13 Night Owl Trivia Tidbits
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Truly, life on Earth is an inexhaustible wellspring of all-round weirdness. And we're just the weirdos to bring you the best weirdness, after all, that's what we traffic in around here.
Weirdness like how cancer treatments can give some people enhanced ability to see in the dark, how Clint Eastwood could have been James Bond, reindeer can change their eye color and just so much more. It's a veritable buffet for that brain of yours, cooked up to perfection and put in steaming, gold-lined chafing dishes for your happy consumption.
So grab a clean plate and hurry on up. This isn't the only offering, by the way, we're lining up these babies on a weekly basis. So whenever you get the hankering for a plate piled high with weird stop on by - we'll have the sneeze guard in place and everything else all ready to go. Including plenty of croutons, which are homemade.
![The Adult Swim cartoon Sealab 2021 was started thanks to a theft. Creator Adam Reed worked at Cartoon Network for a while, and stole the master tapes for Sealab 2020 - and used those to pitch Sealab 2021 to Adult Swim. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/4/811914.jpg)
![The captain of the USSR 1980 Olympic hockey team was offered $1 million to leave. S Не got the offer directly from a hockey club owner, but a KGB guy was standing nearby, so all he just replied 'Thank you, but we are Soviet millionaires.' CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/0/811910.jpg)
![A Danish actress was arrested in NYC in 1997 for leaving her baby outside a restaurant. She and her husband went in to eat, which would be pretty common practice in Denmark, but it led to child-endangerment charges in the US. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/9/811909.jpg)
![Fahrenheit 451 was (kind of) written in the UCLA library's basement. Ray Bradbury used typewriters there that you could rent for 10 cents per 30 minutes, and wrote the short story The Fireman - which he'd turn into Fahrenheit 451 - in nine days (and $9.80). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/1/811911.jpg)
![We almost got the chance to watch a movie based on The Sims, but alas. Disney was planning to make that movie, among others based on games, but changed its mind when Assassin's Creed tanked. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/3/811913.jpg)
![Reindeer are the only mammals that change eye color depending on the season. They're golden in the summer but turn a deep blue in winter - the deep blue color helps reindeer see better when there's less light. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/2/811912.jpg)
![Putting live birds inside a pie was popular entertainment centuries ago. At a lavish royal feast, for example, birds would get put inside a pie, then they'd flew out when the pie was cut and served, to the guests' amusement. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/8/811908.jpg)
![They offered Clint Eastwood the role of James Bond, but he turned it down. of li cente НЕ 48TH Не said, I was offered pretty good money to do James Bond if I would take on the role. But to me, well, that was somebody else's gig. That's Sean's deal. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/7/811907.jpg)
![The writer who came up with The Witcher sold the rights to the games for $9500. That was it - no royalties or anything, just a lump-sum payment (that didn't even come at once, but in two installments). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/6/811906.jpg)
![The Large Hadron Collider was temporarily messed up by a bit of baguette. A passing bird somehow dropped some baguette inside the ultra-hi-tech machine, which made it overheat, so it had to be shut down. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/5/811905.jpg)
![The US strategic petroleum reserves aren't housed in high-tech facilities. They're housed in salt caverns, instead - at four different caverns in Texas and Louisiana, specifically. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/4/811904.jpg)
![You can get buried in a mushroom suit that decomposes your body after you die. That type of suit gradually digests your body, giving you a totally eco-friendly burial - and, for example, Luke Perry was buried in one. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/3/811903.jpg)
![Cancer treatment can give you the ability to see more clearly in the dark. It only happens with some forms of treatment, called dynamic phototherapy, and it gives people the ability to see, say, silhouettes in darkness. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/2/811902.jpg)