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33 Bits of Trivia To Cram Into Your Cranium

January 27, 2024

Imagine you had a pop quiz tomorrow, and you were the only one who failed because you didn’t know that the first recorded act of mooning caused a massacre?! We’re 99 percent sure that everyone else in your class knows that already, so you’re lucky we’re here to bring you up to speed!

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GRACKED.COM Kevin Costner did Wyatt Earp out of spite. Costner was attached to star in Tombstone, but left because he wasn't the film's sole focus. So he signed up for a different movie about Earp, and tried to use his Oscar clout to stop Tombstone from being distributed. Spite, sadly, wasn't enough to win the competition. — Source

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You Only Live Twice was written by Roald Dahl. That's right - one of Bond's campiest, horniest outings was penned by the author of Matilda. The regular Bond screenwriter was unavailable, so the producers gave Dahl (an old pal of lan Fleming) the task of adapting the novel. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED.COM BRITISHAIRWAYS A man sued British Airways over a (costly) misspelling. Edward Gamson booked a flight to Granada, Spain - only to realize mid-flight that his plane was headed to Grenada, in the Caribbean. Gamson sued the airline over this typo that cost him a ton of time and money. Unluckily for him, the lawsuit was dismissed. — Source

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In the billions of years since it was formed, the sun hasn't moved too much. In all that time, it's only completed 20 full orbits around the center of the Milky Way. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lafayette, the hero of the American Revolution, had a super long name. His name in full is Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves- Roch-Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette. As he said, I was baptized like a Spaniard, with the name of every conceivable saint who might offer me more protection in battle. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The biggest maritime disaster in the US happened on the Mississippi River. In the 19th century, the steamboat Sultana sank, killing over 1400 people. Today, its remains lie below a soybean field - 37 feet under it, in fact. CRACKED.COM — Source

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India

Sometimes, in India, they mark a spot where a tiger killed somebody. They put a red cloth around a tree in a forest, if a tiger killed someone there - that's a sign of mourning. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Port Royal, Jamaica, got swallowed by the sea pretty much intact. This happened because a massive earthquake basically just made a large part of it slide underwater, and it means a big part of the town is still kind of just sitting there beneath the sea. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The word with the most meanings in English is officially the word set. LA SECOND EDITION SECOND EDITION SECOND EXTION SECONO EDITION = CITION = = = = III IV V VI VII VIII Cham-Crocky Creel-Duzepere Drandy-Folls Follow-Hanvel havel-Laie In the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, it had 430 different meanings, and its entry was over 60,000 words long - Guinness World Records officially certified it as the word with the most meanings. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Turns out, dinosaur fossils were a part of traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese villagers dug up bones that they thought had belonged to dragons, and they made medicines out of them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gary Oldman, who is English, lost his accent and had to hire a voice coach. He'd been living in California so long that his English accent started to disappear, and he wanted it back, so he got a voice coach and re-learned it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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College professors published a porn anatomy textbook. In 1971, three Duke University professors penned The Anatomical Basis of Medical Practice, a textbook that featured, as the authors put it, female models as model females. Costal Posterior margins and anterior axillary Not too surprising, really, considering that med schools at the time were bro-y sausage fests. Inguinal ligament Fig. III-56. Adult female, surface anatomy of the ab- domen. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Comet Halley

People feared Comet Halley would kill everyone. When the comet visited us in 1910, many feared that its gases would poison the Earth's atmosphere. People donned gas masks and swallowed anti-comet pills, and hucksters sold protective umbrellas. There was much rejoicing when no one was hurt. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Amazon's fast shipping is awful for the environment. Amazon's drivers drive more miles, and consequently burn more fuel, than any other courier service. That's because deliveries are prioritized by shipping deadline, forcing drivers to rush from place to place to deliver individual packages, instead of doing a single run. SMOLE prime CRACKED.COM — Source

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The first recorded act of mooning caused a massacre. Jewish-Roman historian Titus Flavius Josephus recounts the time when a Roman soldier in Jerusalem mooned the Jewish population. During Passover. At the Temple. The locals were very pissed off, and an estimated 10,000- 30,000 people died in the ensuing riot. CRACKED.COM — Source

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33 Bits of Trivia To Cram Into Your Cranium — Source

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Milk won't make your bones stronger. It stands to reason - if your bones are made of calcium, and milk has calcium, you should drink lots of milk, right? It turns out that biology is more complicated than that. Decades' worth of studies have failed to find any benefit to bone health from drinking extra milk. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The government in Kenya legalized polygamy, and women celebrated. The law made it finally legal for one man to marry multiple women, officially sanctioning what's apparently been a longstanding cultural practice - and it got applauded by a leading women's group. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A British tourist lost his fake teeth in Spain 11 years ago, and he got them back. 11 years after it happened, he got them in the mail - to his enormous surprise. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD California will give financial rewards to students who volunteer - with a catch. 001992 92 - متجدة .. PA I I - 82 - - 5 OOI HORROLOLORY AM STAR on OCTEA BY STER 100 82 POLIZIAS - - на 447784741 - - 100 The catch is that under half of the money earmarked for the rewards is actually going to the students. The remainder is going towards overheads. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Eileen Gu's defense of freedom of speech in China got censored. The Olympic gold medalist said that nyone can download a vpn its literally free on the App Store, but a screenshot of that comment was censored on the social media network Weibo so that it was blank. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The US army is kind of on the warpath against warming your fingers and toes. DAVE SPORT If you're a soldier, that is - the army doesn't like soldiers keeping their hands in their pockets, so they came up with a forearm heater for soldiers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Indian Stock Exchange

WEIRD WORLD Apparently, a major Indian stock exchange has been guided by a spiritual force. NATIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE The CEO of the NSE, Chitra Ramakrishna, sought guidance from that force for 20 years to run India's National Stock Exchange, she says. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A UK man keeps getting arrested for blocking traffic, and he remains silent every time. The Silent Man repeatedly gets arrested for standing on a certain road to block traffic. Не never speaks a word, not even to the court or his own lawyer. Every time he is released, he repeats the crime. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A man died after asking his girlfriend to shoot him while he held an encyclopedia to his chest. DESERT EAGLE PISTOL VIGGUU RESEARCH INC. PILLAGER MN USA 4.4 The YouTuber, Pedro Ruiz, held the 1.5 inch book in front of his chest and told his girlfriend to fire a Desert Eagle handgun from just a foot away. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Since 1992, women have been legally allowed to walk around New York topless. This was kickstarted by a 1986 protest involving nine women who took off their tops and waited to be arrested. CRACKED.COM — Source

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South Korean Service Dogs

South Korea clones service dogs that have already passed their training. Half of all service dogs don't pass their training, so South Korea came up with a way to boost the odds. By cloning the dogs that already passed, the animals have a much higher rate of completing training. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gary Busey claims to have seen heaven while in a coma. Busey once refused to perform a scene set in heaven for the film Quigley because he said the set design looked nothing like the real heaven he visited during a near-death experience while in a coma. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Most of Van Gogh's paintings were created in the last two years of his life. Vincent Van Gogh first started painting when he was in his late twenties. It was only at the age of 27 in 1880 that he began attending art school. Most of his paintings date to just the last two years of his life. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young stole a pickup truck in order to get to Woodstock. After their charter plane flew to the wrong airport, Hendrix, Young and lawyer Melvin Belli were supposed to be picked up by helicopter, but the roads were jammed and no one was at the airport. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dingoes aren't native to Australia, they were brought there 4,000 years ago. Dingoes are an ancient breed of domestic dog that was introduced to Australia, probably by Asian seafarers, about 4,000 years ago. CRACKED.COM — Source

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