27 Random Bits of Trivia We Got Tattooed on Our Chest to Cover That Portrait of Our Horrid Ex

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27 Random Bits of Trivia We Got Tattooed on Our Chest to Cover That Portrait of Our Horrid Ex

We may not have thought this through, but a big tattoo of every word in this list seemed like the right idea at the time. These facts are just too good! 

Hmm, is it considered one big tattoo if it’s an entire torso’s worth of letters? Like wouldn’t each letter technically be its own tattoo? We just want to know so that we can tell much cooler tatted-up dudes that we have roughly 4,320 tattoos. 

That doesn’t include this blurb. No one in there right mind would get this crap tattooed on them.

American Samoa

American Samoa suffered no flu deaths during the 1918 pandemic because they quarantined. Governor John Martin Роу- er quarantined the territo- ry during the influenza pandemic after hearing news reports of worldwide deaths on the radio. Не re- ceived the Navy Cross for his actions. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Magic Johnson

Magic Johnson won an NBA title for multiple positions. X In the 1980 NBA Finals, Magic took over for Ка- reem Abdul-Jabbar as cen- ter, switching off to play guard and forward as well. Не became the only rookie to win the NBA Finals MVP award. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Vacations

William the Conqueror introduced the concept of a vacation. William introduced a custom to the United Kingdom where people would leave their homes and move to a summer home to aid the grape harvest. The custom was called a vacation be- cause people vacated their homes. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Beetles

Some beetles seek out forest fires to reproduce. Charcoal beetles fly into still-burning forest fires to mate and lay eggs because competition and predators will be low. They sense dis- tant fires using infrared armpit sensors. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Computer Viruses

A man turned himself in to the police after a computer virus told him to pay a fine or risk investigation. 020N $ 13.5 M.K. MAKOW Matthew Riley believed the message was from the FBI, so he took his computer to the police, where they found inappropriate pho- tos and communications with an underage girl. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Lo

The first word spoken on the internet was lo. name OK The message was sent over the ARPANET in 1969. It was supposed to be but the computer crashed af- ter the first two let- ters. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Dr. Oz

The Dr. Oz Show is full of bad medical advice. Debetance SAN and Vote - БАМ 1-877-GAMHGA Canadian researchers watched 40 episodes of the show and found that nearly 40% of the medical advice given on the show was not evidence-based, and 15% went directly against evidence. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Cyclists

Cyclists in the early '90s Tour De that were on steroids had to exercise through the night. BMC The cyclists took so much EPOs (Erythropoi- etin) that if they let their bodies rest they would have heart at- tacks during the night while they slept. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Serial Killers

There was an Iranian serial killer called The Desert Vampire. Mohammed Bijeh tricked boys into going to the des- ert by telling them that they were going hunting, where he would kill and bury them in shallow graves. Не was flogged 100 times and exe- cuted in 2005. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Waluigi

Waluigi wasn't actually created by Nintendo. Не was created by Camelot designer Fumihide Aoki solely for the purpose of be- ing Wario's duos part- ner/Luigi's rival in Mario Tennis N64. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Orcas

A pod of orcas hunted cooperatively with early Australian whalers under a law of the tongue. The orcas would corral and locate baleen whales in re- turn for the tongues and lips of captured whales. The arrangement ended when one of the orcas was accidentally killed. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Mount Rushmore

Another gigantic sculpture is being carved just miles from Mount Rushmore. A sculpture is being carved in the Black Hills, showing Native Chief Cra- zy Horse on his steed, pointing east. The con- struction started in 1948 and will take another 50 years to be completed. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Michigan

Michigan never purchased the rights to the state's anthem. TUEBOR My Michigan cannot be played without paying royalties until 2032, be- cause the state govern- ment never purchased the rights to the song, and the song is still copyright pro- tected. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Snails

A snail's mouth is no larger than the head of a pin, but it can have over 25,000 teeth. But their teeth aren't located on the jaws - they're actually locat- ed on the radula, the snail's version of a tongue. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Battle of Stalingrad

During the Battle of Stalingrad, factories in the city continued to produce tanks. These tanks, unpainted and lacking gunsights, were driven directly from the factory floor to the front line and were often crewed by factory workers. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Carole Lombard

Actress Carole Lombard lost her life after a coin flip. The highest paid actress of the 30s and Clark Gable's wife, Carole flipped a coin on whether to return home by plane or train. Her flight crashed 13 minutes after takeoff. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

The First Recorded Battle in History

The first recorded battle in history was the Battle of Megiddo in 1457 В.С. It left such an impression on the Levantine people there that they believed the final battle of humani- ty would take place there as well. That's where the word Armageddon comes from. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Gulag

Gulag is actually an acronym. It means Glavnoye Upra- vleniye LAGerej, which translates to Main Ad- ministration of Corrective Labor Camps and Settle- ments. Gulag sounds a lot more menacing. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Lactic Acid

CRACKED LACTIC ACID: NOT THE VILLAIN WE THOUGHT IT WAS. It's been believed for a long time that lactic acid is responsible for making our muscles tired and sore, but it turns out that it's actually a great energy source for our muscles, and doesn't stop them from working properly.

Neurons

CRACKED 86 BILLION NEURONS? WOW, TALK ABOUT OVERKILL. The human brain has an incredible 86 billion neurons, which makes it the most neuron- dense primate brain around.

The Vietnam War

CRACKED 41 YEARS IN THE JUNGLE BECAUSE OF ONE U.S. BOMB. Vietnamese Но Van Lang and his dad escaped to the jungle in Vietnam after a U.S. bomb destroyed half their family during the Vietnam War. They stayed there for 41 years.

Guillotine

CRACKED GUILLOTINE: NOT AS HUMANE AS PROMISED. At a certain point, people began thinking that the guillotine wasn't as humane as the French Revolution government said it was. It turns out that those killed by it didn't die right away, and still briefly showed signs of life after they were beheaded.

Jane Goodall

CRACKED JANE GOODALL'S HUSBAND LEFT WHEN THE MONEY RAN OUT. Dr. Goodall has been married twice in her life. Her first husband was Dutch photographer and filmmaker Baron Hugo van Lawick, and he met her when he came to photograph her for NatGeo. Не left her when funding vanished.

Florida

CRACKED FLORIDA: WHERE THE WATER IS MORE DEADLY THAN THE WEATHER. Rip currents are really dangerous and are responsible for more deaths in Florida than lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes put together. Overall, they're the United States' third most lethal natural hazard. NO SWIMMING DANGEROUS CURRENTS

The U.S. Economy

CRACKED THE U.S. ECONOMY IS SLIPPING (IN A WAY). The U.S. has been steadily losing its grip on the global economy since 1960, when it made up 40% of the world's total. Even though the U.S. economy has grown since then, its share of the global economy has dropped to 24%.

Ed Norton

CRACKED EDWARD NORTON IS A DIRECT DESCENDANT OF POCAHONTAS. Pocahontas and John Rolfe were his 12th great-grandparents. The ancestry was traced via the couple's 1614 marriage certificate. Norton said, It just makes you realize what a small piece of the whole human story you are.

Tina Fey

CRACKED TINA FEY'S ANCESTOR HAS ART IN THE MET. Her 5th great-grandfather John Hewson was a master quilt-maker whose work hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. To this day, textile historians study his work. au ESTD H 19 ork stage IW

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