40 Random Bits of Trivia to Defibrillate Your Frontal Lobe

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40 Random Bits of Trivia to Defibrillate Your Frontal Lobe

Oh good, you’re awake. Your fact-deprived brain was fading until we shocked it awake with a highly energized fact injection. You seem stable for now, but if it starts waning again, buzz the nurse and she’ll get these in you ASAP.

2001: A Space Odyssey

In the first drafts of 2001: A Space Odyssey HAL was named ATHENA and had a female voice.

Terrorism

CRACKED coMT ARE YOU AFRAID OF BEING ONE OF THE VICTIMS IN A TERROR ATTACK? CHILL. YOU ARE 1860 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE HIT BY A WORLD-ENDING ASTEROID

Victorians

The Victorians saw Christmas as a time to have a laugh. Their Christmas card art included stuff like a child stuck in a teapot, mice riding lobsters,

The Moon

An abandoned rocket crashed into the farside of the Moon Astronomers thought the discarded part of a rocket might have been from SpaceX, later saying it was Chinese (which China denies.) Either way, the rocket probably left a crater and did minimal damage. CRACKED.COM

Source: BBC

The Great British Bake Off

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively enjoy The Great British Bake Off. N CO C say DIEGO CON Apparently, that's their favorite thing to watch together. Reynolds says that Everybody on the show is nice to each other, which I find refreshing. CRACKED.COM

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Sand

This isn't a rock collection. It's sand. Put beach sand under a microscope and you can see that it's made up of shells that have been ground into powd

David Letterman

The Late Shift DAVID LETTERMAN CRACKED COM Letterman used his monologue to blast the movie for months. Specifically, he thought John Michael Higgins made him look like a circus chimp.

Source: EW

Colugos

40 Random Bits of Trivia to Defibrillate Your Frontal Lobe
Source: Wired

Parkinson’s

Most people with Parkinson's experience hypomimia, where the facial muscles CRACKEDOON stiffen, causing them to have trouble changing expression by sm

Pet Semetary

Eight different Maine Coons PET SEMATARY (2019) CRACKED.COM Director Kevin Kölsch wanted his spooky cat to mimic the cover of the original Stephen King novel, but Maine Coons can pretty much only learn one trick each. For each action, they had to bring in a new cat and let it sniff around and get acclimated: They were like this pack of divas on set.

Cicadas

A parasite fungus disintegrates cicadas butts and then makes them per-horny. The fungus replaces their butt with a blob-like mass of, well, fungus, and makes males seek out other males for sex (to spread the virus). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Source: NPR

Discoveries

In 1966, two men were found lying on a hill in Brazil, uninjured but dead. And they were wearing lead masks. The men, who were identified as electroni

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