31 Random Bits of Trivia That Were Delayed Several Times Before Ultimately Being Canceled

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31 Random Bits of Trivia That Were Delayed Several Times Before Ultimately Being Canceled
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Martin Luther King Jr.

While attending Crozer Theological Seminary, Dr. Martin Luther King received a с in public speaking. CRACKED.COM King is widely known as one of history's greatest orators, but that particular skill might not have come so naturally to him.

Cambodia

Angkor Wat in Cambodia is the largest religious structure in the world. CRACKED.COM It is at least 3.5 times bigger than the Vatican City. It was built for the Hindu god Vishnu by the Khmer King Suryavar- man II in the period 1113-50.

Clever Hans

A stallion nicknamed Clever Hans impressed Germany with his math skills in 1891. CRACKED.COM It was later discovered that he was deducing an- swers, including basic square roots, by reading the subtle, unintentional body language cues of the asker.

Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin snuck sacramental bread and wine onto the Moon. CRACKED.COM This was the first food consumed on the Moon. Aldrin kept it a secret due to lawsuits filed by Amer- ican Atheists over the Genesis reading on Christmas 1968.

Female Hangingflies

Female hangingflies demand a food gift before a male can mate with her. CRACKED.COM The bigger the gift, the longer it takes for her to eat it, and thus the longer she'll allow the male to mate with her.

Civil War

A Civil War veteran killed himself with a homemade guillotine. GRAGKED.COM Farmer, self-proclaimed inventor and Civil War veteran James Moon got a hotel room in Lafayette, carrying an ах and iron plates. Не was found be- headed the next day.

New York City

Until 1953, New York City had a pneumatic tube mail network. CRACKED.COM It spanned 27 miles and connected 23 post offices. At its peak, the system moved 95,000 let- ters a day.

William McKinley

President William McKinley wore a red carnation in his lapel at all times as a good luck charm. CRACKED.COM During a public meeting in his second term, he took out the flower from his la- pel and gave it to a 12-year-old girl. Minutes later, he was shot. Не died a week later.

Gin

Gin and tonic started off as an anti-malaria cocktail. CRACKED.COM British colonials in India used gin to cover the bitter taste of tonic water, which was initially marketed as a means of delivering qui- nine to consumers in order to offer anti-malarial pro- tection.

Deer

A deer was caught munching on human remains in the woods. GRAGKED.COM Researchers from Texas State University left a hu- man corpse on a 26-acre woodland site to study how human bodies decom- pose in the wild, and end- ed up capturing the first image of this behavior.

Brazil

Brazil was a monarchy until Crown Princess Isabel signed a law emancipating all slaves in Brazil in 1888. GRACKED.COM This move was so un- popular among the rich plantation owners that the imperial fami- ly was deposed in a military coup.

Hong Kong

A Hong Kong dairy farm makes 4,000 bottles of milk a day despite not having any cows. CRACKED.COM Hong Ning Dairy hasn't had a license to keep cattle since 2008, so instead the workers haul huge bags of formula to the processing plant to produce dairy beverages.

Scanners

YOU CAN'T TRICK A SCANNER WITH A SEVERED HAND ID POSITIVE Biometric scanners check the capillary flow through your hand, not just the palm print. CRACKED.COM

Organic Food

МУТН: ORGANIC FOOD IS ALWAYS BETTER. Organic food has not been found to be significantly healthier than non-organic and eating the recommended servings of fruits and veggies is more important than how it is grown. CRACKED COM

Black Holes

The largest black hole ever found shines with the brightness of a hundred trillion stars. CRACKED.COM TON 618 is a hyperlumi- nous quasar that possesses an ultramassive black hole that consumes galaxies' worth of matter. It is great- er than the mass of all the stars in the Milky Way gal- аху combined.

Caves

Three caves with triangular openings sit atop a mountain in China. And they're filled with pipes of unknown origin. Some of the Baigong pipes go deep into the mountain. Some of them go into a nearby saltwater lake. There are more pipes in the lake, and more still running east-west along the lake shore. The pipes are ancient, and there are no residents, let alone modern industry, in the area. CRACKED.COM http://www.rense.com/general29/chin.htm

Operation

The patient featured in the game Operation is named Cavity Sam. the ELECTRO PROBE Не is presumably named after what cardiologists call SAM (Systolic Anterior Motion), an ailment that occurs in a ventricular cav- ity of the heart. Why not just Sam, Hasbro? Why Cavity? WHY CAVITY? CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Plastic Shopping Bags

Americans use and dispose of 100,000,000,000 plastic shopping bags each year. If the average bag is around 12 inches in length, laying them end to end would stretch around the equator... Twice. Per day. Weinurt CRACKED.COM

Cocaine

Individually, Americans use more cocaine than any other country. The percentage of users in America is only a tenth of a percent higher than Brazil, but Americans use 36% of the world's cocaine, compared to Brazil's 18%. CRACKED.COM

Bloggers

Chestnut Ridge, New York The blogger who killed her son and blogged about it Lacey Spears slowly poisoned her kid with salt, and blogged about him falling ill due to natural causes. Doctors believe she has Munchausen by proxy syndrome. CRACKED.COM

Spoiled Rich Kids

A kid got off easy for being a spoiled rich brat. 100 In 2013, 16-year-old Ethan Couch plowed his truck into a group of people, killing four and injuring nine. His father's defense team argued that he had affluenza, that is, he was too rich to know any better. Judge Jean Boyd agreed, and sent him to rehab instead of prison. CRACKED

Paintings

CRACKED Flemish artist Clara Peeters' Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels features another incredibly subtle self-portrait - Peeters painted with such accuracy that she included herself reflected in the rim of the jug.

Oregon

In 1942, Nobuo Fujita fire- bombed Brookings, Oregon. The city went on to make him an honorary citizen. Fujita was actually the only wartime enemy to bomb the American mainland. The fire he caused was minor, but enough to make him an enemy of the U.S. However, during the 1960s, the Brookings Junior Chamber of Commerce invited him back to celebrate their upcoming Azalea Festival. Fujita offered to relinquish his 400-year-old family samurai sword to the city as an act of final surrender. Не was welcomed with open arms by a cheering crowd. CRACKED.COM articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-07-18/features/8801150945_1_bombs-fires-japanese-pilot

Radiohead

In his spare time, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood raises chickens. In an interview with music mag Uncut, he's complained about foxes. We get foxes every few years and it all goes a bit 'crime scene' when that happens - lots of burials. CRACKED.COM

Popularity

People who are popular in school earn more money as adults. Scientists conducted a long-term survey where they interviewed high school students, then tracked them down 35 years later. They found that kids in the top fifth of the popularity rankings earned 10% more than those who were in the bottom fifth. CRACKED.COM

Photos

GENUINE PHOTOS CAN STILL MISLEAD YOU. A factor as simple as the camera angle can influence whether you view a person as strong or weak, trustworthy or deceitful, or even harmless or menacing. Plus, photos can be cropped to remove important context that helps readers understand what's going on. CRACKED COM

Sonic the Hedgehog

CRACKED.COM Sonic the Hedgehog 6 RA What was the UPIAL UPST first game featuring Sonic? That's right - it was Rad Mobile. This racing game, which had a little Sonic as a rear view mirror ornament, was released a few months before Sonic the Hedgehog.

Chameleons

Chameleon Camouflage u up? CRACKED.COM Turns out the reason everyone wants to get bitten by a radioactive chameleon isn't that accurate. Chameleons can change color, but it's more for reflecting heat on sunny days, or letting other chameleons know they're horny.

Beer

CRACKED OBSCUREJOBS BEER ARCHEOLOGIST Beer archeologists bring back old recipes, like a beer that was popular with Vikings that has juniper branches and baker's yeast, a Peruvian drink made with chewed corn and saliva, or George Washington's favorite porter.

The Second City

Comedy hotbeds THE SECOND CITY CHiCAGO With top notch sketch and improv, it was basically an SNL farm system. Bill Murray, Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Chris Farley, Bill Hader, and many more began at the Chicago branch. Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert started there too. CRACKED

Bruce Lee

Did you know that BRUCE LEE was a dancing champion, as well as a martial arts one? Не won the Hong Kong Cha Cha Championship in his teens, shortly before moving to San Francisco. CRACKED.COM

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