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13 Little-Known Facts To Nourish Our Knowledge-Hungry Noggins

By:: Andrea Meno

October 25, 2021

13 Little-Known Facts To Nourish Our Knowledge-Hungry Noggins

A Godfather actor actually, uh, killed a guy in Las Vegas in real life. Here’s the full story, plus 12 others:

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There's a biblical Easter egg of sorts hidden on The Matrix' Nebuchadnezzar. MARKETT NO NEBUCHADNEYZ MADE INTERNALA A plaque on the ship says Mark III, No. 11 - and Mark 3:11 mentions spirits crying You are the son of God, a likely reference to Neo. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The massive, 25-pound apple pie in La La Land has kind of a weird inspiration. Ryan Gosling brought a 25-pound apple pie to a dinner party in real life, and that inspired the massive pie stuck in the oven during Mia and Sebastian's dinner. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The guy who played Carlo Rizzi in The Godfather actually killed a person. Gianni Russo owned a restaurant in Las Vegas for a while, and he shot a guy there in 1988 - the court ruled it justifiable homicide. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a documented (and filmed) case of a spider eating an opossum. It happened in the Amazon rainforest, when some researchers spotted it - the spider was, of course, a tarantula the size of a dinner plate. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the Sahara, there's a 30-mile-wide feature that was useful to astronauts. Early astronauts used the Richat Structure, which is shaped like a bull's-eye, as a landmark when they crossed the sky over the Sahara. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The world's tallest cat-scratching tree is about as big as someone's house. It's over 32 feet high, and its bottom layer - shaped like a square is 31.59 feet by 31.59 feet. The whole structure has a total of 15 layers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The country with the greatest number of time zones isn't, say, Russia or China. It's France - because of its many overseas territories, scattered from South America to the Indian ocean, France spreads over 12 time zones. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Singer Chubby Checker sued HP over the app called, uh, Chubby Checker. The app did exactly what you thought it does: it estimated the size of your dong (based on your shoe size), and Chubby wasn't happy about it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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You can thank WWI for introducing the fashion of wearing a watch on your wrist. FOSSIL the Before that, men usually wore watches in their pockets - but soldiers had to wear them on their wrists, so they could coordinate instantly. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the country of Kosovo, you can hire a professional Hitler impersonator. Emin Gjinovci is a 55-year-old military vet who calls himself Kosovo's own reincarnation of Adolf Hitler and partly relies on playing Hitler to make a living. CRACKED.COM — Source

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One of the finest delicacies you could eat in ancient Rome was a dormouse. Romans thought they were so delicious, they kept dormice in cages to fatten them like geese - and they'd be stuffed with pork before being served. CRACKED.COM — Source

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As a rehearsal for the very first atomic bomb test, they stacked 100 tons of TNT. Trinity Well, 108 tons, to be exact - and they detonated them simultaneously in May, 1945, two months before the real thing: Trinity, the first nuclear explosion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mice don't really love cheese at all-it's just - a pop culture myth, basically. And it's much older than, say, Tom & Jerry, for that matter - scholars actually think it probably dates all the way back to medieval times. CRACKED.COM — Source

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