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12 Forbidden Bits of Trivia We Found in a Random Box Sitting in the Woods

December 22, 2023

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The mythical griffin probably comes from a dog-sized triceratops. CRACKED.COM The protoceratops was a vaguely lion-shaped animal with clawed feet and a long bird-ish beak. Before people knew the concept of fossils or dinosaurs, they thought that flocks of lion-eagles used to roam the Earth. — Source

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Scientists stuck straws in moles' noses. 2. CRACKED.COM For a long time, it was thought that smelling in stereo was impossible. But scientists thought that might be what moles were up to, so they stuck straws in their nostrils and positioned them to essentially reverse their olfactory input. The moles would then dart in the opposite direction of a food source, proving the hypothesis. — Source

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Immanuel Kant: virgin, sexpert. CRACKED.COM By most accounts, Kant was a lifelong virgin. But what is philosophy if not the art of talking about stuff you've never experienced? Kant's dismal take on sexual desire was: As soon as that appetite has been stifled, the person is cast aside as one casts away a lemon which has been sucked dry. — Source

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Henry Kissinger's son is Conan's right hand man. CRACKED.COM David Kissinger was a producer for Conan O'Brien for a while, and has been the president of Conaco since 2005. As Redditor Mr-Korv put it, both David and Henry have had to oversee a lot of bombing. — Source

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A Victorian-era scientist had a pet wasp. CRACKED.COM Inventor and politician John Lubbock came up with a scheme to train a swarm of wasps to attack his foes. Не spent a lot of time training them to eat out of his hand and generally behave like dogs. Не got stung a ton, but (reportedly) managed to train a single wasp to obey his commands. — Source

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A Harvard scientist wants to launch minuscule diamonds into the atmosphere. CRACKED.COM One proposed plan to combat climate change is to fight carbon with carbon, filling the sky with hundreds of thousands of tons of diamond dust to reflect sunlight in a (possibly) less toxic way than other cloud-seeding strategies. — Source

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Michael Jackson tried to make a Peter Pan theme park. CRACKED.COM Не teamed up with a Saudi billionaire, and went as far as founding a company and having architects draft up designs for a park called Neverland. At the same time, he was working on a megapark in Detroit called The Thriller Theme Park. — Source

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Drums are a warmonger's best friend. CRACKED.COM Zhang Xun, general of the Tang Dynasty, found himself and his 2,000 men stuck in a castle, surrounded by a 40,000-person enemy army. Не had his army play war drums for several nights in a row, which at first kept the enemy on high alert - then, crucially, on low alert when they figured no attack was coming. Once they stopped preparing for a battle, Zhang sent his well-rested men to attack an exhausted, jumpy foe. — Source

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I have never seen two people happier to go to jail. CRACKED.COM Two guys in California started getting tailed by a cop, and since they had drugs, a gun and four warrants between them, they decided to ditch their car and flee into the wilderness. They successfully escaped, but they later called 911 and begged to be rescued. They were found the next morning, suffering from hypothermia and frostbite, causing a cop on the scene to make the above quip. — Source

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Dinosaurs were extremely small, too! CRACKED.COM Dinosaurs weren't all hulking behemoths, and mammals didn't have a monopoly on being little guys. Oculudentavis khaungraae, for example, was like a hummingbird, only smaller, and with reptile eyes and dinosaur teeth. Only one has been discovered, encased in amber like a bug. — Source

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Sylvia Plath's lost hellishly funny book. CRACKED.COM Plath hated her best-known work, The Bell Jar, calling it a pot boiler (a pandering work of pop art), but described her unfinished book The Interminable Loaf as hellishly funny. The 130-page manuscript was lost after her death, possibly burned by her estranged husband, who admitted to burning her personal journals. — Source

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Dolphins make great soldiers, unfortunately. CRACKED.COM Dolphins can be trained to approach enemy divers and really mess up their day. Namely, they can affix a clamp to a diver's leg that either buoys them to the surface, or that allows them to be reeled into a boat. They can also be equipped with more lethal accessories, like spearguns, regular guns or a wasp knife that can inject a person with gas. — Source

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