KickassFacts.com
  • PicFacts
    • PicFacts(1-500)
    • PicFacts(501-1000)
    • PicFacts(1001-1500)
    • PicFacts(1501-2000)
    • PicFacts(2001-2500)
    • PicFacts (2501-3000)
    • PicFacts (3001-3500)
    • PicFacts (3501-4000)
    • PicFacts (4001-4500)
  • Specials
    • Advice
    • YSK
    • LPT
    • AskUs
    • AskReaders
    • Infographics
    • ShowerThoughts
  • Photographs
  • Random Fact Generator
  • Others
    • Random Facts
    • Entertainment
      • Books & Comics
      • Movies & TV
      • Pop Culture
    • Science
      • Animals & Plants
      • Our World
      • Humans
      • Technology
    • Society
      • Crime
      • Festivities
      • Art
      • Education
      • Finance
      • Politics
      • Relationship
      • Religion
    • Lifestyle
      • Sports
      • Food
    • General Knowledge
      • History
      • Books
      • History Lesson
      • People
    • Countries
      • USA
      • UK
      • Canada
      • Australia
      • Europe
      • Asian
    • Death
      • Weird
      • Bizarre
    • Maps
    • Military
    • Minerals
    • Miscellaneous
  • Fact of the Day
Fact List PicFacts

PicFacts

Admin
September 7, 2013
38

The British Rock band Radiohead released their album "In Rainbows" under a pay what you want pricing strategy where customers could even download all their songs for free. In spite of the free option, many customers paid and they netted more profits because of this marketing strategy.

Source

In an attempt to enforce Prohibition, the Prohibition Bureau began adding poison to industrial alcohol to prevent its consumption, killing between 10,000 and 50,000 people. This was supported by people like Wayne Wheeler, who argued that the victims had committed suicide by breaking the law.

Source

Article continued below

Japan is making all of its medals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics out of discarded electronics.

Source

In 1962, two US scientists discovered Peru's highest mountain was in danger of collapsing. When this was made public, the government threatened the scientists and banned civilians from speaking of it. In 1970, during a major earthquake, it collapsed on the town of Yangoy killing 20,000.

Source

In ancient Hawaiʻi, men and women ate meals separately and women weren't allowed to eat certain foods. King Kamehameha II removed all religious laws that and performed a symbolic act by eating with the women in 1819. This is when the lūʻau parties were first created.

Source

It took 87 years to build Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, from 1163-1250.

Source

In the civil war, the commander of the Union "lightning brigade" personally took out a loan to buy his soldiers advanced new repeating rifles because the government would not supply them. Using the firepower advantage afforded by the new rifles, his brigade proved extremely effective in combat.

Source

Some European countries have a "Freedom to Roam", which means that you can freely go into private land for recreation as long as you don't cause any problems.

Source

The driest place on earth is McMurdo dry Valleys in Antarctica where it hasn't rained for 2 million years. Only anaerobic bacteria are able to survive in the extreme conditions. Scientists also consider the area terrestrially closest to Mars on earth.

Source

A Texas man shot an armadillo and the bullet ricocheted into his face.

Source

Pages:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
Previous Article
30 Kickass and Interesting Facts About Coca Cola
Next Article
30 Interesting Facts About Star Trek
September 7, 2013

You may like also like

AskUs: Do lungs heal after quitting smoking? (They don’t)

AskUs: Does Adrenaline really reduce reaction time?

20 Interesting Facts About Daylight Saving Time

20 Interesting Facts About Hoaxes

25 Interesting Facts About Human Disorders – Part 3

25 Interesting Facts About Human Body – Part 2

Comments (38)

Comments are closed

Latest Posts
  • Fact List General Knowledge Our Popular Articles
    60 Interesting Facts of the Day
    April 20, 2021
  • Specials UpliftingNews
    25 Uplifting Headlines of the Week – Part 226
    April 19, 2021
  • Fact List Science Technology
    25 Interesting Facts About Microsoft
    April 19, 2021
  • Fact List Random Facts
    25 Kickass Random Facts List #621
    April 19, 2021
  • Fact List Humans Science
    25 Interesting Studies Performed by Researchers
    April 17, 2021
Subscribe to Blog via Email

Daily Weekly

Did you know?
Loading...
Facts of the Day
Recent Comments
  • Jack Hallahan on What is that one book, that absolutely changed your life?
  • Nick on 10 Captivating Facts About Michael Faraday
  • demarke on AskUs: Why does it take two incomes to maintain a household nowadays?
  • GreySkye on 25 Kickass Random Facts List #610
  • Paul Martin on Top 10 Stinkiest Cheeses in the World
Tag Clouds
  • Advice
  • Aircraft
  • Animals
  • AskReaders
  • AskUs
  • Books
  • Comics
  • Countries
  • Country
  • Crime
  • Earth
  • Finance
  • Food
  • Harry Potter
  • Health
  • History
  • Human
  • Humans
  • Infographic
  • LPT
  • Maps
  • Marvel
  • Military
  • Minerals
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Movies
  • Nature
  • People
  • Photos
  • Places
  • Random
  • Science
  • ShowerThoughts
  • Space
  • Star Wars
  • Television
  • Travel
  • UpliftingNews
  • USA
  • War
  • Weird
  • whatif
  • World War
  • YSK
  • DMCA
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Us

Copyright © 2020. KickassFacts - Fact Encyclopedia. All Rights Reserved

  • PicFacts
    • PicFacts(1-500)
    • PicFacts(501-1000)
    • PicFacts(1001-1500)
    • PicFacts(1501-2000)
    • PicFacts(2001-2500)
    • PicFacts (2501-3000)
    • PicFacts (3001-3500)
    • PicFacts (3501-4000)
    • PicFacts (4001-4500)
  • Specials
    • Advice
    • YSK
    • LPT
    • AskUs
    • AskReaders
    • Infographics
    • ShowerThoughts
  • Photographs
  • Random Fact Generator
  • Others
    • Random Facts
    • Entertainment
      • Books & Comics
      • Movies & TV
      • Pop Culture
    • Science
      • Animals & Plants
      • Our World
      • Humans
      • Technology
    • Society
      • Crime
      • Festivities
      • Art
      • Education
      • Finance
      • Politics
      • Relationship
      • Religion
    • Lifestyle
      • Sports
      • Food
    • General Knowledge
      • History
      • Books
      • History Lesson
      • People
    • Countries
      • USA
      • UK
      • Canada
      • Australia
      • Europe
      • Asian
    • Death
      • Weird
      • Bizarre
    • Maps
    • Military
    • Minerals
    • Miscellaneous
  • Fact of the Day
  • Lost Password Back ⟶
  • Login
  • Register
Lost Password?
Registration is disabled.