40 Random Bits of Trivia We’re Still Picking At, Thanks

Warning: Hands reaching toward our facts will be bitten
40 Random Bits of Trivia We’re Still Picking At, Thanks

If you’ve ever waited tables before, you’ve definitely asked yourself, “Are they or aren’t they done with their plate?” There’s a couple scraps on it, but they’re chatting it up and haven’t touched their fork in like five minutes. Your manager gets pissy when dirty plates are left in front of the guests, but you don’t want the guest to think you’re rushing them for a higher turnover rate.

Luckily, facts are a lot different than food. The general rule is to never EVER take anyone’s fact plate if there’s even the slightest info morsel on it — even if it’s just a faint ketchup smear. We’ll lick it clean, don’t you worry about that!

Star Trek: Voyager

In Star Trek: Voyager, the titular spaceship needs 70 years to make the 70,000-light-year trip back home. Today's spacecraft would take 300 MILLION years to travel the same distance. CRACKED.COM

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Andy Griffith

The Andy Griffith Show CRACKED CO The world was introduced to Andy Griffith in an episode of The Danny Thomas Show. Thomas takes time off from being a good comedian and terrible father to get arrested in the small town of Mayberry.

Disney

DISNEY PARKS FORCED PERFORMERS TO SHARE UNDERWEAR. THE RESULT: PUBIC LICE AND SCABIES. Finally, in 2001, workers were assigned individual undergarment

Shuffling a Deck of Cards

CRACKED SHUFFLING A DECK OF CARDS It's almost impossible to shuffle a deck of cards into the exact same order twice - it's like trying to arrange the same number of atoms as there are in our entire galaxy. So it's almost certain that every single shuffled deck of cards, ever, is unique.

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Neanderthals

NEANDERTHALS ACTUALLY HAD GREAT POSTURE. Neanderthals stood upright. The myth of the hunched knuckle- draggers came from one Neanderthal skeleton that
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The First Movie Studio

The first movie studio. 1893 CRACKED.COM Thomas Edison's New Jersey studio, The Black Maria, was built for about $600 to produce short films for the Kinetoscope.

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Central Park

CRACKEDCO COM New York's Central Park was man-made. In fact, certain buildings in New York were built before the plans to K create the park were even

Police Confessions

Getting a perp to confess doesn't mean they did it. Police interrogators are trained in techniques based on outdated science, which often result in false confessions. Some people confess to things they didn't do as a way to get out of the interrogation, thinking they'll be proven innocent later on. CRACKED.COM

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The NRA

A few hours after the tragic shooting in Aurora, the NRA obliviously tweeted this: CR American Rifleman Follow RA_Rifleman Good morning, shooters. Hap

Sculptures

BOSHAM CRACKED.GOM THE HEAD The origin of the 375-pound stone head found in a flowerbed was solved after 200 years. British archaeologists used 3D las

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