36 Random Bits of Trivia That Are Visiting the Plot for Their Final Resting Place and Like What They See

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36 Random Bits of Trivia That Are Visiting the Plot for Their Final Resting Place and Like What They See

If you can view an apartment that you’ll only spend a couple years of your life in, then it only makes sense to check out your cemetery plot before the final lay down. 

Well, these facts are confident enough to know that they’ll be in your brain forever, so they got up in there to take a look around before you even got here. Hopefully you don’t take that as an invasion of privacy. They do love it in there, so it really is a huge compliment!

Yawning

Contagious yawning is linked to empathy. As such, psychopaths are not susceptible to it, as they lack empathy for others. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Birds

Owls and Crows hate each other. Some owls eat crows, so the crows team up and hunt owls with a vengeance. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Japan

In Japan, a smorgasbord is called a Viking. A Japanese hotel manager introduced the smorgasbord to an elite Tokyo hotel in the late '50s, but the name was a tongue-twister, so he wanted to call it something else --he picked Viking after the 1958 Kirk Douglas movie The Vikings, a smash hit in Japan that had a big feast scene. The name stuck. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

New York City

An elderly New York man was paid $17 million to move out of a moldy old apartment. The new property the developers built It was on top of the Mayflower hotel, and developers who bought the hotel had to buy him (and three other residents) out. The payout was by far the highest price ever paid to a single tenant in the city of New York. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Python Programming Language

The Python programming x language wasn't named after a snake. Monty Python's ENT M XY PIA ING CIRCUS It was named after Monty Python's Flying Circus, and referencing the show in Python documentation is not just allowed but encouraged. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Nickelodeon

Two movies had a bidding war over Who Let The Dogs Out back when it was released. Nickelodeon wanted to use it for Rugrats in Paris, and Disney wanted it for 101 Dalmatians. Nickelodeon won by paying for the music video and giving the band, The Baha Men, a live concert special. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Lions

Lions used to be the most widespread mammal on the planet. Lions ranged from Great Britain, to Russia, to California - their dominance only ended around 12,000 years ago, probably because early tool-using humans out-competed them as hunters. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Absinthe

Absinthe isn't more dangerous than similar strength alcohols. It doesn't have any hallucinogenic properties. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Cher Ami

Cher Ami was a carrier pigeon who delivered a message after being shot through the chest During World War I, the U.S. carrier pigeon delivered messages in France. Her final, deadly heroic journey saved 194 soldiers who had been isolated from other American forces. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Cruises

Cruise ships have on-board morgues Cruise ships have morgues to keep dead bodies cold until they can be transported. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Bitcoin

Bitcoin's rise from $150 to $1000 was probably due to just one person. NON B NTAR IZEIZ That's the conclusion of a study that looked at trades happening when the price jumped - t they were done by two bots that didn't even own the BTC they traded. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Helium

A helium balloon on the moon would plunge to the ground Without air to rise above, the helium might as well be lead. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Astronauts

Astronauts are really into watching space disaster movies on the ISS. They have movie nights on the ISS, and they watch movies on a screen and projector - they love sci-fi and disaster movies set in space, like Apollo 13. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Ticks

A tick bite can make you allergic to red meat (and other mammal products). It took scientists a decade to pin down the cause of what's called alpha-gal allergy and makes you allergic even to, say, a wool sweater. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Meteors

Dinosaurs died out because the meteor that killed them came 30 seconds early. If it hit the planet 30 seconds later, it would have fallen into the ocean, and its impact would have caused much, much less destruction. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Piracy

Turns out, the Mississippi River was surprisingly full of piracy back in the day. But things started to calm down in the 1820s, when steamboats grew more common - being faster and more secure, they weren't worth attacking. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Almond Milk

Almond milk seems like a new hipster thing, but it was big in the Middle Ages. People in medieval Europe considered it a delicacy and way better than milk - they used it in fancy meals as much as they used spices. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Westerns

The kind of quick-draw duel you see in Westerns almost never happened. The extremely famous one involving Bill Hickok is so famous because of its rarity - it's not at all a representative example of what people would do. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Egypt

Facial hair was surprisingly strictly regulated back in ancient Egypt. Men had to keep their beards, and couldn't even shave them - unless they happened to be in mourning. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Conception

The Volga River region of Russia held a 'Day of Conception' contest numerous times. Couples that gave birth nine months later, on June 12th, received money, cars, refrigerators and other prizes. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Apostrophe

The Apostrophe Protection Society stopped trying to ensure the proper use of the apostrophe and dissolved as an organization in 2019. on apostrophe the sign (') that yo to show that yo examp The founder stated that the ignorance and laziness present in modern times have won! NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Comcast

After six weeks of broken appointments by Comcast, Diana and Jason Airoldi finally got their internet and cable hooked up. 10/100/1000 PCH eth eth] eth0 1.2m 6-U/4 However, that only happened because a journalist knew how to contact the 92 year-old mother of Comcast's CEO. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Bill Paxton

When Bill Paxton died, storm chasers paid him a fitting tribute. They used GPS markers to make a giant BP (the Twister star's initials) across 3 states. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

A Bar at the Folies-Bergere

Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère is one of the first cases of product placement. The labels on the bar show that they're from Bass Brewery. Art critics believe it's a negative commentary on consumer culture. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Zildjian

The cymbal brand Zildjian was founded in the Ottoman Empire. Zildjian In 1618, alchemist Avedis Zildjian stumbled upon an excellent alloy for cymbal material (he was trying to make gold), and started a cymbal foundry that eventually grew into today's Zildjian company. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Diamonds

Diamonds very, very slowly turn into graphite (which pencils are made of). That's because the carbon atoms gradually settle into a lower-energy state - i.e. graphite. That happens on a time-scale of billions of years, so, for all intents and purposes, diamonds really are forever. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Ultramarine Blue

Ultramarine Blue pigment was more precious than gold in the 14th and 15th century Derived from the lapis lazuli stone, even the most famous artists needed wealthy patrons to buy it for them NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Lions

A lion's roar can get up to 115 decibels, or 25 times louder than a lawnmower. That's because lions (and tigers), unlike most other animals, have square vocal folds, which lets them use less lung pressure than those other animals to roar. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Oldest Known Turtle Shell

The oldest known turtle shell was discovered in a Polish landfill. CRACKED.COM A paleobiologist rooting around in some old garbage discovered a 215-million-year-old turtle shell fossil, among a ton of other extremely well-preserved marine life fossils.

The Haunted Library

The crooked librarian who still haunts his place of employment. CRACKED.COM Bertrand Dyer was the first librarian at the Kimberley Public Library in South Africa, and was caught running a pricing scam to make a little extra cash. Не died several days after swallowing arsenic in the aftermath of the scandal, and such a harrowing death is thought to be the reason he still haunts the halls of his library. No mention of whether he met and canoodled with Dan Aykroyd.

Greek Christmas Goblins

Greek Christmas goblins GRACKED.COM Kallikantzaroi are hairy little subterranean human-ish creatures with horns and tails, who burrow to the surface world to cause mischief during the 12 days of Christmas. Luckily, you can ward them off by burning smelly old shoes in your fireplace.

Honey-pots

Honey-Pots: the old victorian era game that ...doesn't sound very fun. CRACKED COM One player would curl up into the fetal position, and try to hold their body as tight as possible, while the other player picked them up and carried them around (as if they were carrying a big pot of honey home from the market). Children crave manual labor.

Wanderlust

Wanderlust may be genetic. CRACKED.COM The DRD4-7R variation in the dopamine receptor gene may be associated with a desire to travel. The 20 percent of people who exhibit the variation tend to live somewhere other than their place of birth and are also found more frequently the further you get from Africa, where human life is thought to have originated.

Dams

The Hoover Dam isn't stuffed with bodies (but another dam is). CRACKED.COM Fort Peck Dam in Montana broke in 1938, and the debris swept away eight people who had been sent to inspect it. Two of their bodies were recovered, but when the debris was recycled to make a replacement dam, the other six were almost definitely in there.

Gu Gu

Just stay out of Gu Gu's cage. CRACKED.COM Gu Gu the panda had three mauling incidents thanks to encroaching visitors: In 2006, a drunk guy jumped into his pen to cuddle him and had his legs gnawed. In 2007, a 15-year-old somehow got in there during feeding time and had his legs chomped. And in 2009, a guy once again jumped in there (this time, to retrieve a toy his kid had dropped). His legs? Chewed up real bad.

Boots

Before cars, boots were a must. CRACKED.COM Global warming is objectively worse, but pollution in the olden days was a lot more visible. When horses ruled the roads, those roads were slathered in manure. Boots were more than a fashion statement or rainy day gear; they were essential for not mashing horse dookie into your feet.

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