25 Random Bits of Trivia to Blend Into a Fine Puree Inside Your Skull
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![The sinking of the Sultana was horrific, but no one paid attention to it. The steamboat Sultana was carrying over 2,000 recently-released POWs of the Civil War-most of whom died when the boilers exploded. It was a tragedy worse than the Titanic-and it was totally upstaged by the Lincoln assassination, which happened around those same days. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/0/1083350.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Blue-eyed people are likelier to become alcoholics. Genetics is a mess. If you have genes for blue eyes, it's likely that you also have genes for a higher alcohol tolerance, which can lead to drinking too much. The effect is small, but study after study keeps showing the same thing.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/8/1083348.jpg)
![Charles Darwin was on a quest to eat every animal species. Darwin's interest in animals was twofold- both scientific and gastronomical. Не sampled pumas, iguanas, birds, and tortoises during his five-year trip around the world. Не discovered that all living creatures shared common ancestors and also tasted delicious. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/9/1083349.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM The Sun's atmosphere extends far beyond Earth. So, basically we live inside the sun.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/7/1083347.jpg)
![THE LARGEST DESERT ON EARTH ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK. ANTARCTICA CONTAINS 90% OF EARTH'S FRESH WATER, BUT KEEPS IT INACCESSIBLY FROZEN. WITH LESS THAN 2 INCHES ON AVERAGE OF PRECIPITATION A YEAR, IT'S ALSO THE PLANET'S LARGEST DESERT. GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/6/1083346.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM 3.04 TRILLION TREES THERE ARE MORE TREES ON EARTH THAN THERE ARE STARS IN THE MILKY WAY. APPROXIMATELY 400 BILLION STARS](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/5/1083345.jpg)
![Grand Central Station is more radioactive than a nuclear power plant. This is because of all the granite, which is slightly radioactive. CRACKED.COM While harmless, the radiation levels in the station are still more than allowed for nuclear power plants.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/4/1083344.jpg)
![Not all infinities are the same size. Georg Cantor demonstrated that there are more real numbers than natural numbers, even though there's an infinite amount of each. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/3/1083343.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM A huge battle was fought to stop a strike. The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest on American soil since the Civil War. 10,000 striking coal miners in West Virginia exchanged fire with 3,000 strikebreakers, police officers, and troops. The miners were defeated after five days.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/2/1083342.jpg)
![Three notorious bombers became friends in prison. 6 9 i2 11 0 1 1 0 5 4 Timothy McVeigh, Ted Unabomber Kaczynski, and Ramzi Yousef (who bombed the WTC in 1993) were all locked away in the same supermax prison in Colorado. And they shared common interests other than bombs, so they struck a friendship. The gang was broken up when McVeigh was executed in 2001. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/1/1083341.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM Unlimited vacation time usually means less vacation time. More and more companies are offering the perk of unlimited paid time off-but this policy often results in their workers taking shorter vacations. No one wants to be seen as the lazy employee who took one day too many, right?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/0/1083340.jpg)
![Superheroes used to be the bottom of the comics barrel. Back in the '40s, comics boasted a much greater variety than today. Crime and horror were the top-sellers, while those lunatics in tights were seen as a passing fad. Then moral panics crippled the industry in the '50s, leaving supers as pretty much the sole survivors. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/9/1083339.jpg)
![College professors published a porn anatomy textbook. In 1971, three Duke University professors penned The Anatomical Basis of Medical Practice, a textbook that featured, as the authors put it, female models as model females. Costal Posterior märgins and anterior axillary Not too surprising, really, considering that med schools at the time were bro-y sausage fests. Inguinal ligament Fig. III-56. Adult female, surface anatomy of the ab- domen. GRAGKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/7/1083337.jpg)
![People feared Comet Halley would kill everyone. When the comet visited us in 1910, many feared that its gases would poison the Earth's atmosphere. People donned gas masks and swallowed anti-comet pills, and hucksters sold protective umbrellas. There was much rejoicing when no one was hurt. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/5/1083335.jpg)
![Amazon's fast shipping is awful for the environment. Amazon's drivers drive more miles, and consequently burn more fuel, than any other courier service. That's because deliveries are prioritized by shipping deadline, forcing drivers to rush from place to place to deliver individual packages, instead of doing a single run. prime CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/6/1083336.jpg)
![Tarzan's yell is trademarked. Can you own a scream? Legally, you can. Johnny Weissmuller's iconic yodel was trademarked in 1997 by the family of Tarzan's creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, claiming that the shouting was part of the brand. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/3/1083333.jpg)
![The first recorded act of mooning caused a massacre. Jewish-Roman historian Titus Flavius Josephus recounts the time when a Roman soldier in Jerusalem mooned the Jewish population. During Passover. At the Temple. The locals were very pissed off, and an estimated 10,000- 30,000 people died in the ensuing riot. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/0/1083330.jpg)
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![Milk won't make your bones stronger. It stands to reason - if your bones are made of calcium, and milk has calcium, you should drink lots of milk, right? It turns out that biology is more complicated than that. Decades' worth of studies have failed to find any benefit to bone health from drinking extra milk. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/2/1083332.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM The flu almost vanished during lockdown. During the 2020-2021 season, hospitalizations due to the flu plummeted to about 14% of the previous year. As the flu spreads the same way as COVID but is less infectious, it didn't stand a chance against all the masks, social distancing, and hand-washing.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/6/1083326.jpg)
![Isaac Newton prescribed toad vomit against the bubonic plague. Shortly after a plague outbreak, a young Newton studied medical texts and came to the conclusion that the best treatment was powdered toad, mixed with the toad's own vomit. We're forced to admit, Newton wasn't a genius at everything science-related. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/9/1083329.jpg)
![The original Kool-Aid drinkers didn't want to drink the Kool-Aid. You might already know that Jim Jones' cult members drank poisoned Flavor Aid, not Kool- Aid. The expression is also wrong in that it was not a voluntary act of uncritical submission. Many were forced at gunpoint by Jones loyalists, after being held against their will for months. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/4/1083334.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM A Thanos-like approach to population was seriously proposed in the '70s. Overpopulation was one of the great fears of past decades. Famine was thought to be inevitable, so some authors proposed triage- essentially, letting entire nations starve to feed the rest. Luckily, new agricultural techniques were developed that curbed food shortage before that happened.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/1/1083331.jpg)
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