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35 Rowdy Bits of Trivia That Will Not Quit Heckling Us

January 29, 2024

It’s one thing to scour the universe for fun facts and arrange them in little listicle clusters. Keeping them in line is the tricky part. You start typing up this little blurb above them, and they start hurling insults like some prepubescent class clown. Well, we’re not putting up with it anymore! You little facts just sit there and shut up, or security might have to launch you outta here!

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In 1858, a fight about slavery broke out in the United States congress. And it ended thanks to comedy - somebody had put their wig on backwards, so everybody nearby started laughing, which helped break up the fight. CRACKED.COM — Source

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It was eight years after Fleetwood Mac was founded when Stevie Nicks joined. And she only joined because her boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham got asked to join, and demanded the band take both of them as a package deal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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You can kind of use a lasagna as a battery, under the right conditions. Or, in other words, a pan of lasagna technically becomes a battery under the right conditions, which means in practice that it'll corrode aluminum foil placed over it and form holes in that foil. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Moon

The Moon isn't a cold chunk of rock-it has an intensely hot core, just like Earth. And also just like Earth, its solid inner core actually sits inside a molten outer core. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Disney's Aladdin was originally going to be set in Baghdad, not Agrabah. We kept it Baghdad in our first treatment, and then the Gulf War happened-the first Gulf War. Roy Disney said, 'This can't be in Baghdad, says co-director John Musker. CRACKED.COM — Source

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96% of the nuclear fuel used in French power plants gets re-used. It actually gets used to manufacture new fuel, ensuring that there's minimal waste throughout the process. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Indonesia has made it illegal to hunt and kill manta rays anywhere in its territory. A cost-benefit analysis showed that a live manta ray makes about $1 million from tourism, but a dead one only makes $400-500. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Brazilian priest tied 1,000 ballons to himself, and it ended very badly for him. It was a stunt to raise money for a good cause, but he ended up flying away and his body was later found in the ocean. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Warren Buffett made a bet with a hedge fund for a million dollars, and won. The bet was on whether hedge funds or index funds would make more - Buffett was sure it'd be index funds. Не was right. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the 1920s, people discovered a hidden tunnel underneath Washington DC. The mystery was really simple: it was built by an entomologist who just liked digging tunnels in his spare time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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It turns out that Elvis never actually wrote any of the songs he performed. Не got the idea for All Shook Up, but even that one got written up by a friend - and that's it, really. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Antoine Walker made over $100 million in the NBA, but filed for bankruptcy. Despite making a total of $108 million in his career, he was bankrupt two years after he retired. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Theoretically, you could actually cross the entire universe in your natural lifetime. To do that, you'd have to accelerate at 9.8 meters per second squared, and billions of years would pass while you got a few decades older. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Major League Baseball

A baseball manager tried to get on the field in a comic book-level disguise. They ejected him from a game, so he got back with a mustache and fake glasses. Не was recognized right away. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2005, a CEO was miraculously acquitted in a $2,7 billion fraud case. EAM UNITED NOTE RAL Fifteen execs, including five finance chiefs, testified he was in on the fraud since the start, but the jury didn't believe them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The flu almost vanished during lockdown. During the 2020-2021 season, hospitalizations due to the flu plummeted to about 14% of the previous year. As the flu spreads the same way as COVID but is less infectious, it didn't stand a chance against all the masks, social distancing, and hand-washing. — Source

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Isaac Newton prescribed toad vomit against the bubonic plague. Shortly after a plague outbreak, a young Newton studied medical texts and came to the conclusion that the best treatment was powdered toad, mixed with the toad's own vomit. We're forced to admit, Newton wasn't a genius at everything science-related. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The original Kool-Aid drinkers didn't want to drink the Kool-Aid. You might already know that Jim Jones' cult members drank poisoned Flavor Aid, not Kool- Aid. The expression is also wrong in that it was not a voluntary act of uncritical submission. Many were forced at gunpoint by Jones loyalists, after being held against their will for months. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM A Thanos-like approach to population was seriously proposed in the '70s. Overpopulation was one of the great fears of past decades. Famine was thought to be inevitable, so some authors proposed triage- essentially, letting entire nations starve to feed the rest. Luckily, new agricultural techniques were developed that curbed food shortage before that happened. — Source

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A Robert Rodriguez movie won't be released until 2115. The only copy of 100 Years, directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring John Malkovich, is currently sitting in a time-locked safe set to open in November 2115. The movie was made as a publicity stunt for an extra-fancy cognac that is aged 100 years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pigs

Pigs can learn to play video games. Using food as reward, researchers at Purdue University trained pigs to operate a cursor on a screen with a joystick, and then make the cursor collide against targets. One day they'll learn they're the bad guys in Angry Birds and get mad at humans. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wolverine was almost a literal wolverine. Marvel took their sweet time to come up with an origin story for Logan. One of the ideas writers tossed about was that he was an actual wolverine, mutated into human form. That never came to happen, as Stan Lee hated it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The NCAA is Yank suing Virginia urologists for their Vasectomy unites Mayhem ad father.son campaign. VASECT MATME ARBARA KAHN, MD VIRGINIA UROLOGY VASEOTON MAYNEM The NCAA claims the basketball-themed ads are too similar to their March Madness basketball tournament and will leave consumers confused. es CRACKED.COM — Source

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We're Trappist running monks, so nkees of out we might start running out of unites Baseball father son Trappist beer. Authentic Trappist beer requires that monks supervise its production, and fewer and fewer men are becoming monks, so there might not be any certified authentic Trappist beers around soon. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Alabama might finally let kids do unites yoga in schools. Baseball father son Yoga has been banned in Alabama schools for 28 years, because of its Hindu roots, but that might finally change. But using Sanskrit phrases during yoga, like Namaste, is definitely still going to be forbidden. es CRACKED.COM — Source

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Glenn Close was nominated for an unites Oscar and a Razzie Baseball father son for the same role. The role was Bonnie Mamaw Vance in Hillbilly Elegy, and this is the first time in history the same role was nominated for both awards. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lucha libre wrestlers enforced mask wearing in Mexico. unites Baseball father son They went into the Central de Abasto market in Mexico City, the biggest wholesale food market in Latin America, and shouted Put on a mask! and Be responsible! People who didn't comply were sprayed with disinfectant. CRACKED.COM — Source

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We've found out that hanging rhinos upside down is important for their conservation. father son Researchers at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine found that airlifting the rhinos from inaccessible terrain in that position gives the rhinos more oxygen, which is really helpful because the drug used to tranquilize them lowers the level of oxygen in the blood. es CRACKED.COM — Source

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An Oklahoma basketball announcer blamed using the N-word on a blood sugar spike. umites Baseball father son O SPN 1ST OSPN When he saw players kneeling before a basketball game, Matt Rowan was apparently unaware the mic was on and said They're kneeling? F--g N--. Later, in an apology, he said he was a Type 1 diabetic and added I do not believe that I would have made such horrible statements absent my sugar spiking. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Pennsylvania woman tried to eliminate her daughter's cheerleading rivals unites with deepfakes. Baseball father son She made fake photos of videos of the girls drinking, smoking, or naked, and sent them to her daughter's cheerleading coaches, all to try and get those girls off the team. She was charged with two misdemeanors. es CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD There are now plans to power the world's largest coal port with renewable energy. And the port will be 100% powered by renewable energy, no less - the Port of Newcastle, in Australia, says that's part of a plan to decarbonize the whole business by 2040. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A YouTuber is getting accused of crashing a plane for more views. The video, titled simply I Crashed My Plane, got YouTuber Trevor Jacob 400,000 views - and also an investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration, and accusations of it being staged. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One Tesla owner started using his car as a crypto mining machine. EN And he says his Tesla makes him $800 in cryptocurrency every month. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Two lawyers arguing against the vaccine mandate got COVID. Which means that, in their arguments before the Supreme Court, they'll have to appear remotely - given their positive status, they have no other choice. CRACKED.COM — Source

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