13 Little-Known Facts To Nourish Our Knowledge-Hungry Noggins
![13 Little-Known Facts To Nourish Our Knowledge-Hungry Noggins](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/3/796643_320x180.jpg)
In order to understand the world around us, it is necessary to first understand what facts are. Facts are pieces of information that can be verified and are not open to interpretation. They can be used to help make decisions, form opinions, and debate issues. In order to make sure that the decisions we make and the opinions we have are based on accurate information, it is important to use reliable sources when gathering facts. There are many different ways to find facts, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses.
As we go about our everyday lives, we often take for granted the things that we know. We might not stop to think about the vast amount of information that is stored in our brains, waiting to be drawn upon when needed. There are some interesting, little-known facts about the world that most of us don't know. And, we're not just talking about random trivial bits of information here. No, these are facts that can genuinely help to nourish our knowledge-hungry noggins. So, if you're keen to learn something new today (or any day), read on for some top-notch trivia!
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/3/796653.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/1/796651.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/5/796655.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/6/796656.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/4/796654.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/0/796650.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/2/796652.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/8/796648.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/9/796649.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/7/796647.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/6/796646.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/5/796645.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/4/796644.jpg)