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33 Bits of Trivia They Won’t Teach You in School

February 05, 2024

We won’t promote vandalism, but these facts need to be added to every textbook in the world. Maybe we can write them down on a piece of paper and tuck it in the back somewhere. Page 453 will teach kids about the Cold War, but page 454 will be all about platypus milk baby!

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CRACKED DOUBLE STUF OREOS ARE NOT DOUBLY STUFFED. According to a 2013 study by a high school math teacher, Double Stuf Oreos are only 1.86 times as stuf'ed as classic Oreos, not twice as much, as the name suggests. ALWAYS control REAL COCOA NABISCO Double Stuf OREO MARINE SOLD PER 2 COOKIES 140 2g 90mg 13 NET WT CHOCOLATE SAT FAT SODIUM SUGARS CALORIES SANDWICH COOKIES 15.35 OZ (435g) sun APPEARS WHEN OPENED — Source

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CRACKED FERN COLLECTING WAS A TREND IN THE VICTORIAN ERA. The activity was so popular it earned its own name: pteridomania. — Source

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CRACKED CHOCK FULL O'NUTS COFFEE DOESN'T CONTAIN ANY NUTS. It's named that because the store originally sold nuts before they were converted to coffee shops. — Source

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CRACKED DURING THE 1880S, A BABOON WAS EMPLOYED AS A SIGNALMAN FOR A SOUTH AFRICAN RAILROAD AND SERVED FOR NINE YEARS. In exchange for his services, he was compensated with beer, and reportedly never made any mistakes while on the job. — Source

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Crispin Glover sued the studio for using his face mold in Back to the Future II. They used the mold (from the first movie) to make the replacement actor look like Glover, and that was a step too far for him, so he sued. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Platypus milk has a strange protein that has unique antibacterial properties. The protein has a three-dimensional fold that's totally unique, and that fold apparently gives it its unusual antibacterial properties. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The French Navy used Cleopatra's daughter's mausoleum for target practice. Luckily, the mausoleum was mostly unharmed - and when Emperor Napoleon III visited, much later, he demanded that it be preserved. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lightning can actually be much hotter than the surface of the sun, somehow. A bolt of lightning coming up from the ground (a return stroke) can get as hot as 50,000 degrees F, and the surface of the sun is about 11,000 degrees F. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hitler had a plan to raze Berlin when he won WWII, and rebuild it as a new city: Germania. Germania would be the capital of the 1,000-year-Reich, and it would be comparable only to ancient Egypt, Babylon or Rome. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sudan has over 200 pyramids, and the oldest are from about 2500 ВС. There are also burial chambers, tombs, and temples - - a all those buildings are concentrated at three sites: Meroe, Jebel Barkal, and El Kurru. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED FLY LARVAE: NATURE'S LITTLE MIRACLE WORKERS. Certain types of fly larvae, like blow flies, are used to this day in medical treatments to get rid of decaying tissue in wounds and release fluids that can fight off viruses and bacteria. — Source

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CRACKED MONEY CAN'T BUY HAPPINESS, BUT IT CAN BUY A LOT OF MILES. A Chinese billionaire used his American Express card to buy a $170 million painting, and earned 132 million frequent flier miles in the process. That's enough to let him and his family fly first class, forever. — Source

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CRACKED A RAT GOT INTO AN ATM AND ATE $19K WORTH OF BILLS. In 2018, a rat got into an ATM in India, through a tiny hole for cables, and ate up more than $19,000 worth of Indian rupees that were inside. — Source

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CRACKED ANCIENT ROMANS HAD IT FIGURED OUT: 44 MILLION GALLONS, ONE AND A HALF DAYS. In Nîmes, France, the Roman aqueduct could transport water over 30 miles with only a 56-foot drop in elevation, and had a capacity of 44 million imperial gallons of water a day. It took almost a day and a half for the water to travel to the city. — Source

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CRACKED ROBOT BREAKS KID'S FINGER AT CHESS TOURNAMENT. At the Moscow Chess Open in July 2022, a robot playing chess broke a boy's finger when he tried to rush it during a match. Probably not a good omen for our collective future. — Source

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CRACKED TLC TOOK THEIR LABEL EXEC HOSTAGE (AND GOT WHAT THEY WANTED). 1990s all-female band TLC at one point kept the president of their record label hostage until they could get a better deal in their contracts. It worked. Lef TL FANN IS LC mmm 'RO SCRUBS THE BIGGEST SELLING FEMALE TRIO of ALL TIME RETURNST ALBUM INCLUDES SMASHES TM GOOD OT BEING BAD. SILLY но AND UNPRETTY LION WORT — Source

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CRACKED WATCH OUT FOR THE BOILING WATER IN YELLOWSTONE, NOT THE BEARS. People often think that the wildlife in Yellowstone National Park is the biggest danger to visitors, but it's actually the boiling hot water underneath the ground that's the most dangerous. The hot thermal pools have killed more people than bears. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Everyone has their own fingerprints. But your tongue also has a one-of-a-kind print. Because of its uniqueness, the tongue could be used in biometric scans or forensic dentistry as an identification tool in the future. — Source

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GRACKED.COM If you lose a fingernail in an accident, it'll take about 6 months to grow back. But it will take three times as long if you lose a toenail in an accident. — Source

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Alexander the Great may have been buried alive because of his divinity. CRACKED.COM After his apparent death, his body didn't decompose for 6 days. Everyone at the time just said that's immortal Alexander for ya! and went ahead and buried him. Some specialists now think he may have actually suffered from Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes paralysis. — Source

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If you, hypothetically, drilled a hole through the center of the Earth and jumped in, it would take 42 MINUTES to reach the other side. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Every year in the US at least 4,000 items are left inside patients after surgery. In the medical world it is known as retained surgical items. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Humans are genetically closer to cats than dogs. We share 90 % of our DNA with cats, but only 84 % with dogs. Considering that most people would rather sleep all day than socialize and play outdoors, this really doesn't come as a big surprise. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Redheads are more sensitive to pain than people with brown, black, or blond hair. As a result, they require 20 percent more anesthesia than average to get sedated for surgery. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Detroit gave Saddam Hussein the key to the city. CRACKED.COM The newly minted President of Iraq threw a whole ton of cash at a Detroit church when its reverend simply publicly congratulated him on his electoral victory. That reverend made the understatement of the century, when asked in 2003 what's going on with his Iraqi bro: Money and power changed the person. — Source

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Alaska is the most eastern state in the 4 United States. +8 - RN Date Line Bering Sea Shemya A Dutch Harbor Attu eut a n Islands Near Islands Agattu Kiska Amchitka Adak Ra Pacific The farthest of the the Aleutian Islands in Alaska cross the 180th meridian of longitude. So, they're not super bag west. S04 They're super super east. — Source

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If you were born on venus you'd celebrate your first birthday before you were even a day old. venus is the slowest rotating planet in the solar System. It can make a complete orbit around the sun in less time than it takes to rotate just once on its axis. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hitler's reputation was tarnished by a GIF. CRACKED.COM A photographer snapped a series of pics of Hitler looking very goofy on a very serious occasion. A Scottish filmmaker cut them together to make him look like the Chancellor of the Department of Silly Walks. This went as viral as a GIF could in 1940, uniting many of the Allies in mocking this monumental doofus. — Source

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THE CLOSEST U.S. STATE TO AFRICA IS MAINE. Quoddy Head Light, Maine, is about 3,154 miles from El Beddouza, compared to Florida's Singer Island which is 4,085 miles from Guerguerat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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it's called a non-Newtonian liquid, and scientists aren't sure why it Ketchup becomes thinner when shaken behaves that way HEINZ 57 VARIETIES LG GRACKED.COM HEINZ TOMATO KETCHUP COFFEE 300 mi upa — Source

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The author of Frankenstein carried around a spare heart. CRACKED.COM It's no secret that Mary Shelley was a li'l freak, having lost her virginity on her own mother's grave. But she'd maintain that goth streak to her own grave, even toting around her late husband's heart from the time of his death until her own. — Source

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Many small creatures experience time faster than we do That that means larger animals (humans) be in slow motion them. to moving to appear CRACKED COM — Source

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BACTERIA MAKES UP 13% OF THE WORLD'S BIOMASS All humans only make up one ten-thousandth of the weight of life on Earth. CRACKED.COM — Source

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