Here is 25 Random Kickass Facts List #50.
1-5 Random Kickass Facts
1. JFK’s sister was given one of the first lobotomies because of her mood swings. Doctors asked her to sing God Bless America while they cut into her brain, and stopped when she “became incoherent.” – Source
2. In 24 states, you will pay sales tax on Hershey’s bars but not on Twix. This is because those states define candy as flour-free in their sales tax code and Twix contains flour, making it a grocery item. – Source
3. In the movie Poltergeist, they used real skeletons. When asked why, it was a simple answer, “they were cheaper than the plastic ones.” – Source
4. Scientists in Antarctica have set up a rugby pitch to play on when they want to relax. They have set up teams of American and New Zealand researchers to compete each year for the Ross Island Cup, which New Zealand has won 26 years in a row. – Source
5. Cancers are primarily an environmental disease with 90–95% of cases attributed to environmental factors and 5–10% due to genetics. – Source
6-10 Random Kickass Facts
6. Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the US, was the first president to have electricity in the White House but he never touched any light switches because he was too scared of getting electrocuted. – Source
7. In an effort to reduce widespread tax evasion, the Chinese government incorporated a scratch-off lottery into the state-run receipt system, encouraging consumers to demand a receipt and thus preventing businesses from under-reporting income. It was successful. – Source
8. The 27th amendment to the Constitution, which restricts the ability of Congress to raise its own pay, was ratified in 1992, more than 200 years after the first state approved it in 1789. – Source
9. The best female sniper of all time was a 24 year old Russian WWII soldier named Lyudmila Pavlichenko. She left university in Ukraine during her senior year to start “hunting Nazis” after the Third Reich invaded her country. Her total confirmed kills during World War II was 309, including 36 enemy snipers. – Source
10. A woman in Scotland registered herself by accident as a tourist attraction, becoming the nation’s 87th best destination. – Source
11-15 Random Kickass Facts
11. The mouth of the male Flabby Whalefish *fuses shut* upon reaching adulthood, losing its stomach and esophagus, it uses energy from previous meals to grow a giant liver which sustains it for life. – Source
12. President Ulysses S. Grant’s parents did not attend his wedding because his fiancée’s family owned slaves. – Source
13. Samurais used to wear a cloak that inflated when the wearer was riding a horse, which protected him from incoming arrows from behind. – Source
14. Weird Al Yankovic started a Volcano Worshippers Club in high school just to get an extra picture of himself in the yearbook. – Source
15. Due to the interrogation techniques of the Soviets an innocent was executed for a serial killer’s first murder, and many others confessed to the subsequent killings. Four committed suicide due to the investigators’ tactics. The killer killed at least 53 over 12 years before being caught. – Source
16-20 Random Kickass Facts
16. Rin Tin Tin, a German shepherd that starred in many silent films, almost won the first Oscar for best actor but the Academy, “believed that this new idea of handing out these Oscars could possibly be damaged by the first Best Actor being a dog.” – Source
17. Gypsy is actually short for Egyptian. – Source
18. The U. S. Army secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the ocean, in at least 26 locations off both coasts. The Army can’t say exactly where all the weapons were dumped because records are sketchy, missing or were destroyed. “It’s a disaster looming — a time bomb.” – Source
19. An abandoned lifeboat was found on the world’s most remote island in 1964. Its origin is still a mystery. – Source
20. There is a “moose test” in Sweden, which requires all cars to be able to evade a moose without flipping, should one suddenly appear on the road. – Source
21-25 Random Kickass Facts
21. Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from al-Qaeda to provide material or operational support. – Source
22. Pavement damage is proportional to the fourth power of the vehicle weight, so a 9-ton truck does over 3000 times the road damage of a 1-ton car. – Source
23. In 1967, Singer Van Morrison still owed his record company 31 songs to finish his contract, so he quickly wrote and recorded 31 nonsense songs with titles such as “Ring Worm”, “You Say France And I Whistle”, “Blow In Your Nose” and “Want A Danish?” – Source
24. Residents of Pompeii almost all died instantly from extreme heat rather than from suffocation from ash or toxic gases. – Source
25. New York City cabs have an amber light that’s hidden in the grille and is used to alert cops if the driver is in trouble by blinking. – Source
