Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 818, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Fact
1. Michael Cain only changed his name LEGALLY by deed poll in 2016 from his birth name of Maurice Joseph Micklewhite because he was tired of being stopped at passport control. Everyone knew him by his showbiz name but his legal documents had his birth name. – Source
2. Channel 5 was the only major UK television channel not to broadcast Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral – they aired The Emoji Movie instead. – Source
3. A High School Teacher who coerced teens into posing for explicit photos was caught because a Janitor cleaning his office saw a CD labeled “300” thinking it was the Zack Snyder film. He played it and discovered the photos. – Source
4. Three Germans had been infected with rabies after an organ donation, as the donor was bitten by a dog and was undiagnosed. – Source
5. The famous ‘Bloop’ sound, often believed to be sourced from an undiscovered massive creature deep within the ocean, was actually the sound of a glacier breaking apart after an ‘icequake’. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Fact
6. Rickey Henderson was so proud of earning a million-dollar signing bonus that he had the check framed instead of cashing it. He saved the envelopes of cash teams gave players for per diem expenses, allowing his kids to pick them out of a box when they did well in school. – Source
7. In 1956-1957, the Chinese communist party (ccp) launched a campaign called the “hundred flowers movement” where they encouraged Chinese citizens to give their opinions about the communist party. It failed. Then Mao Zedong conducted an ideological crackdown on those who criticized the party. – Source
8. Hitler’s dad originally went by the name Alois Schicklgruber before changing his last name to ‘Hitler’ in 1876. – Source
9. The wealthiest athlete in human history, was an ancient Roman charioteer from what is now Portugal, named Gaius Appuleius Diocles. His combined earnings were the equivalent of fifteen billion dollars. – Source
10. On dry, cloudless nights in the desert, water can freeze at temperatures as high as 41 degrees Fahrenheit, 5 Celsius. This is due to a process referred to as “Night Sky Cooling” or “Radiative Cooling”, and allowed desert dwellers to regularly make ice more than 2000 years ago. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Fact
11. The Arabian Oryx became extinct in the wild by the early 1970s, but was saved in zoos and private reserves, and was reintroduced into the wild starting in 1980. In 2011, it was the first animal to revert to vulnerable status on the IUCN Red List after previously being listed as extinct. – Source
12. In Uruguay, up until 2017, if you caught your spouse in bed with someone else, it was within your rights to beat or kill either of them. – Source
13. Jimmy Carter signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the single largest expansion of protected lands in history which more than doubled the size of the National Parks System. – Source
14. Fried Chicken was an expression first recorded in the 1830s and frequently appears in American cookbooks of the 1860s and 1870s. Scottish frying techniques and African seasoning techniques were used together in the American South and became increasingly popular after the Civil War. – Source
15. Alf Clausen was the sole composer of The Simpsons from 1990 to 2017. Clausen would write the music for an episode during the week and record with his 35-piece orchestra on Fridays. One week Clausen had to write 57 musical cues. – Source
