31 Random Facts That’ll Give You Something Interesting to Say | Random List #290

In 1964, Elvis Presley bought President Franklin D Roosevelt's yacht, USS Potomac (AG-25) for $55,000. He later gave it to St Jude's Children Hospital for a fundraiser, and that hospital sold it for $65,000.

27. One second of the sun’s energy output is enough to supply the earth’s current energy consumption for 300,000 years.

28. An electric eel can remotely control its prey's movements, with electrical impulses acting on the prey’s motor neurons. It can make hidden prey twitch to reveal itself, and then freeze so that it doesn’t escape.

29. In the 1880s, the Old Faithful geyser was used to launder clothes. Dirty clothes would be placed in the crater and after an eruption they were “ejected thoroughly washed.”

30. Saturn's rings are estimated to only be 10-100 million years old. Saturn likely did not have rings when the dinosaurs were alive.

Pro wrestler Dave Bautista decided to get into wrestling after realizing he had squandered his 20s and was living in poverty to the point that he had to borrow money to buy Christmas presents for his kids.