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34 Bits of Trivia to Pack Into Your Skull Like a Clown Car

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34 Bits of Trivia to Pack Into Your Skull Like a Clown Car

February 02, 2024

Don’t get us wrong, we love our skulls. After all, they protect these sweet facts in our sweet brains. On the other hand, they do hinder our cerebral growth. If anything, they imprison it. Our brain is basically buried alive in there. Well, we’re here to test our skull’s limits. Let’s cram so many facts into our brain that it breaks through our skull and grows to its full potential! Who’s with us?

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SOS actually isn't an acronym - and it's not really a word as such, either. TELEGRAPE SWYORK It was just chosen because it stands out easily in Morse code, which was needed back when Morse code was heavily used for ship communication. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Two legendary race car drivers fueled their exploits with drug money. / P 2 2 NUMERO MANDAZINE RESERVE Don *All Whittington Kas EXPORTED philippe 22 41 - salvet lt Turbolader Shell INC NUMERO RESEA The Whittington brothers bought a historical racetrack, and used it to land planes that smuggled drugs in the middle of the night from Latin America. CRACKED.COM — Source

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When Katy Perry was new in LA, she pretended she was Zooey Deschanel. She only did it to get into clubs - she was an absolute nobody at the time (and was broke, too), but Zooey Deschanel was a huge star. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Booger's winning belch in Revenge of the Nerds came from an animal - specifically, a camel. They took the sound of a camel having an orgasm and mixed it with a human belch to get the truly amazing seven-second sound in the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The first seven Fast and Furious movies wrecked over a thousand cars -- the number is 1,487. If you included the cars from the 8th and 9th movie, plus the ones from Hobbs & Shaw, the total number might cross the 2,000 figure. CRACKED.COM — Source

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New York City Alleys

One New York City alley usually stands in for the rest of them in Hollywood movies. R د. - D NYC only has about 5 alleys, and you can usually only film in Cortlandt Alley, so that's the one that ends up playing a NYC alley in most movies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Tiananmen Square protests could have delayed The Little Mermaid. # The studio that drew the bubbles in the movie was based a few blocks away from the Square, and their work was trapped there until the protests were over. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED PANDAS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CARNIVOROUS. However, they inexplicably lost their appetite for meat during evolution, and we don't know why. — Source

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CRACKED MOST WASABI IN THE US IS FAKE. Most of it is actually just a blend of horseradish, mustard, and food coloring, due to the cost of real wasabi. — Source

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CRACKED JAMS ARE MADE FROM FRUIT, WHILE JELLIES ARE MADE FROM JUICE. Furthermore, preserves have fruit chunks, and marmalades have peel and pulp. — Source

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CRACKED IN 2006, A NORWEGIAN COACH GAVE A SKI POLE TO A CANADIAN SKIER, WHO WENT ON TO WIN A SILVER MEDAL. GANAGA 29 OMIC CANADA Canada was so grateful that they collectively gave him 5.2 tons of Maple Syrup. — Source

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CRACKED COLLECTIVELY, INDIAN WOMEN CONTROL AN ESTIMATED $600 TO $800 BILLION WORTH OF GOLD. That's four times as much gold as the U.S. reserves in Fort Knox. — Source

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CRACKED COLLECTIVELY, INDIAN WOMEN CONTROL AN ESTIMATED $600 TO $800 BILLION WORTH OF GOLD. That's four times as much gold as the U.S. reserves in Fort Knox. — Source

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CRACKED THREE MUSKETEERS USED TO COME IN DIFFERENT FLAVORS. Reach for Candy Bars by Dictor MARS 3 MUSKETEERS 0 - Candy Bars It came in three flavors, strawberry, chocolate and vanilla - that's how it got its name. — Source

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CRACKED IN THE MOVIE BABE, BABE WAS PLAYED BY 48 DIFFERENT PIGS. Filming took three years, and the piglets kept outgrowing the role. — Source

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CRACKED THERE HAVE BEEN NO U.S. PRESIDENTS WHO WERE ONLY CHILDREN. And more have been second born than any other birth order placement. — Source

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GRACKED ARMADILLOS ARE THE ONLY ANIMALS (BESIDES HUMANS) THAT CAN GET LEPROSY. Humans most likely transmitted the disease to them about 500 years ago. — Source

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GRACKED THE AFGHAN HOUND HAS BEEN DETERMINED TO BE THE LEAST INTELLIGENT DOG BREED. While the Belgian Malinois was found to be the smartest. — Source

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George Washington

CRACKED GEORGE WASHINGTON BECAME A SLAVE OWNER AT 11. Не inherited 10 enslaved people upon his father's death. In his will, he instructed that all his slaves be freed upon his wife's death... so he definitely knew slave owning was wrong. — Source

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GRACKED THE ATLANTIC OCEAN IS SALTIER THAN THE PACIFIC OR INDIAN OCEANS. Large rivers like the Amazon tend to deposit more salt from land into the Atlantic Ocean. — Source

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The James Webb Space Telescope led to advances in ophthalmology. NASA Gradard The work that went into developing the telescope optics led to a company being spun off that focuses on mapping the eye and diagnosing eye conditions. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Some of Earth's largest birds were about 10 feet tall and lived on New Zealand. HEINKICH HARD They were called moas, and they lived there for millions of years but went extinct about 600 years ago, when humans showed up (apparently, we hunted them to extinction). CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the '40s, you could get a self-heating can of soup, and they were popular. Campbell's CONDENSED INTERNATIONALE EXPOSITION STEREA A 1900 90 ASIS Tomato NEW NET Ж old SOUP olo Eyi They were great for soldiers on the front lines, and in fact they were developed for soldiers by Heinz and ICI. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Drivers only sit on the left in cars because of Ford's Model т. Ford 22 FORD Before the Model т, the drivers' seat was usually on the right - but in the Model т, it was to the left, and the Model T was so popular that other manufacturers moved the seat to the left too. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apocalypse Now was supposed to have a score played only on synthesizer. That was Francis Ford Coppola's original idea - a fully orchestrated score, but one that wouldn't be played on analog synthesizers rather than instruments. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apparently, 15 digits of pi are enough for NASA, it turns out. That's 3.141592653589793, and it's the number they use for interplanetary navigation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A teacher jumped down a 75-foot mine shaft to savè one of her students. In 2012, German kin- dergarten teacher Ina Koenig jumped down and kept the child's head above the cold water until help could arrive. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The Ket People

The Ket people are one of the last true hunter and gatherer societies on Earth. The Ket people are an isolated population of 1200 in Siberia, and their language is strikingly similar in structure to the Native North American languages. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The Taliban accidentally exposed a cave network filled with 5th-9th century artwork. In 2011, the Taliban blew up two 4th-century stat- ues of Buddha with dyna- mite, but excavators later discovered a previously unknown giant statue of Buddha within. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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When Charlie Chaplin received his honorary Oscar, he received a 12-minute standing ovation. Chaplin was initially hesitant but decided to return to the US for the first time in 20 years, and accepted his award for the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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One of America's first serial killers was captured and decapitated by a mountain man. In 1863, Tom Tobin hunted down Felipe Espinosa, who killed 32 innocent civilians, and single-handedly de- capitated him and his ac- complices. Tobin was paid with a Henry rifle for the killings. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The cesium test is used to test if an old bottle of wine is genuine. 3 The wine in question is tested for cesium 137 - if there is none present, we know the bottle predates 1945 because, since the nuclear age, everything is contaminated. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A species of songbirds can predict hurricane season intensity better than computer models. A two decade study of the breeding behavior of Veeries showed that they could sense what the hur- ricane season had in store months before most trop- ical storms form. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A female Giant Pacific Octopus can lay 50,000 eggs. She quits eating and spends 6 months slow- ly dying as she tends to and protects them. On average, only 2 out of the 50,000 baby octopuses survive. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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