31 Bits of Trivia to Crowd Into Your Comically Tiny Noggin Like Clowns in a VW Beetle
Cue the circus music! These facts are piling in!
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The fact that facts have to pile into your brain one at a time is a little discouraging, to be honest. We’re always thinking of ways to open your skull and dump dozens of them in there at once, but we just haven’t found a safe (and legal) way to do it… Yet! For now, here’s a lame old one-fact-at-a-time list. Ugh.
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![CRACKED.COM Machiavelli never said, The end justifies the means. Machiavelli was much less Machiavellian than people think. His actual quote from The Prince was more about how power perpetuates itself, as whatever means the powerful use to remain powerful will always be defended as justifiable.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/6/1026276.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM Crippled by student loan debt? Thank Albert L. Lord. SHERVE NOTE 60 T As a top officer of the Student Loan Marketing Association (SLMA, or Sallie Mae), Lord did his aggressive best to dominate the student loan market and lobby Congress to keep profits high. Now that his own grandkids are in college, he pontificates about how gosh-darn expensive it is.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/5/1026275.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM The Navy maintains a forest to service just one ship. The USS Constitution is the oldest ship still afloat - and the U.S. Navy grows a 50,000-acre forest just to maintain it. Every 60 years, the oldest trees are chopped down and turned into new planks for the Constitution.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/4/1026274.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM IMDb started as a list of hot actresses. The biggest website for film buffs was originally just a list of actresses and their credits compiled on Usenet. The list was later expanded to include actors too, and the whole thing was eventually made available online in 1990. IMDb Fi](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/3/1026273.jpg)
![Georgia O'Keeffe hated that people saw anything sexual in her paintings. O'Keeffe was adamant that she painted flowers, not vaginas. It was photographer Alfred Stieglitz (who eventually became her husband) who began promoting her paintings as softcore porn, against her objections. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/2/1026272.jpg)
![CRACKED COM Jack Kerouac helped build the Pentagon. Before he became an iconic Beat writer, Kerouac had several jobs in the 1940s - including a gig as a construction worker at the new HQ of the War Department. Не would bring a pint of gin or whiskey to work every day.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/0/1026270.jpg)
![Russia's military makes. its arsenal look more imposing with inflatable weapons. It's literally a bunch of tanks, radar stations, and everything between that look real from a distance but are inflatable - they're very cheap and reasonably convincing. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/7/1026267.jpg)
![They asked Don Cheadle for a 12-year acting commitment at his kid's birthday party. The person from Marvel who'd called him about starring in the MCU gave him an hour to decide, and when Cheadle said he was celebrating his kid's birthday, they told him he can have two hours. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/9/1026269.jpg)
![Making a pound of honey requires 50,000 hours of bee flight. In other words, a bee is going to fly over a distance that's twice the circumference of the Earth to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/1/1026271.jpg)
![Breakdancing has officially become an Olympic sport. 98 CALIFORNIA The first breakdancing event will be held at the 2024 Olympics in Paris -- it's part of the Olympic committee trying to get a younger crowd to tune in. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/5/1026265.jpg)
![The Pentagon wasted $5 billion on a plane that was never made. The A-12 Stealth Bomber was billed as a long-range bomber for the 21st century, but the development program just fizzled out after burning a bunch of money and never produced anything (except lawsuits). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/6/1026266.jpg)
![In the 17th century, coffee was thought to make men impotent. At one point, in an attempt to restore their husbands' virility, a bunch of London women petitioned against coffee houses. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/8/1026268.jpg)
![Scientists can work out how much pee there is in a pool by measuring artificial sweeteners. Some of those sweeteners aren't digested and don't easily break down in water, so measuring their amount in a pool gives you a pretty good idea of the amount of pee. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/4/1026264.jpg)
![A single animal species has a skeleton that's part metal. It's the scaly-foot snail, a critter found on hydrothermal events deep in the ocean, and its shell and scales (i.e. its skeleton) are partly made out of iron sulphides. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/3/1026263.jpg)
![High G-Forces gives pilots something called geasles. They're small, dark spots on your skin that form when capillaries burst due to the intense pressure, and they're called G-measles (or geasles for short). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/2/1026262.jpg)
![The first ideas for Indiana Jones involved making him a pedo. At an early brainstorming session for the character, George Lucas suggested that he and Marion Ravenwood might have had an affair when he was an adult and she was 11. Не then moved her age up to all of 15 (Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore.) NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/1/1026261.jpg)
![The interviews at the start of Interstellar are (mostly) real. One of them includes an actor (Ellen Burstyn), but the others are interviews with real people, describing what they lived through, from the 2012 documentary Dust Bowl. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/0/1026260.jpg)
![The first ideas for Indiana Jones involved making him a pedo. At an early brainstorming session for the character, George Lucas suggested that he and Marion Ravenwood might have had an affair when he was an adult and she was 11. Не then moved her age up to all of 15 (Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore.) NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/9/1026259.jpg)
![The Baltimore Ravens' mascot is a raven, which shouldn't be surprising to any logical person. But non-Baltimore fans might not know the mascot's name: Poe. Now you can finally get your goth son into football! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/8/1026258.jpg)
![Polar bears have the most sensitive nose of any land mammal. They can smell prey from 18 miles away. We assume that if one evèr entered a New York City subway station, their nose would immediately explode. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/7/1026257.jpg)
![Hydrophis cyanocinctus is a sea snake that's able to breathe through its forehead. It uses a group of blood vessels, along with a hole in its skull, to allow oxygen to diffuse into its blood. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/4/1026254.jpg)
![The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 is considered to have launched the women's suffrage movement. Jhio carol mag issued Kozi the ation Weld at Seriesy Falls in 1908 and is OFF Our 'Roll Ibonor Containing all the Signatures to the Declaration of Sentiments set Forth by the First Woman's Rights Convention, held at Seneca Falls, New York July 19-20, 1848 LADIES: Lucretia Mott Rachel D. Bonnel Sophronia Taylor Harriet Cady Eaton Cynthia Davis Belsey Tewksbury Margaret Pryor Hannah Plant Rhoda Palmer Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucy Jones Margaret Jenkins Eunice Newton Foote Sarah Whitney Cyathia Fuller Mary Ann M'Clintock Mary H.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/5/1026255.jpg)
![The cotton-top tamarin are strictly arboreal, meaning they live their entire life in the trees. They don't even leave for water, getting moisture from rain & food. They are highly endangered due to deforestation. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/6/1026256.jpg)
![Tonka Trucks get their name from Lake Minnetonka, located nearby its original location: Mound, Minnesota. It also nods to the word tanka, which means great or big in the Dakota Sioux language. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/0/1026250.jpg)
![HO Buttered Toast M 3,14 3 2 GRACKED.COM A slice of bread always seems to fall spread-side-down. That's because the average table's height means bread makes half a rotation before hitting the Were tables 10 feet tall, ground. 9-04 slices would land spread-side-up.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/3/1026253.jpg)
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![Cats And Dead Mice M 3,14 3 2 GRAGKED.COM Cats keep bringing you dead animals because they're trying to teach you to hunt. They instinctively teach their kids, and without kittens (the behavior is most common in spayed Mgst cats), you're their family.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/2/1026252.jpg)
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![People Talking On Y Phones 3 GRAGKED.COM Iv Hearing them is so distracting because you hear only one half of the conversation (a halfologue), so you mentally try to fill in the gaps. When two people talk, it's much easier to tune the conversation out.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/4/8/1026248.jpg)
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![Your Ugly Photos Tr= 3,14 3 GRAGKED.COM If you think you look worse than Iv everyone else 2 in a photo, that's because you look so different from the image you're more used to-your reflection. Look at more photos and mg 504 less mirrors, and you'll like pics more.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/4/9/1026249.jpg)
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![Coffee 3,14 3 CRACKED COM Do you always need to poop right after drinking coffee? It's not the caffeine rush. Coffee stimulates your distal colon. We're not totally sure why, but it may 19-34 be the chlorogenic acid, as well as ingredients that speed digestion.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/1/1026251.jpg)
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![Flies P 3,14 3 CRACKED.COM Yeah, flies are good at getting away D from you. That's because flies perceive about four times more flashes of their surroundings per second than you-it's like they're watching the whole world mg in slow motion.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/4/7/1026247.jpg)
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![HO Paper Cuts TY3314 3 CRACKED.COM Slice yourself in the kitchen, and you might not notice till you see the blood. Paper cuts, which damage less, hurt more. That's because paper slashes less cleanly and targets your 4 skin's surface, the most sensitive part.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/4/6/1026246.jpg)
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