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30 Trivia Tidbits to Show Everybody You Know Everything

Quick! Do the Amish celebrate Christmas two or three times? Even quicker: How many Nepalese people did one tiger kill in the early 1900s? If you didn’t have those answers ready to drop at a moment’s notice, then honestly we feel bad for you. Just so it doesn’t happen again, here are those answers and more…

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A cloud may look fluffy and lighter-than-air but an average cumulus cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds or 500,000 kilograms. That's more than twice the weight of the Statue of Liberty. GRACKED.COM — Source

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A HUMAN MALE WILL PRODUCE ABOUT 525 BILLION SPERM IN HIS LIFETIME. THAT'S AROUND FIVE TIMES THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE EVER LIVED. CRACKED.COM — Source

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REMOVE ALL THE EMPTY SPACE FROM ALL THE ATOMS IN ALL OF THE PEOPLE ON PLANET EARTH... ...AND ALL OF US COMBINED WOULD EQUAL THE VOLUME OF A SUGAR CUBE. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Sun's atmosphere extends far beyond Earth. So, basically we live inside the sun. — Source

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Whether it's a giraffe or a mouse, pretty much all mammals have the same number of neck bones. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE LARGEST DESERT ON EARTH ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK. ANTARCTICA CONTAINS 90% OF EARTH'S FRESH WATER, BUT KEEPS IT INACCESSIBLY FROZEN. WITH LESS THAN 2 INCHES ON AVERAGE OF PRECIPITATION A YEAR, IT'S ALSO THE PLANET'S LARGEST DESERT. GRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED.COM 3.04 TRILLION TREES THERE ARE MORE TREES ON EARTH THAN THERE ARE STARS IN THE MILKY WAY. APPROXIMATELY 400 BILLION STARS — Source

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Grand Central Station is more radioactive than a nuclear power plant. This is because of all the granite, which is slightly radioactive. CRACKED.COM While harmless, the radiation levels in the station are still more than allowed for nuclear power plants. — Source

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CRACKED.COM A huge battle was fought to stop a strike. The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest on American soil since the Civil War. 10,000 striking coal miners in West Virginia exchanged fire with 3,000 strikebreakers, police officers, and troops. The miners were defeated after five days. — Source

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Three notorious bombers became friends in prison. 6 9 i2 11 0 1 1 0 5 4 Timothy McVeigh, Ted Unabomber Kaczynski, and Ramzi Yousef (who bombed the WTC in 1993) were all locked away in the same supermax prison in Colorado. And they shared common interests other than bombs, so they struck a friendship. The gang was broken up when McVeigh was executed in 2001. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED.COM Unlimited vacation time usually means less vacation time. More and more companies are offering the perk of unlimited paid time off-but this policy often results in their workers taking shorter vacations. No one wants to be seen as the lazy employee who took one day too many, right? — Source

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Superheroes used to be the bottom of the comics barrel. Back in the '40s, comics boasted a much greater variety than today. Crime and horror were the top-sellers, while those lunatics in tights were seen as a passing fad. Then moral panics crippled the industry in the '50s, leaving supers as pretty much the sole survivors. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Some monkeys are (theoretically) capable of human speech. Those monkeys (like the Japanese Macaque) have the right vocal anatomy, but not the brain anatomy they'd need to actually talk. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Roman Colosseum had a cloth awning that weighed about 24 tons. It was supported by an elaborate network of ropes, and it was there to protect the people in the Colosseum from the sun. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Nepal, there was a tiger that killed 400 people in the early 1900s. She was nicknamed The Demon of Chompawat, and was apparently the deadliest tiger in history (until she got killed by a hunter and tracker). CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Vatican had to pull 6000 papal medals in 2013 because of a typo. Instead of Jesus, the medals said Lesus - and, of course, collectors snapped up the medals with the misprint when they had the chance. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Richie Haven's iconic song Freedom came about by accident. Не just started playing it at Woodstock because he didn't have anything else he could play, but needed to stay on the stage. Later, to learn how to play it, he watched himself in the Woodstock movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Amish actually celebrate Christmas twice in a two-week period. The first celebration is on Dec 25, and the second one on Jan 6 - Christmas used to be celebrated all over the world on Jan 6 until relatively recently, and the Amish kept that tradition (but also took on the new one). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Boneless ham seems to be solid because of a quirk in protein chemistry. After the bone is removed, the meat is tightly pressed into the packaging, and salt breaks down some of the proteins in it. Those proteins reconnect, making the meat an unbroken whole again. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bananas are actually everyday factories of antimatter-literally. Every 75 minutes or so, the potassium in a banana produces a single positron (an antimatter particle). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bears kind of act like big cats - they purr when they're happy or content. That purr-like sound is something they produce when they're say, eating a delicious snack, feeling comfortable, or nursing (if they're a cub). CRACKED.COM — Source

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There was a Civil War veterans' reunion in 1938 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was the 75th anniversary of the battle, and about 1800 vets from both sides attended - the youngest was 88 years old, while the oldest was 118 (so he claimed, anyway). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sammy Davis Jr thought his iconic song The Candy Man would bomb. His exact words: This record is going straight into the toilet. Not just around the rim, but into the bowl, and it may just pull my whole career down with it. It hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Thanks to a specific process, you can't get salmonella from Japanese eggs. In Japan, they use machines that process eggs and make sure they're okay to eat raw, and each machine can process 33 eggs a second. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apparently, SpongeBob Squarepants is messing with kids' brains. That's according to a 2011 University of Virginia study, which found that the show impairs kids' readiness for learning (the issue is that the frequent camera cuts disrupts their attention span). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bruce Lee's iconic on-screen fight with Chuck Norris was filmed illegally. They fought in The Way Of The Dragon at the Colosseum in Rome, and really filmed part of the scene there - filming there is against the law, but they bribed some officials and hid filming equipment in bags. CRACKED.COM — Source

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2002's Spider-Man was supposed to have a scene with the WTC. It was even featured in an early teaser trailer but, for highly obvious reasons, was cut from the final movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The US is home to about 200 million starlings, and it's because of Shakespeare. In 1890, there was a program to bring every bird species from Shakespeare's plays to North America, and that included releasing 60 starlings in Central Park. Eventually, that number grew to 200 million. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Some of the trails in the International Appalachian Trail are in, uh, Ireland. The International Appalachian Trail includes trails not just in North America, but also in Greenland, Scandinavia, Great Britain, France, Germany, even Africa - and Ireland. CRACKED.COM — Source

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