43 Nourishing Bits of Trivia to Holistically Replenish Your Fact-Depleted Brain

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43 Nourishing Bits of Trivia to Holistically Replenish Your Fact-Depleted Brain

Your brain doesn’t need a full week away at some swanky resort to feel relaxed and recharged. Just a few minutes with this list should do the trick. Consider it a mini-meditation or a micro-massage of sorts. The magic fingers on these facts will make those brain folds melt. 

You might honestly experience a little post-vacation blues after this one.

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson's parrot had to be expelled from his owner's funeral... Because it wouldn't stop swearing. cRac

Frank Zappa

The song Valley Girl perfectly captured' '80s slang. That slang was rnade up on the spot as an insult. The spoken parts of the song were improvised

Ancient Rome

Virgil hated the epic poem he spent 11 years writing. llytar THE AENEID Virgil's Aeneid is the majesty BY an ode to of Rome, and it's considered one o

The Conjuring 2

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2016 THE CONJURING 2 Director James Wan talked about self-moving curtains: None of the doors were opened ... They just moved on their own. And I just watched the video Patrick  showed me and this person who was filming just walked right up to the curtain ... and there's no one there swaying it, and there's no wind in the room. CRACKED.COM

New Line Cinema, Warner Bros.

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Michael Bay

Michael Bay is obsessed with West Side Story. It's the movie that motivated him to go into filmmaking. He begrudgingly took a class on musical theater

Prison’s One Free Phone Call Rule

MYTH8 When you're arrested, you get one free phone call. FAGT Nope, that's absolutely not the law. The one phone call rule is purely a Hollywood inv

Halloween

One Halloween store, Spirit Halloween, spends most of the year scouting. They scout for locations, and spend months negotiating deals to rent those locations as retail spaces for a brief pre-Halloween period. CRACKED.COM

Source: Vox

Grey’s Anatomy

DR. ERICA HAHN WASA BREAKOUT CHARAGTER on REY'SANATOMY BUT In seAson 6, SHE WALKED OUT TO HER CAR AND WAS never seen AGAIN. She was an open lesbian wh

Grand Theft Auto

Samuel L. Jackson is a commanding presence on film. And in GTA, he's commandingly evil. Jackson voices Officer Tenpenny, the central villain in Grand

Gift-Giving

Giving gifts matters, but it's all in how you give them. In one study, when a waiter gave diners two mints at the end of a meal, the waiter's average

Futurama

UTURA4 CRACKED.COM The character of Fry originally looked like that but was redesigned to look like that.

Borat

CRACKED BORAT was sued by... Well, everyone. The villagers of Glod, Romania sued for implying they were incestuous. The two frat bros in the van scene sued for defamation, and Jeffrey Lemmerond sued for using his image. Artist Esma Redžepova was the only winner. She claimed her song was used without permission, and was awarded €26,000 out of her €800,000 lawsuit.

20th Century Studios

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Multi-Level Marketing Schemes

GRAGKED.COM If you're planning to invest in multi-level marketing schemes, don't bother. More than 99 percent of those who participate lose money and only a few actually gain profit.

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