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30 Random Bits of Trivia You Have to Sit Through Before You Get to the Main Event — Closing This Tab and Moving on With Your Day

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30 Random Bits of Trivia You Have to Sit Through Before You Get to the Main Event — Closing This Tab and Moving on With Your Day

September 03, 2024

Let’s try to live in the moment here, shall we? It’s easy to see this list as one of many hubs of information on the internet, but you don’t have to rush through it to get to the next one. Savor it. Close your eyes, take a deep breath and really take in each fact. You’ll honestly be able to feel it cascade down your brain, and sink in for years to come.

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Deep Sea Sponges live up to 18,000 years. CRACKED COM Giant tube sponges can live past 2,000 years, in part due to the cells that make up their bodies. Unlike typical animal cells, the sponge cells can transform into whatever the sponge needs at the time. Deep sea glass sponges, which sway in deep waters atop 10 foot poles of silicone, can live up to 18,000 years. — Source

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Jim Henson dreamed of opening a nightclub in the 1960's. CRACKED.COM The experimental nightclub Cyclia would have featured images and videos projected onto walls, synced up to music to create a holistic experience. The nightclub never came to be, but Henson did record a lot of the visuals that would have been used, some of which were posthumously released by his company. — Source

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CRACKED.COM A flying head was cut out of the Bible. According to The Life of John the Baptist, after John was beheaded, his head flew around the world for 15 years, calling King Herod out the entire time. Yes, we also wonder why such an awesome thing was left out of the final cut. — Source

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Bea Arthur wasn't too fond of Betty White on Golden Girls. CRACKED.COM The two characters that Bea Arthur and Betty White played on Golden Girls were closer to their real life personalities than you think. Betty White said that Bea found her to be a pain in the neck, and her positive attitude got under Bea's skin. Sometimes, Betty said, if I was happy, she'd be furious! — Source

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Shopping carts are getting bigger SO that you'll unintentionally spend more money. ERALD CRACKED.COM The shopping cart, invented in 1936, was basically two regular shopping baskets on a rolling frame, made so that you could fill up more baskets with goods. The next step for tricking you into spending more lies in the ever growing size of the carts themselves; research shows that when shopping cart sizes double, people buy 40% more at the checkout counter. — Source

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There are indeed different types of hangovers from different drinks. CRACKED.COM The severity of your hangover is determined not only with how much you drink, but what you drink. This is caused by a byproduct of fermentation, congeners, and the greater concentration of them, the worse the effects. Dark liquors like brandy, red wine, and whiskey have higher concentrations than clear ones, like vodka. — Source

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Dolph Lundgren sent Sylvester Stallone to the hospital while filming Rocky IV. CRACKED.COM In order to capture the most realistic boxing possible, Stallone, who directed the film, asked the hulking Lundgren to really go for hard hits to the body. After wrapping, Lundgren got word that production had to be halted after Stallone was hospitalized for swelling of his heart. — Source

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We found a planet that rains glass over 5 times the speed of sound. GRAGKED.COM The deep blue color of HD 189773B, a gas giant exoplanet 64.5 light-years away, was observed in 2005. Scientists theorize the color comes from shards of glass that are whipping around the planet's surface at 4,349 mph. — Source

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One man has garnered millions of views on Youtube by sitting motionless on camera for hours at a time. CRACKED.COM As a form of endurance art, performer Benjamin Bennett released a series of odd videos where he sits and smiles in front of a camera in four hour chunks, at a rate of one video a week. In 2019, after 300 of these videos, Bennett started a new series where he walks and talks continuously until his camera battery dies. — Source

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Chicago, Illinois is the most rat infested city in the US. CRACKED COM Based on data from pest control company Orkin, Chicago has topped the list of most rodent saturated cities in America for several years in a row. A combination of climate change, increasing urbanization, and even the COVID pandemic has helped the rat population surge. — Source

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The most liked post on Instagram is an image of an egg. CRACKED.COM The account world_record_egg was created by advertising creative Chris Godfrey to raise awareness for mental health. The first post, a stock image of a brown egg on a plain white backdrop, raked in 55.5 million likes, more than doubling that of the second most liked post from Ariana Grande's wedding. — Source

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C-CONAN zz IN THE FLESH, IS THAT YOU? DANETTE. CAN I COME IN? A comic published by Marvel in 1984 answers a question we have all pondered: WHAT IF CONAN THE BARBARIAN WAS A MODERN- DAY PIMP? In this comic, the UH-- SURE-- Cimmerian is thrown into the 20th century and starts a lucrative life of crime. It gets even weirder when he shows up at a lady friend's apartment, hoping to impress her with his snazzy fashion choices. CRACKED COM — Source

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SEX WORK In the late '70s, Rhode Island saw multiple WAS MADE pushes to reduce the penalties for prostitution. LEGAL, AND But in the process of FOR DECADES rewriting the law, they accidentally deleted the NOBODY part that said that NOTICED. prostitution was a crime. The loophole was only found in 1998 and closed in 2009. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM JOY MILNE CAN SMELL PARKINSON'S. Milne, a British nurse, could smell her Knowing that Parkinson's husband's disease years disease has a distinctive before he was diagnosed. odor, scientists are Her ability has been now working on a test tested and she has a track to diagnose it in its record of 100 percent. early stages. — Source

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Ever wondered why the Jelly Jetsons live in those sweet stratospheric houses? The DC Comics reboot has the answer: It's because a meteor collided with the Earth and wrecked the planet. THE JETSONS WENT DYSTOPIAN WHILE WE WEREN'T LOOKING. Also, Rosie the robot maid now holds the disembodied consciousness of George Jetson's mother. GRACKED COM — Source

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For centuries, turning the kitchen spit was the turnspit dog's job. A DOG BREED WAS BRED JUST TO COOK MEAT. The small, strong-legged pooch was made to run inside a wooden wheel connected to a chain, so as to make sure the meat was evenly cooked, Flinstones-style. The breed died out around 1900, after the mechanical spit turner was invented. GRACKED.COM — Source

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ELIZABETH SWANEY BECAME AN OLYMPIC ATHLETE THANKS TO A LOOPHOLE. Swaney can't do any freestyle skiing tricks. She just shows up to events with few qualified competitors, finishes a boring run, and doesn't ADA get deducted any points for failed tricks she doesn't even attempt. MADA By doing this consistently, she managed to qualify for the 2018 Winter Olympics representing Hungary. GRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1863, the Union wanted to THE BLACK recover the grounded U.S.S. Indianola, now in Confederate TERROR WAS hands. Without readily A FEARSOME available ships, they resorted to bullshit. They quickly built (AND FAKE) a dummy out of logs, barrels, and canvas, and sent it WARSHIP. drifting down the Mississippi. BELUDED PEOPLE CAVE -IN. It worked a tad too well, though, and the Confederates ravaged the Indianola before fleeing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER WAS AN UBER CREEP. Schrödinger (of maybe-alive- maybe-dead-cat fame) had several lovers while married, including one who lived in his house. But he crosses over to dude WTF territory with his petting and cuddling of, and later sex with, a teenage girl he was tutoring, making her pregnant. One biographer describes him as having a Lolita complex. GRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM In 1906, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle set out to prove the innocence of George Edalji, a man convicted for mutilating cattle. Working with Holmesian zeal, Doyle poked a bunch of THE CREATOR holes in the police's story, and eventually OF SHERLOCK Edalji was pardoned. HOLMES Years later, he proved SOLVED TWO that a man convicted of a murder was also REAL CRIMES. innocent. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Dr. William Hamman was DR. a respected cardiologist who drove home the HAMMAN value of training doctors JUST through simulations. Simulating was PRETENDED TO certainly something he BE A DOCTOR. knew a lot about. OF LEGE Не was an airline pilot and had no medical training or degrees. Не got away with training real doctors for years because he was damn good at it. — Source

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The classic toy was THE VIEW-MASTER created by William Gruber, a German- WAS INVENTED born amateur BY A NAZI. photographer who was a registered member of the Nazi Party. But it was also used to fight Nazis. A few years after it came out, the U.S. ONE government ONE purchased thousands EL ONE of View-Masters to to no Sweet - nou - - train pilots in the cous 7 THREE I I I MIT FULL COL identification of 12 a KORE TOOO . HEIDO I . - CITY BOOK FUE enemy aircraft. a pow - et FOO GRACKED.COM — Source

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Two Simpsons fans turned a run- MOE'S down shop into a replica of Moe's Tavern in a suburb of Buenos Aires, TAVERN Argentina. It wasn't just for the looks; the place was planned to (ALMOST) operate as a themed bar. OPENED IN Fox's lawyers came down on the bar at the last minute and ARGENTINA. prevented it from opening. MOES CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM SOME FISH CAN CAUSE HELLISH HALLUCINATIONS. The salema porgy is a popular seafood in Europe. Not so popular are the vivid, pants- shitting hallucinations it can sometimes give you. This fish occasionally turns out to be LSD with fins. There have been reports of people who experienced nightmare visions of screaming animals after eating it. — Source

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Back in the day, if you had sexual performance issues, you could reach out to science for a solution. VITA RADIUM SUPPOSITORIES FOR RESTORING SEX POWER VITA RADIUM SUPPOSITORIES, for rectal use by men, are O tone restorers of sex and energizers for the entire nervous, glandular and circulatory systems These Supporitories contain a result-produc- ing amount of highly refined soluble RADIUM, carried in 2 cocoa hutter base The radium is absorbed thru the walls of the lower colon, enters the blood stream and is carried to all parts of the body -to the weakened organs that need its vitalizing — Source

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PEOPLE USED TO HANG IN CEMETERIES. Public parks were rare in the 19th century, so people used to play in other kinda green spaces-that is, cemeteries. It was also a way of keeping close to departed relatives. No one would bat an eye back then at a family having a picnic next to the tombstone of dear Aunt Henrietta. CRACKED COM — Source

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30 Random Bits of Trivia You Have to Sit Through Before You Get to the Main Event — Closing This Tab and Moving on With Your Day — Source

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UBER IS CONGESTING TRAFFIC IN NEW YORK. If you want to operate a taxicab in New York City, you need to purchase a very expensive medallion. There's a reason for that: The city was limiting the amount of cabs to combat traffic congestion. With Uber and similar apps, congestion has increased by 8 percent. In New York, that's about seven bazillion cars. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE SONG MAHNA MAHNA The ditty was one of COMES FROM A many cobbled together for the 1968 PORNOGRAPHIC Italian documentary Sweden: Heaven FILM. and Hell. The track, created to accompany images of scantily clad Swedish women, ended up becoming a minor hit in the States. Jim Henson thought it would be great for one of his skits, giving it puppet immortality. GRACKED.COM — Source

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