33 Random Bits of Trivia We’re Telling Our Grandmother in the Hopes She Won’t Ask About Our Ex-Girlfriend

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33 Random Bits of Trivia We’re Telling Our Grandmother in the Hopes She Won’t Ask About Our Ex-Girlfriend
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If you have no idea where you are or what you’re doing after reading this list, it’s completely normal. Well, it’s obviously not “normal” that a random fact list can distract you to that degree, but all we’re saying is that it happens all the time. 

We’re used to it, but we wanted to pre-warn you. The first time can be quite jarring.

Fish Eggs

Some fish eggs can survive being eaten and pooped out by waterfowl. It might actually explain how fish miraculously appear where they've never existed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Eels

Biologists don't fully understand how eels reproduce. No one has ever seen how they spawn. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Diana Ross

When Diana Ross sang I'm Coming Out she had no idea what it meant to closeted people. When she found out, she accused her studio of trying to ruin her career. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The U.S. Interstate

The U.S. Interstate system exists partly thanks to Eisenhower's WWII experiences. During and after WWII, Germany's four-lane highways were probably the best in the world, and Eisenhower used them to move troops and travel across the country. So he thought four-lane highways were a great transport system, and fought hard for the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Dragonflies

Dragonflies used to be much more dragon than fly. 300 million years ago, they had a wingspan of 2.5 feet, and they ruled the skies - - there were no birds back then. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Canada

Most Canadians live south of the 49th parallel. 40 N Ceded to CANADA Britain, 1818 Ceded to Oregon United States, 1818 Territory 49th Parallel Stony Mts. 42° N Louisiana Purchase 1803 Atlantic UNITED STATES Ocean 500 MILES 72% of them live south of it, including the population of the two largest Canadian cities, Montreal and Toronto. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The White House

Nearly every fifth U.S. president has died in office. 18.6% of all U.S. presidents before Donald Trump have died on the job. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Pine Ridge

In one of the U.S.'s poorest areas, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, people make on average less than $8,000 a year. ENTERING PINE RIDGE INDIANPESERVATION About 60% of them can't afford to plug into the power grid. CRACKED.COM

Red Lobster’s Bisque

CRACKED RED LOBSTER'S LOBSTER BISQUE HAD NO LOBSTER. A DNA test on Red Lobster bisques from 3 locations found that 1 had no lobster whatsoever, and 2 had lobster mixed with a mystery crustacean. They found that it was langostino, a cousin of the hermit crab that is commonly used as lobster.

Nicolas Cage

CRACKED $150 MILLION SPENT ON RICH-GUY KNICKKNACKS Nicolas Cage has splurged on a private island, a dinosaur skull, 15 homes, two castles, a huge burial tomb, shrunken рудту heads, a Lamborghini, a pet octopus, and the first Superman comic - all adding up to a whopping $150 million.

Sunken Treasure

By treasure hunting on a sunken ship. - CRACKED.COM Mel Fisher and his son discovered stacks of silver, gold, and jewels aboard the sunken Spanish ship, the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, in 1985. The total worth of the sunken treasure was $450 million, which the Fisher's were able to keep 3/4ths of after battling with the Florida State Department over ownership.

Pennies

How many pennies are there? There are 130 billion pennies in circulation. In pounds, that's over 716 million. CRACKED.COM

Apple II

CRACKED.COM NOTE YOU ARE IN AN ENTRY HALL DOORWAYS GO EAST, WEST AND SOUTH. A STAIRWAY GOES UP ENTER COMMAND? Mystery House, a murder mystery game for the Apple II, was the first home computer game to feature graphics. Sierra ON-LIN Released in 1980, the game sold over 10,000 units at Roberta $24.95 (approximatly $75 Williams, in 2017 money) a copy. game designer

San Fransisco

No one knows who put a tiny house atop a 30-foot-tall tree stump in a San Francisco park. CRACKED.COM Tamara Aparton, a spokes- person for San Francisco's Recreation and Park De- partment (that sounds off, doesn't it?), said it's been a mystery to the park's gardeners for more than a month.

Iron Pipes

The mystery: iron pipes dated to 150,000 years ago were found in Baigong, China. This is puzzling, considering the earliest sign of human activity in the area wouldn't be recorded for another 120,000 years. The answer: the pipes are ancient tree roots whose outer tissue had been slowly replaced by iron particles carried by floods. Electron microscopes revealed that the pipes not only contain organic matter, but also tree rings. CRACKED COM

The JFK Assassination

IDENTITY UNKNOWN The babushka lady An unidentified woman was around when JFK was assassinated in 1963, and she's never come forward. People are interested in her because she might have taken pictures. CRACKED

Dum-Dums

CRACKED.COM ? ? ??? ANDY DUNTY Sping 10RTM ARTIFICIAL MYSTER CO ? DUM Mystery Flavored Dum-Dums are the result of one flavor ending on the production line, and another beginning.

Dodecahedrons

CRACKED MYSTERIOUS DODECAHEDRONS FOUND IN GRAVES Since the 1700s, over 120 Roman dodecahedrons have been found, but their purpose remains a mystery. It's thought that they were used for religious or magical purposes, as they are often found in graves.

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd's name comes from two American blues musicians. Syd Barrett had records by Pink Anderson & Floyd Council in his collection. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Egypt

Apparently, noble women in Ancient Egypt weren't given to embalmers right away. Their families waited a few days, so that embalmers wouldn't get horny and try anything - all according to the ancient historian Herodotus. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Camels

The US government tried to introduce camels into the Wild West. The idea was that the hardy animals would help explore the frontier, but it didn't work, and fugitive camels ended up roaming the West for years. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Medieval Armor

Medieval plate armor was actually surprisingly comfortable on the inside. It wasn't just bare metal - it was lined with cloth, both for comfort and to reduce wear and tear, and that significantly contributed to its cost. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Dinosaur Fossils

Dinosaur fossils don't have to be bones - sometimes, you get the whole dino. In at least one case, a dinosaur - a nodosaur -was preserved with its bones, armor, and skin, looking like an animal that died pretty recently. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Chicken

Whether chicken meat is white or dark depends on the amount of iron it has. Dark meat is the meat of muscle that's rich in iron - and the iron is held in myoglobin, which is the actual source of the muscle's dark color. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty is actually walking forward, breaking free of shackles. You can only see it from above, but her right foot is stepping off the ground, and there's a broken chain around her feet and beneath her robes. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Astronauts

Apparently, all astronauts tried to move around the ISS propelled by their farts. Astronaut Chris Hadfield said that everyone tried to do it, but it didn't work - - too muffled, not the right type of propulsive nozzle :) NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Jock Jams

Jock Jams was created because the songs were easy to license. JOCK JAMS VOLUME The songs were chosen based on qhat audiences for Knicks and Rangers NHL games were responding to. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The First Person to Die in a Plane Crash

Thomas Selfridge was the first person to die in a plane crash Orville Wright was the pilot of the 1908 crash. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Fungi

There's a fungus that lives inside cicadas and feeds them vital nutrients. The fungus cordyceps synthesizes nutrients, including essential vitamins, that the cicada can't get from its diet - without it, the cicada would die. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Llamas

Llamas have something called berserk male syndrome. Male llamas who have had many bad interactions with humans get so enraged when they see a human, they'll run across a field just to attack one. They scream, snarl, and attempt to knock the human off their feet. It's pretty hard for even two or three people to restrain a berserk llama. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The All-Female Soviet Airplane Squadron

The USSR had an all-female airplane squadron in WWII -- the Night Witches. Their job was bombing enemy convoys, troops, and ammo dumps. They got their name because they'd set their engines on idle and glide towards their target - so, from the ground, they sounded like they were whooshing by on broomsticks. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Maple Syrup Heist

In 2017, a Canadian man got 8 years in prison and a fine of 9.4M CAD (over 7M USD) for a maple syrup heist. Richard Vallières stole 3,000 tons of maple syrup from a warehouse. The theft was discovered in a routine check in 2012, when a maple syrup barrel turned out to be empty. After an investigation, 26 people were arrested. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Salivary Glands

In September 2020, science discovered a new human organ. It's a set of salivary glands in the upper region of the throat. It was accidentally discovered during a prostate cancer study that used a scanning technique that happens to be very, very good at detecting salivary glands. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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