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19 Scintillating Crumbs of Truth With Which to Pepper Your Banter (You’re Welcome)

July 04, 2023

Conversation is an art — an art that not everyone is going to excel at. Sometimes we can find ourselves stalling out as a conversation hits an unexpected dead end with nowhere to turn. That’s why we’re here to help. If you’ve got a first date coming up or need to freshen your watercooler conversation, look no further.

We’ve got you covered on all sorts of things like just why society adopted a seven-day week. The next time someone brings up I Love Lucy? You’ll be able to tell them how much money the show is raking in every year nearly seven decades after it ended. When Stuart Little comes up you can tell your friend that Stuart Little isn’t actually a mouse but rather a two-inch baby that just looks like a mouse. (Okay, we admit, that last one was a little messed-up, but we’re sure you’ll get some mileage out of it.)

In any event, these are 19 facts to take your banter to the next level…

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The week has seven days because seven was a special number to the Babylonians. Why? They saw seven objects in the sky -- the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. On the other hand, the Roman week had eight days and the Egyptian one had 10. But the Babylonians were so powerful for a while that other civilizations just adopted their week. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know! 13 Facts About Movies And General Trivia To Un-Bore You

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Japan's most popular curry roux is called Vermont Curry. h House Foods SAUCE MIX - MILD VermontCurry ВО CURRY WITH A TOUCH OF APPLE AND HONEY APPLE&HONEY 4 12 Servings (e Sorvingsanz NET WT 8 $ HOLID 1 20% In the late '50s, a book called Folk Medicine: A Vermont Doctor's Guide to Good Health sparked a U.S. health craze based on mixing honey and vinegar. It made its way to Japan and became known as the Vermont Health System. So, to capitalize on it, a new curry was named Vermont Curry. And that name stuck. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know! 13 Facts About Movies And General Trivia To Un-Bore You

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Newhart had a finale that rendered the entire series pointless. The llast two minutes of the finale had Bob Newhart waking up as his character from an earlier sitcom, The Bob Newhart Show, and announcing that the whole thing - - all eight seasons of Newhart, including all its characters - was just a weird dream. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know! 13 Facts About Movies And General Trivia To Un-Bore You

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In the Philippines, basketball teams are corporate-owned. КА Tender Juicy HOTDOO Each team only serves as its corporation's marketing tool. Their names change often, depending on what the company wants to sell: for example, there used to be a team called Kia Sorento that became Kia Carnival. And the Purefoods Star Hotshots were Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs, then Purefoods Corned Beef Cowboys. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know! 13 Facts About Movies And General Trivia To Un-Bore You

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World War II

The U.S. tried to fight Japan with radioactive foxes. WWII's Operation Fantasia involved catching foxes, painting them with paint that had radium so they glowed in the dark, and releasing them in Japanese villages. They'd look like mythical kitsune, which was suposed to terrify the Japanese. Mercifully, at one meeting, an official spoke up and convinced everyone they should call off the whole thing. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know! 13 Facts About Movies And General Trivia To Un-Bore You

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In 1958, Cambridge students parked a car on the university's Senate House. It was part of an elaborate prank by engineering students, who had to build scaffolding and make a kind of drawbridge to pull it off. The authorities tried to take down the car over five days, but eventually gave up and cut it into pieces with a blowtorch. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know! 13 Facts About Movies And General Trivia To Un-Bore You

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Botulinum toxin (AKA Botox) is the most toxic compound on Earth. One pound of it is enough to kill the majority of the world's population. It doesn't kill people undergoing Botox procedures because the dose is a thousand times less than the lethal one. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know! 13 Facts About Movies And General Trivia To Un-Bore You

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Russia is importing COWS from the European Union en masse. 139 297 SKIN 138 541 139 250 Putin's regime wants to modernize the Russian dairy industry and end its dependence on foreign milk - - and, eventually, to export to China. In 2019, Russia spent over $110 million on 45,000 European heifers (in 2016, it spent half that). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know! 13 Facts About Movies And General Trivia To Un-Bore You

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The moon has a memorial to fallen astronauts. It's a commemorative plaque placed at the Hadley-Apennine landing site in 1971, honoring 14 deceased NASA astronauts and USSR cosmonauts. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know! 13 Facts About Movies And General Trivia To Un-Bore You

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Mad Max: Fury Road started out as 3,500 drawings. George Miller and comic book artist Brendan McCarthy worked out the whole movie as a series of 3,500 images. Miller says that that's a fantastic document with which to produce a film that has very little dialogue, where everything is spatial. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know! 13 Facts About Movies And General Trivia To Un-Bore You

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I Love Lucy, which ended its run in 1957, still makes $20 million a year. Reruns still air on CBS online and the Hallmark Channel, with apparently very devoted audiences. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know! 13 Facts About Movies And General Trivia To Un-Bore You

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Stuart Little isn't actually a mouse. not на He's actually just a kid who happens to look like one. In the original book, he's described as a two-inch-tall baby that looks very much like a mouse in every way. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know! 13 Facts About Movies And General Trivia To Un-Bore You

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The highway scene in 28 Days Later required a rolling police roadblock. It was filmed on the M1 highway, and police slowed down cars coming in both directions. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know! 13 Facts About Movies And General Trivia To Un-Bore You

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Leaf blowers are worse for the environment than cars. TANAC IWORX A typical backpack leaf blower running for one hour emits the same amount of со as a modern car running for over 8 hours. And it emits even more hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen, and fine particulate matter. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 13 Facts That’ll Exert The Old Cerebellum

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Wild camels, which are found in China and Mongolia, can live on a nuclear test site. They live in an area of the Gobi desert that has been used for 43 nuclear tests -- they've survived the radiation, and they've + adapted to the lack of fresh water by + drinking water saltier than sea water. Science doesn't know how they can live on water with that much salt. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 13 Facts That’ll Exert The Old Cerebellum

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King Henry II had himself flogged for having Thomas Beckett killed. He's the king famous for saying Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest? So when his knights did kill Beckett, and everyone then turned against Henry, he went to Beckett's tomb and had monks whip him to atone for what he did. In one account, 80 monks whipped him three times each, but that was probably a bit of an exaggeration. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 13 Facts That’ll Exert The Old Cerebellum

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JFK got shipwrecked on an island in the Pacific in WWII. When his patrol torpedo boat was destroyed, he swam three miles to a nearby island while holding his injured crewmate's life jacket strap in his teeth. After two days, they left and swam to a bigger island, where they thought there was a higher chance of getting rescued -- and, eventually, they were. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 13 Facts That’ll Exert The Old Cerebellum

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When Jessica Anderson finished first in a marathon wearing scrubs and pants, Guinness World Records didn't award her the title for fastest marathon wearing a nurse's uniform. KM NHS SENOR BISTER Their rules said that a nurse's uniform, somehow, has to include a dress and apron, which was at least half a century out of date. After (predictable) outrage, they backed down and gave her the title. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 13 Facts That’ll Exert The Old Cerebellum

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