35 Wildly Impressive Random Facts Hardly Anyone Know | Random List #18

Gregory Peck was offered the role of Grandpa Joe in the 2005 remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He passed away while the movie was still in development

27. The Spanish Inquisition lasted 356 years, more than 100 years longer than the United States has been an independent nation (241)

28. El Chapo was popular in his hometown and the inhabitants protested his arrest in 2014. He is popular because he used his wealth to renovate his hometown, which created lots of job opportunities.

29. A species of snail from Queensland, Australia, is called Crikey steveirwini after Steve Irwin.

30. The ancient Babylonians worked out that there are solar eclipses that occur 18 years, 11 days, and 8 hours apart. This period, 223 lunar cycles, is called the Saros cycle. The 1999 eclipse is Saros cycle solar eclipses.

In 2008, a group of Australian teenagers beat up the world's oldest flamingo

32. Nestlé has produced over 300 limited-edition Kit Kat flavors in Japan, one of the most popular being, "soy sauce."

33. Disneyland uses stray cats to fend off mice.

34. In 1992, a UK regulation required dance clubs to provide free water and chill-out rooms in response to a number of Ecstasy-related injuries and deaths

35. There is a 1 in 71 chance that an asteroid will impact earth in 2073 - 2074.