13 Boredom Crushing Trivia Tidbits

Now’s your time to shine. You finally got invited to a gathering of your peers – a “party,” to the layperson. You’ve been preparing all week – catching up on a lifetime of sports to enhance your small talk, watching hours of roast battles so you can properly razz your host, upping your tolerance so you can drink 2 or 3 La Croix without getting sleepy.

Your first two attempts didn’t exactly go as planned. The first room didn’t care much about the controversial 1908 Olympic Tug of War championship. The second room just didn’t appreciate your tight five (maybe roasting the host's 3-year-old was a little over the line for this woke crowd). But here you are, at the precipice of a new room, and this time, you’ve got a foolproof plan. You’re bringing out the big guns: fun bits of knowledge. 5 minutes from now, you’ll be hailed as the smartest person is this whole dumb room. And it’s all because you read that one trivia list.

This is your moment. Go get ‘em, tiger.

13

An adult cat can jump to a height that's 5-8 times greater than its own height. If humans could do that, they could jump to, say, the 3rd floor from the ground in one go. CRACKED.COM — Source

12

When crosswords became popular, there was a kind of moral panic about them. R ast in Nine People were getting hugely into them in the '20s and '30s, and newspapers at the time called the crossword craze a national menace, a virulent plague, and an epidemic. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

In some states, you can actually run a red light totally legally. In stated with Dead red laws, anybody on a moped or motorcycle that doesn't trigger the traffic light's sensor (because the vehicle is too small) can run the light after waiting for a certain amount of time. CRACKED.COM — Source

10

Migraines hit women much, much more often than they hit men. They're 3 times more likely to occur in woman than in men and, back in the day, it was believed that this was because just have a harder time coping with stress than men do. CRACKED.COM — Source

9

In 1997, a Texas community tried to get rid of Hello as a greeting. For religious reasons, as they said, they wanted to replace it with Heaven-o. CRACKED.COM — Source

8

In Britain, there are so-called Thankful Villages throughout the country. These villages took no losses during WWI - everyone who lived there and went off to war came back once the fighting ended. CRACKED.COM — Source

7

For male honeybees, once they mate with the queen, they die right afterwards. It's one and done - their purpose is fulfilled, and they shuffle off this mortal coil. CRACKED.COM — Source

6

There's a day to celebrate the US's legalization of interracial marriage. And it's called, appropriately, Loving Day. It falls in June - specifically, on June 12. CRACKED.COM — Source

5

A guy in San Francisco deposited a junk mail check for $95,000, and got the money. 11109 69 001 F21001493 do - - - CREA 20 our - K9 07070880H 02 NETE - 5 CHOCOLAZE - OOL HOSSOLOLO BY OCTO BIGG #945847440P HB 49778478L 100 OF - HR 447784741 100 - - New And he built a whole weird career off of the event - as a motivational speaker (but he's also kind of a performance artist to boot - it's kind of hard to pin his act down). CRACKED.COM — Source

4

President Harding saved the US Constitution in the most literal way you can imagine. At the time, it was just rotting away at the State Department, and he had it taken out and put it in a glass case where it would be safer. CRACKED.COM — Source

3

Until 2009, it was legal to sell your child in the state of Mississippi. That only changed when a woman tried to sell her grandkid for $2,000 and a car, and they realized they couldn't punish her under any existing law. CRACKED.COM — Source

2

Trash collection in NYC was run by the Italian mafia until the mid-'90s. They fixed prices regularly, with all the cruelty you could imagine that that entailed. CRACKED.COM — Source

1

A British WWII plot involved making Hitler less aggressive by feminizing him. British spies hoped to put estrogen into his food, which was supposed to temper him. CRACKED.COM — Source

Must Read

PICTOFACT

30 of the Dumbest Times Customers Demanded to Speak to the Manager

‘Soda went flat a week after he opened it’

Authors: By Ian Garner
Published: April 18, 2024
Comments: 0

PICTOFACT

34 Random Bits of Trivia to Make Your Ignorance Go Away Forever

You can never have too many facts

Authors: By Jay L'Ecuyer, Cracked Writers
Published: April 18, 2024
Comments: 0

An Oral History of ‘Mission Hill,’ the Animated Cult Classic That Adult Swim Saved

On its 25th anniversary, we spoke to creators Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein as well as the cast of the show that the WB originally disregarded after just two episodes

Authors: By Brian VanHooker
Published: April 18, 2024
Comments: 1

14 Sad Jokes for Sad Folks

Misery loves company

Authors: By Jesse
Published: April 18, 2024
Comments: 0

4 Reasons You Keep Dreaming You’re Back in School Taking a Test

It might be because you’re anxious, but there may also be another explanation no one talks about

Authors: By Ryan Menezes
Published: April 18, 2024
Comments: 2

Four Historic Landmarks Dirtbag Tourists Have Destroyed This Year Alone

As always, we really need to keep our eyes on the Germans

Authors: By Amanda Mannen
Published: April 18, 2024
Comments: 0

5 Times Falling Space Junk Effed People Up

This Company Took Its Business Idea Straight from ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’

4 Times ‘Saturday Night Live’ Showed Zero Courage

21 Times Lawyers Won Cases Using Seriously Obscure Laws

5 Extinct Animals That Deserved It