Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 831, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Fact
1. John Stith Pemberton was a Confederate officer who became addicted to morphine after receiving a saber wound. Pemberton made a series of concoctions attempting to cure his addiction. Pemberton’s experiments with coca and kola resulted in Pemberton’s French Wine Coca and later Coca-Cola. – Source
2. Three years after winning gold at the 2004 Olympics, wrestler Rulon Gardner and two friends’ plane crashed into Lake Powell Utah. The three men swam an hour to the shore through 44F (7C) degree water to the shore and waited all night without shelter for rescue. All three men survived. – Source
3. Many animals spend much of their time doing nothing, even those we think of as particularly busy. “If you look at a colony of ants, or bees, or any social insect really, maybe a little bit less than half of them are just standing around doing what looks like nothing.” – Source
4. In 2002, members of a simulated Mars mission in Utah uncovered an actual dinosaur fossil when on a mock spacewalk. – Source
5. The Woolworth Company (aka Woolworth’s) did not go out of business but rather just changed their name to that of their most profitable division: Foot Locker. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Fact
6. The Magna Carta was annulled by Pope Innocent III and reinstated multiple times by different English Kings. While perceived as a constitution the Magna Carta was limited to 25 Barons and the King, and the document has been almost entirely repealed or replaced with new laws over the centuries. – Source
7. James Earl Jones and Carrie Fisher never met until they made cameo appearances in an episode of The Big Bang Theory. – Source
8. About 70 percent of the material for the original Human Genome Project came from some dude in Buffalo, NY. – Source
9. Male cigarette smokers have significantly higher levels of total and free testosterone compared with men who never smoked. – Source
10. A cat named Room 8 lived in a public school for 16 years. During his time there he would disappear during the summer and return, like clockwork on the first day of school. He became so well known that poems and songs were sung about him. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Fact
11. Trent Reznor was the final resident of 10050 Cielo Drive, Los Angeles, the site of the Manson family murders but moved out after a random encounter with Sharon Tate’s sister, who asked him: “Are you exploiting my sister’s death by living in her house?” – Source
12. Boogers contain salivary mucins, which form a barrier on your teeth from bacteria that can cause cavities. – Source
13. Germany sold 22 Mig-29 to Poland in 2003 for just 22 €. – Source
14. Poundbury is a town that was built according to the Principles of King Charles III. It started construction in 1993 and is currently 80% built. 4,600 people currently live there. – Source
15. There’s a secret letter from Queen Elizabeth II locked in a Vault, and it can’t be opened till 2085. – Source
