20 Beautiful Facts For Every Trivia Tastemaker
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Did you know that your newborn’s first poop can be tested for drugs? It’s true! Meconium, the first bowel movement of an infant, can be analyzed to determine if the mother smoked, drank or used drugs during pregnancy. On a completely different note, although you might not think it, a small Irish football team’s logo is actually in honor of the Ottoman Empire. Drogheda United FC has a logo based on the Ottomans because they smuggled food into Drogheda during the Great Famine. The team even changed their colors from blue and white to red and white in order commemorate this act of kindness. Lastly, did you know that sunflowers are made up hundreds of single-petal flowers? What appear to be “petals” of an individual flower are actually each individual complete ray flowers, and at its center is a dense pack of tiny disc flowers. So a sunflower is basically the Voltron of botany.
Post-It Notes were made during 3M employee’s free time.
![The Post-It note was created by employees at 3M during their own permitted bootlegging time. GRAGKED.COM This was company-sanc- tioned time where em- ployees are encouraged to spend 10-15% of their work hours pursuing new and personally in- teresting products.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/4/876394.jpg)
The mentality of cleaning our plate leads to overeating.
![The 'clean plate' mentality drives us to overeat. CRACKED.COM Many of us were raised with a 'clean your plate' mentality, stem- ming from a desire to not be wasteful, but this can also lead to overconsumption.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/7/876397.jpg)
A French soldier was elected king of Sweden.
![French soldier Jean Bernadotte became king of Sweden before he ever set foot in the country. CRACKED.COM When Bernadotte showed kindness to a few Swedish soldiers, he became so popular in Sweden that they decided to make him their king when a vacancy came up, which he served until his death.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/6/876396.jpg)
One of the coldest cities in Canada is also Slurpee capital of the world.
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A Norwegian prime minister during the nazi occupation introduced the death penalty and was sentenced to it.
![The Norwegian prime minister received a death sentence 2 years after he introduced it to the country. CRACKED.COM Vidkun Quisling was the prime minister during the Nazi occupation and turned himself in to police in 1945, after civil leader- ship of the resistance de- manded he be treated like any other murderer.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/3/876393.jpg)
“Cars” is a $10 billion movie.
![The Pixar film Cars earned 22 times its total box office gross in merchandise. 95 CRACKED.COM By 2011, the sales fig- ures made Cars mer- chandise the biggest seller in history, earn- ing the company $10 billion.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/0/876390.jpg)
Great White Sharks are selective feeders.
![Great white sharks can assess what food has more caloric value. CRACKED.COM Great White Sharks some- times regurgitate a bite to make room for a more ca- lorically-rich morsel, evi- dence that white sharks are adept at assessing the caloric value of their food.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/1/876391.jpg)
A boy won a kite flying contest to secure the first line for the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge.
![A local boy secured the first line for the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, and was paid $5. CRACKED.COM In 1848, to begin construc- tion on the bridge, engi- neers needed to secure a line across the 800-foot chasm. The lead engineer held a kite-flying contest, and the boy won.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/2/876392.jpg)
The Garcia Effect makes you avoid food that you associate with getting sick.
![Having an aversion to food after it makes you throw up just once is called the Garcia Effect. GRACKED.COM This happens even if you know getting sick had nothing to do with the food you ate and instead was due to a virus.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/9/876389.jpg)
Water cremation is the more environmentally friendly version of heat cremation.
![Water cremation takes 1/4 of the energy of heat cremation with less resulting pollutants. CRACKED COM Alkaline hydrolysis is the process of heating a body in a mix of water and po- tassium hydroxide down to its chemical components, which are then disposed of through the sewer, or as a fertilizer.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/7/876387.jpg)
A dog fought off an escaped jaguar at a Serbian zoo.
![A German Shepherd saved a ZOO employee by fighting an escaped jaguar in a Belgrade Zoo. CRACKED COM The security dog Gabi fought the jaguar through- out the zoo, giving police enough time to try and cap- ture it, and in failing that, to shoot it. Gabi was nursed back to health and contin- ued working at the zoo.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/8/876388.jpg)
An ant from Malaysia attacks enemies by exploding.
![The Malaysian Exploding Ant attacks predators by... exploding. CRACKED.COM When the ant's head ex- plodes during its suicide attack, it spreads a poi- sonous and corrosive glue like liquid that en- tangles and immobilizes any nearby victims.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/6/876386.jpg)
A beer flood in 1814 killed eight people.
![The London Beer Flood of 1814 spilled 323,000 imperial gallons of beer into the streets. GRACKED.COM It killed eight people and destroyed two homes. The 1500 cubic meter flood was ruled as an Act of God and nobody was held re- sponsible.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/5/876385.jpg)
The International Redhead Day festival is held every year in the Netherlands.
![Every year, the Dutch city of Breda hosts the International Redhead Day festival. GRACKED.COM Redheads from more than 80 countries gather for the festival every year. It all started in 2005 when Dutch artist Bart Rouwen- horst put out an ad to find 15 redheads to paint, and received 150 replies.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/4/876384.jpg)
The Pandora CEO says he didn’t know it was illegal to not pay employees.
![Pandora Radio didn't pay its employees for 2 years. 10 CRACKED.COM Pandora co-founder Tim Westergren claimed he didn't know he was break- ing the law. It took ven- ture capital money in 2004, and two lawsuits, to pay the 50 employees the $2 million owed.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/3/876383.jpg)
The term “boycott” comes from an English landlord that the Irish told to f off.
![The term Boycott comes from a landlord everyone hated. s BOYCOTT A bp CRACKED.COM During the Irish Land War in 1880, absentee land- lord Captain Charles Boy- cott was subject to social ostracism when he at- tempted to evict eleven tenants from the land.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/2/876382.jpg)
Nearly 200,000 gold bars and more wealth was shipped from the UK to Canada.
![The largest movement of physical wealth in human history was Operation Fish during WWII. 6665 BASA GOLD GRACKED.COM 186,332 gold bars and more than 8 million ounces of gold coins were sent to Canada from the UK with not even one crate or trea- sury bill going missing.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/1/876381.jpg)
A sunflower is made up of hundreds of single-petal flowers.
![A sunflower is a cluster of hundreds of flowers. CRACKED.COM What appear to be pet- als of an individual flower, are actually each individu- al complete ray flowers, and at the center is a dense pack of individual tiny disc flowers.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/8/876378.jpg)
An Irish football team made their logo in gratitude to the Ottomans.
![A small Irish football team's logo is in honor of the Ottoman Empire. DROGHEDA UNITED F.C. CRACKED.COM Drogheda United FC has a logo based on, and in gratitude to, the Ottoman Empire because the Otto- mans secretly smuggled food into Drogheda during the Great Famine.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/9/876379.jpg)
Evidence of a mother’s drug and alcohol abuse can be found in her infant’s first poop.
![A newborn's first poop can be used to determine if the parents keep or lose their baby. CRACKED.COM Meconium, the first bowel movement of an infant, can be tested to determine if the mother smoked, drank or engaged in drug use during pregnancy.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/0/876380.jpg)