40 Bits of Trivia for Your Grey Matter

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40 Bits of Trivia for Your Grey Matter

There’s a lot of weird stuff imprinted within the folds of your brain. So it’s time to do a little spring cleaning — scrub all that ugly knowledge out of there with these trivia tidbits.

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In 2001, drug kingpin El Chapo escaped from prison in a dirty laundry basket. CRACKED.COM After bribing multiple guards, he was wheeled out of prison hidden inside it. The escape allegedly cost him over $2.5million. Over 70 guards were impli- cated including the war- den, who's now in prison.

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Candy Canes was initially created to get kids to shut up in church. CRACKED.COM In order to justify giving can- dy to children during wor- ship services, the sticks were made with a crook, which would help children remem- ber the shepherds who visit- ed the infant Jesus.

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In 1599, a Spanish governor in Ecuador was executed by having molten gold poured down his throat. GOLD 5005 sh = - GOLD 333.3 WAS GOLD SPORTS 222 are see © 1000 nsplase 331 PRO GOLD PPP.P GOLD GOLD PP2.P lesh PAR 1230 e) GDL CRACKED.COM Native Indians of the Jiva- ro tribe believed that they were unfairly taxed in their gold trade and as a result, attacked the settlement of Logrono and executed the governor.

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Even though it's set in Detroit, the Robocop movie was actually filmed in Dallas. CRACKED.COM The only real shot of Detroit in the entire movie is the aerial shot in the opening, and that was stock footage.

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Hitman Richard The Iceman. Kuklinski froze the bodies of his victims to obfuscate the time of death. Не learned this tech- nique from fellow hit- man Robert Pronge also known as Mister Softee because he drove an ice cream truck as his cover. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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The female Lesser mouse-deer can conceive 85-155 minutes after giving birth. This means that if the mouse-deer (which is nei- ther mouse, nor deer) gives birth at the begin- ning of Avengers: End Game, she'd be with child again before Thanos is de- feated. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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A child once turned orange from drinking too much Sunny Delight. The girl was drinking 1.5 liters a day. The company used Beta-Carotene (found in carrots) to color the drink which can make you orange at extremely high doses. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Drinking only salt water will kill you because of how the kidneys make urine. Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. So to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking sea- water, you have to urinate more water than you drank. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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The guy who created Alcoholics Anonymous was denied whiskey on his deathbed. At the time, William Grif- fith Wilson was losing his battle against chronic em- physema and only had days to live. Не asked for whisky on four separate occasions, but the nurse never gave it to him. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Newspapers are so big because they were taxed based on the number of their pages. Trouw Verstleping 11 I - - - - - - محمد Trouw Made - Metail - - 1 magness - (Motjregre Sing - NE SPOR - up groot - format which - - - Now - - / - - - - - - - I - - I - - - - - / ! - - - = - with - The British govern- ment began taxing newspapers in 1712 based on the page count, so the 33.1-inch by 23.4-inch page size became

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Coca-Cola's unique glass bottle design came from a flood of look-alikes in 1914. RU ORIGINAL TASTE a Coca-Cola They requested design proposals for their prod- uct: a bottle so distinct that you would recognize it by feel in the dark or ly- ing broken on the ground. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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