13 Facts To Make Us Sound Smarter And/Or More Informed
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People often ask, "what are facts?" But that's the wrong question. The right question is, "why do we care about facts?" Facts are important because they are a foundation of our understanding of the world. They help us make decisions and evaluate information. But not all facts are created equal. Some are more important than others, and some can be misleading. It's important to be able to identify the most important facts and use them to make informed decisions. Look around you. Everything you see is based on facts. The chair you're sitting in, the computer you're reading this on, the food you're eating- all of it is grounded in factual evidence.
Did you know that a housefly only lives for around one month? And that the world’s largest mammal, the elephant, can weigh up to two hundred sixty pounds? These are just some of the interesting facts we learned while researching for this article. We honestly didn’t know what else to do with all of this information, so we decided to share it with you! We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed compiling it. Thanks for stopping by!
Here are a few facts to make you sound smarter and more informed!
![Dr Seuss himself wrote the lyrics to the song You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch. Не co-produced the How the Grinch Stole Christmas! special, and got credited as Ted Geisel. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/1/806291.jpg)
![Bryan Singer outright banned comics on the set of the 2000 X-Men movie. Не said that they were trying to create three-dimensional characters, so comic books were out. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/7/806297.jpg)
![Planes, Trains, and Automobiles was supposed to be over 3 hours long. That was John Hughes' original cut, but it was lost, and his guess was that it was rotting away in a vault somewhere. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/2/806292.jpg)
![We've found the first animal that somehow doesn't breathe using oxygen. It's a very tiny critter - a white salmon parasite that's just a few millimeters long. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/8/8/806288.jpg)
![In 2005, a CEO was miraculously acquitted in a $2,7 billion fraud case. FAM UNITED NOTE GRAL Fifteen execs, including five finance chiefs, testified he was in on the fraud since the start, but the jury didn't believe them. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/6/806296.jpg)
![A baseball manager tried to get on the field in a comic book-level disguise. They ejected him from a game, so he got back with a mustache and fake glasses. Не was recognized right away. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/8/9/806289.jpg)
![Theoretically, you could actually cross the entire universe in your natural lifetime. To do that, you'd have to accelerate at 9.8 meters per second squared, and billions of years would pass while you got a few decades older. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/5/806295.jpg)
![Antoine Walker made over $100 million in the NBA, but filed for bankruptcy. Despite making a total of $108 million in his career, he was bankrupt two years after he retired. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/8/806298.jpg)
![It turns out that Elvis never actually wrote any of the songs he performed. Не got the idea for All Shook Up, but even that one got written up by a friend - and that's it, really. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/0/806290.jpg)
![In the 1920s, people discovered a hidden tunnel underneath Washington DC. The mystery was really simple: it was built by an entomologist who just liked digging tunnels in his spare time. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/9/806299.jpg)
![Warren Buffett made a bet with a hedge fund for a million dollars, and won. The bet was on whether hedge funds or index funds would make more - Buffett was sure it'd be index funds. Не was right. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/4/806294.jpg)
![A Brazilian priest tied 1,000 ballons to himself, and it ended very badly for him. It was a stunt to raise money for a good cause, but he ended up flying away and his body was later found in the ocean. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/8/7/806287.jpg)
![Indonesia has made it illegal to hunt and kill manta rays anywhere in its territory. A cost-benefit analysis showed that a live manta ray makes about $1 million from tourism, but a dead one only makes $400-500. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/3/806293.jpg)