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Crispy, gooey, perfectly browned facts

30 Random Bits of Trivia to Roast Over a Campfire

July 11, 2024

In hindsight, we should’ve found some chocolate and graham cracker facts to go with these gooey, pillowy little facts. Next time. But your dad snatched up this bag of facts last minute while grabbing a case of beer, so you should just be grateful that there are facts around the campfire at all!

Now grab a long, thin branch, nod along to your uncle’s acoustic rendition of “Hey Jude,” and roast up these facts!

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High G-Forces gives pilots something called geasles. They're small, dark spots on your skin that form when capillaries burst due to the intense pressure, and they're called G-measles (or geasles for short). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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New Zealand

There are no snakes in New Zealand. The islands that make up the country have zero native snake species -- a few lizard species are the closest thing. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The first ideas for Indiana Jones involved making him a pedo. At an early brainstorming session for the character, George Lucas suggested that he and Marion Ravenwood might have had an affair when he was an adult and she was 11. Не then moved her age up to all of 15 (Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore.) NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The interviews at the start of Interstellar are (mostly) real. One of them includes an actor (Ellen Burstyn), but the others are interviews with real people, describing what they lived through, from the 2012 documentary Dust Bowl. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Big Bird is a different color in different countries. Pino They're called his cousins on the show, and they include Abelardo (green, from Mexico), Pino (blue, from the Netherlands) and Minik Ku (orange, from Turkey). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dumb and Dumber

That was Jim Carrey's real chipped tooth in Dumb and Dumber. 27% It got chipped in grade school, and he had a cap put on it t - - he just took it off for the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Penguins can drink saltwater like it's regular water. A gland above their eye filters the salt from their blood, and that salt then gets sneezed out or it comes out through their bill. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 17th-century London, you'd have to pay one of several fire brigades to save your building. A fire mark You'd insure it against fire, and the company would place its fire mark on the building. That way, when it caught fire, the company's firemen would know they were supposed to put out the fire (otherwise, they'd just leave). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apparently, teeth come from our fish ancestors. Ancient fish had dermal denticles -- small, spiky scales that some fish, like sharks or mantas, still have. Scientists think that, as those fish evolved into land animals, the denticles moved from the skin and into the mouth, where they became teeth. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson gave his library to Congress after the British burned the Capitol in 1814. That doubled the size of the Library of Congress -- there were 3,000 volumes before the fire (all of which burned down), and Jefferson sent about 6,500 volumes. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2011, a Japanese hospital admin gave his life to help his co-workers survive a tsunami. OR DR XOB MIYAKO When the tsunami hit, Shigeru Yokosawa ran back into the building and got a satellite phone, then threw it to a co-worker with seconds to spare. That gave the survivors a way to reach the outside world. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Squids

Squids can change their skin's color and brightness CRACKED.COM Scientists discovered light-reflecting cells that allow squids to shimmer, mimicking the ocean's dappled light. — Source

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Catnip might be a good insect repellant CRACKED COM Its active ingredient Nepetalactone works as an irritant for flatworms, fruit flies, and mosquitoes. — Source

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The earliest animals didn't have heads or skeletons CRACKED.COM All modern animals, including humans, share genes with the 555-million-year-old oceanic creatures. — Source

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Eye color genetics are more complicated than we thought CRACKED.COM Move over, Punnett Squares. Scientists have discovered over 50 new genes for eye color. — Source

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There are more U.S. museums than there are Starbucks and McDonalds - combined LICENSE McDonald's SPEEDEE SERVICE SYSTEM HAMBURGERS We have Sold OVER 1 MILLION McDonald's There are around 11,000 Starbucks and 14,000 McDonald's locations in the U.S., compared to 35,000 museums. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Astronauts are really into watching space disaster movies on the ISS. They have movie nights on the ISS, and they watch movies on a screen and projector - they love sci-fi and disaster movies set in space, like Apollo 13. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini had a fling while filming From Justin to Kelly Clarkson admitted she briefly dated her American Idol runner-up. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The British navy used Britney Spears' songs to scare off Somali pirates The navy chose Spears' hit songs Oops! ...I Did It Again and ...Baby One More Time to ward off the pirates because of the pirates' dislike of western culture. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ships full of weapons exist in international waters to defend against pirates. Private security firms offer armed guards for merchant ships in high risk areas. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scientists didn't know the the length of a day on Saturn until 2019 It's 10 hours, 33 minutes and 38 seconds. It was difficult to figure out because the gas planet has no solid surface to follow its rotation and an unusual magnetic field. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A helium balloon on the moon would plunge to the ground Without air to rise above, the helium might as well be lead. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bitcoin's rise from $150 to $1000 was probably due to just one person. NON B NTAR IZEIZ That's the conclusion of a study that looked at trades happening when the price jumped - they were done by two bots that didn't even own the BTC they traded. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Russia, they arrested an artist for a big poop snow sculpture. Specifically, he'd made a sculpture out of snow in the shape of a giant turd not too far from a burial site in St. Petersburg, and the police nabbed him for that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fight Club

WEIRD WORLD China changed the ending of Fight Club ... and, uh, the system wins. In the recently released edited version, the final scene doesn't have any exploding buildings - just a black screen with the text The police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding. GKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One woman bought a house that turned out to be a charred former double garage. Tiffany Elton bought a bungalow in Canada that, well, turned out not to be a bungalow at all, but a garage that got a makeover to look like a home. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In the UK, a hairdresser created a Boris Johnson mural out of surplus hair. She gathered a bunch of the hair she's cut off, and used it to construct a 5ft x 3ft mural of the Prime Minister on the floor of her salon. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Florida (of course), someone tried to rob a restaurant with finger guns. WAFFLE HOUSE The Sheriff's Office arrested the suspect and confirmed, thankfully, that nobody was harmed in the incident at a local Waffle House. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In a supervillain-like stunt, a large globe was stolen from a Filipino mall. And it really was like something from a Bond movie - the unidentified thief stole it using a helicopter. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD People had to spend the night at an IKEA in Denmark because of heavy snow. 10 Entrance IKEA 4 Since they couldn't get home, 25 staff and 6 customers had to sleep on some of the IKEA beds lying around the shop floor. CRACKED.GOM — Source

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