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27 Strange Facts For All The Little Fact Freaks Out There

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27 Strange Facts For All The Little Fact Freaks Out There

October 01, 2021

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CRACKED.COM The early 20th century was more accepting of trans people than you think. While life for transgender people was never exactly easy, there were places 100 years ago where you could be out as trans. Berlin was a particularly accepting city in the 1920s. A lot of research in the field was done there, before the Nazis came marching in and burned it all. — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Hoarding In Our Collection of Knowledge-y Stuff

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A lawyer dressed up as Tigger in court to prove a point. In 2004, a Walt Disney World guest accused a performer of groping her and her daughter. The guy's attorney said that the Tigger costume was too unwieldy for that, and put it on himself to prove it. The courtroom shenanigans worked, and the performer was acquitted. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Hoarding In Our Collection of Knowledge-y Stuff

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Fake butt-eyes protect COWS from predators. In Botswana, lions often kill cattle, which leads to farmers killing the lions. To protect both cats and cows, conservationists had the idea of painting eyes on the cattle's rumps, taking inspiration from the eye-like designs on butterflies and other animals that keep predators at bay. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Hoarding In Our Collection of Knowledge-y Stuff

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The elephant shrew, or jumping shrew is a tiny mammal with NBA-ready ups. Only a couple inches in size, they have a 36 leap, meaning they need to be taught to dunk IMMEDIATELY. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fun Facts Guaranteed To Stimulate At Least One Synapse

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Open floor plans were supposed to make women's lives better. The woman, old-timey architects reasoned, couldn't be stuck in the kitchen if the kitchen was also the living and dining room. (The idea that it'd be тот in the kitchen wasn't questioned). Instead, it made the rest of the family inescapable, forcing women to multitask even harder. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Hoarding In Our Collection of Knowledge-y Stuff

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You can tell the rank of the sculpted warriors featured in China's Terracotta Army by their clothing. The lowest ranked warrior? The one wearing a terracotta t-shirt that says Fart Now Loading. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fun Facts Guaranteed To Stimulate At Least One Synapse

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CRACKED.COM Napoleon used fake news to defeat an enemy. Napoleon was racing back home to reinforce his crumbling empire, a French newspaper said. This pleased Austrian tactician Karl Mack von Leiberich, who rode to rout whatever was left of Napoleon's forces. Except that the newspaper was a fake, planted by Napoleon's moles - Mack walked straight into a trap, and had to surrender his entire army. — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Hoarding In Our Collection of Knowledge-y Stuff

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Angel's Trumpet is a plant that can induce strong auditory and visual hallucinations in humans. But I wouldn't try tripping on them, since they can also, well, paralyze your organs. Not so groovy. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fun Facts Guaranteed To Stimulate At Least One Synapse

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CRACKED.COM The genocide of Native Americans might have changed the climate. The Little Ice Age was a particularly cold period after the Middle Ages, and researchers think that massacring the Americas' native population was a big factor. Huge swathes of abandoned farmland were taken over by wild plant life, which absorbed CO2 and lowered the temperature. — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Hoarding In Our Collection of Knowledge-y Stuff

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Usain Bolt

A footrace (or talon-race) between Usain Bolt and a wild turkey might be closer than you think. Wild turkeys can run up to 25 mph, VS Bolt's top speed of 27. If they cheat and fly? They burn him at 55 mph. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fun Facts Guaranteed To Stimulate At Least One Synapse

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CRACKED.COM A lot of honey is fake. Studies show that about 76% of store- bought honey contains nothing of the pollen that should be found in the yummy bee puke. Honey is the third most counterfeited food in the world, with a lot of it replaced by syrup fillers. China is a primary source of this fake honey. — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Hoarding In Our Collection of Knowledge-y Stuff

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Despite what Oregon Trail may have led you to believe, bison are actually quite quick animals. Bison can run 40 miles per hour, which is enough fast-moving meat to turn you into applesauce. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fun Facts Guaranteed To Stimulate At Least One Synapse

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101112106 CRACKED.COM 0.1.00.00 on 0011101 11101011 10000 L 010 11010 I 101 111 1 10 cad 10 110 00111 01 Artificial intelligence might have already killed people. According to U.N. reports, lethal 1 autonomous weapons systems (drones 0 that can identify and attack targets without human intervention) destroyed a convoy in Libya in 2020. It's not clear, however, if anyone was killed in the attack. — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Hoarding In Our Collection of Knowledge-y Stuff

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Elements

There are only two elements in the world that exist in a liquid state at room temperature. SCHOTT DURAN 100 ml - Code Old thermometers may tip you off to the first, mercury, but not as many people know the second: bromine. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fun Facts Guaranteed To Stimulate At Least One Synapse

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M Mario's first credit was as a villain. The character was called Jumpman when he first appeared in Donkey Kong, and didn't get the name Mario until the sequel, Donkey Kong Jr. - where he was the baddie. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Hoarding In Our Collection of Knowledge-y Stuff

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Because of the ongoing volcanic activity, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is constantly changing. Hiking trails are even closed and reopened depending on how the landscape has changed. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fun Facts Guaranteed To Stimulate At Least One Synapse

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Would have been cool

CRACKED.COM George McFly was going to be a boxer. George becoming a science fiction writer was thematically appropriate, but that wasn't the original plan. Initially, the left hook he gives Biff was going to set him on the path to becoming a boxer. — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Hoarding In Our Collection of Knowledge-y Stuff

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Maine

Did you know that Maine has an official state cat? It is, as the name suggests, the Maine Coon. Maine also has an official state cat lady. Her name is Tabitha and her house smells TERRIBLE. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fun Facts Guaranteed To Stimulate At Least One Synapse

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CRACKED.COM Stevie Nicks' Stand Back was inspired by Prince. When Prince's Little Red Corvette came on her car's radio, Nicks stopped her honeymoon to write the similarly synth-driven Stand Back. Then she contacted Prince to split the royalties, and was amazed when he showed up at the studio and did the synth part himself. — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Hoarding In Our Collection of Knowledge-y Stuff

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Allow us to make moray eels even less cuddly by telling you that they have two separate sets of teeth. One set is in their mouth, you know... where they're supposed to be. The other is in their throat, and we hate it. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fun Facts Guaranteed To Stimulate At Least One Synapse

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CRACKED.COM Your hamster comes from an incestuous couple. The Syrian hamster is by far the most common domesticated hamster - and every single one you can find in pet stores is descended from two siblings, the only survivors of a litter caught in the wild in 1930. — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Hoarding In Our Collection of Knowledge-y Stuff

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At one point, the amount of bay oysters in the Chesapeake bay could filter the entire bay in three days. However, thanks to them being overfished for horny gourmands, it would now take over a year. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fun Facts Guaranteed To Stimulate At Least One Synapse

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Where's Waldo was censored over a microscopic nipple. Never mind Waldo himself - would you be able to find a nipple in a Where's Waldo beach scene? Yeah, we know you would - and so were several American mothers in the early 90s, who managed to get the books removed from library shelves over the tiny ink dot. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Hoarding In Our Collection of Knowledge-y Stuff

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The element that holds the distinction of the world's highest boiling point is Rhenium. Boiling at roughly 10,100 degrees Fahrenheit, it's also one of the world's worst things to try to cook ramen in. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fun Facts Guaranteed To Stimulate At Least One Synapse

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Peter Falk wasn't the first to play Columbo. Bert Freed played the lieutenant (sans raincoat) in an episode of the 1960 series The Chevy Mystery Show. But it was just a one-off thing, and the character still didn't have any of the shabby charm Falk brought to the part years later. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Hoarding In Our Collection of Knowledge-y Stuff

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Scorpions are able to exist on a diet that would make most Instagram detoxes seem gluttonous. When there's not much prey to be found, they're able to live on a single insect a year. And look great doing it! CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fun Facts Guaranteed To Stimulate At Least One Synapse

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CRACKED.COM Guillermo del Toro was very disappointed with a UFO. Del Toro claims he and a friend saw a UFO once - which he describes not as majestic or breathtaking, but as crappy. It was a flying saucer, he said, so clichéd, with lights . It's so sad. You heard the man, aliens - you need to up your design game! — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Hoarding In Our Collection of Knowledge-y Stuff

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