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30 Bites of Nourishing Trivia

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30 Bites of Nourishing Trivia

September 11, 2023

It’s a lot of fun to learn weird trivia, but at the end of the day, they’re just little pieces of information that suck up room in your head, right? Certainly not! For instance, these amazing facts just might teach you something, wow your friends, or at the very minimum, lift your spirits…

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Russia put up a monument to lab mice sacrificed in the name of scientific progress. It was put up in 2013 at Novosibirsk's Institute of Cytology and Genetics, and it honors the vital contributions that mice have made to science. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Incredible Now-You-Know Facts About Russia

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Russia has a massive military-themed park nicknamed military Disneyland. 15 A 14 - 2015 13 Its 4,000 hectares are mostly occupied by military vehicles, including 268 USSR-era aircraft and about 350 tanks from both Russia and other countries. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Incredible Now-You-Know Facts About Russia

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In 2007, Russia planted. its flag two miles beneath the sea near the North Pole. It was an attempt to strengthen Russia's claim to the ocean floor there, and it involved two submarines that carried members of Russia's parliament. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Incredible Now-You-Know Facts About Russia

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The Russian flag was heavily inspired by the Dutch flag (thanks to the Tsar). When Russia started to develop shipbuilding in the 1600s, they invited Dutch shipbuilders over, who suggested a flag like theirs. The Tsar agreed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Incredible Now-You-Know Facts About Russia

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Disney

There's a no-holds-barred documentary about The Emperor's New Groove, and you may never see it. THE SWEATBOX It's called The Sweatbox, and it's a totally candid look at how a big Disney movie is made. Disney refuses to release it, and quickly acts to remove it from YouTube and torrent sites whenever it pops up there. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Fun, Now-You-Know Facts To Stimulate Your Brain

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Europe's largest banana plantation is (probably) in Iceland. It's in a greenhouse in South Iceland, and it produces 500 to 2,000 kg (about 1,100 to 4,400 pounds) a year. The claim depends on how you define European, though -- Spain has a banana plantation on the Canary islands, but though they're Spanish territory, they're geographically African. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Fun, Now-You-Know Facts To Stimulate Your Brain

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Frozen helped solve a 62-year-old mystery. In 1959, nine hikers never came back from a trip to Russia's Ural mountains .. this became known as the Dyatlov Pass incident. So scientists used avalanche simulation models developed for Frozen to simulate what happened at Dyatlov Pass. That was a big help in developing a convincing argument that a freak delayed avalanche killed the hikers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Fun, Now-You-Know Facts To Stimulate Your Brain

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Tom Felton's grandpa is in the first Harry Potter movie. He's an extra in several different scenes -- when all the students enter the great hall for the first time, when Quirrell runs into the great hall to warn everyone, and and in the crowd at the Quidditch match. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Fun, Now-You-Know Facts To Stimulate Your Brain

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When Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford went up to Carrie Fisher in Star Wars' ceremony scene, they held hands. It was Ford's idea -- that way, their movements would be in sync, and Fisher could keep her eyes on one thing (their clasped hands) as the camera filmed her. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Fun, Now-You-Know Facts To Stimulate Your Brain

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In 2013, a Canadian bank robber obsessed with Taylor Swift stole a plane and flew to Nashville. GRJ Не crashed into the runway at Nashville International Airport, and died. It's not clear why he tried to go to Nashville, but investigators think it was an impulsive decision partly based on his obsession. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Fun, Now-You-Know Facts To Stimulate Your Brain

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Cottage roofs in Bermuda are designed to harvest rain. The stepped design of the roofs slows down rainwater, so more of it flows down into the gutters, which take it into a tank under the house. Fresh water is very scarce, and there's no tap water, so each home gets its own water supply from the rain. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Fun, Now-You-Know Facts To Stimulate Your Brain

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The quietest room in the world is on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, WA. It's so quiet that you hear the grinding noise your bones make when you move. Microsoft uses the room to test sounds produced by their software and hardware. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Fun, Now-You-Know Facts To Stimulate Your Brain

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Ponzi Schemes

In 2020, the amount of money in Ponzi schemes was at a 10-year high. TH S CARA S In DOLLARS - CICA RITAVAL S 350 S 811 CREAM TV S Year 1 I S BO INTERASED ET LID S - S un S CASH S TIP MILE viertee ML | : - University FL42546314 217 - 112 REES FREE 1 I SCADE ٤٦٦ e I - de 625463 - - 5 I E I 217 S CASH $ 1 BO 5 2475945237 S NBI CASH $ The boom happened because the stock market grew like crazy and because a ton

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The Olympics

Athletes in the olympics host huge parties in Olympic villages. The Olympic Village in London, 2012 Olympic villages, which are mini-towns built to house Olympic athletes and their entourages, are full of sex, drinking, and partying before and after big events. Many Olympians say the second Olympic motto is What happens in the village stays in the village. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Fun, Now-You-Know Facts To Stimulate Your Brain

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When Banksy tried to trademark one of his paintings, the copyright office threw his own words back at him. They refused the trademark, saying he clearly didn't want to use it and only wanted to have rights over his work without using copyright. To drive the point home, they quoted a line from one of his books: copyright is for losers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Fun, Now-You-Know Facts To Stimulate Your Brain

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Florida's Space Coast got the area code 321 on purpose. It's a reference to the Space Shuttle launch countdown, and it went into effect into 1999, after a data programmer suggested it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Fun, Now-You-Know Facts To Stimulate Your Brain

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Goodfellas

The Funny how? line in Goodfellas came from a real encounter. Something like that happened to Pesci -- when he was younger, he told a mobster he was serving in a restaurant that he was funny, which the mobster didn't like. Не told Scorsese about it, and Scorsese put it in but didn't add it to the script, so that the other actors would be genuinely surprised. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Fun, Now-You-Know Facts To Stimulate Your Brain

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The Amazon

The Amazon rainforest totally depends on the Sahara desert in Africa to survive. Winds blow dust from the Sahara, including phosphorus, and deposit it in the Amazon, where trees desperately need it to stay alive. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Amazing Now-You-Know Facts About The Amazon Rainforest

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Some of the Amazon rainforest used to be a pretty heavily built-up area. Until about 400 years ago, up to 50,000 or so people used to live there in 28 towns in an area roughly the size of New Jersey. There were roads, bridges and canals, too. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Amazing Now-You-Know Facts About The Amazon Rainforest

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On an average day, 20 billion metric tons of water evaporates from trees in the Amazon. There's so much water passing through the trees, it makes the Amazon a gigantic, natural sprinkler system that sprays an entire continent. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Amazing Now-You-Know Facts About The Amazon Rainforest

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In the Amazon, there's;a single uncontacted member of a lost tribe, living alone. Nobody knows what language is spoken by the Last of his tribe (he has no name), or even what tribe he's from. There are no plans to contact him. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Amazing Now-You-Know Facts About The Amazon Rainforest

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There's a tribe in the Amazon rainforest that doesn't have any words for numbers. The Piraha have a word for a small size or amount, and a somewhat larger size or amount, ... and it doesn't get more specific than that, apparently. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Amazing Now-You-Know Facts About The Amazon Rainforest

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In the Amazon rainforest, butterflies swarm turtles and lick away their tears. There's very little sodium in the rain in southeastern Peru, so butterflies and other animals have to get it any way they can -- in this case, from turtle tears. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Amazing Now-You-Know Facts About The Amazon Rainforest

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There's a tower deep in the Amazon rainforest that's over 1,000 feet high. The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO), a German-Brazilian project, was built for research into how the rainforest interacts with the soil and atmosphere. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Amazing Now-You-Know Facts About The Amazon Rainforest

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Rubber from the Amazon rainforest built the United States Navy in WWII. The U.S. lost its rubber supply due to a Japanese invasion, so they turned to Brazil -- which mobilized a practical army of men to harvest rubber from the Amazon. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Amazing Now-You-Know Facts About The Amazon Rainforest

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Apparently, people from the Amazon are closely related to Indigenous Australians. Researchers think they come from a common ancestor in Asia whose descendants spread to New Guinea, Australia, and eventually Latin America, but died out elsewhere. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Amazing Now-You-Know Facts About The Amazon Rainforest

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In the Amazon rainforest, there are parasite wasps that prey on spiders. The wasp paralyzes a spider, then lays an egg on it. After a baby wasp emerges from the egg, it eats the spider and eventually turns into a full-sized parasite wasp. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Amazing Now-You-Know Facts About The Amazon Rainforest

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10% of all living species on the planet live somewhere in the 27% Amazon rainforest. The Amazon is so big, it covers 1.4 billion acres and spreads over eight countries. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Amazing Now-You-Know Facts About The Amazon Rainforest

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The Amazon

There are real, flesh-and-blood dogs with two noses in the Amazon rainforest. The Double-Nosed Andean tiger hound has a really good sense of smell, as you might expect, even though it's not terribly handsome, as one explorer said. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Amazing Now-You-Know Facts About The Amazon Rainforest

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Henry Ford tried to build Fordlandia, his own town deep in the Amazon rainforest. In 1927, he built a rubber plantation in the jungle and a town next to it. It failed -- people fought over food and over having to live under strict, Fordian order. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Amazing Now-You-Know Facts About The Amazon Rainforest

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