15 Pieces Of Trivia That Jolted Our Consciousness To The 5th Dimension
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Ah, procrastinators, Texans, John Candy, vanilla extract, Pulitzer Prizes, farmed salmon, the LAPD, Abe Lincoln, Point Nemo, lost spacecraft, Leonard Cohen, Shirley Temple, teenage assassins, 7-Eleven, marijuana, and Mount Everest. What an eclectic mix of topics! But what do they have in common? They all have fascinating stories behind them that you may not know.
In this list, we’ll explore some of the more curious facts about these topics. For instance, did you know that procrastinators have different brain regions than non-procrastinators? Or that Texans are shocked to find out that pickles-on-popcorn isn’t a thing everywhere? Or that John Candy passed on a cut of Home Alone’s profits?
We’ll also look at some of the more bizarre facts. For example, did you know that vanilla extract can be dangerous if you drink too much? Or that Pulitzer Prizes don’t really pay off? Or that farmed salmon are deaf?
So if you’re looking for some interesting and unusual facts about these topics, you’ve come to the right place.
On Mt. Everest, you can literally climb atop ancient sea creatures.
![CRACKED MT. EVEREST WAS ONCE THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN. The summit of Mount Everest was the seafloor 470 million years ago and is made up of limestone rocks containing fragments of ancient marine invertebrate shells, such as trilobites, brachiopods, ostracods, and crinoids.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/8/889228.jpg)
Pot lasts longer than heroin... in the body, anyway.
![CRACKED MARIJUANA STICKS AROUND LONGER THAN HEROIN. MJ can be detected in the body for up to 3 days after light use, while heroin can be detected for a way shorter period -- less than 1 day.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/7/889227.jpg)
7 to 11, with a little... luck?
![CRACKED THE WIFE OF 7-ELEVEN'S PRESIDENT LOBBIED FOR THAT LOWER-CASE N. 7-ELEVEN - ELEVEN SONY acano Your their 97 The logo was designed in 1946 to show their new hours: 7 to 11. It's a red 7 with Eleven running through it, over a green four-leaf clover for luck. The lowercase 'n' was the president's wife's idea to make it look nicer.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/6/889226.jpg)
Youthful trickery: a deadly weapon in WWII.
![CRACKED TWO TEENAGE GIRLS USED THEIR YOUTH TO OUTSMART (AND ASSASSINATE) NAZIS. In WWII, Freddie and Truus Oversteegen, 14 and 16, joined a Dutch resistance group and assassinated Nazis. They used the fact that, well, they were teens, to trick Nazis into the woods and kill them. In 2014, they got the Mobilization War Cross for their service.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/5/889225.jpg)
Case closed on Shirley Temple's dwarfism.
![CRACKED SHIRLEY TEMPLE WAS NOT A 30 YEAR OLD WITH DWARFISM, DESPITE THE RUMORS. The Vatican was called upon to investigate a rumor that Shirley Temple, at the height of her fame, was actually a 30 year old with dwarfism. Father Silvio Massante visited the Temple family to ask about the rumor and declared that obviously, she is not.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/4/889224.jpg)
Giving up cigarettes gave Leonard Cohen a deeper voice.
![CRACKED GIVING UP CIGARETTES DIDN'T MAKE LEONARD COHEN A SOPRANO. Quitting smoking can actually deepen your voice, as experienced by Leonard Cohen. Не said: It's what happens when you give up cigarettes, contrary to public opinion. I thought my voice would rise to soprano. It's not going in that direction.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/3/889223.jpg)
A lonely spot for lost spacecraft.
![CRACKED POINT NEMO IS THE PERFECT PLACE TO SEND A SPACECRAFT TO ITS WATERY GRAVE. That place, in the South Pacific, is the farthest spot from land. It's been the final resting spot for many spacecraft. Over 263 pieces of space debris have been sunk there since '71, and NASA plans to crash the ISS there in 2031.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/1/889221.jpg)
Abe Lincoln: Wrestling champion then, wrestling champion now.
![CRACKED ABE LINCOLN WAS INDUCTED INTO THE NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME IN 1992. In the 1830s, Abe Lincoln was a top wrestler in Illinois and thanks to this was inducted, extremely posthumously, into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame - proving that wrestling was his real passion, not politics.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/5/889215.jpg)
LAPD mistook a game character for a gunman.
![CRACKED THE LAPD ESCALATED AN ENCOUNTER WITH A CARDBOARD CUTOUT. KOREAU In 2013, they raided a game studio after a panic button was pressed by an employee out of curiosity. They showed up and thought a life-sized statue of a game character was a gunman, which led to а, uh, tense standoff.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/2/889222.jpg)
Farmed salmon: 50% hearing loss, 100% delicious?
![CRACKED MOST FARMED SALMON ARE BORN DEAF. They're three times more likely to be partially deaf than wild salmon due to a deformity called vaterite, which can cause up to 50% hearing loss.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/6/889216.jpg)
Pulitzer Prizes don't really pay off, it turns out.
![CRACKED THE PULITZER PRIZE GAVE A POETRY COLLECTION A BUMP OF... EXACTLY 70 COPIES. DISI a AND RENDERED AMERICAN DURING BYANY MOST NEWSPAPER 1928 THEYEAR THE FOR MONOTINEW PUBLIC JOSEPH BREAD 3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri had sold 11 copies before it got the Pulitzer Prize and, once the Prize was handed out, that figure grew to a truly earth-shattering 81 copies.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/0/889220.jpg)
Vanilla extract: not as innocent as it seems.
![CRACKED VANILLA EXTRACT: THE PERFECT WAY TO GET DRUNK WITHOUT ANYONE NOTICING. Vanilla extract is made with alcohol like beer, wine and liquor, and can be dangerous if you drink too much. One four-ounce shot is like four shots of vodka.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/7/889217.jpg)
John Candy, generous to a fault.
![CRACKED JOHN CANDY PASSED ON A CUT OF HOME ALONE'S PROFITS. John Candy was so generous he passed on a cut of profits for his cameo, doing it as a favor to John Hughes, even though he could have used the money.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/4/889214.jpg)
Texans: shocked to find out pickles at the movies aren't a thing everywhere.
![CRACKED TEXANS LOVE PICKLES-ON-POPCORN. VAN HOLTEN'S Audrition Facts BIG PAPA DILL PICKLES Net W 25 Gal @SUJ-Couns 30 Picking Texans have been getting pickles at the movies for years, but they're shocked to find out no one else does. They come in bags and can even be added to popcorn.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/8/889218.jpg)
Procrastinators: Fear not, your brains are wired differently.
![CRACKED PROCRASTINATORS: YOUR BRAIN IS LITERALLY WIRED DIFFERENTLY. People who procrastinate a lot have different brain regions for threat detection and emotion regulation than those who don't, it turns out.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/9/889219.jpg)