36 Impatient Bits of Trivia That Can’t Wait for Your Brain to Read Them

These facts pulled up a chair to the window and are waiting for your brain to pull into the driveway
36 Impatient Bits of Trivia That Can’t Wait for Your Brain to Read Them

It might not be any of our business, but your brain promised these facts that it would be here about an hour ago. That may not seem like a big deal to your brain, but the facts are up in their room crying right now. They dolled themselves up with little knowledge tidbits written in fun, punchy ways, and your brain just strolls in here like nothing’s wrong. 

So it better march up there right now, tell them how beautiful and interesting they are and beg for forgiveness. If they forgive it, this better not happen again.

Reading Comprehension

You retain more of what you read in environments with vivid colors, even when you don't feel any calmer or more relaxed. SUMMARY illus finitimus and B

The Princess Bride

Cary Elwes trained for four months for his final sword duel in The Princess Bride. And Mandy Patinkin had spent six months training. CRACKED.COM

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New Zealand

WEIRD WORLD A man in Auckland, New Zealand drew elaborate penises around potholes. Geoff Upson has been doing it since 2018 to draw attention to the long-standing problem of potholes on Auckland's roles - but, three years later, the authorities took legal action against him rather than fix the potholes. CRACKED.COM

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Killer Vitamins

VITAMINS CAN KILL TOO. A health food enthusiast consumed carrot juice and vitamin pills a bit too regularly. The intake of 70 million units of vitamin

The (Teen) Father of the Snowmobile

YOUNG INVENTORS A 15-YEAR-OLD INVENTED THE SNOWMOBILE. Quebec-born Joseph Bombardier took an old Model T and added a sleigh frame and a hand-whittled propeller to it. By 1937, at age 30, he was already selling Bombardier snowmobiles that sat seven people, but it all started at an age at which some of us were just discovering late-night Cinemax movies. CRACKED.COM

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Bucket Wheel Excavators

CRACKED 15 The Bagger 293 is a bucket-wheel excavator built in 1995 and weighs over 14,000 tons. It can clear 90 tons of earth from a building site in one go, doing up to 85,000 tons a day. It's grey and badass.

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The Indian Stock Exchange

WEIRD WORLD Apparently, a major Indian stock exchange has been guided by a spiritual force. NATIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE The CEO of the NSE, Chitra Ramakrishna, sought guidance from that force for 20 years to run India's National Stock Exchange, she says. CRACKED.COM

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The Number of Muscles in Your Fingers

There are exactly O muscles in your fingers. You're just operating ten little marionettes with the muscles in your palms and forearms. NOW YOU KNOW CR

The Founding Fathers

CRACKED.COM MYTH: The Founding Fathers were Christians. No matter who you include as a Founding Father, not all of them were Christian. Deism (which prioritizes human experience and rationality over religious dogma and texts) had a huge influence during their time.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit

CRACKED.COM Amazing effects made without CGI Who Framed Roger Rabbit Roger Rabbit did the opposite of the Chip 'n Dale movie -hand-drawn animation was made to look 3D. The animation was passed through several layers of highlighting and shading to give it its lifelike feel.

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