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29 Nepotistic Bits of Trivia That Only Made This List Because They’re Related to Bigger, More Important Trivia Tidbits

February 04, 2024

Make no mistake, a “tidbit” of trivia can still be gigantic. The word itself seems meek and unassuming, but that little tidbit could inform you that, end to end, every planet in our solar system can fit between Earth and the Moon. Just like all of those massive celestial bodies fit inside that teeny tidbit. See what we did there?

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Honda for the Win!

CRACKED IN 2006, HONDA BECAME THE SOLE SUPPLIER OF ENGINES IN THE INDYCAR SERIES. It was the first time that the race went on without a single engine problem. — Source

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CRACKED IN NEVADA, PUBLIC INTOXICATION IS EXPLICITLY LEGAL. KE A It's also illegal for any city or town in Nevada to make it illegal. — Source

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The Luna Moth

CRACKED THE ADULT LUNA MOTH HAS NO MOUTH. Therefore, it lives for a week, only to reproduce, and then dies of starvation. — Source

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CRACKED STARTED IN 1990, IMDB IS ONE OF THE OLDEST WEBSITES ON THE INTERNET. And it began as a list of actresses with beautiful eyes. — Source

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CRACKED IN 1929, A BAT TOWER WAS BUILT IN THE FLORIDA KEYS WITH THE HOPES OF CONTROLLING THE MOSQUITO POPULATION. It was filled with bats, which immediately flew away and never returned. — Source

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CRACKED A DOCTOR NAMED ERNST MORO SAVED THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN'S LIVES BY INVENTING CARROT STEW, A CURE FOR OTHERWISE FATAL DIARRHEA. Experiments in 2009 showed that the carrot soup could cure diarrhea caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. — Source

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CRACKED NETFLIX CLOSELY MONITORS WHAT SHOWS AND MOVIES ARE BEING ILLEGALLY PIRATED TO DECIDE WHAT SHOWS THEY SHOULD PURCHASE FOR THEIR LIBRARY. TOOTOTOTOTIO TOOOTOTOTOO 0010101000110:101010100101 000100100010110001001 011000100 00000110001 110100101011011101001 0010101101110100: 00010010101 They started doing this in 2013 when they were just launching in Europe and there weren't a lot of streaming sites on the continent. — Source

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The potato comes from a wild plant located in Peru. CRACKED.COM It was completely unknown to the rest of the world until Spain's conquest of the Americas in the 1600s. — Source

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JFK

The Zapruder film cost the US government $16 million. CRACKED.COM The US government ended up paying the Zapruder family $16 million in 1999 for the official rights to the footage of JFK's assassination, as well as taking the original film from the family. — Source

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Divorced people shower more. GRACKED.COM Those most likely to shower once a day or more include people with higher incomes, divorced people, and those that live in the South. — Source

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The Amish sometimes use modern devices, like the computer. CRACKED.COM These computers are used solely for business, with many being used to help the Amish sell their products. — Source

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Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is the medical term for brain freeze. CRACKED.COM The pain response to the cold sensation in your mouth is thanks to sensory neurons that ping the brain after a change in temperature. — Source

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Paper money is not made from paper at all. 4118707E ITED THE STATES 11 E341127 THE UNITED STATES ORAMERICA OLLAH E3411270 5 and adidas S IS OPAMERICA E 34112707 E VENUTO 5 ستسمو 5 E 34112707 E E 34112707 E S 5 I I 5 ONE DOLLAR 1 5 5 E 34112707 E THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA S V E341127078 5 THE UNITED STATES y с 301127071 ONE DOLLAR & ONE DOLLAR & 340L2 E34212707E e ATES OPAMERICA F 20132707 E / ONE DOL by V E 39112707 E 3 ONE DOLLAR XTIOO ANO E ONE DOLLAR I 9 INTED STATES THE UNITED S an 0 5 و E 34112707 E I S ONE DOLLAR — Source

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A fire destroyed the patent to the fire hydrant. CRACKED COM In 1836, a large fire destroyed the patent office in Washington, DC, destroying all US patent records up until that point, including Frederick Graff's patent of the fire hydrant. — Source

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CRACKED Gold at the center of the Earth All the gold at the center of the Earth could cover the planet with a 13-inch layer, but it's way too deep down for us to get to, being 1,800 miles below the surface, and at temperatures that are way too hot. — Source

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DNA Every single person has 10 billion miles of DNA, enough to stretch to the sun and back 61 times. CRACKED — Source

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Antipodes Only around 15% of the land on Earth is opposite to another piece of land on the other side of the world (known as antipodes). CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED Earth's crust Earth's crust is like the skin of an apple - it's only 8 km thick under oceans and 32 km thick under continents. It takes up less than 1% of the Earth's space. — Source

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Distance from Earth to Moon You could fit all the planets (plus Pluto) between the Earth and the Moon-the average distance between them is about 240,000 miles. You'd even have 1,300 miles left over. CRACKED — Source

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ISS and gravity If you went up to where the International Space Station orbits Earth, and you could stay in place, you'd weigh 90% of your normal weight. The reason things float on the ISS is because the station and crew are falling together around Earth at the same rate. CRACKED — Source

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Point Nemo Point Nemo is so far away from any land that the closest people to it are usually astronauts. The International Space Station orbits the Earth at a maximum height of 258 miles, while the closest land to Point Nemo is over 1,670 miles away. CRACKED — Source

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Olympus Mons Olympus Mons, the biggest volcano in the solar system, is much taller than any mountain on Earth, standing 16 miles high and covering an area the size of Arizona, which is 374 miles wide. CRACKED — Source

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Five water balloons can stop a 3 speeding bullet. A 4 : CRACKED.COM Water is dense and offers a lot of resistance. The military are now researching special So4 1324 water-penetrating m ammunition. — Source

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A car dealership tried to buy Lenin's corpse. CRACKED.COM In 1991, Moscow had to issue a press release stating that, no, they weren't trying to raise money by selling Lenin's body. Forbes had run a satyrical piece making the claim, then ABC News reported it as fact, causing tons of serious inquiries to flood in from the US -- including one from a car dealership looking for a gimmick. — Source

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To know the Eiffel Tower's height, you 3 have to know the date. 2+ A 2N CRACKED.COM Thanks to summer heat, the steel expands so much halfway through the year that the tower gains more than mg So4 half a foot in height. — Source

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Jeff Bezos probably isn't richer than Augustus Caesar. CRACKED.COM It's often said that billionaire Bezos is the richest human ever to walk the planet. However, adjusted for inflation, several historical hoarders were probably trillionaires. Explains why Caesar could afford to get plugs. — Source

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A cloud 2 may P float, but it weighs a 3 million pounds. 4 +8 140 160 40 40 30 20 50 10 60 %0 70 130 80 120 180 90 110 100 120 200 100 220 80 240 60 260 0 310 O 280 CRACKED COM. A cloud might contain half a million liters of water, spread over a cubic kilometer. It floats because J the 4 air So4 below na weighs even more than that. — Source

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Unbelievable Statistics

Not all infinities are the same size. Georg Cantor demonstrated that there are more real numbers than natural numbers, even though there's an infinite amount of each. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Atoms

REMOVE ALL THE EMPTY SPACE FROM ALL THE ATOMS IN ALL OF THE PEOPLE ON PLANET EARTH... ...AND ALL OF US COMBINED WOULD EQUAL THE VOLUME OF A SUGAR CUBE. CRACKED.COM — Source

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