Random Fact Sheet #22 – 35 Fun Facts To Take Your Breath Away

John Paul Jones, "Father of the American Navy," shipped aboard a slaver early in his life, killed a crewman over a wage dispute, and that Jones was a fake last name to throw off the law afterward!

27. The Miami Heat retired Michael Jordan's number 23 in April 2003 for "contributions to basketball." He never played for the team.

28. The depression throughout Japan following World War 2 was what inspired Osamu Tezuka, the father of manga and a medical student at the time, to draw comics to convince people to have hope again. These comics swept thru Japan and laid the foundation for the Japanese manga/anime culture that we know today

29. A cobalt bomb, a nuclear weapon designed to maximize nuclear fallout, able to potentially wipe out human life.

30. There's a country club (Aroostook Valley Country Club) on the US-Canada border that allows people to cross into Canada without going through customs. Founded in 1929, it allowed Americans to bypass Prohibition.

Students at Oxford University are required to wear an academic dress for all of their examinations including a suit, gown, bowtie, and color coded carnation. Students wear different gowns depending on their grades. Cambridge no longer has such dress for exams.

32. The state drink of Pennsylvania is milk and its state food is chocolate chip cookies.

33. In World War 2, nine American pilots crashed into a small island in Japan called Chichijima. 8 of the 9 were murdered, 5 of those 8 were cannibalized. The lone survivor was George H.W. Bush.

34. Oreos are vegan and the "creme" filling contains no milk products.

35. Caitlyn Jenner caused a car crash that killed a woman while towing a vehicle. The case was settled with no charges.