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Little brain snacks for your brain tum-tum!

25 Fun Facts To Tuck Into Those Lil Brain Folds You Got There

March 18, 2022

Who doesn't love a good little brain snack in the middle of the day? (Or more realistically, while you're in the bathroom at your office.) You're not looking for anything too in-depth, just a quick little something something to get you to your next course. Did you know that the Russians aren't supposed to complain about the cold? Or the reason why regular truces were struck between the Germans and French on the Western Front of World War I? Also the sheer amount of the movies that got their titles and major plot points practically by accident?

We've taken a bunch of these little nuggets of knowledge, individually wrapped them in vacuum sealed little baggies, and leave ‘em for you to distribute into your lil lunch boxes to snack on in the middle of an otherwise boring day. Just make sure you don’t spoil your appetite for the textbooks you're going absorb later, or whatever it is you're into.

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That's a lot of plastic

Put together, all the plastic on Earth has more mass than all the animals (on both land and sea). ثقافة - IRAC MAS H NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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Don't complain about the cold!

In Russia, complaining about winter is considered unpatriotic. The winter saved the country from two major invasions, so extreme cold is something to be thankful for, the thinking goes. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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Progressive Teddy

Theodore Roosevelt was surprisingly progressive for his day. In his Harvard undergrad thesis, he said there was no question that women should have equal rights with men, and he didn't think married women should assume their husband's name. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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Ghostbusters' name

Ghostbusters got its name almost accidentally. Columbia couldn't get the rights to the name from Universal, since there was an old TV show called The Ghost Busters. By chance, an exec involved with the movie left Columbia during production and became head of Universal, and he let Columbia use the name. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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This is an actual nightmare

Three men survived for 16 days in a sunken battleship after the Pearl Harbor attack. They were only found when the battleship was salvaged six months later - next to their bodies was a calendar with 16 days crossed off. The Navy didn't tell their families how long they'd survived. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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Wartime Bathroom Truce

On the Western Front of WWI, both sides regularly scheduled truces for meals and bathroom breaks. At least Germans did this a lot with the French and British - but very rarely with Canadians, as Canadians were incredibly bloodthirsty. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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OK Computer

OK Computer got its name from a random Hitchhiker's Guide line. RADIOHEAD Lost Child Lost Chile, x The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy contains the line OK, computer, I want full manual control now, and Thom Yorke just used the first two words. The whole album is really f*****g geeky. I was kind of a geek when I was a kid, unashamedly so, NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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Sofia Coppola's Little Mermaid

We almost got a Sofia Coppola adaptation of The Little Mermaid. Her version was supposed to adapt the original fairy tale, and she wanted to shoot underwater. They did some underwater shooting tests, but she left the project when too much money started pouring in, because she couldn't make the movie she wanted to make. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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Guardians of the Galaxy

In Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Ego's planet is based on fractal artwork. The filmmakers brought on Hal Tenny, who makes Mandelbrot set art, as a visual consultant. They based much of Ego's core, landscape, and the structures on the planet, on his concepts. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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Koala Finger Prints

Koala fingerprints are nearly identical to human ones. At one point, Australian authorities were even concerned that koala fingerprints might have messed up criminal investigations. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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The Deepest Manmade Hole

The deepest man-made hole on Earth is 7.5 miles deep. It's the USSR's Kola Superdeep Borehole, and its deepest part is nine inches in diameter but reaches a third of the way down the continental crust. One of the Borehole researchers' most amazing finds was two-billion-year-old rocks with intact organic compounds inside. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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Rutger Hauer

Rutger Hauer thinks Deckard is the bad guy in Blade Runner. Не gets a gun pointed at his head and then he f***S a dishwasher, and then he falls in love with her. It doesn't make any sense, Hauer says. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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Why Thanos Gets Got

The Avengers: Endgame plot grew out of a throwaway comment. The Russo brothers couldn't figure out what to do with Thanos, as he was super powerful and could beat the Avengers easily. One day, producer Trinh Tran said Kind of really wish we could just kill him, which gave the Russos a totally new idea. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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Cap Punches Hitler

Iconic Captain America #1, with Cap punching Hitler, came out a year before the U.S. entered WWII. Jewish creators Joe Simon & Jack Kirby received death threats, but the mayor of New York pledged protection. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fascinating 'Now You Know' Facts

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Can't keep them donkeys apart

Two donkeys together for 10 years at a Polish ZOO were separated because of complaints they were mating in front of children. A petition with 7,000 signatures reunited them. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fascinating 'Now You Know' Facts

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The Big Lebowski's Big Vocabulary

Three words are used around every 12 seconds in The Big Lebowski. They are: 'Dude,' 'Man,' or 'F*ck.' NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fascinating 'Now You Know' Facts

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Many James Bonds, only one Queen

James Bond first appeared in 1953 and through all the books & movies... On HER MAJESTYS SECRET SERVICE There has been one monarch of Britain: Queen Elizabeth II. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fascinating 'Now You Know' Facts

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Eels, how do they work?

Biologists don't fully understand how eels reproduce. No one has ever seen how they spawn. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fascinating 'Now You Know' Facts

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Tokyo Drift

Tokyo Drift couldn't secure certain permits but filmed scenes anyway. RECARD Universal Studios hired a fall guy to go to jail instead of the director. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fascinating 'Now You Know' Facts

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The Empire State Building

Two people have fallen from the Empire State Building and lived. They both fell from the 86th floor and landed on the 85th. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fascinating 'Now You Know' Facts

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The snail lives!!

1846: A snail from Egypt was thought dead so it was glued to an index card and put on display in a British museum. 1850: The snail starts moving and is found to be alive. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fascinating 'Now You Know' Facts

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Tough times for the Nulls

A Virginia couple with the last name Null has a tough time filling out online forms. ! Error try again click here for more information Often, they're flagged for being null. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fascinating 'Now You Know' Facts

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Sylvester Stallone bought back his dog

In 1971, Sylvester Stallone sold his dog, Butkus, for $40 to buy food. After selling the script for Rocky, he bought him back for $15,000. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fascinating 'Now You Know' Facts

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Ernest Hemingway's two plane crashes

Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes 24 hours apart. Presumed dead after the second, he emerged from the jungle with a bottle of gin & some bananas. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fascinating 'Now You Know' Facts

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Clint Eastwood saves ice cream

In 1986, Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of tiny Carmel, California. One of his first official acts was to repeal a city ban on selling ice cream cones. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fascinating 'Now You Know' Facts

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