13 Trivia Tidbits For Those Working Tirelessly
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Listen, much like muscles in your body, if you don't use your brain, you're gonna lose it. If you don't stimulate your synapses with regular input of new data, you're gonna end up forgetting how to remember anything… you may even forget how to forget!
So what can you do? Well, Cracked is here to help. You can keep your brain flexible and soak in some new data, new facts, new trivia in order to push your memory storage to new heights and limits. All of these new pieces of info we provide will compliment all the other things you've acquired over time, like other trivia, what your mother's face looks like, and how to breathe with your nose.
It's important to expand and flex your good buff brain with information about the world's largest diamond, the legal troubles of Gwenyth Paltrow's Goop website, and why children's pajamas have to be flame resistant by law! Don't just stand there! Scroll and read about them now!
![The guy who played Gunther on Friends got his job for one reason only. And that reason is simple: none of the other extras knew how to work an espresso machine, but he did, so he got promoted from extra to actor. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/7/802137.jpg)
![The '80s Soviet war movie Come and See actually used real ammunition. Apparently, it definitely added to the realism, as the actors really were scared shitless for good reason in scenes where bullets flew near them. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/1/802141.jpg)
![Lorde didn't actually sing the fake song they wrote for her in South Park. LO Sia actually sang Push (Feel Good on a Wednesday), the song they made up for the storyline where Randy Marsh turns out to be Lorde. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/2/802142.jpg)
![Turns out, Coca-Cola is really good at clearing out fiber from your intestines. Coca- RETOR REFRESCO 'CONT NO Cocar EECO That's according to a study that reports Coca-Cola alone can dissolve phytobezoars (indigestible plant fiber) in 50% of cases for specific patients. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/9/802139.jpg)
![In the original Hebrew and Greek text of the Bible, there was no apple. The fruit that Adam and Eve ate was just fruit. The first Latin translation called it malus, a pun - malus meant both apple and evil. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/3/802133.jpg)
![Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop had to face legal consequences for its marketing. For the wacky claims they made about their weird jade eggs (they can balance hormones, etc.), among other things, Goop was fined $145,000. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/2/802132.jpg)
![The largest diamond ever found, in 1905, is owned by Queen Elizabeth II. It weighs 3, 106 carats, and the only diamond that's come remotely close so far was a 1,758-carat one found in Botswana in 2019. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/6/802136.jpg)
![According to US regulations, children's sleepwear has to be flame resistant. And not just that, but it has to be able to self-extinguish if it accidentally gets set on fire by a lighter, match, candle, or something similar. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/8/802138.jpg)
![Justin Timberlake wasn't banned from the Grammys after Nipplegate. But Janet Jackson was - the Grammys were scheduled for the week after the Super Bowl, and both Timberlake and Jackson were supposed to present. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/3/802143.jpg)
![In Canada, commercial radio stations have a quota for Canadian content. RENWOOD Experience MEDIA CONTROL R.D.S CONTROL HDC-WHS27 17-77 mr3 U.U. www AM Sustem Turns out, at least 35% of the popular music played by commercial radio stations between 6 AM and 6 PM has to be Canadian - it's the law. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/0/802140.jpg)
![There's only one place in the world with platypuses besides Australia. And it's the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, which houses two platypuses - part of an effort to raise awareness for the platypus, the ZOO says. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/4/802144.jpg)
![Anna Nicole Smith actually didn't get any of her husband's money when he died. oor the NO I and 100 INTERNATIONAL FG128668408 smith is usually painted as a gold-digging vulture, but she wasn't a very good one - J. Howard Marshall left his entire fortune to his son. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/4/802134.jpg)
![They tried to get one of Castro's lovers to assassinate him, but it went all wrong. Castro found out about the plot to have his lover poison him, and dared her to kill him. She couldn't go through with it, and they ended up having sex instead. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/5/802135.jpg)