15 Trivia Tidbits For Your Wednesday

This is why you don’t use the first YouTube search result.
15 Trivia Tidbits For Your Wednesday

"This? This is my whole life. Everything I have, I got by working day and night with nothing more than the hope of being able to provide for me and mine." The elderly man smiled broadly at me and gestured behind him.

There stood a woman of roughly 40 years old—a young mother who wore simple clothes on her body, with some threadbare patches showing where the material was starting to come apart. "Look at us here... We barely manage to scrape through our days thanks to your little gift. And if it wasn't for what you gave us, we'd all be dead from starvation by now."

I almost choked back tears. After the nuclear war that nearly ended all life on Earth years ago, I clung to any shred of hope I could.

"How can I ever repay you?" The old man said.

"Please ... I would like something to read from that vast trove of yours. It's been so long since I found out anything new."

The old man nodded solemnly, drew out a paper with a list of fifteen facts on it, and placed it in my hand. It read:

One ant colony spans the entire globe.

Argentine ants form a global mega-colony, in six continents. GRAGKED.COM Argentine ant colonies have multiple egg-laying queens, which makes it easy for one to wander off and start a new colony with genetically identical ants. One colony stretches from San Diego to San Francisco and contains one trillion ants.

The Wire

Nutella was originally sliced like bread.

The first Nutella was a loaf that you could slice and put on bread. - F 10g HENAS - nutella FERRERO CRACKED.COM Cocoa was rare in Europe after WWII, so Italian pastry maker, Pietro Ferrero, combined his cocoa stock with hazelnut paste to make it go further. Не formed this new concoction into a loaf so that it could be cut and served on bread.

Forbes 

60% of the time, it works every time.

Big cats go absolutely bonkers for a Calvin Klein cologne. CRACKED.COM Tigers, jaguars and leopards all love the smell of Calvin Klein's cologne Obsession For Men. In response to the cologne, the cats would start drooling, their eyes would half-close, almost like they were going into a trance.

The Cut

Jefferson really wanted a mammoth.

Thomas Jefferson asked Lewis and Clark to find him a mammoth. CRACKED.COM Jefferson had a thing for American Mastodons. Не was completely enamored with the extinct behemoths, and held out hope that they continued to live many miles away in the west of America.

Vox 

This is why you don’t use the first YouTube search result.

Medal ceremony organizers played a song from Borat thinking it was a real anthem. ВОЯ CRACKED.COM TOURI Gold medalist Maria Dmitrienko, from Kazakhstan, took the podium at a medal ceremony in Kuwait, and instead of her country's national anthem, the fictional Kazakh anthem from Borat played in its place.

BBC

A bear in the Polish army was made corporal.

The Polish army adopted a bear during WWII that loved beer. F Pne COcata Mont CRACKED.COM Wojtek the bear was given the official rank of private so that he could travel with the army, hauling equipment and boosting morale. The bear did this for years, learning to love drinking, smoking, and wrestling.

Time

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