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30 Perfectly Good Bits of Trivia We Pulled Out of a Dumpster With Our Little Raccoon Hands

March 19, 2024

Some facts are forged in fire, and some facts are foraged in a dumpster fire. Today, we’re proud to display the latter. We know what you’re thinking — “forged in fire” sounds a lot cooler. It sounds like a Game of Thrones episode or something. But “foraged in a dumpster fire” is a tad funnier, and shows that we really put the work in to get them for you. And, as you’ll see, these gems deserve a much better fate than incineration in a dumpster.

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WEIRD WORLD The CEO of Better.com publicly attacked employees who'd just been fired. Не accused them of stealing by only working a total of two hours per day. CRACKED.COM — Source

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You’ll Catch Your Death of Cold!

WEIRD WORLD They made sure the T-Rex at London's Natural History Museum stays warm. The T-Rex got a big Christmas jumper, that somehow looks both strangely adorable and utterly ridiculous. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One recycling company sent things like dog poop and used diapers to China. Slip ULTRA Slip ULTRA After it was discovered that they'd illegally shipped 1,300 tons of household waste, they got a hefty fine. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD If you want to visit North Korea, make sure you don't wear a leather coat. Leather coats are now banned there, and it's just a vanity thing - Dear Leader doesn't want anyone copying his super-cool style. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Facebook had to officially tell Los Angeles that they should stop spying. The LAPD kept creating fake accounts just so they could spy on people, so Facebook had to step in and tell them to stop. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In The Bronx, a woman jumped into the zoo's lion enclosure and danced. That wasn't even the weirdest part: she also tossed money at a lion. No word on where the lion spent it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There Are Dozens of Us!

WEIRD WORLD A small penis march, aimed at combating stigma, was held in Los Angeles. Dozens of people marched in the Small Dong March organized by two YouTubers who encouragingly suggest to own that truth. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In England, an estate is being sold with the warning that Prince Charles might drop in. Charles sold it to the current owners with the condition that he can come fishing there (with 24-hour notice), and that condition still applies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Canberra, Australia, a woman tried to claim she was a sovereign state. As you might expect, she did that to try and get an exemption from public health orders - and, as you also might expect, the court completely disregarded it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Lottery

A woman from Michigan WEIRD WORLD found an actual cash bonanza in her spam 2 3 4 P 8 folder. 10 11 12 13 21 15 16 17 18 19 20 27 28 22 23 25 26 Apparently, she'd won a lottery jackpot - and she wouldn't have known it if she hadn't 27 28 35 22 29 30 31 33 34 3 9 35 29 30 37 38 39 40 checked her spam. 2 41 42 36 37 44 45 46 47 48 49 4 3 4 5 6 11 CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Canada, a woman took a selfie on top of her car as it sank into a river. Apparently, she'd been trying to drive across the frozen river, and it didn't work out t - so she snapped a selfie before the car fell through the ice. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD We've found out that masks actually make you look hotter. That's the conclusion of a study carried out by Cardiff University researchers - and apparently, the effect holds for both men and women. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Texas (of course), someone was driving with a lit BBQ pit. That's according to Texas law enforcement, who say the suspect was DUI, had cocaine on him, and had a burning BBQ pit in the back of his truck. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Former yakuza members have a tough life: they basically can't find work. And that's even with police support - for example, in the 2010-2020 period, only 3.5% of people who left the yakuza ended up getting work. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lice helped study the origin of clothing. Clothes don't preserve well, but we do know that body lice evolved from head lice when we started using clothes. So by studying the nasty bugs' genetic history, researchers have concluded that we stopped walking around naked about 170,000 years ago. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the American South, dirt is edible (and actually eaten). Kaolin, a kind of white clay, is very common in Central Georgia - and one of its many uses is stuffing your face with it. There's a long, semi-illegal tradition of eating the stuff, which is a lot easier to digest than most other mineral deposits. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Europeans ended slavery in Japan (by liking slaves too much). In the 16th century, Japanese slaves became the must-have items for the Portuguese. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japan's ruler at the time, was disgusted by those Christian foreigners buying so many slaves that should be enslaved in Japan, not abroad. So he banned the institution altogether (also, Christianity). — Source

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A fungus could protect astronauts from radiation. Cladosporium sphaerospermum lives (thrives, in fact) inside the destroyed Chernobyl reactors. It's thought to achieve this through radiosyntesis, a form of photosynthesis that uses radiation instead of light. Researchers believe that a relatively thin layer of it could effectively shield astronauts in space. CRACKED.COM — Source

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- - Rom-com director Nora Ephron kept telling everyone who Deep Throat was. Journalist Carl Bernstein never told Ephron, his wife at the time, that Deep Throat was FBI agent Mark Felt - but still, she quickly figured out who the anonymous Watergate source was. Then she spent years telling the secret to anyone who listened - but no one believed her. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Dog poop has suddenly become a pretty significant political issue in Turkey. A man tried to frame a beloved local stray dog for pooping on a tram, then a political party spread that news, and things snowballed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Fisher Price is cashing in on nostalgia by creating a mobile phone. It looks exactly like a Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone, complete with a rotary dial in rainbow colors, but it's actually a working, Bluetooth-equipped phone. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD People at an Insulate Britain protest blocked a truck carrying insulation. GIGA ISUZU ORGANAL The group is demanding insulation to be put inside every British home, and their protest in Westminster blocked a truck with insulation materials. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Australia is looking into letting kids drive forklifts, since nobody else is available. DOOSAN Right now, you need to be 18 to get the right license, but the Australian prime minister wants to lower that in a bid to address staff shortages that are part of the cause of supply chain issues. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Two guys had an ingenious idea to try and collect a pension at the post office. In Ireland, two men propped up another guy, who happened to be dead, to try and collect his pension. It did not work. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The Holy Father left the Vatican to visit a record shop and buy a CD. Не went to a shop in Rome, in full Papal robes and all, and came out holding a CD. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Apparently, people are happy to get the job if that'll keep them in weed and liquor. At least, you could conclude that judging by what happened in Quebec - after restrictions on cannabis and liquor stores were announced, the number of first-dose vaccinations quadrupled. CRACKED.COM — Source

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