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39 Random Bits of Trivia That We Just Got in A Pretty Thick Card From Grandma

October 14, 2024

Grandma for the win! After all those years of polite thank yous for knitted socks, she finally wised up and started giving you cold, hard facts! Anything falling out of an open card is okay with us. Think of the possibilities! We can learn them, pass their knowledge onto some friends…

Hmm, well that’s pretty much it. Either way, this new phase is so exciting!

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Michael Nesmith from the Monkees is the son of the Liquid Paper inventor. CRACKED.COM Bette Graham became a typist to support herself and her son in 1951, where she invented a paint to cover her mistakes. She sold her business Liquid Paper Company 25 years later for $48 million. — Source

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Many elements of Harry Potter are very similar to a book written 3 years before. CRACKED.COM The Secret of Platform 13 features a boy of magi- cal lineage who lives in an abusive house with a spoiled other child, and you get to the magical world through a platform at King's Cross. — Source

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Quentin Tarantino was offered to direct'Casino Royale! Tarantino would have set the film in the 60's, fol- lowing the original 1953 novel, made it in black and white, and retained Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Top Gun for NES

Top Gun 1987 10048ALT. RADAR: : MISSILE ft 2 0 REMAIN 00597SPEED TYPE T-гг fol/th CRACKED.COM The high octane action of the Tom Cruise film is translated as well as possible on the limited hardware, which is to say you fire blobs at other blobs, against a solid blue backdrop. It doesn't even have greased up pilots playing volleyball. — Source: 17 Of The Worst Games Based On Movies

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An English woman found a 2nd-century Roman slab in her garden. 1O FOL She had used it as a mounting block for horses for about a decade, but then saw — Source: CNN

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A NHL player refused to attend his own Hall of Fame ceremony because women weren't allowed. CRACKED.COM Ted Lindsay, one of the greatest players in NHL history, wouldn't show for the 1966 ceremony. The league changed the rules to allow women the fol- lowing year. — Source

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Movies can hire an Intimacy Coordinator for sex scenes. CRACKED.COM They are hired so that the scenes could remain safe, fol- low rules, and oversee to avoid potential issues. They also teach directors and ac- tors how to run a rehearsal by sculpting the physical ac- tions using plain words. — Source

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A Russian ice-breaking ship was used to rescue beluga whales.

In 1984, a Russian ice-breaking ship was called to save over 2,000 trapped beluga whales. CRACKED.COM At first they refused to fol- low the ship to open water, but when the crew began playing classical music through the ship's loud- speakers, the whales final- ly followed Moskva to the unfrozen sea. — Fascinating Earth

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In Dead Poets Society John Keating tells his students that despite needing acceptance from others, they must trust in their unique beliefs without fol

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In olympic gymnastics, women are required to have music for their floor routines, while it's banned for men. Which means outdated gender norms are the reason we can't watch guys doing flips to Smash Mouth. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Completed in 1884, the Washington Monument remains the world's tallest obelisk today. Though part of that may be due to a massive decline in people's interest in building large obelisks. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Unfortunately for some of the most overdone stand-up premises around, eggs do have a link to Easter. Adopted from Ukrainian pysanka, cracking the egg symbolizes both the opening of Jesus' tomb and rebirth. CRACKED.COM — Source

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You're likely aware of his baseball legacy, but did you know Jackie Robinson co-founded a bank? Added Freedom National Bank was founded in 1964, and continued operations until the recession of 1990. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Because of their highly sensitive skin, salamanders are used by scientists to estimate pollution severity. Salamander population levels can provide a good idea of the general health of an environment. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Many today think of the xylophone as the instrument of grade-school music class and dancing skeletons. But it was a very popular instrument in ragtime music... which is now mostly played by ice cream trucks. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Almost half of Alaska's population is located in a single city: Anchorage, Alaska. Prices And if it ever starts to get overcrowded, well, the good news is: they've got plenty of space to spread out. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The BMW 507 two-door convertible sold so poorly it almost bankrupted BMW entirely in 1959. BMW 507 Only around 250 were made, and today they fetch a pretty price. To the tune of over $2 million at auction. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The province of British Columbia in Canada is absolutely massive, covering about 365,000 square miles. In fact, the single province of British Columbia is larger than 85% of the countries in the world. CRACKED.COM — Source

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It would be no exaggeration to call the disaster at Chernobyl power plant one of history's greatest whoopsies. It released 400 times more radioactive material into the atomsphere than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The oldest person to sign the Declaration of Independence was Benjamin Franklin, at 70 years old. Which is almost as cool as if he'd signed it one year earlier. Nice. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Norway wanted to change their border with Finland to give them a mountain for their 100th birthday. GRAGKED.COM Norwegian geophysicist Bjorn Geirr Harsson says he got the idea in 1972 when he saw that the highest point in Finland was on a hillside and for Norway on a mountain. — Source

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Anchorage, Alaska lies within 10 hours by air of nearly 90% of the industrialized world. CRACKED.COM Anchorage is almost equi- distant from New York City, Tokyo, and Frankfurt, Germany (via the polar route), and holds a critical FedEx hub as part of its global network or services. — Source

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Hitler granted his childhood doctor, Eduard Bloch, special protection by the Gestapo. CRACKED.COM When Hitler's mother couldn't afford cancer treat- ment, Bloch reduced his prices. Teenage Adolf de- clared undying gratitude, and when Austria was an- nexed, Hitler kept his word to the Jewish doctor. — Source

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There is a community in Cairo, Egypt that collects trash and recycles upwards of 80% of it. FOOD M& TRIP und 100 GRACKED COM It is nicknamed Gar- bage City and its mostly Christian resi- dents have been col- lecting and recycling Cairo's trash for sever- al decades. — Source

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A Girl Scout sold 300 boxes of cookies in 6 hours outside a weed dispensary. / UND 606 SUGAR FREE Chose ور Chic I I I I The nine-year-old and her wagon of Girl Scout cookies found their perfect demographic. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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JFKINSPIRED CONGRESS TO RELEASE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ASSASINATION. - Itamic lourses 1 1 : as to 4b Sex to - Ang's und Oliver Stone's strange conspiracy theory movie drove Congress to pass the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which released some documents early. CRACKED.COM — Source

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'Looney Tunes' started off as a way for Warner Bros. to promote their music catalog. LODNEY REG TUNES PAT.OFF. U.S. CRACKED.COM The title of the first Looney Tunes short, 'Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930)', is a und on 'Singin' in the Bathtub,' a song written in 1929 for the film The Show of Shows. — Source

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Getting the wrong blood type in a transfusion could cause a feeling of impending doom. TOURS ГОЯЧА AB+ ICS a / Rh Positive ICS International AG Systeme Collection Date I : DE 61267 1 23 a Identicade 2/5/2000 SAMPLE Germany Volunteer Donor When people who have Only Rx SHOLE BLOOD und CHYOPRECIPITATE REDUCED DVDED e 1 g I one blood type receive - Y I - $ Author MINEC I blood from someone with a different blood type, it may cause their immune CRACKED.COM system to react, called ABO incompatibility. — Source

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CRACKED SoFi X Stadium SoFi Stadium SAMSUNG und 5/0 40 ao- 25 ... THE MOST EXPENSIVE STADIUM IN THE WORLD HAS A LESS-THAN-IDEAL VISITING LOCKER ROOM. At $5 billion, The L.A Rams' Sofi Stadium is the most expensive stadium in the world. Raiders coach Jon Gruden said the visiting room is the most bizarre thing he's ever seen. You can't see anybody. It's like a maze. Whoever contorted this, I'd like to meet this guy. See what his idea was. — Source

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THE STRONGEST OPPOSITION TO THE VIETNAM WAR CAME FROM OLDER AMERICANS. - STER HT UND AGRESSION INVETNA WORLD NIKENOSTEN 11 . COME EST THAMESISCHEN VIEW - ... - 12th CUT April LA DANK COMINE WITH VIETIVA GET THE HELL Yes, visible protestors tended to COPTERS OUT OF be young. But according to polls of the time, young people were VIETNAM more likely to support the war than older citizens- particularly those over 50. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Marcel’s Monstrous Modernist Masterpiece

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Time to upgrade to tile!

OLD-TIMEY DEADLY HAZARDS WALKING ON FLOORS Rushes and grasses were used as floor coverings, but dirt and bacteria built up, leading to health risks from bodily fluids, food scraps, and other stuff. und CRACKED — Levina Teerlinc
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Thyme grants courage!

The Ancient Greeks believed that the scent of thyme gave those who smelled it courage. ЭФФЕКТИВНАЯ COBPEME TIME - how - und - - The greek word thumos means bravery, and it's from this word that thyme got its name. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Cool Facts To Pack Into Your Pumpkin

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The Edelweiss Pirates fought Nazis with a song in their heart.

A merry band of Nazi fighting pirates skipped through the German countryside. HIER WURDEN AM 25.10.1944 ELE UOM INS-REGIME ZUR ZWANGSARBEIT LACK DEUTSCHLAND VERSCHLEPPTE BURGER POLENTS UND DER UDSSR uno Au 10.11.1944 DREIZEHN DEUTSCHE-LITTER ІНПЕЛ JUGENDLICHE CRACKED COM The 'Edelweiss Pirates' were a youth group who fought Nazis playing guitars and singing Anti-Nazi folk songs. They sheltered escaped con- centration-camp prisoners and Allied soldiers in a pro- gram of armed resistance. — Bust

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WEIRD WORLD An ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem rabbi turned out to be a Christian missionary. 70107 177 ') 17's UnD DRUI X17 It was found out that his family were actually Christians from New Jersey who had apparently forged their documents so they could claim to be Jewish. He was being investigated by an Israeli nonprofit that monitors local missionary activity for years. CRACKED.COM — Source: Times of Israel

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