40 Random Bits of Trivia to Marinate Your Brain Meat

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40 Random Bits of Trivia to Marinate Your Brain Meat

We honestly have no idea how this compares to cooking steak, but you only need your brain to marinate in these facts for a few minutes. 

Fine, we’ll Google “steak marination” and find out. One sec… 

Okay, so they say that marinating for 30 minutes to 2 hours is sufficient, but some cuts need up to 8 hours. There’s an extra fact that isn’t even on this list. Wow, we really are the site that keeps on giving.

Anywho, this was all to say that fact marinating takes nowhere near as long as steak. Give one a read, then think on it for a few minutes to really let that knowledge sink in. 

France

A French town is using bioluminescent bacteria to light streets without electricity. Bioluminescence produced by bacteria could be an energy-efficient, sustainable way to light up our lives that doesn't require burning fossil fuels. CRACKED.COM

BBC 

The Alaskan Pipeline

A drunk person shot a hole in the Alaskan oil pipeline. 562 CRACKED.COM Clean up involved digging ditches and holes to cap- ture the oil, which was be- ing vacuumed into trucks. Daniel Carson Lewis had to pay for the $17 million cleanups and received 16 years in jail.

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Harry Potter

Three big-name music artists appeared in Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire. They're Jarvis cocker, plus Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway from Radiohead, and they made up The Weird Sisters the band who played at the Yule Ball. CRACKED COM

Source: NME

Jewel

Jewel's mom became her manager, and treated her like an ATM. In 2003, after many multiplatinum albums and a decade of touring, Jewel found out her net

Atomic Bomb Rehearsal

As a rehearsal for the very first atomic bomb test, they stacked 100 tons of TNT. Trinity Well, 108 tons, to be exact - and they detonated them simultaneously in May, 1945, two months before the real thing: Trinity, the first nuclear explosion. CRACKED.COM

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Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan She agreed to appear on a Russian talk show after breaking up with real estate mogul Egor Tarabasov -- if she was provided a private jet

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog has a shout-out to Apocalypse Now. It's when Dr. Robotnik uses a piece of metal to shave his head that's a nod to colonel Kurtz.

Source: Twitter

Acid Rain

In the 70's and 80's, dead acidic lakes were fairly common in the US, Europe and Canada because of acid rain. CRACKED.COM The acidity in lakes killed all microbes and aquatic life, resulting in crystal clear water that allowed the lake bottom to be visible.

BBC

Willis Carrier

Keeping cool during the summer? Then you thank can Willis Carrier for inventing air conditioning. Aside from keeping Wal-Mart shoppers comfortable, hi

The Simpsons

Rusty Nails was the real-life inspiration behind Krusty The Portland entertainer was a very sweet clown, says Matt Groening, who would have grown up watching him. CRACKED.COM

Source: OPB

Raiders of the Lost Ark

They used cayenne pepper for the plane fight in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Spielberg didn't want blood splashing around when Marion shoots the truckload of Nazis who arrive at the end, so he asked for a sort of mist, a dust feel. The only thing they could get for that on short notice was cayenne pepper, which meant everyone was coughing and sneezing. CRACKED.COM

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