40 Gabby Bits of Trivia That, Once You Get Them Going, Put the ‘Information’ in ‘Too Much Information’

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40 Gabby Bits of Trivia That, Once You Get Them Going, Put the ‘Information’ in ‘Too Much Information’

You know those people who hear a keyword like “bone” in a conversation, and interrupt whatever you were talking about to just start going off about every broken bone story in history? It’s enraging. 

These facts are sadly a lot like those conversation hogs, but on the plus side, they actually have some interesting info about absolutely everything you throw at them.

Dungeons & Dragons

Cheap, plastic toys from Hong Kong led to D&D monsters. DUNGEONS IDRAGONS MONSTER MANUAL Gary Gygax based some of the creatures in D&D's Monster Manual on the toys he found in a Prehistoric Animals pack (some kind of looked like dinosaurs, some didn't look like much of anything). CRACKED.COM

Source: io9

This Is Spinal Tap

This Is Spinal Tap The Stonehenge scene actually happened-- to Black Sabbath. CRACKED.COM Only... in reverse. Sabbath ordered a Stonehenge set piece that was way too friggin' big when it arrived. It happened a year before the movie came out-but after that scene had been filmed.

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Millipedes

Some millipedes ooze toxic chemicals, and then dare you to eat them by glowing in the dark. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM

The Internet

WE LIVE IN A GLOBAL VILLAGE. WELL, HALF OF US DO. While the number gn of Internet users is constantly on pp the rise, so far only 3.7 billion (out 7.5

Treadmills

The treadmill has its origins as a torture device. In 1818, Sir William Cubitt created the tread-wheel as a means to reform convicts. The prisoners

Organic Foods

Going organic to avoid pesticides? Too bad they still allow them. Organic guidelines allow biopesticides like abamectin and pyrethrum, which may be mo

Quaker

CRACKED SAPPLE APPLE BY NATURAL CONSTRAWBERRY EACH TEA Snapp - MON TEA WITH Snapple i NATURAL 40% MANGO MADNESS napp IN NATURAL { LUG AM E I NER name Snapple I ALL NATURAL 9 I apple - Lebon S - names ME 316 THEMA - I name are QUAKER Quaker Oats Co. agreed to sell Snapple Beverage Corp. to Triarc Cos. for $300 million, only 27 months after Quaker spent $1.7 billion to buy the maker of trendy drinks, resulting in a loss of $1.4 billion for Quaker.

Abraham Lincoln

CRACKEDo COMT Abraham Lincoln lost his mother when he was nine, and his father left to find a new wife. Abe and his 11-year-old sister had to fend for

Rosie O’Donnell

Rosie O'Donnell collects McDonald's Happy Meal toys. T O'Donnell owns over 2, .500 of the little pop culture figurines and toys. Her fans also regularly send her new items to add to her collection.

Wendy’s

The lady who claimed to find a finger in her Wendy's chili was sentenced to 9 years in prison Anna Aayala was released after four years on good behavior. She apologized to the food chain for the attempted scam. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Spices

IT'S BETTER TO STORE SPICES IN A COOL, DARK PLACE If CRACKED.COM spices are exposed to humidity, light, and heat, they will lose their flavor

Ramsay Bolton

Iwan Rheon based Ramsay Bolton on Heath Ledger's Joker...and Dennis The Menace. Rheon said that doing all those horrible things with childlike glee

Back to the Future Part II

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES AND MEANINGS MARTY'S BACK WARDROBE FROM TO FUTURET THE FIRST MOVIE THING Happy 'When Marty visits the shop Blast from the Past in 2015 in search of the Grays Sports Almanac, there's a mannequin in the store window dressed in Marty's famious jacket from the first film an inside joke from the creators. `CRACKED.COM

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