36 Random Bits of Trivia to Help Take the Edge Off

Lay back and relax with a few dozen of these
36 Random Bits of Trivia to Help Take the Edge Off
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You’ve had a long day. Don’t beat yourself up for kicking back and unwinding with a bunch of random facts. They’re here now, and all that lame work and responsibility are tomorrow problems. Plus, anything can be “guilt-free” if you just don’t feel guilty while doing it.

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

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams wanted to send a team to burrow to the center of the Earth. GRACKED COM The U.S. president thought there must be a civilization in the hollow Earth, and decided the best way to establish trade with them is to send a 100-man team to the Arctic on reindeer-pulled sleighs.

Nuke-Watching Picnics

CRACKED NUKE-WATCHING PICNICS In the 1950s, people in Nevada used to go on trips to places near ground zero of atomic explosions. They'd bring atomic box lunches and have picnics (although Uncle Sam wouldn't let them get too close).

Shikata Ga Nai

CRACKED.COM shikata ga nai /SHKATA-ga-nai/ Why worry about stuff you can do nothing about? Shikata ga nai, the Japanese call this approach to life. It's kind of their hakuna matata.

William Hayes

CRACKED DINOSAURS AREN'T REAL WILLIAM HAYES 95 55 The Rams defensive end thinks it's crazy to think that dinosaurs ever existed. Не believes that archaeologists planted bones underground like Easter eggs.

Introverts

Introverts are more prone to assessing truths about humanssocial nature. GRACKED.COM A 2018 study by Yale psy- chologists found introverts who are prone to melan- choly seem to be more as- tute at understanding how people behave in groups than their sociable peers.

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Dark Energy

Dark energy makes up 68% of the Universe Dark matter makes up another 27%. We don't know much about either. Everything else (including Earth and everything observed with instruments) makes up only 5%. CRACKED.COM

Source: NASA

Mass Fish Death

Fishermen accidentally kill millions of fish a year. The fish's swim bladder suddenly balloons (because water pressure drops really quickly as they're pulled to the surface) and pushes out their organs-. this is called barotrauma, or the bends. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Source: NPR

Robin Thicke

Robin Thicke did a Q&A on Twitter amid allegations of misogyny #AskThicke @VH1 Twitter Q+A JJULY VH 113OPMEST In 2014, Thicke and his team thought it

Habitat 67

Habitat 67 looks like it could turn into a giant robot. It's a housing complex of 354 cubes connected by walkways, elevator pillars, futuristic halls,

Snot

You produce and swallow about one quart of snot every day. That's an equivalent of 2 Grande-sized Starbucks coffee.

Tryptophan

MYTH8 TURKEY MAkeS YoU SLEEPY. FAGT8 IT'S THE BIG MEAL THAT DOES IT. Science-y types will claim that turkey makes you sleepy because it contains trypt

Snickers

The 2007 Super Bowl ad for SNICKERS had two guys pulling out their own chest hair and beating each other up to prove their manliness after sharing an

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