30 Admirable Bits of Trivia That We Hope Younger Bits of Trivia Will One Day Emulate

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30 Admirable Bits of Trivia That We Hope Younger Bits of Trivia Will One Day Emulate

Well, these facts set the bar pretty high so we hope you don’t get disappointed with any facts you read after this. 

Let that serve as a warning to maybe save these for last. Don’t get us wrong, the other facts on the site are pretty awesome, but after these, they’re gonna seem a little “undercooked.” 

World War I

During WWI, to get around British blockades, a German company built a merchant submarine to trade with then neutral America. LUSITANIA CRACKED.COM It made 2 trips before America entered the war after which it was converted to a war- ship and it went on to sink 42 ships on 3 ра- trols.

War Crimes

The first international war crime trial took place in 1474. Sain ANA 1 a Branbo On & Co Daig Cartin 25am cheng Peerbaryi Kom Designers Blue Yaborn Pfale Damberg un Bird WOM Korean 34 Wardern Decturs Class Dann We Chupa Educat Degusan Bombastors Balan Supply Extra Aladam Konegh Credition Bouber - Delin Stramberg Baten Carring tu CRACKED.COM Peter Von Hagenbauch of Alsace, Germany was found guilty of atrocities committed during the ос- cupation of Breisach and beheaded in the Holy Ro- man Empire.

Beer

Beer, rather than bread, may have been the inspiration for our ancestors to domesticate grains. CRACKED.COM Demand for reliable sup- plies pushed humans first to plant the wild grasses and then over time to se- lectively breed them into the high-yielding barley, wheat, and other grains we know today.

The Titanic

A message in a bottle from a doomed Titanic passenger was found near his home. CRACKED.COM The mother of 19-year-old Jeremiah Burke recognized his handwriting, and an- nounced that the bottle was the same holy water bottle she had given to her boy on the day of his departure.

Private Snafu

Chuck Jones and Dr. Seuss worked together in WWII. PRIVATE SNAFU They met working on the Private Snafu cartoons, which showed soldiers what they absolutely should never be doing. CRACKED.COM

Dogs

A border collie in Australia fell off a boat during a huge storm and swam 5 nautical miles through shark-infested waters. The dog, Sophie Tucker, washed ashore an uninhab- ited island and reverted back to her wild instincts to hunt and eat feral goats. She survived a month be- fore being reunited with her owners. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

The Rockies

The Rocky Mountains were once a plateau higher than Tibet. However, because the mountains are much older than the very young Himalayas, they have eroded away over 60 million years to their present altitude. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

North Korea

In 1968, an elite group of North Korean commandos snuck across the DMZ to assassinate the South Korean president. The group of 31 made it to within 100 meters of their target, Park Chung-hee, in his residence at the Blue House, before their plot was foiled. All 31 were ei- ther captured, killed, or forced to flee. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

San Fransisco Bay

The San Francisco Bay wasn't discovered for over 200 years after Europeans first discovered California. Expeditions were so fearful of the Farallon Islands that they sailed west to avoid them, thus missing the small Golden Gate inlet. The Bay was later discov- ered by land. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Retirement

A German civil servant told his colleagues he did no work for 14 years as he retired in 2012. 1 The 65-year-old found out he was going to be out of a job due to cutbacks, so he sent an email to 500 of his fellow employees an- nouncing he hadn't done a thing since 1998. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Unilever

Dove and Axe are owned. by the same company, Unilever. Unilever One promotes female self-confidence by re-de- fining beauty while the other advertises itself us- ing highly sexualized imag- es of women. They're play- ing both sides so they al- ways come out on top. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Wrigley’s Gum

Wrigley didn't start off selling gum, it was just an incentive to buy baking powder. WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT THE PERFECT GUM TRADE MARKS REGISTERED FIVE STICKS Healthful-Refreshing-Delicious TORONTO Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Limited. CANADA William Wrigley Jr. offered baking powder as an incen- tive to buy soap. The bak- ing powder proved to be more popular so he started selling it, offering gum as an incentive, which became even more popular. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Bumblebees

The Cuckoo bumblebee has lost the ability to collect pollen and to rear their brood. Once a female has infiltrat- ed a host colony, she will kill/subdue the queen of that colony and forcibly enslave the workers of that colony to feed her and her developing young. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Kimchi

The South Korean government produced kimchi that was safe for their astronaut to take onto the ISS. Top government research institutes spent millions of dollars and several years perfecting a version that would not turn dangerous when exposed to cosmic rays or other forms of radi- ation. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Sea Water

Sea water released by large ships causes billions of dollars worth of economical damage. Large ships use seawater as ballast; the water con- tains all sorts of living or- ganisms which when re- leased, results in the spread of invasive species around the world. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Prince

CRACKED PRINCE WROTE MANIC MONDAY FOR THE BANGLES. Не heard their first album, became a huge fan, and came up with a song for them before the second one came out.

Glass

CRACKED TURNING WASTE INTO GLASS CAN MAKE A RADIOACTIVE MESS SAFE. The process of vitrification turns liquid radioactive and chemical waste into a solid, glass-like material - basically, by combining it with molten glass - that can be safely stored forever without leaking.

Shakespeare

CRACKED SHAKESPEARE'S SKULL PROBABLY ISN'T IN STRATFORD AFTER ALL. An archaeological team used ground-penetrating radar to scan the grave of Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, and it looks like his skull is not there.

Turkey

CRACKED UN APPROVES TURKEY'S SPELLING REQUEST: TÜRKIYE IT IS. In 2021, the UN gave the thumbs up to the Turkish embassy's request to use the spelling Türkiye for Turkey for the UN and the U.S.

DNA

CRACKED SURPRISE! YOU'VE GOT A BIT OF NEANDERTHAL AND DENISOVAN IN YOU. People today have a bit of genetic material from Neanderthals and Denisovans, two types of early humans who lived in Europe and Asia, passed down to them.

The U.S.

Residents of the US kept picking the wrong country so the Census had to be changed. In the 1970s, the U.S. Cen- sus Bureau removed Cen- tral and South American options as nationalities be- cause people from the Midwest and the Southern USA would mistakenly pick them. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Cheese

Eating cheese after a meal can counteract the acid left behind by other foods. Dark chocolate (70% cacao) is also beneficial for the teeth due to a compound called CBH, which was proven in ani- mal tests to help harden tooth enamel. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Dodge

Dodge sued Ford for trying to use company profits on their workers, and set the precedent for US corporate law. Ford Ford wanted to use extra profits to raise employee wages and employ more people in 1919, but Dodge sued them, saying a corpo- ration's only responsibility is to increase shareholder value. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Bacteria

There is a bacteria that poops gold. Delftia acidovarans ex- cretes gold when it's in a toxic solution, possibly to keep the metal from en- tering its cells and to de- toxify gold that breaches its cell walls. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Christopher Columbus

There used to be a terrible statue of Christopher Columbus in front of the Capitol Building. The statue depicted Co- lumbus holding the world in his hand as a Native American woman cowered beside him. It remained there from 1844 until 1958 when Native Americans protested. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Apple

Apple made retailers buy their multicolor iMacs in five-packs, one in each color. This way, Apple wouldn't get stuck with the ипрори- lar colors, only the retailer. Around 2002 the most popular colors were blue- berry and grape, beating out strawberry, tangerine, and lime. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

The Statue of Liberty

The US and Europe raised funds for the Statue of Liberty with auctions, a lottery, and boxing matches. The statue was planned to be ready by the United State's centennial, but fundraising took longer than expected. It cost the French an estimated $250,000 (more than $5.5 million in today's money). CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Einstein

Albert Einstein was an avid, and terrible, sailor. Einstein was always run- ning his small sailboat aground because he was too busy relaxing. His family was convinced he'd die on the water, or in it - as he did not know how to swim. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Babies

More than 5,000 babies across the United States were abducted by a supposedly charitable organization. The group targeted poor Southern fami- lies between 1924 and 1950 and devel- oped a black market for white babies. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

The Beer Mile

A beer mile is a 1-mile drinking race where runners must drink a pint of beer for every quarter-mile. Other variations of this sport includes a pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream for 4 miles, as well as a variation in which runners must solve a Rubik's cube along with each beer for their mile. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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