13 Bits Of Trivia To Break The Ice In Any Conversation
![13 Bits Of Trivia To Break The Ice In Any Conversation](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/0/788040_320x180.jpg)
We've all been there: you're at your first overnight summer camp, around a bunch of strangers, and some camp counselor bro in a polo shirt and puka shell and cargo shorts necklace is all like: “alright kids! It's time to do some ice breakers!” Then we grew up, entered adulthood, and realized that the aforementioned bro? He's got a suit and tie on, and he's you're boss now, as in the person signing your paychecks, and he has 100% leaned into icebreakers as a totally rad and cool thing that doesn't cause anyone anxiety.
Fortunately for you, we here at Cracked understand that anxiety very much, in case the details in that previous paragraph didn't make it obvious what we've been discussing with our therapists lately. That's why we're here to give you a whole mess of interesting facts that will make anyone at your new job (or sleepeaway camp, if we ever get time machines and you wanna settle old grudges) say “wow, what an interesting person!”
If you go to the town of Chicxulub Puerto, Mexico, you’ll be able to visit the site where the dinosaur-killing meteor fell. Here’s the full story, plus 14 others:
![Charlie Chaplin was told The Great Dictator might be censored in the US and UK. He was making it when Hitler was basically getting either appeased or ignored, so people at his studio thought no government would show it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/3/788053.jpg)
Source: BBC
![The grocery store from The Truman Show is a real place, and you can visit it. Huntin North from Munt's your S The store, in Seaside, FL, still looks a lot like it did in the movie - the leaning ladder is still there, and so is the clerk, Charlie Modica, Jr. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/0/788050.jpg)
Source: 30a.com
![Airplane! is basically just the 1957 movie Zero Hour, but with jokes added. 10 They lifted not only lines of dialogue, but incidents, plot points, and character names. They bought the rights to Zero Hour to avoid getting in trouble. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/5/788045.jpg)
Source: Gizmodo
![The actress who played the farmer's wife in Babe was actually really young. Magda Szubanski was only 34, but her on-screen husband was 55 - so she spent a lot of time in makeup so she could convincingly pass as his wife. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/2/788052.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
![In London, they built a clear glass pool as a bridge between two buildings. The pool is 115 above the street, is 82 feet long and 10 feet deep, and it bridges the space between two residential apartment buildings. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/1/788051.jpg)
Source: CNN
![You can easily scare off ordinary moths just by shaking your keys at them. The shaking emits sonar that's a lot like the sonar produced by bats, so the moth thinks there are predators nearby and quickly dives to the ground. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/6/788046.jpg)
Source: UF/IFAS Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Department
![Wiz Khalifa made himself unwelcome in Colombia by glorifying Escobar. On a visit to Medellin, he left flowers at Pablo Escobar's grave - - the mayor called him That scoundrel and said he's no longer welcome there. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/9/788049.jpg)
Source: CNN
![The USSR's Tsar bomba released energy in the order of 57 megatons. Which is over 1,500 times more than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined . the explosion from its blast wave went around the Earth three times. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/7/788047.jpg)
Source: BBC
![The crater from the meteor that killed the dinosaurs is in Mexico. Specifically, the center of the crater -- where the meteor hit - is buried about two-thirds of a mile beneath the town of Chicxulub Puerto. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/4/788044.jpg)
Source: BBC
![In fruit flies, slow sperm actually does pretty well and outcompetes fast sperm. Sperm cells attempt to eject their rivals after each mating, and long and slow sperm cells are better at staying around and ejecting their rivals. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/8/788048.jpg)
Source: Syracuse University
![Beavers build dams once they're triggered by the sound of running water. Hearing that sound through a speaker is enough -- in an experiment, they started building a dam over the speaker that played it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/2/788042.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
![Red Bull was invented in Thailand, and it was big among truck drivers and laborers. 9TOZOBACZYC. RedBull Created in the '70s and called Krathing Daeng (Red Bull in Thai), it became a global brand in the '80s once an Austrian businessman got involved. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/1/788041.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![The Godfather's score got nominated, then de-nominated, for an Oscar. 0000000*00 After its nomination, they found out composer Nino Rota already used part of it for a 1958 Italian movie, which made it ineligible. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/3/788043.jpg)
Source: Classical-music.com