33 Bits of Trivia to Assemble in Your Mind Palace Like a Nice Piece of IKEA Furniture

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33 Bits of Trivia to Assemble in Your Mind Palace Like a Nice Piece of IKEA Furniture

What, you thought we were going to build your entire wisdom collection for you? Well, to quote Morpheus from The Matrix, “I can only show you the door, you’re the one that has to walk through it.” Hear that, you little Neos? Yes, in this analogy there can be more than one Neo. There’ll be a red and blue pill at the bottom of this fact batch, and you’ll have to decide. The blue pill will wipe them from your memory, but the red pill… The red pill will lock them in for life!

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GRAGKED.COM BREAST IMPLANTS OFFER SLIGHT PROTECTION AGAINST BULLETS. Now, no one is suggesting you should rely on your boob job to save your life. You definitely shouldn't. We're just pointing out that researchers at the University of Utah found that saline implants can slow down bullets and reduce their penetration by 20 percent.

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CRACKED.COM You can fit every planet in the Solar system between the Earth and the Moon. While everyone knows the Moon revolves around the Earth, most people don't have the right idea of how far it is. Depending on where the Moon is in its orbit, there's enough room to fit every planet in the Solar System end to end in the intervening space.

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The inventor of the USB says his team blew it. by not making the plug work both ways. Ajay Bhatt said that would need more wires and circuits, so it would have been more expensive - they thought about it, but it would have cost too much. Still, 20 years after inventing it, he says that was a mistake and the USB plug was good, but not good enough. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Peter Stormare just kind of stumbled into a role in John Wick: Chapter 2. Не was hanging out with Keanu Reeves and, since he was a fan of the first movie, he asked Reeves What can I do? The rest is movie history. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Strawberries as we know them don't occur in nature. The hybrid of the Virginia wild strawberry and the Chilean beach strawberry was invented in France in the 18th century. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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The red puddle under your steak isn't blood. Blood is drained before butchering. The liquid is a mixture of water and the protein myoglobin. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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The fearsome Blackbeard was only active for a grand total of two years. He's first mentioned as a pirate in 1716 (he was a privateer from 1701 to 1713), and they caught and killed him in 1718 8 - - and that was that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Egyptian medicine was. surprisingly specialized, and they even had proctologists. The Egyptian term for those literally translates to shepherd of the anus. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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