35 Random Bits of Trivia That Have Never Been Contacted by the Outside World

35 Random Bits of Trivia That Have Never Been Contacted by the Outside World

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27 Wild Photos Seen By Film Developers

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20 Historical Facts More People Should Know

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The Director of ‘The Fall Guy’ Began His Career as Trey Parker’s Stunt Double

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Dramatic Andy Samberg Is Weirding Everybody Out

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In light of the recent bush fire in Port Macquarie, Australia, a quilting community in Netherlands began knitting mittens for koalas that suffered bur

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BeAnie BABIES Founder TY WARneR GAVE A STRAnGER 20 GRAND FOR HER MeDICAL TReATmeNT. OF ABIES Warner was lost in Santa Barbara and pulled into a parkin

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Kenyan runner Abel Mutai held a comfortable lead in an international cross country race whenl he mistakenly stopped running 10 meters before the finis

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Sia covered the Thanksgiving shopping for oodles of folks in a Walmart in Palm Springs, CA. Telling people her name was Cici and that she had won the

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In the middle of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, a mishap swept Indonesia's surfer away, leaving him at the mercy of vicious waves. The surfer from th

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British plumber James Anderson does large-scale free work for the vulnerable. deph SITE SAFETY REQUI IVesupr or. y LR Ce winty DANGEROUNS OUT 01 His n

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In Switzerland, it is illegal to only own a single guinea pig. Being social creatures, they get lonely. bei a There are a host of other animal rights

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THE US AIR FORCE Has DROPPED GIFT CRaTeS on RemoTe ISLanDs In THE wesTern PaCIFIc every CHRISTmaS sInce 1952. BHAWD Each crate contains daily necessit

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CRACKEDCO COM Tech N9ne donates bras thrown on stage during his concerts to women's shelters. JOX The cause is near to his heart. When he was a young

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After the fall of the Soviet Union, the newly Independent Lithuania couldn't afford to send their basketball team to the 1992 Summer Olympics. das The

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An ICU nurse adopted a patient with autism SO he could get a Fe-saving heart transplant. ICU nurse Lori Woods met Jonathan Pinkard in her hospital. Be

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When the only grocery store in Baldwin, Florida closed, the city opened a communally-owned one to get the residents fresh food. FAI PRODUCE: Things we

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A kind stranger in Salem known only as 'Benny' has been hiding $100 notes all around stores, markets, and public events for people to discover. DORASE

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A carpenter from lowa worked for 67 years and saved $3 million. All of it was used to send 33 strangers to college. Dale Schroeder grew up poor and ne

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A teenager went to get her matted hair shaved off for picture day because she was severely depressed and had stopped brushing it. Instead, the hairdre

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Richard Sherman, cornerback for the 49ers, and former Seattle Seahawk, recently paid off $20,000 in school lunch debt for Tacoma students. C oe This w

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Angkor Wat will no longer exploit elephants. Angkor Wat used to offer elephant rides but, for the elephants' sake, is shutting that down. Ferrying tou

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The Pennsylvania Hockey team, The Hershey Bears, held their annual Teddy Bear Toss for fans to donate stuffed animals by tossing them on the ice. TO

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Neo-Nazis are about to lose one of their shrines. For decades, they've been making pilgrimages to the house where Hitler was born, especially on his b

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A New Hampshire woman started a non-profit collecting holiday cards for United States military troops. In 2017, Laura Landerman-Garber started her non

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mua MOF DROUGHT APPEAL SUPPORTING AUSTRALIAN FARMERS In 2019, members of Australia's Muslim community delivered aid to a town badly affected by drough

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In December 2018, an 8-year-old girl in Mexico attached her Christmas list to a balloon and released it into the air. A hiker in Arizona came across t

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CRACKEDC COM B.B. McGowan beat homelessness and alcoholism, and now he vows to help the homeless. -324-3 He drives around Dallas, Texas on frigid nigh

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In 2016, three days before Scott Dunn was supposed to attend his high school graduation, he was involved in a serious accident and sedated for a week.

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In the winter of 2018, an IKEA in Italy opened their doors to let stray dogs out of the cold and onto their soft, warm rugs. CRACKED.COM

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Ricky Mena dresses up as Spider-Man and visits sick children to make them happy. Since launching his nonprofit Heart of a Hero, Ricky has visited over

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CRACKEDcO COM Brad Paisley and Kimberly Williams-Paisley opened a free grocery store for those in need. The STore If someone gets a referral from spec

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A new adoptive dad was gifted A 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan by a car dealer in New York when he adopted five siblings. lml huphpy hprh The new father, La

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Two delivery men in Minnesota saw a man about to jump off an overpass. One ofthem called the police, while the other talked to the man, offering him a

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CRACKED COM A man in Cameroon uses plastic bottles to build canoes which he gives to poor fishermen.

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CRAGKEDao Animal cruelty is now a federal offense in the U.S.

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HDLO A stray Russian cat recently became the first cat to get 4 titanium prosthetic limbs. After an exceptionally cold night, poor Ryzhik (Russian for

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After hearing sub-zero temperatures were expected.... The women of an Indian village decided to knit giant sweaters to protect elephants from the free

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Saudi surgeon Dr. Abdullah al-Rabeeah has separated almost 100 conjoined twins. He charged nothing. Dr. al-Rabeeah and some of his patients With gover

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UK Scientist Nikola Curtin E recently helped develop a new treatment for ovarian cancer, and was paid over $1 million in royalties. H2 Eemc Curtin Had

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When FSU football player Travis Rudolph was on a school visit with his teammates, he spotted a middle-schooler with autism sitting by himself at lunch

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Kristen Bell uses her Instagram account, with its 11 million followers, to share the Amazon wishlists of random teachers. Some posts have seen as many

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When Chicago was struck by a polar vortex and reached subzero temperatures, Candace Payne rented 30 hotel rooms with her personal credit card to give

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Since 2017, a church in Wisconsin has been hosting Thanksgiving for local members of the LGBTQ community who have been shunned by their families. CRAG

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On December 1, 2019, a statue of civil rights activist Rosa Parks was unveiled in Montgomery Alabama as part of a celebration honoring her. Helping un

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After seeing a Facebook post about a lost wedding ring on a mountain in New Hampshire, a local hiker took a metal detector up to the summit and found

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THE MINNesota HEALTH DEPARTmENT GOT A COmPLAINT ABOUT An unLicensed HOTDOG STAND OPERATED BY A 13-YEAR OLD KID. 15 TRUST N aas Instead Of shutting him

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Mark Hamill visited a terminally ill boy to answer all his Star Wars questions. John Sikorra was battling with juvenile Batten's disease (JNCL). Becau

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Drew Scanlon, AKA Blinking White Guy, is using his status as a meme to raise money to fight MS. Cw FUNDRAIS He's participating in Bike MS, a fundraise

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