32 Scrumptious Bits of Trivia That We Know Your Brain Is Salivating For

These’ll hit all of your brain’s taste buds
32 Scrumptious Bits of Trivia That We Know Your Brain Is Salivating For

Try as we might, we’ve never been able to make our facts taste good — for the taste buds, anyway. Don’t get us wrong, every brain on Earth agrees that they’re the tastiest facts in the game. If Michelin ever handed out stars for brain satisfaction, these would get three stars for sure. 

But their taste? Not so much. We’ll keep tweaking the recipe for your tongue while your brain continues to have all the fun.

High-Concept Movies

CRACKED.COM High-concept movie doesn't mean what you think it means. A movie isn't called high-concept because it's supposed to be deep or artsy (or because you have to be high to watch it). It just means that the premise is easily summarized, making for a concise, quick pitch. Jaws, for example, is shark terrorizes town.

The Blitz

CLOSED SUNDAYS NCDL UNWANTED ANIMALS Clinic HUMANELY DESTROYED more open SUPPORTED ever VO The Blitz resulted CO in a pet massacre. In 1939, with the war looming, the British government created a committee to advise pet owners - and their recommendation was, it really is the kindest to have them destroyed. With the threat of bombings and starvation, over 750,000 pets were put down. GRACKED.COM

Pitbull

CRACKED.COM Pitbull has trademarked his yell. You know that EEEYOOO! that is Pitbull's trademark? It turns out it's his actual trademark-you are not allowed to use it. The rapper managed to get legal protection for his signature yell in 2019.

DC Comics

DC created their own Robin rip-off (because of cookies). An anti-drug issue of Teen Titans sponsored by Keebler (yes, it was the '80s) was already fully drawn, when they realized that Robin was licensed to rival cookie company Nabisco. So they drew a new costume on Robin and turned him into a different character, the Protector. CRACKED.COM

Blackface

CRACKED.COM Blackface is still a thing in the movie stunt industry. It would be unthinkable today for a male actor to put on a wig to portray a woman, or for a white person to play a black person in blackface - but it happens among stunt performers. Both wigging and painting down have been fought for decades, but are still common.

Weed

Weed boomed during lockdown. It isn't surprising that the marijuana business reached a record high (ahem) during a stressful time. States where pot is legal saw sales skyrocket in 2020. More people started growing their own weed as well, seeing as how they were home now (and had no money to buy any). CRACKED.COM

Tabasco

All the Tabasco sauce is made in one factory. About 700,000 bottles of the hot stuff are sold every single day-and all of them come from this one factory in MADE IN U.S.A. Avery Island, Louisiana. Seeds are shipped to MEILHENNYD LA ISLAND CO other countries to grow TABASCO PEPPER BRAND SURE SAUCE the peppers, which are then hauled all the way back to Louisiana and turned into sauce. CRACKED.COM

Jesus

Jesus is buried in Japan (or so some Japanese believe). According to local legend in the village of Shingo, Jesus (or Daitenky Taro Jurai) didn't die on the cross - he schlepped over to Japan instead, where he got married, had a bunch of kids, and died at the ripe age of 106. If you are ever in Shingo, you can visit his burial site. CRACKED.COM

The Pyramids

CRACKED THE LARGEST GIZA PYRAMID WEIGHS AS MUCH AS 16 EMPIRE STATE BUILDINGS. It is also the only surviving wonder of the 7 ancient wonders of the world.

Bats

CRACKED THE ONLY MAMMALS THAT CAN FLY ARE BATS. The confusingly named flying squirrels can actually only glide for short distances.

Crickets

CRACKED CRICKET CHIRPS CAN MEASURE THE TEMPERATURE. For fahrenheit, count the number of chirps in 14 seconds and add 40 to get the temperature.

Soda

CRACKED REGULAR SODA CANS SINK IN WATER WHILE DIET SODA FLOATS. Sprite cranberry ave S This is due to the mass difference in aspartame versus sugar.

The Word ‘Dreamt’

CRACKED DREAMT IS THE ONLY ENGLISH WORD THAT ENDS WITH MT. The word was popularized as the past tense for dream by Shakespeare in the 14th century.

Beetles

CRACKED THERE ARE MORE SPECIES OF BEETLE THAN ANY OTHER ANIMAL. picture-alliancerdpark Thieme There are over 400,000 species of beetles- which, on their own, makes up a quarter of all species on earth.

Vatican City

CRACKED VATICAN CITY IS THE SMALLEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. The Pope's country, located in the middle of Italy, is 1/8 the size of New York City's Central Park.

Spider Silk

CRACKED SPIDER'S SILK IS 5 TIMES STRONGER THAN STEEL. It's also 1000 times thinner than human hair.

Dreams

CRACKED OLDER PEOPLE ARE MORE LIKELY TO DREAM IN BLACK AND WHITE. The leading theory behind this is that older people had less exposure to color television. As of 2008, 12 percent of people reported dreaming in black and white- in the 1940s that number was 75%.

Space

CRACKED IT WOULD ONLY TAKE AN HOUR TO DRIVE TO SPACE IN A CAR. This assumes the car has the ability to drive straight upwards at 60 miles per hour. Using the same logic, it would take about 6 months to reach the moon.

Walt Disney World

CRACKED WALT DISNEY WORLD RESORT IS AROUND THE SAME SIZE AS SAN FRANCISCO. At 43 square miles, that makes it twice the size of manhattan.

The Lion King

CRACKED THE ROARS IN THE LION KING WERE ACTUALLY TIGERS. Turns out that lions' roars weren't loud enough to be used in the film.

Tomatoes

CRACKED TOMATOES ARE THE MOST CONSUMED FRUIT IN THE WORLD. They beat the next most consumed fruit, Bananas, by more than 65 million tonnes.

Crabs

CRACKED CRABS TASTE THROUGH THEIR FEET. Their taste buds are actually little hairs that live on their feet and pinchers.

The Color Red

CRACKED RED IS THE FIRST COLOR A BABY CAN SEE. This development happens a few weeks after birth and by 5 months they can see the full spectrum of colors.

Sloths

Half of all sloths die while pooping. Sloths are permanently constipated - they only poop once a week, losing up to one-third of their body weight in each bowel movement. And for some reason they always do it on the ground, where predators can get to them. Up to half of all sloths are eaten while going to the bathroom. CRACKED.COM

Star Wars

Star Wars Tips off French comics. If you're familiar with Moebius, or with Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières' Valérian and Laureline, you might have noticed that Star Wars borrows heavily from them. Mézières in particular claimed to be dazzled, jealous and angry about the whole thing. CRACKED.COM

Rainforests

Rainforests aren't the Earth's lungs. There are many good reasons to protect rainforests, but oxygen just isn't one of them. When you tally up the entire ecosystem (animals included), forests actually consume more oxygen than they produce. Most of the oxygen you breathe comes from algae in the ocean, not trees. CRACKED.COM

Jazz

Jazz was considered a health hazard. In the 1920s and '30s, many communities banned jazz on the grounds that it was allegedly a threat to public health. Rulings were enacted blaming the music for all kinds of calamities, ranging from mental breakdowns to spontaneous miscarriages. CRACKED.COM

Balloons

WEIRD WORLD A British man revealed on TV that he has 50,000 balloons at home. Не also revealed a sexual obsession with balloons - on a show called, appropriately, My Strange Addiction. CRACKED.GOM

Tinder

WEIRD WORLD The Tinder Swindler is now setting his sights higher - on a government job. Apparently, he'd like to be the foreign minister of Israel, he said. CRACKED.COM

Hitmen

WEIRD WORLD A 14-year-old tried to hire a hitman to kill her ex-boyfriend. And it didn't work, luckily, because she tried to do it via rentahitman.com, which is a fake website and which reported the case to the police. CRACKED.COM

Hair

WEIRD WORLD There's such a thing as uncombable hair syndrome, it turns out. A toddler in Georgia was diagnosed with it, and it's kind of exactly what it says on the tin - but it's extremely, extremely rare. CRACKED.COM

Ambassadors

WEIRD WORLD The Ukrainian Ambassador to Japan posed as a Samurai warrior. It was for a message to Russia that he tweeted - and he was in full Samurai get-up, with a katana and everything. CRACKED.COM

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