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28 Random Bits of Trivia We Stole From the Ice Cream Truck When the Guy Wasn’t Looking

July 13, 2024

WHERE DID WE GET THESE FACTS?

You’re seriously going to look us in the eye and ask us that?!?! You got some nerve, you know that?

Listen, bucko, we’ve been bouncing around the globe, gathering perfectly factual facts for you. Sure, some of them may have “fallen off a truck,” or were “snatched by some nice ice cream man while he handed some kid a scoop of mint chocolate chip,” but it was all for you.

So just read up, and become an accessory after the facts.

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New Hampshire drinks almost twice as much as other states. CRACKED.COM The national average, from the National Institute on Al- cohol Abuse and Alcohol- ism, is 2.35 gallons of alco- hol a year per capita. New Hamshirians obliterated this by chugging 4.76 gallons per capita in 2016. — Source

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Humans are the only animals whose brains shrink as they age. GRACKED.COM Even close evolutionary relatives like chimpanzees and rhesus monkeys don't show signs of brain shrink- age, which makes us in- creasingly vulnerable to cognitive dysfunctions. — Source

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One-third of all fish sold in restaurants and grocery stores is mislabeled. CRACKED.COM This is often to deliberate- ly mislead consumers and get them to buy more ex- pensive fish. Snapper was found to be mislabeled 87 percent of the time, tuna was mislabeled 59 percent. — Source

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The bananas we eat today can only reproduce with our intervention. CRACKED.COM The fruit we enjoy, known as Cavendish, is actually a hybrid of two species. Since it has no seeds, farm- ers must remove and transplant part of the plant's stem to keep them reproducing. — Source

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Using a bigger fork may lead you to eat less. CRACKED.COM Smaller forkfuls of food lead diners to feel they are not making much of a dent in consuming their food, and, hence, satisfy- ing their hunger, accord- ing to researchers at the University of Utah. — Source

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Men do less household chores after marriage. CRACKED.COM A survey of 17,000 peo- ple across 28 countries found that after mar- riage, the amount of time a man spends doing chores on a weekly basis decreases significantly. — Source

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Naps reduce the risk of a heart attack. CRACKED.COM Those who regularly nap were found to be 37 per- cent less likely to die from a heart attack or other cor- onary ailment. A midday nap can also help you be more creative and focused. — Source

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Newborns can't cry until they are one to three months old. CRACKED.COM Ok, they can (and will) scream bloody murder, but they can't produce tears until their tear ducts fully develop, which takes a few weeks after birth. — Source

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7 people hold the keys to the internet. CRACKED.COM These seven digital keys, held by handpicked securi- ty experts, create a master key, which in turn controls one of the central security measures at the core of the web. — Source

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Crocodiles can gallop at 11 miles per hour. GRACKED COM crocodiles have the full range of quadru- pedal footfall patterns used by mammals, meaning that they have the ability to gal- lop like a horse. — Source

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Dairy cows typically are born with horns and they are de-horned when young. Dairy farmers over- time use selective breeding to eliminate the recessive gene that causes horns in both male and female cattle. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Matt LeBlanc dislocated his shoulder filming an episode of 'Friends' to an audience of contest winners. The set was shut down meaning War- ner Brothers had to fly the Pepsi contest win- ners home and then back out for another episode. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A radiological laboratory research worker committed suicide in 1960 by radiation poisoning. 3 The 19-year-old took a capsule containing cesi- um-137 and put it in his left pants pocket for 5 hours, then shifted it around his abdomen and back for 15 hours. Не died after 15 days. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Air traffic controllers get a break every 2 hours. When controllers re- main on position for more than 2 hours without a break, per- formance can deterio- rate rapidly, even at low traffic levels. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The diamond engagement ring was invented by an ad campaign in the 1930s. Before that few Americans proposed with the precious stone, and the price of dia- mond was falling. Now, 3/4ths of American brides wear a diamond engage- ment ring, which costs an average of $4,000. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Music is common to all known human cultures worldwide. Other such 'Cultural Universal' phenomena include Personal Names, Sexual Jealou- sy, Proverbs, and In- cest Prevention or Avoidance. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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If you fail your practical driving test three times in Switzerland, you have to visit a psychologist. An official psychologist in Berne will assess the rea- sons for your previous fail- ures. Once the psycholo- gist reports that you are once again ready to take the exam, you can try again. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The South African province of Free State spent $4 million for a website that is hosted on Wordpress. The website is powered by the free blogging plat- form and according to developers is based on a theme called London Live Wordpress Theme, which costs only $40. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A rooster was sentenced to be burned at the stake in 1474. The rooster was put on tri- al in the city of Basel for the heinous and unnatural crime of laying an egg, which the townspeople were concerned was spawned by Satan and contained a cockatrice. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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In 1898, Congress passed a tax on long-distance calls to pay for the Spanish-American War. en The war ended 4 months later, but the tax remained in place for over 100 years. On Au- gust 1, 2006, the IRS an- nounced it would no longer collect the tax. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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John F. Kennedy's dog had puppies with the offspring of a Soviet space dog. Strelka, who had spent a day aboard Sputnik 2, had a puppy that was present- ed to JFK in 1961. The dog, Pushinka, and Charlie, the White House dog, had four puppies that JFK referred to as pupniks. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A Cannibal sandwich consisting of raw beef and onion on rye bread is a Milwaukee Christmas tradition. The tradition likely goes back to the northern Euro- peans who settled in the state, but has been waning in popularity, and the USDA has come out to say it is unsafe to eat the raw delicacy. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Marine snails' teeth are the strongest natural material on the Earth. Using a tooth-studded tongue called a radula, limpets grind down rock as they feed. They can withstand pressures high enough to turn carbon into diamond. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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There is a meme for German internet users to pretend the town of Bielefeld does not exist. The town in fact decid- ed to put out a press re- lease in 1999 confirming their existence, but they did so on April 1st, only further perpetuating the meme. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The father of modern taxonomy fled Hamburg after debunking the mayor's taxidermied hydra. Carl Linnaeus stopped in the German town and was presented the supposed remains of a seven-headed hydra, which Linnaeus identified as being cob- bled together with weasel and snake parts. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 over a book about code breaking. She wrote a novel in 1941 about WWII code breaking featuring a character named Major Bletchley, un- aware that there was a then-secret code-breaking facility in Bletchley Park. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Rufus the Hawk has been employed by Wimbledon for 15 years to scare about pigeons. The All England Club em- ploys Rufus to patrol their 42-acre grounds through- out the year, with daily vis- its during the two weeks of The Championships and the 2012 Summer Olym- pics. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The South Park pilot was accidentally included on the Tiger Woods PGA Tour '99 game. Ition The game had to be re- called because the entire South Park pilot was used as dummy data on the disc and players could watch the episode by simply put- ting the game disc into a PC. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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