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40 Bits of Trivia to Slurp Out of Our Milkshake From Across the Room

March 21, 2024

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In 2011, scientists diagnosed a 2250-year-old Egyptian mummy with metastatic prostate cancer. CRACKED.COM A man known today only as M1 struggled with a long, painful and progressive illness. When he finally succumbed to the mysterious ailment at the age of 51-60, his family paid for him to be mummified. — Source

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The Tagua Tagua observatory in Chile makes wine with meteorites. - METEORITO METEORITO ENT SEAT THE BRISH 200 GRACKED.COM - THE - - - - lan Hutcheon, winemaker and observatory director, lowers a piece of a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite directly into his cabernet sauvignon barrels to create his signature wine, Meteorito. — Source

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The longest mathematical proof is 15,000 pages long. PROCESS /Tenti KITCH MINUTALISM in ITALIAN DESIGN INTERIALS a >PAST PRES There 7HERO work HAP المملكة too 2 SUSTEM IGHT and GAS A HOTEL the STOPE 0 CRACKED.COM GNAL TRIGGER com Riges The Enormous Theorem began in the 1970s and was worked on by 100 mathematicians, only being completed in 2011. — Source

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Brazen Assassinations Through History

In 1835, a man attempted to assassinate the king of France with a hand-made, 25-barrel rifle. GRAGKED GOM A Corsican ex-soldier attacked the king's procession with a homemade volley gun. The discharge killed 18 people and wounded 22. The king was only grazed by a bullet. — Source

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A white elephant gift exchange takes its name from the legend of the King of Siam. CRACKED.COM Не would give rare albino elephants to those who displeased him so that they might be ruined by the animal's upkeep costs. The term now refers to an impractical gift that cannot be easily disposed of. — Source

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Human procrastination is considered a complex psychological behavior because of the wide variety of reasons people do it. CRACKED.COM Although often attributed to laziness, research shows it is more likely to be caused by anxiety, depression, a fear of failure, or reliance on abstract goals. — Source

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Rain Man

Only 3 of the 15 highest grossing movies from the 1980s haven't been given a sequel, prequel or turned into a franchise. MAVE RICK CRACKED.COM Those movies are E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Tootsie, and Rain Man. Top Gun Maverick is the latest 36-year-old sequel, which proved to be a worthwhile risk. — Source

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A single Canada Goose has between 20 and 25 thousand feathers. CRACKED.COM Just a fraction of an inch of this feather insulation can keep a bird's body temperature at 104 degrees, even in freezing weather. — Source

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There are more bicycles in Copenhagen, Denmark, than people. CRACKED.COM There are also 5 times as many bicycles as cars, and 400km of cycle lanes not shared with cars or pedestrians for a city of about 600,000 people. — Source

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In Renaissance France, a woman could take her husband to court if he was impotent. CRACKED COM Because marriage was created by the church in part as a means for procreation, to be unable to uphold your end of the bargain was considered a form of fraud. — Source

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Charles Darwin dedicated 40 years of his life studying earthworms. GRACKED COM To test their hearing, Darwin shouted at the worms but found that, if care was taken that his breath did not strike them, they were indifferent to noise. — Source

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Maria Sharapova

Tennis player Maria Sharapova's on-court grunt has been recorded at a volume of 101 decibels. CRACKED.COM That's louder than a motorcycle, a lawnmower, and a small aircraft. It's only 5 decibels less than a lion's roar. — Source

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Marilyn Monroe viewed Abraham Lincoln as a father figure. CRACKED.COM She said, Most people can admire their fathers, but I never had one. I need someone to admire. My father is Abraham Lincoln...I mean I think of Lincoln as my father. Не was wise and kind and good. — Source

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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology is the first mixed-gender university campus in Saudi Arabia. GRACKED.COM- The religious police do not operate on-site, and women are allowed to mix freely with men and to drive on campus, and they are not required to wear veils. — Source

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Elephants killed 605 people in Assam between 1994 and 2006. CRACKED.COM Biologists think increased elephant aggression is the result of species-wide trauma from poaching & habitat loss, and direct trauma for those who saw family members murdered before their eyes. — Source

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Neil Armstrong's 82-year-old grandmother gave him sage advice for his trip to the moon. CRACKED COM Caroline Korspeter told the astronaut that she thinks the trip is dangerous, and to look around and not step out of the lander if it didn't look good. — Source

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Emperor Nero competed in the Olympic Games. CRACKED COM Не had bribed organizers to postpone the games for a year so he could participate, and won every event he was in, despite doing terribly. His name was removed from the list of winners after his death. — Source

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The Vlasic Pickle Stork mascot was an attempt to capitalize on pregnant women's craving for pickles. jog Vlasic USCI KOSHER DILL CRACKED.COM WHOLES - A child-bearing stork was introduced as a mascot in 1974, merging the stork baby mythology with the notion that pregnant women have an above average appetite for pickles. — Source

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Vikings arrived in Greenland at least 100 years earlier than the Inuit. GRACKED COM 90% of Greenland's population is now made up by the Inuit, but even before the Vikings the island was inhabited by Paleo-Eskimos since 2000 ВС. — Source

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The flag of Papua New Guinea was designed by a 15-year-old school girl. CRACKED.COM Susan Karike won a nationwide competition to design the national flag in 1971, being chosen over the tricolor design proposed by the Australian administration. — Source

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Opossums don't play dead on purpose, it's a completely involuntary act. CRACKED.COM Under intense fear, opossums fall into a comatose-like state that can last for hours, accompanied by the emission of a corpse-like smell. — Source

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In 1997, Reebok released a line of athletic shoes for women named 'Incubus.' Reebok CRACKED.COM They immediately had to recall 180,00 pairs of these shoes after news stories broke out that Reebok had named women's shoes af- ter a mythological demon that violates women in their sleep. — Source

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Esurance

Esurance had to drop their mascot because too much porn was made of her. CRACKED.COM The insurance compa- ny had to stop using their cartoon mascot Erin Esurance because when searching Esur- ance online, porn would come up first. — Source

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The Dream Team has been called the most dominant squad ever assembled in any sport. USA USA A USA AUSTRAL m 6 SASHETBALL - ISA SA USA USA Entertain 25 USA GRAGKED.COM The 1992 Olympics US bas- ketball team won all of their games by an average of 44 points. The team in- cluded Patrick Ewing, Mi- chael Jordan, Charles Bar- kley, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird. — Source

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Devil's advocate was a real job within the catholic church. GRACKED.COM The devil's advocate was called upon to deliberate on behalf of the devil for any claims of sainthood and would argue for why someone should not be made a Saint of the catho- lic church. — Source

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Rocky

Sylvester Stallone was not the actor that the producers wanted to star in 'Rocky'. CRACKED.COM With just $106 in his bank account, Stallone turned down a $300,000 offer - the equivalent of $1 million today-for the rights to 'Rocky' so that he could star in the film himself. — Source

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David Bowie had a four-foot-deep, fur-covered bed nicknamed the pit in his living room. CRACKED COM The bed was used for, you guessed it, orgies. Angie and David used to have the most amazing orgies at Oakley St. Everybody fucked everybody in the pit, says Wendy Leigh in her Bowie biography. — Source

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There is a type of contact lens retainer that reshapes the cornea at night. CRACKED.COM Orthokeratology is the use of gas-permeable contact lenses that temporarily re- shape the cornea to allow the user to have perfect vi- sion during the day with- out having to wear glasses/contact lenses. — Source

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Tea may have been discovered by accident when tea leaves blew into a pot of boiling water. CRACKED.COM The Emperor Shen Nong, in 2737 ВСЕ, en- joyed drinking the in- fused water so much that he was compelled to research the plant further. — Source

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Queen Bess

The first woman in the US to hold a pilot's license was of African and Native American descent. GRAGKED.COM In 1920, Bessie Coleman found a financial sponsor through a newspaper, trav- eled to France, and learned how to become a stunt pi- lot. She returned to the US as Queen Bess. — Source

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John Lennon almost got beaten up at the Playboy mansion after he put his cigarette out on a Matisse painting. CRACKED.COM Lennon was in Los An- geles in 1974 during an infamous period in his life when he was drink- ing heavily due to a pro- longed split from his wife, Yoko Ono. — Source

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Planes in WWI used a Synchronization Gear to prevent the mounted machine gun from blasting the propeller. GRACKED.COM An irregular-shaped disk triggers the gun to fire once per revolution, at a specific point. This produc- es a high rate of fire with- out the risk of hitting the propeller. — Source

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There are signs on trains in Japan that tell male passengers to not grope women. 11T 5316 GRACKED.COM Groping is so common in Japan, train compa- nies designate wom- en-only cars where women can feel safe knowing they won't be groped. — Source

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In 1944, Mary Babnik Brown had her hair used in crosshairs for military aircraft bombsights. 90 95 GRAGKED.COM The hair had to fit strict criteria such as being blonde, over 22 inches long, and nev- er being treated with chemicals or hot irons. — Source

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Converse

Converse shoes have fuzzy soles so that they can be imported as slippers. GRACKED.COM Tariff rates for importing shoes into the US can be as high as 37.5% and vary widely based on material used, but classifying the shoe as a slipper guaran- tees the rate at 3%. — Source

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In 1989, Geneva Steel paid its employee bonuses in $2 bills to illustrate the company's effect on the economy. TWO DOLLARS TWO DOLLARS 2 THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE 2 A 07717000A 1 WASHINOTOX.D.C. 1 G BOS A THE OLIVE 00 KIT A07717000 A FEGa 1 Dave Enobede Sabal SERIES 2003 ] Date Secretary of Bie Smarty NEFFERSON THE UNTTEDSTATESOFAMERICA TWO DOLLARS TWOOAARS TWO DOLLARS CRACKED.COM When the bills began to appear in different places, people recog- nized the importance of the company to the local economy. — Source

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African buffalo herds display voting behavior to indicate their travel preferences. CRACKED.COM They do this by standing up, staring in one direction and then lying back down. Only adult fe- males vote. — Source

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The Pee Icicle

In 1984, a giant pee-icicle formed on the outside of the space shuttle Discovery. VN Discover CRACKED.COM Astronauts had to break it off using a robotic arm and shut down the toilet for the remainder of the mission. — Source

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During the Victorian Era, there was a tapeworm diet trend. CRACKED.COM The style was to have pale skin, eyes that looked di- lated, red cheeks and lips, and a tiny waist. In the age of corsets, they also in- gested tapeworms to lose weight. — Source

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People in ancient Greece believed that the uterus could wander around the body like an animal. GRACKED COM As the uterus ambled around the body cavi- ty in search of a means of conception, it would cause hyste- ria in women. — Source

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