40 Random Bits of Trivia We Rescued From the Trivia Shelter

We know that your brain will give these a good home
40 Random Bits of Trivia We Rescued From the Trivia Shelter

We love fostering facts before they find their forever home. Originally, we fully adopted as many as we could, but space in the office got a little tight. Now that a few of our older facts have ventured out into the world, we have space to house a few before a warm, welcoming brain like yours comes along. 

This little cluster is especially sweet, so if you’ll have them, they’re sure to give your brain a lifetime of love.

Internal Roars

Some people can make a roaring noise in their head by tensing their jaws or ears. There's a small muscle in your ear, called the tensor tympani, that

Elysium

Neill Blomkamp's Elysium is not a terribly subtle film. Still, did you notice that the space station looks like a flipped pentagram? It makes for kind

Schitt’s Creek

13 Little Things You Didn’t Know About Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects - Schitt's Creek basically saved Annie Murphy.
Source: CNBC

Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson punched a student in the face. PUNK KIDS HHLII SOUTHER WRITER TRENT While training to become a teacher, a year- old student pulled a knife

Terrible Predictions

15 Really Inaccurate Predictions About The Future - “Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years.” —Alex Lewyt, vacuum
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Hidden Ancient Temples

CONSTRUCTION WORKERS DIGGING A SEWER FOUND AN ANCIENT TEMPLE. CRACKED.COM The workers were drilling a sewage drain in an Egyptian city when they unearthed a 2,200-year-old temple from the era of King Ptolemy IV. Archeologists found walls decorated with carvings of the Egyptian fertility god Hapi, which seems like a pretty on-the-nose name.

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Student Loan Debt

Outstanding student loan debt in the U.S. amounts to $1.75 trillion. The student loan debt is equal to about 6.5% of the U.S. gross domestic product.

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Elvis

Elvis' first appearance CRACKED.COM Louisiana Hayride was a wildly influential country music show out of Shreveport, Louisiana. Elvis made his television debut on the show in 1955, but only the audio survives.

The Manhattan Project

On the Manhattan Project, safety standards basically didn't exist. In a key experiment, the plutonium was contained by one technician holding a screwdriver. But the screwdriver slipped, and the plutonium killed the technician. This happened twice. CRACKED.COM

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Who Let the Dogs Out?

Two movies had a bidding war over Who Let The Dogs Out back when it was released. Nickelodeon wanted to use it for Rugrats in Paris, and Disney wanted it for 101 Dalmatians. Nickelodeon won by paying for the music video and giving the band, The Baha Men, a live concert special. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Rescued From the Trivia Shelter

The First PG-13 Rating

The first PG-13 rating. 1984 CRACKED.COM Even though it clocked in at 134 acts of violence per hour (Guinness counted), Red Dawn was the first film to officially find itself between PG and R.

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