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25 Random Bits of Trivia That Have Emerged From Their 17-Year Slumber to Consume Our Crops and Blot Out the Sun

April 22, 2024

You gotta help us! The facts just started doing some consuming of their own! We came into work and put our dinosaur boots in our little cubbies (like we do every morning), then the facts jumped out of the screens and swallowed an intern whole! We froze in fear, but managed to read their message: “No longer shall we be swallowed by your brains. It is you who shall now be swallowed by ours!”

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The most threatened bird in the world is the regular old vulture. There are 23 vulture species on the planet, and 70% of them have some risk of going extinct. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Way up north in Canada, there's an underground house carved into the ice. It's carved in permafrost, and it was created in the 1960s. It's basically used as a big warehouse =E2=80=93 families keep fish, seal, caribou, goose, and other meat during winter in the icehouse. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Your brain largely consists of fat -- in fact, some 60% of its weight is fat. Fatty acids play a super important role in brain functioning, which helps explain why so much of the brain is, well, simply fat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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If you ever want to figure out how old a bear is, just look at its teeth. Take one tooth, and look at its cross-section -- you want to count the rings in the cross-section under a microscope. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Earth might be kind of small, but it's more massive than you might think. The mass of the Earth is greater than the combined masses of the Moon, Mars, Venus, Pluto, and Mercury. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1524, Spain created a settlement close to Jamestown's site. It failed a few years later, though - - long before Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement on the continent, was founded in 1602. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1999, the Philippines blamed 50 tons of jellyfish for a massive blackout. Apparently, according to the authorities, the giant quantities of jellyfish got sucked into a power plant's seawater intake, so the entire plant failed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Just like humans, koalas have thumbs - - that way, they can climb better. But, unlike humans, they have four thumbs --two on each paw. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The ВСЕ/СЕ dating system is about one thousand years old. It was created some 500 years after Year о, or the birth of Christ, and it only got accepted 500 years after that - s so, as a relatively widely used system, it's about one millennium old. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apparently, running on wheels is something rodents just love to do. Even wild rodents love it -- it turns out that wild mice that come across wheels out in nature happily run on them, just for the fun of it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sugar was a key reason the slave trade kept going as long as it did. Sugary beverages were super popular in the 18th century, and harvesting and purifying sugar cane was done with slave labor. CRACKED.COM — Source

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All the house interior scenes in Home Alone were actually shot in a gym. They just built the whole thing in a high school gym - apparently, using a real house wouldn't have provided enough space for a film to move around in properly. CRACKED.COM — Source

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They tried to get one of Castro's lovers to assassinate him, but it went all wrong. Castro found out about the plot to have his lover poison him, and dared her to kill him. She couldn't go through with it, and they ended up having sex instead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Anna Nicole Smith actually didn't get any of her husband's money when he died. - 18 - MINORA 11 ... - TO 100 100 HUT 100 a 11 لتنظيم BY AB 74554657W 100 FC 69106412A of 55911486A - F6 FC128668408 34317682W G7 200g 21 - VERD ENTERDADE OFAMERICA AYERO Smith is usually painted as a gold-digging vulture, but she wasn't a very good one- J. Howard Marshall left his entire fortune to his son. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's only one place in the world with platypuses besides Australia. And it's the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, which houses two platypuses - part of an effort to raise awareness for the platypus, the zoo says. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Canada, commercial radio stations have a quota for Canadian content. RENWOOD ESTESDION MEDIA CONTECH HOCHIN EXTERNAL MEDIA CONTROL KDC-WY527 TI AM R-D-S HOSPET IN 800 60-1 ********* MP3 WMA AUD DAT System SCAN ODM DEP 6 ، Turns out, at least 35% of the popular music played by commercial radio stations between 6 AM and 6 PM has to be Canadian CRACKED.COM - it's the law. — Source

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The Grammys

Justin Timberlake wasn't banned from the Grammys after Nipplegate. But Janet Jackson was - the Grammys were scheduled for the week after the Super Bowl, and both Timberlake and Jackson were supposed to present. CRACKED.COM — Source

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According to US regulations, children's sleepwear has to be flame resistant. - - And not just that, but it has to be able to self-extinguish if it accidentally gets set on fire by a lighter, match, candle, or something similar. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The largest diamond ever found, in 1905, is owned by Queen Elizabeth II. It weighs 3,106 carats, and the only diamond that's come remotely close so far was a 1,758-carat one found in Botswana in 2019. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop had to face legal consequences for its marketing. For the wacky claims they made about their weird jade eggs (they can balance hormones, etc.), among other things, Goop was fined $145,000. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the original Hebrew and Greek text of the Bible, there was no apple. The fruit that Adam and Eve ate was just fruit. The first Latin translation called it malus, a pun - malus meant both apple and evil. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Turns out, Coca-Cola is really good at clearing out fiber from your intestines. Coca-Col REFRESCO CONT AE! NO RETORNABLE oca Coca-C ESCO Coca That's according to a study that reports Coca-Cola alone can dissolve phytobezoars (indigestible plant fiber) in 50% of cases for specific patients. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lorde didn't actually sing the fake song they wrote for her in South Park. LO DE Sia actually sang Push (Feel Good on a Wednesday), the song they made up for the storyline where Randy Marsh turns out to be Lorde. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The guy who played Gunther on Friends got his job for one reason only. And that reason is simple: none of the other extras knew how to work an espresso machine, but he did, so he got promoted from extra to actor. CRACKED.COM — Source

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