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13 Cool Facts To Make A Dull Workday Pass Much Faster

March 02, 2022

If you're bored out of your skull and want to learn cool stuff – well, here's your fix from us:

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Rolls-Royce was originally going to name one of their cars The Silver Mist. They only gave up when they found out that, in German, Mist means manure. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Zebras and ostriches have a symbiotic relationship in the wild. Zebras can't see too well, and ostriches can't hear too well, so they team up to warn each other about predators. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Way back in the day, Antarctica wasn't frozen - it was a rainforest. This was 90 million years ago, which means the world was a lot warmer back then. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Female vampire bats share blood all the time, it turns out. Which means that a bat who's hungry and didn't get a lot of blood on a hunt can get some extra blood from another bat that's been more successful. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stone Cold Steve Austin got his ring name because of, well, tea. One time, his wife told him to drink his tea before it gets stone cold while he was trying to think of a good name, and the rest is history. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the 1960s, a medical professor made a fortune through gambling. 35 182 L 67 8 Which wouldn't really be news, if it wasn't for the fact that he'd figured out how to beat roulette - that was how he got his fortune. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Elmo once testified before Congress, and he was addressed as Elmo Monster. Or simply Mr Monster. Anyway, he testified in front of a House Appropriations subcommittee, and his testimony was in support of giving federal funding for music education and research. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In WWII, Finland went to a great deal of trouble to bring its dead home. Search expeditions were organized so dead soldiers could be taken to their home parishes and buried there, and only those remains that couldn't be identified were buried on the battlefield. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1969, a massively popular documentary led to a water shortage in London. The documentary was Royal Family, from the BBC, and since 30 million people across the country watched it, everybody flushed toilets at the same time - just in London, there was a water shortage. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Most of the earthworms found in North America aren't actually native. Native earthworms were killed off around 10,000 years ago, and the ones currently living on the continent were brought there in the 18th century. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Ohio State Reformatory very nearly got demolished in the '90s. 792 5 302 It shows up in The Shawshank Redemption, and after filming, they were supposed to demolish it -- but it eventually became a tourist attraction instead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1965, the British government flooded a Welsh village on purpose. It was one of the last communities where Welsh was the predominant language, and they flooded it to give more water to the city of Liverpool. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1999, a calculation error led to the loss of a $125 million NASA orbiter. NASA It happened because Lockheed Martin used imperial measurements, and NASA used metric. CRACKED.COM — Source

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