30 Gleaming Bits of Trivia to Add to Your Trophy Case of Minutiae

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30 Gleaming Bits of Trivia to Add to Your Trophy Case of Minutiae

You made it! Great job! You might think you’re at the starting line of this list, but getting here was the hard part. Here are 30 trophies that’ll no doubt impress your kids one day! We can see it now: “Yeah, son. This is my ‘Teddy Roosevelt loved boxing random dudes’ trophy. No big deal.”

GRACKED.COM VI A lot of the Scots-language Wikipedia is written in English with a Scottish accent. A teen from North Carolina has been a major contributor to the Scots Wikipedia for years - even though he doesn't speak the language. Of course, Scots speakers realized something weird was going on- but no one listened to them. A Reddit post blew the whole thing open in 2020.

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A tree in Georgia is a landowner. A large white oak in Athens, Clarke County is known as The Tree That Owns Itself, as it was reportedly bequeathed the patch of land it's planted on in the 19th century. Now, it's not exactly legal for a tree to own property in Athens, but no one has ever challenged it. CRACKED.COM

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LV.00 VOLUNTEER Army of the Dead was going to include zombie rape. An early iteration of the script (back when Zack Snyder was producing, but not directing) had male zombies raping human women, producing hybrid offspring. Thankfully, Snyder came to the realization that wasn't something the zombie genre was lacking. CRACKED.COM

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There are no bridges on the entire 4300 mile length of the Amazon river. CRACKED COM During the rainy season, the river rises thirty feet, and crossings that were once three miles wide can balloon to thir- ty miles in a matter of weeks.

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One of the most decorated marines became an anti-war advocate. CRACKED.COM Smedley Butler wrote War is a Racket about war profiteering. Не said the best he could do was to operate his racket in 3 districts. I operated on 3 continents.

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Short sleepers function the same off of 4-6 hours of sleep as a typical individual getting 8. CRACKED.COM Natural short sleepers re- mained a mystery until 2009, when a study dis- covered that people who had inherited a particular mutation in a gene called DEC2 averaged only 6.25 hours of sleep per night.

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WEIRD WORLD A menacing gigantic bear turned out to be a trio of black bears. People around Lake Tahoe have been terrorized by what they thought was one giant 500lb bear nicknamed Hank the Tank - but, it turns out, Hank is actually three black bears. CRACKED.COM

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