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27 Salty Bits of Trivia Who’ve Just Had A Long Day and Aren’t in the Mood Right Now

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Can these random facts at least hang up their coats before your brain bombards them at the front door? It’s nothing personal. They love your brain, and they’re proud that it’s so thirsty for knowledge, but their boss really put them through the ringer today. And trust us, we know what that’s all about.

Maybe it can watch a little TV while they splash some water on their faces and pour a stiff drink. There’ll be plenty of time to learn and play before bedtime.

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Pirates

The most successful pirate in recorded history was a Chinese prostitute. Cheng I Sao was active in the early 19th century, and at her most powerful commanded 80,000 sailors and a fleet of over 1,500 ships. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ancient Greek Music

Ancient Greek music was hardcore. Old-timey Greeks didn't leave any sheet music behind, but we have a good idea of what their tunes sounded like. Scholars have used a bunch of clues (poetry meter, word patterns, well-preserved instruments, and so on) to reconstruct ancient Greek music. (And it flippin' slaps.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Internet in Space

SPACE DOES HAVE THE INTERNET. BUT IT'S SUPER SLOW. The issue is distance. While the ISS itself is only around 250 miles away, signals must bounce through a network of satellites, traversing 22,000 miles. And of course, as we move into deeper space, accessing the net will become vastly harder. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Last Mammoths

The last mammoths are more recent than the Egyptian pyramids. Wooly mammoths died out about 4,000 years ago. By then, the furry mega-phants could only be found on Wrangel Island, in the Arctic Ocean. It wasn't a dignified ending for the giants - their population got so small that it was extreme inbreeding that finally did them in. CRACKED.COM — Source

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T.I.

T.I. PRETENDED TO BE AN OWNER OF A CRYPTOCURRENCY COMPANY. EXCHANGE AND COMMISSION SECURITIES In 2020, the SEC charged T.I for promoting FLiK, an unregistered and fraudulent ICO, to his followers and claiming to be its co-owner. Не was forced to pay $75, ,000 and got barred from participating in the cryptocurrency market for five years. CRACKED.COM

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Mosquitos

Mosquitos extract blood from people using a super-intricate mechanism. The needle isn't just a single needle, but a combination of six different ones which pierce the skin, find a blood vessel, and then suck blood out. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Space

The human race has been transmitting radio signals into space for about 110 years now creating a radio bubble around Earth 220 light years across. So why haven 't aliens picked up our radio signals and contacted us yet? Right there! Because, in the scale of this photograph, our 220 light year radio bubble we 've spent a century making is only the size of a single pixel! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cremation

Less than half of Americans cremate their dead. In highly populated countries like India and Japan, the cremation rate is almost 100%. This leaves more land open. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Trial by Combat

A guy challenged his ex- wife to trial by combat. As it wasn't explicitly outlawed, in 2020 Kansas resident David Ostrom challenged his ex-wife and her lawyer to decide the custody of the couple's child on the field of battle, wherein he would rend their souls from their corporal bodies. With a katana, because of freakin' course. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fleas

IF FLEAS WERE AS TALL AS PEOPLE, THEY COULD JUMP OVER 15 CARS And that's bumper to bumper. Fleas can jump 38 times their body length. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Shaq

Shaq can't recall if he partied at the Parthenon. GRACKED COM When someone asked if he visited the Parthenon while he was in Greece: I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to. — Source

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The Police

Iconic by random chance The laugh in Roxanne At the recording session for The Police's song, Sting fell backwards onto the piano, resulting in a laugh at the beginning of the track. They just kept it in. CRACKED — The Police/YouTube
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The Fish Tank Heist

CRACKED A CASINO'S CYBERSECURITY SYSTEM WAS BREACHED THROUGH ITS FISH TANK. 100 BAR BAR LR : BAR The tank used an internet- connected device to regulate temperature, and hackers were able to get into it. — Virrage Images/Wiki Commons,
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American Beer

The movement for Prohibition led to American beer-makers moving towards lighter, blander beers. BRUE MARK AMERICA REGISTERLU BUD LIGHT BREWED USING THE CHOICEST HOPS AND BARLEY MALT CRACKED.COM In the early part of the 20th century, brewers tried to emphasize that beer was healthier than whiskey. Today, Bud Light alone has a greater market share than all craft beers com- bined. — TheWorld / Unsplash

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The Hawaiian Alphabet

The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters. CRACKED.COM The written language was adopted from the English alphabet in the 1800s by American missionaries. The letters they use are A, Е, H,I,K, L, M, N, О, P, and W. — Source: Go Visit Hawaii

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Drug Dealers

WEIRD WORLD In Spain, drug dealers tried to raffle off a Christmas basket for their clients. The basket included cocaine, alcohol, marijuana, and some cured ham- but this attempt to provide their customers outstanding service was foiled by the police. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Squirrel Pelts

Squirrel pelts were a common currency in medieval Russia. It's speculated that murdering all those squirrels actually helped stave off the spread of The Black Plague. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — 14 (Weirdo) Official Currencies In The World

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Mother’s Day

Mother's Day founder Anna Jarvis spent her final days in a mental asylum. Funding to keep her in there allegedly came from flower and greeting card purveyors who weren't fans of her later efforts to repeal the holiday she created. CRACKED.COM — Familiar Holidays That Have Dirty Little Secrets

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Strip Clubs

Adult entertainment clubs actually decrease sex crimes CRACKED.COM Researchers found that opening an escort service or strip club in an area may decrease sex crimes by up to 13%. — EurekAlert!

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Artist Beefs

El Greco was snubbed for dissing Michelangelo. Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) had the chutzpah to dismiss the great masters. Because of his contrariness, his paintings weren't appreciated as masterpieces until the 19th century, 250 years after his death. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Famous People Who Were Total Nobodies While They Were Alive

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Scott Disick

Kourtney Kardashian's ex-husband Scott Disick could make $80,000 at clubs. To make that money, he'd just have to show up at the 10AK club in Las Vegas and stay there for at least one hour, and he'd get paid-that's it. CRACKED.COM — Source: GQ

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Seedbed

PERFORMANCE ART VITO ACCONCI'S SEEDBED In 1972, Acconci built a ramp in a studio, climbed under the floorboards, and masturbated for eight hours a day while people walked across the ramp and listened to him monologuing his sexual fantasies about them over a microphone. CRACKED.COM — Tate video

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ACT Scores

A good ACT score doesn't mean a whole lot for your odds of graduating from L college. Your high school GPA matters five times more than your ACT score for predicting those odds. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Aera

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Avon Perfumes

Avon perfumes were a freebie with book purchases. CRACKED cO David H. Mcconnell was a door-to-door book salesman who would toss in some gratis perfume with every purchase. Eventually his clients decided that books suck, and not smelling like damp cabbage rules, SO he pivoted to promoting cosmetics parties instead of

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The Quarantine Coloring Book

Many artists worked together on The Quarantine Coloring Book. A new page is released online every day, by a new artist, and it's 100% free. Sara Taylo — Source: Alternative Press, The Quarantine Coloring Book

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Speech Therapy

94.4% of speech therapists in the U.S. are female. CRACKED cO COM

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