31 Swashbuckling Bits of Trivia Who Are Contemplating a Mutiny
Spider web bandages aren’t even the weirdest thing on this list!
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Have you ever packed a handheld snowball and rolled it down a hill? You watch it get bigger and bigger as it collects snow along the way, and it’s awesome! Yeah? Great. Now let your brain try that with these facts. Roll it down this list and feel it get bigger and bigger as it collects them all. The only downside is that, like a goldfish in a bowl, your brain can only get as big as your skull will allow.
![Galileo mathematically mapped Hell. Long before The Lord of the Rings, nerds liked to argue about Dante's Inferno-and Galileo Galilei outnerded them all. In 1588, a young Galileo gave a series of lectures presenting his calculations about the physical and mathematical properties of Dante's Hell, and poking holes into other fans' theories. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/9/1009919.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Max von Sydow had a secret role in Ghostbusters II. Von Sydow voiced Vigo the Carpathian in the 2009 Ghostbusters video game - and fans noticed that he sounded exactly like Vigo in Ghostbusters II. Eventually, producers spilled the truth- they had von Sydow overdub the original actor's voice in the movie, and never told anyone.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/8/1009918.jpg)
![Your earlobe wrinkles may predict future heart conditions. Like some sort of science-based palmistry, a crease on your earlobe (known as Frank's sign) may be correlated with a higher rate of coronary artery disease. No one knows how it works, with many assuming the sign results from smoking and other unhealthy habits. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/0/1009920.jpg)
![The Flash used to be a huge square. Love CONQUERS ALL! In most media incarnations nowadays, Barry Allen is a wisecracking, lighthearted rookie - but back in the day, he was the most stuck-up member of the Justice League. Не was a bowtie-wearing cop who regularly fought hippies and Satanic rockers. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/7/1009917.jpg)
![Nukes helped US learn that whale sharks can live over 100 years. The vertebrae of whale sharks have a ring build- up, kind of like trees-but it wasn't known how long those rings take to grow. Cold War nuclear tests helped solve the puzzle-by locating a spike of radioactive isotopes in the vertebrae, we can more easily calculate the growth rate. So ... hooray for nukes? CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/6/1009916.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD In a Montreal school, staff stripped students all the way down to their underwear. AUF CUN It was a truly ridiculous attempt at searching them for vaping products. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/4/1009914.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD One mom in the UK hired the Grinch to come and mess up her house, but it backfired. The actor didn't just mess the kids' beds, have a pillow fight and put toilet roll around your Christmas tree, as advertised - he basically trashed her home. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/3/1009913.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A top British official who investigated lockdown parties held one of his own. Specifically, he was supposed to investigate lockdown parties being held in government ... ... and then it turned out they held one in his office. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/5/1009915.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD Iran might impose sanctions on the US over its treatment of Black people. BLACK LIVES BLACK MATTER 400YFRS OF SLAVERY AND STILL NO JUSTICE LIVES MATTER RE Apparently, the Islamic Republic of Iran has serious concerns about police brutality against Black people in the United States. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/2/1009912.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A top-ranking chess player was promised a night of passion with a porn star. A Russian porn star gave that promise to lan Nepomniachtchi, if he beat Magnus Carlsen and became world champion (which, alas, didn't happen). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/1/1009911.jpg)
![A really lucky guy in WEIRD WORLD North Carolina bought two lottery tickets that were identical. 2 3 4 P 8 10 11 12 13 21 15 16 17 18 19 20 28 Не did it by accident, but it worked out 22 23 25 26 amazingly well for him-he won two 27 28 22 29 30 31 33 34 35 C 29 30 37 38 39 40 41 42 jackpots. 36 37 45 46 47 48 49 4 A 5 6 CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/9/1009909.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD Ghislaine Maxwell did something bone-chillingly terrifying in court. When the court artist sketched her, she looked right into his eyes and sketched him back. Truly, Nietzsche was right - surprisingly literally so. CRACKED.GOM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/0/1009910.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD Japan is officially using a character named Professor Poo for public education. 0 1000 CR837111C * A *** CR 8371 The, uh, disturbingly cute cartoon character is being used as a way to teach kids about paying taxes. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/8/1009908.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD Canada is experiencing a truly dire shortage of maple syrup, it turns out. FOLEST CROWN MAPLE SYRUP HIGHTASTE .... GRASE AMBER COLD E ٠٥٦/١٠٠ The government is stepping and is, uh, tapping into the country's strategic reserves (yes, literally) of maple syrup. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/7/1009907.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD Police were in a comically, incredibly slow street chase in Indiana. SUR A guy stole a street sweeper, so cops chased him at a thrilling and cinematic 10-15 mph. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/6/1009906.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD In what might be a first, an American is seeking asylum in the country of Belarus. Why? Не was part of the mob that stormed the capitol on January 6. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/5/1009905.jpg)
![In 2017, a Canadian man got 8 years in prison and a fine of 9.4M CAD (over 7M USD) for a maple syrup heist. Richard Vallières stole 3,000 tons of maple syrup from a warehouse. The theft was discovered in a routine check in 2012, when a maple syrup barrel turned out to be empty. After an investigation, 26 people were arrested. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/4/1009904.jpg)
![In September 2020, science discovered a new human organ. It's a set of salivary glands in the upper region of the throat. It was accidentally discovered during a prostate cancer study that used a scanning technique that happens to be very, very good at detecting salivary glands. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/3/1009903.jpg)
![Natalie Portman consulted on The Social Network. When she heard David Fincher was doing the movie, Portman (who went to Harvard from 1999 to 2003) called him over for dinner. She told him about how final clubs worked and how prestigious they were for underclassmen -- which made its way into the movie, as it starts with Zuck talking about how much he wants to join one. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/1/1009901.jpg)
![The USSR had an all-female airplane squadron in WWII-- the Night Witches. Their job was bombing enemy convoys, troops, and ammo dumps. They got their name because they'd set their engines on idle and glide towards their target - so, from the ground, they sounded like they were whooshing by on broomsticks. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/2/1009902.jpg)
![Llamas have something called berserk male x syndrome. Male llamas who have had many bad interactions with humans get so enraged when they see a human, they'll run across a field just to attack one. They scream, snarl, and attempt to knock the human off their feet. It's pretty hard for even two or three people to restrain a berserk llama. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/8/1009898.jpg)
![When making El Mariachi, Robert Rodriguez was too cheap to buy a can of black paint. His budget was so tight, he didn't paint the guitar case that had the weapons black (the color it was supposed to be). For shots of its exterior, he just used the Mariachi's case, which was black. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/0/1009900.jpg)
![Isaac Hayes didn't actually leave South Park. The story goes that he quit the show in protest after the episode that mocked Scientology. But he was recovering from a stroke, couldn't speak, and had limited comprehension. Не wasn't able to resign, but someone in his inner circle - and everyone in it was involved with Scientology -- did it for him, says his son. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/6/1009896.jpg)
![The Mayo Clinic started out as an emergency hospital. A tornado devastated Rochester, MN, in 1883, and the town established an emergency hospital for the wounded. It was staffed by local doctors, including William Worrall (W.W.) Mayo and his sons William and Charles. Six years later, a permanent hospital was built, and it was commonly called the Mayo Clinic. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/9/1009899.jpg)
![Nearly all the garlic consumed in the U.S. comes from Gilroy, California. GRACKED.COM The area grows around 90 percent of the garlic Americans eat, which is around 150 million pounds per year.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/7/1009897.jpg)
![All blue-eyed people are related to a mutant named The Founder. GRACKED.COM Danish researchers believe the identical gene sequence displayed in blue eyed indi- viduals comes from a single person called the found- er, whose genes mutated between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/5/1009895.jpg)
![There's a company that turns dead bodies into an ocean reef. GRACKED COM Eternal Reefs mixes the cremated remains of a person with con- crete, which is then encased in a reef ball that is dropped into the sea.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/3/1009893.jpg)
![The name bonobo resulted from a misspelling. CRACKED © COM Researchers reputedly first found the animals in the town of Bolobo, Zaire, in the '20s, but the name of the place was mis- spelled Bonobo on the shipping crate.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/2/1009892.jpg)
![McDonald's introduced drive-through service due to the military. McDonald's GRAGKED.COM Military rules forbade the sol- diers from wearing their mili- tary uniforms in public, so the Sierra Vista, Arizona restaurant cut a hole into a wall to allow members of the military to pick up their or- ders from their car.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/4/1009894.jpg)
![The fuller the fridge, the more energy-efficient it is. CRACKED COM The more empty space in the fridge, the more cold air is displaced by warm air when you open the door, requiring the appli- ance to generate cool air to replace it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/0/1009890.jpg)
![In ancient Greece and Rome, doctors used spider webs to make bandages. CRACKED.COM Spider webs suppos- edly have natural anti- septic and anti-fungal properties, which can help keep wounds clean and prevent in- fection.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/1/1009891.jpg)