30 Bits of Trivia That Are a Low-Calorie Alternative to Traditional Facts

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30 Bits of Trivia That Are a Low-Calorie Alternative to Traditional Facts

We have nothing against traditional facts. Heck, now that we think about it, facts seem to age like fine wine. They’ve stood the test of time. They’ve had hundreds, possibly thousands of years to be debunked, but their truths prevail. We put these new facts through the ringer, and we think their truths have what it takes to go the distance.

Originally, Venom wasn't supposed to be in Spider-Man 3 at all. Sam Raimi wanted to use Vulture, not Venom, as one of the villains, and set everything up for Spider-Man 4 where Vulture would be the main villain. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED SPEEDING TICKETS IN FINLAND ARE PROPORTIONAL TO AN INDIVIDUAL'S WEALTH. In 2002, an executive from Nokia was fined 103,000 dollars for going 45 in a 30 zone.

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CRACKED Jupiter's Great Red Spot The massive anticyclonic storm is bigger than Earth. But it's recently gotten the smallest it's ever been-only 10,250 miles across. It used to be 25,500 miles long in the late 1800s (so, over two Earths) and 14,500 miles across in 1979.

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CRACKED Antarctic Krill Antarctic krill outweigh humans-the total biomass of humans is 350 million tons, while krill's has been estimated at 379 million tons (but there are still some unknowns, so we're not too sure of that).

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Earth's water If you put all the water on Earth into a sphere, it would be 860 miles in diameter. That's the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Topeka, Kansas. CRACKED

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CRACKED CON Your body houses trillions of microorganisms, percent of which are unknown to science.

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Humans have a second brain, and it's located CRACKED.COM in our guts. A neural network comprised of 100 million neurons in our digestive tract is responsible for our mood. Suddenly, gut feeling makes more sense.

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