auditory hallucinations (specifically sounds as opposed to voices) as you fall asleep or as you are waking up they are considered normal and up to 70% of people experience this occasionally. Hearing them in the middle of the day is not. – Source
20. The Love Shack made famous by the B-52’s in their 1989 hit song was real, its tin roof was actually rusted, but it, unfortunately, burned down in 2004. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. France has an island west of Canada, just off the coast of Newfoundland called Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Therefore, you can fly from Canada to France in an hour. – Source
22. Orson Welles once accidentally pelted his audience with arrows. Welles was doing Henry the Fifth in Boston and had set the archers to shoot offstage, but it was a rotating stage. Welles had noticed the problem but expected the Harvard students to not foolishly shoot into the crowd, he was wrong. – Source
23. Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl never recorded the Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York” together in the studio. The record’s producer, Steve Lillywhite, asked MacColl, his wife, to record the woman’s part as a guide for someone else, but MacGowan liked it and rerecorded his part to match hers. – Source
24. English women were banned from playing football on Football Association affiliated fields for almost 50 years due to the belief that the sport threatened their health and morality. – Source
25. Indiana Jones was inspired by Scrooge McDuck, not the other way around. George Lucas was a big fan of comics growing up. The famous boulder sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark was directly lifted from a 1954 issue of the McDuck comic. – Source
