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25 Bits of Trivia to Funnel Straight Into Your Dome

January 28, 2024

You know those really cool kids in college who’d slap a funnel in front of a list of facts and just start chugging? Well, we don’t wanna brag, but we were those cool kids. And today we feel like reliving the ol’ glory days. So drink up, freshman!

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GRAGKED.COM VATHLO ISLAND-- HOME OF HIGHLY DEVELOPED BLACK RACE Krypton was racially segregated. In the early '70s, DC Comics decided to address the fact that their comics were blindingly white - so they introduced Vathlo Island, where all black Kryptonians lived. Condescendingly describing them as a highly developed black race didn't help matters. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The title of Blade Runner came from an unrelated novel. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was certainly an ungainly title for a movie. After considering Android and Mechanismo, the filmmakers took the title of Alan Е. Nourse's The Bladerunner, a novel about smugglers of surgical equipment (people who run blades). — Source

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CRACKED.COM Nope, a frog won't let itself be boiled. When trying to make a point, people often bring up this froggy experiment which was done by... someone or other. It is a real experiment, though, done in 1869 by German scientist Friedrich Goltz - who first removed the frog's brain. That feels like an important detail. — Source

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CRACKED.COM NEWS Google and Facebook are destroying news. Due to both companies' near monopoly, most of the ad revenue from news goes to them for acting as middlemen. Meanwhile, the news sites doing the actual reporting are left to scrape by on the scraps, unable to negotiate better terms with the tech giants. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Chiropractic was dreamed up by a 19th-century quack. Daniel David Palmer disbelieved germs and strongly opposed vaccinations. His idea of treating disease by manipulating bones was revealed to him, he said, by the spirit of a dead doctor. Oh, and he totally expected chiropractic to become a new religion. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The writers' room of Friends was a toxic bro-fest. In 2002, writer assistant Amaani Lyle sued Friends for harassment. The (mostly male) writers never denied their edgelord sexism and racism, claiming it was all necessary for their creative process. The suit was eventually dismissed, as the horrible remarks weren't aimed specifically at Lyle. — Source

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GRACKED.COM Henry Ford was a certified moron (as proven in court). Ford was good with machines, but not much more. When a newspaper called him ignorant, he took them to court for libel - and then proceeded to make a complete fool out of himself on the stand. Не said, among other howlers, that Benedict Arnold was a writer. — Source

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Hela in Thor: Ragnarok is a makeover of a different character. In the comics, Hela was never Thor's sister who escaped imprisonment in another realm - that actually describes Angela. Created by Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane for Spawn, Angela was later bought by Marvel and turned into Odin's first-born daughter. CRACKED.COM — Source

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We've discovered intact Roman cosmetics older than 2,000 years. 5% MY COLOUR PERFECT LOOSE MINERAL POWDER OIL FREE Z The cream was totally undisturbed - so much so that even the original owner's fingerprints were still visible. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dolphins can actually breathe through their mouths - we thought they couldn't. We found this out in 2016, when a dolphin with an injured blowhole learned successfully to breathe through its mouth. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The saguaro cactus only grows its first branch between the ages of 50 and 70. That happens at Saguaro National Park, but in drier areas, it can happen at age 100. Its lifespan is generally considered to be 150-170 years, but some biologists estimate it can live up to 200 years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1967, Oregon passed a bill to make all beaches public property. That was in response to a motel owner who'd fenced off part of the beach for his motel - the bill made the entire beach up to the line of vegetation public no matter the underlying property rights. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sheep didn't always need to be sheared -that's the result of human intervention. Humans bred sheep for thick wool coats, which means they now regularly have to be sheared or they'll overheat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pablo Picasso was once the prime suspect in the theft of the Mona Lisa. The painting was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, and Picasso and his friends were considered suspects - and Picasso even went on trial. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's only one place outside of Ireland with an indigenous Irish language name. It's Newfoundland, and it's called Talamh an Éisc, meaning land of the fish - it was named that by fishermen who emigrated there in the 18th century. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scientists want to build a giant sperm and egg storehouse unites on the moon. Basenall father, son Ka-Band Antenna Solar PV (Communications) (Power Supply) Airlock Elevator Shafts Preservation Pit Analysis Laboratory Cryo-Preservation Modules According to the proposal from six University of Arizona researchers, 6.7 million species' sperm and egg samples would be stored in a vault beneath the surface of the moon as insurance against a global catastrophe. es CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Texas man tried to buy a car in an ingenious (and unites criminal) way. Baseball father són Не loaned a car from a dealership while they finalized the sale of another car to him, then drove to a bank and robbed it. Fonnel Then he went back and used the stolen money as downpayment for the car. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Texas, police arrested a woman who asked What are fame son you going to do, arrest me? She was at a bank and refused to either wear a mask or leave and, when police showed up, that's what she asked them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Bay Area woman was arrested for sneaking onto a unites Baseball father son flight for the 22nd time. are It was only two weeks after her plea deal for the 21st time she tried to sneak onto a flight was rejected. es CRACKED.COM — Source

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Someone returned a book 81 years late (with a bad review). A book was returned to a library in Washington that had been checked out 81 years earlier. The person who borrowed it wrote on the inside cover, I wouldn't read this book even if I was paid to. CRACKED — Source

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Galloway Township police: Catching bulls since 2023. Police in Galloway Township, New Jersey had to catch a bull that was running wild through the town. A Facebook post by the police about the bull told people to utilize caution (useful indeed). CRACKED — Source

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93 hours and 11 minutes to make 100 pots of food? That's one way to make history. Nigerian cook Hilda Effiong Bassey, also known as Hilda Baci, set a Guinness World Record for the longest individual cooking marathon. She cooked over 100 GIVA SAC pots of traditional TOOKATH Nigerian food for a whopping 93 hours and 11 minutes. CRACKED — Source

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A deer takes a dip in a pool before being escorted out. A deer broke into a woman's house in New Jersey and jumped into her backyard pool before animal control came to take it away. It was doggy-paddling all the way to the ladder, said the woman's grandson. CRACKED — Source

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PRIZE Guy wins big after investing $10 in change from a store. A guy from South Carolina got $10 back from a store, and used it to buy a lottery ticket as a spur of the moment decision. Не ended up winning $300,000. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED Diet water and melted ice cream. Hotels.com reported that people staying at hotels listed on their website asked for some really weird stuff, like diet water and melted ice cream. — Source

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