37 Bits of Trivia That Are Nearly Spoiled so We Mashed Them Up Into a Loaf of Dessert Bread
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![37 Bits of Trivia That Are Nearly Spoiled so We Mashed Them Up Into a Loaf of Dessert Bread](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/3/3/1039033_320x180.jpg)
We’re humble enough to admit that we could never compete with your mom’s banana bread. She’s been whipping that thing up for decades now, and we’re all just happy to enjoy those yummy slices. So we thought, why not stick to our strengths? We know random facts better than most, so we mixed the bruised, mushy ones with some random stuff we found laying around the kitchen, and boom! A lumpy concoction that tastes horrible to the mouth, but delectable to the brain!
![Firefighters' water is extra wet. 180 They add wetting agents to water, which reduces its surface tension and allows it to leave surfaces more wet than regular water. That makes water better at extinguishing some types of fires. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/2/1038162.jpg)
![The most expensive animated film, ever, is Tangled. That was partly because it was rewritten a bunch of times, and partly because Rapunzel's hair was stupidly difficult to animate. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/7/1038157.jpg)
![The original Power Rangers actors were paid around $600 a week. That was for filming two episodes a week, and they didn't get any residuals, either -- $600 was it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/3/1038153.jpg)
![Charlemagne used asbestos for party tricks. kasolus magnis Annis.14 2 impaint He'd serve dinner to his guests on an asbestos tablecloth, then throw it into the fireplace when dinner was over -- apparently, to make them think he had wizard powers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/0/1038160.jpg)
![The first choice for Hannibal Lecter was Sean Connery. Не refused a role in Silence of the Lambs very quickly because he found it disgusting and said he'd never play something like that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/1/1038161.jpg)
![When Truman told Stalin about the nuclear bomb in 1945, Stalin was unfazed. Не just said he hoped Truman would make good use of it against the Japanese. This was because Soviet spies had known about the U.S. nuclear program for almost 4 years by that point. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/5/1038155.jpg)
![In 1961, a Russian surgeon in Antarctica cut out his own appendix. Leonid Rogozov was part of a Soviet expedition to build a new base on Antarctica, and during the mission he realized he had acute appendicitis. Не was the only surgeon, so he meticulously prepped and then performed the surgery. Two weeks later, he was back to work. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/3/1038163.jpg)
![Tigers actually have amazing jungle camouflage. Other Regular mammals' vision human vision Most mammals, except humans, are red-green color-blind. To them, a tiger looks greenish and blends into foliage very easily. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/9/1038159.jpg)
![Turns out, MLK Junior was actually a big fan of Star Trek. Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, says that, when she told him, Dr. King, I wish I could be out there marching with you, he told her, You are marching. You are reflecting what we are fighting for. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/6/1038156.jpg)
![When the Hundred Years' War started, the blind King of Bohemia wanted to fight. So he got his men to tie their own horses to his horse, and to lead him into battle. Не refused to retreat, and died in battle. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/8/1038158.jpg)
![One Japanese astronomer drew sunspots every single day for 40 years. And it turned out the detailed drawings have been very helpful in the study of solar cycles and magnetic fields. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/4/1038154.jpg)
![Before the US bombed on Japan in WWII, they had to get the UK's consent. This was required because of a treaty on nuclear research that was agreed to in secret by the two countries. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/2/1038152.jpg)
![At the height of WWII, Joseph Goebbels asked Germans to send winter clothes. The German army desperately needed them for the Russian winter, and the German citizens obeyed - and 76,232,688 items in total were gathered for the troops. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/1/1038151.jpg)
![In 1997, David Bowie sold his own official Bowie bonds. And they were just like any other bond, more or less - people who bought them got a share of Bowie's royalties for the next 10 years. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/4/1038144.jpg)
![In 1902, there was something called The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre. HEITAS SEA - ... - - VIO - FOOD S It happened because the French regime wanted to get rid of the rats in the sewers, so they put a bounty on each rat tail - but this just made people breed rats for the tails. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/7/1038147.jpg)
![Thanks to John Wick, a cocaine smuggling operation in Italy was foiled. 130 grams of cocaine were sent from Colombia to Italy, and the whole thing was busted when a customs official saw a sender's name and realized it was the name of a John Wick mafia boss. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/8/1038148.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD They've announced an emergency in the Suez Canal because of one ship. It's Ever Given, the ship that already blocked it once -now it's back, with an even heavier load. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/5/1038145.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A TikTok trend made it sound like there'd be school shootings ... but поре. Tik Tok It was called National Shoot Up Your School Day - seriously - and school officials were afraid there'd be actual shootings. There weren't. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/9/1038149.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A college professor gave his students a treasure hunt using his syllabus. - The hunt was for an actual cash prize stashed away on campus, and students just had to read the syllabus. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/0/1038150.jpg)
![A BRITISH MAN HAD A FULLY- FUNCTIONING FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN. The man, called Rob was thought to have bladder cancer after seeing blood in his urine. It was, in fact, his ovaries that were causing him to pee blood. Rob has a condition called Persistent Mullerian duct syndrome (PMDS). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/6/1038146.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Everyone has their own fingerprints. But your tongue also has a one-of-a-kind print. Because of its uniqueness, the tongue could be used in biometric scans or forensic dentistry as an identification tool in the future.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/1/1038141.jpg)
![Hospitals can prescribe alcohol to alcoholic patients! Bdi ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITALS ROYAL ALEXANDRA ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITALS ETHANOL 40% (45ML) ETHANOL 48% 145 (VODKA) ETHANOL 40% (45ML) (VODKA) (VODKA) MANAGED ALCOHOL PROGRAM MANAGED ALCOHOL FGG MANEGADED ALCOHOL PROGRAY STORE AT ROOM STORE AT ROOM TEMPERATURE STORE AT ROOM TEMPERATURE FOR ORAL USE FOR ORAL USE FOR ORAL USE TREE, ORANGE TREE FOR OR FOR ORAL USE FOR ORAL ONLY ONLY Beer, alcoholic beverages, and IV alcohol is often given to alcoholics before anesthesia to help patients tolerate procedures and help with withdrawal. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/6/1038136.jpg)
![Women's brains are four years younger compared to men who are of the same age. According to researchers this is due to an unexplained slower brain metabolism rate, and could also be the reason why women can stay mentally sharp as they age. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/9/1038139.jpg)
![Doctors don't replace your kidney, during a kidney transplant. They add a third one, and transplant in a new ureter to hook it up. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/3/1038133.jpg)
![Chronic gamers make excellent surgeons. GRACKED.COM According to a 2007 study of students training to become surgeons, long time gamers performed up to 47% better on screen assisted surgeries than non-gamers. Remember this when it is time for a colonoscopy.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/2/1038142.jpg)
![Like any other organ, a cornea needs oxygen to function but has no blood vessel to supply it. To make up for it, it gets oxygen directly from the air. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/0/1038140.jpg)
![A BOY FROM MANCHESTER WAS BORN WITH ONE KIDNEY IN HIS THIGH. Because of a missing chromosome called 7р22.1, Hamish Robinson also has a speech impediment and deafness in one ear. His condition, called Hamish syndrome, is so unique that it was named after him. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/3/1038143.jpg)
![A WOMAN'S BRAIN TUMOR WAS DISCOVERED BECAUSE THE VOICES IN HER HEAD TOLD HER TO GET A BRAIN SCAN. The woman, called Patient AB, hallucinated the voices during a time when she showed no other symptoms of a tumor. When the voices wouldn't stop nagging her, she convinced a doctor to have her tested. Once she'd had surgery to remove the tumor, she says the voices thanked her for listening, then said goodbye. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/7/1038137.jpg)
![A JOCK GOT MUGGED, SUFFERED FROM A CONCUSSION, AND SUDDENLY BECAME A GENIUS. After recovery, Jason Padgett started seeing geometrical shapes everywhere. Не didn't know what it was, but after a few math classes, he realized it was math fractals he was seeing. Padgett's condition is called acquired savant syndrome. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/1/1038131.jpg)
![Caroling was an extortion racket. Before the 19th century, caroling was more like trick-or-treating - ift the trick was destroying your home if you didn't give the carolers enough booze or money. Even some of the songs explicitly threatened home occupants in order to get them to deliver the goods. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/8/1038138.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM 2 | 9T 15 bt 13 a 9 1 8 I Thursday 2 9 10 32 1 7 The calendar was a hot-button political issue. In the 1500s, Pope Gregory XIII commissioned a new calendar to fix serious inaccuracies in the one then in use - and threw the world into turmoil. Non-Catholic countries refused to use the new calendar, seeing it as a tool of Papal domination. Russia and Greece in particular resisted it until the 20th century.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/5/1038135.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM A Texas guy got rich off phone users' indifference. I don't care, many '90s people would say when using a payphone and the operator asked them what long-distance carrier they preferred. A dude named Dennis Dees wised up to this, and created a carrier actually called I Don't Care (which charged rather more than competitors).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/4/1038134.jpg)
![it Merrü Christmas to цои Victorian Christmas cards were hardcore. Trees? Sleighs? Victorians had no time for such harmless BS-their Christmas cards had dead birds, murderous frogs, scary old men, and other imagery you'd only find in horror movies today. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/8/1038128.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Aaron Paul was in The Price is Right. Back in 1999, a young, pre-Breaking Bad (and hugely excited) Aaron Paul made it to the stage after best estimating the price of a desk, and managed to get to the final Showcase Showdown. Too bad that he lost, and had to settle with a future as a popular celebrity.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/0/1038130.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Gilligan's Island was almost rebooted in the '90s (with more cannibalism). According to James Gunn, Charlie Kaufman managed to get a Gilligan's Island reboot greenlit, with the starving castaways killing and eating each other. The project was nixed by Gilligan's creator Sherwood Schwartz.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/7/1038127.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Characters losing their hands in the MCU is a nod to Star Wars. Kevin Feige has confirmed that people keep losing their hands on MCU movies as a sneaky shout-out to Star Wars, a franchise with a similar track record. It wasn't intentional at first, but that changed with Phase 2.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/2/1038132.jpg)
![Jerry Seinfeld has apologized for Bee Movie. According to Seinfeld, a bee having the hots for a human was not an intentional thing, and he has apologized for the uncomfortable subtle sexual aspect. Не has said, after it came out, I realized, 'This is really not appropriate for children. D'ya think, Jerry? CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/9/1038129.jpg)