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43 Random Bits of Trivia That Believe in You Just As Much As You Believe in Them

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October 04, 2024

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Some scientists consider the Earth to have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene; an age where human activity causes more changes to the Ea

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43 Random Bits of Trivia That Believe in You Just As Much As You Believe in Them — Source: Science Daily

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If you went to the Moon, the most awesome part would be the dark side. Sorry, no. It doesn't exist. It's true that the moon has one side facing the Ea

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nite New Zealand's Prime Minister used a TV appearance to make kids less afraid. At a press conference, Jacinda Ardern declared the tooth fairy and Ea — Source: NPR

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CHINESE WOMEN'S FEET WERE INTENTIONALLY MANGLED. For a thousand years, many Chinese women had their feet tightly (and excruciatingly) bound from an ea

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Brass Knuckles Promotion

In 2009, EA shipped brass knuckles along with their upcoming game, The Godfather II to press members for promotional purposes. They soon learned The that the knuckles Godfatherll are classified as illegal weapons in many states, including California, where EA is based. IL PLAYSTATION3 M EA It's against the law to be in possession of them, and it is also illegal to ship them. They had to plead with the recipients to send the knuckles back. The game received abyssmal reviews and prompted EA to let go of the franchise. CRACKED COM — Source: 29 Companies That Ran Unbelievably Dumb Promotions

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Alaska

Alaska used to belong to Russia. GRACKED COM It was sold to the United States in 1867. Russia governed Alaska as a col- ony for almost as long as the U.S. has now gov- erned Alaska as a territo- ry and state. — Source

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The T-1000 transforming noise from 'Terminator 2' was made with a condom on a microphone. CRACKED.COM The mic was stuck into a goop made from flour, water and Dust-Off spray, which would make bubbles and sounds similar to a cappuccino maker. — Source

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Ancient Rome

The ancient Roman civilization technically lasted for 2,200 years. CRACKED.COM It was founded as a monar- chy in 753 ВС, became a republic in 509 ВС, turned into an empire in 27 ВС, shifted capital to Constan- tinople in 330 AD, and fi- nally fell only in 1453 AD. — Source

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Horsepox

In 2017, Canadian scientists recreated an extinct horse pox virus. GRAGKED.COM This was to demonstrate that the smallpox virus can be recreated in a small lab at a cost of about $100,000, by a team of scientists with- out specialist knowledge. — Source

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Edward Scissorhands

The lead role in Edward Scissorhands was originally offered to Tom Cruise. CRACKED.COM Cruise declined because he wanted a happier ending. Tom Hanks, Gary Oldman, Jim Carrey, John Cusack, William Hurt, Robert Downy Jr., and Michael Jackson had all been considered. — Source

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Researchers at Harvard and Columbia concluded that sarcasm promotes creative thinking. GRAGKED.COM Both the expressers and recipients of sarcasm need to overcome the contradiction between the literal and actual meanings of the sarcas- tic expressions. — Source

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Submarines

Two French and British nuclear ballistic missile submarines collided in the Atlantic ocean by pure chance. 59 CRACKED.COM Modern nuclear sub- marines are so well cloaked that the slow moving subs couldn't detect each other just feet apart. — Source

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The Discovery of Aluminum

A Roman goldsmith may have discovered aluminum 1800 years before modern chemists. CRACKED.COM Emperor Tiberius had the discoverer killed in order to ensure the metal would not di- minish the value of his own gold and silver as- sets. — Source

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Vaudeville

The term Peanut Gallery came from Vaudeville days. CRACKED.COM The audience in the cheapest and rowdiest seats in the theater of- ten ate peanuts and sometimes threw them at the performers. — Source

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Chlorine-trifluoride can set seemingly inflammable objects like concrete on fire. GRACKED.COM In the 1950s, some of it was accidentally spilled in a warehouse and it burned through a foot of concrete while simultaneously re- leasing a deadly cloud of gas that corroded anything it touched. — Source

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Pizza Hut in China had to stop people from constructing salad towers on their plates. CRACKED.COM The restaurants offered a one-trip salad bar to cus- tomers, but had to take them away because peo- ple were piling on ingre- dients in elaborately en- gineered constructs. — Source

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The Minnesota Vikings' U.S. Bank Stadium cost more than NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto. usbank stadium CRACKED.COM Stadium: $1.129 billion- New Horizons mission: $720 million. To be fair, the stadium brings in revenue, and all the NASA mission did was deepen our under- standing of our galaxy. Snore! — Source

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Billy Joel received his high school diploma at age 43. CRACKED.COM In 1967, he was playing at a piano bar to help his moth- er make ends meet which interfered with his atten- dance, causing him to miss a crucial English exam. De- cades later he completed his diploma. — Source

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An Illinois inmate sells soap carvings for hundreds of dollars at art shows. CRACKED COM Michael Harms carves tiny, intricately-detailed chairs from soap, dis- played in cases cut from popsicle sticks with nail clippers and dyed with rust from steel wool. — Source

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Corn needs to be cooked in lime water before its nutrients can be absorbed into the human body. CRACKED.COM While Native Americans knew this, early New World colonial settlers did not, which resulted in many deaths from malnutrition for those who were using it as a staple food. — Source

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Marilyn Monroe's hygiene and bedroom habits were pretty gross. CRACKED.COM Monroe rarely bathed, slept in the nude and ate a lot in bed, and shoved what was left on her plate under the sheets before going to sleep. — Source

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Scientists tested the sleepiness of penguins by poking them with sticks. CRACKED.COM In order to discover that penguins sleep more deep- ly in the afternoon, scien- tists crept up on sleeping king penguins at different times of the day and poked them with a stick until they woke up. — Source

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Vanessa O'Brien is the first woman to reach Earth's highest and lowest points. GRACKED.COM She received a Guin- ness World Record for her accomplish- ments in reaching Mt. Everest and the Mari- anas Trench. — Source

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McDonald's most costly promotion ever was for the 1984 Olympics. M CRACKED.COM The restaurant offered free products every time a US athlete won a medal. When the Soviet Union, the pow- erhouse team of the time, boycotted the event, it let the USA win big. — Source

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Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage built a pyramid tomb in New Orleans. ONEYAYORY It's nine feet tall, totally empty, and it has the slogan Omnia Ab Uno (Everything From One). Cage never explained why he built it. CRACKED.COM — Source: Atlas Obscura

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Attraction

After hearing music, women are more attracted to men. In a University of Vienna study, women rated photos of men as more attractive, and were up to ab

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A faulty pool heater caused a tennis pro to die in his sleep. oniers caba AB CRACKED.COM A tennis pro was killed by carbon monoxide poison- ing in his friend's guest house. — Source

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Student Loans

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Famous Relatives

Bernie Sanders and Larry David are cousins. Is David's killer impression of Sanders related to the fact that the two share DNA? In 2017, a PBS shoW ab — More: Celebs With (Surprising) Famous Relatives

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Tumors

A WOMAN'S BRAIN TUMOR WAS DISCOVERED BECAUSE THE VOICES IN HER HEAD TOLD HER TO GET A BRAIN SCAN. The woman, called Patient AB hallucinated the voic

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PUBLISHERS IN 2003 WEREN'T INTERESTED IN A COMIC BOOK SERIES ABOUT ZOMBIES. ROBERT KIRKIAN So creator Robert Kirkman told them The Walking Dead was ab

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(m+n) ab b2 (a+b)2 37.9% of Americans a a 7C n/n (ab) ab over 24 have a b) n bachelor's degree II 222) si 20 X + This is up from 30.4% XL in 2011. X ما 3<- A 14.3% of those have a x graduate or professional degree. 2 2 P C D=b2-L y, = y+b CRACKED.COM — Source

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Barack Obama

While studying at Occidental College, Barack Obama had two poems published in the school's literary magazine. The first, Pop, is a touching piece ab

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In Japan, blood type matters more than astrological sign. 1398 ASDC HD A B A AB ! : were the AB I : i The ! I 211 RANGO SOL adidas adidas The theory of Ketsuekigata states that different blood types correlate to different personalities. Ketsuekigata is so popular in Japan that there are even dating sites that will match you based on blood type. CRACKED.COM — Source: Tofugo

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Coyote Ugly

CRACKED COYOTE UGLY: INSPIRED BY A GQ ARTICLE. QX16-03 30 HID 44270 GH 4670 15-2038 NATION SURME Wt DON'T TU De KODO NO The movie Coyote Ugly was inspired by a GQ article written in 1997 by Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert. The article was about her time working as a bartender at the Village Idiot, a dive bar in the East Village of New York City. — The Ringer / Variety

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A Twist In Time.

MYTH 420 stems from a municipal penal code for marijuana use. x HI GH FACT 420 started as an in-joke for students at San Rafael High School in California, regarding the time of the day they would all meet up to smoke weed. CRACKED — Canna Obscura/Shutterstock
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John Corbett and Во Derek

After 20 years of dating, John Corbett and Во Derek got married secretly. EN SXF AY L E GH E We're pretty private people, we didn't make an announcement, all our friends and family knew but this is the first time either one of us has said anything publicly about it because really we haven't had an opportunity, Corbett said on a talk show. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GLENN HODDLE, a famous English middle-fielder and coach, was sacked from the national team after uttering terrible comments about people with disabilities: GH 'Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. I have nothing to hide about that. It is not only people with disabilities. What you SOW you reap.' CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Celebs Whose Careers Imploded, Hard

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The Hook and Ladder Company No. 8 Firehouse in Tribeca, NY originally harbored double bays. The house was remodeled to a single one to accommodate the widening of the adjacent street. This unique renovation provided the now iconic look of the GH&STBUSTERS HEADQUARTERS! CRACKED.COM — Source: 26 Movie And TV Locations True Stories IRL

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Ratatouille's Skinner was named after B.F. Skinner, the father of behavioral psychology, who famously tortured rats for his experiments. Gh CRAGKEDCOM — Source: Slashfilm

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