29 Trivia Tidbits To Share With Dad And Only Dad
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When most people think of random facts, they think of things like the height of Mount Everest or how many teeth a shark has. But there are so many other interesting bits of information out there that don’t get enough attention. Did you know, for instance, that the Amazon rainforest produces more than 20 percent of the world’s oxygen? Or that bananas are radioactive? Or that a giraffe can drink up to 30 gallons of water in a day, and that they sleep for around four hours a day?
All of which is to say, these facts don’t really have anything to do with dad, but we’re sure he would appreciate some fun facts anyway!
![CRACKED.COM Titanic saved three sailors' lives. In 2004, an explosion quickly sank the tanker Bow Mariner - but while everyone else jumped into the water, three crew members remembered Titanic and clung to the railings until the last possible second, as Jack and Rose did. They turned out to be among the only six survivors.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/9/811489.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM Winston was done dirty by the first Ghostbusters. Winston Zeddemore had an elaborate backstory as an Air Force major and a demolition guy - that is what Ernie Hudson signed up for. Hudson was so excited about the part that he took a half pay cut to play it. Не wasn't at all happy when Winston was reduced to little more than an afterthought.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/7/811487.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted the Terminator to get drunk. Schwarzenegger suggested a scene where the Terminator becomes intrigued by a beer can, so he drinks it and gets tipsy. James Cameron had to explain to him, It's a machine, Arnold. It's not a human being. It's not E.T. It can't get drunk.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/8/811488.jpg)
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![Nikola Tesla was into eugenics. What's not to love about Tesla? Well, there's the fact that he was very for eugenics. Around the 1930s, he started writing some pretty disturbing ideas on how to treat the mentally ill and criminals, and arguing for forced sterilization. Yeah, better to remember him as an inventor. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/6/811486.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM Goldfish become kaiju in the wild. Strip away the branding, and goldfish are just a type of carp - and carp grow as big as their environment lets them get away with. If you release them in a big lake with no natural predators, they'll become huge monsters and wreak havoc in the local ecosystem. So please don't.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/3/811483.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM Al Pacino takes parts in bad movies to make them better. When you've been a respected actor for as long as Pacino, you need to find new challenges - and for him, it's to try to make sucky movies less sucky. I'm starting to want to do films that aren't really very good and try to make them better, he has said.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/5/811485.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM Star Wars planned for a low-budget sequel. In case his space movie didn't take off, George Lucas had plans in place for a sequel with a much smaller scope. Titled Splinter of the Mind's Eye, it took place almost entirely on a jungle planet. The story eventually became the first Star Wars novel.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/4/811484.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM Machiavelli never said, The end justifies the means. Machiavelli was much less Machiavellian than people think. His actual quote from The Prince was more about how power perpetuates itself, as whatever means the powerful use to remain powerful will always be defended as justifiable.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/2/811482.jpg)
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![A bank robber failed because of his bad handwriting. In March 2021, Alan Slattery from the U.K. handed a note to a bank teller, demanding money and threatening the customers - and walked away empty-handed, as the teller couldn't understand Slattery's handwriting. Не was arrested after trying a couple more times. GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/1/811481.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM Mother Teresa's charities were less charitable than usually described. Mother Teresa's legacy has come under examination in light of discoveries like the unsanitary (and not always free of charge) facilities run by her charities. Former Kolkata mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya has questioned the image she gave of the city as needing to be saved by a white, Catholic woman.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/0/811480.jpg)
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![CRACKED COM Medieval theologians thought that Jesus was born a tiny man. Since the Bible never says that baby Jesus looked like a baby, some took the liberty of deciding that he was fully formed at birth. That's one of the reasons why medieval art often depicts him as a middle-aged accountant.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/9/811479.jpg)
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![WHERE EVERYONE HAS A SECRET TRUMP TOWER A NOVEL DONALD J. TRUMP WITH JEFFREY ROBINSON Donald Trump wrote an erotic thriller. Crediting him as the author wasn't exactly truthful, but his fingerprints are still all over the book. The by-product of his attempt to create a soap opera, 2012's Trump Tower narrates the, um, sexy goings-on between (buxom) women and (rich) men happening in Trump's domain. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/8/811478.jpg)
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![Detective Pikachu is a direct sequel to the first Pokémon movie. If you pay attention and know your Pokémon lore, you'll notice that Mewtwo is implied to be the same one from Mewtwo Strikes Back. So there's a Ryan Reynolds-starring sequel to the film where Pikachu cries Ash back to life. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/7/811477.jpg)
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![A party monk's dick is revered in Bhutan. Drukpa Kunley was unlike any Buddhist monk you may know, as he taught that illumination was achieved through sex and booze (and would heavily partake in both). Kunley's dick (referred to as the Thunderbolt of Flaming Wisdom) is a religious symbol today. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/6/811476.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM The Cagots were the ultimate example of the stupidity of bigotry. The Cagots were a minority in western France and northern Spain, who for centuries were discriminated against in an over-the- top way - just because. They were indistinguishable from everyone else - the only thing that made them Cagots was that they were Cagots (and were hated for it).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/5/811475.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM Playboy made a show in the style of Twilight Zone. Back in the early '90s, Playboy produced Inside Out, a series of short sci-fi films (that revolved in some way about getting it on). The show featured talent like Bernard Rose, who would go on to direct Candyman.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/4/811474.jpg)
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![$ (wind A vault in the Arctic if (pa ensures you'll have he the internet after } an apocalypse. se { header1. The Arctic World Archive holds a treasure trove of open-source code in case some catastrophe wipes out all digital data. (window) The Linux and Android operating (pars systems are there, along with thousands of important heade applications (on physical film, to make sure it's still readable after several centuries). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/3/811473.jpg)
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![Science has managed to etch castles into grains of sand. MIT Media Lab designer Marcelo Coelho and artist Vik Muniz spent four years crafting four tiny sandcastles on sand grains, using an ion beam under a scanning electron microscope. Selecting and preparing the suitable grains was just as tricky as the high-tech etching itself. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/1/811471.jpg)
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![Pandas are actually bad at living on bamboo. Even after more than two million years, pandas haven't fully adapted to digesting bamboo. They have to spend all their time eating to avoid starvation, and this gives them upset stomachs and diarrhea. This makes them even harder to breed in captivity. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/8/811468.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM The U.S. military wore crappy camo for years. The Universal Camouflage Pattern looks digital and cool - too bad that it sucks at its basic function of making you blend with the environment. And yet, the U.S. military used it through most of the 2000s and 2010s. The shortcomings were overlooked to gain a distinctive look.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/6/811466.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM 3D printers go back to the '8os. A photochemical process called stereolithography was developed in 1980 to create polymers out of simpler chemicals, which led to the development of the first 3D printer in 1984. Given that it was the '80s, it was pretty big and unwieldy but worked just like the ones we have now.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/0/811470.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM Y! Yahoo seriously underpaid their yodel guy. Pro yodeler Wylie Gustafson got $590.38 for recording Yahoo's trademark yodel - reasonable for a regional commercial, but not for playing it everywhere, like the company started doing. Gustafson sued them for $5 million, and eventually settled for an undisclosed sum.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/2/811472.jpg)
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![The NC-17 rating exists because of porn. The MPAA introduced the X rating in 1968 for movies not suitable for children, but neglected to trademark it - so porn started using it. By the '80s, no respectable theater would touch any X- rated movie. So in 1990, the MPAA introduced (and trademark) the NC-17 rating to replace X. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/5/811465.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM Jack Kerouac helped build the Pentagon. Before he became an iconic Beat writer, Kerouac had several jobs in the 1940s - including a gig as a construction worker at the new HQ of the War Department. Не would bring a pint of gin or whiskey to work every day.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/3/811463.jpg)
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![Georgia O'Keeffe hated that people saw anything sexual in her paintings. O'Keeffe was adamant that she painted flowers, not vaginas. It was photographer Alfred Stieglitz (who eventually became her husband) who began promoting her paintings as softcore porn, against her objections. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/9/811469.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM IMDb started as a list of hot actresses. The biggest website for film buffs was originally just a list of actresses and their credits compiled on Usenet. The list was later expanded to include actors too, and the whole thing was eventually made available online in 1990. IMDb Fi](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/7/811467.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM The Navy maintains a forest to service just one ship. The USS Constitution is the oldest ship still afloat - and the U.S. Navy grows a 50,000-acre forest just to maintain it. Every 60 years, the oldest trees are chopped down and turned into new planks for the Constitution.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/4/811464.jpg)
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![GRACKED.COM Crippled by student loan debt? Thank Albert L. Lord. SHERVE NOTE 60 T As a top officer of the Student Loan Marketing Association (SLMA, or Sallie Mae), Lord did his aggressive best to dominate the student loan market and lobby Congress to keep profits high. Now that his own grandkids are in college, he pontificates about how gosh-darn expensive it is.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/2/811462.jpg)
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