29 Discarded Bits of Trivia We Scraped Together Like Greedy Little Raccoons

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29 Discarded Bits of Trivia We Scraped Together Like Greedy Little Raccoons

In the immortal words of Inspectah Deck, “It’s only natural, actual facts are thrown at you. The impact will blow trees back and crack statues.” We may not be throwing these facts with statue-cracking force, but if that’s how he’s getting his facts out there, game on! We’d ask him to distribute facts with us daily, but he seems busy with his world-famous rap group.

WEIRD WORLD A German court ruled that you can actually get into a workplace accident at home. One man walked from his bed to his desk, fell, and broke his back - and the court ruled that, indeed, this was a workplace accident. CRACKED.COM

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Mad Max: Fury Road started out as 3,500 drawings. George Miller and comic book artist Brendan McCarthy worked out the whole movie as a series of 3,500 images. Miller says that that's a fantastic document with which to produce a film that has very little dialogue, where everything is spatial. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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In 1958, Cambridge students parked a car on the university's Senate House. It was part of an elaborate prank by engineering students, who had to build scaffolding and make a kind of drawbridge to pull it off. The authorities tried to take down the car over five days, but eventually gave up and cut it into pieces with a blowtorch. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Dragonflies used to be much more dragon than fly. 300 million years ago, they had a wingspan of 2.5 feet, and they ruled the skies - - there were no birds back then. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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James Stewart's despair in It's A Wonderful Life was real. When his character, George Bailey, ends up in a restaurant and, full of despair, calls to God, Stewart felt the loneliness, the hopelessness of people who had nowhere to turn, and started sobbing. Director Frank Capra, a big fan of spontaneous performances, was thrilled. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Some North Korean Christian believers celebrate Christmas in secret. CRACKED.COM Christmas is banned in North Korea and instead of Christmas, the birthday of Kim Jong-suk (grandmother of the current supreme lead- er of North Korea) is cele- brated on Christmas Eve.

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The religious group known as the Shakers are completely celibate and cannot have children. CRACKED.COM They can only gain new members by converting outsiders. As a result, there were only two people in the last existing Shaker com- munity as of 2020, al- though they gained a single new member in 2021.

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