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15 Random Trivia Nuggets to Water and Fertilize the Brain

June 21, 2021

Do you feel like you need to step up your trivia game? Do you want to make sure your brain is getting the proper nutrients? Are you just looking for some random facts to impress your friends? Well, look no further! In today’s article, we'll be discussing a variety of random facts related to water and fertilization.

We usually forget things. A lot of things. We often forget where we put our car keys, phone, and sometimes even our pants (though that has only happened once). But on the bright side, we never forget to water our plants or fertilize our lawn—because we all are terrible at those things too. So today, in the spirit of being well-rounded and mediocre at everything, the Cracked team is going to share with you some random facts about water and fertilizer.

By the end of this post, you'll be a brain-nutrient expert! So just keep reading below…

Let’s get started!

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Half of all sloths die while pooping. Sloths are permanently constipated they only poop once a week, losing up to one-third of their body weight in each bowel movement. And for some reason they always do it on the ground, where predators can get to them. Up to half of all sloths are eaten while going to the bathroom. — More: 6 Innocent Animals Who Are Secretly Nightmare Machines

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Spider-Man basically invented the Power Rangers. As you probably know, Spider-Man has a giant robot in the Japanese series from the 1970s. As it turns out, giant transforming robots were a new thing back then, and Spider-Man's success convinced Japan to try it in other shows - eventually leading to Power Rangers. — More: 5 Wildly Wacked-Out Foreign Takes On Pop Culture

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Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves was in an awful movie because someone forged his signature. Keanu never signed up to play a serial killer in 2000's The Watcher but some friend signed up for him. Keanu couldn't prove that wasn't his signature on the contract, so he was forced to make a movie he wanted nothing to do with. — More: Keanu Reeves Was Forced Into Making His Worst Movie

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Star Wars

Star Wars rips off French comics. If you're familiar with Moebius, or with Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mezieres' Valerian and Laureline, you might have noticed that Star Wars borrows heavily from them. Mezieres in particular claimed to be dazzled, jealous and angry about the whole thing. — More: 'Star Wars Holiday Special's Best Part Was Kind Of A Rip-Off

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Rainforests

Rainforests aren't the Earth's lungs. There are many good reasons to protect rainforests, but oxygen just isn't one of them. When you tally up the entire ecosystem (animals included), forests actually consume more oxygen than they produce. Most of the oxygen you breathe comes from algae in the ocean, not trees. — More: 5 Everyday Science Facts (Nearly Everybody Gets Wrong)

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Jazz was considered a health hazard. In the 1920s and '30s, many communities banned jazz on the grounds that it was allegedly a threat to public health. Rulings were enacted blaming the music for all kinds of calamities, ranging from mental breakdowns to spontaneous miscarriages. — More: 6 Stunningly Stupid Moral Panics People Raged Over

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Friends was almost destroyed by Coca-Cola. For Friends second season, Coca-Cola spent $30 million to promote Diet Coke with the help of the hip wenty-somethings. The campaign was huge - so huge, in fact, that people got sick of seeing the characters everywhere, and rankings plummeted. (They got better, though.) — More: 5 Shameless Acts Of Product Placement That Backfired Completely

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The Pinkerton agency tried to sue the makers of Red Dead Redemption 2. Shortly after RDR2 came out, the historical detective agency sent Take-Two Interactive a cease-and-desist letter, demanding a slice of the profits for their appearance in the game (while complaining about being made out to be baddies). The suit was eventually dropped. — More: 7 Ways The Pinkertons Became Who They Are

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The Beatles had their start at a seedy German bar. Before the Beatles were the Beatles, they were a regular feature at the Indra Club, the naughtiest place on earth, a joint in Hamburg's red-light district. It wasn't exactly a good time for them, but the experience they gained helped them become a professional band. — More: The Beatles' Forgotten Punk Rock Origin Story

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Great Britain tried out ice ships during World War II. Short of metal to build warships, Britain launched Project Habakkuk to build a bergship out of pykrete (a tough mixture of ice and sawdust that takes months to melt). But the idea turned out not to be very practical, and the good ship Popsicle was eventually scrapped. — More: 4 Bonkers Secret Military Operations (That Failed Horribly)

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The Moon

You can fit every planet in the Solar system between the Earth and the Moon. While everyone knows the Moon revolves around the Earth, most people don't have the right idea of how far it is. Depending on where the Moon is in its orbit, there's enough room to fit every planet in the Solar System end to end in the intervening space. — More: 5 Everyday Science Facts (Nearly Everybody Gets Wrong)

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U.S. farmers were encouraged (even required) to grow pot. Hemp used to be big in colonial times. In 1619, the Virginia legislature passed a law requiring every farmer to grow hemp. Everything was fine until the early 20th century, when the plant was demonized because poor, non-white people smoked it. — More: 4 Ways Marijuana Took The World By Storm

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Joe Son from Austin Powers is in prison for life. Son (who played Random Task) was convicted in 2011 for kidnapping and torturing a woman back in 2000. Then he beat his cellmate to death, adding 27 years to his life sentence. — More: 5 Incredibly Screwed-Up Acts By Beloved Celebrities

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Early elevators were blamed for elevator sickness. When elevators were becoming common in the early 20th century, many users reported nausea and dizziness. This elevator sickness was caused by organs still moving when the elevator stopped or so some dubiously reasoned. — More: Goofy Ways Our Ancestors Thought We'd All Die

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Kathy Bates

Kathy Bates' grandfather paraded the (fake) mummy of John Wilkes Booth. According to Finis Bates, the Booth who died in a barn was an impostor. The real Booth ran away, and he, Bates, had his mummified body, which he exhibited at circus sideshows. Henry Ford was close to buying the mummy, until his subordinates exposed the hoax. — More: Ridiculous Frauds Whose Schemes Worked (For A While)

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