Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 813, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Fact
1. The ‘Puckle Gun’ is considered to be one of the first machine guns (1718) that had a specialized square-shaped bullet to be used against Turks as a means to “convince the Turks of the benefits of Christian civilization”. – Source
2. Crypto.com mistakenly sent a customer $10.5 million instead of a $100 refund by typing the account number as the refund amount. It took Crypto.com 7 months to notice the mistake, they are now suing the customer. – Source
3. Bed bugs have no courtship rituals. What they have, instead, is a type of mating behavior called traumatic insemination. That is, a male will simply climb onto a female, stab her in the side of her body with his hypodermic penis, and release his sperm into her body cavity. – Source
4. A repairman wanted to get out of work early and intentionally started a fire, causing $700,000,000 in damages to the USS Miami submarine. – Source
5. Japan has become infested with North American raccoons after an anime based on the book Rascal aired in 1977 and caused thousands of raccoons to be imported as pets only to be released into the wild. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Fact
6. Doors frontman Jim Morrison, one of the most iconic figures of the 1960s counterculture, was the son of U.S. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison, commander of U.S. forces in the Gulf of Tonkin incident that jumpstarted America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. – Source
7. Josephine Cochrane invented the dishwasher because she was fed up with her fine China breaking whilst being hand washed. – Source
8. We start forgetting early childhood memories at around age 7. – Source
9. The Japanese turned the third of their super battleships (after Yamato and Musashi) into the largest aircraft carrier ever built at the time. After four years of construction and enormous cost, she left the shipyard and was immediately sunk by a submarine. – Source
10. Roman concrete structures such as the Pantheon and aqueducts are ultra-durable because of lime clasts. While many modern concrete structures crumble after a few decades, Roman concrete has self-healing functionality from lime clasts which allow their structures to survive millennia. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Fact
11. The largest moon in our solar system, Ganymede, is larger than the planet of Mercury. – Source
12. The screenwriter’s plan in “Die Hard with a Vengeance”, to break into the Federal Reserve and escape with the gold was so plausible he was questioned by the FBI. The FBI was said to have changed its security to account for it. – Source
13. Sylvester Stallone is the only actor to star in a #1 box office movie across 6 consecutive decades. – Source
14. Several people have been caught cheating on game shows throughout history. One of the most notable cases involved Charles Ingram, who cheated his way to winning the jackpot on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” by having an accomplice cough to indicate the correct answer. – Source
15. Mikio Okuda, a farmer in Japan, carefully grows a type of strawberry, Bijin-Hime, and sells just one for $500. – Source
