12 Trivia Tidbits for Tuesday, April 30, 2024

12 Trivia Tidbits for Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Rob McElhenney Roasts Jerry Seinfeld’s Mindless Cancel Culture Take

Rob McElhenney Roasts Jerry Seinfeld’s Mindless Cancel Culture Take

Rainn Wilson Is Sick of ‘Office’ Fans’ Jell-O Pranks

Rainn Wilson Is Sick of ‘Office’ Fans’ Jell-O Pranks

‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ Was Nearly Erased by the BBC

‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ Was Nearly Erased by the BBC

20 of the Funniest Nemeses People Have

20 of the Funniest Nemeses People Have

31 Bits of Trivia We Found Scrawled on the Inside of a Bus Station Toilet Stall

It’s like we always say, “You never know what kind of wisdom you’ll find in a bathroom stall.” No one knows this better than the ever-hilarious Caitlin Cook. Her Off-Broadway bathroom graffiti musical, The Writing on the Stall, has all the classics! Well, maybe not all the classics. We just stumbled upon this fresh batch, so let us know when you’re done with these, and we’ll get them to her ASAP!

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The Inuit resolve disputes through singing contests. Each of the two people involved in the dispute composes a song ridiculing the other and performs it, and an audience picks the winner. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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A dog was the mayor of a Californian town from 1981 to 1994. Не was nominated as a joke, but he beat out the two actual candidates, and they kept him around for 13 years. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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In 2014, a Florida family ate a steak they didn't know was laced with LSD, and the pregnant mother gave birth that night. It was a Walmart steak, and the family of five went to the hospital soon after, where nine-months-pregnant Jessica Rosado gave birth to a healthy boy. Neither Walmart or the police could say how the steak got contaminated. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Japan's tsunami-prone Tohoku region has a saying for self-preservation during a disaster. It's called inochi tendenko, or self-preservation, and it means that everyone should run to safety when an earthquake or tsunami hits, and not go back for anyone else - not even a family member. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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In 2016, they found a new room in the sprawling Winchester Mystery House. It's in the attic, and it contained paintings, a Victorian sofa, a pump organ, a sewing machine, and a dress form. That brought the count of rooms in the house to 161 (the house also has six kitchens, 47 stairways, and 10000 windows). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED THE ROARS IN THE LION KING WERE ACTUALLY TIGERS. Turns out that lions' roars weren't loud enough to be used in the film.

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CRACKED WALT DISNEY WORLD RESORT IS AROUND THE SAME SIZE AS SAN FRANCISCO. At 43 square miles, that makes it twice the size of manhattan.

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CRACKED IT WOULD ONLY TAKE AN HOUR TO DRIVE TO SPACE IN A CAR. This assumes the car has the ability to drive straight upwards at 60 miles per hour. Using the same logic, it would take about 6 months to reach the moon.

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CRACKED OLDER PEOPLE ARE MORE LIKELY TO DREAM IN BLACK AND WHITE. The leading theory behind this is that older people had less exposure to color television. As of 2008, 12 percent of people reported dreaming in black and white- in the 1940s that number was 75%.

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CRACKED SPIDER'S SILK IS 5 TIMES STRONGER THAN STEEL. It's also 1000 times thinner than human hair.

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CRACKED VATICAN CITY IS THE SMALLEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. The Pope's country, located in the middle of Italy, is 1/8 the size of New York City's Central Park.

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CRACKED THERE ARE MORE SPECIES OF BEETLE THAN ANY OTHER ANIMAL. picture-alliancerdpa/W Thiem There are over 400,000 species of beetles- which, on their own, makes up a quarter of all species on earth.

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CRACKED DREAMT IS THE ONLY ENGLISH WORD THAT ENDS WITH MT. The word was popularized as the past tense for dream by Shakespeare in the 14th century.

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CRACKED REGULAR SODA CANS SINK IN WATER WHILE DIET SODA FLOATS. Sprite cranberry ave This is due to the mass difference in aspartame versus sugar.

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CRACKED CRICKET CHIRPS CAN MEASURE THE TEMPERATURE. For fahrenheit, count the number of chirps in 14 seconds and add 40 to get the temperature.

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CRACKED THE ONLY MAMMALS THAT CAN FLY ARE BATS. The confusingly named flying squirrels can actually only glide for short distances.

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CRACKED THE LARGEST GIZA PYRAMID WEIGHS AS MUCH AS 16 EMPIRE STATE BUILDINGS. It is also the only surviving wonder of the 7 ancient wonders of the world.

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A former UN Secretary General and Austrian President was also a Nazi. Kurt Waldheim was head of the UN from 1972 to 1981 -- years later, to international outrage, his Nazi past in WWII came to light. CRACKED.COM

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Pretty much everybody in the Netherlands can walk to a nearby supermarket. 80% of Dutch people live within one kilometer of a supermarket - the region with the longest average distance is Drenthe and Friesland, with 1.2. CRACKED.COM

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There's a fake Dracula gravestone placed in the graveyard of the British village of Whitby. Part of the novel takes place there, and tourists regularly visit it and ask for Dracula's grave - so someone had a fake gravestone put up. CRACKED.COM

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Durex unexpectedly kept the 1971 Formula 1 championship from airing on the BBC. Moill TOTAL . A TOTAL REMBAT I م RedBull TOTAL - Durex advertised on one of the teams, which the BBC considered totally unacceptable - when the Durex logo wasn't taken off, the BBC refused to film. CRACKED.COM

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Military tanks get their name from a lie told by the British military long ago. Tanks were developed in secret, and workers who made them were told they were mechanized water tanks for soldiers in deserts. The name stuck. CRACKED.COM

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Some of the biggest sperm cells in the animal kingdom are from fruit flies. And the biggest sperm among fruit flies is from drosophilia bifurca - they have sperm that's over two inches long (that's 1,000 times longer than ours). CRACKED.COM

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The spiciest part of peppers aren't the seeds. The hottest part of chili peppers are in the membrane (aka the pith). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Water isn't colorless. Pure water has a slight blue tint, not just because the reflection of the sky. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Throwing rice isn't bad for birds. There's no proof that the wedding tradition results in poor health of birds. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Vitamin с doesn't prevent the common cold. It might, however, help with physical exertion or exposure to cold. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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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

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Heinz mounted a campaign to get hot dog bun and wiener packages to match. They brought up outrage about the bun-to-hot-dog ratio issue, by which they meant the fact that buns are sold in packs of eight. CRACKED.COM

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The Schrödinger's cat experiment was deliberately proposed as a silly idea. Schrödinger suggested it was ridiculous for a cat to be dead and alive because of a quantum state, but that turned out to be basically right. CRACKED.COM

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Polio was actually a serious disease only in a very small minority of cases. Less than 1% of infected people got paralytic poliomyelitis, while 72% have no symptoms and about 24% have symptoms that quickly resolve. CRACKED.COM

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