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31 Random Bits of Trivia for Your Brain to Chew on Like an Old Goat With a Rusty Tin Can

September 10, 2024

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Minutes after the finale of M.A.S.H., 6.7 million gallons of water surged through the Big Apple's sewer. YE One million New Yorkers held their pee all through the episode, and when the show was over, they all flushed at once. That amount of water can fill up 10 Olympic-size swimming pools. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Game of Thrones brought £240 million ($300 million) worth of business to Northern Ireland. Filming the hit show in the region not only increased visitors but also brought business to many local enterprises ranging from casting agents to taxidermists. CRACKED.COM — Source

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YS a A Czech Republic Lego Model REAL Shop made a 5.3 million brick Star Wars X-Wing, the largest Lego model ever built. Weight: 23 tons Wingspan: 44 feet Time: 17,336 hours CRACKED.COM — Source

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Collectively, mankind has spent 6 million years playing World of Warcraft. 5 10 6° 15 50 - That's about as 20 45 25 40 35 Join 30 long as we've spent evolving as a species. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hippos

Hippos kill 3,000 PEOPLE every year. Sharks kill fewer than six. Where are all the Hipponado movies? CRACKED. COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The budget for the Curiosity rover is about the same amount the U.S. military spends in a little over 30 HOURS. — Source

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Prescription MORE cause painkiller overdoses DEATHS than cocaine and heroin. According to the CDC, 17,029 people overdosed from prescription opioids in 2017, compared with 15,482 from heroin and 13,942 from cocaine. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A lion's roar can get up to 115 decibels, or 25 times louder than a lawnmower. That's because lions (and tigers), unlike most other animals, have square vocal folds, which lets them use less lung pressure than those other animals to roar. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ultramarine Blue pigment was more precious than gold in the 14th and 15th century Derived from the lapis lazuli stone, even the most famous artists needed wealthy patrons to buy it for them NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Diamonds very, very slowly turn into graphite (which pencils are made of). That's because the carbon atoms gradually settle into a lower-energy state - i.e. graphite. That happens on a time-scale of billions of years, so, for all intents and purposes, diamonds really are forever. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mark Wahlberg got $1.5 million dollars when an actor was replaced on his movie. His contract for All the Money in the World had a clause that gave him approval over who his co-star was, so when they quickly replaced Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer, he said he wouldn't approve it unless they paid him more money - and they did. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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When Bill Paxton died, storm chasers paid him a fitting tribute. They used GPS markers to make a giant BP (the Twister star's initials) across 3 states. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM Romans had porn coins. Coins with sexy imagery have been found for centuries, going back to the early times of the Roman Empire. Regular money, however, wasn't X-rated- so it isn't clear what the deal with these was. It's been theorized they were tokens to be used at brothels. — Source

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OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT NO FEDERAL The FBI spent two PIDELITY ER years investigating a BUREAU fake anti-Goth group. Among the many online groups the FBI keeps tabs on was an Е.Д.Л. x extremist church which ran a website called God Hates - of do my membership et - Goths. The group wasn't real, though-as the agents found out when they thought of checking the site's About Us page, after over two years of investigating them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The original settlers of Madagascar really went out of their way to get there. You'd think that Madagascar was first settled by people coming from Africa - and you'd be wrong. Madagascar's indigeous population are descended from people who canoed all the way from Indonesia, 3,000 miles away. The motivation for that long trip is still a mystery. GRACKED COM — Source

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Insert Home Page Cut Ca Copy Using Excel cost JPMorgan billions. You'd think that a huge financial company would use something fancier than Excel. JPMorgan didn't - to assess risky investments, they relied on a complex series of spreadsheets. Predictably, small errors snowballed, eventually costing the company over $6 billion in 2012. В A CRACKED COM — Source

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Boneless wings aren't wings at all. We're sorry to break it to you, but those boneless wings you just had were never used by any chicken to pathetically flap around. The nuggets are actually made with chicken tenders (from the breast of the bird). Calling them wings is just a marketing ploy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Paper airplanes have existed for thousands of years. The Chinese have been folding paper into flying shapes for the last 2,000 years. Of course, they didn't call them airplanes- those were more like simple origami birds. Paper planes as we know them today date back to the Civil War, when they were called paper darts. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Riverdale's Marisol Nichols fights sex criminals in real life. In the lulls of her acting job, Nichols moonlights as an undercover agent, helping the FBI hunt down sex predators. It sounds like the premise for a TV show - so of course, it's been turned into a TV show by Sony Pictures Television. — Source

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GRACKED.COM People used to get poisoning from potatoes. Before modern screening processes, it wasn't uncommon for people to get solanine poisoning from potatoes. Solanine is one of the same ingredients that make deadly nightshade, well, deadly. Green potatoes tend to be chock-full of the nasty stuff. — Source

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Bugs Bunny was a reskinned Daffy Duck. The first cartoon featuring Daffy Duck was very well received-so people over at Warner Bros. just went and ripped off their own hit, changing the loony duck for a loony rabbit. Then Bugs was further developed with the years, becoming the trickster we know today. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Professional could have been much creepier. The gross Lolita angle is mostly subtext, and easily overlooked - but it was intended to be right there in your face. Luc Besson's original screenplay includes a scene where Mathilda seduces Léon, and he is unable to oppose her. Yikes. CRACKED COM — Source

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Clark Kent exists in the Marvel Universe. In 1976, Clark Kent and Lois Lane were included in an X-Men comic as a sight gag - and that became a running joke. Не has had over 20 copyright-bending cameos between the '70s and the 2000s. Не isn't Superman here, though-he's just a particularly buff reporter. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Doctor Manhattan's body model died trying to outrun a train. Greg Plitt was an actor, fitness model, and all-around badass. Dr. Manhattan's CGI body for 2009's Watchmen was modeled after his ripped physique. And it looks like he thought he had real superpowers: In 2015, he was mowed down by a train, apparently while trying to prove he was faster. (Не wasn't.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Teddy Roosevelt

Teddy Roosevelt loved boxing with random people. Roosevelt liked fisticuffs so much that he had a boxing gym installed in the White House's basement, and would invite pretty much everyone to a bout. Не had to quit the sport after a military aide nearly blinded him in his left eye. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED.COM Wonder Woman had two secret identities in an unproduced series. In a pilot made in 2011, Wonder Woman was Diana Themyscira, CEO of a company that managed her own superhero image. And she was also Diana Prince, an employee at her own company. Apparently, just being two people didn't keep her busy enough. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Kodak learned about secret nuclear tests by accident. In July 1945, Kodak started noticing that a sensitive film they made was fogged (covered with dark spots). As this was caused by radioactive contamination, they eventually figured out that the likely cause was that holy s#!t someone was setting off nuclear bombs. — Source

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Jordan Peele

CRACKED.COM Jordan Peele quit acting because of The Emoji Movie. Being offered the role of the Poop Emoji gave Peele serious pause-and it got worse when Sir Patrick Stewart snatched the shitty part before Peele could make any decision. His reaction was, F*ck this, and has stuck to working mostly behind the cameras since. — Source

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GRACKED.COM VI A lot of the Scots-language Wikipedia is written in English with a Scottish accent. A teen from North Carolina has been a major contributor to the Scots Wikipedia for years - even though he doesn't speak the language. Of course, Scots speakers realized something weird was going on- but no one listened to them. A Reddit post blew the whole thing open in 2020. — Source

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Ramen was controlled by the Yakuza. Japan was a mess when World War II ended. In the face of food shortages and restrictions, the black market rushed in to feed the populace. Imported wheat was secretly diverted and turned into ramen, which was then sold out of illegal stalls- most of which were under Yakuza control. CRACKED.COM — Source

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