26 Minuscule Bits of Trivia That Will Make Hardly a Ripple in Your Vast Ocean of Knowledge
Why not add a few more knowledge bits to the pile?
![26 Minuscule Bits of Trivia That Will Make Hardly a Ripple in Your Vast Ocean of Knowledge](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/8/1043368_320x180.jpg)
We get it, you’re incredibly smart. Cool. Well, we’ll be there soon. Fact by fact, our IQ is rising to a level that might one day rival yours. We’ll just keep learning and keep playing our word-game apps. But just because your brain is chock-full of that smart stuff, it doesn’t mean you can’t use a few more of these gems. You learn something new every day.
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![WEIRD WORLD A man unknowingly brought a sword-cane through airport security. The man surrendered the hidden weapon at Boston's Logan International Airport, after telling TSA agents he had no idea a blade was concealed in his cane. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/6/1041666.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A senator used Adolf Hitler as an example of inspiration and hope for the homeless. 4F During a speech on the floor of the state's upper chamber, Tennessee state Sen. Frank Niceley said that in 1910, Hitler took to the streets and practiced his oratory and his people skills. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/5/1041665.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD The man accused of shooting Lady Gaga's dog walker was accidentally let out of jail. Due to a clerical error, James Howard Jackson was released from the jail in Los Angeles he was being held in for his role in the assault of Ryan Fischer as he walked Gaga's dogs. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/4/1041664.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD Business owners are complaining that a newly planned cycle lane will be used as a getaway for shoplifters. One worker from a bed and mattress shop said the cycle lane would be a nightmare for their business, which somehow is under attack by people who steal mattresses and ride away on their bikes. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/3/1041663.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A police officer used copyrighted Disney music to thwart a YouTuber who was recording him. Randy Newman's You've Got a Friend in Me was played from a police vehicle while a citizen was recording the public interaction so that the YouTuber's video would be muted or taken down. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/1/1041661.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD Despite the rise of costs of other goods, the AriZona CEO refuses to raise the price of their iced tea. ORIGINAL GreenT with HONEY 500 ATIZE The 23 ounce cans have been 99 cents for 30 years, and no amount of inflation or rising costs of materials can force billionaire CEO Don Vultaggio to change that. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/2/1041662.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD The death of a man found in his home with 124 caged snakes has been ruled an accident. 49-year-old David Riston was found dead by, you guessed it, a snake bite. The snakes in his home included rattlesnakes, cobras, black mambas and a 14-foot-long Burmese python. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/0/1041660.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD The Brazilian military supplied viagra and penile implants for its troops, as citizens struggled to get medicine. LARGADA After revelations that the Brazilian military had bought Viagra for its troops, a lawmaker claimed it had also acquired 60 inflatable silicone penile implants for reasons that were not divulged. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/9/1041659.jpg)
![Scorpions are able to exist on a diet that would make most Instagram detoxes seem gluttonous. When there's not much prey to be found, they're able to live on a single insect a year. And look great doing it! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/8/1041658.jpg)
![Peter Falk wasn't the first to play Columbo. Bert Freed played the lieutenant (sans raincoat) in an episode of the 1960 series The Chevy Mystery Show. But it was just a one-off thing, and the character still didn't have any of the shabby charm Falk brought to the part years later. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/7/1041657.jpg)
![The element that holds the distinction of the world's highest boiling point is Rhenium. Boiling at roughly 10,100 degrees Fahrenheit, it's also one of the world's worst things to try to cook ramen in. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/5/1041655.jpg)
![Where's Waldo was censored over a microscopic nipple. Never mind Waldo himself - would you be able to find a nipple in a Where's Waldo beach scene? Yeah, we know you would - and so were several American mothers in the early 90s, who managed to get the books removed from library shelves over the tiny ink dot. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/6/1041656.jpg)
![At one point, the amount of bay oysters in the Chesapeake bay could filter the entire bay in three days. However, thanks to them being overfished for horny gourmands, it would now take over a year. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/4/1041654.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Your hamster comes from an incestuous couple. The Syrian hamster is by far the most common domesticated hamster - and every single one you can find in pet stores is descended from two siblings, the only survivors of a litter caught in the wild in 1930.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/3/1041653.jpg)
![Allow us to make moray eels even less cuddly by telling you that they have two separate sets of teeth. One set is in their mouth, you know... where they're supposed to be. The other is in their throat, and we hate it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/2/1041652.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Stevie Nicks' Stand Back was inspired by Prince. When Prince's Little Red Corvette came on her car's radio, Nicks stopped her honeymoon to write the similarly synth-driven Stand Back. Then she contacted Prince to split the royalties, and was amazed when he showed up at the studio and did the synth part himself.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/0/1041650.jpg)
![Did you know that Maine has an official state cat? It is, as the name suggests, the Maine Coon. Maine also has an official state cat lady. Her name is Tabitha and her house smells TERRIBLE. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/1/1041651.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM George McFly was going to be a boxer. George becoming a science fiction writer was thematically appropriate, but that wasn't the original plan. Initially, the left hook he gives Biff was going to set him on the path to becoming a boxer.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/8/1041648.jpg)
![Because of the ongoing volcanic activity, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is constantly changing. Hiking trails are even closed and reopened depending on how the landscape has changed. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/9/1041649.jpg)
![M Mario's first credit was as a villain. The character was called Jumpman when he first appeared in Donkey Kong, and didn't get the name Mario until the sequel, Donkey Kong Jr. - where he was the baddie. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/2/1041642.jpg)
![There are only two elements in the world that exist in a liquid state at room temperature. SCHOTT DURAN 100 ml Old thermometers may tip you off to the first, mercury, but not as many people know the second: bromine. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/4/1041644.jpg)
![10111210 CRACKED.COM 0.1.00.00 Oh 11001101 0011101 11101011 10000 110101 1012111 / 10 good 110011 ro 001110 01 Artificial intelligence might have already killed people. According to U.N. reports, lethal 1 autonomous weapons systems (drones 0 that can identify and attack targets 1 without human intervention) destroyed a convoy in Libya in 2020. It's not clear, however, if anyone was killed in the attack.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/3/1041643.jpg)
![Despite what Oregon Trail may have led you to believe, bison are actually quite quick animals. Bison can run 40 miles per hour, which is enough fast-moving meat to turn you into applesauce. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/7/1041647.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM A lot of honey is fake. Studies show that about 76% of store- bought honey contains nothing of the pollen that should be found in the yummy bee puke. Honey is the third most counterfeited food in the world, with a lot of it replaced by syrup fillers. China is a primary source of this fake honey.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/5/1041645.jpg)
![A footrace (or talon-race) between Usain Bolt and a wild turkey might be closer than you think. Wild turkeys can run up to 25 mph, VS Bolt's top speed of 27. If they cheat and fly? They burn him at 55 mph. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/6/1041646.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM The genocide of Native Americans might have changed the climate. The Little Ice Age was a particularly cold period after the Middle Ages, and researchers think that massacring the Americas' native population was a big factor. Huge swathes of abandoned farmland were taken over by wild plant life, which absorbed CO2 and lowered the temperature.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/1/1041641.jpg)