31 Panting Bits of Trivia That Have Their Slobbering Mouths Out of the Car Window All the Way to Your Brain

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31 Panting Bits of Trivia That Have Their Slobbering Mouths Out of the Car Window All the Way to Your Brain

These good boys know a good, grassy patch of brain when they see one. Your brain fence makes it perfect for us too! Now we can just chill on a park bench, watching them run free knowing that they can’t escape. 

Unless, of course, you let them out by relaying them to other people. Let us put a leash on them before you open that gate. Other folks can pet them, but they’re coming home with us!

Google Maps

WEIRD WORLD Because of Google Maps, an Indonesian guy nearly married a stranger. RA. 3 MIFTAHUL TPA-TPQ JANNAH CIMANGOU KECA RT.O1/R 2018.11 13 09:2 The app took him to the wrong wedding venue - apparently, there was both a wedding and an engagement taking place at the same village. CRACKED.COM

Taxis

CRACKED.COM A random taxi driver turned out to be the former governor of West Virginia. William C. Marland's forward-thinking policies couldn't overcome his failings as a politician or his alcoholism, and by 1960 he disappeared from public view. A couple years later, a Chicago journalist thought of fact-checking this cabbie's joke about being a former governor - and it turned out, it was Marland.

Libertarians

American Libertarians funded a violent cult. In one of the countless harebrained Libertarian attempts at a micronation, a group called the Phoenix Foundation provided guns and funds to a cult leader named Jimmy Stevens, who wanted to secede from Vanuatu. The foundation faded away after Stevens' attempt failed in 1980. CRACKED COM

Spiders

CRACKED.COM Spiders can go paragliding. The little critters can knit themselves a sort of kite, and go flying (or ballooning, as this is called). They can travel 2.5 miles up and 1,000 miles out. Not freaky enough? Then try this: Spider flight is driven by the Earth's electric field.

Oscars

Oscar winners can't legally sell their awards. Since the Academy doesn't want their statuettes in the marketplace, there's a rule that if you want to sell your Oscar, you have to first offer to sell it back to the Academy itself, for just $10. Sounds like a weird rule, but a judge upheld it as legal in 2015. CRACKED.COM

Flickr

CRACKED.COM flickr 1,000GB for free Save all your photos and videos in one place with Auto-Uploadr. Flickr started as a video game. In 2002, husband and wife Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake founded a software company to create an MMO titled Game Neverending. The game failed, but a feature for sharing images stood out-so it was spun into its own product, called Flickr.

Victorian England

The first sci-fi convention happened in Victorian England. Edward Bulwer-Lytton's book Vril: The Power of The Coming Race garnered such a following that a five day long Vril-Ya Bazaar and Fête was held in London in 1891. This is considered the very first sci-fi convention, complete with merch booths and cosplayers. CRACKED COM

Nazis

CRACKED.COM The Nazis had concentration camps in Great Britain. During World War II, Germany occupied the island of Alderney, in the English Channel, and built concentration camps there. For a long time, the British government was very sketchy about what went down in Alderney - we needed archaeologists to investigate the place and tell us it was very bad.

Alexander Hamilton

The New York Post was founded by Alexander Hamilton & was a respected publication. - NEW TURNPOSI TOSTE RADIE 11 - - 1900,000 HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR Gunmon forces woman to decapitate tovern owner - - SENATE OKAYS PREZ'S PICK FOR ARMS CONTROL PARK - Koch plans to hire 1,000 more cops ... - Taken kickin' TAXING DAY FOR It didn't become a tabloid until the 1970s. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Flint, Michigan

During the Flint, MI water crisis, General Motors stopped using city water at their plant. FLINT WATER PLANT High levels of chlorine were corroding engine components. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Dracula

CRACKED.COM Dracula's Castle is just some random keep. Vlad the Impaler lived in the currently ruined Poenari Castle, in Wallachia, Romania. As Bran Castle is better looking and easier to reach (not to mention that it's actually in Transylvania), it's peddled to tourists as the real Dracula Castle.

Debt

CRACKED.COM China publicly shames people in debt. 2002 If you're Chinese, you'd better not fall behind in paying your debts. If you do, you'll see your name and face on giant screens-like in the theater, right before a movie. Millions of deadbeats are tracked and shamed by the government.

X-Rays

CRACKED.COM Shops used X-rays to check the fitting of shoes. Sure, just trying on the shoe is often enough, but using a shoe-fitting fluoroscope was undeniably cooler. Too bad that people in the '30s didn't understand how stupidly irresponsible and dangerous this was.

Third World Countries

CRACKED.COM Third-world country doesn't mean poor country. RUSSIA CANADA UNITED STATES CHINA LITH bean MEXCO SAUD - BRAZIL During the Cold War, the countries allied with the U.S. were the First World, while those in the Second World were with the USSR. If your country was neutral, rich or poor, that made it Third World.

Pandemics

CRACKED.COM A pandemic in the 19th century was blamed on the telegraph. Just like conspiracy theorists today think 5G is the cause for COVID-19, the Russian Flu of 1889 was blamed on telegraph wires. Since affected towns were linked together by the telegraph, some people just jumped to the obvious conclusion.

DC Comics

CRACKED.COM DC let a harasser edit their comics for years. Eddie Berganza was Superman executive editor, and in 2010 he was promoted to executive editor. At least five people had reported him to HR by then. DC Comics let him keep this position for seven more years before doing something about his continuing harassment.

Cats in Space

The first and only cat to successfully be sent to space survived Félicette was launched into space in 1963 as part of the French space program. Her mission lasted 13 minutes. CRACKED.COM

Sweden

CRACKED SWEDEN IS BUILDING A CAR-CHARGING ELECTRIC ROAD. By 2025, Sweden will have built the first road that can charge electric vehicles while they drive. It will work in both rain and snow.

Cats

CRACKED CATS HAVE A DOMINANT PAW. Female cats tend to be right-pawed, while males favor their left.

Chernobyl

CRACKED THE MOST RADIOACTIVE PLACE IN CHERNOBYL IS NOT THE REACTOR SITE. It's the basement where all the first responders left their clothing.

Clocks

CRACKED CLOCKS IN ADS OFTEN DISPLAY THE TIME AS 10:10. There doesn't appear to be any reason for this other than it is a familiar 2 time - possibly 9 3 because of the 10 and 2 10 11 1.2 6 1 4 position 7 when driving. 5

The Military

CRACKED THE MILITARY SPENDS BILLIONS ON AIR CONDITIONING. In 2011, the U.S. government spent $20 billion on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan. That was more than NASA's yearly budget.

Harvard

CRACKED IN 1962, HARVARD'S ACCEPTANCE RATE WAS 84%. Today it is 3.2%

Hoover Dam

CRACKED THERE ARE 4,360,000 CUBIC YARDS OF CONCRETE IN THE HOOVER DAM. That's enough concrete to build a highway from New York to San Francisco.

Door Knobs

CRACKED VANCOUVER HAS BANNED DOOR KNOBS ON NEW CONSTRUCTIONS. They did this to make new buildings more accessible for those with dexterity issues.

Marriage

CRACKED 10-20% OF MARRIAGES WORLDWIDE ARE BETWEEN FIRST COUSINS. Historically, 80% of marriages were between cousins.

Frogs

CRACKED RUSSIANS USED FROGS TO PRESERVE MILK. Before modern refrigerators, Russian people would place a frog in their milk to keep it from spoiling. Though not recommended today, scientists say this may have worked because the frog's skin was antibacterial.

McDonald’s Nuggets

CRACKED MCDONALD'S NUGGETS COME IN FOUR OFFICIAL SHAPES. They are the boot, the bell, the ball, and the bone.

Mice

CRACKED MICE HAVE LONGER SPERM THAN WHALES. Their sperm is also longer than a human's, but shorter than a fruit fly's.

Turtles

CRACKED BABY TURTLES TALK THROUGH THEIR SHELLS BEFORE THEY ARE BORN. They do this to ensure they are born together.

King Tut

CRACKED KING TUT WAS MUMMIFIED WITH AN ERECTION. He's the only known mummy that was buried this way.

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