20 Chittering Facts That Really Pumped Our Jams
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Did you know that Japanese high school students learn very little about World War 2? In fact, “Only 19 of the book's 357 pages dealt with events between 1931 and 1945,” according to Mariko Oi, a former Tokyo high school student, speaking about the texbook used. The early 1900s to WWII is pretty much kinda left out of the curriculum, in fact. Switching to biology, how about Anton syndrome? Have you ever heard of this type of blindness where individuals deny being blind? Well, the blindness occurs in the brain’s vision area rather than the eyes. But, since, because sufferers' eyes still work, doctors theorize they deny being blind. How wild is that? Finally, did you know that Japan had an illustrated history of America that was totally bonkers in 1861?! Among other things, it depicted John Adams stabbing a giant snake and George Washington punching a Tiger. Sadly, the anime version of this book has, as far as we know, not yet been produced.
A pilot supposedly vanished after a UFO encounter.
![In 1978, Australian pilot Frederick Valentich and his plane disappeared during a supposed UFO encounter. GRACKED COM His last communication was Melbourne, that strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again... (two seconds open micro- phone)... it is hovering and it's not an aircraft...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/0/876420.jpg)
Jet Li became a Singapore citizen for his daughters.
![Jet Li hasn't been a Chinese citizen since 2003. CRACKED.COM Li became a United States citizen from 2003 to 2009, and has been a naturalized Singaporean citizen since 2009. Не said he chose Singapore for its education system for his two younger daughters.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/2/876422.jpg)
A man raised by wolves is disappointed in humanity.
![A man named Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja grew up in the wild amongst the wolves. CRACKED.COM Marco didn't rejoin hu- man kind until he was 19-years-old. In 2018, he expressed he was disap- pointed with humanity and wished to return to the wild.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/1/876421.jpg)
The first female senator was elected in 1896.
![The first female state senator to be elected in the United States ran against her own husband. GRAGKED.COM Martha Hughes Cannon was a Mormon polygamous wife, earned four degrees by age 25, opened a private prac- tice, was a suffragist, and beat her husband to be a Utah State Senator in 1896.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/3/876423.jpg)
The police came to shut down the filming of “Swingers.”
![In one scene in Swingers, sirens can be heard from the state troopers arriving to shut down filming. GRAGKED.COM Avram Ludwig pretended to have a phone call with the producer who had a permit in front of one trooper, with the producer on the other end of the call not knowing what he was talking about.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/8/876418.jpg)
A commercial with Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan led to “Space Jam.”
![Space Jam was created after a successful Super Bowl commercial. R GRACKED.COM In 1992, Nike made a com- mercial where an animated Bugs Bunny played basket- ball with a real-live Michael Jordan. Warner Brothers decided to turn it into a whole movie since it was so well received.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/9/876419.jpg)
A single-driver car was manufactured that only weighed 130 lbs.
![The Peel P50 car was designed for a single driver and one shopping bag. - TRIDENT CRACKED.COM Because it had no re- verse gear, drivers had to walk out of the car and physically drag it around, which was do- able because it weighed only 130lbs.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/6/876416.jpg)
A Fitbit proved a man was lying about his dead wife.
![A Fitbit played a role in solving a murder. CRACKED.COM Using the Wife's Fitbit and analyzing her movements, analysts were able to create a timeline that proved the husband had cre- ated a false story.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/7/876417.jpg)
Philly rejected the robot invasion.
![A Canadian hitchhiking robot relied on the kindness of strangers to travel from place to place. CRACKED COM It had its arms and head ripped off after one day in Philadel- phia, having traveled peacefully around Canada for 26 days.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/5/876415.jpg)
The democratically elected ruler of Peru initiated a “self coup.”
![In 1992, Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori initiated a self-coup. CRACKED.COM Despite already being the democratic ruler of the country, he overthrew the Congress and Judiciary with military force and assumed full autocratic power.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/3/876413.jpg)
China has an army of pigeons just in case their military can’t communicate.
![The Chinese Army has 10,000 trained pigeons in the event that war renders its modern technology unusable. CRACKED.COM The pigeons, flying at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour, are being trained to car- ry loads of up to 3.5 oz.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/4/876414.jpg)
Starsky and Hutch was based on real cops.
![Starsky & Hutch was based on two real-life NYC cops. CRACKED.COM Lou Telano and John Sepe went undercov- er as Hasidic Jews, gay lovers, and fe- male nurses in the 1960s and 1970s.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/2/876412.jpg)
Wendy’s chocolate Frosty is only half chocolate.
![Wendy's chocolate Frosty is actually half chocolate and half vanilla. CRACKED.COM Owner Dave Thomas thought full chocolate would be too over- powering a flavor paired with their burger and fries meal.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/9/876409.jpg)
Excel can have over a million rows.
![Microsoft Excel can reach down to 1,048,576 rows. Knjiga1 - Microsoft Excel Datoteka Polazno Umetanje Izgled stranice Formule Podaci Pregled Prikaz Dodaci Opcenito Uvjetno oblikovanje Umetni E Calibri 11 A A Z % DOC Oblikuj kao tablicu Irbrili Zalijepi Sortira в / U A 80 45 Stilovi celija Oblikuj filtriral Meduspremnik Font Poravnanje Broj Stilovi Celije Uredi A1 & с A в D E F G H I J K L M 1 2 1 4 5 6 7 8 و 10 GRAGKED.COM YouTuber Hunter Hobbs spent nine and a half hours straight holding the down arrow down to scroll all](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/1/876411.jpg)
A triad boss became the head of an opium suppression unit, which his criminal organization used to sell the opium.
![A Triad boss named Du Yuesheng was granted the rank of general in the Nationalist Chinese army. CRACKED.COM Не became head of the Opium Suppres- sion Bureau, which he used to seize opium to be sold by his own criminal organization.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/8/876408.jpg)
An inflatable pig for Pink Floyd’s album cover got loose.
![A flying pig caused Heathrow Airport to cancel all their flights. CRACKED.COM When Pink Floyd was de- signing the iconic 'Animals' album cover, the inflatable pig tied to Battersea Pow- er Station broke free. It fi- nally landed on a farm in Kent, where it frightened a herd of cows.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/0/876410.jpg)
20 networks passed on Stranger Things.
![As many as 20 networks rejected the Duffer Brothers' Stranger Things series. CRACKED.COM One executive said they need to make it a kids show or have an adult character (Jim Hopper) be the main protagonist instead.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/6/876406.jpg)
Japan’s history of America in 1861 was bonkers.
![In 1861, Japan had an illustrated history of America. CRACKED.COM It depicted, among other things, John Adams stabbing a giant snake, and George Washington punching a Ti- ger. It's no more fantastical than what they teach us in school, to be fair.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/7/876407.jpg)
A type of blindness occurs in the brain rather than the eyes.
![Anton syndrome is a type of blindness where individuals deny being blind. CRACKED.COM The blindness occurs in the brain's vision area rather than the eyes. Doctors theorize sufferers deny being blind because their eyes still work.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/4/876404.jpg)
Japanese history classes kind of skip over World War 2.
![Japanese high school curriculum usually leaves out the early 1900s to WWII. CRACKED.COM Only 19 of the book's 357 pages dealt with events be- tween 1931 and 1945, said Mariko Oi, who attended high school in Tokyo. There was also just one sentence on the atomic bombings of Hiroshi- ma and Nagasaki.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/5/876405.jpg)