28 Medicinal Bits of Trivia Designed With Time-Release Technology to Provide a Steady Dose of Intellectual Relief All Day Long
Load these facts up like Pez and give yourself these sugary little brain jolts all day long!
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Got a printer? No? Makes sense. We were just thinking that it could be fun to print this list, fold it up and stuff it in your pocket. Then you could take in a few facts at a time all day long. We guess you could just do that on your smartphone. Man, those things really are magical, huh? Displaying the facts we drummed up is probably why they invented them in the first place.
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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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/4/974694.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/5/974695.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/3/974693.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/2/974692.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/1/974691.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/0/974690.jpg)
![FINE! WHO BE NEEDS YA? CRACKED.COM The American Academy of Dermatology notes that it is normal for a person to lose about 50 to 100 hairs each day as part of the body's natural renewal cycle.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/9/974689.jpg)
![EYELASH LIFE CYCLE GRAGKED.COM The lifespan of an eyelash can vary from 4 months to as long as 11 months. There are 3 phases of this lifespan: the growth phase, the degradation phase, and the telogen phase.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/8/974688.jpg)
![TONGUE PRINTS AT THE SCENE CRACKED.COM As well as unique fingerprints, the tongue is unique to every person with respect to its shape and surface textures. Recently, the tongue print is gaining momentum as a tool in biometric authentication.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/7/974687.jpg)
![HEARTBEAT RHYTHM BE CRACKED.COM Our heartbeat syncs with the beat. Slow music stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, decreasing the heart rate, and fast music stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, increasing the heart rate.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/6/974686.jpg)
![BUSYBODY HEART BE life CRACKED.COM Our heart beats around 100,000 times a day, 365,000,000 times a year, and over a 70-year lifetime, the average human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/5/974685.jpg)
![TASTE NEEDS SMELL GRAGKED.COM Since our sense of smell is about 10,000 times more sensitive than our sense of taste, around 80% of what we think is taste is actually smell. Flavor is a combination of taste and smell perception.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/4/974684.jpg)
![THE CORNEA BE IS A LONER GRAGKED.COM The cornea is the only part of the body with no blood supply. It gets its oxygen directly from the air.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/3/974683.jpg)
![HURRICANE BE SNEEZES GRAGKED.COM Little pig, little pig, let me in. On the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, a category 2 hurricane is 96-110 mph, and according to the American Lung Association, a sneeze travels up to 100 mph.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/2/974682.jpg)
![BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS Jack Black made a personal plea to LED ZEPPELIN GRACKED.COM Не videotaped an appeal, filmed in front of a huge crowd, asking Robert Plant and the boys for permission to use Immigrant Song in the film. It may seem corny but it worked, says Black about nailing the audish. The moral of the story is: Don't be too proud to beg.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/1/974681.jpg)
![EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Trevor, forever flying through the void In season three, Maya Rudolph's character The Judge sends Adam Scott's demon character Trevor flying off the walkway into the void of the afterlife. Every time after, when someone walks over the bridge in the afterlife system, you can spot Trevor in the background flying backwards. The Good Place GRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/7/974677.jpg)
![André had to use wires to lift Robin Wright. GRACKED.COM Despite his large physique, Andre needed assistance lifting the small actress because he was in so much physical pain from wrestling.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/6/974676.jpg)
![EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Janet's iconic purple outfit The use of purple in Good Janet's wardrobe was specific: It symbolizes unity and neutrality-a blended color of politically-divided America 's red and blue. The clouds on her shirt are self-explanatory. The Good Place CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/8/974678.jpg)
![NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM A THOUSAND SECONDS IS ABOUT 16 MINUTES. 12 17 III 9 3 12 11 10 mella A MILLION SECONDS IS ABOUT ONE AND A HALF WEEKS. A BILLION SECONDS IS ALMOST 32 YEARS.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/0/974680.jpg)
![NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM A RATIONAL NUMBER CAN BE WRITTEN DOWN AS A RATIO, LIKE 3/7. AN IRRATIONAL NUMBER CAN'T BE EXPRESSED THAT WAY - LIKE THE SQUARE ROOT OF TWO, OR PI. LEGEND HAS IT THAT ANCIENT MATHEMATICIAN PYTHAGORAS HAD THE MAN WHO REVEALED THE EXISTENCE OF IRRATIONAL NUMBERS DROWNED.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/5/974675.jpg)
![NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM THERE ARE DIFFERENT SIZES OF INFINITIES. A COUNTABLE INFINITY IS WHEN YOU START AT ONE AND COUNT UPWARDS FOREVER. AN UNCOUNTABLE INFINITY IS WHEN YOU TRY TO COUNT ALL THE DECIMALS BETWEEN ZERO AND ONE, BUT CAN'T BECAUSE THERE'S NO SMALLEST NUMBER TO START FROM.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/9/974679.jpg)
![NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM THE OPPOSITE OF INFINITY ISN'T ZERO, IT'S INFINITESIMAL. 1-18 INFINITY IS THE NUMBER LARGER THAN ALL OTHER NUMBERS. INFINITESIMAL IS THE NUMBER SMALLER THAN ALL OTHERS, BUT STILL LARGER THAN ZERO.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/4/974674.jpg)
![NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM A SURVEY ASKED 30,000 PEOPLE FOR THEIR FAVORITE NUMBER. o 9 9 C 3 4 8 8 1 2 2 9 8 3 4 7 4 ^ o 3 9 5 4 7 9 8 5 5 9 5 9 6 5 5 4 5 6 A 8 & 6 1 2 . 2 6 3 6 5 9 4 5 7 7 4 7 5 9 9 5 5 9 7 7 8 3 8 9 9 4 4 1 ٤ 4 O 8 ح ١ E 3 L 6 o ح 8 2 2 6 1](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/9/974669.jpg)
![NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM THE NUMBER 4 IS SEEN AS UNLUCKY IN CHINA. 170 16 15 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 3 2 1 CHINESE BUILDINGS SKIP ALL FLOOR NUMBERS THAT CONTAIN A 4, JUST LIKE WE DO WITH 13. IN TALL BUILDINGS, THE FLOOR COUNT JUMPS FROM 39 TO 50!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/2/974672.jpg)
![The logo for the film, Ready Player One, CRACKED COM READY PLAYER ONE is a maze. READY PLAYER ONE](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/1/974671.jpg)
![According to Elon Musk, the Tesla T logo is part of a cross section of an electric TESLA motor. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/3/974673.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM THE BRONX ZOO Between the giraffe legs in the logo of the Bronx Zoo, is New York's iconic skyline from the point of view of a park in the Bronx.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/0/974670.jpg)
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