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31 Refreshing Bits of Trivia That Feel Like a Snorkel Full of Air After a 20-Foot Dive

June 24, 2024

These could be cold facts on a hot summer’s day or hot facts on a frigid winter’s morn. They could be whatever you’d like them to be, because that’s how refreshing facts work. They’re a hearty meal after a long day and a cool glass of water under the hot sun.

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Baby porcupines are called porcupettes. GRAGKED.COM Porcupines give birth to one to three porcupettes at a time, which are born with soft quills that harden after a few days. — Source

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There's a sports stadium that had its own courtroom and jail. لد 6 7 58 98 CRACKED COM Veterans Stadium, former home of the Philadelphia Eagles, installed a courtroom and jail cells for processing rowdy fans in 1998. — Source

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British landowners used to hire ornamental hermits to live in their gardens. CRACKED.COM Wealthy landowners in the 18th century would place ads looking for individuals to dress as druids and live on their property, not bathe or talk to anyone for several years. — Source

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Braille was invented by a tween. GRACKED.COM Based on a method of silent communication used by the French military, Louis Braille was 12 years old when he created a language that allows blind people to read. — Source

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Publicly is the most commonly misspelled word in the English language. SD Eleonora Drimen wha mit Schroefter drt 5 zen, mit - CRACKED COM Public is the only word ending in ic that has ly added to the end as opposed to ally, like in logically. — Source

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Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive. CRACKED.COM The belongings of Curie, who discovered polonium and radium, will still be radioactive for another 1,500 years. — Source

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A man changed his name to Tim Ppppppppppice to spite telemarketers. GRACKED COM It's pronounced Tim Per-per-per-per-per-per-per-pe r-per-per-ice, the 49-year-old from Leicester said.

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The average cumulus cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds. CRACKED.COM A typical cumulus is about a kilometer across, and roughly cube shaped, fitting in 500 million grams of water droplets. — Source

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Ancient Greek prostitutes advertised their services with their shoes. In ancient Greece, prostitutes wore sandals with the words follow me imprinted in the dirt to advertise their services. CRACKED — Source

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Thanks to international efforts, the ozone layer is projected to recover to 1980 levels by 2040. It's expected to make a full recovery by 2066. CRACKED — Source

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Pumpkins, watermelons, avocados, and bananas are technically classified as berries. However strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries aren't. CRACKED — Source

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Whale milk has the consistency of toothpaste. This is due to whale milk being 30-50 percent fat. CRACKED — Source

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Wal-Mart stores fill their shelves with strawberry Pop Tarts before hurricanes. Data mining has revealed that stores sold seven times more strawberry Pop Tarts before storms. CRACKED — Source

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A snail spent several years glued to a card in the British museum before it was discovered to be alive. The zoologist who discovered this felt so bad he gave the snail another snail so he wouldn't be alone anymore. CRACKED — Source

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William Shanks spent 15 years of his life manually calculating pi to 707 places. 3.14150 9 However, he made an error after the 527th digit, rendering the last few years of his work useless. CRACKED — Source

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In 1859, Thomas Austin, an English settler in Australia, introduced a mere 24 rabbits to his property, believing that it would cause little harm and add a sense of familiarity to the environment. By the 1920s, the rabbit population in Australia had soared to 10 billion. CRACKED — Source

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Courage the Cowardly Dog's pilot episode earned an Oscar nomination. It was titled The Chicken From Outer Space, and it lost to Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED.COM EARTH WAS ONCE A RAINY PLANET. 235 million years ago, the supercontinent Pangaea was mostly dry and arid. Then volcanic activity changed the climate, and it started raining - for two million years. This was the Carnian Pluvial Episode, and the resulting fossil and rock deposits have blown geologists' minds for years. — Source

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THE QUESTION ABOUT A TREE MAKING SOUND WASN'T A PHILOSOPHICAL CONUNDRUM. In any case, it wasn't intended as one. When the question was first posed in 1883, it came with the answer, No. Sound is the sensation excited in the ear when the air or other medium is set in motion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM SOME OF THE FIRST TAXIS WERE ELECTRIC. Electric cars aren't a modern innovation - they competed with fuel-powered cars in the early days of automobile production. The first taxi company in New York City used a fleet of electric cars when it was founded in the 1890s. — Source

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CRACKED.COM A ROCK CARVING IN CHINA IS THE WORLD'S OLDEST PORN. The Kangjiashimenji Petroglyphs, carved into ancient volcanic rock in the second millennium ВСЕ, represent a huge orgy, er, fertility ritual. The scene depicts about 100 ithyphallic persons (ithyphallic being a technical term meaning sporting a boner). — Source

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GREEK WRESTLING WAS HARDCORE AS HELL. Pankration was a form of wrestling with pretty much no rules practiced in Ancient Greece. Arrhachion, a celebrity pankratiast, was choked to death during a bout - only to be declared the winner, as his opponent submitted at the last second. Greeks loved this brutally dramatic shit. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM OTTO LILIENTHAL FLEW BEFORE THE WRIGHT BROTHERS. Lillienthal, a German engineer, completed 2,000 flights with different gliders. His death (while flying) inspired the Wright Brothers to try it themselves, and Lillienthal's designs formed the basis of their research. — Source

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CRACKED.COM SOME ANTS MAKE HONEY. Bees aren't the only honey-making bug. There are other insects on the list-including honeypot ants. These ants don't keep the sweet juice in hives, though-they store it within themselves, swelling up to the size of delicious, legged olives. — Source

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Someone calculated just how fast the Doom guy is. Redditor u/Phytor has done the math on this long-debated issue. Не concluded that Mr. Doom Man weighs 1,204 lbs, and still manages to walk at a speed of 49.5 miles per hour. That's faster than Usain Bolt (on a motorbike). CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM A treatment for alcoholism involves poisoning the patient. Disulfiram was the first drug approved by the FDA to treat alcohol dependence. It's never the first option, though, as its effect is as simple as it is devious: it makes alcohol poisonous. (Or rather, it interferes with the body's ability to make it not poisonous). — Source

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CRACKED.COM British clowns use eggs as a makeup registry. Over 250 ceramic eggs are housed in the London's Clown Gallery-Museum, each painted with the signature look of a particular clown as a form of copyright protection. The gallery- museum is housed inside a church, because clowns are apparently trying to be creepy. — Source

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CRACKED.COM NEW CC Conservatism played a big part in the failure of New Coke. de-mark The backlash against the new recipe was particularly strong amongst Southern conservatives, who saw it as a new aggression from those damn Yankees. A University of Mississippi professor called it an intrusion on tradition that Southerners won't like, regardless of how it tastes. — Source

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CRACKED.COM George Washington was actually the 15th U.S. president. Before Washington, 14 people held the office of President of the Continental Congress between 1774 and 1788, when the Constitution created a new executive branch. Those guys aren't officially counted, mostly because it was a largely ceremonial position with no real power. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Rick & Morty's Council of Ricks is based on The Fantastic Four. A body composed of versions from different realities of a genius scientist? Reed Richards did it first. The Interdimensional Council of Reeds was founded by three Fantastic Men who finagled themselves an Infinity Gauntlet. — Source

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Springfield, IL officially honored Cobra Commander. As Springfield was hosting a big G.I. Joe convention in 2015, the event was celebrated by handing the keys to the city to the show's villain. It kinda checks out, Considering Illinois' long history of government corruption. CRACKED.COM — Source

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