- A WOW player named “Bradster” has 36 WOW accounts and conducts raids all by himself on 11 computers – Source
- During Julius Caesar’s “unsuccessful” first invasion of Britain, several ships were badly damaged or wrecked because the Romans were ignorant of the powerful Atlantic tides. – Source
- Hawkeye #19?, which is told largely in American Sign Language, was delayed for months in order for the series writer, Matt Fraction, to research and confirm with educators and doctors that the ASL used was completely correct. – Source
- Zebras and ostriches often live together to protect each other from predators. The ostrich can see much better than the zebra, while the zebra can hear or smell danger better than the ostrich. – Source
- Some of the original Playstation 1 games had the game music set as CD audio, meaning you could listen to the game music from a normal CD player. Some games contained hidden tracks that could only be accessed this way. – Source
- Freddie Mercury bequeathed the vast majority of his fortune to his ex-girlfriend, Mary Austin, and also entrusted her to ensure that the burial place of his ashes would never be disclosed. – Source
- Smith Island, a small island in the state of Maryland with a population of around 276, has residents with their very own unique local dialect with a clear heavy influence of parts of Western England. – Source
- Less than 15% of men in the US are above six feet tall. – Source
- Paraguay maintains its own navy despite the fact that the country is landlocked. – Source
- Human Trafficking was not technically made illegal until 2003 in the UK. – Source
- The Air Force could fly each SR-71, on average, once per week, because of the extended turnaround required after mission recovery. Very often an aircraft would return with rivets missing, delaminated panels or other broken parts such as inlets requiring repair or replacement. There were cases of the aircraft’s not being ready to fly again for a month due to the repairs needed. – Source
- In Kenya, a turtle adopted a hippo that was abandoned after a tsunami. – Source
- 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
- Lulu the kangaroo was rescued as a joey and hand-reared by a farmer and his family. When a branch knocked the farmer unconscious, Lulu stayed with him and ‘barked’ until the man’s family came, likely saving his life. – Source
- Dr Phil hasn’t had a license to practice psychology professionally for 9 years, and considers himself “retired from psychology.” – Source
- Author Douglas Adams once got an offering of £50,000 to write a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy calendar. A few weeks later, having done no work towards it, another call came saying the deal had fallen through but that he would still be paid half the fee. He celebrated with champagne. – Source
- Neptune has only completed one orbit of the Sun since its discovery in 1846. – Source
- The design of the tallest residential building in the world, 432 Park Avenue in Manhattan, is inspired by a trash can. – Source
- Jaywalking was made a law due, in part, to a deliberate effort by promoters of automobiles, such as local auto clubs and dealers, to redefine streets as places where pedestrians do not belong. – Source
- In 1978 D.C. comics published Superman vs. Muhammad Ali. – Source
- Composer Earle Brown wrote a piece called “Twenty-Five Pages”, which consists of 25 un-numbered pages that can be played in any order, either side up, and each line read as treble or bass clef. It can be played by any number of pianos up to 25. – Source
- In 2007, the Israeli Ambassador to El Salvador was recalled after being found outside the Israeli Embassy drunk, hands tied, and wearing only bondage gear. The police were able to discover his identity only after removing the ball gag from his mouth. – Source
- The first successfully cloned cat was named CopyCat. – Source
- YouTube is the second largest search engine on the net. – Source
- Scientists at UCLA noticed that “time and time again” people suffered their first experience with anxiety or depression right after stomach illnesses. They did brain scans after patients ate probiotics, and found that stomach bacteria actually directly affected the connectivity of the brain. – Source
- The city of Medellin, Colombia reduced motorcycle assassinations by 39% when it banned male passengers from riding on the back of motorbikes. – Source
- There was a unit of mass named batman, equal to roughly 16lbs. It was later divided into two units, the ‘great batman’ and the ‘lesser batman’. – Source
- In 1867, when a San Francisco policeman wanted to involuntarily commit an insane but harmless man who declared himself emperor, the police chief refused, saying “that he had shed no blood; robbed no one; and despoiled no country; which is more than can be said of his fellows in that line.” – Source
- In Star Trek, Spock was supposed to be a female character, but was changed during the show’s production. – Source
- In Holland’s embassy in Moscow, two Siamese cats kept meowing and clawing at the walls of the building. Their owners finally investigated, thinking they would find mice. Instead, they discovered microphones hidden by Russian spies. – Source
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You might want to read over number 9 I think your wording is a little confusing.
May in this year is ahead of us, so it wasn’t this year in #3
15. *”week dogs”
Number 2
Why not mention the title of the show you are talking about. It’s like trying to have a conversation with my wife. Something happened in season 6 of something? Good to know.
With Disney’s acquisition of the Star Wars properties, Emperor Palpatine retroactively has the highest kill count of any Disney character, since it was presumably him who gave the order to destroy Alderaan.
Thank you for your posting on the random facts. I too love random facts.
Here is one fact that occurred to me and my friend Rigo and our lady friend Smupa.
We were on a journey of the mind, body, and soul in a small vessel adrift on the vast ocean.
At some point along the way, a series of humongous bubbles surfaced just beneath our tiny vessel, nearly capsizing us in the process.
A sharply foul odor was soon realized, causing in us an unusual sequence of events.
Rigo began to leap like a spider monkey from starboard to port at various intervals!
Smupa faded into a most relaxed state and began smiling in a most uncontrollable manner.
As for me, I began to vomit all of the frustrations that I had brought aboard our voyage, casting my eyes upon a visual collage of swirling colors and existences.
Smupa then passed gas from the bottom.
It was then that the eureka moment struck! I then posed the question:
Do Whales Fart?
Upon our safe return from our voyage, Smupa and I did some research into this potentiality. Following are our findings.
DO WHALES FART?
The short answer is yes, whales do indeed fart, flatus or pass gas depending on how you like to phrase it.
In fact whales, dolphins and porpoises are all marine mammals belonging to the cetacean species and they are all known to fart.
Today there are around 80 – 90 known species of cetacea currently in existence and they encompass all of the worlds major oceans from the tropics to the coldest of the northern and southern polar hemispheres.
When it comes to passing gas, farting is a common characteristic that most land and marine mammals have in common with one another.
Passing gas allows animals to release air that is trapped inside their stomach, which could lead to digestive problems, stomach cramps or other complications if not removed from the body.
When an animal passes gas or farts the air that comes out of the body comes primarily from two main sources.
The first source comes from oxygen that is pulled in through the air either while breathing (inhaling and exhaling) or when consuming food or drinking water; and since all mammals eat food and require oxygen to survive they all take in air.
The second source of air or gas comes from food that is broken down by enzymes, stomach acids and bacteria in the stomach, which creates toxic gasses that need to be removed from the body to prevent it from doing harm to the individuals digestive system.
In order to release these gases animals need a way to expel them from the body and for most mammals this means that the toxic gas has to exit through either the mouth, which causes burping or through the an*l tract which causes farting.
The gases that are expelled from a fart are mostly composed of hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and methane.
The reason some gasses smell worse than others is because of the breakdown of the foods involved.
Certain foods can cause obnoxious orders when released as gas while others do not.
From some of the statements researchers have made about whales farting they have concluded that yes, it stinks when a whale farts.
When a whale farts or passes gas underwater the sound is believed to be suppressed by the surrounding water making it silent or at least quite compared to the gas that is expelled from land based animals.
In some cases bubbles or clouds can be seen rising to the surface of the water when a whale passes gas.
Those most likely to experience whales farting are likely to be researchers involved in following whales and researching their dung or gathering information about their gestation period, habitat, social structure and other important factors.
In some cases this may also be observed by tourists and whale watchers that are hoping to get a glance of these marine mammals in their natural habitat.
Unfortunately not much research has been done on this topic, however there have been researchers who have experienced and confirmed that yes whales do indeed fart.
Wow, but where’s the potato?
Pop ups and fraudulent advertising sites has ruined Kickassfacts. Please stop this!
Didn’t realize acronyms had to be pronounced to be a real acronym
“This film had a lower budget than any of the X-Men, Iron Man, Avengers, or Captain America movies.”
WHAT film???
What movie had a low budget? You didn’t even put in a source.
Despite its box office failure, Warner Brothers shipped 320,000 rental copies to US video stores, a figure a spokesman freely admitted was “out of whack” with the film’s performance in the theaters. What movie? No reference.
“The actors snorted crushed B vitamins for scenes that involved cocaine.”
What movie?? No source. Why do you guys keep copying and pasting random movie trivia, without including the movie title? Many people have commented on the lack of information. Do you guys even read the comments section anymore?
Learn to read, r*tard.
It’s in *any* scenes. You think there’s a movie out there where actors snorted real cocaine?
“He was voted “Most Humorous” and “Least likely to succeed” in school.”
He who?
He…who?
10/24/18
Your 9th fact says “Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Middle Eastern Countries– Part 2 of”
“The shooter in the infamous Vietcong execution photo opened a pizzeria in suburban Virginia after the Vietnam War. A lot of people see this picture and think he’s the bad guy, but really he was executing a viet cong officer.” – Implying the US weren’t the bad guys during Vietnam haha
#4 he who? Who is “he”?
There are many different species of snakes in Canada and it’s considerably colder here than Ireland. Not to mention that the Ice Age affected Canada more.
“After the lobby shootout, the camera pans back showing the aftermath of the gunfight in the lobby. During this a piece of one of the pillars falls off. This happened by coincidence during the filming and was not planned, but was left since it seemed appropriate.”
Why do you consistently offer facts about UNIDENTIFIED movies???
The Matrix
#1 is from the movie The Matrix.
The Colosseum didn’t exist when Caesar lived
Enjoyed this update, is there any way I can get an update sent in an email every time you publish a fresh post?
The age of consent in Nigeria is 18 but some northern states use islamic laws called Sharia Law, that’s the law with 11 as the age of consent. I’m a Nigerian.
For Today’s Daily Fact page the fact “Cats kill between 8.3 billion and 24.4 billion birds and mammals each year and have been blamed for the global extinction of 33 species” source should be the wikipedia page for feral cat predation on wildlife page instead of the feral cat page itself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_predation_on_wildlife)
I was very pleasantly surprised by the picture of that chess set in the link for #7, it’s quite tasteful, I expected something gaudier.
Regarding “The American Library of Congress archives everything ever posted on Twitter by everyone, since its creation in 2008”, the Library of Congress is no longer archiving tweets, as described in their white paper released in 2017, https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/files/2017/12/2017dec_twitter_white-paper.pdf.
This facts, “Dogs have “incomplete cheeks,” which allow them to open their mouths wide but, conversely it also means that they can’t create suction like humans, resulting in scooping water backwards with their tongues.”, source is a youtube video of a dog drinking. I think that this article would better represent the fact as it sources the researchers – https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/06/no-cheeks-no-problem/. It also explains how dogs are able to swallow the water after it is already in their mouth.
FYI, the guy who lied to a reporter about being born in Scotland was Robin Williams.
The Maple Syrup fact – ” Grades of maple syrup indicate color and flavor, not quality: Grade A is lighter and milder than grade B.” source doesn’t contain any information regarding this fact. It only says Maple Syrup twice, and those times are in reference to measurements. It should be changed to a source actually pertaining to Maple Syrup grades. Old Source – https://www.foodnetwork.com/how-to/articles/how-to-make-perfect-pancakes ; Suggested New Source – https://www.maplesource.com/pure-maple-syrup-grades-explained/
Elon Musk and GM are in the race to build the first mass-market electric car <- Tesla is already a mass-market car company??? GM reached out to Tesla to assist with the Chevy Volt. I smell a clickbait.
Fidel Castro did not “liberate” Cuba. He did, however, Liberate the Cubans from their freedom, rights, and ability to vote for anyone else but him.
Gopnik means street bandit, robber
Die hard sequel to Commando?!?!?
Graphite bomb = wild fires
Nr.4, with the dutch escape room isnt really a kickass fact. There are hundreds of escape rooms all over the world.
Yet again it’s 30 facts, of which the second 15 are the same as the first, and all of which have been here before.
Why not just do five a week, if you’re struggling that much for content?
We have fixed the issue where same facts were appearing on page 2. Thank you!
#6 That possible alien artifact turned out to be an old Apollo component.
#21 has a dead source link