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31 Random Bits of Trivia That Are the Secret Password to Get Into Our Treehouse

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31 Random Bits of Trivia That Are the Secret Password to Get Into Our Treehouse

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Okay, we’re only gonna display these here once, then you have to recite every word of every fact to us right away or you’re not allowed in our sweet, sweet treehouse. There are some pretty great snack and comic books in here too, so you’re really gonna wanna nail this.

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John Lennon

Music memorabilia that sold for top dollar $2.299 million John Lennon's Rolls Royce The car, featuring psychedelic artwork by a local artist, sold for that much in 1985. That was 10 times the estimated price. Emily CRACKED

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The Oscars

CRACKED.COM COMICCON dockey Viola Davis She shares an Oscar record with Whoopi Goldberg. Davis and Goldberg are the only black actresses to have been nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress.

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The Grim Sleeper

A serial killer was caught thanks to his love of pizza (and old-fashioned spy work). Los Angeles police came up with a unique plan to catch the elusive Grim Sleeper serial killer. The suspected killer's son had gotten into hot water over a weapons charge - causing the DNA database to reveal a sequence incredibly similar to the suspected Sleeper. An undercover officer pretended to be a pizza place waiter in order to retrieve DNA samples from items touched by the suspect during a fast-casual lunch. The samples were then compared to the killer's son's DNA to create a match. CRACKED.COM

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Monopoly Money

More Monopoly money is printed annually than $1 STATES OF bills have been in a decade THIS NOTE IS UNITED LEGAL AND TENDER PRIVATE STATES OF AM PUBLIC FOR ALL DEBTS L 7771 L WASHING 902L SERIES 2009 Eg Since 2008, the US Treasury has printed around 25 billion dollar bills, whereas Hasbro prints 30 billion bills for their Monopoly games CRACKED.COM every year. But to be fair, only 43 million of those are ones. — Source

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Driving

Brits drive on the left because of a tradition from back in the Middle Ages. Drive on left Tenez la gauche Links fahren If you rode so that approaching strangers would be to your right, you could easily draw your sword against them (assuming you're right-handed). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2

WORST SEQUELS EVER CUPID GIRL BB EN SUPERBABIES: BABY GENIUSES 2 Fun fact: Jon Voight seems to have lost his mind. Не was an executive producer for the first Baby Geniuses, proudly announced the sequel, and even based his Superbabies character on Josef Mengele. knbh CRACKED.COM

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Silly String

Silly String is used to find tripwires around bombs. Soldiers shoot the string into the air and if it falls to the ground they know there aren't any wires- if it hangs in the air they know otherwise. CRACKED.COM

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The Civil War

CRACKED THE CIVIL WAR WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING OVER 400,000 MORPHINE ADDICTS. For this reason, the addiction was referred to as Soldier's Disease. — Source

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Harold Holt

Harold Holt 1908-1967? DISAPPEARED WHILE SWIMMING Australia's 17th Prime Minister vanished while swimming at Cheviot Beach, in Victoria. They never found his body. CRACKED — Frank Wolf/Wiki Commons,
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Leo Ryan

You are probably familiar with the Jonestown Massacre, but have you heard of Leo Ryan? Congressman Ryan was concerned about the Jim Jones cult, and made the trip to Guyana to check it out. A number of the members he spoke with said they'd like to leave, SO Ryan agreed to take them with him. Jones sent his men after them and executed Ryan, along with three journalists, on the airstrip. The mass suicide had such a broad impact that the term drinking the Kool-Aid has beome a permanent part of our lexicon. Yet the assassination of Congressman Ryan has — Source: 23 Amazing People Who Were Screwed Out of History Books

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Caterina Sforza

During the Renaissance, Caterina Sforza commanded troops and sezed Rome's Castel Sant' Angelo on behalf of ber busband, despite being seven months pre

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Amazon

Amazon needed a way to promote its new series. They went with Nazi symbols on the subway. The series was called The Man In The High Castle and worked on the premise that America had lost WWII. So Amazon just thought they'd decorate New York subway seats with the symbols of Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan. Amazon pulled the signage after Mayor Bill de Blasio called it irresponsible and offensive. CRACKED.COM http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/amazon-pulls-nazi-tv-ad- campaign-new-york-the-man-in-the-high-castle-irresponsible-and-offensive-6747901.html

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Coachella

Coachella is owned by a right- wing billionaire. Like many of our hippest institutions, the Coachella Festival is owned by a rich old codger. In this case, it's 81-year- old oil mogul Philip Anschutz, who has thrown money at decidedly un-hippie causes like climate change denial and immigration panic, and has helped anti-LGBT politicians get elected. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sunken Treasure

CRACKED IN 2007, FLORIDA DIVERS FOUND $500 MILLION WORTH OF SUNKEN TREASURE. The treasure was mostly in coins and originated from a Spanish ship that sank around 1804. — Source

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Super Mario

M Mario's first credit was as a villain. The character was called Jumpman when he first appeared in Donkey Kong, and didn't get the name Mario until the sequel, Donkey Kong Jr. - where he was the baddie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The First Submarine

The first submarine dates way back to the 1620s and was made by Cornelius van Drebbel. Called the Drebbel I, it was basically an enclosed CRACKED COM rowboat and was proprelled just like one. — Source

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NASA

UNITED STATES NASA covered up a heart attack on the Moon. During Apollo 15, Mission Control detected that astronaut James Irwin had an arrhythmia serious enough to carry him to an ICU. Luckily, Irwin's spacesuit doubled as a mobile ICU, supplying him with oxygen and monitoring his vitals. No one in the crew was told about the incident. GRACKED COM — Source

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Calcea Johnson and Ne’kiya Jackson

CRACKED CALCEA JOHNSON AND NE'KIYA JACKSON These two high schoolers from St. Mary's Academy in New Orleans showed off a new proof of the Pythagorean theorem, using trigonometry, which some people thought couldn't be done. a2+b=c2 — Scientific American

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Cows

CRACKED COWS PRODUCE MORE MILK WHEN LISTENING TO MUSIC. 0517 One study found that cows produced 3% more milk when listening to slow- tempo music, such as Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. — Birkir Asgeirsson/Shutterstock,
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Mount Chimborazo

CRACKED Mount Chimborazo Earth isn't a perfect sphere; it bulges at the Equator, so Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo is the closest point to the stars. It's 20,564 feet above sea level, but 6,800 feet farther from the Earth's center than Everest. — ecuadorplanet/Shutterstock
NOAA's National Ocean Service

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Formula One

Formula One driver Alan Stacey was killed when a bird flew into his face during a race in 1960. DGESTONE FREESTONE vodafone FIAT O - - vodafone CRACKED.COM After being struck during the 25th lap, he crashed going 120 mph, going over a waist-high em- bankment, through ten feet of thick hedges, and fell into a field. — NY Times / Wikipedia

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo used to burn his drawings so that people wouldn't know he had to work to achieve perfection. Michelangelo was con- stantly producing draw- ings throughout his 77-year career as an art- ist, but only about 600 of them have survived since the 16th century. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Medievalists

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Paw Sweat

DOGS SWEAT OUT OF THEIR PAWS. Dogs' merocrine glands are located in their paws. If dogs sweated out of other parts of their body, the sweat would be absorbed by fur. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Dog Facts That Are Pleasant As Hell

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Patrice Lumumba

The CIA was involved in the murder of a democratically elected Prime Minister of Congo. CRACKED.COM In 1961 Belgians, with CIA involvement, ordered the murder of Patrice Lumumba, who just wanted for the Congolese to regain the natural resources that were still under foreign control. — Britannica

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The Tampa ‘Exorcisms’

Tampa, Florida The school teacher who tortured teens by demanding they cleanse themselves of demons Danielle Harkins gathered the kids around a fire one night and told them to cut their skins and let the evil spirits out. They then had to burn their wounds to keep the demons from re-entering in a bizarre and dangerous ritual. The teens were all ethnic Asians, and no one told their parents. A friend of the group found out about it, told his parents, and Harkins was arrested on charges of child abuse. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Real Crimes Straight Out Of A Horror Movie

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Nazi Assassins

In WWII, there was a duo of underage assassins of Nazis in the Netherlands. Among other activities, Freddie Oversteegen and her sister Truus (both teenagers) would seduce Nazis, take them into the woods, and then shoot them. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Facts To Make You More Attractive To The Opposite And/Or Same Sex

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Nukes and Whale Sharks

Nukes helped US learn that whale sharks can live over 100 years. The vertebrae of whale sharks have a ring build- up, kind of like trees - but it wasn't known how: long those rings take to grow. Cold War nuclear tests helped solve the puzzle - by locating a spike of — More: We Know How Old Whale Sharks Are Because Of Nukes

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Metal Gear Solid V

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Disney and Copyright Law

DISNEY CRACKED ALMOST COMPLETELY DICTATES U.s. COPYRIGHT LAW! THe COMPANY HAS JUCCESSFULLY LOBBIED CONGRESS MULTOPLE TOMES TO EXTEND THE TIME LIMIT ON

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Body Odor

Not having body odor is a given society. in polite But nobody cared until 1912. That's when Edna Murphey realized that her surgeon father's hand-dryin

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Reusable Bags

Want to save the planet? Use reusable grocery bags. Be prepared to use them a lot. Reusable bags require between 28 and 200 times as much energy to pr

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