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25 Perfectly Good Bits of Trivia We Found on Top of a Full Garbage Can

October 03, 2024

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: As long as you wear those long yellow rubber gloves, picking perfectly good truths out of a mucky old myth pile isn’t gross! So you can call us myth dumpster divers all you want, but when you see these pristine little truths, you won’t care where they came from.

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Germany

WEIRD WORLD To get more people to get vaccinated, they used sheep and goats. Well, they arranged sheep and goats - 700 of them, into the shape of a syringe, in Germany. CRACKED.GOM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A mystery ambulance showed up in a small Kentucky town, and nobody knows why. outhakStar ERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AMBULANCE The ambulance doesn't have any tags, and its VIN number shows it's from Georgia, but it's no longer owned by a Georgian ambulance service. CRACKED.COM — Source: WKYT

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Judging by the pictures of the dorm, maybe displacement is a blessing in disguise.

WEIRD WORLD 22 people were displaced after a BYU student made rocket fuel in his dorm. The unnamed resident had been making homemade rocket fuel on their stove when the volatile mixture suddenly exploded into a fireball. The flames engulfed the walls and ceiling and set off the sprinkler system, flooding the living room that for some reason has a toilet.y — Source: CBS

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New York Pastor/Porn Star

WEIRD WORLD A pastor in New York went back to doing porn (under her old stage name). illustration She had quit porn in 2015 and started serving as a pastor, and in 2021 quit being a pastor after seeing a lot of judgment from church people. CRACKED.COM — Source: Syracuse.com

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WEIRD WORLD One COVID patient hid Ivermectin in a stuffed animal in a hospital, it turns out. Staff at the Windsor, Ontario hospital found the ivermectin behind a slit in the stuffed animal (belonging to an adult patient, as it happens). CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A 48-year-old woman lived as her 22-year-old daughter, a university student. She did that for two years, and held a job at a library and had boyfriends who seriously thought she was 22 years old. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD There are now plans to power the world's largest coal port with renewable energy. And the port will be 100% powered by renewable energy, no less - the Port of Newcastle, in Australia, says that's part of a plan to decarbonize the whole business by 2040. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A WWII grenade wound up in a chip factory with the potatoes.

WEIRD WORLD A grenade was found among the potatoes on a chip factory conveyor belt. The WWII era grenade, which has since been confirmed as being a training grenade which didn't contain explosives, is believed to have been dug up during harvesting on a farm in Matamata. CRACKED.COM — RNZ

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WEIRD WORLD In a sitcom-style plot, 3 Nigerian men tried to pass as Arab women at an airport. C9-C23 C9-C2 Sen Cole UAE police busted them, and posted photos of them with and without their disguises. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Boys face criminal charges for vicious silly string attack.

WEIRD WORLD 2 Florida boys were accused of battery for spraying silly string. The two juveniles have a notice to appear in court after the parents of the silly string victims want to press charges for the shenanigans that happened at an ice cream shop in Cape Coral. CRACKED.COM — Source: News Press

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WEIRD WORLD A roving bull temporarily shut down traffic on California's 15 Freeway. As an official tweet described the situation, All lanes blocked due to a loose cow. Unknown duration of when the animal will stop eating grass. CRACKED.COM — Source: UPI

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WEIRD WORLD One Chinese couple had gotten trapped on a lockdown date, but it worked out. They had a date in mid-December that was supposed to last one day - but then a sudden lockdown was announced, so they stayed together. Eventually, they got engaged. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A pretty specialized swingers' community is opening in Mamou, Louisiana. 302c (illustration) Tee Boi's Swinger Trailer Park caters to swinging couples who are into outdoor experiences, and its motto is Bring your house and share your spouse. CRACKED.COM — Source: KLFY

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WEIRD WORLD A top-ranking chess player was promised a night of passion with a porn star. A Russian porn star gave that promise to lan Nepomniachtchi, if he beat Magnus Carlsen and became world champion (which, alas, didn't happen). CRACKED.COM — Source

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California

Source: KCRA

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WEIRD WORLD A Pittsburgh bridge collapsed ahead of Biden's official visit. And to make it even more embarrassing, Biden was scheduled to come to Pittsburgh and talk about infrastructure. CRACKED.COM — Source

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We lost a real one.

WEIRD WORLD An obese moneky is dead, a country mourns. Uncle Fatty was a mainstay at a floating market in Bangkok, Thailand. Не was also the leader of his pack, which fought to stop him from being taken to fat camp. CRACKED.COM — The Sun

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WEIRD WORLD Someone in Maryland tried to fight snakes in their house... ... and burned it down. The homeowner destroyed their house in an attempt to control a snake infestation, officials said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Dubai is creating rain with drones that literally shoot lasers into clouds. BRISTO PRINTOL ORISTO When the laser hits the cloud, the cloud gets charged with electricity, and that charge forces water particles together to form raindrops. CRACKED.COM — Source: Weird World: 12 Bizarre Events That, Against All Odds, Are Real

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WEIRD WORLD Japan is officially using a character named Professor Poo for public education. 0 1000 CR837111C * P * CR 83711 The, uh, disturbingly cute cartoon character is being used as a way to teach kids about paying taxes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A guy leaked real-life tank specs on the official forum for the game Warthunder. Apparently, he was in the French army, and he posted classified tank documents to settle an argument about the accuracy of the tank's -game version. CRACKED.COM — Source: MassivelyOP

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WEIRD WORLD A guy in Indiana got strange powers thanks to a horrible, freakish incident. X-X I Y-Y Y2-Y x2 -X After a head injury from a violent attack, he became kind of a math genius - and even found a home thanks to his gift. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The receipt for invisible art was sold for over $1 million.

A receipt for invisible art sold in 1959 was auctioned WEIRD WORLD off for $1.2 million. TOT AAL H 2 I SUBTOTAL TOT AAL 7,0 PASHOUDERBON Kassarr Winkelnr: Boekingsperiede: The receipt is the only indication that the art exists and who the owner is, making this Referentle: 6224 2259912 document possibly the first NFT transaction MAESTRO (A00000000430601 Pas: Pasor: MAESTRO BET TALING Datum: /05/2016 8 17 a Transmr: VERITY Totaal: 7.04 EUR Qtid: 14669 some 60 years ago. Bank 1801.00 1009 7.04 PINNEN 0.00 TERHA 25/03/2016 13:45 BONUS CRACKED.COM — Sothebys

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Maryland

WEIRD WORLD In Maryland, a lawmaker who's also a surgeon tried to combine those jobs. Terri Hill showed up in virtual legislative meetings while literally in the middle of surgery - and got fined a total of $15,000 for it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD There's a tree that smells like rotting fish, and it's becoming a massive pest. It's so awful to be around that states are even offering bounties to people who destroy those trees. CRACKED.COM — Source

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