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36 Random Bits of Trivia We Groomed Off of the Chimp Next to Us

November 18, 2024

If we picked these interesting tidbits off of a chimp, imagine what kind of golden nuggets the chimp behind us is picking off us! So many amazing little facts sprinkle into our minds every day that our head and back hair end up collecting some runoff. Those busy little monkey fingers are gathering up some seriously knowledgable goods for sure.

Ooh, we should grow beards!

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Nicolas Cage

NICHOLAS CAGE IS A SUPERMAN FANBOY. Cage loves the character so much that he named his son Kal-El (Superman's Kryptonian name). Не also used to own Superman's first comic book appearance, before selling it for $2.1 million in 2011. In the '90s, Cage almost played Superman in Tim Burton's Superman Lives, however, the project fell through. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Hollywood Stars Who Happen To Be Huge Nerds

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17th Century Fashion

During the 17th century, women's fashions with exposed breasts were common in society. CRACKED.COM Queens to common prostitutes particiapt- ed, and it emulated by all classes. An exposed ankle however was considered to be more risqué. — Source

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The Autobahn

Instruck Lindau Reulit Oberstdorf Fütten Sonthafen Dy-Mittelberg THE When driving on the German Autobahn, make sure you don't run out of fuel. A fine is imposed if you abandon your vehicle after running out of gas. ? E F GRACKED.COM — Source

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NASA

CRACKED.COM NASA only uses 15 digits of П =3.141592653 7932384626 For the highest accuracy calculations, NASA only needs to use 3.1415 59265358979. Even when doing calculations for the circumference of a circle with a radius of 46 billion light years (the entire visible universe) to an accuracy equal to the diameter of the simplest atom, you would only need 39 or 40 decimal places — Source: NASA

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Bobby Flay

Someone pranked Bobby Flay while he was getting his star on the Walk of Fame. BOBBY FLAY Della 3OBBY FLAY During the ceremony, a plane with a banner that said cheater flew overhead. His wife, who he was divorcing at the time, absolutely denied being behind that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Animaniacs

Animaniacs credits almost always included a gag. JULIE POULSON GAIL VIRALDO JUST WAIT UNTIL EPISODE #100! JUST WAIT! AND WAIT! AND WAIT! Above is an example of the 99th and final episode, but most episodes include a weird title for Kathryn Page, like Hamster Trainer. CRACKED.COM

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Champagne

CRACKED A POPPED CHAMPAGNE CORK CAN TRAVEL UP TO 50 MILES PER HOUR. The reason for this is that the pressure inside a bottle of champagne is around three times that of an average car tire. — Source

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Zohan

ZOHAN really exists, and his name is NEZI ARBIB. Arbib and his brothers (all of them former Israeli soldiers) run a hair salon in Los Angeles. Adam Sandler spent some time with them preparing for the movie. CRACKED.COM — 9 Absurd Movie Premises That Actually Happened

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Rhino Poaching

In an Indian park, rangers are legally allowed to shoot people hunting rhinos. Which led to rangers killing 20 people in Kaziranga park in 2015 - fewer rhinos got killed by poachers that year. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Caviar

Caviar used to be SO worthless that in the 19th century, bars served it for free, like peanuts, to make customers get thirsty and drink more. Now it c

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Diamond Storms

Hailstones in Jupiter and saturn are diamonds. Thunderstorms turn atmospheric methane into pure carbon soot. As the soot falls and the pressure increases, it gets compressed into diamonds as big as one centimeter across. CRACKED COM — BBC

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Shotguns

Dramatically cocking a shotgun is a waste of ammo. The cocking is intended to eject spent shells or bullets. If you do it just to show that you mean business, you're throwing away a perfectly good round. CRACKED.COM — More: 5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)

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The Lord of the Rings

The role that made Viggo Mortensen's career, Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, almost went to Nicolas Cage. CRACKED.COM

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Roza Shanina

When her three brothers died in battle in WWII, Roza Shanina quit her job as a kindergarten teacher and joined the Red Army. She became a sniper, made 54 confirmed kills, and was the first female sniper to get the USSR's award for courage in battle, the Order of Glory. She died trying to shield a wounded comrade from enemy fire. CRACKED.COM — Source: 31 Amazing Women Who Deserve To Be Way More Famous

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Saharan Sandstorms

Every year, hundreds of millions of tons of dust are blown off the Sahara desert in DUST STORMS. All this dust can mess with the climate, changing how clouds form and how tropical cyclones develop. CRACKED — tomashlavac/Shutterstock
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Dinosaurs

CRACKED.COM In 2011, miners in Alberta, Canada, found a huge nodosaur fossil. It was so undamaged, it could have been walking around a couple of weeks ago. — Source

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Pepsi

While expanding into China, Pepsi unknowingly made a creepy promise to consumers in the form of biblical miracles. TRADE MARK PEPSI The company's popular tag line, Come alive with the Pepsi Generation was interpreted as Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Don Rickles

CRACKED DON RICKLES WAS SCARED TO OFFEND, BUT HIS MOM SAID, GO FOR IT. At first, Rickles was scared to do comedy because he thought he might offend people. But his mom told him to give it a shot, and he became a legendary insult comic. — Joe Seer/Shutterstock
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J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote his children letters from Santa for 23 years. Dear-Jiln. - henrb 1020 S lloe In the letters, which were presented in sealed envel

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Shaun of the Dead

36 Random Bits of Trivia We Groomed Off of the Chimp Next to Us — Source

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Napping

Unlike many other countries around the world, America doesn't officially embrace the tradition of napping. It's a cultural expectation in places like Italy, Spain, Greece, the Philippines, Nigeria & others, but viewed as slacking here. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Spartan Women

CRACKED.COM Spartan women owned about 40% of the lands in Sparta. This is due to their inheritance system which allowed the father to divide his property among his children - both son and daughter. — Source

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Kenya

Everyone pictures Kenya as a wild or impoverished land But in reality Kenya is a modern state with bustling cities and a capital home to over three million people. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lorena Bobbitt

CRACKED.COM NO, Lorena Bobbitt wasn't some knife- happy crazy woman. Bobbitt became a punchline in the '90s as someone who randomly chopped off her husband's dick. No one bothered to point out at the time that he had horribly abused her for years, a fact acknowledged by both the prosecution and the defense. Не keeps sending her love letters-but sure, let's call her crazy. — Source

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Thanksgiving

MYTH: TURKEY MAKES YOU SLEEPY. FACT: IT'S THE BIG meAL THAT Does IT. Science-y types will claim that turkey makes you sleepy because it contains tryptophan, which eventually becomes seratonin and melatonin, the sleep neurochemicals. But turkey doesn't contain enough to affect your tiredness level. The reason you're sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner is because your very full body needs to focus on digestion. https://www.washingtonpost.com t.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/11/ CRACKED.COM 24/no-turkey-doesnt-make-you-sleepy-the-science-of-thanksgiving-feasts/ — 24 Food And Cooking Myths

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The Slug Brigade

Mustard gas? No problem for the Slug Brigade. CRACKED.COM Paul Bartsch's discovery of slugs' sensitivity to mustard gas in WWI led the U.S. military to use them as a warning system against toxic fumes, saving thousands of lives and becoming known as the Slug Brigade. — Source

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Jaws

JAWS FOR A MOMENT, WE GET A GLIMPSE OF THIS ILLUSTRATION FROM A BOOK BRODY IS FLIPPING THROUGH WHICH FORESHADOWS JUST HOW THE SHARK GETS KILLED IN THE END. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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The Exorcist

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 1973 THE EXORCIST The home where the movie would be filmed caught on fire, so filming was delayed. During the shoot, actress Ellen Burstyn was injured, and her scream of agony can be heard in the film. Relatives of Linda Blair and Max Von Sydow died during production, and two actors died shortly after production wrapped. CRACKED.COM — Source

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New Year’s Resolutions

January 17th is celebrated as Ditch New Year's Resolution x Day. LIST .. TA GAGANILL SINE CRACKED.COM - A third of people fail their resolutions the first month of the new year, and only 10% actually make it to the end of the year, so mid-January was the perfect time to set a day. — Source: National Today

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Bathrooms

50 BATHROOMS 5 2000 1900 CRACKED CON French artists predicted life in the year 2000 for the 1900 World Exhibition. They foresaw machines scrubbing you clean and applying makeup. Even with access to robotics today, we prefer handling certain intimate activities ourselves. — Source

5

Shark Tale

Sharks Movies & TV Shark Tale The movie's original title was Sharkslayer. No official reason was given for the last-minute title change, but it was likely to make the movie more appealing to parents (and less of a disappointment to dudebros who wanted to see sharks murdered). CRACKED.COM — Source: Sharkie/YouTube

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Trevor Noah

Easter Eggs for Polyglots 2019 Academy Awards White people don't know I'm lying. In ixiXhosa, Abelungu abazi ubu ndiyaxoka. Translated by Noah while presenting the award for Black Panther as, In times like these, we are stronger when we fight together than when we try to fight apart. — Source: Business Insider South Africa

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Doppelgangers

CRACKED DOPPELGANGERS The chances of having an exact twin are pretty slim - only one in 135. But if you look at the bigger picture - attributes like the overall shape of your face-it's more likely that you have a doppelganger out there. — Source

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Amazon

WEIRD WORLD A guy in India ordered a passport cover from Amazon, and got a passport with it. HRP REPUBLIC OF INDIA Amazingly, customer support just told him that it will not be repeated and we will instruct the seller to be very careful next time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson didn't do his own singing on The Simpsons. Of all the Simpsons cameos, Jackson's is one of the best-known-but he only did the speaking — From 6 Small Roles With Hugely Interesting Stories Behind Them.

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