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31 Magically Delicious Bits of Trivia We Found at the End of a Rainbow

July 17, 2024

These facts were indeed found at the end of a rainbow. They were protected by an evil leprechaun ready to fight to the death for them — a mean, green, fact-guarding machine that we could have left for you to defeat. But we didn’t. We rolled up our pant legs, punted him over said rainbow and grabbed every last fact he was responsible for defending.

And now, we hand them over to you on a very colorful platter.

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You may know lettuce as short bundles of salad-to-be, but it can actually grow to over 3 feet tall. Called bolting, lettuce cán sprout tall stalks with yellow flowers. However, this makes the leaves inedible. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The first oil paintings ever made are attributed to Masolino da Panicale, created in the 1420s. Up until recently, this honor belonged to the painter Jan van Eyck, but earlier oil works by Masolino were found. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Investing in Uber is what enabled Lance Armstrong to survive financially. Although he'd lost millions, his investment in Uber ballooned - when he invested, Uber's valuation was $3.7 million, and it later went to $120 billion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Eating dark chocolate can make some people sneeze, and it's due to genetics. About 25-30% of people are affected, and all those people carry a variant of a specific gene on Chromosome 11 that causes them to sneeze. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Melatonin might be a legacy of our ancestors who roamed the oceans millions of years ago. They'd go to the surface of the sea at sunset, then fall throughout the night, and this cycle might have led to the evolution of melatonin. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ben & & Jerry's was originally supposed to make bagels and not ice cream. Partly to kind of commemorate that, Ben&Jerry's launched limited-edition ice cream bagel sandwiches decades later (called Ice Ice Bagels). CRACKED.COM — Source

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A French soldier in WWI was saved thanks to the book he had in his pocket. Kipling It was Rudyard Kipling's Kim, and the bullet stopped at the last 20 pages. Не wrote to Kipling about it, and they began a correspondence. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Eagle nests are extremely wide - about 6 feet across at the very top. They're also pretty deep, because eagles just keep building them up for years. The largest eagle nest ever found was 10 feet wide and 20 feet tall. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There was a small group of WWII spies that were kind of real-life Inglorious Basterds. Two Brooklyn Jews were parachuted behind German lines to gather intel, and they were soon joined by a disillusioned ex-Nazi lieutenant. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dogs and cats in the US contribute fairly significantly to global warming. The diet fed to dogs and cats creates 25-30% of the total environmental impact (in terms of fossil fuel use, biocide use, and so on) from animal production. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the 1700s, it was fashionable in Britain to get a hermit for your estate. Landowners even put ads for hermits in newspapers, offering food, lodging and money (but, of course, there were conditions). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Warner Bros. Entertainment was established in 1923 - WD ST XIXIXIX less than one year before the fall of the Ottoman Empire. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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AN A DE GUARDE ж FB Nintendo existed while Jack the Ripper was terrorizing London. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cru ech Will Smith is older than Uncle Phil was at the beginning of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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France's last execution by guillotine happened the same year Star Wars came out. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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KEANU REEVES LAUREN TRON The Matrix is older now than Tron was when The Matrix was released. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe were born in the same year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The oldest living tree was almost five thousand years old when it was cut down. It was already 1,000 years old when the last woolly mammoth died. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a Grateful Dead show that somehow hasn't been recorded at all. Apparently, there's no tape of any kind of the performance, and people want a recording so bad that the reward for one is $1,200. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scotland Yard is sitting on a bunch of information about Jack the Ripper. NEV SCOTLAND VARD For some reason, they just don't want to release it - apparently, they have four ledgers with information they refuse to publish. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The CIA built a tracking device shaped to look just like a piece of tiger poop. It was for the Vietnam War, and they needed a device that could look completely unobtrusive in the jungle. The choice was clear. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The National September 11 Memorial is always carefully heated and cooled. ALAN // RICHARD /. GUADAGNO CHH MARTINEZ MARK BINGHAM It was designed so that people could always touch it, so an elaborate system of copper tubes heats or cools it as necessary at all times. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Ancient Egypt, they had egg incubators that could hatch up to 4,500 eggs. The incubators were cleverly designed ovens that, if operated right, could hatch all those thousands of fertilized eggs within several weeks. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kodak used to operate a private nuclear reactor under its corporate campus. 0 D A K K The reactor was there for 30 years, and was about as big as a fridge. They kept it behind concrete walls in a basement and operated it remotely. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Bow Valley, Canada, one grizzly bear has been dominant for some 10 years. illustration Не has the humdrum name of Bear No. 122, weighs 500-600 pounds, and has been at the top of the local grizzly hierarchy for about a decade. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Operation Magic Carpet, the US returned eight million people home. -ADN The operation, led after WWII ended, involved getting an average of 22,222 soldiers back to the US every day for almost a whole year. CRACKED.COM — Source

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After the Civil War, the capital of the US was almost moved to St Louis. The scheme even involved disassembling important buildings like the White House and the Capitol building, and shipping them to St. Louis. CRACKED.COM — Source

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It's estimated that 2,5 billion Tyrannosaurus rexes ever lived on Earth. THERINE RAORDINARY SPECIMEN That's over the species' entire 2.4 million-year lifespan - and, at any given moment in that span, only about 20,000 T-Rexes were running around. CRACKED.COM — Source

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OG Michael Myers actor Nick Castle did way more than you probably knew. He's not just an actor, but a writer and director - he co-wrote Escape from New York and directed '90s films like Dennis the Menace. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The original 35-page treatment for The Blair Witch Project had zero dialogue. That was on purpose: the authors described what would happen, but they wanted all the lines to be ad-libbed by the actors themselves. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A loose tooth almost jeopardized It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. When Sally's six-year-old actress had a tooth get loose, they rushed her to the studio to get all her lines in before it fell out and she started to lisp. CRACKED.COM — Source

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