14 Random Facts to Shovel into Knowledge-Hungry Skulls
![14 Random Facts to Shovel into Knowledge-Hungry Skulls](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/8/798468_320x180.jpg)
Facts, by definition, are always interesting. They are a collection of data that describes some aspect of the world around us objectively. Facts can be backed up by research and evidence, making them a reliable source of information. However, facts can also be used to manipulate and mislead people. In the hands of a skilled politician or marketing executive, facts can be twisted to suit their own purposes. So it's important to be critical when consuming information and to question the motives of those who are presenting the facts. But even with all of that said, there's no denying that facts are always interesting. They give us a window into the world around us and help us to understand the complex systems that make up our Universe. Whether you love them or hate them, you can't deny that facts are always interesting.
Have you had one of those days where you just can't seem to focus on anything? You're sitting in class, and your mind keeps drifting away from the professor's lecture. Or you're at work, and you can't seem to concentrate on the task at hand. You might be wondering why this is happening and what you can do about it. Well, it might be because your brain is hungry! Here are some random facts to help feed your brain matter so that you can get back to being focused and productive. Enjoy!
![CLUE HAD A FOURTH, LOST ENDING. The Clue movie was supposed to have four different endings, not three, but one was scrapped for unknown reasons. No footage has survived, but what little records exist show it was a very dark ending, with Wadsworth the butler killing everyone.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/6/798466.jpg)
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![FANS KEEP THROWING PIZZA ON THE BREAKING BAD HOUSE. Your home becoming famous on TV is less fun than you think. Just ask the real owners of Walter White's house in Albuquerque, who keep getting pizza thrown onto their roof. Things got SO bad, they put up a six-foot fence around their property.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/0/798460.jpg)
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![ROBOTIC MONSTER WOLVES PROTECT CROPS IN JAPAN. With local wolves hunted to extinction 200 years ago, boars and deer have become a nuisance to farmers. A modern solution is Super Monster Wolf, an animatronic, solar-powered scareboar that keeps animals (and probably people) at bay.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/7/798457.jpg)
![EAT PRAY LOVE AND COYOTE UGLY ARE ABOUT THE SAME PERSON. Author Elizabeth Gilbert was played by Julia Roberts in Eat Pray Love and Piper Perabo in Coyote Ugly is also Gilbert (kind of). The movie about table-dancing bartenders is based on an article by Gilbert about her time working in the Coyote Ugly Saloon.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/7/798467.jpg)
![PALPATINE WAS A WOMAN WITH A CHIMP'S EYES. lan McDiarmid has become so iconic as Palpatine that it's easy to forget the part was originally played by someone else. In the theatrical version of The Empire strikes Back, the Emperor was actress Marjorie Eaton in heavy makeup, with chimpanzee eyes composited on top of her face.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/5/798465.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM 101 DALMATIANS HAS A SEQUEL ABOUT A DOG RAPTURE. In The Starlight Barking, written by the same author as the original book, all dogs gain the ability to levitate and telepathically talk, as Sirius the Dog Star tries to save them from nuclear war. Also, there's a subplot about a cat trying to murder Cruella de Vil.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/1/798461.jpg)
![THE WATCHMEN TV SHOW DID TELL US WHO LUBE MAN IS. Like in the comic, a lot of the backstory is in written documents' and in this case it's Peteypedia, a companion website kept in- universe by FBI agent/fan of vigilantes Dale Petey. The last entry very heavily implies that Petey himself was the mysterious Lube Man who puzzled viewers.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/9/798459.jpg)
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![SOME ANTS MAKE HONEY. Bees aren't the only honey-making bug. There are other insects on the list - including honeypot ants. These ants don't keep the sweet juice in hives, though they store it within themselves, swelling up to the size of delicious, legged olives.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/2/798462.jpg)
![OTTO LILIENTHAL FLEW BEFORE THE WRIGHT BROTHERS. Lillienthal, a German engineer, completed 2,000 flights with different gliders. His death (while flying) inspired the Wright Brothers to try it themselves, and Lillienthal's designs formed the basis of their research.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/3/798463.jpg)
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![GREEK WRESTLING WAS HARDCORE AS HELL. Pankration was a form of wrestling with pretty much no rules practiced in Ancient Greece. Arrhachion, a celebrity pankratiast, was choked to death during a bout - only to be declared the winner, as his opponent submitted at the last second. Greeks loved this brutally dramatic shit.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/4/798464.jpg)
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![A ROCK CARVING IN CHINA IS THE WORLD'S OLDEST PORN. The Kangjiashimenji Petroglyphs, carved into ancient volcanic rock in the second millennium BCE, represent a huge orgy, er, fertility ritual. The scene depicts about 100 ithyphallic persons (ithyphallic being a technical term meaning sporting a boner).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/4/798454.jpg)
![SOME OF THE FIRST TAXIS WERE ELECTRIC. Electric cars aren't a modern innovation - they competed with fuel-powered cars in the early days of automobile production. The first taxi company in New York City used a fleet of electric cars when it was founded in the 1890s.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/8/798458.jpg)
![THE QUESTION ABOUT A TREE MAKING SOUND WASN'T A PHILOSOPHICAL CONUNDRUM. In any case, it wasn't intended as one. When the question was first posed in 1883, it came with the answer, No. Sound is the sensation excited in the ear when the air or other medium is set in motion.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/5/798455.jpg)
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![EARTH WAS ONCE A RAINY PLANET. 235 million years ago, the supercontinent Pangaea was mostly dry and arid. Then volcanic activity changed the climate, and it started raining for two million years. This was the Carnian Pluvial Episode, and the resulting fossil and rock deposits have blown geologists' minds for years.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/6/798456.jpg)
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