28 Unruly Bits of Trivia We’re Unloading on Your Doorstep Because Our Brains Have Had It Up to Here With Them

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28 Unruly Bits of Trivia We’re Unloading on Your Doorstep Because Our Brains Have Had It Up to Here With Them
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We hope you’re a lot more patient than we are, because these little facts will test you like no other. We’ve been at this a long time, and we’ve seen a million facts come and go, but something about this batch is just untamable. 

Usually, it’s just one class-clown type who gets the others all riled up, but for whatever reason, there are dozens of those bozos who found each other in here.

Air Conditioning

Air conditioning was invented as a way to keep printing plants going. In 1902, a printing company asked the Buffalo Forge Company to figure out a way to keep heat and humidity in the plant stable, so that the printing paper wouldn't keep getting warped. The result of that was the first air-conditioning system. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

School Baths

School baths were intended as a way to educate parents. Authorities in the early 20th century hoped that, if they taught kids to regularly bathe and clean themselves, they'd pass on those habits to their parents. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Peter the Great

Peter the Great punished state officials with vodka. If an official showed up late to one of his assemblies (AKA royal parties), he had to drink a whole Great Eagle Cup, or 50 oz. of vodka, all at once. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Rufus the Hawk

Rufus the Hawk has been employed by Wimbledon for 15 years to scare about pigeons. The All England Club em- ploys Rufus to patrol their 42-acre grounds through- out the year, with daily vis- its during the two weeks of The Championships and the 2012 Summer Olym- pics. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 over a book about code breaking. She wrote a novel in 1941 about WWII code breaking featuring a character named Major Bletchley, un- aware that there was a then-secret code-breaking facility in Bletchley Park. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Bees

Bees can't see red, and what we perceive as the color red is seen as black. However, they can see ultraviolet light. UV al- lows them to see vein-like patterns in a flower, like a map that allows them to locate the nectar source. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

King William II of England

King William II of England was shot through the lung with an arrow and left to die. After the accident, his body was aban- doned by the nobles, found by a peasant and returned to Win- chester Cathedral by farmers. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Archives of Terror

The Archives of Terror were found by accident by a lawyer and a judge in 1992. They were looking for files on a former prisoner in a police station near Paraguay and stumbled upon archives doc- umenting an international conspiracy involving the tor- ture, murder, and imprison- ment of 480,000 people. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Ricahrd the Lionheart

Richard the Lionheart knighted his cook after one particularly memorable feast. Richard made him 'lord of the fief of the kitchen of the counts of Poitou'. The cook was an important member of a noble house- hold because his mistakes could kill his employer. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

New Coke

New Coke was never confirmed to be a conspiracy to promote the relaunch of the original recipe. NEW! The return of the original formula as Coca-Cola Clas- sic was very successful. When asked if New Coke was a the soda, an execu- tive replied: We're not that dumb, and we're not that smart. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Boreout

A job can be so boring that it makes you sick. There is a psychological disorder called Boreout (Boredom burnout syn- drome), which can lead to psychological illnesses such as depression as well as physical illnesses. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

JFK

John F. Kennedy's dog had puppies with the offspring of a Soviet space dog. Strelka, who had spent a day aboard Sputnik 2, had a puppy that was present- ed to JFK in 1961. The dog, Pushinka, and Charlie, the White House dog, had four puppies that JFK referred to as pupniks. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Cannibal Sandwich

A Cannibal sandwich consisting of raw beef and onion on rye bread is a Milwaukee Christmas tradition. The tradition likely goes back to the northern Euro- peans who settled in the state, but has been waning in popularity, and the USDA has come out to say it is unsafe to eat the raw delicacy. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Marie Curie

A women's magazine led a crowdfunding campaign in 1921 to buy Marie Curie more radium. CRACKED.COM After a fundraising cam- paign led by American wom- en, Curie traveled to the United States to be present- ed with one gram of radium by President Warren Hard- ing on May 20, 1921.

Brains

A person with damage to the right brain hemisphere can develop a joke addiction. CRACKED.COM This a compulsive need to constantly make jokes. That's not what we have, though, we are just terri- fied of a single second of unoccupied silence that may force us to be intro- spective. Fart!

Mount Rushmore

There was going to be a secret chamber carved into Mount Rushmore. CRACKED.COM The sculptor, Gutzon Bor- glum, planned to make a secret room behind the hairline of Abraham Lin- coln leading to a chamber originally intended to hold some of America's most treasured documents.

Candy Crush

Candy Crush is a rip off of another game. andy GRACKED.COM SAG After his mom died, Albert Ransom learned to code and built an indie game called CandySwipe. Two years later, the near-iden- tical game Candy Crush Saga was released.

Ice Cream

Breyers cannot be called ice cream in Canada because it no longer contains enough milk and cream. CRACKED.COM As a result of excessive amounts of additives in their ice cream to cut costs, Canada determined their product must be la- beled Frozen Dairy Des- sert or Frozen Dessert.

Ketchup

Ketchup is a non-newtonian fluid. CRACKED.COM Unlike other such fluids, its viscosity actually lowers when a force is applied to it. This is why ketchup will often pour out in such large unintended quanti- ties after a little shake.

Rival Churches

Two rival churches in Vrontados, Greece shoot tens of thousands of fireworks at each other every Easter. CRACKED.COM Both churches then claim victory in the Rocket War, and agree to settle the score next year. The tradition dates back to the Ottoman era when real cannons were used instead.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Collecting stamps was a nearly lifelong passion for Franklin D. Roosevelt. CRACKED.COM When FDR contracted po- lio in 1921, he turned to his stamps as a distraction during his bedridden days. Не once said, I owe my life to my hobbies, espe- cially stamp collecting.

Steve Jobs

Most of Steve Jobs' wealth was from his shares in Disney, not Apple. GRACKED.COM Most of the fortune that Jobs passed onto his wife when he died of cancer in 2011 came from a stake of roughly 8% in Disney, ac- quired when he sold the animation studio he co-founded, Pixar, in 2006.

Plagues

The plagues of the middle ages have made around 10% of Europeans resistant to HIV. CRACKED COM These individuals carry a genetic mutation (known as CCR5-Ä32) that prevents the virus from entering the cells of the immune system. Plagues played a part in cre- ating these mutations.

The Pentagon

The Pentagon has kinetic fireball incendiaries made of rubberized rocket fuel. CRACKED.COM When ignited, they pro- pel themselves random- ly at high speed, bounc- ing off walls, smashing through doors, turning an entire building into an inferno.

Burglars

Three burglars snorted a man's ashes thinking it was cocaine. GRACKED.COM In 2010, the burglars thought that they had found a stash of cocaine while breaking into a wom- an's house in Central Flori- da. They ended up snort- ing the ashes of a man and his two great Danes.

Scandinavians

Scandinavians are adamant about letting their children nap outside. GRACKED.COM Parents report that ba- bies take longer and deeper naps when they sleep comfortably bun- dled up outside, even in cold weather.

The Royal Navy

There are facial hair restrictions in the Royal Navy for men with patchy beards. GRAGKED.COM A sailor in the British Royal Navy may only grow a beard if they can achieve a 'respect- able full enough beard' after two weeks' growth.

Law Enforcement’s Face Recognition Network

Half of American adults are in a law enforcement face recognition network. GENDER: FEMALE E pack AGE GROUP: YOUNG MOPICAL ETHNICITY: CAUCASIAN : - HUMAN BODY PART: HUMAN FACE 100000000000000000 TIME: 331 5 DETECTION: 25621 POINTS CRACKED COM Its use is almost com- pletely unregulated, as most agencies don't even require suspicion of crim- inal activity before using the database for identifi- cation.

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