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32 Bits of Trivia to Slather on Your Grey Matter

February 26, 2024

We’d say that we’re very liberal with our fact portions, so your brain is in for a real treat. We’re not like those restaurants that boast more about the portion sizes than the quality of whatever ends up on your plate either. Lookin’ at you, every restaurant on Kitchen Nightmares. Today, you’ll need a few takeout boxes, because these can satiate that salivating brain of yours all week long!

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Tom Cruise broke his ankle on a take in Mission: Impossible 6 and kept filming. During a stunt, he accidentally hit a wall with his foot and immediately knew he broke it, but he really didn't want to do it again so he carried on. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Fox is wearing material from Wes Anderson's suit. It wasn't a symbolic gesture or anything -- Anderson just thought the fabric would work really well for the character, so he donated it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Roosters crow depending on their order in the local hierarchy. Among chickens, the lower a bird's rank, the longer it has to wait to eat - - andto crow. The top-ranked rooster crows in the morning first, and others then follow him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Catholic Church

The Catholic Church is actually pretty cool with evolution and the Big Bang. Bras OVIA DILIGO TE O PETRE DIXIST NC VNA FIDES MYNDO REFVIG It also says that Young Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design are essentially just pretending to be science, and it rejects them outright. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The last major cavalry charge happened in 1942, and it was made by Italians. 600 of them charged 2,000 Soviet soldiers in August 1942 and, amazingly, they helped drive off the Soviet troops (but they took heavy losses). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Seagrass spreads thanks to turtles eating seagrass seeds and then pooping them. Sea turtles (and dugongs, cousins of the manatee) gobble up seeds, then pass it elsewhere --sometimes spreading over 500,000 seeds daily. CRACKED.COM — Source

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France gets about four fifths of all its electricity from nuclear reactors. In the U.S., where there are 104 reactors, that figure is about 20% - but France has 58 reactors. This also means France emits the least carbon in the OECD. CRACKED.COM — Source

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11 novels written by pioneering journalist Nellie Bly were just recently discovered. She wrote them in serialized form for a weekly newspaper, and they were thought to be lost - - but a writer discovered copies in archives in 2020. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The COCO de mer plant has a seed that looks a lot like, well, a human butt. Fittingly, its old botanical name was Lodoicea callipyge (callipyge is Greek for beautiful buttocks), and it was considered a strong aphrodisiac. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its body. CRACKED.COM For a human, this would be like having a tongue that measured 10 to 12 feet long. The chameleon's tongue isn't just long, it's also the fastest in the ani- mal kingdom. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Twins can have different fathers. On rare occasions, two eggs are released during the same ovulation cycle, which can be fertilized by different fathers. This is extremely unusual in humans, but it has been known to happen. — Source

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Killer whales can learn dolphin language. Orcas who spend time with bottlenose dolphins use more clicks and whistles, and their language becomes a mashup of both species. (So orcas speak dolphin with an accent?) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hailstones in Jupiter and saturn are diamonds. Thunderstorms turn atmospheric methane into pure carbon soot. As the soot falls and the pressure increases, it gets compressed into diamonds as big as one centimeter across. CRACKED COM — Source

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Trees

There are way more trees on Earth than stars in the galaxy. A 2015 survey found that three trillion trees grow on Earth, 7 times the previous estimate. About 15 billion are chopped down every year. CRACKED.COM — Source

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crocodiles are more closely related to birds than to lizards. Crocodiles, alligators, and birds are the last surviving archosaurs (a group that included dinosaurs). Their common ancestor lived 240 million years ago. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Each arm of an octopus has its own brain. Octopuses have more nerve cells in their arms than in their heads. Each arm can move, touch, and taste by itself, with no input from the central brain. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tic Tac mints are named after the sound their container makes. REFRESHING LITTLE LIFTS tic tac fresh mins CRACKED.COM Before the rebrand, they were known only as Re- freshing Mints. In 1970, Ferrero was inspired by the tic and the tac sounds heard when you open and close the little plastic container. — Source

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Where The Wild Things Are is only about monsters because the creator couldn't draw horses. CRACKED COM The book was originally going to be about a young boy who finds himself in a land filled with wild horses, inspired by the writer's childhood. Mau- rice Sendak took the 'wild things' and made them unique monsters instead. — Source

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Martian sunsets are blue, thanks to dust. CRACKED .COM Curiosity team scientist Mark Lemmon explained, The colors come from the fact that the very fine dust is the right size so that blue light penetrates the atmosphere slightly more efficiently. — Source

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The siren in The Purge was based on a sound from Spielberg's War of the Worlds. The big tripod creature's sound was the one movie sound that freaked out James DeMonaco, so he asked his sound guys to base the siren on that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A species of fish can basically completely hibernate for up to five years in total. The African lungfish doesn't need food or water during that time and lives in a state of suspended animation, only waking up when water is around. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The original London Bridge was dismantled and moved to Lake Havasu, Arizona. An Arizona businessman bought it, thinking it'd make a great tourist attraction. They numbered each of the 10,276 blocks before taking it apart. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The world's heaviest carrot is basically a revolting, misshapen monstrosity. The vegetable, which looks like horror movie scenery, weighs 22.44 pounds, and it was grown by a man from Minnesota named Christopher Qualley. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A group of monkeys grieved over a robot monkey's baby death in a BBC documentary. (illustration) The doc put the (very convincing) robot in a group of monkeys, one of whom accidentally dropped it so it lay motionless. They all started grieving. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mice don't really love cheese at all - it's just a pop culture myth, basically. And it's much older than, say, Tom & Jerry, for that matter -- scholars actually think it probably dates all the way back to medieval times. CRACKED.COM — Source

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As a rehearsal for the very first atomic bomb test, they stacked 100 tons of TNT. Trinity Well, 108 tons, to be exact - and they detonated them simultaneously in May, 1945, two months before the real thing: Trinity, the first nuclear explosion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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One of the finest delicacies you could eat in ancient Rome was a dormouse. Romans thought they were so delicious, they kept dormice in cages to fatten them like geese - and they'd be stuffed with pork before being served. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the country of Kosovo, you can hire a professional Hitler impersonator. Emin Gjinovci is a 55-year-old military vet who calls himself Kosovo's own reincarnation of Adolf Hitler and partly relies on playing Hitler to make a living. CRACKED.COM — Source

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You can thank WWI for introducing the fashion of wearing a watch on your wrist. X XI 2 IV D XII de B VIII FOSSIL Ф 6 ٠٥٠ VII - Vt F V III 1 Before that, men usually wore watches in their pockets - but soldiers had to wear them on their wrists, so they could coordinate instantly. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Singer Chubby Checker sued HP over the app called, uh, Chubby Checker. SI KUS WS LAWS The app did exactly what you thought it does: it estimated the size of your dong (based on your shoe size), and Chubby wasn't happy about it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The country with the greatest number of time zones isn't, say, Russia or China. It's France - because of its many overseas territories, scattered from South America to the Indian Ocean, France spreads over 12 time zones. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The world's tallest cat-scratching tree is about as big as someone's house. It's over 32 feet high, and its bottom layer - shaped like a square - is 31.59 feet by 31.59 feet. The whole structure has a total of 15 layers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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