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36 Curdled Bits of Trivia We Found at the Bottom of the Leftover Eggnog From Christmas

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36 Curdled Bits of Trivia We Found at the Bottom of the Leftover Eggnog From Christmas

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Okay, so a mystery chunk in any sip can be pretty off-putting, but what if we told you that this funky little blob came with a knowledge-rich fact?

Take it from us. If you manage to force down these slimy mouthfuls, you’re sure to be the smartest person in the public restroom you just hustled to. Your tummy might hate you, but your brain will thank you forever.

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Crocodiles

Crocodiles can gallop at 11 miles per hour. GRACKED COM crocodiles have the full range of quadru- pedal footfall patterns used by mammals, meaning that they have the ability to gal- lop like a horse.

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Citibank

CRACKED CITIBANK Citibank made a mistake and accidentally sent $900 million to the wrong people, and the lenders refused to return the money. The lenders were taking advantage of the situation due to a longer running saga between them and Revlon, the company that borrowed the money.

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Chamber Pots

CRACKED COM Chamber pots were used by our ancestors to ease their burden and - to PARSENGERS DO NEE THIS DER - TEXA now are sold to collectors for prices high as $3870. — Source

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Charlie Chaplin

A deaf friend helped Charlie Chaplin pantomime techniques. CRACKED.COM Chaplin asked his friend Granville Redmond to help him develop the tech- niques Chaplin later used in his silent films. Chaplin even gave Redmond a stu- dio on the movie lot for his paintings. — Source

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The Amish

The Amish actually celebrate Christmas twice in a two-week period. The first celebration is on Dec 25, and the second one on Jan 6 - Christmas used to be celebrated all over the world on Jan 6 until relatively recently, and the Amish kept that tradition (but also took on the new one). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Space

It would only take one hour to drive to space. CRACKED.COM If we had the vehicle to do so, driving straight up from the Earth's surface at a leisurely 60 MPH would end with us float- ing in outer space just an hour later. — Source

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes 24 hours apart. Presumed dead after the second, he emerged from the jungle with a bottle of gin & some bananas. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ghosts

SKY FULL OF GHOSTS CRACKED.COM In 1802, William Herschel discovered that a telescope is like a time machine. The sun's light takes just over 8 mins to reach us, so when we look at the sun, we see it as it was 8 mins ago. Не stated, Some stars are so far away that by the time their light reaches Earth, they are already dead. We see their light, but their bodies perished long ago. — Source

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The Human Brain

-You-use-10% of your brain. It's a common misconception that we only use 10% of our brains. In reality, research has shown that we use almost all of our brain, and that most of it is active most of the time. CRACKED — Source

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Medieval Lifespan

Medieval Lifespan i'm fine CRACKED.COM No, medieval people didn't all die before the age of 40. The average lifespan from that time is just that: an average. One that's heavily skewed by high child mortality rates. Plenty of people lived well past 30, allowing them to fully appreciate Steely Dan. — Source

26

Peter Frampton

Peter Frampton stormed off during a concert when a cameraman ruined his solo. IRDS A At a concert in Minnesota, the musician known for Baby, I Love Your Way (and snatching cell phones out of fans' hands) took great offense when the overhead screen showed a woman in the crowd holding up his album Frampton Comes Alive while he was playing. And when the screen showed the same woman holding up his I'm In You album, he cursed into the camera, accosted the operator, and walked off mid-performance. CRACKED.COM — Source: 11 Supernova-Grade Celeb Meltdowns

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NASA

CRACKED.COM NASA only uses 15 digits of П =3.141592653 7932384626 For the highest accuracy calculations, NASA only needs to use 3.141 59265358979. Even when doing calculations for the circumference of a circle with a radius of 46 billion light years (the entire visible universe) to an accuracy equal to the diameter of the simplest atom, you would only need 39 or 40 decimal places — Source: 12 Out-Of-This-World NASA Facts

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Tickling

Being tickled triggers a defense mechanism. When we're being tickled, the part of the brain that anticipates pain is trig- gered.We might strike at whoever is tickling us or we might laugh, which is a sign of submission. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Daily Mail

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Minerals

Fingerite is one of the rarest of all minerals. A vanadium/ copper compound, it's only been found on the slopes of a single mountain: lzalco Volcano,

22

Cabbage Patch Kids Preemies

CRACKEDCON THAN A CUDDLIER WHAT'S BABY? A PREMATURE BABY! In a misguided attempt at... well, something, Coleco released preemie Cabbage Patch Kids in

21

Ivy League

A teen managed to get an Ivy League education, in multiple universities, for free. CRACKED.COM A teenager named Guil- laume Dumas snuck into Ivy League schools over 4 years, gaining free education from Yale, Brown, Stanford and many others.

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China

China CRACKED.COM Flipping the fish may sound like weird poker slang, but it's actually exactly what it sounds like, and it's considered bad luck in China. Much like a port-a-potty, everyone would prefer you leave it right-side-up, as delivered.

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Calvin Harris

Calvin Harris BR WA Adam Wiles' motives for a name change are rather questionable... he wanted a more racially ambiguous name when he first released a soul track. CRACKED.COM

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Cooking

MYTH: TO keep YOUR meAT MOIST, YOU neeD TO SEAR IT. FACT: SEARING Doesn'T LOCK in JUICES. Searing meat doesn't do a thing to keep juices inside. When you sear your steak, you're actually creating a tougher crust on the outside of the cut, which makes the inside seem juicier by comparison. Alton Brown did an experiment and found that seared meat is actually less moist than meat that's been cooked to the same temperature but not seared. CRACKED.COM http://www. cookthink.com/reference/7/Does_searing_meat_really_seal_in_moisture — Source

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Donkey Kong

The DK Rap was created as a joke for Donkey Kong 64, and the creator hates it. DK CRACKED COM Grant Kirkhope, the composer of Donkey Kong 64, is still embar- rassed by the DK Rap and in 2010 said he still gets made fun of at Big Huge Games for it.

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Orcas

A pod of orcas hunted cooperatively with early Australian whalers under a law of the tongue. The orcas would corral and locate baleen whales in re- turn for the tongues and lips of captured whales. The arrangement ended when one of the orcas was accidentally killed. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Jack London

Jack London Was a Full-On Genocide Enthusiast GRACKED.COM Plenty of writers have shown their whole racism in their stories, and London definitely did, but he also wrote an essay for Anglo-American Magazine explicitly hailing the An- glo-Saxon race as the one of mas- tery and achievement and dismiss- ing genocide as natural selection. Apparently, his beef with white stuff ended at snow. — Source

14

Paint

A new whitest-ever paint may cool buildings The paint reflects 98% of sunlight into space. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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American Dates

GRACKED AMERICAN DATES ARE CONFUSING. 12 17 18 19 24 25 Americans write the month, the day, then the year, but pretty much every other country writes the day first, then the month, then the year. So 06/03/1985 is June 3rd, 1985 in the U.S., but the 6th of March, 1985 everywhere else. — Source

12

Jacklyn Lucas

CRACKED TWO GRENADE EXPLOSIONS AGAINST THE BODY At just 17 years old, Jack Lucas became the youngest person to ever receive the Medal of Honor in WWII. Не was given the award for his heroic act of throwing himself on two Japanese grenades to save the lives of three of his fellow Marines. — National WW2 Museum

11

Brian Wilson

BRIAN WILSON is afraid of surfing Wilson, of the Beach Boys, has said that he was scared of the sea when he was young and only tried surfing once, which ended with him getting hit on the head by the board. Not much of a beach boy after all, really. CRACKED — TDC Photography/Shutterstock,
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10

Space Corned Beef

A corned beef sandwich was smuggled into space. Astronaut John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich into space aboard the Gemini 3 mission. Не hid the sandwich in his spacesuit pocket and shared it with the other crew members. NASA banned smuggled sandwiches from future missions. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Now-You-Know Facts That Sat On Our Chests Like A Sleep Paralysis Demon

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World War II

Russians used a biplane during WWII that was purposefully slow. 28 The Polikarpov Po - 2, used on the Eastern Front, was so slow that its maximum speed was the stall speed of Ger- man planes, making it hard to target. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Russia Beyond

8

Henry Ford

Henry Ford couldn't read blueprints. Не built machines by hand, without a design. CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Geniuses Who Are Surprisingly Stupid (In One, Glaring Way)

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Stunt Doubles

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY'S PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN STUNT DOUBLE... LISA HOYLE. MOST DANGEROUS STUNT: I did a 93-foot fall for the Charlie's Angels movie. It ended up on the cutting room floor, but it was the highest high fall I've done. NOTABLE MOVIES/.TV SHOWS: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, American Horror Story, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Emma Stone's stunt double in Zombieland. CRACKED.COM — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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Harry Potter

The clock tower Harry Potter flew over has a fancy apartment. Inside the St. Pancras clock tower, there's an apartment with ridiculously high ceilings and two bedrooms. Unfortunately, since it's literally on top of a train station, neither bedroom can give you a good night's sleep. CRACKED.COM — 17 Unknown Secrets In Well-Known Landmarks

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Long John Silver’s

Peg Leg Chicken was a drumstick. CRACKED.COM Long John Silver's tried to crawl from the sea onto land in the 70's and 80's by offering a fried drumstick. Wait - is that supposed to be... Long John Silver's missing leg??? — 15 Fast Food “Innovations” That Were Just… Regular Food

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Marching Bands

Southern Utah State's marching band bought Nixon's abandoned White House guard uniforms for $90. In January 1970, Richard Nixon unveiled wildly unpopular uniforms for the White House guards, which were quickly retired and sold off to the college marching band. CRACKED.COM — Source: Washington Monthly

3

Rare Books

Wearing white gloves while handling rare books is actually bad for them Cotton gloves can catch on degraded paper. Clean hands are the ideal way to handle books. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: National Trust

2

Geena Davis

Geena Davis used to be a live mannequin. One day while working at a clothing store, Davis decided to pose as a mannequin in the store's window display

1

Eyeballs

This looks like a lake in a canyono It's your eyeball. This is a real photograph of a human eye, via electron microscope. The blue part is the pupil,

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