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33 Trivial Orbs to Ponder When Alone in Your Study in the Dead of the Night

November 24, 2023

You know the feeling. You’re schmoozin’ it up with some rando, and the small talk runs its course. You stand there, lips pursed in a perfectly straight “smile,” nodding along like, “Welp, that’s about all I have to offer this conversation.” What you need is a fun fact! Here, throw this one at them: Dinosaurs could get arthritis just like us. Boom! That should do the trick.

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In Bow Valley, Canada, one grizzly bear has been dominant for some 10 years. illustration Не has the humdrum name of Bear No. 122, weighs 500-600 pounds, and has been at the top of the local grizzly hierarchy for about a decade. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Operation Magic Carpet, the US returned eight million people home. -ADN The operation, led after WWII ended, involved getting an average of 22,222 soldiers back to the US every day for almost a whole year. CRACKED.COM — Source

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After the Civil War, the capital of the US was almost moved to St Louis. The scheme even involved disassembling important buildings like the White House and the Capitol building, and shipping them to St. Louis. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Halloween

OG Michael Myers actor Nick Castle did way more than you probably knew. He's not just an actor, but a writer and director - he co-wrote Escape from New York and directed '90s films like Dennis the Menace. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Blair Witch Project

The original 35-page treatment for The Blair Witch Project had zero dialogue. That was on purpose: the authors described what would happen, but they wanted all the lines to be ad-libbed by the actors themselves. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Peanuts

A loose tooth almost jeopardized It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. When Sally's six-year-old actress had a tooth get loose, they rushed her to the studio to get all her lines in before it fell out and she started to lisp. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cousins CRACKED.COM Chris Farley was the first cousin of Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford Motors. — Source

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Eminem is probably the fastest speaker ever. CRACKED.COM While we can't confirm there weren't more articulate cave people, Em rapped a record 1,560 words in 6 minutes in his 2013 song Rap God. At one point, he blurts 97 words in 15 seconds. — Source

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AMANDA SEYFRIED COLLECTS TAXIDERMY VAIX She's been collecting since the late '00s to amass a small museum's worth of dead animals. — Source

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Kristin Chenoweth

KRISTIN CHENOWETH COLLECTS QUARTERS The actress stores jars of quarters, which she disinfects with Purell. She says it's a holdover from being a broke actress. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jay Leno invested in rare and valuable motorcycles, and it paid off. For example, he bought six 1929 Brough bikes for over $30,000 apiece in the 1990s, and their value has gone up tenfold since then. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nicolas Cage made $2,161,000 selling the first-ever Superman comic book. His copy of Action Comics No.1, which features Superman's first appearance, was the first comic to break the $2 million mark in an auction. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM 1838046 Lalor Tom Hardy hates going to the gym because he feels intimidated by the tough guys there. Не admits that he doesn't feel very manly in real life, and he imitates guys that scare him to create his on-screen persona. — Source

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Abba's studio sessions were so long, their sound engineer says he'd almost pass out from hunger. They never left a song unfinished, and worked on every one as if it were a potential hit single. Two members, Björn and Benny, even took vacations just to write songs. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A torture chamber in 1984 was based on a BBC conference room. GRACKED.COM George Orwell named Room 101 in his novel after a conference room at the BBC head- quarters where he had to sit through numer- ous tedious meetings. — Source

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A female tennis player has been recorded grunting about as loud as a lion's roar. CRACKED.COM Maria Sharapova's on-court grunt has been recorded at a volume of 101 decibels. That's louder than a motorcy- cle, a lawnmower, and a small aircraft. — Source

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Unwed women couldn't get a credit card up until 1974. po BNL CLASSIC GRUPPO BNP PARIBAS BE 5000 1399 1922 icoPo 60 VALID MasterCard THRU ٥٤/١ AEZA B VISA CRACKED.COM Banks could refuse to issue a credit card to a woman unless her husband co-signed for the card. A di- vorced woman was consid- ered too much of a risk be- cause she couldn't keep a marriage under control. — Source

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There are 30 to 60 ships buried under San Francisco. The ships remain from the Gold Rush, during the time the city decided to move the shoreline. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nicki Minaj worked at multiple Red Lobsters before she was famous She was fired from multiple locations. She once followed a customer who hadn't tipped and taken her pen out to their car. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tamagotchi

A pet cemetery in England offered burial ground for dead Tamagotchi chi People shipped their toys from all over the world to their final resting place. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Arby’s

Arby's bought Dunkin for $11.3 billion ROAST BEEF Sandwich IS DELICIOUS. Arby's Several years prior, Arby's bought Buffalo Wild Wings for $2.9 billion. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The hand of the Statue of Liberty sat in an NYC park for six years. They sent the hand (with the torch) to be displayed in the US to raise the funds needed for finishing the statue - it took years, but it worked. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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If you eat too much meat that only has protein, you'll eventually die. Apparently, the liver can only process so much protein at once-so you need to add lots of fat, or you'll undergo protein poisoning AKA rabbit starvation. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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It turns out that dinosaurs could get arthritis, too, the same way we do. That's what multiple studies say - and, for example, a T-Rex found in 1990 (nicknamed Sue) might have been suffering from gout. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A surprisingly high number of 18th-century pirates were actually from Africa. The reason for that is pretty simple - a pirate ship was one of the few places at that time where a slave could actually free themselves. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Here Be Dragons wasn't actually a regularly used phrase on medieval maps. It's only been recorded one single time, on a 16th-century globe (Hic sunt dracones, in Latin) - that's it. It doesn't seem any other map ever used it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ancient Egyptians mummified cats SO they could follow people in death. Plus, cats represented gods, and gods were happy to get, uh, offerings of cats. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kurt Cobain invented Grunge fashion because he was broke. ml His mismatching outfits were mostly stuff he bought in thrift stores. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MC Hammer is an ordained minister. The rapper, known for songs such as '2 Legit 2 Quit' and 'U Can't Touch This,' now gives sermons at the Jubilee Christian Center in San Jose California. Не said it was the death of Tupac that triggered his transformation. CRACKED COM — Source

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SNL

CRACKED.COM Bill Hader's most memorable moment on Saturday Night Live was playing in a punk band with Dave Grohl. In a sketch about aging rock stars, Hader played bass while the Foo Fighters lead singer played drums. The comedian said he remained on a high for about two months after that night. — Source

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Clint Eastwood squints because his eyes are sensitive to light. Shooting in bright light for the Fistful of Dollars trilogy only highlighted the effect. At the time he wasn't even thinking about how it would look on camera. CRACKED.COM — Source

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ACTOR JASON MOMOA IS ALSO A PAINTER, HAVING STUDIED THE ART IN PARIS CRACKED.COM Which isn't strange, considering that his mother is a professional painter and photographer. — Source

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