30 Random Bits of Trivia the Trivia Fairy Left Under Our Pillow After We Wrenched Out Our Teeth With Pliers

We just couldn’t wait for these facts!
30 Random Bits of Trivia the Trivia Fairy Left Under Our Pillow After We Wrenched Out Our Teeth With Pliers

This is a tale about a lovable group of fact finders who learn the true value of a fact just as their first baby teeth started wiggling loose. They knew that one single tooth could fetch at least five solid facts from the trivia fairy. But it wasn’t enough. Five measly facts in a universe full of them? It’d take a whole mouthful of teeth to even begin to scratch the surface. 

So those impatient little scamps ripped every last tooth out of their heads, and scratched the surface they did! 

Good thing there isn’t a fingernail fairy. Anyway, here's what they traded that mouthful for!

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Some bloodsuckers you just can’t transport.

WEIRD WORLD Endangered leeches were seized on their way to three US states from Bulgaria. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, confiscated 300 leeches that were wrongly labeled as Hirudo Orientalis, when they were in fact Hirudo Medicinalis, which are used in medical bloodletting treatments. ZED.COM

CBP 

TYRANNOSAURUS REX IS CLOSER TO YOU IN TIME THAN TO STEGOSAURUS. T. rex went extinct 65 million years ago. By then, Stegosaurus had been dead for 85 mi

The LA Olympics were so profitable that they funded youth sports for decades.

The 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles continued to help fund youth sports into the 2010s. CITIUS ALTIUS FORTIUS LOS ANGELES CALIFOR of the OLYMPIAD CRACKED.COM In 1979, the L.A. organizing committee made a deal that whatever profits the games saw, LA84 would give 60% back to the U.S. Olympic Committee and keep the rest for Southern California.

Gizmodo

Popeyes gave Beyonce a card for free food, for life.

Beyonce has a free-Popeyes-for-life card. GRACKED C COM The Louisiana kitchen fast-food franchise learned about Beyonce's apparent love of their food, so they gave her all the free chicken and biscuits she could ever want. Pretty sure she can af- ford to pay, though.

MentalFloss

Not the only Spielberg in the game.

Big ANNE SPIELBERG & GARY ROSS GRACKED.COM Steven Spielberg's sister Anne Spielberg and her then neighbor Gary Ross wrote the 1988 Tom Hanks classic Big. The screenplay was nominated for an Oscar, and Ross went on to write Pleasantville, Seabiscuit and The Hunger Games.

IMDB / Blu-Ray 

Lawyer Als could make legal help affordable. 30% 20% 10% An Al built by a Stanford student has SO far overturned over $4 million worth of parking tick
Over 300 million Slinkys have been sold. If stretched, they could circle the Earth 150 times.
NICOLAS CAGE POTENTIALLY PULLED A NATIONAL TREASURE ON US, WITH A SUPERMAN COMIC. CRACKED.COM Cage bought a copy of Action Comics No. 1 for $150,000 in 1997, putting it in a display frame in his home. In January 2000, the comic was gone, and Cage collected the insurance he had placed on it. A decade later, the comic appeared in an abandoned storage locker, and no one knew why. The following November, it was sold at an auction, netting $2.1 million for it's seller: Nicolas Cage.

Win Ben Stein’s money… In court!

CRACKED BEN STEIN USED A PEN NAME TO ROAST JOAN RIVERS. In 1987, Ben Stein penned a hit piece about Joan Rivers in Gentlemen's Quarterly magazine under the pen name Bert Hacker. She sued the mag and Hacker for $50 million, but dropped the suit and had Stein donate to the charities of her choosing.

LA Times / YAF 

In the Twilight films, the wolf pack are Native Americans while their adversaries, the vampires, are European in their appearance. It's a twist on the

Ants herd aphids for that sweet sweet honeydew.

Ants herd and domesticate aphids to 'milk' them for honeydew nectar. CRACKED.COM By stroking the back of some aphids with their antennae, the ants can induce a honeydew droplet. They will move them to sweeter plants, and protect them from ladybugs.

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