40 Random Bits of Trivia to Help the Medicine Go Down

Don’t have a spoonful of sugar? We got ya covered

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31 Fun Facts to Save a Boring Conversation

By:: Cracked Writers; Brian C. Miller

October 10, 2023

31 Fun Facts to Save a Boring Conversation

We've all been there: You're stuck at a bar making awkward small talk with someone you don't know all that well. You talked about weather, you talked about whatever sport happens to be in-season and you've even scraped the bottom of the barrel by commenting on the decor of whatever room you're in at that very moment. Never fear! Keep this page bookmarked, and you have a guaranteed fun fact to drop into virtually any conversation!

31 Soldiers keep leaking information

CRACKED.COM SOLDIERS KEEP LEAKING SENSITIVE INFORMATION VIA THEIR PHONES. Nowadays, you don't need spies to know the location of secret military bases. All you need is soldiers recklessly using their smartphones like normal people. Fitness apps and GPS-tagged photos often result in service members sharing F-150 information that isn't supposed to be shared. — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

30 Boobs are bullet proof

GRACKED.COM BREAST IMPLANTS OFFER SLIGHT PROTECTION AGAINST BULLETS. Now, no one is suggesting you should rely on your boob job to save your life. You definitely shouldn't. We're just pointing out that researchers at the University of Utah found that saline implants can slow down bullets and reduce their penetration by 20 percent. — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

29 Ghostbusters legal troubles

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28 Espionage sex dolls

CRACKED.COM SEX DOLLS WERE USED AS ESPIONAGE TOOLS. The JIB, or jack-in-a-box, was regularly used by CIA operatives in Moscow in the '80s. Like in some raunchy comedy, the device would quickly inflate a regular blow-up doll as the agents left their cars, tricking their relentless KGB tails into thinking they were still in the passenger seat. — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

27 Bad driving is genetic maybe?

CRACKED.COM ARE YOU A BAD DRIVER? IT MIGHT BE GENETIC. About 30 percent of Americans have a gene variant that limits the production of a certain brain protein. The University of California found that people with this variant perform worse on a driving test. It was a very small study, but don't let that stop you from using it as an excuse. — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

26 Niue's pop culture currency

CRACKED.COM THE NATION OF NIUE PUTS POP CULTURE ICONS ON THEIR MONEY. Niue, an island nation in the Pacific, is so tiny MICKEY that it doesn't have MOUSE much of an economy. A sizable portion of its revenue comes from the pop , oz 999 Fine Silver Disney culture coins they mint. While the coins are certainly legal tender, their true value comes from selling them as collector items. DOCTOR Streeth Doctor WHO - — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

25 Mount Everest's poop problem

CRACKED.COM MOUNT EVEREST IS COVERED IN POOP. Basic fact: Humans poop. And thousands of humans attempting to climb Mount Everest over several decades means a lot of poop has been dropped on its slopes. It's so bad that some climbers refuse to boil snow for water, and the mountain has been called a fecal time bomb. — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

24 Oregon goat caddies

Millaine AN OREGON RESORT EMPLOYS GOAT CADDIES. The newest golf course at Silvies Valley Ranch is steep in places, so you can hire the services of one of their professionally trained goats. The four- legged, notoriously nonjudgmental caddies carry your clubs in a custom- designed bag, along with balls and beverages. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

23 And you thought Bank of America screwed YOU over

BANK OF AMERICA TRICKED A CUSTOMER INTO COMMITING A CRIME. San Francisco resident Matthew Shinnick asked a teller about a suspicious check he had been given. The teller told him everything was fine and he could cash it. Then they had him arrested for trying to cash a phony check. The bank denied any wrongdoing afterwards. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

22 Solitary confinement

CRACKED.COM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT WAS INTENDED TO BE HUMANE. Quakers conceived solitary confinement as a humanitarian alternative to brutal 18th-century prison conditions. In theory, inmates kept in isolation would read the Bible, pray, and do penance. But when it was tried for real, the idea turned out to seriously screw up the prisoners' brains. — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

21 Banned Arabic numerals

CRACKED.COM THE CITY OF FLORENCE BANNED ARABIC NUMERALS. The Indo-Arabic numeric system we use today was resisted for centuries in Europe. Professional abacus users lobbied intensely against this newfangled Eastern invention, fearing their profession would become obsolete. Florence and other cities outright banned Arabic numerals, citing concerns that they would be used for fraud. B 2 RAS 9 & O BOETIVS 8 РУ 6 — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

20 Carlos Kaiser's fake career

CRACKED.COM CARLOS KAISER FAKED A WHOLE SPORTS CAREER. For over 20 years, Brazilian Carlos Kaiser Raposo was hailed as a soccer star-without ever playing. Не managed this by being charismatic while constantly faking injuries and feeding stories about his feats to the media. His real talent was hoodwinking everyone-even a dangerous gangster who hired him to play for his team. — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

19 Romania's underground amusement park

ROMANIA HAS AN UNDERGROUND AMUSEMENT PARK. Salina Turda is a centuries-old salt mine that was also used to store cheese and as a bomb shelter. Today you can find such things as boat rides, a mini golf course, a bowling alley, and a Ferris wheel. It's good to know mini golf will survive a nuclear apocalypse. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

18 X-Men wasn't an immediate hit

CRACKED.COM THE FIRST RUN OF X-MEN WAS A FLOP. X-Men changed the superhero game, but only after it came back from crashing and burning. Sales kept declining from the title's beginning, until it was cancelled in 1970. Five years later, it was relaunched with a more diverse roster of characters, and it GK DEC eventually took off. — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

17 Minecraft keeps language alive

CRACKED.COM MINECRAFT PLAYERS ARE HELPING PRESERVE A DYING LANGUAGE. Elfdalian is a rare language with about 3,000 speakers in Sweden. To help keep it alive, a group of Swedish and American enthusiasts are recreating the town where it is spoken in Minecraft, complete with quests to immerse players in the language. — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

16 Blackberry had a strange marketing strategy

CRACKED.COM BLACKBERRY HIRED BlackBarry ACTRESSES TO FLIRT WITH GUYS IN BARS. 2 Remember BlackBerry smartphones? You probably do if an attractive woman ever asked you to enter your phone number into hers. One of the company's uncommon marketing strategies was to employ actresses to flirt with dudes so as to draw attention to the BlackBerries they carried. — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

15 Young Frankenstein looks a lot like Frankenstein

CRACKED.COM YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN USED THE LABORATORY FROM THE ORIGINAL FRANKENSTEIN. Mel Brooks' opus nailed the look and feel of the lab from 1931's Frankenstein-because it was the same lab. For authenticity, Brooks sought out Kenneth Strickfaden, who had designed the set of the original movie. As it turned out, Strickfaden had kept most of the props in his garage. — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

14 Orgasms can give you amnesia

CRACKED.COM YOU CAN GET AMNESIA FROM AN ORGASM. Transient global amnesia is a sudden, short-term loss of memory that can follow strenuous activities. Just like, you know, plain ol' doin' it. Medical literature is full of cases of people with short spells of amnesia after having sex that turned out to be a bit too mind-blowing. — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

13 Glass... bounces?

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. GRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

12 Lobsters are Highlanders

As far as biologists can tell, lobsters are immortal, in the sense that they don't die of old age. Instead, they grow in size until an outside force kills them. CRACKED.COM Can there be only one? — Source: 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

11 Violets make you forget violets

Every time you smell a violet, you're smelling it for the first time. A violet's scent comes from compounds called ionones that work by temporarily shutting off your scent receptors forcing you to immediately forget the smell.. The scent receptors then reset, and you smell the violet again for the very first time. GRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

10 Saturn can float

The density of Saturn is low enough that it would float in water CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

9 Ketchup is a mystery

Ketchup becomes thinner when shaken it's called a non-Newtonian liquid, and scientists aren't sure why it HEINZ behaves that way 57 VARIETIES LS 57 HEINZ TOMATO GRACKED.COM KETCHUP COFFE : . 300 m 3424 — Source: 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

8 The Birthday Paradox

In a group of 23 people, there's a 50% chance that two people have the same birthday. If this doesn't make sense, consider that it's not just you comparing your birthday to 22 others, as there's 231 comparisons being made in the group that don't involve your birthday. This phenomenon, displayed by the connections shown, is known as the birthday paradox. Test it at work or during class and watch it prove itself. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

7 Flies experience time faster than us

Many small creatures experience time faster than we do That that means larger animals (humans) be in slow motion them. to moving to appear CRACKED COM — Source: 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

6 Neutron stars and gravity

CRACKED.COM A neutron star's surface gravity is a trillion times greater than the surface gravity on Earth. Everything you drop on a neutron star generates massive kinetic energy To put this into perspective, if you launch a marshmallow into a neutron star it would generate as much impact as a 3-megaton nuclear warhead. — Source: 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

5 Mercury's sun is wild

CRACKED.COM Mercury has a fickle sun Because of Mercury's eccentric orbit and slow rotation, sometimes the sun reverses direction in the sky. If you were standing on the planet's surface, you could see the sun rise, then set on the same spot, then rise again. — Source: 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

4 Pulsars are amazing

GRACKED.COM IGR J11014-6103 Composite Pulsar Pulsars are a type of neutron star which eject jets of high energy particles over vast distances. The longest ever recorded was 37 light years (over 217 trillion miles) long. — Source: 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

3 Underwater Waterfalls

GRACKED.COM There are such things as UNDERWATER WATERFALLS Wait, what? In some places, patches of The 2-miles-tall Denmark Underwater waterfalls can't be seen, but if you ocean of different Strait Cataract, located tinted them, perhaps temperatures meet. Since between Greenland and they'd look like this illusion caused by sand cold water is heavier than Iceland, is the largest and silt off the coast of warmer water, it just falls. waterfall on Earth. Mauritius. — Source: 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

2 Days are getting longer... Slowly

CRACKED COM Due to tidal forces between the Earth and Moon, days get 1.4 milliseconds longer every 100 years, as the Earth's rotation gets slower. This may not seem like a big deal, but back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a day was only 23 hours long. il 12 1° 2 `10 9 3 — Source: 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

1 Our telescopes can barely see anything

We thought with powerful enough telescopes and instruments we could see the universe... CRACKED.COM But it's 68% dark energy and 27% dark matter. Both are invisible. Everything we have ever seen is just a part of the remaining 5% — Source: 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

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