33 Random Bits of Trivia to Defibrillate Your Noggin
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Looks like we got here in the nick of time! Any longer and you might’ve dozed right off. We can’t have that, now can we? You’re probably on your way to your fourth job (this economy, amirite?), so think of these facts as one of those 5-Hour Energy drinks — small but mighty.
Each one is the little zap you need to trudge through that door and say, “Ugh! I left my uniform in the dryer!”
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![In 1916, a New York construction worker was literally shot up on a geyser. Just like in a cartoon - he was working on a subway tunnel, and got shot through a hole in the tunnel. Miraculously, and also just like in a cartoon, he survived. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/4/1078754.jpg)
![Brazil has the country with the most Japanese people outside Japan itself. There's a total of 1.5 million Japanese living in Brazil - this is partly due to the Japanese government promoting emigration until the '60s. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/2/1078752.jpg)
![There's a fruit fly gene that's named after Kenny from South Park. TRASH Fruit flies that have a bad version of it die two days after they've gotten a specific bacteria. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/3/1078753.jpg)
![If your mouth burns when you eat pineapple, that's because it eats you back. It secretes an enzyme called bromelain, which breaks down protein - and it works on the proteins that make up your mouth tissue. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/1/1078751.jpg)
![In 2010, a group of people made up a fake case just to get on Judge Judy. It involved smashed TV sets and a dead cat, and four roommates just made it up out of thin air. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/0/1078750.jpg)
![Not all vanilla beans are created equal - the taste depends on the country of origin. Sure, they all have a base vanilla flavor, but they might also have, say, mocha or floral or buttery tones, depending on where they're grown. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/8/1078748.jpg)
![In the early 20th century, an American explorer smuggled 30,000 Mayan artifacts. Не took them from a structure in Chichen Itza - basically a giant well - where they had piled up for centuries and smuggled them out of Mexico in his friends', colleagues', and own wife's luggage. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/6/1078746.jpg)
![A curator replaced exhibits at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with fakes. Не then sold over a hundred of the exhibits, for millions of dollars. Не was arrested, and in his defense claimed that somebody had already been replacing paintings with fakes when he started work at the Academy. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/7/1078747.jpg)
![It's not really a universal custom to leave out milk and cookies for Santa. 17 50 GUINNESS In Argentina, they leave hay and water, in Britain they leave sherry, and in Ireland they leave a pint of Guinness. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/9/1078749.jpg)
![Every single Shih Tzu dog today is related to one of 14 dogs that lived in the 20th century. After the breed was nearly driven to extinction, they essentially restarted it with a total of just 14 dogs. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/5/1078745.jpg)
![Bees aren't kosher, but honey definitely is, which makes bees kind of unique. Normally, the products of non-kosher animals aren't considered kosher - but that's not the case for bees, because they don't secrete honey themselves. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/4/1078744.jpg)
![It turns out that sewage water is actually an important tool for law enforcement. Studying sewage water shows researchers trends in the consumption of illicit drugs, which might be helpful for law enforcement - according to one European official, it's an important new drug monitoring tool. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/3/1078743.jpg)
![If you have to shoot a rabid animal, make sure you never shoot the head. Since the virus is heavily concentrated in the brain, shooting the animal in the head can spread rabies (and also make lab testing harder). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/2/1078742.jpg)
![If you love (or hate) summer blockbusters, you can thank Jaws for it. Before Jaws got released, summer was considered a dead period for movie releases - and Jaws was the first ever summer blockbuster. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/1/1078741.jpg)
![Home Alone held a box office record for a grand total of 27 years. Specifically, it held the record of the domestically highest-grossing live-action comedy in Guinness World Records, and eventually lost that title to the Chinese comedy Never Say Die. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/3/9/1078739.jpg)
![Originally, Venom wasn't supposed to be in Spider-Man 3 at all. Sam Raimi wanted to use Vulture, not Venom, as one of the villains, and set everything up for Spider-Man 4 where Vulture would be the main villain. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/0/1078740.jpg)
![In It, when Pennywise's eyes look in opposite directions, that's not an effect. Bill Skarsgård can really do that with his eyes, so he did it in the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/3/8/1078738.jpg)
![The trash can in the Parasite house cost $2,300. Bong Joon-ho wanted that specific model because it would look great in the movie: it opened and closed very smoothly, and it made a quiet sound instead of a loud clank. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/3/7/1078737.jpg)
![In First Man, they recorded the sound of Ryan Gosling's breathing with a real lunar helmet. Gosling breathed through the helmet worn by Apollo 16 astronaut John Young. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/3/6/1078736.jpg)
![Eric Bana made $550 off Brad Pitt in Troy. They had an agreement that they'd pay each other for hits during training for their fight scene - - 550 for minor ones, and $100 for major ones. Eric Bana apparently got a whacking, because Pitt had to pay him $750 while he had to pay Pitt $200. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/3/4/1078734.jpg)
![The San Diego ZOO has the world's first frozen zoo. FROZEN ZOO EN DURA-GYL NITROGEN It stores the living tissues and stem cells of over a thousand animal species in freezers (like the facility in Jurassic Park, just not for dinosaurs). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/3/5/1078735.jpg)
![Viagra is used for saving premature babies' lives. VGR 100 01 897 DC azija dazija ool fixer VGR zer 1100 ze p PE The drug makes it easier for the heart to pump blood through the lungs, which can literally save the life of a baby who has developed pulmonary hypertension. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/3/3/1078733.jpg)
![Rod Stewart took cocaine by putting it up his butt. Не was worried that snorting it could ruin his voice by damaging his nasal passages, so bought pills for the common cold, emptied them, and put coke inside - then he'd stick them up his butt, where they quickly dissolved. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/3/2/1078732.jpg)
![Anton syndrome is a type of blindness where individuals deny being blind. CRACKED.COM The blindness occurs in the brain's vision area rather than the eyes. Doctors theorize sufferers deny being blind because their eyes still work.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/8/1078728.jpg)
![The first female state senator to be elected in the United States ran against her own husband. GRAGKED.COM Martha Hughes Cannon was a Mormon polygamous wife, earned four degrees by age 25, opened a private prac- tice, was a suffragist, and beat her husband to be a Utah State Senator in 1896.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/7/1078727.jpg)
![Jet Li hasn't been a Chinese citizen since 2003. CRACKED.COM Li became a United States citizen from 2003 to 2009, and has been a naturalized Singaporean citizen since 2009. Не said he chose Singapore for its education system for his two younger daughters.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/4/1078724.jpg)
![A man named Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja grew up in the wild amongst the wolves. CRACKED.COM Marco didn't rejoin hu- man kind until he was 19-years-old. In 2018, he expressed he was disap- pointed with humanity and wished to return to the wild.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/5/1078725.jpg)
![In 1978, Australian pilot Frederick Valentich and his plane disappeared during a supposed UFO encounter. CRACKED COM His last communication was Melbourne, that strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again... (two seconds open micro- phone)... it is hovering and it's not an aircraft...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/6/1078726.jpg)
![Space Jam was created after a successful Super Bowl commercial. CRACKED.COM In 1992, Nike made a com- mercial where an animated Bugs Bunny played basket- ball with a real-live Michael Jordan. Warner Brothers decided to turn it into a whole movie since it was so well received.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/9/1078729.jpg)
![In one scene in Swingers, sirens can be heard from the state troopers arriving to shut down filming. GRACKED.COM Avram Ludwig pretended to have a phone call with the producer who had a permit in front of one trooper, with the producer on the other end of the call not knowing what he was talking about.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/3/1/1078731.jpg)
![A Fitbit played a role in solving a murder. CRACKED.COM Using the Wife's Fitbit and analyzing her movements, analysts were able to create a timeline that proved the husband had cre- ated a false story.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/3/0/1078730.jpg)
![The Peel P50 car was designed for a single driver and one shopping bag. adidas TRIDENT CRACKED.COM Because it had no re- verse gear, drivers had to walk out of the car and physically drag it around, which was do- able because it weighed only 130lbs.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/3/1078723.jpg)
![A Canadian hitchhiking robot relied on the kindness of strangers to travel from place to place. CRACKED COM It had its arms and head ripped off after one day in Philadel- phia, having traveled peacefully around Canada for 26 days.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/2/1078722.jpg)