Here is 25 Kickass Random Facts List #89.
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. In 2012, a 19-year-old boy in Ohio was killed after running a stop sign and being hit by a truck. The boy was out that night stealing stop signs. – Source
2. The prune industry asked the FDA to re-label prunes as “dried plums” because “prunes” weren’t selling and it worked. – Source
3. Jackie Chan’s family was so poor that he was almost sold to a wealthy British Couple when he was still a baby. – Source
4. Sumo wrestlers of the lowest ranks must always wear wooden sandals in public. The clacking sound of their footsteps is a reminder to improve their skills. – Source
5. Miss Navajo Nation pageant requires contestants to butcher a sheep. – Source
6-10 Kickass Random Facts
6. Most “baby carrots” are cut-down carrots that would otherwise be rejected from supermarkets for being too ugly. – Source
7. In 2000, a paediatrician in Britain was once forced to flee her home after some local residents mistook her job title to mean she was a paedophile and vandalized her home. – Source
8. After Samuel L. Jackson agreed to star in “Snakes on a Plane”, producers tried to change the title but did not because Jackson agreed to do the film based on the title alone. – Source
9. For over a decade, teachers and principals in Atlanta erased wrong answers and filled in the right ones in students’ tests. At one school, the faculty held weekend pizza parties to correct answers before turning them in. Over the course of a single year, scores at the school jumped 45%. – Source
10. After the Treaty of Versailles, Marshal Ferdinand Foch said “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.” Twenty years and 65 days later, World War 2 broke out. – Source
11-15 Kickass Random Facts
11. In the game Myth II: Soulblighter, due to a bug in the installer, if the game wasn’t installed into the default directory and instead into a different one, when attempting to uninstall it the uninstaller deleted the computer’s entire hard drive. – Source
12. The real James Bond was actually an Ornithologist. When asked by Ian Fleming if it was okay to use his name he replied simply: “Fine With It.” – Source
13. When Anne Frank’s family was arrested, her father showed the officer her height markers on the wall to prove how long they had been hiding, and after the diary was published, the officer said, “I bought the little book last week, to see if I was mentioned there, but I was not.” – Source
14. In 2013, USA launched a spy rocket with a logo featuring an octopus and the words “Nothing is beyond our reach.”- Source
15. Andrew Jackson carried a locket with a picture of his deceased wife, Rachel Jackson, and propped it up in front of his bed every night so that she would be the last thing he saw when falling asleep and the first thing when he woke up. – Source
16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. In China, women who remain unmarried until their late 20s are given the term “leftover women.” – Source
17. In 2013, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas. It sold for over $63,000. – Source
18. Humans usually get the urge to pee when the bladder is just 1/3 full. But in zero gravity, the urge doesn’t kick in till the bladder is almost completely full. When John Glenn orbited the Earth, his only urination was 27 ounces, seven ounces more than the capacity of the average human bladder. – Source
19. About 5,500 unexploded bombs from WWII are discovered in Germany each year. – Source
20. About 3% of Americans still have a dial up internet connection. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. Jerome Iginla donates $2,000 to charity for every goal he scores. He has scored over 500 career goals and donated more than $700000 from 2000 to 2013. – Source
22. Groomsmen (specifically bride’s-groomsmen) were originally at weddings to protect the bride from being captured by another suitor. – Source
23. Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a female Soviet sniper with 309 credited kills, toured the US in 1942 to gain support for a second front in Nazi-occupied Europe. The press was more interested in her appearance and if she wore make-up on the front lines. – Source
24. 2 Chainz asked permission to sample Lehrer’s “The Old Dope Peddler”. Lehrer responded, “As sole copyright owner of ‘The Old Dope Peddler’, I grant you m*therf**kers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?” – Source
25. Up until 1915 it was legal to mail a baby by US Mail. – Source
