30 Random Bits of Trivia We’re Sprinkling Into Your Brain, Salt Bae-Style
Present that rare brain of yours for seasoning
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Until we find a way to safely crack open that skull of yours to sprinkle in the facts, we’ll just have to go the ol’ read-and-comprehend route. It’s a tried-and-true method that’s worked great for centuries. But in the name of progress, we’re always looking for faster ways to cram in the facts.
While our scientists toil away at that, you read these bad boys — old school.
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![A gorilla named Shabani gained the attention of flocks of screaming women in 2016. CRACKED.COM The male gorilla was seen as extremely handsome and manly by women around the world, who showed up at his Japanese zoo. The staff had to put up signs telling the women to stop yelling, as it made him uncomfortable.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/2/1110192.jpg)
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![Voting in the US is done on Tuesdays because it took farmers a long time to travel in the 1800s. GRACKED.COM It could take rural farmers up to a day of traveling to get to a voting station. Wednesday was typically market day and Sunday was the Biblical Sabbath, so Tuesday was chosen to allow ample travel time.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/0/1110190.jpg)
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![The IRS still operates largely on mainframe computers running 60 year old code. REGISTER MEMORY ACCUMULATOR REGISTER REGISTER INSTRUCTION COUNTER INSTRUCTION CARDA LOND SELECTOR FSSTRUCTIG ENTRY The 200,000 lines of code for the Individual Master File systems from the Kennedy administration were coded in assembly language 59 years ago. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/8/1110178.jpg)
![In the years preceding the French Revolution, the price of bread cost 88% of a laborer's income. The average 18th-century worker spent half his daily wage on bread. But when the grain crops failed two years in a row, the price of bread shot up to 88 percent of his wages. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/7/1110177.jpg)
![17,000 divorce cases in Egypt cited Candy Crush as the cause of divorce in 2018. It seems like between mobile and console gaming, it's PlayStation that is breaking up the most families with 250,000 divorce cases. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/6/1110176.jpg)
![British parliament debated a resolution for bankers to be sewn into sacks with snakes and dumped into the Thames river. One of the first recognisably modern financial crises was the South Sea Bubble in 1720. Many thousands of British citizens, including Sir Isaac Newton, invested their savings in a scam and were impoverished when it burst. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/5/1110175.jpg)
![The crust of the Earth is so thin that it can be compared with the peel of an apple. The crust only makes up 1% of the earth's volume at just 25 miles deep, yet this comparatively small area contains all known life in the universe. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/4/1110174.jpg)
![A man ate over 2000 meals at Six Flags Magic Mountain with a $150 annual pass. A California man named Dylan ate most of his meals at the amusement park over seven years by spending $150 on an annual unlimited meals pass. This comes to about 50 cents a meal. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/3/1110173.jpg)
![The idea for summons in Dark Souls came from people helping the creator when he got his car stuck. DARK SOULS REMASTERED Hidetaka Miyazaki was inspired to design its summoning based on an experience he had when his car got stuck in the snow on a hill and a bunch of strangers came and helped before vanishing. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/2/1110172.jpg)
![In 1993, Burger King briefly offered table service during dinner hours. KING FRESHLY BURGER FOOT BURGER CRASPY KING REAST KING DO adidas and Staumtow Street IA all #3 Sales Not . FLAME GRILLING SINCE 1954 WHOPR, Your choices were a Whopper dinner basket, steak sandwich, chicken, or shrimp. They also offered popcorn as a table appetizer. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/0/1110170.jpg)
![Aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century, because it was harder to obtain. The French government once displayed Fort Knox-like aluminum bars next to the crown jewels, and the minor emperor Napoleon III reserved a prized set of aluminum cutlery for special guests at banquets. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/1/1110171.jpg)
![A corned beef sandwich was smuggled into space. Astronaut John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich into space aboard the Gemini 3 mission. Не hid the sandwich in his spacesuit pocket and shared it with the other crew members. NASA banned smuggled sandwiches from future missions. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/8/1110168.jpg)
![Naked mole rats can go 18 minutes with no oxygen by metabolizing fructose. Naked mole rats can survive for six hours in extremely low oxygen environments, and for 18 minutes with no oxygen at all. When a mole rat's brain and heart are deprived of oxygen, its cells switch to digesting a fructose instead of glucose. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/6/1110166.jpg)
![Some people can smell ants. Ants typically smell of formic acid, although this scent is only smell-able by some people. We call these people unlucky. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/7/1110167.jpg)
![There's a miniature Washington Monument under a manhole in D.C. The 12ft tall replica of the Washington Monument hides under a manhole near the actual monument. It's part of the network of a million control points across the country that helps the National Geodetic Survey synchronize all of the government's maps. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/5/1110165.jpg)
![President James Monroe and his Treasury Secretary dueled with fireplace tongs and a cane. During a contentious White House meeting, Treasury Secretary William H. Crawford became so angry at President James Monroe that he began whipping his cane at the President, forcing Monroe to use fireplace tongs to defend himself. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/4/1110164.jpg)
![Lynyrd Skynyrd based the group's name as a mocking tribute to their old P.E. teacher. Coach Leonard Skinner at Robert Е. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida disciplined two of the band's members for letting their hair grow long. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/9/1110169.jpg)