29 Random Bits of Trivia Some Kids Wrote Into Wet Cement Outside of Our Apartment in the Middle of the Night

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29 Random Bits of Trivia Some Kids Wrote Into Wet Cement Outside of Our Apartment in the Middle of the Night
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The facts you’ve come across in the past have mostly all come and gone, right? Like, how many facts have you read that actually stick with you for the long haul? Not that many, which is perfect, because it means you have a ton of room in your brain for more lifers! 

These highly interesting random facts will embed themselves in your brain and be ready for deployment until the day you die! 

Oof, sorry to end this pre-list blurb with the thought of your death.

Iceland

CRACKED NEW YORK HAS A LARGER POPULATION THAN ICELAND. New York City has a population of around 8.5 million - while Iceland has a population under 400,000.

Elderly Japanese People

Elderly Japanese people are committing small crimes so they can live in prison for free. CRACKED COM An increasing number of people aged more than 65 now make up more than a quarter of the prison popula- tion in Japan.

Daylight Saving Time

Daylight Saving Time almost got a high school student arrested for calling in a bomb threat. GRACKED.COM The actual bomb threat came in an hour after an honor student called the school's automated phone line, but due to Daylight Saving, the time of his call matched up with the bomb threat.

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Lego Bricks

A Lego brick can support a brick tower 12,000 feet tall before being destroyed. The average maximum force the bricks can withstand is 4,240N, that's equivalent to a mass of 950 lbs. It would take 375,000 Lego bricks stacked one on top of another to destroy the bottom brick. CRACKED.COM

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Garth Brooks

GARTH BROOKS has the luck of the Irish IRELAND Working-class white people who like to throw back a beer or three? Is it really a surprise that Garth Brooks sells out his Dublin concerts in minutes? No matter where I am in the world, when I am asked what

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Volunteer Firefighters

CRACKED COM A whopping SIXTY PERCENT of firefighters are volunteers. Coincidentally, SIXTY-FIVE PERCENT of fire departments are made up entirely out o

Photography

War photographer Robert Capa was with the U.S. troops on D-Day, and took 106 up-close pictures of the battle. He handed the negatives to Life magazine

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