33 Random Bits of Trivia We’ll Delay Another 90 Days If Our Demands Aren’t Met

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33 Random Bits of Trivia We’ll Delay Another 90 Days If Our Demands Aren’t Met
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Don’t test us. Don’t you dare test us. You think we’re playing around, bucko? Read these facts within in the next five minutes or we’ll pull them from the internet forever! 

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The Ming Dynasty

The Wanggongchang Explosion killed 20,000 people in the capital of the Ming Dynasty in 1626. THE CHINI AN OCEAN No one knows what caused it, but it killed several government officials and the emperor's only heir. The only guard who remained calm enough to protect the emperor was killed by a falling ceiling tile. CRACKED.COM

Arrested Development

CRACKED.COM Arrested Development David Cross had to fight for Tobias' mustache. The head of FOX had a no mustache rule as part of her 3 Rules of Comedy, but Cross just couldn't see the character without it. Не saw no logic with that rule, along with the other two: no baseball caps and no puffy sleeves.

African Spiny Mice

African spiny mice can shed up to 60% of the skin on their backs to escape predators. CRACKED COM They then regrow hair follicles, skin, sweat glands and fur instead of scar tissue. It is spec- ulated that we could switch this mechanism on in humans.

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Alicia Silverstone

ALICIA SILVERSTONE THINKS YOU CAN JUST STOP WORKING. In her book The Kind Mama, Silverstone suggests you should take one year off work to be with your new baby. I assure you that it's not something that only the super privileged and trust- fund endowed can afford. Yeah, it's not like raising a baby costs thousands of dollars a year or anything. CRACKED.COM

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Cosmopolitan Magazine

CRACKED.COM Cosmo did a test between $147 in drugstore makeup and $513 in department store makeup. The end result? The difference is negligible, and unless you know, you could never tell the difference.

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Clownfish

Clownfish colonies have a unique biological hierarchy. A typical colony is dominated by one female and her partner male. But every clownfish is born m

Vacuums

High-end robotic vacuums don't come close to regular vacuums. In a Consumer Reports test, a $1,000 robotic vacuum picked up 40% of what a canister vac

Copper Mining

A copper scavenger once took down almost an entire country's internet connection. In 2011, an elderly Georgian woman combing the ground for copper to

Dan Spitz

Dan Spitz is a watchmaker. In the mid '90s, Spitz grew bored with pulling guitar riffs for Anthrax and pursued a different interest: precision clockwo

Mussolini

Dictator Benito Mussolini had this picture taken to show off his heroism. There was just one important detail edited out. RAKEDGOM The photo looks a

The Yangtze

The Yangtze ominously turned red in 2012. A large portion of the Yangtze near Chongqing mysteriously ran red in September of 2012. According to scient

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