28 Random Bits of Trivia That Are Like Cerebral Fidget Spinners for the Unfocused Brain

These’ll keep you busy — for a little while at least
28 Random Bits of Trivia That Are Like Cerebral Fidget Spinners for the Unfocused Brain

In these informationally packed days, we usually have a ton of random things swirling around our heads at any given time. And if your thoughts are going to random, then your facts might as well be too! 

Hey, maybe the randomness is the constant!

NASA

NASA astronauts wear orange suits, too. NASA Most of the time, they wear white suits, because white reflects solar radiation better than any other color. But when they're on their way into space, or returning to Earth, they wear orange because it's very easy to see against the sea or sky - that way, if they have to bail, rescue teams will find them more quickly. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Dinosaurs

In 2016, they found a dinosaur tail preserved in amber. And it was covered in feathers, which made it the first direct, unambiguous piece of evidence for dinosaurs (some, at least) having feathers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Polar Bears

In 2013, 69-year-old Canadian Bill Ayotte attacked a polar bear with a shovel to save a stranger. They were both seriously injured, but survived, and he was awarded the Star of Courage, Canada's second highest award for bravery. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The U.S. Nuclear Missile Launch Crew

One motto of the U.S. nuclear missile launch crew is Death Wears Bunny Slippers. CREW NUC DEATH WEARS SLIPPERS BUNNY They spend their days on nuclear-alert duty in a small capsule, so they get comfortable -- which means wearing things like Snuggies and bunny slippers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Christmas

In Elizabethan England, they played a weird game after Christmas dinner. It was called shoe the mare, and it involved one person running around barefoot and acting like an unruly horse while everyone else tried to catch them. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Parrot Hero

In 2009, a parrot saved a child's life. The parrot repeated Mama, baby after his owner, Megan Howard, who was babysitting a toddler, walked out of the room and the toddler started choking on food. Howard came back in time and used the Heimlich maneuver to save the toddler. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Amoebas

This nightmare bug will eat your brain like a zombie. Naegleria fowleri is an amoeba that finds its way to your brain and destroys its tissues. It likes warm, fresh water, so be careful around water heaters and poorly maintained pools. CRACKED.COM

Nicole Kidman and Lenny Kravitz

Nicole Kidman was in a relationship with Lenny Kravitz in the 2000s. It was apparently pretty serious - they were engaged at one point - but they eventually split amicably. Some things just don't work, he said. CRACKED.COM

Benedict Arnold

There is a monument to General Benedict Arnold's injured foot in New York. GRAGKED.COM The Boot Monument is the only war memorial in the U.S. that doesn't name its honoree because of Ar- nold's offenses, but it does commemorate his contri- butions to our victory over the British.

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Weird Al

Weird Al Yankovic's Architecture Degree CRACKED.COM If Mr. Yankovic had gone into the profession he went to school for, do you think he'd be designing parodies of famous buildings?

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Jon Hamm

Jon Hamm DKAEL He spent a couple of years after college teaching high school drama, then slogged out an extremely middling acting career until he was

Bread

Bread actually predates agriculture by four thousand years. Archaeologists found the charred remains of 14-millennia-old bread at a hunter-gatherer si

GoldenEye

The Pentagon didn't like an American admiral succumbing to Xenia Onatopp's crushing thighs. Goldeneye wouldn't be allowed to use U.S. helicopters unless the nationality of the guy Onatopp literally fucks to death with her beastly legs changed. They thought he seemed too dumb. So Chuck Farrel was changed from an

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