26 Random Bits of Trivia We Scraped Off the Grill After the BBQ

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26 Random Bits of Trivia We Scraped Off the Grill After the BBQ
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You can’t hear it, but we’re ringing the dinner bell right now. One big juicy knowledge roast just came off the grill, and every brain in here is salivating. While it’s resting in the lunch room, we went back to scrape every bit of gristle off the grill because we can’t let a single morsel go to waste. 

Ugh! Everyone just devoured the roast as we were typing this dumb little blurb! Good thing we snagged this plate of gristle. 

Here, unlike our ravenous coworkers, we’ll share a few nibbles with you…

Being Yourself at Work

It's healthier and more productive to be yourself at work | Research shows that expressing your non-visible stigmitized identity in the workplace results in improved job satisfaction, decreased work anxiety, and increased commitment to the job. CRACKED.COM

Pepsi

While expanding into China, Pepsi unknowingly made a creepy promise to consumers in the form of biblical miracles. TRADE PEPSI MARK The company's popular tag line, Come alive with the Pepsi Generation was interpreted as Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead. CRACKED.COM

Dead Pope

CRACKED.COM A Dead Pope was put on trial For political reasons, Pope Stephen VI really had it out for his predecessor's predecessor, Pope Formosus, and accused him of all kinds of pope- ish crimes. In 897, Stephen had Formosus' rotting corpse carried to the courtroom, where he angrily interrogated him in front of the bewildered clergy.

The First On-Screen Toilet Flush

The first toilet flush. 1960 ertogether erent- PE een VERA itement!!! COM Alfred Hitchcock was the only man brave enough to imply that someone would go #1 or #2 before taking a shower, when he made Marion Crane flush the toilet at the start of the infamous shower scene in Psycho.

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The Hatfield-McCoy Feud

A rare genetic condition probably stoked the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Several descendants of the McCoys were found to have von Hippel-Lindau disease, which causes adrenal tumors that make you short-tempered and violent. So, at least on the McCoy side, the feud was probably fuelled by tumors pressing on the adrenal glands of those involved. CRACKED.COM

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World War II Codebreakers

In the US, 70% of codebreakers were women . 11,000 women were in the Army and Navy as codebreakers. In 1944, they intercepted 30,000 water-transport messages a month, enabling the Navy to sink almost every transport ship to the South Pacific. CRACKED.COM

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Fish Blood

A protein found in fish blood is used in making low-fat ice cream. The protein lowers the temperature needed for forming ice crystals, so less cream or fat is needed (they make the protein from yeast, not fish). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Rihanna

Rihanna CRACKEDCO An Australian interviewer pestered her about, essentially, how much it sucks to be tied to Chris Brown in the eye of the public. She kept extremely cool, saying It's very frustrating. Almost as frustrating as being asked about it.

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Olbers’ Paradox

If there are infinite stars in the sky, why is the night sky still dark? OLBERS' PARADOX If the universe is static, then how would we not see some sta

Alison Sweeny

Former Days of Our Lives star, Alison Sweeny claims she and her husband keep their marriage alive by giving each other a yearly job evaluation over

Amazonia Barbie

AMAZONIA WOULD BARBIE LOST IN FEEL THE ACTUAL AMAZON. You'd have to travel the Amazon for years to find the one person Amazonia Barbie was inspired by

Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan recommends eating cookies while you're having seX. They suggest eating them off your partner's breasts, eating them from your partner's m

Commercial Fighter Jet Flights

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