33 Magical Bits of Trivia We’ve Imbued With Our Lifeforce Like a Trivial Horcrux

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33 Magical Bits of Trivia We’ve Imbued With Our Lifeforce Like a Trivial Horcrux

Do you ever find yourself wrapping up the “Happy Birthday” song and some guy chimes in with “and many more?!” Well, we like to think of ourselves as the “and many more” guy in the fact game. Just slightly less annoying.

This famous scene in Silence of the Lambs required several takes, as Anthony Hopkins had never heard the word chianti spoken aloud. Не had to be coached on its pronunciation. CRACKED.COM

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GRACKED DROP THE POUNDS, GET THE RING. Unmarried adults who have weight-loss surgery are much more likely to get married within five years than the average person in the U.S., it turns out.

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GRACKED GIANLUIGI BUFFON'S JERSEY CHOICE SPARKED CONTROVERSY. An Italian goalkeeper caused an outcry when he put the Nazi-associated number 88 on his shirt. Не said he had no idea what it meant - but his first, denied choice was 01, picked because he admired General Lee from Dukes of Hazzard.

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Token suckers would steal subway tokens in an amazingly filthy way. We don't know how desperate you need to be to press your lips against New York subway turnstiles and suck the tokens out - but we're guessing very. The practice was so common, the Transit Authority would spray mace (or sprinkle chili powder) on token slots. CRACKED.COM

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Cyclops were probably prehistoric elephants The huge hole at the center of Deinotherium giganteum's skull accommodated a trunk - but ancient Greeks who found the bone heads didn't know that. It's speculated that imaginative Greeks thought that the big nose hole was an eye socket, and ran with that. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED.COM Casper's success was the result of censorship. Horror comics were really hardcore in the 1950s - until moral panic struck, and all those ghouls and guts were declared a no-no. It's most likely not a coincidence that harmless, baby-looking ghosts became big around that time, with Casper (and a bunch of knock-offs) rushing in to fill the paranormal void.

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That was Jim Carrey's real chipped tooth in Dumb and Dumber. 27% It got chipped in grade school, and he had a cap put on it t - - he just took it off for the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Apparently, teeth come from our fish ancestors. Ancient fish had dermal denticles -- small, spiky scales that some fish, like sharks or mantas, still have. Scientists think that, as those fish evolved into land animals, the denticles moved from the skin and into the mouth, where they became teeth. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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