40 Random Bits of Trivia We’ve Woven Into the Beautiful Listed Tapestry You See Before You

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40 Random Bits of Trivia We’ve Woven Into the Beautiful Listed Tapestry You See Before You
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As clean as your hands seem, even the smallest amount of finger oil can sully these facts forever. We’ve been to one art gallery, so we know what we’re talking about. Everyone there treated their works so delicately, and it made us question why we’re always so careless with our facts. They’re our little works of art, but we toss them around like Amazon packages. It’s time to treat them with some class and proudly display them like the artistic gems they are. 

Now, gloves on please!

Gravity Falls

90's tv series Twin Peaks was a major influence on the Disney Channel animated series Gravity Falls, which is why creator Alex Hirsch contacted Agent Cooper himself, Kyle MacLachlan,, to play the Bus Driver in the series finale The role was only 3 lines long

17th Century Medicine

People with a persistent cough in the 17th century would be prescribed a slug and earthworm broth. CRACKED COM They were mashed, cut up and added to a pot of spring water and brought to the boil. Straining out the solid bits was optional. A pint mixed with that of milk was said to cure even tuberculosis.

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Project Sunshine

Project Sunshine was about stealing dead body tissue for radiation experiments. In the '50s, the US government had a worldwide network which collect

Game of Thrones

4Your father smelled of elderberries is an insult spoken in Game of Thrones. In Season 4, the champion that Meereen sends out to challenge Dany's cha

Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon 1925 - 2001 JACK LEMMON The Oscar-winning actor wanted his gravestone to read like the intro credits to his final work: JACK LEMMON in

The God Helmet

michael Persinger TY- 3 CRACKED CON Persinger invented a helmet to see God. It's a modified snowmobile helmet with magnetic fields, and most people wh

Source: Wired

Pirates

BLACKBEARD WAS A NOTORIOUS ENGLISH PIRATE. Blackbeard's ships attacked a French slave ship called La Concorde, which he renamed Queen Anne's Revenge u

Cats

WEIRD WORLD A cat's meowing saved the life of her 83-year-old owner in Cornwall, England. (illustration) The woman fell into a ravine, and people went searching for her - and they found her because someone heard a cat loudly meowing near where she fell. CRACKED.COM

Source: CBS

Serial Killers

Mutable signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, make up a large share of famous serial killers. Mutable signs are those born at the end of a season, and are known for being erratic yet adaptable. Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacy all fall under these signs. CRACKED.COM

Source: Yahoo

NFL Pyramid Scheme

CRACKED.COM In 1998, NFL player Fred Taylor handed over his $3.6 million signing bonus to his agent William Tank Black. Black then invested the money in a pyramid scheme and lost it all.

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The Bacteria on Dollar Bills

According to the U.S. Air Force, 94% of the dollar bills they tested harbored bacteria. This bacteria could cause pneumonia and plenty of other serious infections.

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The One Place Not to Go When You’re a Wanted Man

WEIRD WORLD A guy stopped by the Sheriff's Office to check if he was wanted... ... and he was. SAMETE COUNTY SHERIFF 514172 The visit really did not go well for him, and he ended up in jail - it's kind of unclear what he thought would happen if, indeed, he was wanted. CRACKED.COM

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The First Same-Sex Marriage in Antarctica

A British couple have made history in the first ever same-sex wedding on British Antarctic Territory. CRACKED.COM Stephen Carpenter said he felt Antarctica was the perfect place to marry his partner of 20 years. Both Stephen and his partner, Eric Bourne, work aboard the polar research vessel the RRS Sir David Attenborough.

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