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31 Outdated Bits of Trivia That Got Stuck in the Suez Canal and Are Only Now Being Delivered

August 14, 2024

Look, these facts haven’t been disproven, so you can’t be that upset that they’re a little late. If we were promising up-to-the-minute facts, then yes, being a few months late would be an issue. But we’re positive they will stay fresh for a very long time.

Actually, let’s try something. Read these now, then again decades from now. Let us know how their truth holds up.

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Abba's studio sessions were so long, their sound engineer says he'd almost pass out from hunger. They never left a song unfinished, and worked on every one as if it were a potential hit single. Two members, Björn and Benny, even took vacations just to write songs. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED COM 886046 Tom Hardy hates going to the gym because he feels intimidated by the tough guys there. Не admits that he doesn't feel very manly in real life, and he imitates guys that scare him to create his on-screen persona. — Source

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Nicolas Cage made $2,161,000 selling the first-ever Superman comic book. His copy of Action Comics No.1, which features Superman's first appearance, was the first comic to break the $2 million mark in an auction. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jay Leno invested in rare and valuable motorcycles, and it paid off. For example, he bought six 1929 Brough bikes for over $30,000 apiece in the 1990s, and their value has gone up tenfold since then. CRACKED.COM — Source

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KRISTIN CHENOWETH COLLECTS QUARTERS The actress stores jars of quarters, which she disinfects with Purell. She says it's a holdover from being a broke actress. CRACKED.COM — Source

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AMANDA SEYFRIED COLLECTS TAXIDERMY VAN She's been collecting since the late '00s to amass a small museum's worth of dead animals. — Source

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Eminem is probably the fastest speaker ever. CRACKED.COM While we can't confirm there weren't more articulate cave people, Em rapped a record 1,560 words in 6 minutes in his 2013 song Rap God. At one point, he blurts 97 words in 15 seconds. — Source

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Cousins CRACKED.COM Chris Farley was the first cousin of Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford Motors. — 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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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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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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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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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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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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WHAT'S UP WITH SCIENCE? CRACKED.COM Stars outside our galaxy are bigger than we thought A new study shows we underestimated how large stars outside the Milky Way are. Stars in distant galaxies tend to be more massive than closer ones, and, the farther away, the larger the average stars may be. — Source

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WHAT'S UP WITH SCIENCE? CRACKED.COM The first Australians ate giant birds' huge eggs Using protein from a prehistoric eggshell, scientists confirmed that people 50,000 years ago ate the 3-pound eggs of the 500-pound flightless Thunderbird, perhaps leading to their extinction. — Source

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Big Ben's bell was cracked barely two months after its inauguration. After the crack in 1859, the bell has rung with a unique resonance. The bell has since been ori- ented in such a way that the hammer doesn't strike the 'crack.' CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A German architect wanted to dam the Mediterranean to make a supercontinent. Herman Sörgel devoted his whole life to promoting the idea of draining the sea and connecting Europe with Af- rica, a landmass called At- lantropa. Не thought it could provide shelter, em- ployment and food. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The largest population of tigers in the world is in the USA. With an estimated 5,000 tigers, the U.S. captive tiger popula- tion exceeds the ар- proximately 3,200 ti- gers in the wild. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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King Cambyses II of Persia used cats to invade Egypt. Knowing that cats held a high place in Egyptian soci- ety, the king brought hun- dreds of cats into his front lines. As a result, Egyptian archers refused to fire on his felines, fearing that they would injure the animals. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Ethiopia adopted Christianity as its state religion before Rome did. The Ethiopian empire was one of the first in the world to officially adopt Christianity as the state religion in 324. It took Rome a few decades to catch up, in 380. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Pinball was illegal for 30 years in many major US cities because políticians thought it must have been a mob-run scam. - PLAYERS - AIR AL YY BALL DUP 12 W adidas WORLD - СОКИСТ NF-14 GRACKED.COM Politicians thought that pinball was a game based on chance. The ban ended when a master pinball player was called in front of a committee to demonstrate his skill. — Source

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Former U.S. President Calvin Coolidge enjoyed playing tricks on his bodyguards. CRACKED.COM Coolidge would buzz his bodyguards and then hide under his desk as they frantically searched for him. — Source

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The venom of the Brazilian wandering spider can cause an erection that lasts for more than 4 hours. GRACKED.COM Erections resulting from the bite are uncomfortable, can last for many hours and can lead to impotence. Priapism is generally treated by jabbing a large needle in the penis and draining the blood. — Source

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The word Testify comes from the same root as Testicles. CRACKED COM Before the practice of swearing on a holy book became commonplace, witnesses would literally swear on their testicles that they weren't perjuring themselves. — Source

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The surname Stuart was created by Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots. CRACKED COM Since the French tend to pronounce W like v, she adopted the spelling to ensure that the French said her name correctly. — Source

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A Googolplex is such a large number that it has more zeros than all the hydrogen particles in the known universe. GRACKED COM If you were to write the number out on books with 400 pages, 50 lines per page and 50 zeros per line, the mass of the books would be greater than the total mass of all the stars in the observable universe. — Source

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In 1977, William Kampiles stole a spy satellite manual from the CIA which he sold to the Russians for.$3000. CRACKED.COM Не then told the CIA who he worked for and what he had done in the hopes that they would hire him as a double agent. They didn't and he was sentenced to 40 years in prison. — Source

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The term robot means servant. FUTURIUM CRACKED.COM Originally coming from an Old Church Slavonic word, robota, the word's meaning was forced labor or servitude. If AI ever becomes sentient, let's all agree to not tell them about this. — Source

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Leonardo Da Vinci took 12 years to paint just the lips of the Mona Lisa. CRACKED COM Da Vinci first began the Mona Lisa painting in 1503. Не carried it wherever he went and worked on it constantly, and it took him over 12 years just to paint the smirk of Mona Lisa's mouth. — Source

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The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters. CRACKED.COM The written language was adopted from the English alphabet in the 1800s by American missionaries. The letters they use are A, Е, H,I,K, L, M, N, О, P, and W. — Source

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