30 Random Bits of Trivia Spoken Repeatedly in Monotone Into Our Ear Instead of That Jaunty Hold Music

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30 Random Bits of Trivia Spoken Repeatedly in Monotone Into Our Ear Instead of That Jaunty Hold Music
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Don’t you hate that feeling when a human operator comes on the line after you’ve been on hold for like two hours? No? That’s strange, because we sure do. 

Maybe it’s because we’re a random fact-based company, but every company we deal with on a regular basis spouts random facts instead of playing elevator music while we’re on hold. It makes our jobs so much easier. 

Here’s what we transcribed today — before that confounded operator picked up and ruined everything!

Peter Rabbit

Peter Rabbit is a fairly cautionary children's. story. It was banned in London in 1985. The Tale Of Peter Rabbit wasn't banned because of its disconce

Food Prep

93 hours and 11 minutes to make 100 pots of food? That's one way to make history. Nigerian cook Hilda Effiong Bassey, also known as Hilda Baci, set a Guinness World Record for the longest individual cooking marathon. She cooked over 100 adidas SALE pots of traditional (COKATH) Nigerian food for a whopping 93 hours and 11 minutes. CRACKED

Books

Someone returned a book 81 years late (with a bad review). A book was returned to a library in Washington that had been checked out 81 years earlier. The person who borrowed it wrote on the inside cover, I wouldn't read this book even if I was paid to. CRACKED

Texas Police

In Texas, police arrested a woman who asked What are you going to do, arrest me? She was at a bank and refused to either wear a mask or leave and, when police showed up, that's what she asked them. CRACKED.COM

Texas

A Texas man tried to buy a car in an ingenious (and unites Baseball criminal) way. father son Не loaned a car from a dealership while they finalized the sale of another car to him, then drove to a bank and robbed it. annel Then he went back and used the stolen money as downpayment for the car. CRACKED.COM

The Moon

Scientists want to build a giant sperm and egg storehouse unites on the moon. Baseuall father son Ka-Band Antenna Solar PV (Communications) (Power Supply) Airlock Elevator Shafts Preservation Pit Analysis Laboratory Cryo-Preservation Modules According to the proposal from six University of Arizona researchers, 6.7 million species' sperm and egg samples would be stored in a vault beneath the surface of the moon as insurance against a global catastrophe. es CRACKED.COM

Newfoundland

There's only one place outside of Ireland with an indigenous Irish language name. It's Newfoundland, and it's called Talamh an Éisc, meaning land of the fish - it was named that by fishermen who emigrated there in the 18th century. CRACKED.COM

Picasso

Pablo Picasso was once the prime suspect in the theft of the Mona Lisa. The painting was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, and Picasso and his friends were considered suspects - and Picasso even went on trial. CRACKED.COM

Sheep

Sheep didn't always need to be sheared - that's the result of human intervention. Humans bred sheep for thick wool coats, which means they now regularly have to be sheared or they'll overheat. CRACKED.COM

Oregon

In 1967, Oregon passed a bill to make all beaches public property. That was in response to a motel owner who'd fenced off part of the beach for his motel - the bill made the entire beach up to the line of vegetation public no matter the underlying property rights. CRACKED.COM

Cactuses

The saguaro cactus only grows its first branch between the ages of 50 and 70. That happens at Saguaro National Park, but in drier areas, it can happen at age 100. Its lifespan is generally considered to be 150-170 years, but some biologists estimate it can live up to 200 years. CRACKED.COM

Dolphins

Dolphins can actually breathe through their mouths - we thought they couldn't. We found this out in 2016, when a dolphin with an injured blowhole learned successfully to breathe through its mouth. CRACKED.COM

Cosmetics

We've discovered intact Roman cosmetics older than 2,000 years. في MY COLOUR LOOSE MINERAL POWDER MATTEFRIDH OIL FREE Z The cream was totally undisturbed - so much so that even the original owner's fingerprints were still visible. CRACKED.COM

Henry Ford

CRACKED.COM Henry Ford was a certified moron (as proven in court). Ford was good with machines, but not much more. When a newspaper called him ignorant, he took them to court for libel - and then proceeded to make a complete fool out of himself on the stand. Не said, among other howlers, that Benedict Arnold was a writer.

Chiropractors

CRACKED.COM Chiropractic was dreamed up by a 19th-century quack. Daniel David Palmer disbelieved germs and strongly opposed vaccinations. His idea of treating disease by manipulating bones was revealed to him, he said, by the spirit of a dead doctor. Oh, and he totally expected chiropractic to become a new religion.

Frogs

CRACKED.COM Nope, a frog won't let itself be boiled. When trying to make a point, people often bring up this froggy experiment which was done by... someone or other. It is a real experiment, though, done in 1869 by German scientist Friedrich Goltz - who first removed the frog's brain. That feels like an important detail.

Krypton

CRACKED.COM VATHLO ISLAND-- HOME OF HIGHLY DEVELOPED BLACK RACE Krypton was racially segregated. In the early '70s, DC Comics decided to address the fact that their comics were blindingly white - so they introduced Vathlo Island, where all black Kryptonians lived. Condescendingly describing them as a highly developed black race didn't help matters.

Cleopatra

The name 'Cleopatra' was popular for female royalty in Egypt. CRACKED.COM There are seven princesses with the name that sat on the throne. The last among them, Cleopatra VII, is the most famous, thanks to her romantic dalliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.

Manhattan

With 8% interest, the amount supposedly paid to the Native Americans for Manhattan could buy it back today. CRACKED COM If the Native Americans real- ly did sell Manhattan to the Europeans for $16 in the 1600s, today it would be worth enough for them to buy back all of Manhattan and still have $222 Trillion dollars left over.

Valentine’s Day

On Valentine's day in Japan, women give their male coworkers chocolate. CRACKED.COM Unpopular coworkers receive cheap gi- ri-choko (ultra-oblig- atory chocolate) while others receive honmei-choko (true feeling chocolate).

Cannabis

A cannabis shroud was discovered in a 2,400-year-old tomb. CRACKED.COM Discovered in 2016, this was the first incidence of a cannabis burial shroud. The tomb also contained 13 complete cannabis plants, suggesting that it was locally grown along the Silk Road.

Explosions

A discarded cigarette caused one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever. GRAGKED.COM The Texas City disaster of 1947 is generally considered to be the worst industrial acci- dent in U.S. history and resulted in nearly 600 fatalities.

Faxes

Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete their ink cartridges. office fax Cupalateice - - - - TEAM - SAMSUNG - - Modo Ral Risoluzione Contriette - Faciente Ink - SF-100 In evolution Repporto ANC - Auto 1 2 3 Ricenca/Volume Fax Inkjet - ANO Apr/l CRACKED COM 4 5 6 - Anonymous has a long his- tory of messing with the Church, including creating a Google bomb so that a search for dangerous cult would yield the main Scientology site at the top of the results page.

The Civil War

A Civil War General spied on the opposing side by cross dressing. CRACKED COM Brigadier General Na- thaniel Lyon successful- ly spied on a Confeder- ate camp dressed as a woman, complete with a bonnet and veil to hide his facial hair.

World War II

The US military tried to segregate pubs in England during WWII, but it backfired. - Ю 340 white I I THE ALEX LE GRAGKED.COM Bamber Bridge hosted American servicemen, and when the white officers de- manded one pub be desig- nated for black service- men, the locals made all the town's pub for Black soldiers only in protest.

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five was inspired by his time serving in WWII. CRACKED.COM After being captured by Germans during the Battle of the Bulge, he was a POW in Dresden and sur- vived the bombing of the city by hiding in a meat locker in a slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned.

Einstein

Albert Einstein wasn't interested in accepting his Nobel Prize. CRACKED.COM Не never received a Nobel Prize for relativity, and he did not attend his prize giving for services to theoretical physics. Не chose to contin- ue with a lecture tour of Ja- pan because he simply no longer valued it.

Antarctica

Antarctica used to be called Australia until modern-day Australia stole its name in 1824. CRACKED.COM Before this, Australia was called New Hol- land. This left the con- tinent nameless for 65 years, until its current name was adopted in the 1890s.

Oxygen

Most organisms on the planet were wiped out due to too much oxygen. CRACKED.COM Around 2.5 billion years ago, the Oxygen catastro- phe occurred, where the first microbes producing oxygen using photosynthe- sis created more free оху- gen than most life was ac- customed to.

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