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30 Facts That We Hope Will Make Us Trivia Night Contenders

By:: Cracked Writers; Brian C. Miller

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30 Facts That We Hope Will Make Us Trivia Night Contenders

These nuggets of odd facts are not only fascinating, but they may also come in handy from time to time. For example, did you know that male dolphins form impromptu a cappella groups to arouse local female dolphins? It turns out everything really does work differently under the sea. Now, we’re not sure if knowing a slew of random trivia tidbits makes us seem more fascinating to others, but here we are anyway…

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Dolphins have boy bands that sing together for years. CRACKED.COM The male bottlenose dolphins that live in Australia's Shark Bay attract females by synchronized popping, changing their speeds from when they pop alone. This creates a new, stronger type of sound that the lady dolphins love. Males form singing groups and then choose to stay and sing together for decades. — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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The US just released someone sentenced to 845 years in prison. CRACKED.COM Con man Sholam Weiss commited a massive fraud scheme, robbing some 35,000 life insurance customers of $420 million. His 845 year federal sentence in 1999 was the biggest ever handed in the US. Despite going on the run after his trial and being picked up years later in Austria, his sentence was commuted by outgoing president Donald Trump a day before Joe Biden took office. — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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The longest Olympic marathon took over 54 years. CRACKED COM It was a long journey for Japanese athletes Yahiko Mishima and Shizo Kanakuri to the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. After 18 days of travel by sea and rail, Shizo spent five days recharging and taking care of an ill-fallen Yahiko, which did not leave him in top condition in time for the marathon. After completing 3/4ths of the race, Shizo collapsed and was taken in by a nearby family, waking up the next day ashamed of his failure. Shizo was officially labeled as missing and wouldn't return to complete the — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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Vin Diesel became Groot because fans blindsided him. Diesel was caught off guard during a Comic-Con, when fans asked him about his (then merely introductory) meetings with Marvel. Fearing to be a killjoy, he blurted out something about big news coming soon. Marvel saw that as an opportunity and offered him Groot right away. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts About the World We Didn't Suspect

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CRACKED.COM Conan and Cthulhu exist in the same fictional universe. H. P. Lovecraft and Conan creator Robert E. Howard exchanged tons of letters, and kept working shout-outs to each other's work into their stories. So Cimmeria is a part of the Cthulhu Mythos, and R'lyeh exists in Conan's universe. Sadly, the two big Cs never met. — Source: 15 Random Facts About the World We Didn't Suspect

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Kids today are actually less narcissistic than previous generations. After testing tens of thousands of students over decades, psychologists have concluded that ratings in the Narcissistic Personality Inventory Scale have been dropping, not rising. (While not as technical, we have to wonder at people who claim, my generation is much better than these young'uns.) CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts About the World We Didn't Suspect

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CRACKED.COM Jeff Bezos isn't actually that rich. There's a lot wrong with Amazon and other corporations, but the headlines that Bezos or anyone else is worth 700 bajillions are misleading. Those figures are about the market value of their stocks-so it's cash they could have, in theory, if they sold all their shares (which isn't an easy thing). — Source: 15 Random Facts About the World We Didn't Suspect

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CRACKED.COM Oscar the Grouch is weirdly related to racism. Oscar isn't a grouch just because he's cranky - grouch is canonically his race. Не hails from a city where everyone is a grouch. It's not such a stretch to call that segregation - he was intentionally created to represent racial and ethnic diversity. — Source: 15 Random Facts About the World We Didn't Suspect

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CRACKED.COM Tarzan originally had superpowers. Edgar Rice Burroughs believed British aristocrats were racially superior to everyone else. So when this English scion was left in the wild to fend for himself, he naturally grew up to lord over this harsh environment - even developing superhuman strength and agility. — Source: 15 Random Facts About the World We Didn't Suspect

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The Bean Wars of 2011 GOUGOYA 149 149 Pinto Bean GOYA Frijoles Pin Frijoles Pintos Pinto Beans GOH Go Frijotes Photo Vinich the Otla GOY F GO Black GOVA GO Body F GGO GO From DO LA PRIME PAIME PALMIES MIUME GOYA GOYA GOYA GOYA GOYA GO GO GIVA GO GO GGOVOVOOOGOC Black LOVE TYPA Plata Drum 2 EGA Pinto Beam From THE Fridach Vinto - Beach Pinto Beams Frijoks Pull Pinto Beans Prijotes Piota Frijoles Pintos Frijoles Pintos, Colo CO PARA PRESIDE GRACKED COM ZEIME In 2011, a store called Sanders Supermarket was selling baked beans at negative 2 — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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The last time Suez ships got stuck, sailors were trapped for eight years. CRACKED COM The Suez canal was sealed off during the Six-Day War in 1967, to keep Israel from using the canal and attacking Egypt, trapping 15 ships for 8 years. Egypt kept the ships, two from America and 13 from across Europe, stocked with supplies while they were stranded, and the sailors enjoyed the amenities of the various ships which included a swimming pool and movie theater. Finally, in 1974, the US led an effort to clear the mines and the other wreckage and reopen the canal. — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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Lightning destroyed Touchdown Jesus. CRACKED.COM The 62-foot, 4-ton statue of Jesus outside Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio, was nicknamed Touchdown Jesus based on its goofy, hands-in-the-air pose. In 2010, a bolt of lightning struck the statue and reduced it to cinders. Luckily for Solid Rock Church, they'd insured Jesus and replaced it with a new statue, one designed somewhat less ridiculous, receiving the nicer nickname of Hug Me Jesus. — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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A California politician resigned after bragging about two affairs into a mic. CRACKED CON California Assemblyman Michael D. Duvall was caught on a hot mic detailing the affairs he was having, one with an energy company lobbyist. The less graphic details he shared included the couple's spanking routine, and enough information on the woman that people were able to figure out her identity. Duvall, who previously received a 100% rating from a pro-family organization, resigned hours after the televised broadcast of the tape. — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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The worst passenger ever was a vice president at the airline. CRACKED.COM Korean Airlines VP Heather Cho was dissatisfied with her pre-takeoff snack, macadamia nuts, being handed to her in a sealed plastic bag, as opposed to in a glass bowl. Cho jabbed the chief steward in the chest with the safety manual and allegedly made him kneel and apologize. She ordered the taxiing plane to turn around so they could kick him off. Later, she fired the guy. She was put on trial back in South Korea, found guilty, and spent 4 months in jail. The fired steward received — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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The guy who hosted Woodstock was as far from a hippie as you can get. CRACKED COM The land that held Woodstock belonged to dairy farmer Max Yasgur, 49, a Republican who supported the Vietnam War. The organizers paid him $50,000 to use his grounds, telling him 50,000 people would attend, which turned out to be 400,000. Не sold food at cost, and when he learned neighbors were selling water for huge prices, he hung a banner on his barn reading FREE WATER. Yasgur said, If the generation gap is to be closed, we older people have to do more — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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Teddy Roosevelt publicly humiliated a young Dr. Seuss. In 1918, future Seuss (then a teen Boy Scout) was to get a medal from President Roosevelt for selling a lot of war bonds. But due to a mistake, Roosevelt had the kid removed from the stage, thinking he shouldn't be there. Seuss said the episode gave him stage fright forever. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts About the World We Didn't Suspect

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Denim is awful for the environment. Just growing the cotton requires a huge amount of water - and then the chemical runoff from the dyes is poured into rivers by the barrel. Satellite photos show whole rivers stained a stunning Prussian Blue. CRACKED COM — Source: 15 Random Facts About the World We Didn't Suspect

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An Unknown Person has been jailed for years. French citizen Herman Emmanuel Fankem was arrested for fraud in Canada in 2013 - but then this turned out to be a fake identity, and the man refused to answer any questions. He's still in a Canadian jail, as they can't deport him until they find out who he is and where he's from. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts About the World We Didn't Suspect

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Doctors used malaria to treat syphilis. Before antibiotics, one of the only effective treatments against syphilis was to infect the patient with malaria. Once the high fever did away with the STD, the doctors would treat the malaria with quinine. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts About the World We Didn't Suspect

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A The MCU is based on an edgy comic. A lot of staples of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (like Tony Stark's personality) come from The Ultimates, which Marvel started publishing in the early 2000s. The edgiest parts, though (like Wanda and Pietro's incest) were thankfully left out. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts About the World We Didn't Suspect

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DE A New Zealand city has an official wizard. Since the 1970s, the city of Christchurch pays lan Brackenbury Channell a stipend of about $10,000 a year for acting as the city's wizard. Sadly, he doesn't cast spells - he's paid for his services as a comedian, educator, tourist attraction, and living work of art. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts About the World We Didn't Suspect

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Some guy fooled the post office into delivering all of UPS's mail to his house. FOX 32 CRACKED.COM Using the knowledge he gained from working at UPS when he was 18, Dushaun Henderson-Spruce filed a form at the Post Office stating that UPS had changed the address of their headquarters to his small Chicago apartment. Included with the thousands of pieces of mail he received, Dushaun retrieved checks totalling $60,000, which he deposited into his own bank account. Eventually, the checks alerted the authorities, and he was sentenced to time served. — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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Millions of ants fall into a nuclear bunker and form a colony. CRACKED COM Scientists exploring an abandoned nuclear bunker in the village of Templewo discovered a colony of ants deep inside, thriving with seemingly no food source, no queen, and no way out. What they discovered was that as a colony of ants above the bunker grows every year, a bunch of worker ants fall down through a pipe. These new ants then join the subterranean colony, feeding on tiny mites, which in turn feed on the bodies of dead ants. — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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Who stole Columbus' letter from the Vatican? CRACKED COM A copy of a letter Christopher Columbus had written aboard the Niña in 1493, detailing his many exaggerations about the bountiful islands he discovered in Southeast Asia, was given to the Vatican and sealed away forever. In 2011 it was discovered the letter in the Vatican's possession was a forgery, and the original was unknowingly purchased by some dude in Georgia in 2004. In fact, most 15th-century copies of this letter, stored in libraries across Europe, had also been stolen and replaced with forgeries. — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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The mail used to arrive 12 times a day. CRACKED CON In 1889, in London, the postman would pass by your house 12 times every day. This meant it was totally practical to write to someone elsewhere in the city and expect a response within the day, a response you could reply to again before the day was out. A little earlier within the same century, the recipient, not the sender, had to pay the postage due, which was about a day's wages. — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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France successfully sent a cat to space during the Space Race. CRACKED COM When France sent the first cat to space in 1964, they referred to the tuxedo kitty as С 341 so astronauts wouldn't get too attached. The media dubbed the cat Felix, but the French space agency clarified she was female, so Felix turned into Félicette. The feline was rocketed to 500,000 feet and came back to earth successfully. Two months later, she was put down SO scientists could poke inside her brain. — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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When Nixon resigned, only his dog stopped him crying. CRACKED.COM When Nixon's crying threatened to ruin his camera makeup before his farewell address in 1974, makeup artist Jillian Brown decided to remind him of a story to lighten the mood. One Christmas, Nixon's dog King Timahoe kept running into the tree, so Brown shuttled the pup into a bathroom, soon followed by Nixon himself. The secret service, for some reason, locked the door from the outside and trapped the three of them. This story got Nixon laughing and ready for the camera. — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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