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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Are the Same Frontward and Backward (Palindrome Not Guaranteed)

October 30, 2024

If only we could use fine print in these list titles. Or at least an asterisk with some fine print at the very bottom.

We understand that the title’s promise might be a tad misleading, but do you know how much work it would actually take to make each of these a palindrome? It would seriously cut into our fact-finding time, and isn’t that more important?

Who knows, some of them might naturally be palindromes without us even trying.

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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. CRACKED.COM — Source

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China has a farm the size of Portugal. CRACKED COM The world's largest farm is the Mudanji- ang City Dairy Farm located in China. It covers an area of 22.5 million acres. — AgronoMag

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CRACKEDcO Part of the University of Cambridge was built over a massive graveyard. Beneath the Old Divinity School at St. John's College lies one of th

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At 15, Miley Cyrus was already super disciplined. While shooting Hannah Montana: The Movie, she'd board a plane after work on Friday, do two concerts over the weekend, and be back at work at 7 AM Monday. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Celebs That Work Harder Than People Know

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CRACKED.COM THE FBI KEPT FILES ON... THE GRATEFUL DEAD The FBI files are pretty well-redacted but accuse the rock group of some sort of selling LSD in 1984. — Source

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Jerry Orbach wasn't having any of your Dirty Dancing. Unless it was as a singing candleabra. Orbach played Baby's father - the one who wanted to keep

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1980s meth king Donald Dean Stenger put together a really special gun. illustration It was an automatic weapon modified to fit into a closed briefcase - the trick was, Stenger could fire it from inside the briefcase. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE MILITARY BLAMES COUCH POTATOES, DRUGGIES, AND CRIMINALS FOR THEIR RECRUITING WOES. Military officials in June 2022 expressed worry about the decreasing num of people who could be recruited, saying that obesity, drug use, and criminal records were to blame. We're sure that's the real reason. CRACKED — Lolostock/Shutterstock,
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PLANTMAN MOUNTAINS OF IT..! FIFTY MILLION FROM RICHMOND ENTERPRISES OR me DEBILITATED YOUNG TYCOON DIES! FORK IT OVER POLKS- OR I TRIAL THE GARDEN AND THE POD COMES TUMBLIN DOWN! GRACKED.COM Plants, do my bidding! Introduced by Marvel in 1 963, Samuel Smithers was a botanist's assistant until his plant ray gun was struck by lightning, giving it the power to control and animate all plant life, and giving us Plantman! — Source: Fortressofsolitude

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GRACKED ITALY'S MIDDAY RIPOSA. You know those afternoon sleepies? Lean into it! In Italy, Riposa is a siesta where most of the country (it differs region to region) shuts down between 1 1pm and 4pm. Italians embrace getting sleepy after lunch, and nap when their body says so. — Source

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SPIDER-MAN INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE During the last fight in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, the weather control machine FLDSMDFR from Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance. SP IN CRACKED.COM — Source

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Groupon rejected Google's $6 billion takeover offer CHICAGO GROUPON CRACKED.COM I'm all in support of not selling out to a tech monopoly, but they turned down 6 billion for a discount website? — Source: 13 Bad Ideas That Should Have Been Stopped Earlier

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Stamp Placement EFT-HAND TOP CORNER. R TOP ANNED 3NO 150d 1A07 Pt. POST ONE PENNY LOVE ONE CANNOT 00 YOU I I YOURS. SEND YOU LOVE YOU AM ALWAYS THENKING LOVE ME. TRULY. OF YOU. A KISS. T- -HAND SIDE OF SURNAME CRACKED.com 19th century sweethearts would send private messages to each other using their letters' stamp placements as code when their parents would censor their mail. — Source: Mental Floss

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The cost of an oil change for a Bugatti Veyron is $20,000. CRACKED.COM The car literally has to be split in half in order to get to the oil inspection area. This includes taking off the heads, inspecting inside the engine thoroughly, and checking to make sure that oil is being applied in key areas. — Source

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CRACKED BUTTERFLY Even under extreme magnification, butterflies are beautiful. Ugh, some bugs have all the luck. — Source: Shutterstock

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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Are the Same Frontward and Backward (Palindrome Not Guaranteed) — Source: Science Daily

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You used to be cool CEELO GREEN took a page out of Bill Cosby's playbook. Green had a cool, likable persona, but he pleaded no contest to drugging and raping a woman. Then tweeted, If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! So WITH implies consent. CRACKED — Source

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Free Wi-Fi is nice, but you should be careful as you're exposed to -the-middle attacks. !!! FREE Confidential INTERNET DATA It's best to use the publi

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RoboCop

It was SO hot on the Robocop set, Peter Weller sometimes lost eight pounds a day. OU They filmed in Dallas, where it would get over 100 degrees in the summer, and the heat made it so hard to be in the Robocop suit that Weller would sometimes have cool — Source: Mental Floss

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The real Superman Fortress of Solitude is a gorgeous, inhospitable cavern of giant crystals. It is so close to an enormous underground magma chamber that air temperatures reach up to 136 degrees Fahrenheit. This, combined with constant humidity that hovers near 100 percent, renders much of the magnificent site unexplorable. CRACKED.COM — 5 Real Places Plucked Straight Out of Fairy Tales

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Meta Movies Spaceballs Nobody liked the costumes. John Candy was frustrated he couldn't move Barf's ears and tail himself, and had to rely on puppeteers. Yogurt' makeup gave Mel Brooks a severe allergic reaction. And Pizza the Hutt's costume included actual melted cheese, which gave the actor serious burns. CRACKED.COM

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Lawyers call San Francisco the Food Court from all the class-action suits against food companies. GRAGKED COM Slack Fill lawsuits are suits aimed at food com- panies for packing their food only a fraction of each container's capacity. The majority of the U.S. suits are filed from North- ern California. — Vox

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Dogs can laugh (sort of). The specific panting dogs do while playing (with either humans or other dogs) is different from the I'm exhausted kind of panting. It certainly doesn't sound like human laugh, but it serves pretty much the same function of social bonding. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A stork shot in Germany had an African spear in its throat. CRACKED.COM The bird, shot by a hunter in Germany in 1822, was found with a Central African spear piercing its throat, providing scientists with the first evidence for long-distance bird migration. — Source: NY Times

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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Are the Same Frontward and Backward (Palindrome Not Guaranteed)

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CRACKED DAKOTA JOHNSON SNAPS AT HER MOM AT THE OSCARS. ale During a live interview on the Oscars 2015 red carpet, Melanie Griffith said she hadn't seen her daughter's movie 50 Shades of Grey. She tried to explain but Dakota snapped, Alright! You don't have to see it. Jesus Christ. — Source

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Pranks

Historical Pranks JUMPING TO EXPERIENCE LOWER GRAVITY On April 1, 1976, Sir Patrick Moore, an astronomer on BBC Radio 2, tricked people into believing that if they jumped at 9:47 a.m., they would feel the effects of Pluto and Jupiter aligning and temporarily reducing Earth's gravity. CRACKED — Ground Picture/Shutterstock,
NASA images/Shutterstock
Time

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Curing rheumatism by climbing into a whale carcass AUSTRALIA CRACKED.COM In 1896, health experts suggested patients climb into beached whales for up to 30 hours, despite no scientific evidence. — Source

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There's a company that turns dead bodies into an ocean reef. GRACKED COM Eternal Reefs mixes the cremated remains of a person with con- crete, which is then encased in a reef ball that is dropped into the sea. — Source

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SEASON 1 EPISODE 3 OF ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK EXPLORES SOPHIA BURSET'S LIFE BEFORE SHE TRANSITIONED. To achieve her pre-transition appearance during t — Yahoo!

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The Cure

CRACKED THE CURE Originally Easy Cure in 1976, they struggled to find commercial success as skinny prep-school lookalikes. In the early '80s they adopted a gothic look of big black hair, pale complexions and striking red lipstick that became as famous as the music itself. — Open Culture / Rolling Stone

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CRACKED.COM Harry Potter Hermione Granger is based on a young J. K. Rowling. Hermione is a caricature of what I was when I was 11, a real exaggeration... I hope I wasn't that annoying. (We have to wonder what Hermione would tweet today, and how annoying that would be.) — Source

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Buffy episode Hush had almost no dialogue. How do S lgt my JOSS WHEDON LEFT IT OUT TO SPITE HIS CRITICS. Whedon's detractors felt that dialogue

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Dingoes aren't native to Australia, they were brought there 4,000 years ago. Dingoes are an ancient breed of domestic dog that was introduced to Australia, probably by Asian seafarers, about 4,000 years ago. CRACKED.COM — Australian Museum

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Performers Bookends First episode / Last Episode Aaliyah The singer made her film debut in Romeo Must Die, and made her last howing as the Queen of the Damned. CRACKED.COM — Warner Bros.
IMDb

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In the movies, a gunshot wound means you're dead, period. BUT... As long as your heart is still beating when you arrive at the hospital, you have a 95% chance of surviving a gunshot wound. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Grand Central Station is more radioactive than a nuclear power plant. This is because of all the granite, which is slightly radioactive. CRACKED.COM While harmless, the radiation levels in the station are still more than allowed for nuclear power plants. — Source

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Centuries ago, they believed that witches literally kissed the Devil's ass. It was called the Kiss of Shame, and the belief was that it was how witches said hello to Satan. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Illegal filmmaking Ryan Cosling was arrested for trespassing on Lost River. As a director, Gosling was location scouting in Detroit by trespassing in abandoned buildings without permits. Not recognizing him, police arrested him thinking he was stealing copper piping. CRACKED — Source

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