16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home
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The universe is a strange and fascinating place. You may not be aware of so many subtle features if you look around. We've put together a selection of interesting and entertaining facts to help you broaden your horizons. Basic knowledge is important information obtained from a variety of social networks about a society's culture, human civilization, community in general, our nation's social needs. This isn't specialist knowledge on a single issue; rather, it's understanding of every facet of human existence, including current events, style, relationships, wellness, and the sciences.
Although gaining basic knowledge requires work and attention, many human characteristics as well as skills, including intellect, issue, optimism, or accessibility, are measured by one's broad information. Furthermore, broad knowledge contributes to personal development, civic responsibility, and a better society.
You desire to discover new things. That's very understandable. Fret no more, because our knowledge delivery service has arrived, bringing the sweet info to you. Please feast yourself on our delicious collection of random information. Good luck with your meal.
![King Edward I refused Scotland's surrender to fire his trebuchet. In 1306, Edward Longshanks ordered the building of a huge- ass trebuchet, in order to break the defenses of Stirling Castle and end the Scottish rebellion. The Scots tried to surrender when they saw this medieval Death Star - -but Eddie](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/2/772182.jpg)
![Tom Holland learned on social media that he was Spider-Man After a grueling seven months of auditioning, Holland finally learned that he landed the part - not through a call from his agent, but while scrolling on Marvel's Instagram account, just like any random person. Only later did the studio reach](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/8/772178.jpg)
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![SNL put Leia in a gold bikini years before George Lucas did. In 1978, Fisher hosted SNL dressed as Princess Leia. During a beach skit, Leia beams down (yeah, let's ignore that part) and takes off her robes, revealing her bathing suit a gold bikini. This was five years before](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/3/772173.jpg)
![The Ninja Turtles caused Hitler's death. Archie Comics' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures was supposed to be closer to the cartoon than to the bloody source material. And yet, it featured plotlines like the turtles going back in time, kicking Hitler's ass, and spooking him into shooting himself.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/7/772177.jpg)
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![Being a hardcore fan can be bad for your esteem. There's nothing wrong about being a fan of something, and it can be for you in moderation. If fandom becomes too large a part of your identity, your sense of self-worth will take a hit when your heroes release](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/4/772174.jpg)
![For a hot second, the Flash was called Flush Man in Argentina. #l In the '90s, Argentinian publisher Perfil scored the rights to print DC's comics - except that, as there was a magazine titled Flash, they called the hero Flush Man, accidentally making him poop-related. Everyone hated the stupid name](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/1/772171.jpg)
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![A “bootleg” version of The Karate Kid was made by the same crew. Before shooting The Karate Kid, director John Avildsent shot a rehearsal version of the entire film using a camcorder. The thing looks like a cheap fan remake somehow featuring the original cast -- and you can watch it on YouTube.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/1/772181.gif)
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![The test run for D-Day was as deAdly as the actual D-Day. Exercise Tiger was a full-scale practice landing, performed on a British beach and through a combination of live ammunition, bureaucratic screwups, and German boats showing up uninvited, hundreds died. The entire operation was covered up and forgotten about](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/9/772179.jpg)
![HBO's first original programming was polka. Back when it was a regional TV provider that only broadcast movies nine hours a day, HBO first flexed their production muscles by broadcasting the Pennsylvania Polka Festival in 1973. It was a really long way to robot cowboys and dragon boobs.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/0/772170.jpg)
![The NYPD employs beekeepers. Bees can't break the law (we hope), but as many New Yorkers keep bees on their rooftops, the lil' buzzers often swarm and cause trouble. When that happens, the police will send one in of their beekeeper copS - not to shoot at the bees (again, we](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/3/772183.jpg)
![The NRA used to be pro-gun control (albeit for racist reasons). Only in the '70s did the NRA become the advocate for gun rights we know today. For much of their history, they held the opposite view and pushed for stricter gun regulation Except that this was in part to](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/2/772172.jpg)
![Fraternities Back in the 18th century, born college societies were less were about keg, togas, and as literary hazing, and more about societies. debating topics like politics, literature, and religion. The first fraternal organization as we know them today, Phi Beta Kappa Society, was established in 1776, and more soon](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/0/772180.jpg)
![30 Rock's gay bomb was real. It isn't just some absurdist joke - it really happened. In 1994, the U.S. Air Force commissioned a laboratory to experiment with pheromones and aphrodisiacs as a weapon, to cause homosexual behavior among the enemy. Unsurprisingly, the project never got funded.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/9/772169.jpg)
![The Crips began as a neighborhood watch. According to Stanley Tookie Williams, he started recruiting other boys to form a watch against the street gangs that troubled South Central LOs Angeles. Eventually, Tookie's group gained strength and became the Crips, one of the largest gangs in the world themselves. Oops.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/5/772175.jpg)
![Morrissey won an award for how awful he is at writing sex. You know Morrissey for his music, and if you're lucky, you don't know him as a writer. His 2015 novel List of the Lost won the Literary Review's Bad Sex Award, for its hypothetically sexy run-on sentences. The](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/8/772168.jpg)
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![Con Air was written as an indy drama. In script form, the movie was a little character- driven piece. Then it landed on the desk of Jerry Bruckheimer, Hollywood's biggest let's just blow s#!t up producer in the '9os. The movie was tweaked accordingly, becoming an explosion-packed blockbuster starring Nicolas](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/6/772176.jpg)