40 Pricey Bits of Trivia That We Bought at A Store and Shared Online Like Some Listicle Version of Napster

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40 Pricey Bits of Trivia That We Bought at A Store and Shared Online Like Some Listicle Version of Napster

In the music, TV and movie realms, file sharing was quite the controversial topic back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Some creators were like, “Hey, you’re getting free copies of our work that you should be paying for,” while others were like, “Sweet, our work is getting out there to a massive audience that we weren’t able to reach before.” 

The facts luckily stayed out of this mess. No one has ever been pissy about sharing facts. Well, except spies, government agencies, KFC and Coca-Cola. They don’t really want their plans and recipes out there now do they? 

Other than that, though, share away!

Victorian Christmas

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, or a clown with a poker attacking a policeman's butt. CRACKED.COM

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Fergie

Fergie's voice is a big part of the Black-eyed Peas. And it used to be a big part of Peanuts. When she was nine, Fergie voiced Sally in two classic Pe

Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison said his parents were dead. They were alive-he just didn't like them much. Morrison's father did eventually try to mend the rift, reaching out to the singer and writing a supportive letter to a parole board after he was arrested for indecent exposure. CRACKED.COM

Winter Olympics

ELIZABETH SWANEY BECAME AN OLYMPIC ATHLETE THANKS TO A LOOPHOLE. Swaney can't do any freestyle skiing tricks. She just shows up to events with few qua

Times Square

NOT 2018 TOSHIBA HAPPY NEW YEAS TOSHIBA OTOK RAPPY NEW YEAR A major building in Times Square is empty. It's the building where they drop the New Year's Ball - One Times Square. There's one tenant: a Walgreens on the ground floor. The building has been used as a gigantic, vacant advertising stand since 1992. It makes $23 million a year. CRACKED.COM

Henri Poincare

+ax =x Henri Poincaré was the foremost expert on relativity in the late 19th century and was a most likely the first person to formally present the 2 theory of 1200111+ 120 relativity. To.ad Despite having read his work, Albert Einstein does not cite Poincaré at all. CRACKED.COM adx Vely 1200

World War I

As many as 20,000 dogs were trained to serve in World War 1, from running messages to seeking out wounded. MICHAEL Roughly 7,000 of these were actually retrained family pets. And they thought going to the vet was bad. CRACKED.COM

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Wine

MYTH8 THE OLDER THE WInE, THE BETTER IT IS. FACT8 MOST wInes ARe BEST WITHIN A YEAR OR TWO OF BOTTLING. There are some rare exceptions, but most wines

Flanderization

NED FLANDERS became the face of Flanderization THE SIMPSONS CRACKED.COM Flanderization: The act of taking a single (often minor) trait of a character and exaggerating it over time until it completely consumes the character, In Ned's case, his genial level-headedness was swallowed by a hyper-focus on his devout Christian faith.

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Bats

Vampire bats smell heat. CRACKED.COM They can sniff out the juiciest vein to chomp into using heat sensors located inside their nostrils.

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