45 Random Trivia Tidbits That Successfully Jumped Snake River Canyon in A Skycycle X-2 Rocket

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45 Random Trivia Tidbits That Successfully Jumped Snake River Canyon in A Skycycle X-2 Rocket

The Skycycle X-2 is a steam-powered rocket. The Snake River Canyon is in Idaho and runs 500 feet deep and a quarter mile wide. Evel Knievel attempted to jump it back in 1974. He was unsuccessful as his landing parachute deployed mid-jump, causing the rocket to fall back to land. It nearly plopped into the river, which would have caused Knievel to drown, as he was unable to release himself from the seat harness. 

But that’s not what happened when these 45 trivia tidbits tried the same jump. Nope, they all piled in and hung on for dear life as the X-2 soared mightily against the potato-rich backdrop of Idaho, landing safely on the other side.

So congratulate each and every one of these brave trivia souls, and you might just talk them into doing it again.

"Just nod if you can hear me..."

Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon was on Billboard's Top 200 charts for a staggering 736 weeks. This is longer than the American Civil War, World war I and World war II combined.

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Wojtek, the bear who belonged to an artillery company

Wojtek would play-fight his fellow soldiers, eat cigarettes, drink beer, and even sleep in soldiers' tents. He helped keep up soldier's morale.
Source: BBC

"I'll just be in this lizard head."

Mark Hamill found a David Bowie review inside a Dewback. In what might be the ultimate Easter egg, the actor said he crawled inside a Dewback while filming in Tunisia and discovered the bar that controlled the lizard's head was wrapped in paper-mache. The newspaper that was used included a review of a concert in Paris given by The Thing White Duke, which Hamill read by flashlight.

Heck, we thought dollar bills were 43% cocaine

According to the U.S. Air Force, 94% of the dollar bills they tested harbored bacteria. This bacteria could cause pneumonia and plenty of other serious infections.

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Dinosaurs put butts in the seats

From B-movies to B-movies It's no wonder dinosaurs are a B-movie staple. Here's a fine selection of some classic and modern awful dinosaur movies: 1951's Lost Continent, 1961's Reptilicus, 1977's The Last Dinosaur, 1978's Planet of Dinosaurs, 1990's A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell, 1991's Adventures in Dinosaur City, 1994's Dinosaur Island, and 2001's Jurassic Park III.

Wikipedia

Hobo With A Shotgun was a natural

Grindhouse - Some of the fake trailers became real movies. The film features a bunch of trailers for fake movies, directed by Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright, and others. Jason Eisener's Hobo With a Shotgun and Rodriguez's own Machete were made into actual movies.

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Seems like it caught on fine

The title for Shawshank Redemption was too much of a mouthfull. Despite being one of the most beloved prison movies (or even just movies) of all time, audiences gave it a hard pass when it came out in 1994. Both Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman have claimed (perhaps with a wink) that it failed because no one could remember the name Shawshank.
Sources: Vanity Fair, IndieWire

And the males are all dopes

The amount of speaking roles in Disney Princess movies are still dominated by male characters. Total Disney Princess movies: 12 (1937-2013) Movies in which women speak as much or more as men: 5

Nothing to do - start a war

Just 8% of recorded human history is considered peaceful. Of the 3400 years of recorded history, only 268 are considered peaceful. At least 108 million people were killed in wars in the twentieth century.

NY Times 

Somebody push over the 'Hollywood' sign

Hattie McDaniel made history when she won an Oscar for Gone with the Wind, but wasn't allowed to be buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery because of her race.

EW 

Whoa, a Mimic callback

Guillermo del Toro included a Mimic Easter egg in his new film by adding the same neon sign that says Jesus Saves.

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The Star Wars Easter egg hidden in Cowboy Bebop

The show's props and weapons master Nick Komornicki revealed that Han Solo's blaster is hiding somewhere on the Bebop. Fans are trying hard to spot the Star Wars Easter egg.

Source: CBR

We're here for you, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City Super-Nerd

Another Easter egg in the trailer for Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. There's a painting from the 2002 remaster of Resident Evil hidden behind Chris Redfield on a wall.

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Except Dan Levy didn't say goodbye

The last scene. Emily Hampshire, who plays Stevie, said that the final scene is an Easter egg, in that it really was the last scene all of them shot together, making those goodbyes very real.

NY Post

There was probably whiskey involved, too - and that calms you right down

A rare genetic condition probably stoked the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Several descendants of the McCoys were found to have von Hippel-Lindau disease, which causes adrenal tumors that make you short-tempered and violent. So, at least on the McCoy side, the feud was probably fuelled by tumors pressing on the adrenal glands of those involved.

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If she’s got “Bette Davis eyes,” they’d be staring daggers at Joan Crawford.

Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. The feud started in 1933 over competing for headlines, and the affection of actor Franchot Tone. It reached a boiling point on and off set of their 1962 film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? The life-long feud inspired the FX show Feud.

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2007: When even 'Family Feud' needed the scoop on Britney.

Beloved celebrities who used to be hated In 2007, the media was totally obsessed with BRITNEY SPEARS Every time something happened in her life, it was all over the tabloids and other news outlets. Even the game show Family Feud asked people to list things she had lost that year. CRACKED

With Leto this seems entirely possible

Hollywood Rumors and Myths Did Jared Leto send Margot Robbie a dead rat? While filming Suicide Squad, the notoriously twisted actor actually sent her vegan cinnamon buns from a bakery in Toronto.

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Watson's real not Sherlock, everybody knows that

In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teenagers thought Sherlock Holmes was real. 23% thought Winston Churchill was a myth, as was Florence Nightingale. Gandhi and the Duke of Wellington were also in the top 10 of people thought to be myths.

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This just seems like a feud that could run hot and cold

Beef myths SALVADOR DALÍ Dalí and Picasso weren't always enemies. In fact, their relationship was complicated, with admiration, rivalry and even some inspiration from each other.

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Coffee rules

The best beverage for adding antioxidants to your diet is tea, right? Not really. Studies have shown that instant coffee can be comparable with tea or wine. Even drip and esppresso coffee contains antioxidants, as long as you drink it black.

Baby carrots are basically the sawdust of the carrot world

Baby- carrots are carrots that were harvested before they were Full grown, right? NOPE! They're what happens to carrots not pretty enough to sell in stores: peeled and whittled into shape by machines.

What would Time know anyway

Time Magazine named FLAVOR SPRAYS one of the best inventions of the year, in 2005. The idea is, you squirt the flavor of parmesan, or teriyaki, or raspberry, or whatever onto healthy foods to make them yummier. They're just liquid spices. And spices aren't what makes food fatty. You can really spice up a rice cake with salt or chili powder or whatever. But no matter what you sprinkly or squirt onto it, it's never going to taste like a cheeseburger.

Put some shoes on

Lots of people are running barefoot because it's the way the human body evolved. Know what else evolved? The ability to create shoes, to support flat arches and prevent injuries caused by going barefoot - which are on the rise. And even the most ardent pro-barefoot websites admit that there hasn't been research to support their claims.

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