40 Random Bits of Trivia We Found at the Back of the Junk Drawer

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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Found at the Back of the Junk Drawer

Well, our fingers just got poked by like eight sewing needles, but we finally found them. 

Who puts facts in a junk drawer anyways? Do they seem like “junk” to you people? We hope not. This drawer is reserved for things like pens, tape, yarn, batteries, a half-deck of playing cards and a rat’s nest of old cords you still think you might need some day. These facts belong in your brain drawer!

Moonlighting

Moonlighting CRACKED COM The writers found out they were cancelled before the finale was in the can, sO they wrote a fourth-wall obliterating episode

Josh Hartnett and Rachel Leigh Cook

Celebrities who were high school buddies W Josh Hartnett and Rachel Leigh Cook Before taking over several teen movies in the 2000s, Hartnett and Cook went to South High School in Minneapolis. Cook admits that she had a small crush on Hartnett at the time. В С BROADSW digital cinema m EVENT но LMS CE CRACKED.COM

Source: People

Superman

Clark Kent draws on silent film star Harold Lloyd's signature bespectacled look. Horn-rimmed glasses were big with young people in the 1920s, and Lloy

Kangaroos

The faster a kangaroo hops, the less energy it burns. GRACKED.COM Kangaroos have ex- tra-strong calves, a giant bundle of tendons that reach from their tails to their hip bones, and hind feet that work like a pair of springs.

PBS

Eminem

CRACKED.COM Eminem's first album Infinite so just a couple of hundred copies. Ney nis EMINEM INFINITE It's a greatly underrated album that displays Em

The Universe’s Temperature

IT STARTED HOT AND IT'S COOLING CRACKED.COM Going back to 1 second after the Big Bang, scientists predict the universe's temperature was 10 billion Kelvin, but after only a few minutes, it dropped to about 1 billion Kelvin. For reference, today's universe has an average temp of only 2.725 Kelvin.

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The French Connection

CRACKED A CAR CRASH. Filming without permits, the epic car chase has stunt driver Bill Hickman dodging and weaving (at high speeds) in actual NYC traffic. Не accidentally smashed into the car of a man on his morning commute. THE FRENCH CONNECTION

Youtube 

McDonald’s

Auschwitz became operational in May 1940 - MeDonald's FAMOUS BARBECUE Elir sMcDonald's the same month that McDonalds was founded. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED

Hands

Whenever you clasp your hand involuntarily, you will show a preference of your right thumb crossing over your left one or vice versa. Only 1% of peopl

Belgian Blue

This Arnold Schwarzenegger of a cOW is the Belgian Blue. The weird lumps are called double-muscling, where its back, shoulder, rump, and loin are heav

Psycho

Norman Bates is obviously a psychopath, right? Not according to psychologists. Researchers who studied movie depictions of psychopaths determined that

Sophocles

40 Random Bits of Trivia We Found at the Back of the Junk Drawer
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Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer Stabbed His Wife CRACKED.COM In 1960, after a kickoff party for his mayoral campaign, Norman Mailer stabbed his wife in the heart after she said he wasn't as good as Dosto- evsky, which is just true. She survived, but amazingly, he did not win the election.

EW

Hammocks

You fall asleep faster, and sleep deeper, in a hammock compared to a regular bed. CRACKED.COM The rocking motion from a hammock leads to longer periods of N2 sleep, a form of non-REM sleep that takes up about half of a good night's rest.

NPR

The Unabomber

CRACKED THE UNABOMBER James R. Fitzgerald, an FBI profiler, was able to figure out who the Unabomber was by studying the language patterns used in his writings. Fitzgerald's work significantly helped in catching the Unabomber.

NPR 

The Bristol Bus Boycott

In 1963, the Bristol Bus Boycott was held to protest racist hiring practices. IVE COLOUR BAR E BOYCOTT MAN TRE ARIGHT At the time, the bus company in Bristol refused to hire Black drivers - but after an extended boycott, on 28 August 1963, they changed their policy. CRACKED.COM

Source: BBC

Interstellar

INTERSTELLAR That's real corn! Instead of CGI, Christopher Nolan planted a massive amount of actual corn, and sold it for a profit.

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