Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 836, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Fact
1. The early 2000s Nickelodeon children’s show, “LazyTown”, was not only filmed in Iceland but also one of the most expensive children’s shows ever made (each episode cost nearly $1 million to make). – Source
2. The Jim twins, separated at birth and reunited at 39: both had married and divorced someone named Linda, were currently married to a Betty, had sons named James Allan, had dogs named Toy, drove the same car, had jobs in security, and regularly vacationed at the same beach in Florida. – Source
3. At the company Hormel Foods, which makes canned SPAM, employees are supposed to refer to spam emails as unwanted emails. – Source
4. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (also known as prion diseases) have the highest mortality rate of any disease that is not inherited: 100%. – Source
5. In 1959, John Howard Griffin passed himself as a Black man and traveled around the Deep South to witness segregation and Jim Crow, afterward writing about his experience in “Black Like Me”. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Fact
6. Milhouse first appeared in a Butterfingers commercial before actually appearing on “The Simpsons”. – Source
7. George Washington only left the present-day United States one time in his life, when he traveled to Barbados with his brother in 1751. – Source
8. In 2018, a middle school in Dallas organized an event called “Breakfast with Dads,” but saw that not all of the students have fathers or father figures to attend the event with. So, they put up a post on Facebook seeking around 50 volunteers. On the day of the event, 600 men showed up to help. – Source
9. On 13 September 1985, Major Doug Pearson became the only pilot to destroy a satellite with a missile, launched from his F-15. – Source
10. Carlo Urbani, an Italian Microbiologist, was the first to identify SARS-COV-1 in Vietnam and report it to the WHO as a dangerous new pathogen. Urbani himself died of SARS himself shortly after, having triggered a rapid response to a potential pandemic, and saving many lives. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Fact
11. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind had a different English dub back in the 80s called “Warriors of the Wind” and it was incredibly shortened. It was apparently so bad that Hayao Miyazaki adopted a “no cuts” clause for future English releases of Studio Ghibli films. – Source
12. Scott Joplin, the groundbreaking “King of Ragtime”, died penniless of syphilitic dementia in 1917 in a sanitarium at just 48 and was buried in an unmarked grave, largely forgotten until a revival of interest in ragtime in the 70s led to his winning a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. – Source
13. Diana Budisavljević, the female Schindler undertook one of the greatest humanitarian acts in WWII, by saving over 7,700 children from concentration camps in the area of what is today’s Croatia. – Source
14. Stanford engineers made a folding origami microscope that costs less than $1 to make. 50,000 microscopes were shipped to 130 countries in 2014 to see what people will do with it. – Source
15. An expensive brothel in Paris called One-Two-Two with a pirate-themed room that was fitted with a bed that mechanically swing like a boat with jets of water drenching the occupants mimicking sex in a leaky boat. – Source
