40 Random Bits of Trivia We Picked Up by Eavesdropping on the Two Dumbest People in Our Office

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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Picked Up by Eavesdropping on the Two Dumbest People in Our Office

Austin Butler: The King of Commitment.

CRACKED Elvis AUSTIN BUTLER trained hard for his role as Elvis, not seeing his family for three years and talking like Elvis the whole time.

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A group of researchers found an old forest that was frozen in a glacier.

CRACKED Researchers have found an ancient forest that was encased in a glacier 1,000 years ago and is only now being exposed as the glacier melts. The team plans to return to the site to learn more about the conditions of the environment at that time.

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Bumblebees stimulate plants to flower by biting them.

Bumblebee bites on plant leaves stimulate early flowering. Scientists compared bumble bee-bitten plants and unbitten plants. Bit- ten plants bloomed in 17 days and the unbitten took an average of 33 days to bloom. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Picked Up by Eavesdropping on the Two Dumbest People in Our Office
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AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER Carrie Fisher wrote four novels. Her first novel Postcards from the Edge was turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine. CRACKED.COM

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

October on prime video The Curious Case of Benjamin October 1 Button Before Brad Pitt got involved, Tom Cruise was originally pursued to play the title character. CRACKED.COM

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A stranded sailor used cats to protect himself from hungry rats.

A sailor stranded on a deserted island used cats as protection. Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk survived for over 4 years stranded on a de- serted island, partly by us- ing feral cats to protect him from ravenous rats that attacked during the night. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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17th Century Ireland

Corned beef and cabbage is a rare dish in Ireland and never eaten on St. Patrick's Day. As of the late 1600s, beef was too expensive to be a regular meal in Ireland. The corned beef and cab- bage we know came from the Irish that emigrated to North America. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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