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36 Whopping Bits of Trivia to Flame-Broil in Your Mind Kitchen

April 02, 2024

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Electronic games were invented in the 1940s. The Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device used knobs to shoot missiles at various targets. Photo: Wikimedia Commons GRACKED.COM http://classicgames.about.com/od/classicvideogames101/p/CathodeDevice.htm — Source

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Normal playing cards are older than tarot cards. A A Tarot cards were originally designed for a card game similar to modern-day bridge. People only started using them for fortune-telling about 250 years ago, a good 400 years after they were imported from the Middle East. In fact, normal playing cards have a longer history in Europe than tarot cards, preceding them by about 50 years. Photo Getty Creative CRACKED.COM hittp://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/extrasensory-perceptions/tarot-card6.htm — Source

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The Chinese Navy used multi-stage rockets in the 14th century. Images NASA, Wikimedia Commons That's 100 years before Columbus stumbled across the Atlantic and invented American slavery. GRACKED COM — Source

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The last Civil War widow was still alive when 50 CENT hit G the top of the Forbes Richest Rapper list. http ://www washingtontimes .com/news/2008laug/18/ maudie-cecilia-hopkins-93-confederate-widow-dies/ GRACKED.COM http://rap.about.com/b/2008/08/18/50-cent-tops-forbes-richest-rappers-list-for-2008 htm — Source

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The Ouija Board is about as ancient and mystical as Monopoly. CRACKED.COME BAC Photo: Getty Creative AVE http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1798/ how-does-a-ouija-board-work M3 NORTH CAROLINA AVENUE were invented by COMMUNITY CHEST businessmen in 1890, M300 several Baltimore Ouija boards and today the word registered trademark PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE INCOME Ouija is still a SHORT LINE TAX of Parker Brothers. M320 CHANCE BALTIC ? AW200 AVENUE COMMUNITY M60 CHEST PARK PLACE LUXURY TAX M350 MEDITER- RANEAN AVENUE PAY M100 BOARDWALK M60 COLLECT M200 SALARY ASYOU PASS M400 GO — Source

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The car was invented in 1769- Seven years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence. GRACKED.COM http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarssteama.htm — Source

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The last execution by guillotine happened the same year Star Wars came out. Death by guillotine was the official method of execution in France until 1981, and the last execution took place in 1977. CRACKED.COM http://www.guillotine.dk/Pages/History.htm — Source

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CRACKED THE U.S. ECONOMY IS SLIPPING (IN A WAY). The U.S. has been steadily losing its grip on the global economy since 1960, when it made up 40% of the world's total. Even though the U.S. economy has grown since then, its share of the global economy has dropped to 24%. — Source

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CRACKED FLORIDA: WHERE THE WATER IS MORE DEADLY THAN THE WEATHER. Rip currents are really dangerous and are responsible for more deaths in Florida than lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes put together. Overall, they're the United States' third most lethal natural hazard. NO SWIMMING DANGEROUS CURRENTS — Source

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CRACKED JANE GOODALL'S HUSBAND LEFT WHEN THE MONEY RAN OUT. Dr. Goodall has been married twice in her life. Her first husband was Dutch photographer and filmmaker Baron Hugo van Lawick, and he met her when he came to photograph her for NatGeo. Не left her when funding vanished. — Source

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CRACKED GUILLOTINE: NOT AS HUMANE AS PROMISED. At a certain point, people began thinking that the guillotine wasn't as humane as the French Revolution government said it was. It turns out that those killed by it didn't die right away, and still briefly showed signs of life after they were beheaded. — Source

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CRACKED 41 YEARS IN THE JUNGLE BECAUSE OF ONE U.S. BOMB. Vietnamese Но Van Lang and his dad escaped to the jungle in Vietnam after a U.S. bomb destroyed half their family during the Vietnam War. They stayed there for 41 years. — Source

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CRACKED YOU HAVE TO REPORT THE VALUE OF STOLEN PROPERTY ON YOUR TAXES. You also have to report any income generated from drug deals. — Source

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CRACKED ALAN RUCK (CAMERON IN FERRIS BUELLER) HAD TO WORK AT SEARS AFTER THE FILM'S RELEASE. Не only made $40,000 from the film, and had to take a warehouse job at Sears in between other gigs. — Source

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CRACKED JOHN MALKOVICH STARRED IN A MOVIE THAT WON'T BE RELEASED UNTIL 2115. The film will reside behind bulletproof glass until that year. — Source

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CRACKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY NEVER WROTE, FOR SALE: BABY SHOES, NEVER WORN. Some version of this six-word story has existed since Hemingway was a child, having first appeared in the 1910s and 1920s. — Source

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CRACKED THE SCRIPTS FOR CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM ARE JUST SEVEN PAGES LONG. Each page represents a scene, with an outline but not much dialogue - most of the show is improvised. — Source

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CRACKED THE RESULTS ARE IN: NO AMOUNT OF ALCOHOL IS GOOD FOR YOU. A new giant meta-analysis of over 100 studies debunks the idea that red wine has any health benefits - and confirms that any amount of drinking can lead to a higher risk of death. — Source

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CRACKED The Giving Tres by She Silvertisen LL DONALD TRUMP COULD NOT BE CONVINCED THAT THE GIVING TREE WAS A REAL BOOK. During his SNL hosting stint, one writer wrote a sketch for Trump that was a play on The Giving Tree. Trump refused to do it, because he wouldn't believe that it was a real book (despite many people telling him it was). — Source

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Ancient Greek prostitutes advertised their services with their shoes. In ancient Greece, prostitutes wore sandals with the words follow me imprinted in the dirt to advertise their services. CRACKED — Source

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Thanks to international efforts, the ozone layer is projected to recover to 1980 levels by 2040. It's expected to make a full recovery by 2066. CRACKED — Source

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Pumpkins, watermelons, avocados, and bananas are technically classified as berries. However strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries aren't. CRACKED — Source

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Whale milk has the consistency of toothpaste. This is due to whale milk being 30-50 percent fat. CRACKED — Source

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Wal-Mart stores fill their shelves with strawberry Pop Tarts before hurricanes. Data mining has revealed that stores sold seven times more strawberry Pop Tarts before storms. CRACKED — Source

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A snail spent several years glued to a card in the British museum before it was discovered to be alive. The zoologist who discovered this felt so bad he gave the snail another snail so he wouldn't be alone anymore. CRACKED — Source

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William Shanks spent 15 years of his life manually calculating pi to 707 places. 3.14159 6970184 9 However, he made an error after the 527th digit, rendering the last few years of his work useless. CRACKED — Source

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In 1859, Thomas Austin, an English settler in Australia, introduced a mere 24 rabbits to his property, believing that it would cause little harm and add a sense of familiarity to the environment. By the 1920s, the rabbit population in Australia had soared to 10 billion. CRACKED — Source

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Courage the Cowardly Dog's pilot episode earned an Oscar nomination. It was titled The Chicken From Outer Space, and it lost to Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave. CRACKED — Source

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Crispin Glover sued the studio for using his face mold in Back to the Future II. They used the mold (from the first movie) to make the replacement actor look like Glover, and that was a step too far for him, so he sued. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Platypus milk has a strange protein that has unique antibacterial properties. The protein has a three-dimensional fold that's totally unique, and that fold apparently gives it its unusual antibacterial properties. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The French Navy used Cleopatra's daughter's mausoleum for target practice. Luckily, the mausoleum was mostly unharmed - and when Emperor Napoleon III visited, much later, he demanded that it be preserved. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lightning can actually be much hotter than the surface of the sun, somehow. A bolt of lightning coming up from the ground (a return stroke) can get as hot as 50,000 degrees F, and the surface of the sun is about 11,000 degrees F. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hitler had a plan to raze Berlin when he won WWII, and rebuild it as a new city: Germania. Germania would be the capital of the 1,000-year-Reich, and it would be comparable only to ancient Egypt, Babylon or Rome. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sudan has over 200 pyramids, and the oldest are from about 2500 ВС. There are also burial chambers, tombs, and temples - - a all those buildings are concentrated at three sites: Meroe, Jebel Barkal, and El Kurru. CRACKED.COM — Source

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SOS actually isn't an acronym - and it's not really a word as such, either. TELEGRAPE SWYORK It was just chosen because it stands out easily in Morse code, which was needed back when Morse code was heavily used for ship communication. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Two legendary race car drivers fueled their exploits with drug money. / P 2 2 NUMERO MANDAZINE RESERVE Don *All Whittington Kas EXPORTED philippe 22 41 - salvet lt Turbolader Shell INC NUMERO RESEA The Whittington brothers bought a historical racetrack, and used it to land planes that smuggled drugs in the middle of the night from Latin America. CRACKED.COM — Source

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