38 Random Bits of Trivia That Will Plump Up Your Brain Like Little Collagen Shots

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38 Random Bits of Trivia That Will Plump Up Your Brain Like Little Collagen Shots

For a fuller, poutier looking brain, try these little fact doses. Not all at once though, for obvious reasons. You don’t want too pillowy of a brain, now do you? 

In our experience, it’s best to do one at a time, and see how we’re doing along the way. Of course, by “experience,” we mean the two people we gave these facts to this morning. Their brains are looking alright, so we’re batting a thousand so far!

California

Map-makers thought that CALIFORNIA WAS AN ISLAND. In the early 1600s, Spanish explorers concluded that California was cut from the rest of North Ameri
Source: Wired

Darth Vader

CRACKEDCON One of the grotesques on the Washington National Cathedral is Darth Vader's helmet.

Giotto’s Hidden Devil

CRACKED Giotto's 13th century frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi had a hidden secret for centuries - nobody could get up high enough to spot a side-on portrait of Satan hidden in the clouds.

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The Manhattan Project

On the Manhattan Project, safety standards basically didn't exist. In a key experiment, the plutonium was contained by one technician holding a screwdriver. But the screwdriver slipped, and the plutonium killed the technician. This happened twice. CRACKED.COM

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Rwanda

In Rwanda, people go to bars to drink milk Milk is the only thing on tap in many bars across Rwanda. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Source: BBC

Swimming

Going for a swim in the ocean with a fresh tattoo can literally get you killed. It's pretty rare, but it can happen - if you have a tattoo that's a few days old and you go, say, into the ocean, you risk a very deadly bacterial infection. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Source: CNN

The Goonies

38 Random Bits of Trivia That Will Plump Up Your Brain Like Little Collagen Shots

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