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35 Revolutionary Bits of Trivia We Cloned From the DNA of Long-Extinct Factoids

December 18, 2023

It’s a little weird, isn’t it? Knowing that each of these facts has passed through the minds of several other people before they got to us. Luckily, shared information is nowhere near as gag-inducing as water. Like, did you know that almost all of the water you will drink in your life has passed through a dinosaur? It’s true! And it should be reiterated in every Brita filter commercial.

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In Nepal, there are honey hunters who climb granite cliffs to get hallucinogenic mad honey. It's produced by Himalayan giant honeybees, who make nests at high altitudes under the overhangs of vertical cliffs, and sells for $60 to $80 a pound on the black market. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Little Richard became a preacher after seeing a sign in the sky. VS On a 1957 Australian tour, he saw a fireball in the sky (which was the satellite Sputnik 1) and interpreted as God telling him he should change his ways. Не became a preacher a year later, and went back to making regular music after four years of preaching. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A real buffalo was killed in Apocalypse Now. To get permission from locals to film on their land, the movie crew gave them animals to slaughter for food, including two water buffalo. Francis Ford Coppola decided to film one buffalo's slaughter for the movie. I did not direct it or anything, that was the way they do it, he said in 2019. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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When Baby Groot throws up in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, that's James Gunn's nod to his roots. It's his way of acknowledging that he started out in B-movies and isn't afraid to resort to the lowest common denominator which is a baby tree vomiting. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The inventor of the USB says his team blew it. by not making the plug work both ways. Ajay Bhatt said that would need more wires and circuits, so it would have been more expensive - they thought about it, but it would have cost too much. Still, 20 years after inventing it, he says that was a mistake and the USB plug was good, but not good enough. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sharks have been around longer than trees have. Sharks started popping up about 450 million years ago, while trees showed up 100 million years later. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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According to conservative estimates, for every American killed in military action in World War Two... ... About twenty-one Soviets were killed. LINK: http://en.wikipedis.org/wik/World_War_II_casualties#Total_dead CRACKED.COM — Source

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All British tanks since 1945 have been equipped with Tea-Making Facilities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_2#Crew_and_accommodation GRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world. — Source

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Interracial marriage was banned in South Africa from 1949 to 1985 - 36 years It was banned in USA from 1776 to 1967 - 191 years GRACKED.COM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws — Source

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GRACKED.COM The time difference between the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex is larger than the time difference between the Tyrannosaurus Rex and you. — Source

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GRACKED.COM It is claimed that during the Battle of Stalingrad, more German soldiers died trying to unsuccessfully capture this one building from the twenty-five Soviet soldiers and ten civilians defending it than died in the entire invasion of Paris. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlov27a_House — Source

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The maximum area of the Roman Empire was about 2.51 million square miles. Pretty impressive right? It was actually only the 19th largest empire in history GRAGKED.COM http://en.wikipedta.org/wiki/List of largest, empires*All empires at their greatest_extent — Source

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N 0 500 km The Ottoman Empire Russian Federation 250 miles Dianno . Austria Hungary Basnia Moldavia Crimea Italy Black Seu Georgia o Caspian Seu WD Bulgaria istanbul Romte Albania Turkey Greece Tunisia Iran Iraq Syria Mediterranean Sea Baghdad Israel Dominion if TIN AD o Alexandra6 Jerusalem Dorsavang it 1451 AO A TimeWarner Company Farthout adide of Osean powered HOT Saudi Arabia Turish Republic Egypt Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. was founded several months before the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Source: Wikipedia GRACKED.COM — Source

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In one day of heavy fighting during the Battle of Stalingrad, a local railway station changed hands from Soviet to German control and back again fourteen times in six hours. CRACKED.COM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle of Stalingrad — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A college professor gave his students a treasure hunt using his syllabus. - The hunt was for an actual cash prize stashed away on campus, and students just had to read the syllabus. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The Excel world championship has taken place (sponsored by Microsoft, of course). It involves truly fierce spreadsheet warriors duking it out, and it's going to be broadcast on ESPN3 and YouTube. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MyPillow

WEIRD WORLD The MyPillow CEO sued the Daily Mail over saying that he dated Jane Krakowski. Не alleged that, somehow, this was defamatory - but it turns out the judge didn't think it was too harmful to your image to be dating a Hollywood actress. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One guy built a model railway for eight years and hid it from his girfriend. Finally, after working on it for near a decade, he unveiled the model (of 1.5 miles of a real-life railway track). CRACKED.GOM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Students at Cambridge University are unhappy that there's no pastry chef. It's so bad, they're now complaining that they have to settle for the horror of store-bought cakes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Apparently, a woman somehow breastfed a cat onboard an actual plane. That's according to a viral shot of a Delta pilot messaging system, which also says the woman was asked to stop but refused. CRACKED.GOM — Source

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35 Revolutionary Bits of Trivia We Cloned From the DNA of Long-Extinct Factoids — Source

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The first text message was sent December 3, 1992. It was Merry Christmas. 1 2ABC 3DEF 4OHI 5 JKL 6MNO 7PRS в TUV 9 WXY * OOPR # GRACKED.COM ACL STO CLR SND PWR VOL FCN END M MOTOROLA DIGITAL PERSONAL COMMUNICATION — Source

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The Internet

The first website ever created was CERN's World Wide Web project website launched in 1989; it was hosted on a NeXT computer. CLUB W EZO GRAGKED.COM — Source

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This is what the very first emoji set, from 1999, looked like. A + P ВК RTM D ID . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 03 zzz !? !! E soon ON! end Each emoji's dimensions were just 12x12 pixels. Late '90s of mobile phone displays only showed 50 symbols at a time, and E emoji were developed to expand the capabilities of this limited space. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The first words ever written on Wikipedia were as! 3 CRACKED.COM Hello world! — Source

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The first object ever created using computer graphics was the Utah Teapot, in 1974. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The first flash mob occured in June 2003. RUG COLLECTION It was - created by Bill Wasik, Harper's Magazine senior editor, as a social experiment. — Source

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THE FIRST EVER TWEET WAS SENT OUT ON 21 MARCH 2006. jack Follow @jack just setting up my twttr 12:50 PM - 21 Mar 2006 106,353 Retweets 80,147 Likes 3.1K 106K 80K This historic and thought- provoking tweet was sent out by Twitter's co-founder Jack Dorsey. GRACKED COM — Source

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Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Greetings From The OX Secret B DEZ TENN City During WWII, Oak Ridge TN was commissioned to develop and build the first atomic bomb. The vast majority of the city's workers had absolutely no idea what they were working on and only found out after the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Due to fire, decay, negligence, or deliberate destruction, AP 75% T ط 500 of all American CRACKED.COM silent movies no longer exist. — Source

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CRACKED.COM BILLY THE KID was denied a pardon.* tin 2010 The Kid was allegedly promised a pardon by 1879 New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace in exchange for testifying about a murder he witnessed, but the pardon was never granted. In 2010 Governor Bill Richardson decided to re-affirm Billy's status as a criminal and deny the original pardon. — Source

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Walt Disney himself helped to design a Mickey Mouse gas mask Though few remain, you can find several on display in various museums in the United States. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hurricane Katrina improved children's health in New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina stirred up the sediment in Lake Pontchartrain to such a degree that when it overflowed, the sediment carried along helped bury the lead-contaminated soil of New Orleans, resulting in reduced amounts of lead in children's blood. CRACKED COM — Source

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