30 Cozy Bits of Trivia to Pull Over Your Brain Like A Warm Blanket on A Cold Winter’s Night

Too bad they’re so interesting that they’ll keep it up all night!
30 Cozy Bits of Trivia to Pull Over Your Brain Like A Warm Blanket on A Cold Winter’s Night
Add Cracked to Google

Have you ever tried one of those heated blankets that also plays music? 

Oh, that doesn’t exist? Yeah, that makes sense. Well, this list of random facts is a lot like that imaginary product. It’s warmth and coziness would make your brain comfy enough to sleep, but it’s interesting tidbits are like cranking metal music at all hours of the night.

Maybe it’s best to read this in the morning. That’ll get your day off to a weird start!

Excel World Championship

WEIRD WORLD The Excel world championship has taken place (sponsored by Microsoft, of course). It involves truly fierce spreadsheet warriors duking it out, and it's going to be broadcast on ESPN3 and YouTube. CRACKED.COM

Source

Nomophobia

NOMOPHOBIA CRACKED.COM Couch cushions go flying. Nomophobia is the fear of being without your mobile phone. It appears to be fairly common, since it often stems from a cell phone addiction. People with it experience anxiety about not having their phone, their battery dying, or lack of service.

Chadwick Boseman

Chadwick Boseman was accepted into an acting program at Oxford and could only afford to go because of a private benefactor That benefactor turned out to be Denzel Washington. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The U.S. Air Force

Fuel tanks from U.S. Air Force jets are being used as rice canoes in Vietnam today. The locals just take a fuel tank and cut out a section of the top, which leaves them with an aluminum canoe. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Source

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Most of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of commercial fishing debris. CRACKED.COM Fishing nets account for 46 percent of the trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, with the majority of the rest composed of ropes, oyster spacers, eel traps, crates, and baskets.

Source

The Salem Witch Trials

The Salem witch trials might have been caused by hallucinogenic fungus. Ergot can get into bread and can make you see weird things while suffering spasms - basically, you look bewitched. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Source

Statue of Liberty

The spikes on the Statue of Liberty's crown don't represent the seven seas. Or the seven continents, for that matter - they're just sun rays, and the circle represents a halo, which indicates she's divine. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Source: NPR

Avril Lavigne

Avril Lavigne was bedridden with Lyme disease CRACKED.COM After turning 30, she was mysteriously incapacitated for a full 5 months: I couldn't breathe, I couldn't talk and I couldn't move. I thought I was dying. She was ultimately diagnosed with Lyme, but didn't tell her fans until she was fully out of the woods.

The Bunyip

The Bunyip One of the few Aboriginal spirit creatures that became part of popular Australian culture, the bunyip lives in waterways and will grab anyone who comes to the water edge alone. It is half-man, half-fish, covered in weeds and twice the size of a human. The legend of the
Source: ABC

Phone Booth Cramming

30 Cozy Bits of Trivia to Pull Over Your Brain Like A Warm Blanket on A Cold Winter’s Night
Source: Ripley's

Nike

CRACKEDOON THE FIRST NIKE SHOES WERE MADE WITH A WAFFLE IRON. Bill Bowerman noticed over breakfast that a waffle pattern was just right to make light

Aging Meat

ry-aging meat is done by hanging it in the open air at a temperature just above freezing for several weeks. DonecC Wet-aging is done by placing the me

Macklemore

Ben Haggerty took his stage name from a high school art assignment where he named a superhero figurine Professor Macklemore. CRACKEDCON

Tags:

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

VIRAL ON CRACKED

A WEEKLY
NEWSLETTER OF
JOKES + TRIVIA

Forgot Password?