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28 Bits of Trivia Relentlessly Swarming Our Heads After We Ran Off With a Pot of Honey

January 31, 2024

On our relentless hunt for facts, it sometimes feels like our brain won’t be able to handle them all! But that spongey little devil always manages to surprise us. He says it’s like dessert. No matter how stuffed he gets, there’s always room for dessert.

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WEIRD WORLD The city of Los Angeles is spending nearly a million dollars per homeless person. The number is actually $837,000 - the city is spending up to that much per homeless person, rather than, well, make them not homeless. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Georgia, a woman quit her job so she could breastfeed her boyfriend. la mariée She used to work as a bartender, but she quit that job and she now breastfeeds him every 2 hours. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Apparently, an epidemic of noisy sex is sweeping New York City. People are complaining more and more about their neighbors having really loud sex. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One dude in England tried eating only discounted food for a week. Не now lives in regret, apparently -This experiment was extreme, no one lives on yellow sticker food alone and there is a place for the odd bargain in your weekly shop, he says. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Walmart

WEIRD WORLD Apparently, the US' largest primary care provider may soon be Walmart. Walmart P14 AM 16° 28th 12 88 Water 29 49 '26 M 16 - Prim '44 And in some locations, you can now get things like, say, x-rays, optometry, and dental services at Walmart. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mountain Dew

WEIRD WORLD Alcoholic Mountain Dew is rolling out, and it'll be released in Florida. MDEH It's called Hard MTN Dew, and you can get it in Florida, plus Tennessee and lowa. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The University of Otago's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies is full of feuds. According to a 31-page review in the Otago Daily Times, it has a toxic and unproductive culture that is paralysing, isolating and divisive. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Physicists imagine we might live in a hologram Simulations support that we could live in a 10-dimensional hologram. Of course, that's not the same as mathematical proof, but it hasn't been ruled out as a possibility. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Plants weigh more than all other life on Earth Plants make up 80% of the planet's biomass, with humans accounting for only 0.01%. (Although, it's notable that humans have decreased plants by half in 10,000 years.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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T. rex existed for over two million years. There's estimated to have been 2.5 billion T. rex who existed over this time. Homo sapiens have only been around for 250,000 years. Now, what's left of T. rex? 32 fossils. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Humans are closer in time to T. rex than T. rex to Stegosaurus Stegosaurus lived 155 to 150 million years ago, while the last T. rex lived about 66 million years ago. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Around 109 billion people have ever lived If you include the first Homo sapiens, the number goes up to 117 billion. (Let's hope ghosts don't exist to avoid the crowds.) 7% of all humans who have lived are alive today. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Most of the elements in your body were made in stars Most of the elements were created over billions of years during the lifetimes of multiple stars. Elements in your body heavier than iron went through at least one supernova. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cells

More than half your body is not human Human cells only make up 43% of the cells in our bodies. The majority of cells? Bacteria, viruses, fungi, and archaea. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Chronicles of Narnia

The wolves in The Chronicles of Narnia had to have their wagging tails edited out. In order to appear appropriately menacing, the wagging tails of the dogs and wolves in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe had to be replaced with CGI doggie butts. CRACKED.COM — Source

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After a stroke, some smokers were able to quit smoking with ease. Smokers whose insula got damaged after a stroke were able to quit smoking easily one day after the stroke, with no relapse and urges, suggesting that this brain region might play a role in nicotine addiction. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Giant moray eels hunt cooperatively with grouper. In the Red Sea, the grouper approaches an eel's hiding place and shakes its head rapidly to indicate that it wants to hunt. The eel recognizes the signal and accompanies it on the hunt, where they work in tandem. CRACKED.COM — Source

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George Carlin spoke to a teddy bear when he voice acted for Thomas The Tank Engine. During his time as the narrator for the US version of the children's TV show, George Carlin spoke his lines to a teddy bear in the booth because he was nervous about performing without an audience. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ouija

Jurors in a 1994 murder trial used a Ouija Board to try and communicate with the victim. Registered 1234567890 GOOD BYE As the other jurors slept, a small group sat on the floor around a crude Ouija board they had made from a piece of paper and a hotel room wine glass. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Vikings cut down all the trees in Iceland to make room for sheep. At the time of human settlement almost 1150 years ago, birch forest and woodland covered 25-40% of Iceland's land area. CRACKED.COM — Source

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70% of children in the US had goiters due to iodine deficiency up until the 1920s. lodized S a I t This salt supplies iodide, a necessary nutrient. The introduction of iodized salt was incredibly effective at eliminating the deficiency. Soon after in 1920, many countries around the globe began fortifying table salt with iodine. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Taylor Swift

WEIRD WORLD Taylor Swift got beat out by a bunch of birds on a Top 50 list. Apparently, an album of the sounds of endangered birds, called Songs of Disappearance, was #3 on Australia's chart of top 50 albums, beating out Taylor Swift. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Apparently, North Korea is hard at work on eliminating corruption. DO KH 0 M K 0 M p -> At least, if you go by the fact that it's created special prosecutorial teams with the specific task of rooting out corruption. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One COVID patient hid Ivermectin in a stuffed animal in a hospital, it turns out. Staff at the Windsor, Ontario hospital found the ivermectin behind a slit in the stuffed animal (belonging to an adult patient, as it happens). CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Yakuza

WEIRD WORLD Former yakuza members have a tough life: they basically can't find work. And that's even with police support - for example, in the 2010-2020 period, only 3.5% of people who left the yakuza ended up getting work. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Great Britain's Minister for Levelling Up got stuck in an elevator. PO Ex oli lycy xch Michael Gove was on his way to do a radio interview, but the elevator that was supposed to get him there performed a spectacular feat of irony by getting stuck. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A British store made its sausages only available to people over 18. It was a truly dumb mix-up - they mistakenly listed saucisson sec as secateurs, which was a bladed item, and people who wanted to buy it had to prove they were of age. CRACKED.COM — Source

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