30 Bits of Trivia to Soak Up Into That Run-Through Scrub Daddy You Call a Brain

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30 Bits of Trivia to Soak Up Into That Run-Through Scrub Daddy You Call a Brain

People like to say, “Out with the old, in with the new,” but when it comes to facts, we think the old ones can stay, too. Call us hoarders if you must, but there’s no need to toss out a perfectly good fact just because you learned it a year ago. Now, if we find that the fact is just a myth in fact’s clothing, then yes, out to the curb it goes!

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Halifax, Nova Scotia

Every year, Halifax, Nova Scotia sends a Christmas tree to the city of Boston. It's to thank Boston for help when Halifax was devastated by a freighter blowing up in 1917 - - the largest man-made explosion at the time. Boston sent a 500-bed hospital unit, 30 doctors, 70 nurses, and tons of medical supplies, and raised $100,000 in just the first hour of fundraising. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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The U.S. Interstate system exists partly thanks to Eisenhower's WWII experiences. During and after WWII, Germany's four-lane highways were probably the best in the world, and Eisenhower used them to move troops and travel across the country. So he thought four-lane highways were a great transport system, and fought hard for the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM
All freshwater fish kind of come from duck poop. The first fish in a new pond or pool come from eggs eaten by ducks. 0.2% of the eggs come out of the duck's other end intact -- a really low percentage, but ducks are very abundant, so a swarm of ducks moving to a new pond will leave enough eggs to populate it with fish. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Singin’ in the Rain

The rain in Singin' in the Rain wasn't milk. It was just really good lighting and filming -- they lit it from behind, making sure you couldn't see all the lighting equipment in the shopfronts' windows. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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