27 Random Bits of Trivia We’ve Been Sitting on Like a Giant Brooding Bird

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27 Random Bits of Trivia We’ve Been Sitting on Like a Giant Brooding Bird

It might come as a huge surprise, but facts don’t come to us fully-formed. After we gather them from all over the universe in one big, exhausting Easter egg hunt, we put a nice random batch in a nest on our office chairs, and incubate them while writing out pre-list blurbs.

It’s a tireless, thankless job, but it just goes to show that anything is possible with some tenacity and the warmth of our big, bird-like bottoms.

Worms

A type of worm that leaps a foot into the air is showing up in California. 10 20 40 50 60 70 BIO 90 100 110 120 30 140 150 20.24 20 10:24 23 NO.315-me - CRACKED COM 2 3 MADE The invasive Amynthas agrestis, also known as the Asian jumping worm, are known for their insatiable appetite, aggression, and how they thrash around more like a snake than a worm when handled.

Bram Stoker

Over 1,300 people dressed in vampire costumes to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Bram Stoker's Dracula. CRACKED.COM 1,369 people attended the event at Whitby Abbey dressed as vampires, break- ing the previous record of 1,039 set in the US in 2011. Stoker's 1897 tale was said to have been inspired by a trip to Whitby in 1890.

Superman

EXPOSING KENNEDY IS A NOW YOU GREAT FEATHER IN MY CAP! DON'T! BUT OF EVEN GREATER IM- PORTANCE IS CAPTURING NOW YOU and YOU HAVE ME.. Early Superman often went against the police. Supes was always against crime, but that don't make him no bootlicker. Superman's respect for the law was rather loose in his early days, often calling authorities out on their abuses. A recurring character was Sergeant Casey, who repeatedly tried to catch him. CRACKED.COM

Safety Glass

Safety glass was born from an accident. One day in 1903, French polymath Édouard Bénédictus accidentally knocked over a glass flask in his lab - but the flask didn't break into pieces. Bénédictus ed that there was plastic cellulose nitrate earlier in the flask, which had created this bonding effect after drying. CRACKED.COM

The Blitz

CLOSED SUNDAYS NCDL UNWANTED ANIMALS Clinic HUMANELY DESTROYED more open ED ever VO The Blitz resulted CO in a pet massacre. In 1939, with the war looming, the British government created a committee to advise pet owners - and their recommendation was, it really is the kindest to have them destroyed. With the threat of bombings and starvation, over 750,000 pets were put down. CRACKED.COM

Pitbull

CRACKED.COM Pitbull has trademarked his yell. You know that EEEYOOO! that is Pitbull's trademark? It turns out it's his actual trademark-you are not allowed to use it. The rapper managed to get legal protection for his signature yell in 2019.

DC Comics

DC created their own Robin rip-off (because of cookies). An anti-drug issue of Teen Titans sponsored by Keebler (yes, it was the '80s) was already fully drawn, when they realized that Robin was licensed to rival cookie company Nabisco. So they drew a new costume on Robin and turned him into a different character, the Protector. CRACKED.COM

Weed

Weed boomed during lockdown. It isn't surprising that the marijuana business reached a record high (ahem) during a stressful time. States where pot is legal saw sales skyrocket in 2020. More people started growing their own weed as well, seeing as how they were home now (and had no money to buy any). CRACKED.COM

Tabasco

All the Tabasco sauce is made in one factory. About 700,000 bottles of the hot stuff are sold every single day-and all of them come from this one factory in MADE IN U.S.A. Avery Island, Louisiana. Seeds are shipped to MEILHENNYD LA ISLAND CO other countries to grow TABASCO PEPPER BRAND SURE SAUCE the peppers, which are then hauled all the way back to Louisiana and turned into sauce. CRACKED.COM

Jesus

Jesus is buried in Japan (or so some Japanese believe). According to local legend in the village of Shingo, Jesus (or Daitenky Taro Jurai) didn't die on the cross - he schlepped over to Japan instead, where he got married, had a bunch of kids, and died at the ripe age of 106. If you are ever in Shingo, you can visit his burial site. CRACKED.COM

Astronauts

Astronauts keep losing their fingernails. The fingertips of the astronauts' pressurized gloves are hard as thimbles, and the can cause pain and a condition called fingernail delamination - essentially, your nails detach from their nail beds. CRACKED.COM

Army Dolphins

CRACKED RUSSIA'S BACK IN THE DOLPHIN BUSINESS. In 2016, the Russian military wanted to buy five dolphins to bring back their old practice of using the smart sea creatures for military operations, like planting bombs on enemy ships.

Art

CRACKED A BROOKLYN ART GROUP JUST SOLD A HANDBAG SMALLER THAN A GRAIN OF SALT. An art group from Brooklyn sold a tiny handbag that was smaller than a grain of salt for over sixty-three thousand dollars at an auction.

Epic Absenteeism

CRACKED ABSENTEEISM TAKEN TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL. A teacher in Italy was fired in 2017 after not showing up to work for 20 out of the past 24 years at schools near Venice. Really impressive in its own way, on multiple levels. Keys Typed: 72 Errors: 5 Word/Min: 10 Goal WPM: 10 Accuracy: 93% Lesson Time: 1:00

The Gay Penguin Couple

CRACKED POLITICIAN DOUBTS SYDNEY'S BELOVED GAY PENGUIN COUPLE. In July 2023, an Australian politician had some harsh words for Sydney Sea Life aquarium's famous gay penguin couple, Sphen and Magic. They accused the pair of making up their love story, and urged parents to stay away from the aquarium.

Eric Adams

CRACKED ERIC ADAMS COMPARED HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS TO PLANTATION OWNERS. Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, compared an 84-year-old housing activist, whose family had fled the Holocaust, to a plantation owner when she asked him why there were multiple rent increases in a row.

Escolar

Restaurants often serve a fish called Escolar, disguised to be Tuna on the menu. CRACKED.COM Eating too much of this fish, more than 6 ounces, will cause explosive, oily, uncontrollable orange di- arrhea. Accidents can also happen while - ing gas.

JFK Airport

A Polish pianist had his grand piano confiscated at JFK Airport. CRACKED.COM Krystian Zimerman was go- ing to play at Carnegie Hall shortly after 9/11 but his Steinway grand piano was confiscated and later de- stroyed because the glue smelled like explosives.

The Xhosa

A teenage girl of the Xhosa people in Africa convinced her entire tribe to kill all their cattle. CRACKED.COM She claimed it would bring about a cataclysm destroying English colo- nizers. Tens of thousands died in the subsequent famine, and the English were unharmed.

A Fake Million Dollar Bill

A woman named Alice Pike tried to use a fake million dollar bill at Wal-Mart. WAL MART РАСТОЙ GUARANTEED PRAIN ER CRACKED.COM Pike claimed she thought the bill was real. When told that the United States Treasury does not make $1 million bills, she said, You can't keep up with the U.S. Treasury.

Music

CRACKED MUSIC Companies are now using AI to create recommendation feeds on music platforms like SoundCloud and Spotify. This could lead to artists making shorter, snappier songs to reach more people.

Dogs and Music

Like humans, dogs have their own music preferences. Research shows that most dogs prefer listening to reggae and soft rock than to pop or classical music. GRAGKED.COM

The Hard Rock Café

The Hard Rock Café is entirely owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. CAFE Hard Rock CAFE HONGIKONG They bought it back in 2007 - and that also means they in turn own the world's biggest music memorabilia collection, since that's owned by Hard Rock. CRACKED.COM

Nikola Tesla

NIKOLA TESLA COULD COMPLETE SUCH COMPLEX CALCULUS IN HIS HEAD... SiN (a Vx)dx - x(p+x) 1F في a a + 2 - Ypy 2 of 2 2 VT Vx ODE (a Vx )dx Уку (p+x) CITY - of 2 2VV THAT HIS TEACHERS THOUGHT НЕ MUST HAVE BEEN CHEATING. GRACKED COM

Mike Tyson

IRON MIKE TYSON could hit four times as hard as an average man. A D 2020 Sports biomechanics expert Dr. Matthew Pain Ph.D. equated the boxer's punch to the force of being hit by a car windshield at 50 Mph. CRACKED.COM

Isaac Asimov

ISAAC ASIMOV WAS so GOOD AT WRITING НЕ USUALLY HAD THREE TYPEWRITERS GOING JUST so НЕ COULD WORK ON SEVERAL BOOKS AT ONCE. НЕ WROTE OVER 500 BOOKS DURING HIS LIFETIME CRACKED.COM

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking can solve path integrals in his head. Funkazaurus Max moon INA TAD JU(N+)) 9 xfX A wg, لد Wy W 619 HBK HHH O DX PT) N McMahon = god? X HH (iii) Big Bang = Bundy splash 3.16 FILA Punk = heel . face? In case you were wondering, those usually look like this: N-1 N/2 iAt E -V(=1-1) مد lim N-+00 m П drke k=1 CRACKED.COM

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