Every year at 3 P.M. on Christmas Eve, 1958 special ‘Donald Duck and His Friends Wish You a Merry Christmas’ is screened on Sweden’s main channel. Swedes are so compelled by the cartoon that last year during the program, cell data usage fell 28% and calls to emergency services dropped 16%. The post 25 Kickass… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 334, click here. 1. Zanzibar, 1947. An exhausted nanny poses with her young charge, named Farrokh Bulsara. A quarter of a century later, he would adopt the pseudonym of Freddie Mercury. 2. Gale Benson, model and daughter of British MP Leonard Plugge. In 1972, she was…… Read More »
Here is a list of 12 Little Known WW2 German Weapons 01. StG 44 Assault Rifle The StG 44 (abbreviation of Sturmgewehr 44, “assault rifle 44”) is a German selective-fire rifle developed during World War II that was the first of its kind to see major deployment and is considered to be the first modern…… Read More »
The Wright Brothers only flew together on the same flight one time, a six-minute flight on 25 May 1910. They promised their father, Milton, they would never fly together to avoid the chance of a double tragedy and to ensure one brother would remain to continue their flight experiments. The post 25 Kickass Random Facts… Read More »
Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Marketing. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Marketing 1. Game maker EA hired people to act as Christians who accused EA of being Anti-Christ for the videogame Dante’s Inferno as a marketing scheme. – Source 2. Despite Apple’s recent decade of marketing successes, latest statistics show that Windows PC still holds…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 333, click here. 1. 17-years-old girl named Maria Ginesta in Barcelona during the Spanish civil war, 1937. 2. 112-year-old Teimruz Vanacha (left), a veteran of WWI and the Russian Civil War, with his son Ivan, a veteran of WWII, in 1980. 3. Former beauty Queen, Miss…… Read More »
Here are 24 Black Death facts. 1-5 Black Death Facts 1. The first outbreak of the Black Death was the Justinian Plague in the Byzantine Empire around the 6th and 7th centuries, which at its’ peak, killed about 5,000-10,000 people a day in Constantinople and killed about 40% of the city’s population in total. – Source…… Read More »
Prepare to travel to exotic locals and long forgotten destinations as Kickassfacts.com brings you an all-new series: Ten Facts About A Lost City. This edition features Skara Brae. 1. Skara Brae Is Found On The Orkney Islands North of Scotland is one of Britain’s prehistoric villages. Archeologists estimate that it was built between 3000 BCE…… Read More »