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35 Random Bits of Trivia That’ll Give Your Brain Serious Empty Nest Syndrome When They Grow Up and Fly the Coop

December 18, 2024

Welcome to the adoption agency of facts. Your brain can peruse this list of foster facts and take home as many as it likes. It had a top-notch application. We’ve never had a more qualified candidate. We’d honestly like to come home with it too.

Okay, sorry, back to the facts. Interest in these little bundles of info will help them grow into bigger amounts of info as your brain wants to learn more about each one. Then, one day, your brain will want to share them with the world. It’s a little sad to see them go, but it’s part of the process.

We’re actually getting a little emotional watching them leave us right now.

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Nintendo

Nintendo ran a M price-fixing cartel for years. In the '90s, getting a Nintendo game in Spain cost you three times as much as it did in Britain or Germany. The European Commission fined the company 149 million euro in 2002 for rigging the market. In 1991, they had been found guilty of the same racket in the U.S. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Waiting in Line

The average person spends FIVE YEARS OF THEIR LIFE waiting in line. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Brain

You have more synapses in your brain than we have stars in our galaxy There are between 100 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, but there are more than 125 trillion nerve connections just in the brain's cerebral cortex. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wales

There is one castle for every 5,200 people in Wales. CRACKED COM There are more than 600 castles in Wales, more per square mile than anywhere in the world. Some have been lived in continuously for a thousand years, while others are romantic ruins. — Source

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China

CRACKED THERE ARE CHINESE REPLICAS OF FAMOUS CITIES. Five Chinese towns have been constructed to look like some of the most famous cities in the world, like Jackson Hole in Wyoming, Hallstatt in Austria, Paris in France, Venice in Italy, and London in England. — Source

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The Middle Ages

The average person in the Middle Ages had teeth that were in a very good condition. With a diet high in calcium via dairy, high in vegeta- bles and cereals, and low in foods that cause decay, they ate the way most modern dentists would recommend for good teeth. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Poisonings

Medicine bottles have foil seals because of poisonings in the 1980s. They were put in place af- ter a rash of poisonings ос- curred in 1982, in which seven people in the Chica- go area were killed after ingesting Tylenol laced with potassium cyanide. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Finland

CRACKED SPEEDING TICKETS IN FINLAND ARE PROPORTIONAL TO AN INDIVIDUAL'S WEALTH. In 2002, an executive from Nokia was fined 103,000 dollars for going 45 in a 30 zone. — Source

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Tim Allen

Tim Allen was a drug dealer. SHERIFF'S DEPT. MICH In 1978 he was arrested in Kalamazoo International Airport in Michigan with a pound of cocaine in his suitcase and spent 2 years in prison. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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The Wild West

The epic bank heists you see in Westerns almost never actually happened. BANK BANK S DOLLAR There were fewer bank robberies in a roughly 40-year span in 15 states in the Old West than there are in a year in modern-day Dayton, OH. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bryan Cranston

CRACKED.COM Power Rangers Bryan Cranston was in the show. In addition to playing Zordon in the recent reboot, Cranston was two different villains in series. — Source: RangerWiki

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Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi's famous passive resistance campaigns had massive support from Chinese people. 1 in 9 protestors in the first non-violent movement, starting in 1906, were Chinese and more Chinese people than Indian people were in prison when his second ended in 1911. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Elvis

The oldest known Elvis autograph is in an old book, from 1948. Elvis, then 13, signed his name on a library card in that book in 1948 (it's English Fairy Tales). CRACKED.COM — Source

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NHL Records

50 GOALS IN 39 NHL GAMES WAYNE GRETZKY CRACKED.COM Yes, Wayne again. Once Maurice Rocket Richard made 50 goals in 50 games possible in 1944-45, it became a mark for NHL goal scorers. Only a handful of other NHL greats have hit 50 in 50, but in 1983-84 Gretzky reached 50 in only 39 games. In today's NHL, a player reaching 50 goals in a full 82 game season is a noteworthy feat. — Source: Thehockeywriters

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Serial Killers

CRACKED DONALD HARVEY In 1987, a medical examiner with a genetic sense of smell for cyanide, noticed it in a man who had been in a motorcycle accident and was in the hospital. This eventually resulted in the arrest of Harvey, a serial killer who had been working in the hospital. — USA Today / NY Times

20

Clint Eastwood

Celebrities Who Ran For Office Clint Eastwood Eastwood was elected mayor in Carmel-by- the-Sea, California in 1986. One of his first acts in office was to repeal a law that forbade ice cream cones from being sold in public. In 2001, California Governor Gray Davis appointed him to the State Park and Recreation Commission. YOR EASTWOOD CRACKED.COM — Mental Floss

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The Switch

Nintendo sold more Switch consoles in its first year than Wii U consoles in its entire lifetime. x - Y R NISTENDO SWITCH NINTENDO SWITCH In late 2017, the Nintendo Switch was the fastest sell- ing console in US history, and in November 2018 it was the fastest selling of all the 8th generation con- soles in the US. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — EuroGamer

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Monty Python

GAME OF THRONES THE PILOT WAS SHOT IN A CASTLE USED IN MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL. Doune Castle in Scotland stood in for Winterfell in the pilot episode. (It has also appeared on Outlander.) CRACKED.COM — Vanity Fair

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Bees

Most bees don't live in hives, instead they nest in things like snail shells. CRACKED.COM These bees don't live in hives or colonies, instead nesting in the ground, aerially, or even in old snail shells. The bee will burrow their own nest, adding pollen and nectar, and lay an egg before sealing the nursery off. — Wildlife Trusts

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India

People in India spend more time reading than any other country. GRACKED COM On average, people in India spend 10 hours and 42 minutes a week reading. Thailand comes in second with 9 hours and 42 minutes a week. — Source: LA Times

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Termites

There's colonies of all-female termites in Japan These termites can clone themselves, which results in twice as fast of reproduction. Bad news for homeowners in Japan. CRACKED.COM — Source: ScienceDaily

13

Sidney Monster

Cookie Monster In a song in 2007 (and again in 2017), Cookie Monster revealed his real name was Sidney Monster. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Celebrities Who Changed Their Name (And Why)

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Presidential Races

An American socialist ran for president while in prison in 1920. CRACKED.COM In 1918, Eugene Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for criticizing the government's p,articipation in World War 1. Не managed to get 3.4% of the popular vote while behind bars.

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Shoe Size

CRACKED.COM SHOE STORIES SHOE SIZES ARE INCREDIBLY COMPLICATED. A MAN'S FOOT 10.5 INCHES LONG IS CONSIDERED TO BE: SIZE 9 IN AUSTRALIA SIZE 9.5 IN THE USA SIZE 10 IN MEXICO SIZE 27.5 IN JAPAN SIZE 43.5 IN EUROPE SIZE 44 IN CHINA SIZE 267 IN KOREA — Source

10

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Famous People’s Voices (Secretly) In Your Favorite Movies - Laurence Fishburne voices the bear in the Genaros Beer ad in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. — Source: Film School Rejects

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Polar Express

IN A NOD TO ANOTHER FILM DIRECTED BY ROBERT ZEMECKIS... A FLUX CAPACITOR CAN BE SEEN IN THE ENGINE ROOM IN THE POLAR EXPRESS. CRACKED

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Insects

CRACKEDcO Tree lobsters are considered the rarest insects in the world, and can only be found in Lord Howe Island, Australia. Thought to be extinct in

7

Marie Curie

CRACKED THE FIRST PERSON TO WIN TWO NOBEL PRIZES WAS A WOMAN. Marie Curie, born in Poland in 1867, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for her work on radioactivity, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium. — Source

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Sleep

On workdays, 53% of Americans get fewer than seven hours of sleep. Those numbers are considerably lower in other Western countries - 39% in the UK, 36% in Germany, 30% in Canada, and 29% in Mexico. CRACKED.COM — Source

5

Haunted Houses

CRACKEDcO In 1976, a TV crew working in an amusement park in Long Beach, California, found that a corpse in the haunted mansion wasn't a prop. IT WAS

4

The Pink Panther

Robert Wagner did a scene in The Pink Panther in which he's submerged in a bubble bath (which was actually industrial foam.) That foam damaged his ski

3

Charlize Theron

EMBARRASSING EARLY APPEARANCES CHARLIZE THERON in Children of the Corn III Theron appears (uncredited) in 1995 as a cult follower in the B-tier horror franchise inspired by Stephen King. Nowadays, Theron has rather focused her interest in action movies, even appearing in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. CRACKED.COM — Source: Eighties Kids

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Tigers

THERE ARE MORE TIGERS PRIVATELY OWNED IN THE US THAN TIGERS IN THE WILD WORLDWIDE. ESTIMATED TALLY ESTIMATED TALLY г IN THE WILD IN US CAPTIVITY 3,890 5,000 And only 6% of the tigers in the United States are held in accredited facilities. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rocky III

In an early draft, Rocky was going to meet the Pope in Rome in Rocky III. Rocky's final fight would be in the Coliseum in Rome, and he'd go to St. Peter's Basilica. Sly was desperate to work in an audience with the Pope, too. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Weird Early Versions Of Movies And Shows We Love

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