25 Bits of Trivia to Clog Up Your Gob

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25 Bits of Trivia to Clog Up Your Gob

Because a few of us have little ones at home, we’re getting pretty familiar with spoon helicopters. Since you’re old enough to be reading this, you most likely don’t need us to helicopter spoon-feed you these facts. But why not, right? If you were ancient royalty, you’d let us feed you grapes, wouldn’t you? Just lay back and enjoy!

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CRACKED.COM A pandemic in the 19th century was blamed on the telegraph. Just like conspiracy theorists today think 5G is the cause for COVID-19, the Russian Flu of 1889 was blamed on telegraph wires. Since affected towns were linked together by the telegraph, some people just jumped to the obvious conclusion.

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CRACKED.COM Being a camera operator is deadlier than being a stunt performer. Movie stunts are quite risky - especially for the people getting them on camera. When stunts go wrong, four camera operators die on average for every dead stunt performer.

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95% of Mongolians are lactose intolerant, even though their diet relies on milk from seven mammal species. They can consume milk products only thanks to gut bacteria that digest the lactose for them. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Someone in New York State bought a Chinese bowl for $3 and sold it for $2.2 million. They bought it at a tag sale and, a few years later, started getting curious about where it came from. So they had it assessed, and realized it was about 1,000 years old. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Ed Sullivan censored. the Rolling Stones (and they hated it). When they appeared on the show in 1967, they were told that Let's spend the night together is a bit too much and they should change it to Let's spend some time together. So they did, but Mick Jagger rolled his eyes every time he said the line (and managed to slip in the original version at one point). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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John Lennon caused a massive backlash by saying the Beatles are more popular than Jesus now. NOT Thou shalt ha SAVE DOWN no other DO THE BEATLES the ? BEATLES GODS TH N BEATLE TODAY. $100,000 before LOSS WHAT TOMORROW? ITY WORLD FREE PRIZES WA SEAGON NKK et adidas BUSINESS M GENERAL NO ROW In the U.S. south, church groups burned Beatles records on bonfires and some radio stations stopped playing Beatles songs. In Spain, Mexico and South Africa, people staged anti-Beatles rallies and boycotts. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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