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37 Random Bits of Trivia That Are Down on Their Luck and Would Like to Crash in Your Mind Palace for a Week or Two If That’s Cool

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37 Random Bits of Trivia That Are Down on Their Luck and Would Like to Crash in Your Mind Palace for a Week or Two If That’s Cool

August 23, 2024

We originally didn’t want these facts to overstay their welcome, but now that we’ve seen what they bring to the table, we don’t want them to leave.

How long do you think they’ll be comfortable on the ol’ brain couch? Should we knock out a skull wall and build an extension? Should we put locks on the outside of the skull doors so they can’t leave?

Okay, that last one sounds a lot like kidnapping. Never mind.

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The Russian Railway is long enough to wrap around the world twice. The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest train journey in the world, with a length of over 5,772 miles. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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One guy spent seven hours skiing down from the world's second highest mountain peak. Не climbed for three and a half days to get up there - without any additional oxygen, which is pretty badass. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The heir apparent of the Ottoman Empire fought in the Normandy landings. Не had studied at Princeton, and joined the US military, where he went on to have a 22-year career. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bees are known as hive animals, but there are also species of solitary bees. These bees sting only rarely, and male solitary bees can't sting you at all. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In an Indian park, rangers are legally allowed to shoot people hunting rhinos. Which led to rangers killing 20 people in Kaziranga park in 2015 - fewer rhinos got killed by poachers that year. CRACKED.COM — Source

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One of the Titanic's survivors was dubbed The Unsinkable Molly Brown. After the Titanic's disaster, she got highly involved in women's and worker's rights, and acquired a reputation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Polaroid had to issue a statement in response to OutKast. OneStep Plus POLAROID LAND CAMERA CRACKED.COM After OutKast sang Shake it like a Polaroid picture, Polaroid released this statement: Shaking or waving can actually damage the image — Source

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Jamaica's premier sex-resort was built by the government. GRAGKED.COM Although it is now in private hands, the clothing-optional resort Hedonism II, with its Kama Sutra Palace and Romping Shop Playroom, was originally built by the government of Jamaica. — Source

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Pine trees grow at right angles in a forest in Poland. CRACKED COM The appropriately named Crooked Forest in Poland is home to hundreds of pine trees curved at a 90° angle. — Source

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Jerry Springer was born in a London tube station. CRACKED.COM Daytime TVs controversial host was born during World War II in Highgate tube station when it was used as a bomb shelter. — Source

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Plants at a castle in England are so deadly, they're grown in cages. GRACKED COM The Poison Garden of Alnwick Castle was created in 2005 when Jane Percy, the Duchess of Northumberland, wanted to show people the scariest plants around. — Source

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Cary Elwes was knocked out for real in The Princess Bride. CRACKED.COM Elwes convinced Christopher Guest to really go for it and hit him with his sword, which was real and not a prop. Elwes was knocked out and woke up in the hospital, still in costume, getting stitches. — Source

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Crispin Glover sued the studio for using his face mold in Back to the Future II. They used the mold (from the first movie) to make the replacement actor look like Glover, and that was a step too far for him, so he sued. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Platypus milk has a strange protein that has unique antibacterial properties. The protein has a three-dimensional fold that's totally unique, and that fold apparently gives it its unusual antibacterial properties. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The French Navy used Cleopatra's daughter's mausoleum for target practice. Luckily, the mausoleum was mostly unharmed - and when Emperor Napoleon III visited, much later, he demanded that it be preserved. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lightning can actually be much hotter than the surface of the sun, somehow. A bolt of lightning coming up from the ground (a return stroke) can get as hot as 50,000 degrees F, and the surface of the sun is about 11,000 degrees F. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hitler had a plan to raze Berlin when he won WWII, and rebuild it as a new city: Germania. Germania would be the capital of the 1,000-year-Reich, and it would be comparable only to ancient Egypt, Babylon or Rome. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sudan has over 200 pyramids, and the oldest are from about 2500 ВС. There are also burial chambers, tombs, and temples - - a all those buildings are concentrated at three sites: Meroe, Jebel Barkal, and El Kurru. CRACKED.COM — Source

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SOS actually isn't an acronym - and it's not really a word as such, either. TELEGRAPE SWYORK It was just chosen because it stands out easily in Morse code, which was needed back when Morse code was heavily used for ship communication. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Two legendary race car drivers fueled their exploits with drug money. / P 2 2 NUMERO RESERVE Don *All Whittington Kas EXPORTED 41 - philippe 22 salvet lb Turbolader Shell ID NUMERO RESERV The Whittington brothers bought a historical racetrack, and used it to land planes that smuggled drugs in the middle of the night from Latin America. CRACKED.COM — Source

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When Katy Perry was new in LA, she pretended she was Zooey Deschanel. She only did it to get into clubs - she was an absolute nobody at the time (and was broke, too), but Zooey Deschanel was a huge star. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Booger's winning belch in Revenge of the Nerds came from an animal - specifically, a camel. They took the sound of a camel having an orgasm and mixed it with a human belch to get the truly amazing seven-second sound in the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The first seven Fast and Furious movies wrecked over a thousand cars -- the number is 1,487. If you included the cars from the 8th and 9th movie, plus the ones from Hobbs & Shaw, the total number might cross the 2,000 figure. CRACKED.COM — Source

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One New York City alley usually stands in for the rest of them in Hollywood movies. R some د. - D UNIVERSITY NYC only has about 5 alleys, and you can usually only film in Cortlandt Alley, so that's the one that ends up playing a NYC alley in most movies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Tiananmen Square protests could have delayed The Little Mermaid. # The studio that drew the bubbles in the movie was based a few blocks away from the Square, and their work was trapped there until the protests were over. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A teenager survived a plane crash still strapped to his seat after being ejected from the plane. TOP CRACKED.COM In 1985, a 17-year old named George Lamson Jr. was ejected from Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 upon the crash, and landed up- right in his seat in the mid- dle of a street. Не was the only survivor. — Source

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Napping after learning leads to a significantly better recall rate one week later. GRAGKED.COM When tested 30 minutes after learning, cramming and napping led to signifi- cantly better memory than taking a break. After a week, napping maintained this significant advantage, but cramming did not. — Source

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The original author of the Forrest Gump novel wrote a sequel to the book. The Rollicking Sequel to the #1 New York Times Bestseller Forrest Gump GRACKED.COM It was titled Gump and Co, and in it Gump crashes the Exx- on Valdez, helps de- stroy the Berlin Wall, and fights in Opera- tion Desert Storm. — Source

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The rules of chess were changed in the 15th-century to reflect the accomplishments of Queen Isabella. CRACKED.COM The Queen's arrival at the siege of Baza, in 1489, boosted morale and led to the Crusader's victory. In response, the unofficial Queen chess piece was given a stronger standing and more mobility. — Source

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Moscow only had six minutes of sunlight in December of 2017. CRACKED.COM They usually get a whop- ping 18 hours of sun for the month, but a wall of cloud that never moved sat over the city thanks to cyclone anomalies over the Atlantic and warmer tem- peratures. — Source

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A sausage being called a banger comes from WWI food shortages. CRACKED.COM Meat shortages forced sausages to be made with high water content, causing them to burst when being cooked, hence the name. — Source

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It became Jewish law that any woman could divoce her husband if he became a dyer. CRACKED.COM Making a purple pigment used to dye clothes for royal- ty in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome involved harvest- ing the pigment from rotting snails, which smelled so bad that the divorce law was spe- cifically written. — Source

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Consumers did not buy tater tots at first because they were too cheap. CRACKED.COM When Tater Tots first hit store shelves in 1956, they were so inexpensive that there was no perceived value. When the price was raised by stores, people began buying the product. — Source

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A fan drove three hours 015,000, to bring rapper Boosie OVER 0743,000,000 IN CASH PR OVER 1175.000.000 FB PRIZES FROM 1500 UP 104130 Badazz some much-needed WINNING NUMBERS 8 7 insulin to his home. YOUR SUMMERS $ S $ $ PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE 5K $ PRIZE OF PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE a 99 55 $ $ PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE S BP S 8 PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE $ AR 16 $ PRIZE 20 PRIZE MON She refused payment but stopped to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket after leaving the house and won $14,000. NOW YOU — Source

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James Bond first appeared in 1953 and through all the books & movies... On HER MAJESTYS SECRET SERVICE There has been one monarch of Britain: Queen Elizabeth II. CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Kevin Smith attended a protest for his own movie, Dogma. When an unwitting reporter asked for a comment, Smith said, I don't know, but I've been told, 'not good.''' NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Centuries ago, they believed that witches literally kissed the Devil's ass. It was called the Kiss of Shame, and the belief was that it was how witches said hello to Satan. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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