30 Ultraviolet Bits of Information That Exist on a Wavelength Not Visible to the Naked Eye
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Oh, the things you will learn from the facts below. And as you sit there learning them, think ahead to all the glorious things you’ll be able to accomplish with the knowledge you’re about to soak in. The dinner parties you’ll enlighten. The dates you’ll impress. The trivia nights you’ll straight up own! These are exciting times indeed.
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![WE ARE ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE CRACKED.COM Many of the atoms we're made of, like the calcium in our bones and the iron in our blood, were born in the heart of an exploding star billions of years ago. All of the hydrogen atoms in us are as old as the universe itself, formed in the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/1/978161.jpg)
![THE UNIVERSE IS GETTING BIGGER, FASTER CRACKED.COM To continue that expansion thought... In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding. Then in 1998, the Hubble Telescope studied distant supernovas and found that, a long time ago, the universe was expanding slower than it is today.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/0/978160.jpg)
![95% OF THE UNIVERSE IS INVISIBLE CRACKED.COM Ordinary, observable matter like you, me, planets and stars make up a measly 5% of the universe (and, of that, only half has been spotted with telescopes). The other 95% of the universe is 68% invisible dark energy and 27% dark matter.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/8/978158.jpg)
![A SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE AT THE HEART OF EVERY GALAXY CRACKED.COM The light we see in galaxies doesn't come from its stars, but from heated matter swirling into a giant black hole up to 50 billion times the mass of the Sun. Almost every galaxy, including our Milky Way, has one.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/9/978159.jpg)
![IT STARTED HOT AND IT'S COOLING CRACKED.COM Going back to 1 second after the Big Bang, scientists predict the universe's temperature was 10 billion Kelvin, but after only a few minutes, it dropped to about 1 billion Kelvin. For reference, today's universe has an average temp of only 2.725 Kelvin.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/7/978157.jpg)
![5 percent CRACKED.COM From 1993 to 2002, 5% of murders in Scotland were contract killings.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/6/978156.jpg)
![$400 million CRACKED.COM Even though he sold 61 million albums, Michael Jackson was $400 million in debt when he died.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/5/978155.jpg)
![28 years old GRACKED.COM 28 was the average age of the Beatles when they broke up. None of them were over 29-years-old.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/3/978153.jpg)
![1,300 stone circles CRACKED.COM Stonehenge is only one of 1,300 surviving stone circles found in the British Isles and Ireland.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/2/978152.jpg)
![20 Baha Men CRACKED.COM 20 people, past and present, have been members of the group famous for the single Who Let The Dogs Out](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/4/978154.jpg)
![$285 billion CRACKED COM When adjusted for 2020, John D. Rockefeller was worth $285 billion, or as much as Bezos and Gates combined.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/0/978150.jpg)
![3.6 million CRACKED.COM 3.6 million married Americans live in a separate residence than their spouse. Living together apart couples have doubled since 1991.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/1/978151.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Peter Pan HOOK and Mr. Darling are usually played by the same actor. Hook has always been a double role since the play's early stagings.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/3/978143.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Peter Pan Peter Pan is usually played by women. When J. M. Barrie first had his play produced, the producer wanted his protégée Maude Adams to star, and so the tradition was born.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/1/978141.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Peter Pan Pixie dust was a later addition to protect children. After the first stagings of the play, children were hospitalized due to trying to fly. Barrie added pixie dust as a necessity to stop over-imaginative children from hurting themselves.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/4/978144.jpg)
![EVERYONE knows THAT RAGE MAKES THE HULK STRONG. BUT THE THING THAT STARTeD HIS FITS OF RAGe? CHILD ABUSE. NO CHILD YOUR AGE SHOULD BE ABLE TO BUILD SOMETHING SO INTRICATE! YOU MAY HAVE FOOLED YOUR MOTHER-- FWAK! --BUT I'VE KNOWN WHAT YOU WOULD BECOME EYER SINCE THE BEGINNING! BRUCE! BRIAN. CHILD? NO NORMAL HE'S SOMETHING YOU ARE CHILD, NOT THAT ONE! DIFFERENT... NSANE HOW INHUMAN! COULD YOU HIT / - In a 1985 Incredible Hulk comic, it's revealed that Bruce Banner's father violently beat him as a child and killed his mother. When he's college-aged, Bruce finally lashes back at](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/5/978145.jpg)
![Why is Silent Bob silent? According to Kevin Smith, it is because Jason Mewes talks. A LOT. اه was like we could have a buddy that stands there, who's essentially his sounding board, who he just talks at all the time. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/9/978149.jpg)
![GRAGKED.COM The Simpsons have their iconic looks because Matt Groening believes that cartoon characters should be recognizable from a silhouette.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/2/978142.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM In the Star Wars universe, raiders visit Endor to hunt Ewoks for their meat. One of the favorite dishes of the Outer Rim worlds is Ewok Jerky.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/7/978137.jpg)
![Link from The Legend of Zelda got his name because he was supposed to travel to the future. According to Miyamoto, the Triforce fragments were originally computer chips, and Link was going to be a link between a fantasy setting and a futuristic one. The futuristic elements were dropped, but the name stuck. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/6/978146.jpg)
![Smurfette was created to be a honey pot to trap the smurfs. The recipe Gargamel used to bring her to life called for sugar and spice but nothing nice, a dram of crocodile tears, half a pack of lies, a chatter of a magpie, and the hardest stone for her heart. Her hair turned blonde when Papa Smurf countered the spells. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/6/978136.jpg)
![R2-D2 was named after something a film crew member blurted out. George Lucas and his crew were looking for 'Reel 2, Dialogue 2' of his movie THX 1138, and he heard someone ask for 'R2D2.' Не liked that, and wrote it down in his notebook. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/3/978133.jpg)
![It can cost $250 million to make one NASA spacesuit Spacesuits aren't custom-fitted... NASA mixes arms and leg sections to adjust to different astronauts. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/9/978139.jpg)
![Southern Utah State's marching band bought Nixon's abandoned White House guard uniforms for $90. In January 1970, Richard Nixon unveiled wildly unpopular uniforms for the White House guards, which were quickly retired and sold off to the college marching band. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/2/978132.jpg)
![Andrew Carnegie was worth around $372 billion Carnegie was arguably the richest American to have ever lived, running closely ahead of John D. Rockefeller. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/4/978134.jpg)
![Marquis De Lafayette became a major general at age 19 When he was 16, he was a second lieutenant. Не was considered a war hero in both the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolution. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/0/978140.jpg)
![The average cost of wedding in 2020 was $19,000. Due to COVID, it makes sense that it'd be lower than the 2019 average of $23,000. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/8/978138.jpg)
![James Blunt ate only meat for two months and got scurvy The You're Beautiful singer went on a meat-only diet during university to prove a (bad) point to his vegan classmates. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/5/978135.jpg)
![Biggie was only 24 years old when he was killed. Tupac was only 25 years old when he was killed. Really makes you feel lazy for being the most well-known person in your field by now. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/7/978147.jpg)
![Whiskey used to cost 25 cents per gallon In 1820, the average American consumed 90 bottles a year, as the liquid cost less than coffee or milk. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/8/978148.jpg)