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25 Refreshing Bits of Trivial to Slurp Straight Into Your Brain Through Your Eyeballs

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It’s our duty to warn you that although we do want you to slurp these facts through your eyeballs, we do not recommend shoving straws into your eyes. It’s merely a metaphor for taking in these trivia tidbits through your eyes by viewing and understanding them. They will reach your brain that way. We assure you. Put the straws down!

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Colorado has a mile marker 419.99 on Interstate 70. GRACKED.COM Colorado Department of Transportation workers replaced the often stolen Mile 420 marker with this one after getting tired of replacing it. — Source

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Iron Man had rocket powered roller blades at one time. CRACKED.COM In Tales of Suspense #45, jet-powered roller blades that popped out of his metal boots could allow Iron Man to reach speeds of 60 miles per hour. — Source

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Horses can nap standing up thanks to special tendons. CRACKED.COM Sleeping on the ground leaves the horse vulnerable, so with the help of a special system of tendons and ligaments that lock the major joints in its legs, the horse can sleep for short periods while standing. — Source

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The most successful pirate of all time was a woman. CRACKED.COM Ching Shih, a Chinese citizen born into poverty in 1785, took over her husband Zheng Yi's fleet after his death, commanding more than 1800 ships and 80,000 pirates at her peak. — Source

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The world's oldest marathon runner was 101-years-old. NB ANS A adidas FLORA FLOR LEL G adidas CRACKED.COM Fauja Singh ran the London Marathon in 7 hours 49 minutes. Не ran his first London marathon in 2000 and went on to compete in a further eight marathons. — Source

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It is illegal to own a rabbit in Queensland, Australia, unless you're a magician. CRACKED.COM Due to ecological damage stemming from people buying and releasing rabbits, Queensland decided to ban anyone who couldn't pull one from a hat from owning one. — Source

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The average human can generate up to 200 pounds of bite force. GRACKED.COM We have the necessary force to easily bite off a finger, but our brains stop us from doing so. For reference, a Piranha has a bite force of 72, and a rottweiler has one of 335. — Source

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CRACKED BEE SAFE: WEAR WHITE. Beekeepers wear white when they're around beehives to help protect themselves. Bees have learned to be cautious of dark-colored animals that come close to their hives, so wearing white can help keep them from feeling threatened. — Source

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CRACKED CATS: NATURE'S CONTORTIONISTS. Cats have an amazing ability to change their shape to fit whatever container they're in. This was studied by a guy who got the Ig Nobel prize for this research in 2017. — Source

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CRACKED FLORIDA HAD TO OUTLAW THE THROWING OF LITTLE PEOPLE. In 1989, Florida made it illegal to throw dwarfs after one who had been tossed a lot died from drinking too much alcohol. Kind of disturbing to think they needed a precedent like that. — Source

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CRACKED HENRY FORD: HITLER'S FAVORITE CAR SALESMAN. Ford was a close ally of Hitler before World War II, and used his power to support the Nazi government. Because of this, Hitler was a huge fan of Ford. — Source

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CRACKED BEN FRANKLIN'S DARK SECRET. In 1998, a shocking discovery was made in the basement of Benjamin Franklin's old London house - over 1,200 pieces of bone from at least 15 people. Sounds serial killer-y, but the likeliest explanation is that his friend ran an anatomy school. — Source

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CRACKED - - - Plan - - - STA KETCHUP- FUELED SURVIVAL. CMA One Dominican sailor managed to stay alive in the Caribbean sea for over three weeks by eating ketchup and other condiments. Presumably, and hopefully, not a Heinz guerrilla marketing stunt. — Source

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After WWII, a ship full of Dutch-Canadian babies headed to Canada. Many Canadian soldiers got Dutch girlfriends, and they'd ask them to come to Canada after the war - eventually, the Dutch and Canadian governments organized a ship for them (and their babies). CRACKED.COM — Source

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The cache of emails that led to Enron's downfall became surprisingly useful. ENRON These emails became a dataset that was used to train tools like Siri and Gmail's Smart Compose. It was also used for research into gender bias, machine learning, and email filtering. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a Rocky action figure of The Meat - the slab of meat Rocky punched. It's literally just a plastic version of that bag of meat, plus a slaughterhouse coat (with blood stains), and it must have been a really exciting toy for kids who bought Rocky action figures. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There was a sudden outbreak of testicle thefts in 1920s Chicago. The newspapers called it gland larceny, and it was linked to a craze for, well, testicles - at the time, people thought that grafting animal testicles could make you younger and more virile. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In India, they cultivate approximately 6,000 varieties of rice. Which might not be all that surprising when you consider that about 50% of India's billion-plus people depend on it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's brain tissue that's nearly 2000 years old, preserved as glass. It's from a victim of a volcano eruption in 79 AD-apparently, the intense heat just converts your tissue into glass (and you become a scientifically valuable artifact millennia later). CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1961, they built a passenger/cargo ship powered by a nuclear reactor. It was called the NS Savannah, and it's still around, but non-functional - currently, it's in the Port of Baltimore, MD. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The smallest celestial body. with its own ring system is 155 miles in diameter. Before the discovery of the rings of minor plan- et 10199 Chariklo, it had been thought that rings could only be stable around much more mas- sive bodies. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A psychologist took a dying child to a prostitute so he could have sex before he died. Coke b New The 15-year-old boy with terminal cancer told hospi- tal staff of his desire to lose his virginity, and he was eventually brought to Sydney's red-light district without his parents' knowl- edge. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Marion Franklin Tinsley beat a computer program at checkers by looking 64 moves ahead. Considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived, Tinsley beat the program Chi- nook by picking the only available winning strategy after Chinook made a fatal error during gameplay. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Johnson & Johnson knew there was Asbestos in Baby Powder for decades. Hundreds of internal mem- os show that Johnson & Johnson was aware their baby powder could poten- tially be contaminated by asbestos, and executives worried about public back- lash. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A South African resort lets the rich vacation in a shanty town to get a taste of the hard life. Shanty Town in Bloemfon- tein looks exactly as it sounds on the outside, but the corrugated metal shacks are actually equipped with the ameni- ties elites are used to: heated floors and WiFi. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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