25 Bits of Trivia That Are Good to the Last Drop
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What kind of night do you think your brain is trying to have here? Is it out for one or two social facts with an old pal? Is it letting off some steam with a few facts after a tough week at the office? Or maybe it’s lookin’ to get a whole mess of facts up in it at its buddy’s bachelor party! We’re fact-tending tonight, so we just want to see what we’re dealing with — and if we need to call in a second bouncer.
![In 1938, a revolver-camera was invented to take a picture when the trigger was pulled. 26913 GRACKED.COM There's no evidence that this gun was actually put to use other than for trial photo shoots and practice runs. The only known sur- viving photos come from the 'Nationall Archief of the Netherlands.'](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/7/1030457.jpg)
![A Chinese-American pilot was chased with a pitchfork in Kansas during WWII. CRACKED.COM Hazel Ying-Lee had to make an emergency landing in a field. A near- by farmer chased her screaming to his neigh- bors that the Japanese were invading.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/6/1030456.jpg)
![The clearest lake in the world is the Blue Lake located in Nelson, New Zealand. CRACKED COM Visibility in the lake is up to 80 meters meaning the water is considered almost as optically clear as dis- tilled water.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/5/1030455.jpg)
![The protein that gives cats extra toes is named Sonic Hedgehog. CRACKED COM Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) is a signaling protein normally made by cells on just the pinky side of the develop- ing foot. As the toes form, their number and identity depend on their exposure to SHH protein.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/4/1030454.jpg)
![Trash and dirty laundry from the ISS is put into a nonreusable spacecraft and burned in our atmosphere. CRACKED.COM Supplies are sent to the ISS via unmanned Progress ships, which are only good for a one-way trip. These ships are then loaded up with garbage and un- docked, so they burn up over the Pacific Ocean.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/3/1030453.jpg)
![People instinctively start to burrow in the final stages of hypothermia. CRACKED COM Humans exhibit two strange behaviors at this time; para- doxical undressing, despite being dangerously close to death, and a completely au- tonomous, instinctual bur- rowing behavior.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/2/1030452.jpg)
![There is only one person alive who knows how to spin yarn from clam saliva. GRACKED.COM Sea silk is a highly prized unique material made from Mediterranean clams. Chi- ara Vigo of Italy is the last person that can process the raw material, made from the solidified saliva of large clams.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/1/1030451.jpg)
![There is a disorder where a person is under the delusion they are a cow. GRACKED.COM A person suffering from bo- anthropy usually has dreams that take over as full-blown delusion. King Nebuchad- nezzar, according to the Book of Daniel, was said to be driven from men and did eat grass as oxen.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/0/1030450.jpg)
![Used motor oil was sprayed onto dirt roads in Times Beach, Missouri to curb a dust problem. CRACKED.COM The motor oil had been mixed with an- other chemical called dioxin, leading to one of the largest environ- mental disasters in U.S history.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/9/1030449.jpg)
![A man attempted to board a cruise ship by bungee jumping off a bridge as it sailed below. CRACKED.COM William Dean Sullivan suf- fered minor head injuries when he bounced off the ship's tennis court, volley- ball net, and a deck railing before being left dangling in mid-air as the ship sailed away.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/8/1030448.jpg)
![Susan В. Anthony was fined $100 for illegally voting, and never paid. CRACKED.COM In 1872, Susan В. Anthony was fined for unlawfully voting in the election of Ulysses S. Grant and Horace Greeley, but she was posthumously pardoned... by President Donald Trump.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/7/1030447.jpg)
![Couples lose about 750 combined hours of sleep the first year of parenthood. GRACKED.COM A parent loses around 109 minutes of sleep every night with a newborn, resulting in around 750 hours of lost sleep between two parents in the first year alone.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/6/1030446.jpg)
![Four presidents have been on the cover of Sports Illustrated. PARINE IN HIS OWN WORDS Sp OR ts® e C E S 24 Illus r ted May 30, 2016 SL.COM I follow @SINOW THUNNE CRACKED COM Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan have all been on the cover. Reagan was the only one to make an appearance twice.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/5/1030445.jpg)
![The plural of Prius is Prii. - CRACKED GOM After a general vote of the public in 2011, Toyota decided that the official pluralization of the word Prius is Prii. Knowing how most public polls go, they got lucky.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/4/1030444.jpg)
![The French army became the first to use camouflage during WWI. CRACKED.COM The word 'camouflage' comes from the French verb 'to make up for the stage'. Most camouflage was originally used on guns and vehicles.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/3/1030443.jpg)
![Pearls are created when an irritant enters a mollusc's shell. CRACKED.COM The mollusc secretes ara- gonite and conchiolin that creates nacre (aka mother of pearl) which encases the irritant (such as a parasite, sand, or other debris).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/2/1030442.jpg)
![It was believed in Ancient Greece that leprosy could be cured by bathing in children's blood. GRAGKED.COM Virgin blood was another cure, both to bathe in and consume, as it was tied to puri- ty. After a while, the blood of dogs and corpses started to be- come popular when (somehow) virgin and/or toddler blood just wasn't doing the trick.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/0/1030440.jpg)
![A Singapore Airlines cargo plane had to make an emergency landing because of sheep farts. CRACKED.COM The flatulence from the 2,186 sheep on- board allegedly trig- gered the plane's smoke detector, a claim in which the air- line denies.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/1/1030441.jpg)
![The White Sox held a Disco Demolition Night attended by 50,000 people, which turned into a riot. STEREO CIO V - Sotillion KARETHERK RA - F adidas GOLD GARE Adidas For Origin STER CRACKED.COM 1 The promotion, held in 1979, was an effort to boost atten- dance and was connected to prior Disco Nights, al- though those didn't usually end in fans rushing the field after a bunch of records were blown up.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/8/1030438.jpg)
![2 USAF F-15s shot down 2 US Army Black Hawk helicopters in 1994. FF 026 GRAGKED.COM The friendly-fire incident, which killed all 26 helicop- ter passengers, is attribut- ed to a chain of errors, from the general heading up the Operation Provide Comfort Task Force all the way down.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/9/1030439.jpg)
![Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas. ON ree CRACKED.COM Keaton had to change his name when he arrived in LA, per the Screen Actors Guild rules, so he flipped through a phone book. Не selected 'K' in the book and stopped at 'Keaton.'](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/5/1030435.jpg)
![An ancient Korean medicine, Ttongsul, is made from fermented poop. CRACKED.COM The poop of a 4-7 year old child is left to ferment with rice and yeast. When per- fectly ripe, this alcoholic drink is claimed to cure pain, broken bones, bruis- es, inflammation, and even epilepsy.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/7/1030437.jpg)
![Citibank played a huge role in destabilizing Haiti. VIDEO DER GBR citibank aticanx EADS - Citibank ENER MOTT STREET to BEY 2 PENSKE ENTER GRACKED COM Citibank took over the na- tional bank of Haiti in 1910, which also served as Haiti's treasury. Citibank paid rebels to destabilize the county and pressued the US to occupy Haiti in 1915.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/6/1030436.jpg)
![One FBI agent infiltrated the Italian mafia for five years. CRACKED.COM Joseph Pistone infiltrated one of the five big fami- lies of the Italian Mafia in New York. The operation lasted from 1976 to 1981 and led to over 200 in- dictments and over 100 convictions.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/4/1030434.jpg)
![There is one castle for every 5,200 people in Wales. CRACKED COM There are more than 600 castles in Wales, more per square mile than anywhere in the world. Some have been lived in continuously for a thousand years, while others are romantic ruins.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/3/1030433.jpg)