13 Awesome Bits Of Knowledge To Make A Dull Workday More Bearable
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You're undoubtedly spending lots of time inside these working days, but you may seem like you've exhausted all of your options for keeping yourself entertained. Don't worry; we've got you covered with more entertaining facts to pass the time. The natural world, antiquity, and the human body are all covered in these quick facts. You can get rid of boredom while also learning something new to amaze your pals. Whether you only have a few moments or hours to spend–we’ve got you covered.
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![Gary Oldman, who is English, lost his accent and had to hire a voice coach. He'd been living in California so long that his English accent started to disappear, and he wanted it back, so he got a voice coach and re-learned it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/7/825617.jpg)
![Turns out, dinosaur fossils were a part of traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese villagers dug up bones that they thought had belonged to dragons, and they made medicines out of them. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/1/825611.jpg)
![The word with the most meanings in English is officially the word set. LA SECOND EDITION SECOND EDITION SECOND = EXTION SECONO = EDITION = CITION - III IV V VI VII VIII Cham-Crocky Creel-Duzepere Drandva-Folls Follow-Hawel Hat-Learnows In the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, it had 430 different meanings, and its entry was over 60,000 words long - Guinness World Records officially certified it as the word with the most meanings. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/1/825621.jpg)
![Port Royal, Jamaica, got swallowed by the sea pretty much intact. This happened because a massive earthquake basically just made a large part of it slide underwater, and it means a big part of the town is still kind of just sitting there beneath the sea. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/6/825616.jpg)
![Sometimes, in India, they mark a spot where a tiger killed somebody. They put a red cloth around a tree in a forest, if a tiger killed someone there - that's a sign of mourning. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/2/825612.jpg)
![The biggest maritime disaster in the US happened on the Mississippi River. In the 19th century, the steamboat Sultana sank, killing over 1400 people. Today, its remains lie below a soybean field - 37 feet under it, in fact. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/3/825613.jpg)
![Lafayette, the hero of the American Revolution, had a super long name. His name in full is Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves- Roch-Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette. As he said, I was baptized like a Spaniard, with the name of every conceivable saint who might offer me more protection in battle. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/5/825615.jpg)
![In the billions of years since it was formed, the sun hasn't moved too much. In all that time, it's only completed 20 full orbits around the center of the Milky Way. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/0/825610.jpg)
![One man invented both aspirin and heroin within a two-week span. The man was Felix Hoffmann, a German chemist who worked for Bayer, and the inventions in question happened in 1897. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/8/825618.jpg)
![Apparently, JRR Tolkien might officially become a saint in the near future. Several British Catholic priests started the process of making him a saint in 2017, and a mass for the Cause of Beatification of Tolkien was performed in Oxford that year. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/9/825619.jpg)
![An elite French counter-terror unit uses an odd technique in its initiation program. A current member of GIGN, in body armor, has to put a clay pigeon (a fake target) on their center of mass, and the new teammate has to shoot it with their revolver from 15 yards away - it's called a trust shot. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/4/825614.jpg)
![Henry VIII was so paranoid that he traveled with a locksmith. It was maybe kind of justified for his situation - he was so afraid of getting assassinated that he'd have the locksmith put a special lock on the room he slept in when he visited somewhere. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/0/825620.jpg)
![The inventor of cubicles, Robert Propst, wasn't terribly proud of them. EXIT THM Не publicly regretted his own contribution to monolithic insanity before he'd died in 2000. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/9/825609.jpg)