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

November 13, 2024

Would you mind putting on these gloves before scrolling through this list?

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!

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Stem Cells

A fetus can loan stem cells to its mother. If a pregnant mother experiences organ damage, her fetus will send stem cells to help with the repair. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Kinda Gross Facts About The Human Body That'll Make You Feel A Little Uncomfortable

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Ted Lindsay

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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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

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Octopuses

AN OCTOPUS'S ARMS CAN MAKE DECISIONS WITHOUT ITS BRAIN. The arms (yes, arms, not tentacles) can coordinate together without the brain even knowing. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Animals That Terrify Us (For Valid Reasons)

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Little Shop of Horrors

CRACKED.COM LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS SIX PUPPETS OF AUDREY II WERE MADE. Six different animatronic puppets were used to show the growth of the mean green mother from outer space. The smallest Audrey II was four inches tall, and the largest was 12 feet tall. — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

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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. — Source

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Quantum Stealth

Tech Superpowers INViSiBiLiTY A Canadian company released Quantum Stealth, a thin material that can make anything from soldiers to tanks and ships invisible. It works by bending light around the target, so it can't be seen in visible, infrared, or shortwave infrared light. CRACKED — Who is Danny/Shutterstock
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Babies

Newborn babies have about 100 more bones than adults. CRACKED.COM Spaces between the bones in a baby's skull, called fontanelles, eventually close, and the total number of bones decreases. — Source: Healthline

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South Park

The character Kenny on 'South Park' is based on a real childhood friend of Trey Parker. CRACKED.COM Kenny was the poorest kid in town, wore a large parka that muffled his voice and would frequently skip school, inspiring the run- ning joke that he died by classmates. — Source

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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

30

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

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Redheads

Redheads are more sensitive to pain than people with brown, black, or blond hair. As a result, they require 20 percent more anesthesia than average to get sedated for surgery. GRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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Kidneys

If one kidney is x removed, the other one will start growing. It does that to pick up the slack from the removed kidney, which enables the affected person to lead a normal life. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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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

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Scientology

The Church of Scientology has a compound in California called Gold Base. CRACKED.COM It is guarded by snip- ers and armed gate guards and houses a prison that practices torture and a paramili- tary training school. — Source

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Torpedo Rays

The Torpedo Ray CRACKED.COM Electric torpedo rays can dispense 220 volts of electricity at any given moment, easily enough to knock an adult over. Saltwater amplifies the effect. — Florida Museum

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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

23

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

22

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

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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

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George Washington

CRACKED.COM George Washington was actually the 15th U.S. president. Before Washington, 14 people held the office of President of the Continental Congress between 1774 and 1788, when the Constitution created a new executive branch. Those guys aren't officially counted, mostly because it was a largely ceremonial position with no real power. — Source

19

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. — Source

18

The Office

Deleted scenes that would've changed everything The office The end was almost different. One scene in an episode would've had Pam's painting be destroyed, despite the ending of the show featuring Pam's watercolor drawing of the office. Pam's Jenn Fisher fought against it until they changed the scene. — Source: Mashable

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Star Wars

Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones never met while making Star Wars. Their first face-to-face meeting was in 2014 on The Big Bang Theory. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Real-Life Wolverine

JO CAMERON CAN'T FEEL PAIN AND HEALS WITHOUT SCARS. Doctors first found out about Cameron's condition when she seemed unbothered by a supposedly painful hip problem. She has a mutant gene that also makes her wounds heal without scarring. CRACKED.COM — Source: Medical Cases That Baffled The Pros

15

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. — Source

14

The Nigerian Prince Scam

The Nigerian Prince has been around for 200 years. Rich people randomly offering you big bucks if you help them out of trouble was already a scam genre in the early 19th century. Later, in the 1890s, scammers got to claiming in their letters that they were prisoners of the — More: 4 'Internet Things' That Are Older Than You Thought

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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 — Source

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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. — ITV

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Star Trek

The sound of the doors opening on the starship Enterprise is a toilet flushing. CRACKED.COM Michael Coleman of the SoundWorks Collection explains, You don't just go to a library and pull up an Enterprise door sound. Someone has to create it. — Wired

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Thor: The Dark World

Idris Elba loathed playing a superhero in Thor: The Dark World. He says that in between takes I was stuck , fake hair stuck on to my head with glue ... And I'm thinking: '24 hours ago, I was Mandela. CRACKED.COM — Source: CinemaBlend

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Paris

CRACKED.COM Despite the hectic traffic conditions, there have been no Stop signs in Paris since 2013, when the only one in the city was removed. FOR Aupervilian are Robiato Colomber The Darity Courberia BENN Partis Nitterse Makele Sac o STOP Emand past RTH ARR DHE Montrul Paris 11TH ARR TTH ARR. Sart-wards Nogent-suc Mame 3985 R 12TH ARR or Championy — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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CIA Interrogations

CRACKED MAKING SUSPECTS FEEL CUT OFF FROM THE WORLD CIA agents can create a sense of isolation and helplessness by outfitting interrogation cells with heavy metal doors, which can be slammed to impress upon the subject that they are cut off from the rest of the world. — How Stuff Works / Soflo Studio

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Tim Burton

Apes freak out TIM BURTON and he tried to capture what makes them so disturbing to him when he made Planet of the Apes. They scare me, I he said. They may smile at you and look cute but beneath the surface is a darker behavior. CRACKED.COM — Wired

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Hitler’s London-Bombing Supergun

CRACKED HITLER'S LONDON-BOMBING SUPERGUN Hitler had a plan to bombard London with bombs from a supergun that could fire 25 barrels at a time from 100 miles away. This would have allowed him to launch one bomb per minute. MIMOYECQUES EASTERN SITE RECONSTRUCTED VIEW OF MAIN WORKINGS — The Conversation

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McDonald’s

CRACKED MCDONALD'S PEDOMETERS. STEP-iT STEP-IT STEP-iT STEP-iT STEP-iT STEP-iT These Step It pedometers found in Happy Meals were a feeble attempt to prove McDonald's cares about health. Maybe they just needed proof that kids don't care about their step or calorie count. — Source

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Jared Leto

CRACKED Morbius JARED LETO's intense acting freaked out his co-stars. Не met with doctors and patients with rare blood diseases and practiced with real cane users. — Columbia Pictures
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The World’s Tallest Man

The world's tallest man got plastic out of the bellies of two dolphins, with his hands. CRACKED.COM An aquarium in China enlisted the help of Bao Xishun, a Mongolian herdsman, to save two dolphins that ate plastic that was around their pool. Standing at 7 feet 9 inches tall, Bao was the only person with arms long enough to reach in and help the animals. — NBC News

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Lice

Lice helped study the origin of clothing. Clothes don't preserve well, but we do know that body lice evolved from head lice when we started using clothes. So by studying the nasty bugs' genetic history, researchers have concluded that we stopped walking around naked about 170,000 years ago. GRACKED.COM — Source

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