36 Random Bits of Trivia That Will Leave a Slight Aftertaste When Your Enemy Drinks Wine From Your Skull

The facts that keep on giving (long after you’re dead)
36 Random Bits of Trivia That Will Leave a Slight Aftertaste When Your Enemy Drinks Wine From Your Skull

It might come as a surprise, but that warm feeling you get in your brain after reading each fact is actually your brain plastering the fact on your skull wall like t compound on drywall. We’re not handymen or anything, we just read a drywall fact recently. 

This is its way of ensuring that the facts will survive long after we’re dead and gone. Thousands of years from now, these random tidbits will help archaeologists to better understand our present-day life.

One good skull-scraping will be like a little trip through time.

Max Greenfield

Max Greenfield had a Saturday Night Live-themed bar mitzvah The New Girl star even had a Blues Brothers cake. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Rome

THE ROMAN EMPIRE DIDN'T JUST FALL OVERNIGHT. Yes, Rome was taken by Germanic invaders in 479-which had happened other times, SO not much changed that day. The Eastern Roman Empire-which was more important by then- lasted another 1,000 years. CRACKED.COM

The Grandfather of the Green Screen

Historical Firsts in Practical Effects Hg1 Frank Williams: Grandfather 1916 of the green screen 5 Fig.2. 6 Williams' traveling matte system shot actors or vehicles against a black background and isolated them to be placed on other moving images. It could only work in black and white, but is a direct precursor of blue/green screen technology. CRACKED

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Bank of America

A couple from Florida got revenge on Bank of America after their home was mistakenly foreclosed: Banket America Bank of America The courts sided with the couple, making BoA cover their legal fees and giving them permission to seize bank assets right out of the lobby of one branch. CRACKED.COM

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L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard was a total screw-up in the navy. CRACKED.COM The sci-fi author and future founder of Scientology commanded a ship with 60 people during World War II, until the military removed him from command. His first dumbass move was thinking he spotted a Japanese submarine off the coast of Oregon, where he proceeded to fire into the water and call blimps and the coast guard for backup. The military concluded there never was a sub there. The next month Hubbard parked his ship off of Mexico, where he had no authorization to anchor, and began training exercises where

The Americans

36 Random Bits of Trivia That Will Leave a Slight Aftertaste When Your Enemy Drinks Wine From Your Skull

Vanilla

The natural pollination OF vanilla orchids can only occur in Mexico because they need euglossine bees that are native to the country to complete the p

Uber

UBER IS CONGESTING TRAFFIC IN NEW YORK. If you want to operate a taxicab in New York City, you need to purchase a very expensive medallion. There's a

Cloud Seeding

CRACKED Rich people have the option to not get rained on during their wedding day... ...because they can opt for 'cloud seeding' service, which utiliz

Gandhi

Before taking this iconic photograph of Gandhi, the photographer Margaret Bourke-White was told she had to learn how to use the spinning wheel. She di

Saddam Hussein

36 Random Bits of Trivia That Will Leave a Slight Aftertaste When Your Enemy Drinks Wine From Your Skull

Tuvalu

Tuvalu is an island nation in the South Pacific. The 9-island chain is located about halfway between Hawaii and Australia. It's shrinking into the sea

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