Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 838, click here
1-5 Kickass Random Fact
1. There is a pyramid being built in Germany that is scheduled to be completed in 3183. It consists of 7-ton concrete blocks placed every 10 years, with the fourth block to be placed on 9 September 2023. – Source
2. Mr. T stopped wearing virtually all his gold, one of his identifying marks, after helping with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He said, “I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold.” – Source
3. A victim of the SS Atlantic wreck was found to be a woman disguised as a man. A great favorite among her shipmates, one remarked “I didn’t know Bill was a woman. He took his grog as regularly as any of us, & was always begging or stealing tobacco. He was a good fellow, & I’m sorry he was a woman.” – Source
4. An American POW in World War II was questioned about US atomic bombs after the bombing of Hiroshima. He told them he didn’t know anything about that, but when they threatened to kill them, he “revealed” they had hundreds and that Tokyo and Kyoto were next. – Source
5. Marc-Antoine Fardin published a paper in which he cited photographs of cats in jars, baskets, and salad bowls and concluded that cats have the properties of both solid and liquid objects. For this work, Fardon was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Fact
6. The PS3 game “MAG” received an award from Guinness World Records as “Most Players in a Console FPS” with 256 players in matches simultaneously. – Source
7. In 2016, a rat broke into an ATM and ate $19,000 worth of cash. – Source
8. Studebaker made the world’s “largest living advertisement” in 1938 by planting 8k pine trees to spell “STUDEBAKER” if viewed from the sky. Even though Studebaker has been gone for over 50 years, their pine tree logo lives on and is in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. – Source
9. Six doctors devised an experiment where they each swallow a Lego head as a means to determine the typical transit time of a commonly swallowed object. They then presented their findings with a ‘Found and Retrieved Time’ aka ‘FART’ score. The FART score averaged 1.71 days. – Source
10. Orson Welles was not drunk during the infamous Paul Masson shoot, he was under the effects of a sleeping pill. After napping for a few hours, Welles was able to complete the commercial within an hour, and the director said he was a delight to work with. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Fact
11. Desperation pies are defined by inexpensive staple ingredients for filling. These types of pies were more popular during depressions, World Wars, and before refrigeration. Varieties include Green tomato pie, Shoofly pie, chess pie, and vinegar pies. – Source
12. Ernest Hemingway had a transgender daughter. Gloria Hemingway (born Gregory Hancock Hemingway) was an American physician and writer. Although she lived most of her life publicly as a man, she struggled with her gender identity from a young age, and in her sixties underwent surgery to transition. – Source
13. The image of a Ninja dressed all in black comes from the convention of depicting Ninjas as wearing the costume of stagehands in Japanese Kabuki theater. – Source
14. Cockaigne is an imaginary land of plenty in medieval myth, where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand. In Cockaigne, abbots are beaten by their monks, nuns are flipped over to show their bottoms, and the skies rain cheese. – Source
15. Microwaving liquids creates an unusual heat convection effect, which consistently makes the top of the liquid much hotter than the bottom. – Source
