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25 Kickass Random Facts List #650

The royalties for The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony” now go to its songwriter Richard Ashcroft, after Mick Jagger and Keith Richards finally agreed in 2019 to grant him the authorship of the song and all the future royalties it generates. The post 25 Kickass Random Facts List #650 first appeared on KickassFacts.com. Source

25 Interesting Historical Photos – Part 295

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 294, click here. 1. High school teacher John T. Scopes is brought to trial in Dayton, Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution, which was prohibited under state law, 10 July 1925. 2. Chinese guerrilla fighter Cheng Benhua 成本華 smiling moment before execution by the Japanese,…… Read More »

25 Kickass Random Facts List #649

Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 648, click here 1-5 Kickass Random Fact 1. Flushing the toilet with the lid down reduces airborne particles and bacteria by up to 50%. – Source 2. Bronze medal Olympian, UFC champion, and WWE wrestler Ronda Rousey used to be a moderator on a Pokemon forum, in…… Read More »

25 Kickass Random Facts List #648

American surgeon William Beaumont, the “Father of Gastric Physiology”, researched human digestion by putting pieces of food on a string and poking them through an old gunshot wound in his handyman’s stomach. He pulled it out on regular intervals to check on how well it had been digested. The post 25 Kickass Random Facts List… Read More »

25 Interesting Historical Photos – Part 294

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 293, click here. 1. A man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 at the time of British Raj, India. 2. Indigenous children forced to pray to god in a residential school ran by the Canadian government and Catholic Church between…… Read More »

14 Interesting Facts About Iron

Hoba is the largest known meteorite that left no crater on Earth. Earth’s atmosphere slowed the object to the point of terminal velocity. Hoba meteorite is also the most massive naturally occurring piece of iron known at the Earth’s surface. The post 14 Interesting Facts About Iron first appeared on KickassFacts.com. Source

25 Kickass Random Facts List #647

Mathematician John Edmund Kerrich passed his time in Nazi captivity by flipping a coin 10,000 times. The total percentage of heads and tails flips varied wildly at first but gradually converged around 50/50, providing a demonstration of the Law of Large Numbers. The post 25 Kickass Random Facts List #647 first appeared on KickassFacts.com. Source

25 Interesting Historical Photos – Part 293

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 292, click here. 1. US medic gives first aid to a wounded German SS soldier, France, 1944. 2. A young Russian boy points out German positions to Commander G. V. Gvozdev of the 11th Squad, 3rd Leningrad Partisan Brigade in a small village during the Siege…… Read More »

25 Kickass Random Facts List #646

Kim Kardashian sued Old Navy claiming the use of Canadian actress Melissa Molinaro violated her publicity rights by using a lookalike in an ad. Old Navy countered that the actress was famous in her own right and the case was settled out of court. The post 25 Kickass Random Facts List #646 first appeared on… Read More »