28 Foraging Bits of Trivia That Are Looking at Your Brain Like A Ripe Blueberry Patch

These want your brain as much as it wants them
28 Foraging Bits of Trivia That Are Looking at Your Brain Like A Ripe Blueberry Patch

You might think that your brain’s relationship with random facts is a one-way street, but it’s more mutually beneficial than that. Facts want to be wanted. They get a deep sense of satisfaction knowing that a nice brain like yours gets excited to take in what they have to offer. 

We even caught them checking their hair before your brain got here.

Hawks

Rufus the Hawk has been employed by Wimbledon for 15 years to scare about pigeons. The All England Club em- ploys Rufus to patrol their 42-acre grounds through- out the year, with daily vis- its during the two weeks of The Championships and the 2012 Summer Olym- pics. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 over a book about code breaking. She wrote a novel in 1941 about WWII code breaking featuring a character named Major Bletchley, un- aware that there was a then-secret code-breaking facility in Bletchley Park. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Taxonomy

The father of modern taxonomy fled Hamburg after debunking the mayor's taxidermied hydra. Carl Linnaeus stopped in the German town and was presented the supposed remains of a seven-headed hydra, which Linnaeus identified as being cob- bled together with weasel and snake parts. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Germany

There is a meme for German internet users to pretend the town of Bielefeld does not exist. The town in fact decid- ed to put out a press re- lease in 1999 confirming their existence, but they did so on April 1st, only further perpetuating the meme. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Snails

Marine snails' teeth are the strongest natural material on the Earth. Using a tooth-studded tongue called a radula, limpets grind down rock as they feed. They can withstand pressures high enough to turn carbon into diamond. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Raw Meat

A Cannibal sandwich consisting of raw beef and onion on rye bread is a Milwaukee Christmas tradition. The tradition likely goes back to the northern Euro- peans who settled in the state, but has been waning in popularity, and the USDA has come out to say it is unsafe to eat the raw delicacy. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

JFK

John F. Kennedy's dog had puppies with the offspring of a Soviet space dog. Strelka, who had spent a day aboard Sputnik 2, had a puppy that was present- ed to JFK in 1961. The dog, Pushinka, and Charlie, the White House dog, had four puppies that JFK referred to as pupniks. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Long-Distance Phone Calls

In 1898, Congress passed a tax on long-distance calls to pay for the Spanish-American War. a The war ended 4 months later, but the tax remained in place for over 100 years. On Au- gust 1, 2006, the IRS an- nounced it would no longer collect the tax. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Roosters

A rooster was sentenced to be burned at the stake in 1474. The rooster was put on tri- al in the city of Basel for the heinous and unnatural crime of laying an egg, which the townspeople were concerned was spawned by Satan and contained a cockatrice. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

South Africa

The South African province of Free State spent $4 million for a website that is hosted on Wordpress. The website is powered by the free blogging plat- form and according to developers is based on a theme called London Live Wordpress Theme, which costs only $40. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Driving Tests

If you fail your practical driving test three times in Switzerland, you have to visit a psychologist. An official psychologist in Berne will assess the rea- sons for your previous fail- ures. Once the psycholo- gist reports that you are once again ready to take the exam, you can try again. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Diamond Engagement Rings

The diamond engagement ring was invented by an ad campaign in the 1930s. Before that few Americans proposed with the precious stone, and the price of dia- mond was falling. Now, 3/4ths of American brides wear a diamond engage- ment ring, which costs an average of $4,000. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Air Traffic

Air traffic controllers get a break every 2 hours. 2A When controllers re- main on position for more than 2 hours without a break, per- formance can deterio- rate rapidly, even at low traffic levels. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Radiology

A radiological laboratory research worker committed suicide in 1960 by radiation poisoning. 3 The 19-year-old took a capsule containing cesi- um-137 and put it in his left pants pocket for 5 hours, then shifted it around his abdomen and back for 15 hours. Не died after 15 days. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Cows

Dairy cows typically are born with horns and they are de-horned when young. Dairy farmers over- time use selective breeding to eliminate the recessive gene that causes horns in both male and female cattle. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Crocodiles

Crocodiles can gallop at 11 miles per hour. GRACKED COM crocodiles have the full range of quadru- pedal footfall patterns used by mammals, meaning that they have the ability to gal- lop like a horse.

The Internet

7 people hold the keys to the internet. CRACKED.COM These seven digital keys, held by handpicked securi- ty experts, create a master key, which in turn controls one of the central security measures at the core of the web.

Newborns

Newborns can't cry until they are one to three months old. CRACKED.COM Ok, they can (and will) scream bloody murder, but they can't produce tears until their tear ducts fully develop, which takes a few weeks after birth.

Naps

Naps reduce the risk of a heart attack. CRACKED.COM Those who regularly nap were found to be 37 per- cent less likely to die from a heart attack or other cor- onary ailment. A midday nap can also help you be more creative and focused.

Household Chores

Men do less household chores after marriage. CRACKED.COM A survey of 17,000 peo- ple across 28 countries found that after mar- riage, the amount of time a man spends doing chores on a weekly basis decreases significantly.

Forks

Using a bigger fork may lead you to eat less. CRACKED.COM Smaller forkfuls of food lead diners to feel they are not making much of a dent in consuming their food, and, hence, satisfy- ing their hunger, accord- ing to researchers at the University of Utah.

Fish

One-third of all fish sold in restaurants and grocery stores is mislabeled. CRACKED.COM This is often to deliberate- ly mislead consumers and get them to buy more ex- pensive fish. Snapper was found to be mislabeled 87 percent of the time, tuna was mislabeled 59 percent.

Brains

Humans are the only animals whose brains shrink as they age. GRACKED.COM Even close evolutionary relatives like chimpanzees and rhesus monkeys don't show signs of brain shrink- age, which makes us in- creasingly vulnerable to cognitive dysfunctions.

New Hampshire

New Hampshire drinks almost twice as much as other states. CRACKED.COM The national average, from the National Institute on Al- cohol Abuse and Alcohol- ism, is 2.35 gallons of alco- hol a year per capita. New Hamshirians obliterated this by chugging 4.76 gallons per capita in 2016.

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