Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 791, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Fact
1. Joseph McCarthy falsely claimed participation in 32 aerial missions in order to qualify for a Distinguished Flying Cross and multiple awards of the Air Medal, which the Marine Corps chain of command decided to approve in 1952 because of his political influence. – Source
2. All Ashkenazi Jews are at most 30th cousins because of a genetic bottleneck about 700 years ago. – Source
3. Actors with tattoos may need release forms from the tattoo artist if their work is visible on film. – Source
4. 69 is the only number whose square (4761) and cube (328509) use every decimal digit from 0–9 exactly once. – Source
5. The top 10% of drinkers in America consume an average of 74 drinks per week. About 30% of Americans never drink at all and another 30% only drink on special occasions, at most once every couple of weeks. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Fact
6. The song Smooth by Santana-Rob Thomas is both the last #1 hit of the 90s and the first of the 2000s. – Source
7. Catalan families take care of a log named Tio de Nadal from Dec. 8 until Christmas, when they hit it with wet sticks and sing songs until it shits presents. – Source
8. Only two companies have a higher credit rating than the US Government, Microsoft, and Johnson&Johnson. – Source
9. When Enrico Fermi first split an atom in 1934, it was completely by accident. He was actually trying to create new elements by hitting uranium with neutrons. It was only in 1938 that other scientists figured out what Fermi did. – Source
10. In a 2009 episode, Michael Schumacher appeared on BBC’s Top Gear as the Stig. Jeremy Clarkson hinted that Schumacher was not the regular Stig which was later confirmed by BBC. Schumacher was there because Ferrari would not allow anyone else to drive the Ferrari FXX featured in the show. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. Almost no palm trees are native to Southern California. They were used as a marketing ploy to transform Los Angeles from a cow town to a “semi-tropical”. – Source
12. Former pro skater, Jackass, and CKY star Brandon Novak has become a Certified Intervention Professional and professional speaker following a 20-year cycle of substance abuse, and has written two books about his heroin addiction. – Source
13. Henry Cotton was an asylum director who believed that all insanity was caused by sepsis in other parts poisoning the brain, leading to widespread amputation of his patients’ colons, teeth, reproductive organs, and even stomachs in order to “cure” them, with as many as 45% dying as a result. – Source
14. Two different comic strips named “Dennis the Menace” both debuted on the same day: 12 March 1951. They were created completely independently of each other, and neither creator knew of the other’s existence. – Source
15. Mary Shelley’s mother died 10 days after her birth and had three children all died in early childhood. Mary also suffered a miscarriage she almost died from, being saved by her husband Percy Shelley using ice baths to stop her bleeding. Percy himself died a month later while sailing. – Source
