38 Extraordinary Random Facts Few People Know | Random List #283

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26LSD

LSD

Our brains do not necessarily process everything as that would be an overload of information. A study from 2016 found that under the influence of LSD, the brain recruited many more regions for visual processing than normal, enriching the images people saw even when their eyes were shut.


27. Bobby Farrell, the member of the group Boney M., famous for the song Rasputin, died on the 30th of December in St. Petersburg, the same date and place that Grigori Rasputin died.


28. Pinot noir (red wine) became considerably more popular among consumers as a result of the film Sideways. Throughout the film, the main character speaks fondly of Pinot Noir while denigrating Merlot. A study estimated that Sideways cost American Merlot farmers over US$400 million in lost revenue.


29. UK's highest-paid entertainer in World War 2, George Formby, went to Normandy after the landings and gave 9 shows to frontline troops who’d held out for 56 days without relief, his audience in foxholes. He also crawled through trenches to tell jokes when the enemy was too close for a show.


30. Following a traumatic event, a person may develop a sense of a foreshortened future, which is currently considered an avoidance symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They may also feel as though they won't be able to reach milestones in their life, such as a career or marriage.


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31African coins

African coins

900-year-old African coins were found on the coast of Australia, making them the oldest foreign artifacts found on the continent, predating the Europeans by centuries.


32. An American actor named James Stewart rose from the rank of Private to Colonel in only 4 years during his World War 2 military service, and eventually became a Brigadier General, making him the highest-ranking actor in American military history.


33. George B. McClellan, the mayor of New York in 1904, was to symbolically start the first train at City Hall station and hand it over to an engineer. However, he enjoyed himself so much that he refused to stop controlling the train until he reached 103rd street.


34. The word "skunk" is derived from a word that literally means pee fox.


35. Boone Helm was an old-west serial killer and cannibal who, at his execution, yelled “Hurrah for Jeff Davis! Let 'er rip!” and then jumped off of the hangman’s box before the executioner could kick it away.


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36Dennis Wilson

Dennis Wilson

While the Beach Boys sang a lot of songs about surfing, only one member of the band, Drummer Dennis Wilson, could actually surf.


37. The upper limit for Yu-Gi-Oh! decks is 60 cards because someone once entered a tournament with a more than 2000 cards deck and that wasn't illegal at the time.


38. As a kid, Ice-T had his bike stolen. When he told his father about it; he simply shrugged and said: “Well, then, you ain’t got no bike.” Ice-T then stole parts from various bicycles and assembled “three or four weird-looking, brightly-painted bikes” from the parts. His father never even noticed.

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