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Would you rather read these facts or have them sneezed into your face?

30 Partially Digested Bits of Trivia Regurgitated Into Our Brains by a Very Wise Mama Bird

January 06, 2024

We have all these facts buried deep down inside of us. Luckily, we regurgitate them through our vocal cords and not up our esophagus, because that could get quite messy. Not that you have anything to worry about. You’re reading the ones we’ve regurgitated through our fingertips.

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THE ICONIC WRIGHT FLIGHT PHOTO WAS THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S FIRST The photographer was John T. Daniels who had never even seen a camera before. His first photo was of the first powered flight...not bad for a noob. CRACKED.COM — Source

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HUMANS CAN SMELL GEOSMIN BETTER THAN SHARKS CAN SMELL BLOOD IN WATER Geosmin is what makes beets taste earthy and adds to the smell of the earth after it rains. Humans are 200,000 times more sensitive to it than sharks are to blood. CRACKED.COM — Source

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KILLER WHALES KILL GREAT WHITE SHARKS VIOLENTLY One method is to bite the sharks near their pectoral fins and then squeeze their livers out like toothpaste. CRACKED.COM — Source

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If you hide in a lake, a swarm of wasps will wait for you to re-emerge. If you're attacked by wasps, don't try to take shelter in a lake. They also are not fooled by playing dead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bruce Forsyth was a Neopet TM The bow-tied British game host was one of the original Neopet options. His character eventually evolved into a penguin, still with a bow tie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wood frogs can hold their pee for up to eight months Wood frogs have microbes in their guts that recycle urea, allowing them to avoid peeing all winter. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Falling coconuts kill more people than sharks Data suggests that people are 15 times more likely to be killed by a falling coconut than a shark attack. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED CHILDREN ARE BORN WITH ABOUT 300 BONES, BUT ADULTS ONLY HAVE 206. This is because many of the bones in a baby's body fuse together as they grow and develop. — Source

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CRACKED IN 1975, A PHYSICS PAPER WAS PUBLISHED BY A CAT. His owner added the cat as a co-author when he realized he had typed we throughout the whole paper but was the only author. — Source

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CRACKED OKLAHOMA'S OFFICIAL STATE VEGETABLE IS THE WATERMELON. Its state fruit is the strawberry. — Source

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CRACKED Georgia United Kingdom Netherlands Slovakia Black Hungary Ireland Belgium Turkey Iraq France Greece Lebanon Italy United States Itrael Tyrrhenian Sea Mediterranean S2 3.332.32 ml Portugal Spain Egypt 2,000 DO ml Tunisia Red S Libya Sur North Algeria Gut OM Atlantic Mexico Ocean Chad Niger Western Sahara Cuba Centr uatemala Mali Africa Mauritania Honduras Repub Dominican Republic Nigeria Nicaragua Burkina Puerto Rico DR Con Faso Caribbean Sea Costa Rica Senegal Togo Equatorial The Gambia Ghana Guinea Panama Guinea Sierra Leone Liberia Angola Venezuela THE CLOSEST U.S. STATE TO AFRICA IS MAINE. A small Maine peninsula is far east enough to make it — Source

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CRACKED THERE IS A CHARACTER NAMED JESSICA IN SHAKESPEARE'S MERCHANT OF VENICE. That character invented the name Jessica. — Source

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CRACKED IN GUATEMALA, THERE IS A VOLCANO THAT ERUPTS EVERY HOUR. It started doing this 100 years ago and has yet to stop. — Source

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CRACKED THE LITTLE WHITE DASHES IN THE MIDDLE OF U.S. ROADS ARE 10 FEET LONG. While the space between them is 30 feet long. — Source

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CRACKED THE PATENT FOR THE FIRE HYDRANT WAS DESTROYED... ...in a fire. — Source

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Token suckers would steal subway tokens in an amazingly filthy way. We don't know how desperate you need to be to press your lips against New York subway turnstiles and suck the tokens out - but we're guessing very. The practice was so common, the Transit Authority would spray mace (or sprinkle chili powder) on token slots. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM A few mussels keep a Polish city unpoisoned. The water treatment plant in Poznañ, Poland employs eight experts to test the water for dangerous contaminants - these experts being mussels. When the mollusks taste something funny in the water, they slam their shells shut, triggering sensors that shut off the water supply. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Home Depot was at first full of empty boxes. When Home Depot opened in 1979, vendors weren't willing to give goods on consignment to this unproven company. Vendors did, however, accept to give them lots of empty boxes - which Home Depot stacked on their shelves to lure in customers with all that stuff they had. — Source

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Cyclops were probably prehistoric elephants The huge hole at the center of Deinotherium giganteum's skull accommodated a trunk - but ancient Greeks who found the bone heads didn't know that. It's speculated that imaginative Greeks thought that the big nose hole was an eye socket, and ran with that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Alcohol was used to prevent premature births. In the 1960s, obstetrician Fritz Fuchs thought of using research made (on rabbits) by his wife Anna-Riitta Olsson, and started administering alcohol to halt premature labor. The treatment was used for many years - sometimes in the not-too-scientific way of a vodka-and-orange juice cocktail. — Source

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Scientists are trying to give sperm cells motors. Researchers have concocted a method to (theoretically, for now) boost lame swimmers that struggle to make it to the egg - turbocharging them. A tiny metal helix is wrapped around the sperm's tail, and then a magnetic field propels the spermbot forward. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Casper's success was the result of censorship. Horror comics were really hardcore in the 1950s - until moral panic struck, and all those ghouls and guts were declared a no-no. It's most likely not a coincidence that harmless, baby-looking ghosts became big around that time, with Casper (and a bunch of knock-offs) rushing in to fill the paranormal void. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Marvel published a Dazzler/ Galactus romance. For a while in the '80s, Marvel tried to jam disco-themed Dazzler into a bunch of comics - including a What If? story where she becomes Galactus' herald, and they fall in love. The Big G (as she calls him) spares a planet of sentient plants at one point, because Dazzler has touched his heart. — Source

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Kathy Bates' grandfather paraded the (fake) mummy of John Wilkes Booth. According to Finis Bates, the Booth who died in a barn was an impostor. The real Booth ran away, and he, Bates, had his mummified body, which he exhibited at circus sideshows. Henry Ford was close to buying the mummy, until his subordinates exposed the hoax. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Early elevators were blamed for elevator sickness. When elevators were becoming common in the early 20th century, many users reported nausea and dizziness. This elevator sickness was caused by organs still moving when the elevator stopped - or so some dubiously reasoned. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Joe Son from Austin Powers is in prison for life. Son (who played Random Task) was convicted in 2011 for kidnapping and torturing a woman back in 2000. Then he beat his cellmate to death, adding 27 years to his life sentence. — Source

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U.S. farmers were encouraged (even required) to grow pot. Hemp used to be big in colonial times. In 1619, the Virginia legislature passed a law requiring every farmer to grow hemp. Everything was fine until the early 20th century, when the plant was demonized because poor, non-white people smoked it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM You can fit every planet in the Solar system between the Earth and the Moon. While everyone knows the Moon revolves around the Earth, most people don't have the right idea of how far it is. Depending on where the Moon is in its orbit, there's enough room to fit every planet in the Solar System end to end in the intervening space. — Source

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Great Britain tried out ice ships during World War II. Short of metal to build warships, Britain launched Project Habakkuk to build a bergship out of pykrete (a tough mixture of ice and sawdust that takes months to melt). But the idea turned out not to be very practical, and the good ship Popsicle was eventually scrapped. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Beatles had their start at a seedy German bar. Before the Beatles were the Beatles, they were a regular feature at the Indra Club, the naughtiest place on earth, a joint in Hamburg's red-light district. It wasn't exactly a good time for them, but the experience they gained helped them become a professional band. Frida HSV CRACKED.COM — Source

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