The Worst Employees and Biggest Slackers in Pop Culture History

The Super Troopers

Super Troopers is a great film because it truly encapsulates the feeling of trying to fight boredom, as evidenced by the five Vermont state troopers who are at risk of losing their jobs due to inactivity. Still, the men invent plenty of unproductive ways to occupy themselves in the meanwhile.

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The More You Know

  • The sun and moon appear to be the same size in the sky because of an astonishing coincidence: the moon is 400 times smaller but 400 times closer.
  • A single lightning bolt has enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.
  • Crayola is literally "oily chalk."
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
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