40 Random Bits of Trivia to Help the Medicine Go Down

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40 Random Bits of Trivia to Help the Medicine Go Down

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All mole salamanders in the genus Ambystoma are female and no males exist in this genus. These female salamanders 'steal' sperm from up to five different species of salamanders and recom- bine it to produce female hybrid offspring. This method of reproduction is called kleptogenesis. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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An FBI wiretap used the same lamp to bug rooms in the lysine price-fixing scandal. The FBI arranged to have the same green lamp with a bugging device setup in every hotel room where corporate whistleblower Mark Whitacre stayed and met with fellow executives. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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In Sesame Street, Cookie Monster ate painted rice cakes and not cookies. Since the oil from real cookies would damage the puppets, rice cakes were disguised to look like choc- olate chip cookies. Maybe this is how Cookie Monster keeps his figure. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Angelina Jolie once tried to hire a hitman to kill her. She felt that a murder would be easier on her family than her commit- ting suicide. The would-be-hitman talked her out of it by asking her to wait a month. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Queen Elizabeth II had 4 drinks a day. CRACKED COM She had a gin before lunch, a wine during lunch, a dry martini with dinner, and a glass of champagne following dinner.

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There is a drug that makes people sick if they have even a small amount of alcohol. CRACKED.COM Antabuse works by block- ing an enzyme involved in processing alcohol. This medicine can help keep someone from drinking be- cause of the unpleasant side effects that will occur.

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Robert Patrick swam for three hours to save people after a boating accident. CRACKED.COM Before he was an actor, Pat- rick worked as a house painter until a boating acci- dent in 1984 in Lake Erie. Не nearly drowned swimming to save others still stranded on the accident site.

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A Colorado town holds an annual Frozen Dead Guys Day. CRACKED COM Bredo Morstoel from Nor- way died in 1989 and now his body is kept on ice in a shed in Nederland, Colora- do by his grandson. The festival in his honor has food, drinks, and events like coffin racing.

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Two New Zealand high school students exposed a juice maker of false advertising. Ribena Volvic Ribena Ribena Raspberi Apple Strawberry 12 x 500ml bottles Strawberr - pen curn Apple Orange Realing Jaja Real ibena Da Ribena Ribena na. on RealimmCRACKED COM The drink Ribena claimed to have four times the vita- min с of oranges, but the drink contained almost no trace of vitamin C. The company was taken to court and fined NZ$217,500.

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Until the late 1960s, men with long hair were prohibited from entering Disneyland. CRACKED.COM Employees were also prohibited from having any facial hair because visitors would associ- ate it with un-American activities.

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A baker's dozen is 13 because of a law in medieval England. CRACKED.COM There were laws that relat- ed the price of bread to the price of the wheat used to make it, so bakers would toss in extra in fear of com- ing up short and being ac- cused of cheating custom- ers.

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