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33 Random Bits of Trivia Typed Up by One Hundred Monkeys With One Hundred Typewriters

September 22, 2024

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33 Random Bits of Trivia Typed Up by One Hundred Monkeys With One Hundred Typewriters — Source

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FORTUNE COOKIES WERE INVENTED IN CALIFORNIA. It's not clear if they were created by a Chinese immigrant in Los Angeles or a Japanese immigrant in San Francisco. Either way, they didn't come all the way from China. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Your sunscreen probably contains CRACKED.COM oxidized metals. FAGE 60 SUNSCREEN LA ROCHE-POSAY LABORATOIRE DERMATOLOGIQUE BROAD SPECTRUM SPF60 ANTHELIOS 60 Les or Teau thermale de La Roche Par ULTRA LIGHT SUNSCREEN FLUID vio CELL-OX SHIELD XL Advanced UVA/UVB technology + Antioxidant protection Titanium oxide and zinc oxide in suncreens SHAKE act as barriers to sun rays - they're like armor you spread over your skin. — Source

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Table salt is what gives shampoo its thick, gooey texture. CRACKED COM — Source

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Cigarettes made by American brands contain sugar, which makes them even more addictive and toxic. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Turns out, T-Rexes grew so fast, you could almost watch them grow. Teenage T-Rexes could sometimes add 35-45 pounds to their frame in as little as a week. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Sweden, people sometimes do something that's known as death cleaning. It basically involves getting rid of everything you don't need before you die, so others won't have to clean up after you. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The guy who wrote the Redwall series was actually an unhappy milkman. - IN EVENTERS The Original ENTERS سعيد : ATE Well, he was unhappy because he'd been reading to blind kids, and he thought the books available were pretty crappy, so he wrote new ones. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Clint Eastwood only became Dirty Harry after everyone else said no. The role first got offered to Steve McQueen, Burt Lancaster, and Paul Newman, among others, but they all thought Harry was too right-wing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama hates Hollywood's Dragon Ball movie. Не hated Dragonball: Evolution so much, he says, that that made him rewrite the whole script for Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's no place in Michigan where you're more than six miles from water. Which is kind of amazing to think about, but there are 11,000 lakes in the state, so it's actually super hard to avoid them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Christmas tree in front of the Rockefeller Center doesn't get thrown away. Instead, it gets cut up, and the lumber is then used to build Habitats for Humanity homes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Britain's Colchester Zoo uses mirrors to help flamingos breed in captivity. Flamingos apparently aren't too enthusiastic about breeding when there's not a lot of them around, but mirrors make it look like there's a big flock. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jaywalking was invented by car companies in the early 1900s to shift blame for accidents to pedestrians. The auto industry scram- bled to blame casualties on pedestrians after a failed petition in 1923, signed by 42,000 people, tried to limit the mechani- cal speed of cars to 25 mph. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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James Franco launched a college course called Master Class: Editing James Franco...with James Franco. In it, student editors com- piled a 30 minute docu- mentary on Franco, using behind the scenes footage of Franco supplied by Franco, to create a cine- matic image of James Franco. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Jenga blocks aren't all the same size. Some are almost im- perceptibly smaller than others, and if you've ever played you know that some blocks slide out of the stack easier than others. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Japanese Yakuza have a unique form of extortion known as sōkaiya. Instead of harassing small businesses for protection money, the yakuza harasses the stockholder meetings of large corporations. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The Pyrenean ibex is the only species ever to become 'un-extinct' after being cloned in 2009. The last ibex was captured and skin biopsies were tak- en and cryopreserved in ni- trogen. Unfortunately, the clone lived only for seven minutes and was extinct once again. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Ethiopians do not get the highest quality coffee produced in their own country. The government only al- lows lower-quality beans to be sold on the domestic market, in or- der to promote exports and obtain a harder for- eign currency. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A woman maintains and uses a sourdough starter that is older than the state she lives in. Wyoming resident Lu- cille Clarke Dumbrill uses the 122-year-old starter to make pan- cakes, which predates Wyoming itself by a year. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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VeggieTales tells Old Testament Bible stories because the creator's mom didn't want to see Jesus as a vegetable. Vegetables were cho- sen in the first place because they were easier to animate than humans or animals with limbs and hair. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A German Panzer unit surrendered to a single US Army Captain during WWII. CRACKED.COM US Army Captain Moffatt Burriss, along with just two others, came across a Pan- zer Corps of 15,000 men. Burriss went straight to the unit's leader and informed him that they were there to accept his surrender. — Source

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A cat was named co-author in a physicist's paper in 1975 because of a grammar typo. CRACKED.COM Jack H. Hetherington made his cat named F.D.C. Wil- lard the co-author of a ра- per because he'd acciden- tally written We instead of I throughout the ра- per and didn't feel like changing it. — Source

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Greek placenta cake is made with cheese and honey, and not what you're thinking of. CRACKED.COM Placenta is a flat cake con- sisting of many dough lay- ers interspersed with a mixture of cheese and hon- ey. The placenta of mam- malian pregnancy is named after the dish due to the similarity in shape. — Source

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Family Video outlasted chains like Blockbuster, only shutting down because of the Covid pandemic. CRACKED COM They own the real estate where their stores are lo- cated and they own all of the media they rent out so they keep all of the profits. In early 2021, Family Video closed all their 248 remain- ing stores. — Source

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The band The Postal Service was sent a cease and desist letter by the United States Postal Service. CRACKED.COM After negotiations, the USPS allowed the band to use their name in exchange for playing a free show at their national confer- ence. — Source

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Catholics started a secret society in 1738 where they acted like dogs. GRACKED.COM When the Pope banned joining the Freemasons, a group of Catholics started 'The Order of the Pug' in which initiation involved wearing a collar, walking on all fours, and kissing a pug statue's butt. — Source

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In 2019, Pope Francis approved changing the Lord's Prayer. KAI MH BIEENETKHE HMAE EIE ПЕТРАХМОН* АЛАА PT- EAI HMAE АПО TOT ПОNН- AMHN. POT. GRACKED.COM The phrase lead us not into temptation changed to do not let us fall into tempta- tion. Не said the original was a bad translation be- cause it suggested God caused the temptation. — Source

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Charles Dance has a lot in common with his Game of Thrones character. CRACKED.COM Tywin Lannister was married to and had three children with a woman named Joan- na, before her death. Dance was also married to a wom- an named Joanna, with whom he had three children before their divorce. — Source

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The opening day of Disneyland was referred to by Walt as Black Sunday. CRACKED COM Rides broke down, the fresh- ly paved asphalt had wom- en's shoes sticking to it, a plumber's strike made Walt choose between bathrooms and drinking water, and restaurants ran out of food. — Source

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The Aztecs used obsidian weapons which were capable of decapitating horses with just one swing. CRACKED.COM The macuahuitl was a wooden club embedded with a ring of obsidian blades. The weapon was so effective and fearsome that Spanish conquista- dors would faint from what they saw on the battlefield. — Source

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Dogs have a second nose, called Jacobson's Organ, located at the back of the nose. CRACKED.COM This double smelling system allows some trained dogs to sniff out bladder, kidney and prostate cancer with a 95% accuracy. — Source

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It's illegal to whisper in another person's ear if they are hunting moose in Alaska. CRAGKED.COM Concentration is key, so it is best to wait until after you are done hunting to have a conversation. It's also illegal to feed an alco- holic beverage to one of them-a moose, that is, not the hunter. — Source

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