13 Scrumptious Facts To Fill Out Our Mental Pantry
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t can be difficult to be upbeat in an office, particularly once you're trapped inside practically all of the time. This can make us dull, but If you understand where to search, there are limitless interesting and entertaining trivia pieces that can immediately perk your spirits.
Prepare yourself for a brainy dose of unexpected entertaining facts that would make you wonder about anything you assumed you knew about the universe.
Some people consider useless information to be cool, fantastic, and interesting facts that contribute to making the world a more exciting and astonishing place. Are you one of the people who have a knack for stumbling onto unexpected nuggets of information? If that's the case, be ready to get your buttons pushed by these fascinating, entertaining facts that will astonish both adults and children.
The brain is similar to a muscle in that it requires regular stimulation to thrive. Stimulation, for example, in the form of facts such as...
![The iconic Ferrari in Ferris Bueller's Day Off was actually a total fake. The real thing was too expensive (plus, trashing it would be a crime of some kind), so they built a replica. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/5/804865.jpg)
![The house from The Goonies got so many visitors, it drove the owners nuts. So, at point, they covered it with blue tarp - not that unreasonably, considering they couldn't get much peace otherwise. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/3/804863.jpg)
![The creator of Mantis is pretty unhappy about what the MCU did to the character. That character has nothing to do with Mantis, Steve Englehart said. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/1/804861.jpg)
![An absolutely tremendous meteor shower fell on the Earth back in 1833. Apparently, in Boston, there were about half as many meteors as there were snow flakes in your average snowstorm. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/5/804855.jpg)
![Maybe the most effective carbon sink on the Earth is peat - not trees. Peatland stores 42% of all carbon in soil, which is more any other type of vegetation, including forests. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/6/804866.jpg)
![The guy who invented the computer password had one stolen from him. . It happened in 1961, the year after he invented it - and the thief was a colleague of his, who wanted more time on the computer. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/4/804864.jpg)
![In the Viking age, women could own property and get a divorce. Which kind of sounds basic, but it was surprisingly progressive for that time. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/4/804854.jpg)
![The oldest known wheel was found in the European country of Slovenia. It's between 5,100 and 5,350 years old, and possibly the first wheel that wasn't re-invented. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/7/804857.jpg)
![You can find some actual fish fossils way, way up high in the Himalayas. Which sounds pretty weird, but it's simple - hundreds of millions of years ago, the valley with the fossils was an ocean bed. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/2/804862.jpg)
![Way, way before he became president, FDR was in an anti-gay operation. The Sex Scandal of 1919, that FDR was involved in, was an effort to catch men in the Navy who were having sex with other men. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/0/804860.jpg)
![In Milwaukee, there are toilets buried in bunkers somewhere underneath boulevards. They were originally built for gardeners and seasonal workers - today, though, there's not much need for them. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/8/804858.jpg)
![Every year, all of The Netherlands observes a two-minute period of silence. It's called Remembrance Day, and it falls on May 4, when the Dutch commemorate fallen soldiers since the start of WWII. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/9/804859.jpg)
![It turns out that the country of Iran is a major market for American bull semen. In fact, Iran appreciates American bull semen so much, the US is easily the #1 exporter of bull semen to Iran. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/6/804856.jpg)