29 Knowledge-Soaked Bits of Trivia That Might Be Too Rich for Your Brain Blood

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29 Knowledge-Soaked Bits of Trivia That Might Be Too Rich for Your Brain Blood
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You “Olive Garden” fact-lovers really need to get out more. There are so many life-changing fact flavors to experience, if you’d only cast aside your fear of the unknown and expand your horizons. You could travel to Italy, and not only get facts about handmade, fresh pasta facts, but maybe learn a little something about The Colosseum as well. 

Don’t taste the Colosseum, obviously. To be clear, the food in this scenario is just a metaphor for facts. These facts right here. Hope your brain enjoys these worldly nummy nums!

The McAfrika

The McAfrika MCDONALD'S McAfrika CRACKED.COM In 2002, McDonald's Norway took some heat for dropping their unfortunately named, pita-based BLT right smack dab in the middle of a massive famine in Africa.

Matt Lauer

Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now MATT LAUER was the face of NBC's Today for 20 years. НЕ ALSO REPORTEDLY HARASSED A LOT OF WOMEN, abused his power, and had a button to close the door of his office automatically, as normal people do. Не was fired from NBC, and nobody has seen him since. CRACKED.COM

Once Upon on A Time in... Hollywood

EASTER EGGSTRA HIDDEN MEANINGS & REFERENCES ONCE UPON A TIME IN... HOLLYWOOD DJANGO In the movie, Rick Dalton is recruited to star in Sergio Corbucci's films. In real life, Corbucci directed many Spaghetti Westerns, most notably his 1966 film Django which inspired Tarantino to make his own movie, Django Unchained. CRACKED GOM

Schitt’s Creek

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS CRACKED.COM SCHITT'S CREEK Beetlejuice When Johnny and Moira visit the creek for the very first time in the final season, Moira's donning an umbrella that feels an awful lot like a Beetlejuice throwback, one of O'Hara's iconic movies.

DNA in Space

Space will change your DNA. NASA NASA discovered this by comparing the DNA of astronaut Scott Kelly to that of his twin brother, Mark. After a year in space, Scott's genes had been altered by 7%- effectively making the twins non-identical. CRACKED.COM

Subtle Movie Moments

We tend to associate movement to the right as being positive, the natural thing to do. PROGRESS LORDRERINGS - Therefore, movies will often introduce the good guy from the left side of the screen moving to the right, and the STRANGERS reverse for the bad guy. ON A TRAIN GOOD BAD You might not have noticed, but your brain did. GRACKED.COM

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Scary Live TV Moments

Jim Rome begs for mercy, live on-air CRACKED.COM Rams quarterback Jim Everett caught a lot of flack in 1989 for diving to the ground when he thought he was about to be tackled. But the freakout occurred years later, when Jim Rome repeatedly called him a girl on his radio

Source: YouTube

Leonid Rogozov

Leonid Rogozov cut out his own appendix. Ta The surgeon was in Antarctica when he developed appendicitis and had to perform an auto-appendectomy with only a novocaine shot. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM

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The CIA

The Insectothopter looks like a dragonfly. During the primitive timES of the '70s, the CIA designed a dragonfly drone that carried a listening device.

Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Pauli was a physicist who won the Nobel Prize. Technical equipment would break down when he entered a room. Brilliant as he was, Pauli himsel

Predictions

In 1968, respected biologist Paul Ralph Ehrlich predicted that all animal life in the ocean would be extinct by September, 1979. This picture was take

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