34 Nomadic Bits of Trivia That We Picked Up Hitchhiking on A Fact-Littered Highway

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34 Nomadic Bits of Trivia That We Picked Up Hitchhiking on A Fact-Littered Highway

Our morning commute to the office couldn’t have gone better! We have this big meeting in a few minutes where we’re supposed to pitch a new batch of random facts, and until now, we had nothing. Thankfully, while working on excuses for not having facts, we saw this great random batch with its thumb out on the side of the road. Talk about luck!

Now, unless this happens again, we can save the excuses for tomorrow’s meeting.

New York City

The hand of the Statue of Liberty sat in an NYC park for six years. They sent the hand (with the torch) to be displayed in the US to raise the funds needed for finishing the statue - it took years, but it worked. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Arby’s

Arby's bought Dunkin for $11.3 billion ROAST Beer Sandwich IS DELICIOUS Arby's Several years prior, Arby's bought Buffalo Wild Wings for $2.9 billion. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Buried Ships

There are 30 to 60 ships buried under San Francisco. The ships remain from the Gold Rush, during the time the city decided to move the shoreline. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Eminem

Eminem is probably the fastest speaker ever. CRACKED.COM While we can't confirm there weren't more articulate cave people, Em rapped a record 1,560 words in 6 minutes in his 2013 song Rap God. At one point, he blurts 97 words in 15 seconds.

Chris Farley

Cousins CRACKED.COM Chris Farley was the first cousin of Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford Motors.

Charlie Brown

A loose tooth almost jeopardized It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. When Sally's six-year-old actress had a tooth get loose, they rushed her to the studio to get all her lines in before it fell out and she started to lisp. CRACKED.COM

The Blair Witch Project

The original 35-page treatment for The Blair Witch Project had zero dialogue. That was on purpose: the authors described what would happen, but they wanted all the lines to be ad-libbed by the actors themselves. CRACKED.COM

Michael Myers

OG Michael Myers actor Nick Castle did way more than you probably knew. He's not just an actor, but a writer and director - he co-wrote Escape from New York and directed '90s films like Dennis the Menace. CRACKED.COM

St. Louis

After the Civil War, the capital of the US was almost moved to St Louis. The scheme even involved disassembling important buildings like the White House and the Capitol building, and shipping them to St. Louis. CRACKED.COM

Fishy Smell

Trimethylaminuria is a disorder that makes people reek of fish. CRACKED.COM TMAU is caused by the body being unable to convert trimethylamine to trimethyl- amine oxide, resulting in the stinky trimethylamine being excreted through the pores, breath and urine.

Apple

The third founder of Apple, Ronald Wayne, left after less than two weeks. non Tour PUS Bus Just 11 days after helping found Apple, he sold his 10% stake in the company for $800, and within a year would receive another $1,500 to agree to forfeit all claims to the company when it was converted to a corporation.

Ants

Ants stretch and yawn when they wake up. CRACKED.COM Before they sleep they of- ten make themselves com- fortable by scooping smooth hollows in the soil. When they wake they stretch their six legs and open their mandibles wide.

Astronauts

Sergei Krikalev has spent more time in space than any other human in history. GRAGKED.COM The Russian cosmonaut has been away from Earth for 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes. That is approximately 2.2 years, over the span of six spaceflights.

Cocaine

The American Psycho author accidentally Tweeted out a request for cocaine. CRACKED.COM In 2012, Bret Easton Ellis accidentally tweeted Come over at do bring coke now to his 350,000+ followers in- stead of sending a direct message.

The Hundred Years’ War

The first phase of the Hundred Years' War was ended by a hail storm. CRACKED.COM Called Black Monday, a hail storm killed an estimated 1,000 English soldiers in Chartres, France in 1360. King Edward of England con- sidered it a sign from God and soon after he signed the Treaty of Bretigny.

Bats

Bats eat enough insects to save the US over $1 Billion a year in crop damage and pesticide. CRACKED.COM While many bats eat in- sects, others feed on nectar and provide criti- cal pollination for a vari- ety of plants like peach- es, cloves, bananas and agaves.

Microwaves

A microwave oven messed with the Parkes radio telescope for 17 years. Genuus Secure - - 895 - H - Sensor S - America COOK Keyu Warm GUARA San-Gin Last SAMY Weight Tea Service Mom CRACKED.COM Seoul - Panasonic Scientists spent 17 years try- ing to identify powerful but extremely short radio bursts that would appear at seem- ingly random intervals. They finally identified that the mi- crowave being prematurely opened was the cause.

Pop Rocks

Pop Rocks, Tang, and Cool Whip were all invented by one person. R S CRACKED.COM Dr. William А. Mitchell was badly burned in a lab explo- sion as a young chemist working at the Agricultural Experiment Station, and went to work at General Foods after recovering at the start of World War II.

Blood

Getting the wrong blood type in a transfusion could cause a feeling of impending doom. ГОЯЧА AB+ ICS a | RCS International في Rh Positive -Systeme Identicade I : DE 61267 1 When people who have Collection Date Germany 23 a SAMPLE 2/5/2000 one blood type receive Volunteer Donor blood from someone with Only Rx SHOLE BLOOD und ORTOPRECIPITATE REDUCED DVDED / - $ e 1 g I a different blood type, it - Y Author MINEC I may cause their immune system to react, called ABO incompatibility. CRACKED.COM

Toyota

Toyota only made 2 convertible 2000GTs. FAR BIGGT CRACKED.COM They were specially made for use in a James Bond movie because Sean Con- nery was too tall to fit in the standard model.

Duels

In 1949, French director Willy Rozier challenged a critic to a duel over comments he had made. CRACKED.COM Rozier won the duel (fought with rapiers, to first blood) in front of jour- nalists and photographers. The film was a hit - and footage of the duel is in- cluded on the film's DVD.

POWs

A con man convinced people that he was the last POW from World War 1, Oskar Daubmann. CRACKED.COM The parents of the real Oskar Daubmann ac- cepted the impostor as their son, despite his different eye color and lack of known fa- cial scar.

Oxygen

Most organisms on the planet were wiped out due to too much oxygen. CRACKED COM Around 2.5 billion years ago, the Oxygen catastro- phe occurred, where the first microbes producing oxygen using photosynthe- sis created more free оху- gen than most life was ac- customed to.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates' first business was 'Traf-O-Data.' GRAGKED.COM This was a company that created ma- chines that recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.

Cleopatra

The name 'Cleopatra' was popular for female royalty in Egypt. CRACKED.COM There are seven princesses with the name that sat on the throne. The last among them, Cleopatra VII, is the most famous, thanks to her romantic dalliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.

Manhattan

With 8% interest, the amount supposedly paid to the Native Americans for Manhattan could buy it back today. CRACKED COM If the Native Americans real- ly did sell Manhattan to the Europeans for $16 in the 1600s, today it would be worth enough for them to buy back all of Manhattan and still have $222 Trillion dollars left over.

Japan

On Valentine's day in Japan, women give their male coworkers chocolate. CRACKED.COM Unpopular coworkers receive cheap gi- ri-choko (ultra-oblig- atory chocolate) while others receive honmei-choko (true feeling chocolate).

Cigarettes

A discarded cigarette caused one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever. GRAGKED.COM The Texas City disaster of 1947 is generally considered to be the worst industrial acci- dent in U.S. history and resulted in nearly 600 fatalities.

Korea

South Korea maintains an analog TV broadcast near the North Korean border. CRACKED COM Despite having completed the transition to digital broadcast (ATSC) in 2012, South Korea still uses the analog broadcast for North Koreans watching South Korean TV in secret.

Weed

A cannabis shroud was discovered in a 2,400-year-old tomb. CRACKED.COM Discovered in 2016, this was the first incidence of a cannabis burial shroud. The tomb also contained 13 complete cannabis plants, suggesting that it was locally grown along the Silk Road.

Scientology

Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete their ink cartridges. Fax Cupalateice - - ******** - - - - SAMSUNG - paper - Modo Rai Risoluzione Contrieste - - Ink Jet SF-100 For العربية evoluto Repperto ANC DE AUS 1 2 3 RicencerVolume Fax Inkjet CAR ANO CRACKED COM 4 5 6 العربية anrella Anonymous has a long his- tory of messing with the Church, including creating a Google bomb so that a search for dangerous cult would yield the main Scientology site at the top of the results page.

Bombs

There was a bomb designed to blast helicopter landing pads in thick forests. CRACKED.COM The Daisy Cutter was a bomb specifically designed to cre- ate landing pads in Vietnam. The blast would level a 300+ feet circle while leaving the ground itself relatively unaf- fected.

Judge Keith Cutler

A judge named Keith Cutler was summoned to be a juror on a case he was presiding over. CRACKED.COM When he applied to be ex- cused from jury service he was initially declined and was told to write to the resident judge, to which he replied: I am the resident judge.

Scarface

Brian DePalma undid the edits he made on Scarface hoping no one would notice. CRACKED.COM After making edits and ар- pealing to the MPAA for an R rating, director Brian De- Palma felt that the cuts he made were so minor no one would notice if he put them back in, so he did.

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