40 Random Bits of Trivia We’re Leaving on the Windowsill to Cool

Be patient. Don’t scald the roof of your brain
40 Random Bits of Trivia We’re Leaving on the Windowsill to Cool

We all want a sweet, steamy fact fresh out of the oven, but take it from us, you’re gonna wanna give it a few minutes. Their molten hot innards will terrorize your brain, and it won’t even be able to taste the rest of them. 

Try taking your mind off of them with another list before coming back to this one. Patience is a pain-free virtue.

A Lego Brick

A Lego brick can support a brick tower 12,000 feet tall before being destroyed. The average maximum force the bricks can withstand is 4,240N, that's equivalent to a mass of 950 lbs. It would take 375,000 Lego bricks stacked one on top of another to destroy the bottom brick. CRACKED.COM

BBC 

Burger King

WEIRD WORLD In Memphis, a woman shot up a drive-through Burger King because of how long her order was taking. BK CHICKEN NIGGETS 5$2.50 BURGER KING BURGER KING ING DRIVE THRU She left her car, went to the drive-through window and then started arguing-- after that, she started shooting. Nobody

Source: ABC

Chisso Corporation

A Japanese chemical company polluted a bay so much, they mined the mercury from it. CRACKED COM The bay polluted by Chisso Corporation had sediment containing up to 2 kg of mercury per ton. This con- centration made mining economically viable, so the company set up a subsidi- ary to do just that.

NCBI

Blackbeard

BLACKBEARD CARED ABOUT HIS CREW'S HEALTH. EDWARD TEACH.(BLACK BEARO). Wallint the Plank When Blackbeard took over Queen Anne's Revenge, he forced the

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood squints because his eyes are sensitive to light. Shooting in bright light for the Fistful of Dollars trilogy only highlighted the effec

Bob Hoskins

BOB HOSKINS WISHED HE'D NEVER DONE SUPER MARIO BROS. When asked during an interview about the biggest disappointment in his career, the late actor named the 1993 movie. Не said it was the worst movie he's ever done and if he could, he'd go back and just not do it. CRACKED.COM

Italy’s Battle of the Oranges

15 Amazing Festivals You Wish You Could Celebrate Right Now - Ivrea, Italy, hosts an annual Battle of the Oranges, featuring 10,000 competitors throwi
Source: BBC

Pepsi China

While expanding into China, Pepsi unknowingly made a creepy promise to consumers in the form of biblical miracles. PLPS MARK TRADE 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

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