44 Unusually Good Random Facts That’ll Wow Any Room | Random List #27

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26Boba Fett

Boba Fett

Boba Fett was originally not introduced in Episode V, but in the infamous 1978 Star Wars Holiday TV Special.


27. O.J. Simpson earned $3,000,000 just from signing autographs while in prison.


28. When emperor Caracalla visited Alexandria, he was greeted with satires of him and other insults. He responded by massacring the city's citizens and pillaging it afterward.


29. It's very common for people in Japan to peel grapes before eating them, due to a perception that the skins are dirty and/or bitter.


30. The Pebble Toad will throw itself down a cliff to avoid predators and will survive it by tucking in its legs and being light enough to bounce without being injured.


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31Central Park

Central Park

It can cost $289,500 a year just for the right to operate a single hot dog cart in Central Park.


32. A photon spends 40,000 years getting from the core of the Sun to the surface, but then only 8 minutes to get to Earth.


33. In 1755, Oxford University burned a taxidermied Dodo bird, unaware that it was the last complete specimen in the world.


34. There are more Chinese restaurants in the United States than McDonald's, Burger Kings, Wendy's, Domino's, and Pizza Huts put together.


35. The girl in the red coat from Schindler's List played by Oliwia Dabrowska was told by Spielberg to not watch the film until she was 18. She watched it at 11 and was traumatized. She watched it again at 18 and understood "Spielberg was right: I had to grow up to watch the film."


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36Battle of Tours

Battle of Tours

Historians believe the fate of Christianity hinged on the Battle of Tours where an Arab invasion force was defeated by a Frankish force in present-day France, preventing the spread of Islam to all of Western Europe and preserving Christianity as the religion of Europe.


37. After 20 months of war and a 13-month siege, the Numantians (old Spanish civilization) chose to burn their city and die free rather than live and be slaves to the Roman Empire.


38. Mongooses, honey badgers, hedgehogs, and pigs are the only mammals with a natural immunity to snake venom.


39. Jordan Peele's "Get Out" made $252.4 million at the worldwide box office, over 55 times more than its production budget of $4.5 million.


40. There are roughly 46 million people enslaved in the world today, which is actually significantly higher than the total American population at the start of the Civil War (31 million).


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41Dre headphones

Dre headphones

While Beats by Dre headphones sell for $200-700, experts estimate that the manufacturing cost of each headphone is as low as $16 per unit. The company is now worth over $3.2 billion and controls 27% of the entire headphones market.


42. Tom Delonge quit Blink-182 not because of artistic differences, but because he wanted to research the existence of aliens.


43. North Korea has its own version of the Ten Commandments called "The Ten Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System", which consists of total and complete devotion to Kim Il-Sung.


44. The Havasupai people are a Native American tribe who have lived in the Grand Canyon for over 800 years.

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