13 Engrossing Bits Of Trivia To Make Life Go Faster
![13 Engrossing Bits Of Trivia To Make Life Go Faster](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/4/828594_320x180.jpg)
The dilemma of the modern corporate information worker is the fact that the work is not particularly hard, but the boredom and monotony create their own unique form of stress. Well sir (and, or, Madam) Cracked is here to help. Sometimes the cure for interminable boredom is, wait for it, engrossing bits of trivia! See, the issue is that you're just NOT STIMULATED enough. You need to work the ol' gray matter by downloading some new info into that thick noggin of yours.
All extremely dark kidding aside--it's a fascinating world and there's a lot to learn. For example did you know that ‘Finding Nemo’ is actually a fairy accurate portrayal of how amnesiacs behave in real life? Also, turns out John Denver WAS full of it--he had never visited West Virginia when he wrote country roads.
If you're stuck at a boring job with not much to do, yet you're feeling a strong urge to learn new stuff, we have just the thing for you.
![Finding Nemo is a surprisingly accurate movie - at least in one sense. It's apparently a pretty good depiction of an amnesic syndrome - the way Dory acts is pretty on the mark, and the movie is one of the best portrayals of that condition in Hollywood. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/7/828607.jpg)
![When John Denver wrote Country Roads, he'd never even been to WV. Neither had either of his co-writers on the song. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/6/828606.jpg)
![The last time a Canadian team won the NHL Stanley Cup finals was in 1993. And the first ever winner, exactly a century before in 1893, was the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (ААА). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/5/828605.jpg)
![The term patient zero is actually built on a misunderstanding. It comes from Patient О, an early HIV patient, and the label meant Out of California - but it was misinterpreted as zero, and that stuck. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/3/828603.jpg)
![A lawsuit by Uri Geller meant Kadabra had to be removed from Pokemon cards. Geller sued because Kadabra also bent spoons, and its Japanese name was Yungeller. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/4/828604.jpg)
![Apollo astronauts had no toilet in space - they just had a plastic bag. لما - NOW SACE The bag had a rim that would stick to their skin and, after using the bag, they'd put disinfectant in it and knead the resulting mixture by hand. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/2/828602.jpg)
![The first artist to use auto-tune was Cher, who used it in 1998 for Believe. If you're not sure what that song is, you've almost certainly heard it - it goes Do you believe in life after love? CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/1/828601.jpg)
![The US has a massive stockpile of cheese buried underneath Missouri. The stockpile consists of 1.4 billion pounds of cheese, kept inside caves that maintain a temperature of 36 degrees Fahrenheit. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/0/828600.jpg)
![In 2000, a woman basically performed an emergency C-section on herself. She made a slice to her abdomen that was 17 cm (about 7 inches long) and delivered her baby, because medical assistance was unavailable. She and her kid both survived after being hospitalized. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/9/828599.jpg)
![In Sweden, they call helicopter parents something different. hioz DOL.YOURS. HOT. soch oit Their phrase is curling parents - as in ice curling, since parents basically sweep away obstacles in their children's path. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/8/828598.jpg)
![A surge in pizza orders heralded Kuwait's attack by Iraq in the 1990s. That is, orders by the CIA - 21 pizzas were delivered to CIA HQ on the night before the attack, a CIA record at the time. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/7/828597.jpg)
![Purple is a royal color because of the properties of purple dye in ancient times. It was made from sea snails' glands, and unlike so many other dyes, it only got more intense over time instead of fading away. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/6/828596.jpg)
![Russia had an elaborate system for cheating in the 2014 Olympics. Apparently, they exchanged their athletes' urine samples with fake ones through a tiny mouse hole in the anti-doping lab - so their athletes, who definitely were doping, totally looked like they weren't. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/5/828595.jpg)