40 Arcane Random Facts To Level Up Your Talk Game To 11 | Random List #67

George Lucas was one of the camera operators at the Rolling Stones' Altamont concert where a fan was stabbed to death.

27. Out of the 101 oldest people who have lived/are still living, 95 of them are female.

28. People knocked on wood to request good luck from mystical creatures they believed lived in the trees or to distract spirits with evil intentions.

29. The typical brain comprises about 2% of the body’s total weight but uses 20% of its total energy and oxygen intake.

30. In 2004, David Bowie had a heart attack on stage, paused for a minute then continued the show.

Ham, the first chimpanzee in space, was only given the name "Ham" after successfully completing his mission. He was known as Number 65 before that, as NASA believed that it would be bad publicity if a "named" chimp burned up in the atmosphere or otherwise died as a result of mission failure.

32. 30+ minutes of running, 5 days a week, has been linked to 9 years of less aging on the cellular level.

33. When Rupert Murdoch (then-owner of 20th Century Fox) was shown a rough cut of "Titanic" to appease him over how much money James Cameron was spending on the film, Murdoch said, "I can see why you like the movie, but it's no Air Force One."

34. Foo Fighters' frontman Dave Grohl is such a huge fan of UK rock band Killing Joke that he did all of the drummings on their self-titled 2003 album free of charge.

35. There is a math competition (William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition) for undergrad students that is so hard that in 2014 the median score was 1/120.

In 1946, a local chicken farmer offered 100 chicks for each homer the Nashua Dodgers hit. Newcomer Roy Campanella hit 14 in his first season and sent all 1,400 to his father who used them to start a thriving poultry farm. He also went on to become one of the first black major league players.

37. There's strong evidence that chewing gum improves working memory, episodic memory and speed of perception. Why this is the case is not understood.

38. Anthony Daniels (the actor who plays C3PO) is the 11th highest grossing actor of all time because he's been in every Star Wars movie.

39. Bass Reeves, the first black U.S. Deputy Marshal west of the Mississippi is credited with capturing over 3,000 outlaws, including his own son. He is also rumored to be the inspiration for the Lone Ranger.

40. Despite making dozens of recordings of his voice on wax cylinders, no known recordings of Mark Twain's voice are known to have survived.