33 Random Bits of Trivia Our Pleco Sucked Off the Inside of Our Fish Tank

Finding a Pleco in a big tank was actually harder than finding random facts
33 Random Bits of Trivia Our Pleco Sucked Off the Inside of Our Fish Tank

Good boy! is what we constantly tell our little suckerfish friend who helps us track down random facts. We were a little worried that the facts would all involve fish tanks somehow, but that clear tank of his helps him see so much more. 

Check out his latest haul below. Youre welcome for scrubbing the algae off them first. 

Japanese History Lessons

Japanese high school curriculum usually leaves out the early 1900s to WWII. CRACKED.CON Only 19 of the book's 357 pages dealt with events be- tween 1931 and 1945, said Mariko Oi, who attended high school in Tokyo. There was also just one sentence on the atomic bombings of Hiroshi- ma and Nagasaki.

The Triad

A Triad boss named Du Yuesheng was granted the rank of general in the Nationalist Chinese army. CRACKED.COM Не became head of the Opium Suppres- sion Bureau, which he used to seize opium to be sold by his own criminal organization.

Wendy’s Chocolate Frosty

Wendy's chocolate Frosty is actually half chocolate and half vanilla. CRACKED.COM Owner Dave Thomas thought full chocolate would be too over- powering a flavor paired with their burger and fries meal.

Heathrow Airport

A flying pig caused Heathrow Airport to cancel all their flights. CRACKED COM When Pink Floyd was de- signing the iconic 'Animals' album cover, the inflatable pig tied to Battersea Pow- er Station broke free. It fi- nally landed on a farm in Kent, where it frightened a herd of cows.

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel can reach down to 1,048,576 rows. Knjiga1 - Microsoft Excel Datoteka Polazno Umetanje tagled stranice Formula Podaci Pregled Prikaz Dodaci Optenito Uvjetno oblikovanje Umetni E Calibri 11 A A 2 % 000 Oblikuj kao tablicu Izbrisi Zalijepi в 1 U Sortira 5 Stillow celija Oblikuj e. fitriral Meduspremnik Font Poravnanje Stilovi Celije Bro Uredit & A1 A в с D E F G H I و K L M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 GRAGKED.COM YouTuber Hunter Hobbs spent nine and a half hours straight holding the down arrow down to scroll all

Peru

In 1992, Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori initiated a self-coup. CRACKED.COM Despite already being the democratic ruler of the country, he overthrew the Congress and Judiciary with military force and assumed full autocratic power.

Sam Neill

CRACKED.COM Sam Neill is a farmer. Everyone's favorite grumpy paleontogist runs Two Paddocks, a vineyard and farm where he doesn't raise dinosaurs, but the next best thing: animals named after his celebrity friends (so he won't be tempted to eat them). Appropriately, Jeff Goldblum is a horny ram.

Spider-Man

CRACKED.COM A Spider-Man musical was the most expensive Broadway production ever. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark was hugely ambitious - and that was its downfall. With the convoluted story being rewritten all the time, and performers constantly getting injured from the elaborate stunts, it didn't last long before it had to be seriously scaled down.

Al Capone

A jazz prodigy was kidnapped to play for Al Capone. In 1926, Thomas Fats Waller was forced into a car at gunpoint, only to have him perform at Capone's birthday for three days straight while trying not to pass out from exhaustion. It's a story more Chicago than the musical Chicago. CRACKED.COM

Eels

Eels have the weirdest sex life. European eels spend most of their lives without any reproductive organs - and when they finally develop them, their stomachs dissolve so they can no longer eat. Then they swim all the way to the Sargasso Sea, in the Atlantic Ocean, to bone (no one is sure how) and die. CRACKED.COM

Japan

In 1861, Japan had an illustrated history of America. CRACKED.COM It depicted, among other things, John Adams stabbing a giant snake, and George Washington punching a Ti- ger. It's no more fantastical than what they teach us in school, to be fair.

Lord Byron

Lord Byron drank wine from a skull. Byron's gardener unearthed an old, intact skull, which the British poet and proto-Goth had converted into a goblet. Then he founded the Order of the Skull, which was mostly about drinking claret from the thing with his friends while cracking dark jokes. CRACKED.COM

Octopuses

Captive octopuses need puzzles to keep their minds busy. Being the smartest invertebrates, octopuses need mental challenges in addition to food and a clean environment. Some aquariums keep their eight-legged guests happy and healthy by giving them puzzle boxes they have to solve to get to a treat. CRACKED COM

Sears

CRACKED.COM SEARS Sears was ruined by Ayn Rand's ideas. In 2008, Sears' CEO (and Rand fan) Eddie Lampert split the company into divisions ordered to selfishly compete against each other. The result was a steady death spiral that eventually led the century-old company to bankruptcy.

Nazis

A Nazi spy failed because he couldn't stop partying. In 1944, Germany sent Erich Gimpel and American-born William Colepaugh to the U.S. as spies. But Colepaugh wasted no time to start spending the funds for the mission on food, wine, and women. Не ended up leaving Gimpel behind and turning himself in to the FBI. CRACKED.COM

West Point

In the early 19th century, West Point's 1st year curriculum was just math and French. The best math textbooks at the time were in French, so students had to learn the language first. And they needed math because they were all military engineers -- West Point was the first engineering school in the U.S. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Mount Wingen in Australia

In Australia, there's a fire that started burning before the pyramids were built. A coal seam under the surface of Mount Wingen began smoldering 6,000 years ago, and hasn't stopped since. It's the world's oldest continuous coal fire. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Elysium

A lot of the time on the Elysium shoot, Matt Damon had to throw away what he was wearing at the end of the day. Many scenes were shot in Bordo Poniente in Mexico City, the second-largest garbage dump in the world. Just hanging out there had a very real risk of making you sick, and reusing clothes would have been a health hazard. CRACKED.COM

Moray Eels

Moray eels have two sets of jaws. The second set (pharyngeal jaws), located in the throat, rush forward when the eel's main jaws catch a fish and drag that fish down into the eel's gullet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin took communion on the Moon. Не left Earth with bread and wine in plastic packages, and a chalice. On the Moon, he requested a few moments of radio silence at one point and asked everyone listening to give thanks in his own individual way. For him, that meant taking the communion elements - which became the first food eaten on the Moon. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Teddy Roosevelt

Teddy Roosevelt is the only U.S. President to earn the Medal of Honor. Не won it in the 1898 Spanish-American War, in Cuba - - he led a cavalry charge that helped the U.S. win the war. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Helmut Kohl

German chancellor Helmut Kohl once charged at protesters. When an egg from a crowd of protesters hit him in 1991, Kohl ran into the crowd (while shouting You're a rabble!) so he could confront the person that threw the egg. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Fungi

Fungi are closer to animals than plants. Fungal proteins are more similar to animal proteins than plant proteins. Also, the cell walls of fungi are made of chitin, the same substance insect shells are made of - - but which no plants have. Also, cholesterol (found in animals) shares a component with ergesterol (found in fungi), but nothing in plants contains that component. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Ping-Pong

A ping-pong ball elected a state representative in 1994. Republican Randall Luthi and independent Larry Call both got exactly 1,941 votes, so according to state law, they drew lots to decide the winner -- in this case, ping-pong balls from a cowboy hat. Luthi was elected, and called it democracy at its best. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Bible

A 1631 Bible said Thou shalt commit adultery. Deut.5. 12 * Henour thy father and thy mother, tha 56mat. thy dayes may bee long vpon the land which th x5.4. Lord thy God giueth thee. ephe 6.20 13 * Thou fhalo not kill. k Matth. 14 Thou fhalt commit adultery. 5.28a X5 Thou fhaltnot freale. 16 Thou thalt not beare falle witneffe again chy neighbour. a Rom. 17 * Thou fhalt not couet thy nighbours house 7.70 thou fhalt not conet thy neighbours wite, nor HO hi moid Common The misprint was discovered a year after all one thousand copies

Citadels

As an anti-piracy measure, ships have panic rooms for the crew. They're called citadels and, according to recommendations published by the International Maritime Security Centre, they're supposed to contain food and water, communication with the outside world, and controls for switching off engines. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Schrödinger’s Cat Experiment

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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