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40 Random Bits of Trivia You Haven’t Seen in Like 20 Years, and They Want to Catch Up Right Here at This Applebee’s

October 14, 2024

You never forget a good fact. You might store it a little further back in your brain to make room for new ones, but it’s always there, ready to be recalled. And even if you haven’t seen it in a long time, you’ll always be surprised at how true it still is. The iffy ones start looking like sickly little myths, but the good ones stand the test of time. Like these!

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Heinz mounted a campaign to get hot dog bun and wiener packages to match. They brought up outrage about the bun-to-hot-dog ratio issue, by which they meant the fact that buns are sold in packs of eight. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Schrödinger's cat experiment was deliberately proposed as a silly idea. Schrödinger suggested it was ridiculous for a cat to be dead and alive because of a quantum state, but that turned out to be basically right. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Polio

Polio was actually a serious disease only in a very small minority of cases. Less than 1% of infected people got paralytic poliomyelitis, while 72% have no symptoms and about 24% have symptoms that quickly resolve. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The first man who freely walked in space got over 300 feet from his space shuttle. NAS Astronaut Bruce McCandless' untethered spacewalk (with just a jetpack) happened in 1984, and he says he wasn't nervous about doing at all. CRACKED.COM — Source

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One Scottish town celebrates Halloween on the last Friday of October. In Kilmarnock, they hold Killieween celebrations on the last Friday for unclear reasons - it's a very old tradition, but nobody knows how it got started. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Visitors to a dinosaur park demanded refunds because the dinos weren't alive. The park was called Dinosaurs Live! and some people took it too literally - about six people asked for their $2.50 back, apparently. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The longest distance at which one tank destroyed another is about 3 miles. The record was made by a British Challenger tank in the Gulf War, in 1991 - kind of amazingly, it hasn't been beaten since. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The left side of the ship was originally called larboard or the loading side of the ship. GRACKED COM Because it sounded too similar to the opposite side, starboard, the left be- came port since the left side of the ship was the one that was against the dock for loading. — Source

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The longest recorded field goal in the NFL is shorter than those in college and high school games. CRACKED.COM The 66 yard kick by Balti- more Ravens' Justin Tucker was under a Nevada high school student's 68 yard goal in 1985. The longest ever recorded was 69 yards, by Ove Johansson at Abilene Christian University. — Source

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No one knows why Saturn's moon lapetus has an 8 mile tall ridge around its equator. CRACKED.COM The equatorial ridge, dis- covered in 2007, is 810 miles long, 12 miles wide, and only exists in the dark region of the moon. There is no definitive explanation for how it formed. — Source

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The record for the fastest run from LA to NYC is 25 hours and 39 minutes. That was the Cannonball run record set in 2020 (by a team who beat their own 2019 record of 27 hours, 25 minutes). Their average speed? 112 mph. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a decaying, abandoned WWII US army base in the landscape of Greenland. The abandoned equipment includes about 10,000 rusted and leaking fuel barrels, which the locals charmingly call American Flowers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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George Clooney would call out Brotherhood! to Michael Keaton on a movie set. It was on Out Of Sight, and Keaton only figured out later that, oh yeah, Clooney was talking about the fact that they both played Batman. CRACKED.COM — Source

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They poured Coca-Cola on an Italian town's cobblestones for No Time to Die. They were filming a chase scene and the cobblestones didn't have enough grip, so they used Coke and it was incredible how well it was working. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pet Cemetery

A pet cemetery in England offered burial ground for dead Tamagotchi ch People shipped their toys from all over the world to their final resting place. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Decoy Pricing

GRAGKED.COM TIME pricing Decoy .... ENDI A - and - . CH A tactic that 20 increases the sales of 100 CI ES I OOL : high-profit items by creating another mid-range version solely to make the I pricier version seem economical by comparison. $3 $5 $5.10 — Source

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As city workers were digging a trench for a fiber optic cable at the Hollister Airport dog park, they found an active WWII practice bomb. DISARMED 9/10/18 MCSO CH The Jerry Gabe Municipal Dog Park located in California was once a former Navy base in the 1940s, so it is believed to host more bombs and fuel tanks underground. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED #hobbitch When promoting The Hobbit in Switzerland, Swiss marketers unfortunately added CH (the country code for Switzerland) to the hashtag and other promo. — Source

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Sandra Bullock

CRACKED.COM MIX Pizza.Net - - - been - Please enter your maine address and phone: - Angela Bennett Address 487 Finley Street - CA to 94290 CH Venice - (318) 853-3472 Power New KJ December Sandra Bullock ordered pizza online in 1995. Back when the web was a new plaything, The Net thrilled audiences with the possibility of ordering fast food with your Power Macintosh. — Source

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Angelina Jolie would boldly go where her stunt double hadn’t gone before.

Stunts are no problem for Angelina Jolie. CH A W On the set of Lara Croft, her stunt double refused to do a stunt, so Jolie simply said, No problem, and took a week to master the stunt. She said, Either I don't scare easy or when I'm working I'm in a different headspace. CRACKED — Source

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“Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon: She’s been in the spotlight since 2nd grade!

CRACKED CYNTHIA NIXON: FROM TO TELL THE TRUTH TO SEX AND THE CITY! AL THA AND Sex and the Cu A NEW CH Cynthia Nixon is an actress best known for her role in the TV show Sex and the City. She made her TV debut as a 2nd grader on the game show To Tell the Truth. — Today / IndieWire

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Boston Dynamics pledges not to weaponize its robots.

Boston Dynamics is pledging not to support the weaponization of their products. sh N DISRUPT ch 2016 LO 2016 LONDON nch TechCrunch ممتحدة TechCrunch - 2016 Tec BERLIN RUPT BEEJ' TOTA UPT TTLE ch runch hCrunch TechCrunch DISRUPT Crunch TechCrun TechCrunch THE chc Teclé unch TechCrunch TechCrunch I - UPT и - hCru TechCrunch unch OIS RUPT SUPPOR TEP - CRACKED.COM An open letter by several robotics companies high- lights the erosion of con- sumer trust in robots as among the reasons not to allow them to be used as weapons. — Axios / Wikipedia

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Babies and Probabilities

Six-month-old babies can estimate probabilities SOCM 12 cm + 0=6 Aa Bb Cc Dd Ее 655 + + 7 ZI Ff LI Mm Gg Hh Nn II OOPP زل Kk 2= 12 cm a2+b2=C2 3=8 Qq RR Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz b SOH TE.... CH O NH C OH =MC2 If young babies can figure out the likelihood of events happening, I guess there was no excuse for my bad grade in Statistics. CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Fascinating Facts About Child Development (That Tell Us Lots About Adults)

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Nivea

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Freddie Prinze Jr

Freddie Prinze Jr almost quit acting after he got cast on 24. th NDS CH The problem was working with Kiefer Sutherland. I did 24, it was terrible. I hated every moment of it. I just wanted to quit the business after that. Kiefer was the most unprofessional dude in the world. That's not me talking trash, I'd say it to his face, he said.0M — Source

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Leonardo DiCaprio based a performance in The Wolf of Wall Street on a YouTube video. You know the scene where he's totally smashed and has to crawl back to his Lamborghini? Не watched a video of a drunk guy trying to buy beer at a 7-11 on a loop for hours, and based his acting on that. 06/2009 UVA CH 04 CRACKED.COM — 7 Insane Ways Actors Got The Ideas For Famous Performances

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The National September 11 Memorial is always carefully heated and cooled. ALAN // RICHARD / GUADAGNO CH MARTINEZ MARK BINGHAM It was designed so that people could always touch it, so an elaborate system of copper tubes heats or cools it as necessary at all times. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Facts To Feed Our Knowledge-Starved Brains

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Gangs of New York

Daniel Day-Lewis got pneumonia while shooting Gangs of New York. Why? He had insisted on wearing a ch-century coat on set that didn't really protect him from the cold. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Independent

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Star Trek

KB46 Ch Lonk sa FUNNY VIDEOS E CRAGKEDCOM In 2010, the IRS commissioned videos parodying Star Trek and Gilligan's Island to air at a training contest. The Trek one, at least, offered zero training information, So the IRS's initial defense of it failed, and they apologized. — Source: AP

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China CRACKEDo Flipping the fish may sound like weird poker slang, but it's actually exactly what it sounds like, and it's considered bad luck in Ch — Source: Republicworld

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Robert L. May chose his subject based on his daughter's obsession. He picked a reindeer to write about not just because reindeer were popping up on Ch — Source: TIME

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40 Random Bits of Trivia You Haven’t Seen in Like 20 Years, and They Want to Catch Up Right Here at This Applebee’s — Source: Mental Floss

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Salesforce founder Marc Benioff spent $25 million on PPE for the University of California, San Francisco. He's been a major UCSF benefactor, so the ch — Source: The New York Times

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ATHLETES HAVE BAD TEETH. Your mouth is the one place where your health is likely to be better than a pro athlete's. Things such as gulping for air, ch — More: 5 Underreported Dumb Annoyances Pro Athletes Put Up With

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GRACKEDOOM Your sense of smell is influenced by color! A lab experiment demonstrated that when an odor is inappropriately colored (red lemon, green ch

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