36 Bits of Trivia Sent to Our Planet From a Distant Civilization Several Light Years Away

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36 Bits of Trivia Sent to Our Planet From a Distant Civilization Several Light Years Away

Not that we’re huge comic book nerds or anything, but we seem to remember a story about a little alien boy sent to Earth before his home planet was destroyed. That lucky little boy was taken in by a nice little Kansan couple, so we’re really hoping you take their lead and take in these facts. Sure, they probably won’t grow up to be one of the greatest superheroes of all time, but they’re cold and hungry, and could use a nice brainfold blanket, so open up!

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We now how know how much a Jurassic Park ticket cost: $550 (for 3 days). JURASSIC PARK That's the price listed on the three-day park ticket item in the Visitor Centre Limited Edition Legacy Kit (which has a bunch of merchandise along those lines). CRACKED.COM

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Daft Punk recorded orchestra parts for nearly every song on their last album. Random Access Memories They only used the parts in three or four songs, though, and threw away the rest. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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The U.S. owns a one-acre cemetery in Mexico City. Congress established the cemetery in 1850, to bury those killed in the Mexican-American war - - it was the first time a U.S. cemetery was established on non-U.S. soil. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Nuclear workers get a lot less radiation than people who undergo CT scans. Getting an abdominal CT scan exposes you to roughly ten times more radiation than working in a nuclear power plant for a year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Elf was supposed to feature Macy's, but Macy's wasn't into it. They thought seeing a fake Santa in Macy's would ruin the experience for kids, so they said no. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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The solution to a 19th-century mystery was found in Sir David Attenborough's back garden. In 1879, Julia Martha Thomas was murdered by her maid, Kate Webster, but her head was never found - this was called the the Barnes mystery. They found a skull in Sir David's back garden in 2011 during building work, and it turned out to have belonged to Thomas. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Kathy Bates' grandfather paraded the (fake) mummy of John Wilkes Booth. According to Finis Bates, the Booth who died in a barn was an impostor. The real Booth ran away, and he, Bates, had his mummified body, which he exhibited at circus sideshows. Henry Ford was close to buying the mummy, until his subordinates exposed the hoax. CRACKED.COM

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U.S. farmers were encouraged (even required) to grow pot. Hemp used to be big in colonial times. In 1619, the Virginia legislature passed a law requiring every farmer to grow hemp. Everything was fine until the early 20th century, when the plant was demonized because poor, non-white people smoked it. CRACKED.COM

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Friends was almost destroyed by Coca-Cola. For Friends second season, Соса-Соӏа spent $30 million to promote Diet Coke with the help of the hip twenty-somethings. The campaign was huge - so huge, in fact, that people got sick of seeing the characters everywhere, and rankings plummeted. (They got better, though.) et CRACKED.COM

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