Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 834, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Fact
1. The cookies that Cookie Monster eats are just painted rice cakes. Real cookies would damage the puppet because of the grease. – Source
2. Time magazine was the first to introduce the name “World War II”. – Source
3. The game “Foldit” is a puzzle game about protein folding. In 2011, its gamers helped decipher a protein of an HIV-like virus, solving a scientific problem that went unsolved for 15 years in as little as 10 days. – Source
4. Lower-class Germans are stereotyped as giving their children names that sound exotic in German, such as “Kevin.” Prejudice against people with such names is strong enough that the term “Kevinism” was coined to describe it. – Source
5. A Japanese YouTuber sparked outrage from viewers in 2021 after he apparently cooked and ate a piglet that he had raised on camera for 100 days. This is despite the fact that the channel’s name is called “Eating Pig After 100 Days“ in Japanese. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Fact
6. Disney is said to spend $10.68 billion every single year to keep their parks open and functional. If you were to split that evenly, each park would cost roughly $3.25 million per day to stay open. – Source
7. In 1947, the town of Holt, Missouri (population 471) experienced the greatest 1-hour rainfall total ever observed worldwide: 12 inches of rain fell in just 42 minutes. – Source
8. The navigator Henry Hudson was cast adrift by mutineers, along with his son and six others in 1611, in Hudson Bay. They were never seen again. – Source
9. In 2012 in Cebu, Philippines, after a 6.9 earthquake struck the city, someone shouted while finding their daughter whose name is “Chona Mae”. This was misheard as “Tsunami” and eventually caused a mass panic. – Source
10. The US Army looked into using biodegradable ammunition which planted a seed after being fired to grow food for animals. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Fact
11. J.J. Thomson, Nobel prize winning physicist, had 6 of his students win a Nobel prize in physics, and 2 of his students win a Nobel prize in chemistry. Additionally, his son also won a Nobel prize in physics. – Source
12. Saburō Kurusu was a Japanese diplomat to the United States during the Pearl Harbor attack. He was unaware of the attack and was on his way to the Secretary of State to deliver a reply to the previous diplomatic communications. – Source
13. Robert Oppenheimer(born in 1904) didn’t read newspapers and didn’t keep up with the news at all until the 1930’s. A native New Yorker, he wasn’t informed of the 1929 wall street crash until a friend told him, 6 months after the fact. – Source
14. During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times. – Source
15. Elephants are capable of recognizing themselves in a mirror, which is a sign of self-awareness. Elephants were shown a mirror and their reactions were observed. They went through a series of behaviors, including touching their own bodies and inspecting their mouths. – Source
