32 Random Bits of Trivia We Found Squirreled Away in the Back of a Goodwill

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32 Random Bits of Trivia We Found Squirreled Away in the Back of a Goodwill

You can spend hours poking around the racks, if you want to waste your time. The good stuff is in the recently donated bins, because management hasn’t gotten a chance to yoink the big-ticket items.

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In 1998, UC Berkeley scientists discovered that the western fence lizard could thwart Lyme disease if bitten by infected ticks. CRACKED COM These lizards have a specific protein in their systems that kills the infection. Western U.S. may also have fewer cases of Lyme due to the lyme-fighting lizard as opposed to the East- ern U.S. where Lyme disease runs rampant.

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Many people thought Mitch Hedberg's death announcement was an April Fools' joke. Comedian Mitch Hedberg was found dead in a hotel room in Livingston, New Jersey on March 30, 2005, by multiple drug toxicity. His death was announced two days later, on April 1st. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Dr. Seuss wrote How The Grinch Stole Christmas about himself. Seuss stated that he wrote it to rediscover some- thing about Christmas that obviously I'd lost. The Grinch mentions he is 53 in the book, the same age as Seuss when he wrote it. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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The heaviest living person in 2013 was ordered to lose weight, by his king. 118 117 120 16 611 not 78 77 79 76 75 74 92 DO Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, a Saudi man, was at that time the second heaviest person ever recorded at 1340lbs. Не lost 1195 Ibs and weighed 150 Ibs in 2017. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Nike's stock valuation dropped by $1.1 Billion after a college basketball player got hurt in their shoes. Duke freshman Zion Wil- liamson had one of his shoes come apart during a game in 2019, causing him to fall and sprain his knee. Nike shares fell 1.7% the next day. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, is the only capital in the world without traffic lights. DRUNAGE GOEM SAT-SUN-2 Shous DRUK GE GOEN CONM TIME г. P.M. Some years ago, they did install traffic lights but the people hated them so much that the govern- ment had to remove them and put a traffic police- man instead. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Rita Hayworth's face was painted on atomic bombs that were tested in the '40s, because she was a bombshell. When she found out she flew into a rage and want- ed to hold a press confer- ence announcing her con- demnation, but Harry Cohn, the president of Co- lumbia Pictures, told her it would be unpatriotic. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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The element 'Cobalt' gets its name from the German 'kobold' which means 'goblin.' Miners found cobalt veins near their silver, and blamed this strange and dangerous metal on goblins, and thus named it after them. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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