13 Movies, Science, And More Pieces Of Strangely Fascinating Trivia
![13 Movies, Science, And More Pieces Of Strangely Fascinating Trivia](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/1/761881_320x180.jpg)
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![Most clothes donated to charity end up being resold overseas. The five biggest markets for this are Poland, Ghana, Pakistan, Ukraine and Benin. NOW YO](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/8/761878.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![The Great Wall of China didn't actually work. Despite stretching over more than , miles, it never effectively kept invaders out of China. NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/2/761872.jpg)
Source: History.com
![In WWIl, part of the battleship Texas was intentionally flooded SO its guns could have more range. They needed the extra range while firing on German](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/7/761877.jpg)
Source: Houston Chronicle
![As placebo, doctors prescribe Obecalp (placebo spelled backwards). It's basically a sugar pill that pharmacists give you on the basis of a prescriptio](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/0/761870.jpg)
Source: WebMD
![A 130-ton clump of fat, wet wipes, nappies, oil and condoms' blocked a London sewer in 2017. The authorities said removing the fatberg would take](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/9/761879.jpg)
Source: BBC News
![Tolkien was 100% against the Lord of the Rings trilogy being published in paperback. In 1964, when a publisher offered to put them out in paperback fo](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/3/761873.jpg)
Source: Kirkus Reviews
![In 2003, Microsoft forgot to renew the hotmail.co.uk domain. TM Hotmail A random person snapped it up, SO Microsoft had to go to them and ask very nic](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/9/761869.jpg)
Source: The Register
![Med school teaches you basically nothing about nutrition. During their time in med school, the average student gets a total of 19.6 hours of education](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/1/761871.jpg)
Source: 6 Horrifying Things The Nutrition Industry Won't Tell You
![Alfred Hitchcock helped inspire Guardians of the Galaxy. Alfred Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST The scene where Nebula's flying craft runs down Gamora](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/4/761874.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![Danny DeVito kept a weird memento from Batman Forever. Tim Burton gave him a painting of this little creature on a yellow ball with red and white str](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/8/761868.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
![The John Wick creators had a hand in making Captain America: Civil War. Chad Stahelski and David Leitch were second unit directors, and they designed](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/5/761875.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![Mr. Rogers helped launch the zombie movie genre. A lot of Pittsburghers in the movie business got their start on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood -- including](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/7/761867.jpg)
Source: SFGate, ScreenRant
![The first dinosaur fossil was named Scrotum humanum. Serotamlumanum 317 In 1763, physician Richard Brookes gave that name to a dinosaur bone fragment](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/6/761876.jpg)
Source: BBC News