25 Bashful Bits of Trivia That Asked Us to Ask Your Brain If It Will Dance With Them

Don’t tell them that we told you, but these facts think your brain is cute
25 Bashful Bits of Trivia That Asked Us to Ask Your Brain If It Will Dance With Them

See these facts down this list? Don’t look! Okay, well, they like your brain. A lot. It’s incredibly annoying, actually. They won’t shut up about it, so for our own mental well-being, we need to get this out of the way.

Does it think they’re cute? Don’t look! Either way, they’re highly interesting, so please ask your brain to take them out for ice cream or something so we can all just move on with our lives.

Bass Fishing

A competitive angling winner stole his prized bass from an aquarium in 2013. After the winning 13 lb bass was sold to a fish- monger, another compet- itor recognized it, and tipped off police. The winner was arrested and itted theft and fraud. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Vitamin D

Nearly all cases of rickets disappeared when common foods began being fortified with vitamin D. VITAMIN D This took the statistics of approximately 80-90% of children showing varying degrees of bone defor- mations due to vitamin D deficiency, to being a very rare condition. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Sloths

Some of the fungal strains that grow in sloth hair are being used to treat cancer. Sloths have algae, fungi, moths and insects growing in their hair. Some of the fungal strains are showing uses in treatment for ma- laria, chagas disease and even breast cancer. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Steam

Most of the world's electricity is generated by steam. Oil, coal, and even nuclear plants all produce power by heating water to pro- duce steam. The steam is then driven through a tur- bine, which in turn spins a generator and generates electricity. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Serial Killers

A woman was spared from being a serial killing victim when her assailants learned who her father was. In 1977 the Hillside Stran- gler serial killers dropped their plan to abduct and murder her after learning that she was the daughter of Peter Lorre, who was known for playing dis- turbed characters. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Racing

A form of rallycross racing in Finland has a car budget cap of €1,500. I 8122 - In Folkracing, there is a cost cap on the cars to make sure nobody gets an unfair advantage by spending more on their car. Participants can be as young as 14 years of age. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

The Navy

All ships of the Royal Australian Navy are marked with a large red kangaroo. When warships are at sea it is customary to fly only an ensign to identify a ship's nationality. This tra- dition came about after Australian warships were frequently confused with British vessels. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Circuses

A traveling circus left a dead elephant tied to a tree in 1972. The circus set up in the vil- lage of Uquakwa, IL. Over- night, lightning struck and killed their elephant, which was tethered to a tree in the park. The panicked Circus owners packed up all of their gear, and fled the town. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

The Yukon

The tallest building in Yukon, Canada is only 20 meters tall. Whitehorse, the larg- est city in Yukon, origi- nally had a law that buildings could not ex- ceed 20 meters, and no building has yet sured it. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Meatballs

Street vendors selling meatballs are presumed to be undercover cops In Indonesia. The traveling meatball vendor is often associated with intelligence undercov- er activity. On social media there are memes depicting meatball vendors commu- nicating through walk- ie-talkies. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

The Civil War

Disease and unsanitary conditions caused the majority of fatalities during the American Civil War. Twice as many soldiers died from disease as from battle wounds, the result of poor sanitation in an era that created mass armies that did not yet under- stand the transmission of infectious diseases. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Mucus

The average human excretes 6,500 gallons of mucus in a lifetime. The thousand of gallons, roughly the amount contained in a large tanker truck, will drip, drain and dribble down our throats, unseen and unnoticed. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Trains

If your train is late in Japan, you'll get a ticket explaining your tardiness to your teacher or employer. earl Japanese railways have long instituted a procedure to prove that a enger's tardiness was through no fault of his or her own. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Tariffs

The first piece of legislation ed by the 1 st U.S. Congress was a 50¢ tariff. The Tariff of 1789 levied a 50¢ ($16 today) per ton duty on goods imported by foreign ships. President Washington signed the act and the money was used to pay off the Revolutionary War debt. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Communion

Holy communion wafers are sold in stores as snacks in Quebec. Françoise Laporte, a 71-year-old enjoyer of the melt-in-your-mouth 'Host Pieces,' says they remind her of Mass. Sacrelicious! CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Portable Mini-Nuclear Warhead Launcher

The US military created a portable mini nuclear warhead launcher in 1961. The 'Davey Crockett,' as it was called, never saw use in combat. It remains one of the smallest nucle- ar weapon systems ever built, with a yield of 20 tonnes of TNT. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Sperm

Human sperm cells travel about 7 to 8 inches per hour, on average. GRACKED.COM Sperm has about a 15cm to 18cm journey to the fallopian tubes, which is like an adult swimming an Olympic swimming pool 100 times.

Grapes

Grapes explode when microwaved. GRACKED.COM Water-heavy grapes trap the wavelengths of energy microwave ovens emit because the waves are roughly the same size as the diameter of grapes.

Lyme Disease

Lyme disease is named after the town where it was first recognized. EMERSON CEMETERY GRACKED COM The disease takes its name from Lyme, Connecticut, where the full spectrum of illness was first de- scribed in 1975.

Saliva

A chemical in human saliva is more potent than morphine. CRACKED COM Gram for gram, opiorphin is six times more powerful a painkiller than morphine and may spawn a new generation of natural painkillers without the addictive and psycholog- ical side effects of the tradi- tional drug.

The Bible

Nowhere in the bible does it say there were three wise men. CRACKED.COM Still, most western Chris- tian denominations have traditionally assumed them to have been three in number, based on the statement that they brought three gifts.

Pearls

Pearls will dissolve in vinegar. CRACKED.COM They are mostly made up of calcium carbonate, easily dis- solved by acetic acid, which is most of what vinegar is.

Facebook

The Like button in Facebook originally was going to say Awesome. GRAGKED.COM Zuckerberg eventually vetoed the Awesome button in favor of the shorter Like, accord- ing to Facebook Engi- neer Andrew Во- sworth.

Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren is the first president born in America. CRACKED.COM Не was the first to be born an American citi- zen, as opposed to be- ing born English. Не also is the first U.S. President not to be of English or Irish ancestry. His ances- tors were Dutch.

Tolstoy

Tolstoy's wife hand wrote the first drafts of 'War and Peace.' CRACKED.COM At over half a million words, the novel is the 15th longest in the world. So- phia Tolstaya had to metic- ulously write it out by hand seven times before Tolstoy was happy.

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