40 Random Bits of Historical Trivia to Storm the Shores of Your Cerebellum

Not to be dramatic, but the eyes of the world are upon you
40 Random Bits of Historical Trivia to Storm the Shores of Your Cerebellum

All these simultaneous inventions are a strong argument for the existence of a collective consciousness.

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THE HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS WAS PENNED IN THE 1300s... ...AFTER SCANDINAVIA In fact, some of the Viking HAD BECOME history might sound CHRISTIAN. familiar, like Odin sacrificing himself by hanging on a tree and getting pierced by a spear. CRACKED.COM http://utpress.utexas.edu/index .php/books/snohei

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It was a cool time to be alive

The Phantom Menace's 2nd trailer was a milestone in internet history. It was the biggest Internet download event in history, (Steve Jobs) and a test of then-new Akamai network tech for heavy traffic- Akamai passed.

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Nothing to do - start a war

Just 8% of recorded human history is considered peaceful. Of the 3400 years of recorded history, only 268 are considered peaceful. At least 108 million people were killed in wars in the twentieth century.

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CRACKED.COM H HISTORY Gangland KOREA i SEASON FIVE Dangland Dangland 2003 2007-2010 DVD When Dave Chappelle predicted that the History Channel would cover Street Gang Wars as US History, the audience broke into hysterics

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WIROVG Well-behaved women rarely make history. - Marilyn Monroe Pulitzer prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote this about Puritan funer

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CRACKED.COM 97% OF HUMAN HISTORY HAS BEEN LOST. Humans appeared 200,000 years ago. Writing is about 6,000 years old. This means that only 3% of our species' history has been recorded.

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CRACKED VULGARITY HISTORY The first audible curse words in film The 1929 Paramount film Glorifying the American Girl has the first curse words in cinema history. They say damn six times, and jackass twice.

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THE BACKSTREET Boys ARE NAMED AFTER A FLEA MARKET. e Fca. Malket The best-selling boy band in history decided to name themselves after the Backstreet

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Remember Paul HISTORY THE Revere's midnight ride? He galloped through the colonies shouting, The British are coming! The British are coming! He wa

Probably no weird racial undertones to see here

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - The first zombie movie was the 1932 White Zombie, featuring a woman being turned into a zombie by a “voodoo maste
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George Clooney

EMBARRASSING EARLY APPEARANCES GEORGE CLOONEY in Grizzly II: The Concert Partially filmed in 1976 but only finished in 2020, the awful horror flick Grizzly II: Wait, Does the Bear Really Attack a Concert? is Clooney's actual first movie. Suddenly Batman & Robin doesn't look so bad, uh? CRACKED.COM

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And Will Sasso did that lemon thing on Vine. 'MadTV' alumni are really going places.

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - In 2018, Jordan Peele became the first black person to win the Original Screenplay award for Get Out.
Source: L.A. Times

Jimmy Stewart

Performers Bookends First episode / Last Episode Jimmy Stewart The actor's first role in a feature length film was in 1935's The Murder Man (titles were simpler back then), and his final role was voicing sheriff dog Wylie Burp in 1996's An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. CRACKED.COM

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18 Horror Movies That Did It First - The first slasher horror movie was the 1971 A Bay of Blood. The Italian movie, along with 1974’s movies The Texas
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18 Horror Movies That Did It First - Fredric March was the first actor to win an Oscar for a horror movie with his performance in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H
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In 1878 the New York Times published an editorial that called Thomas Edison's invention, the phonograph, a depraved ingenuity. They claimed that the invention would destroy society because everyone would be too scared about being recorded to trust anyone else. CRACKED COM

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Booze is older than the wheel.

Alcohol predates the invention of the wheel. JACK DANIEL'S No.7 OTA CRACKED.COM Traces of mead have been found on clay from a 9,000-year-old Chinese village, which came 3,500 years before the wheel's invention in Mesopotamia.

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Commercial fertilizers, the invention that fed countless people, were invented by Fritz Haber, the same man who created the deadly chlorine gas during

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The microchip was invented twice within a year. EINOY 0590 20101 Jack Kilby (left) and Robert Noyce (right) independently invented the microchip withi

Go ahead and try, we'll wait.

Both Sir Frank Whittle (a British engineer) & Hans von Ohain (a German physicist) came up with the first jet engine independently and while serving on

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Takaaki Kaiita in Japan and Arthur. B. McDonald in Canada independently proved that neutrinos have mass. CRACh They shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Phy

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Two people from different countries developed the automated teller machine separately. Barron first debuted his cash dispensing machine in 1967 at Joh

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GDAC In 1902, Leon Teisserence de Bort from France and Richard Assmann from Germany discovered the stratosphere just 3 days apart from each other. The

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By sheer coincidence, the film projector was developed almost simultaneously by the Skladanowsky brothers in Germany and an American Civil War veteran

My thanks to all of you

The early television had multiple inventors. Each came up with their own version in the 1920s, but not all of them took the limelight. John Logie Bair
CRACKED BOSSA NOVA: THE TRENDY WAY TO MAKE ANYTHING SEEM COOLER IN THE '60S. During World War II, prisoners in the U.S. got involved in the war effort in different ways, such as giving blood, buying war bonds, and making things for the military. Some prisoners even got out of jail temporarily so they could join the military.

Wrigley’s Chewing Gum

War gum, anyone? Wrigley's chewing gum was taken Off the civilian market due to wartime rationing during World War II. SHOES RATIONING BOARD WAR BOOK

"Just nod if you can hear me..."

Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon was on Billboard's Top 200 charts for a staggering 736 weeks. This is longer than the American Civil War, World war I and World war II combined.

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CRACKED VOLKSWAGEN Volkswagen started in Nazi Germany to make a cheap car for Germans. It used Jewish and non-Jewish forced labor from eastern Europe, and ran four concentration camps and eight forced-labor camps.

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CRACKED THE NAZIS' RAT TANK The Nazis wanted to build a super tank called The Rat that was five times heavier than even their insane Panzer VIII Maus. It would have weighed an incredible 1,000 metric tons.

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World War II

1950s- Last veterans die, aged over 100 World War II 1939-1945 PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT IN THE CIVL WAR WERE STILL ALIVE AT THE TIME OF WORLD WAR Il. Civil W

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