40 Spotless Bits of Trivia That You Can Actually See Your Face In

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40 Spotless Bits of Trivia That You Can Actually See Your Face In

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Oxygen

Oxygen was 8 discovered by two O people in a span Oxygen of 2 years. 15.9994 In 1772, Carl Wilhelm Scheele was the first person to isolate oxygen, and

Ducks

Ducks become cannibals when bored DONALD DUCK CRACKED.COM In commercial farming, beak trimming is often required to prevent poultry from eating each other.

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The Lord of the Rings

CRACKED.COM The Ents in THE LORD OF THE RINGS were inspired by Shakespeare. No, there aren't talking, walking trees in Macbeth - and that pissed off a young J. R. R. Tolkien, who expected that the prophecy about the woods coming against Macbeth's castle became literally true. So years later, he wrote that into his own book.

Christmas Carols

Christmas carols were traditionally about being drunk The first (English) written mention of carols were in 1426, but it wasn't until the Victorian era that Christmas carols started being associated with the church over the pub. So if you really want to honor the tradition, get wasted and join in at karaoke at a bar. CRACKED.COM

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Thomas Brodie-Sangster, AKA Jojen Reed from Game of Thrones, plays a First Order officer in The Force Awakens. Не jumped at the role, even though it has only one line, as Star Wars was a big childhood thing to tick off the list to him. Plus, he's always wanted to play a bad guy, and that counts. CRACKED.COM

Your Senses

Your senses of smell and taste detect flavor. Your eyesight is involved, too. Scientists had tasters evaluate a white wine, and they reported notes co

Donald Duck

YOU MAY KNOW HIM AS MICKEY'S DISGRUNTLED LACKEY BUT IN SWEDEN DONALD DUCK IS KIND OF A BIG DEAL EVERY CHRISTMAS EVE THE PEOPLE OF SWEDEN SIT DOWN IN F

Ferris Bueller

John Hughes frantically wrote the screenplay for Ferris Bueller's Day Off in one week. In 1985, a writers' strike was about to hit Hollywood. Upon hea

Hip Hop High

It makes sense that these two rappers would hang out. JAY Z AND BUSTA RHYMES They went to high school together. Jay Z and Busta Rhymes both attended B

The FBI

The FBI worked hard to end John Lennon's anti-war activism. They did all they could to get him deported, and even looked into planting drugs. Lennon b

Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon is good at ping-pong. Spin YORK NEW She loves the sport SO much that she co-founded SPiN, a chain of table tennis clubs and bars. It no

Bangkok Soup

ONE РОТ OF SOUP IN BANGKOK HAS BEEN BOILING FOR 47 YEARS. GRAGKED.COM There wasn't any kind of refrigeration in medieval times, so keeping the pot constantly simmering was a way to prevent a stew from going bad. This was called a perpetual stew, and we've had these stews brewing even in modern times, thanks to tradition. In Bangkok, there's a restaurant called Wattana Panich that's been passing the same broth from one day's menu to the next for 47 years. It now has the special flavor that you can only get from 40 years of festering beef squeezings.

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