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29 Odd Facts That Will Turn Your World Upside Down

December 08, 2023

There's something about cool new facts that just tickles the fancy. Maybe the ol' neurons need a pick me up, or you just have an insatiable curiosity about the weirdest parts of our world. Either way we've got you covered.

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The Great Wall of China is held together with sticky rice. The innovative use of sticky rice in mortar has helped the structure survive the elements. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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A single pineapple used to cost $8000. Pineapples were imported to be used as lavish decoration in the American colonies. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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The most widely consumed fruit in the world is the mango. Apples and oranges don't even compare to mangoes. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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Taco Bell

Hard shell tacos were popularized by Taco Bell. x They were developed in the U.S. in the 1890s. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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English muffins were made in New York. They also aren't muffins. They're crumpets. What a misnomer. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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Almost all avocados in the U.S. can be traced back to a single tree. The Hass avocado is descended from a seedling planted in 1926 by postman Rudolf Hass. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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Before 1965, chicken wings were discarded for being undesirable. Before buffalo wings, they were considered the worst parts of the chicken. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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Fortune cookies originated in San Francisco. x y Numbers 27. at you can do You '11 new Before WWII, they were known as fortune tea cakes, influenced by Japanese tea cakes. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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Most wasabi is just horseradish tinted green. Real wasabi tastes more herbal and is difficult to grow, making it more expensive to produe. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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Ice cream actually warms you up. X Your body heats up a little bit when digesting the fat content of ice cream. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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The red puddle under your steak isn't blood. x Blood is drained before butchering. The liquid is a mixture of water and the protein myoglobin. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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Vlasic has a stork mascot because pregnant women supposedly crave pickles. Jassic Gall TASTE Masic BTC. CRUNCH SINCE KOSHER DILL am WHOLES The secret to Vlasic's success was to sell their Polish pickles in glass jars. And a killer marketing campaign. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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Coffee doesn't taste as good as it smells because salivia wipes away the flavor. 300 of the 631 chemicals involved in forming the coffee scent are digested or changed by saliva. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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Strawberries as we know them don't occur in nature. The hybrid of the Virginia wild strawberry and the Chilean beach strawberry was invented in France in the 18th century. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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Electric toasters predate sliced bread. The first electric toaster was invented in 1893. Pre-sliced bread wasn't available commercially unti 1928. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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Black olives are just ripe green olives. Freshly picked olives are inedible, so both green and black olives are cured. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

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Peter Stormare just kind of stumbled into a role in John Wick: Chapter 2. Не was hanging out with Keanu Reeves and, since he was a fan of the first movie, he asked Reeves What can I do? The rest is movie history. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Bits of Trivia About Movies, History, Celebrity Weirdness, And More

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Sharks have been around longer than trees have. Sharks started popping up about 450 million years ago, while trees showed up 100 million years later. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Bits of Trivia About Movies, History, Celebrity Weirdness, And More

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When Baby Groot throws up in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, that's James Gunn's nod to his roots. It's his way of acknowledging that he started out in B-movies and isn't afraid to resort to the lowest common denominator which is a baby tree vomiting. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Bits of Trivia About Movies, History, Celebrity Weirdness, And More

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The inventor of the USB says his team blew it. by not making the plug work both ways. Ajay Bhatt said that would need more wires and circuits, so it would have been more expensive - they thought about it, but it would have cost too much. Still, 20 years after inventing it, he says that was a mistake and the USB plug was good, but not good enough. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Bits of Trivia About Movies, History, Celebrity Weirdness, And More

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Little Richard

Little Richard became a preacher after seeing a sign in the sky. VS On a 1957 Australian tour, he saw a fireball in the sky (which was the satellite Sputnik 1) and interpreted as God telling him he should change his ways. Не became a preacher a year later, and went back to making regular music after four years of preaching. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Bits of Trivia About Movies, History, Celebrity Weirdness, And More

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A real buffalo was killed in Apocalypse Now. To get permission from locals to film on their land, the movie crew gave them animals to slaughter for food, including two water buffalo. Francis Ford Coppola decided to film one buffalo's slaughter for the movie. I did not direct it or anything, that was the way they do it, he said in 2019. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Bits of Trivia About Movies, History, Celebrity Weirdness, And More

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Streaming Despacito used up more power than some countries produce in a year. It was streamed 4.6 billion times from January 2017 to early 2020, which consumed as much electricity as Sierra Leone, Chad, Somalia, the Central African Republic, and Guinea-Bissau make in a year, combined. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Bits of Trivia About Movies, History, Celebrity Weirdness, And More

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In Nepal, there are honey hunters who climb granite cliffs to get hallucinogenic mad honey. It's produced by Himalayan giant honeybees, who make nests at high altitudes under the overhangs of vertical cliffs, and sells for $60 to $80 a pound on the black market. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Bits of Trivia About Movies, History, Celebrity Weirdness, And More

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In 2013, nine lost Doctor Who episodes turned up in Nigeria. ИННОМТ.М ЕГЕСТ The BBC destroyed its own Doctor Who tapes back in the '60s and '70s, but those episodes have occasionally turned up in foreign markets, which had been sent their own copies. The Nigerian find was x apparently the largest in 30 years. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Bits of Trivia About Movies, History, Celebrity Weirdness, And More

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In 1969, Pat Sajak cut off Nixon to play Christmas music. Nixon made a very long pause in a Christmas speech to the troops in Vietnam, so Sajak cut off the broadcast and put on some music. When Nixon resumed talking, Sajak just left the music on, thinking soldiers would rather listen to that than the President. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Bits of Trivia About Movies, History, Celebrity Weirdness, And More

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Independence Day

Most of the sets for Independence Day were built in the same hangar where Howard Hughes built the Spruce Goose. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Bits of Trivia About Movies, History, Celebrity Weirdness, And More

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In Australia, half of a banknote is worth half its face value. - Pholp Come 10 Pete - - ana than or - The - USTRALIA TEN DOLLARS So you could cut, say, an AUD 100 bill in half, and each half would be worth AUD 50. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Bits of Trivia About Movies, History, Celebrity Weirdness, And More

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Most Canadians live south of the 49th parallel. 40 N Ceded to CANADA Britain, 1818 Ceded to Oregon United States, 1818 Territory 49th Parallel Stony Mts. 42° N Louisiana Purchase 1803 Atlantic UNITED STATES Ocean 500 MILES 72% of them live south of it, including the population of the two largest Canadian cities, Montreal and Toronto. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Bits of Trivia About Movies, History, Celebrity Weirdness, And More

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