13 Fun Bits Of Trivia To Make You A More Interesting Conversationalist
![13 Fun Bits Of Trivia To Make You A More Interesting Conversationalist](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/5/789455_320x180.jpg)
Conversations: they’re hard to hold and really are only good for making you sweaty and nervous. “You” in this case being “us.” Yeah, we admit, we are, quite frankly, total garbage at having conversations – so bad in fact that in high school we were voted “least likely to ever have in laws because who would ever want to try talking to them?” It’s a very specific category that we later found out was made just for us. Since then, we’ve tried and tried to up our success rate at conversing, and we have finally cracked (heh) the code: just say random, interesting nuggets of knowledge! Something to make the person go “hrm, that’s very interesting.” Here, we have a good one to start: when they needed a belch sound effect for Revenge of the Nerds, they took a camel’s orgasm and started with that. Here’s the full story, plus 12 others:
![The Tiananmen Square protests could have delayed The Little Mermaid. A The studio that drew the bubbles in the movie was based a few blocks away from the Square, and their work was trapped there until the protests were over. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/8/789468.jpg)
Source: Screenrant
![One New York City alley usually stands in for the rest of them in Hollywood movies. NYC only has about 5 alleys, and you can usually only film in Cortlandt Alley, so that's the one that ends up playing a NYC alley in most movies. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/7/789467.jpg)
Source: Gothamist
![The first seven Fast and Furious movies wrecked over a thousand cars - the number is 1,487. If you included the cars from the 8th and 9th movie, plus the ones from Hobbs & Shaw, the total number might cross the 2,000 figure. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/6/789466.jpg)
Source: Top Speed
![Booger's winning belch in Revenge of the Nerds came from an animal - specifically, a camel. They took the sound of a camel having an orgasm and mixed it with a human belch to get the truly amazing seven-second sound in the movie. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/5/789465.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
![When Katy Perry was new in LA, she pretended she was Zooey Deschanel. She only did it to get into clubs she was an absolute nobody at the time (and was broke, too), but Zooey Deschanel was a huge star. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/4/789464.jpg)
Source: Billboard.com
![Two legendary race car drivers fueled their exploits with drug money. 2 RESERVE NUMERO Easter the for A philippe 22 salvet Turbolader Shell The Whittington brothers bought a historical racetrack, and used it to land planes that smuggled drugs in the middle of the night from Latin America. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/3/789463.jpg)
Source: DriveTribe
![SOS actually isn't an acronym and it's not - really a word as such, either. It was just chosen because it stands out easily in Morse code, which was needed back when Morse code was heavily used for ship communication. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/2/789462.jpg)
Source: Reader's Digest
![Sudan has over 200 pyramids, and the oldest are from about 2500 BC. There are also burial chambers, tombs, and temples -- all those buildings are concentrated at three sites: Meroe, Jebel Barkal, and EI Kurru. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/1/789461.jpg)
Source: The Conversation
![Hitler had a plan to raze Berlin when he won WWII, and rebuild it as a new city: Germania. Germania would be the capital of the 1,000-year-Reich and it would be comparable only to ancient Egypt, Babylon or Rome. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/0/789460.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![Lightning can actually be much hotter than the surface of the sun, somehow. A bolt of lightning coming up from the ground (a return stroke) can get as hot as 50,000 degrees F, and the surface of the sun is about 11,000 degrees F. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/9/789459.jpg)
Source: NASA
![The French Navy used Cleopatra's daughter's mausoleum for target practice. Luckily, the mausoleum was mostly unharmed - and when Emperor Napoleon III visited, much later, he demanded that it be preserved. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/8/789458.jpg)
Source: Atlas Obscura
![Platypus milk has a strange protein that has unique antibacterial properties. The protein has a three-dimensional fold that's totally unique, and that fold apparently gives it its unusual antibacterial properties. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/7/789457.jpg)
Source: Csiro.au
![Crispin Glover sued the studio for using his face mold in Back to the Future II. They used the mold (from the first movie) to make the replacement actor look like Glover, and that was a step too far for him, so he sued. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/6/789456.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter