14 Random Facts That Show We Have a Lot Left to Learn About the World
![14 Random Facts That Show We Have a Lot Left to Learn About the World](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/4/806204_320x180.jpg)
It's fun to learn new things, isn't it? It's like you've become an evolved, more powerful version of yourself once you obtain a new piece of information. Even if the new info isn't anything that you could apply to your day to day existence, it still boosts you into a better spot than you were before you learned that fact. As every new fact enters your brain through your eyes and ears, you get closer and closer to becoming an all-knowing being, a mere step below perfection.
Knowing why Al Pacino takes roles in bad movies adds more strength to your mind. Knowing that the movie Titanic actually saved lives is another synapse being forged in fire within your brain. On top of that, knowing how pandas are actually worse at staying alive than you initially thought will help you achieve Super Saiyan levels of knowledge.
Get your brain buffed with those facts and others below.
B-Plan Movie
![Star Wars planned for a low-budget sequel. In case his space movie didn't take off, George Lucas had plans in place for a sequel with a much smaller scope. Titled Splinter of the Mind's Eye, it took place almost entirely on a jungle planet. The story eventually became the first Star Wars novel.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/4/806194.jpg)
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Pacino's Challenge
![Al Pacino takes parts in bad movies to make them better. When you've been a respected actor for as long as Pacino, you need to find new challenges - and for him, it's to try to make sucky movies less sucky. I'm starting to want to do films that aren't really very good and try to make them better, he has said.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/2/806202.jpg)
More: Al Pacino Stars In Bad Movies Hoping To Make Them Good
Monster Goldfish
![Goldfish become kaiju in the wild. Strip away the branding, and goldfish are just a type of carp - and carp grow as big as their environment lets them get away with. If you release them in a big lake with no natural predators, they'll become huge monsters and wreak havoc in the local ecosystem. So please don't.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/8/806198.jpg)
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Uncool Nick Tesla
![Nikola Tesla was into eugenics. What's not to love about Tesla? Well, there's the fact that he was very for eugenics. Around the 1930s, he started writing some pretty disturbing ideas on how to treat the mentally ill and criminals, and arguing for forced sterilization. Yeah, better to remember him as an inventor.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/5/806205.jpg)
Drunk Machine
![Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted the Terminator to get drunk. Schwarzenegger suggested a scene where the Terminator becomes intrigued by a beer can, so he drinks it and gets tipsy. James Cameron had to explain to him, It's a machine, Arnold. It's not a human being. It's not E.T. It can't get drunk.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/6/806196.jpg)
Winston was Robbed
![Winston was done dirty by the first Ghostbusters. Winston Zeddemore had an elaborate backstory as an Air Force major and a demolition guy - that is what Ernie Hudson signed up for. Hudson was so excited about the part that he took a half pay cut to play it. Не wasn't at all happy when Winston was reduced to little more than an afterthought.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/3/806193.jpg)
More: Ernie Hudson (And Winston) Kept Getting Screwed Over By The 'Ghostbusters' Franchise
Life-saving Movie
![Titanic saved three sailors' lives. In 2004, an explosion quickly sank the tanker Bow Mariner - but while everyone else jumped into the water, three crew members remembered Titanic and clung to the railings until the last possible second, as Jack and Rose did. They turned out to be among the only six survivors.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/0/806200.jpg)
Vintage Printing
![3D printers go back to the '8os. A photochemical process called stereolithography was developed in 1980 to create polymers out of simpler chemicals, which led to the development of the first 3D printer in 1984. Given that it was the '80s, it was pretty big and unwieldy but worked just like the ones we have now.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/1/806191.jpg)
Worthless Camouflage
![The U.S. military wore crappy camo for years. The Universal Camouflage Pattern looks digital and cool - too bad that it sucks at its basic function of making you blend with the environment. And yet, the U.S. military used it through most of the 2000s and 2010s. The shortcomings were overlooked to gain a distinctive look.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/3/806203.jpg)
More: The U.S.' Crappy Camo Pattern Which Didn't Work (But Still Got Used)
Not-Quite-Healthy Diet
![Pandas are actually bad at living on bamboo. Even after more than two million years, pandas haven't fully adapted to digesting bamboo. They have to spend all their time eating to avoid starvation, and this gives them upset stomachs and diarrhea. This makes them even harder to breed in captivity.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/9/806199.jpg)
Microscopic Sandcastles
![Science has managed to etch castles into grains of sand. MIT Media Lab designer Marcelo Coelho and artist Vik Muniz spent four years crafting four tiny sandcastles on sand grains, using an ion beam under a scanning electron microscope. Selecting and preparing the suitable grains was just as tricky as the high-tech etching itself. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/2/806192.jpg)
Code Vault
![A vault in the Arctic ensures that you’ll have the internet after an apocalypse. The Arctic World Archive holds a treasure trove of open-source code in case some catastrophe wipes out all digital data. The Linux and Android operating systems are there, along with thousands of important applications (on physical film, to make sure it’s readable after several centuries).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/5/806195.jpg)
Not That Kind of Fantasy
![Playboy made a show in the style of Twilight Zone. Back in the early '90s, Playboy produced Inside Out, a series of short sci-fi films (that revolved in some way about getting it on). The show featured talent like Bernard Rose, who would go on to direct Candyman.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/7/806197.jpg)
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Idiotic Hate
![The Cagots were the ultimate example of the stupidity of bigotry. The Cagots were a minority in western France and northern Spain, who for centuries were discriminated against in an over-the- top way - just because. They were indistinguishable from everyone else - the only thing that made them Cagots was that they were Cagots (and were hated for it).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/1/806201.jpg)