28 Random Bits of Trivia We Love, But Like, Just As Friends

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28 Random Bits of Trivia We Love, But Like, Just As Friends
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These are great. They really are. They listen to our stories with a smile and are always there when we need them. Providing our brain with all kinds of random knowledge is amazing, but we just don’t like them like that, ya know? 

Letting them down easy was tough, and we just hope they’ll still want to hang out in our brains. Maybe you’ll see that extra something we don’t. You never know, it could be a match made in heaven.

Keith Richards

Keith Richards composed the guitar riff from (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction while half-asleep. He didn't like the song, and as he said if I'd had my

Automation

AW ADAPTING TO NEW TECH AUTOMATE EVERYTHING USING Al. In 2019, a court in Beijing set up an online litigation center that uses Al technology. It can record people's testimony using voice recognition, look at case materials, and check information from databases quickly. CRACKED

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood squints because his eyes are sensitive to light. Shooting in bright light for the Fistful of Dollars trilogy only highlighted the effect. At the time he wasn't even thinking about how it would look on camera. CRACKED.COM

The ‘Attack’ on Los Angeles

The US Military fired anti-air artillery at an object hovering over Los Angeles in 1942. The target of the aerial bar- rage was thought to be an at- tacking force from Japan, but speaking at a press confer- ence shortly afterward, Sec- retary of the Navy Frank Knox called the purported at- tack a false alarm. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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The Cannonball Run

The record for the fastest run from LA to NYC is 25 hours and 39 minutes. That was the Cannonball run record set in 2020 (by a team who beat their own 2019 record of 27 hours, 25 minutes). Their average speed? 112 mph. CRACKED.COM

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs viewed his stories the way McDonalds views Big Macs. Не read pulp fiction and figured he could churn out something just as bad, so that's what he started doing. Tarzan was one of the results. His stories recycled the same plots over and over. For Burroughs, plot was just a clothes-horse that you hung the action on. CRACKED.COM

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The Blue Blood Myth

MYTH: THE BLOOD LEAVING YOUR HEART IS BLUE. FACT: IT'S ACTUALLY DARKER ReD. The myth that deoxygenated blood is blue comes from the fact that through Caucasian skin, veins often look blue. While it's true that those blue vessels you're seeing carry blood without oxygen, the blood itself is actually not blue. The veins aren't blue, either. They primarily look blue because of the way light reflects off the skin. CRACKED.COM http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5607648_blood-look-blue-veins_.htmi

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Human-Monkey Embryos

Scientists have developed human-monkey embryos. CRACKED.COM Human stem cells were injected into primate embryos and grew up to 20 days, giving us the possibility of more insight into development and evolution.

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The First TV Commercial

The first television commercial in 1941 aired during a Dodgers game. BULOVA Ambassador 31 AUTOMATIC GRAGKED.COM The ad, a silhouette of the continental United States, over which a watch face pops up and a voiceover says, Amer- ica runs on Bulova time, cost $9.

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African Crested Rats

AN AFRICAN CRESTED RAT'S FUR IS SO POISONOUS IT COULD TAKE DOWN AN ELEPHANT These rabbit-sized puffballs chew poisonous trees' bark and lick the toxins into their fur. CRACKED.COM

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The USSR

Russian prisoners tattooed images of Lenin and Stalin as protective amulets. While the USSR existed, some prisoners believed guards weren't allowed to shoot Lenin's and Stalin's faces, so they got those tattooed on their chests. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Bountygate

The Saints handed out injury-based bonuses CRACKED.COM From 2009 to 2011, defensive coordinator Gregg Williams set up a scheme that incentivised his players to injure their opponents. Williams was booted from the NFL indefinitely, but head coach Sean Peyton was merely suspended for a season.

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William Molyneux

William Molyneux, an Irish scientist, asked this question in 1688: If a man who is born blind learns to distinguish between a sphere and a cube by tou

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