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When it comes to facts, you can never have too much

32 Classified Bits of Trivia We Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny Are Extremely Satisfying

December 16, 2023

With facts, we’re like those spoiled little brats on Christmas morning. We want more! Oh, you got us the newest fact on the market, mom? Not enough! What about the red one? The green one? The bigger one? The one that talks?! If you think we can get by on one measly fact, we foresee some pretty spicy tantrums in your near future, mother dear.

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CRACKED.COM Birthday Girl The Queen's birthday is a public holiday in Australia and New Zealand, but not in England! — Source

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CRACKED.COM Openly carrying a firearm in California is prohibited. However in the neighboring states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona it's totally fine. No permit required. — Source

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While the rest of the world takes cars for granted, that means of transportation GRAGKED.COM isn't allowed on Mackinac Island, Michigan. People there use bicycles and horse drawn carriages. — Source

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CRACKED.COM In Bulgaria, people nod to mean no and shake their heads to mean yes. NO YES — Source

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As an American, It's not, at you could mistake least not in this gesture for a Britain and peace sign. Australia. If the palm is facing inward, it means up yours. Yup, that's Winston Churchill flipping you off. CRACKED.COM — Source

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California has outlawed OREGON Ladies' Nights. COOK Shasla CC Cope Mendocese Punamid CARSON CITY Santa San Francisco Salinas Lote Pu Sacramento SA OReno Loke Tohoe MENTO NEVADA Mante DEL OFresno Over Lote PACIFIC CALIFORNIA Loke Mead Bakersfieldo O Las Vegas OCEAN Paid Arguella Ladies' Nights are considered an illegal form of gender discrimination in California, and the penalties are steep - at least $4,000 per drink. Some California lawyers look for advertised Ladies' Nights and send over a man to buy drinks at any that they find, so they can file discrimination lawsuits with big payouts. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD An ocean cleanup crew got accused of faking it because the plastic looked fake. The plastic looked too clean, actually - so the crew were accused that they'd just staged removing it from the ocean. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A new Tennessee bill would turn some gun owners into law enforcement agents. And it's pretty open about it - it expands the definition of law enforcement officer, apparently. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD If you're a worker at Meta, you are now officially a Metamate. That's Zuck's new word for Meta employees, and it's part of the rebranding initiative at the company. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In a sitcom-style plot, 3 Nigerian men tried to pass as Arab women at an airport. C9-C23 C9-C2 Sen Cole UAE police busted them, and posted photos of them with and without their disguises. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In California, one guy got arrested 3 times in a span of sixteen hours. Apparently, the last arrest happened at 3 AM, after police had to pursue him-they tried to cite him for jaywalking, but he fled. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Because of Google Maps, an Indonesian guy nearly married a stranger. RA. 3 MIFTAHUL TPA-TPQ JANNAH CIMANGOU КЕГА RT.OI/W 2018.11 13 09:2 The app took him to the wrong wedding venue - apparently, there was both a wedding and an engagement taking place at the same village. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM I 4 Chicago Hope was the first TV show to have a season broadcast in high definition. In additon, it was the first network show to use the word shit. — Source

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CRACKED.COM You Tube Ever wondered what was first comment ever posted on YouTube? Highlighted comment Marco Cassé 12 years ago LOL!!!!!!! REPLY 1.5K The honor belongs to a user named Marco Cassé. The comment was posted on a silly stop-motion video entitled 'Good Times!!!'. — Source

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The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. ebay eBay founder Pierre Omidyar disclosed in his listing that it didn't work. Yet, a bidding war ensued. His original price was $1, but he ended up selling it for $14. GRACKED.COM — Source

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The first TV commercial that showed bras on live models aired in 1987. Old commercials for bras featured women who demonstrated bras on mannequins. That changed in 1987, when Playtex released two TV ads that showed women actually wearing bras. CRACKED.COM — Source

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This is the first personal photograph ever uploaded on the Internet. Les Horribles Cernettes It's a photo of a group of female singers who sang about physics during the 1989 CERN Hardronic Festival. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1986, Lucasfilm Games published Habitat - the first persistent graphical world that could connect hundreds of people online. LUCASFILM'S HARITAT ALL OF TODAY 'S HOTTEST NEWS It had customizable avatars, in-game currency, housing, and inventory - most of the key ingredients of modern MMOs, like World of Warcraft. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bill Clinton was the first U.S. President to send an e-mail. It was to John Glenn, who space at time, was in the Satellite 011111 Pro laptop, which to White House Physician UII Commander Robert G. 10 1010 Darling. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Vaseline originated as a byproduct of the oil drilling Vaseline - - - 1 - process. سيد - WITH In 1859, British chemist Robert Augustus Chesebrough visited a small town in Pennsylvania where petroleum had been discovered. Не noticed Vaseline's skin-healing properties after seeing how oilers used it to heal cuts and burns. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MOUNT RUSHMORE WASN'T ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO BE A NATIONAL MONUMENT. THE INITIAL IDEA WAS JUST то HAVE GIANT SCULPTURES THAT WOULD ATTRACT THOUSANDS OF TOURISTS TO SOUTH DAKOTA. GRACKED COM — Source

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Ariel-1, Britain's very first satellite, was put into orbit on April 26, 1962. It was accidentally destroyed weeks later after the US military detonated a 1.4 megaton nuclear weapon called Starfish-Prime in the upper atmosphere. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Apollo missions increased the moon's temperature by 1-3 degrees Fahrenheit. Dust on the surface is lighter than the soil underneath, and astronauts walking and driving during their explorations disturbed the top layer. With more of the darker soil showing through, the Moon absorbs more heat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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When the Berlin Wall fell, banana sales exploded. Titanic adid - Zonen-Gaby (17) im Glück (BRD) Meine erste Banane f nt - Informa I East Germany only got mushy brown bananas, so when the Wall came down, East Germans went crazy for unripe green bananas. There's a joke that they rose up for bananas, not democracy, and whenever a long line forms, Germans say, Are they handing out bananas or what? CRACKED COM — Source

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The first African American presidential secretary was announced on a game show. $ MR. DALY Instead of letting the world know about his appointment through a boring press conference, Lyndon Johnson wanted to use What's My Line?, a hit game show where people guessed what job guests had. The secretary, Geraldine Whittington, said OK, and history was made. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A rare genetic condition probably stoked the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Several descendants of the McCoys were found to have von Hippel-Lindau disease, which causes adrenal tumors that make you short-tempered and violent. So, at least on the McCoy side, the feud was probably fuelled by tumors pressing on the adrenal glands of those involved. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In WWI, two enemy captains just decided not to fight. SS Gwendolen, the British ship The captain of the British ship and the German ship patrolling Africa's Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi) didn't want their decade-long friendship ruined. So when WWI started, the British captain shot the German ship once and faked the capture of its captain. Then they got back to hanging out and drinking as usual. CRACKED COM — Source

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It's no surprise that Yamask is a ghost Pokémon. But take a look at the Pokédex and you'll realize that it's a human ghost. And the mask it's carrying is their human face. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Boos' shy but scary personality is based on one of the Super Mario developers' wives. The wife of developer Takashi Tezuka was normally a quiet person, but one day she exploded at him because he worked so much. So he decided to put her in the game as a character that becomes scarier when they're not looked at. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WHen YOU THINK ABOUT ПТ BUGS IS An ODD nAme FOR A BunnY. не ACTUALLY GOT HIS nAme BECAUSE OF A MISTAKE. BUGS BUNNY MODEL SWEET M.M.22. Animator Ben Bugs Hardaway asked one of the artists at Looney Toons to draw a rabbit. The artist complied, labeling the model sheet Bugs' Bunny. After the still-nameless rabbit had appeared in a few cartoons, producer Leon Schlesinger looked at the old sketch for its name. Не saw the caption, and the rest is history. CRACKED.COM Peter Bogdanovich, 2012: Who the Devil Made It? — Source

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AIR BUD Before becoming the star player of a middle school basketball team, Buddy was owned by an abusive party clown named Norm Snively. S WOLVE K9 In the first Air Bud movie we see that Norm constantly yells at Buddy and forces him to perform at birthday parties under threat of violence. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM HAPPY DAYS Fonzie's famous ayyyy came about due to Henry Winkler's dyslexia. Не struggled to learn lines so he'd say ayyyy in lieu of dialogue. — Source

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