23 Fun Facts That Are as Random as They Are Awesome

Advertisement
  • 01
    Super bowl - eBaum's WERLD In 1905 Theodore Roosevelt mediated in talks about banning American Football
  • 02
    Text - eBaum's WERLD America's first female mayor was elected in 1887.Agroup of men nominated herasajoke, but she won over 60percent of thevote. Susanna M.Salter died in Norman Oklahoma twoweeks after ther 101st birthday,
  • 03
    Building - WERLD A Harvard Business School research found that sarcasm represents the highest form of intelligence
  • 04
    Skin - eBaum's WERLD In2004 Aubrey Plaza suffereda stroke leaving her paralyzed andunable to speakfor sometime
  • 05
    Human - eBaum's WERLD Mädchen Amick's name is German even though she is an American-her parents just wanted her to have an unusual name. It means "girl"
  • 06
    Mammal - eBgum's WERLD The Shiba Inudog breed nearly went extinct during World War I due to bombings,food shortages and disease
  • 07
    Motor vehicle - eBaum's WERLD Elvis Presley won3 Grammys,but none of themfor Rock and Roll
  • 08
    Performance - eBaum's WERLD Venezuela has schools where young women learn how to win beauty pageants
  • 09
    Event - eBaum's WERLD The British Queencelebrates her birthday twice each year,once on her birth date April 21st, and onJune 11th The second dateis for her subjects because April in England is a bad month for parades.
  • 10
    Obi-wan kenobi - eBaum's WORLD The noise that Emperor Palpatine makes when he leaps towards Mace Windu is actually a Dark Side technique called a "Force Scream".
  • 11
    Water - eBaum's WERLD In 2016 Collins English Dictionary made the term "snowflake generation" official. It means "The young adults of the 2010s, viewed as being less resilient and more prone to taking offence than previousgenerations
  • 12
    Food - eBaum's WERLD There is a pecan pie vending machine in Cedar Creek,Texas. The machine is open 24/7,is stocked daily,and contains full sized pies and other sweet pecan treats.
  • 13
    Font - eBaum's WERLD The Black Star of Queensland,a733-caratblack sapphire, was used as a doorstop foroveradecade by an Australian family before realizing what it was The stone was reportedly found by a 12-year-old who's father thought it was merely a large black crystal.
  • 14
    Text - eBaum's WERLD Melinda Clarke was only supposed to appearas a guest on The 0.C.but stayed forall four seasons.
  • 15
    Mammal - eBaum's WERLD The saliva from vampire bats acts as a anticoagulant,and is now tested as a mediation for stroke victims. It was called Draculin.
  • 16
    Submarine - In 1998,an entire North Korean submarine and her crew was losttoasingle South Korean fishing net. eBaum's WSRLD t
  • 17
    Action-adventure game - eBaum's WERLD There was a black African samurai called Yasuke that served warlord Oda Nobunaga. He was the first foreign samurai and is said to be the inspiration for the main characterin Afro Samurai.
  • 18
    Text - eBaum's WERLD Recycling aluminum saves more than 90 percent of theenergy needed to make new aluminum.A UKstudy claims that 75% of the metalever made is still in use today.
  • 19
    Drink - eBaum's WERLD The word whiskey comes from the gaelic word uisce which means water"
  • 20
    Technology - eBaum's WERLD April7is often cited asa symbolic birth date of the internet. sse THE INTERNET
  • 21
    Food - eBaum's WERLD The fruit avocado is called that because its original name was toodifficultto pronounce tor Americans.
  • 22
    Album cover - eBaum's WERLD Weird Al wanted towrite a parody of "Live and Let Die called Chicken Pot Pie but Paul McCartney, as a strict vegetarian refused.
  • 23
    Cat - eBaum's WERLD Creators of Overwatch considered making a character that would be a normal cat sitting onajetpack

Tags

Scroll Down For The Next Article