33 Random Bits of Trivia Harvested From the Factoid Mines

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33 Random Bits of Trivia Harvested From the Factoid Mines

One of these facts could lead you down quite the rabbit hole, if it tickles your fancy. Ugh, that term about tickling fancies just kind of creeped us out a bit. What does that even mean?!?! Anyway, you never know where a single fact could lead you. It’s the spark that could make you want to learn more about Glenn Close, or cults, or even tickled fancies themselves.

A bank robber failed because of his bad handwriting. In March 2021, Alan Slattery from the U.K. handed a note to a bank teller, demanding money and threatening the customers - and walked away empty-handed, as the teller couldn't understand Slattery's handwriting. Не was arrested after trying a couple more times. GRACKED.COM

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Before getting his big break, Jon Hamm worked as a set dresser for Cinemax soft-core- porn movies. Не said it was soul crushing. GRAGKED.COM

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Missy Elliott was bumped up two grades in school, because her IQ was super high. WANG She got so lonely, she decided to fail everything and get moved back. CRACKED.COM

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WEIRD WORLD A company can't figure out how it spent 460 million dollars. DOLLA 6556960 A 390 - TEEK UNITED STATES VISTE - OF AMERICA THE DERAL IK17258282A D РВ В 50 ITA NOTE RESERVE NOTE 05471231 SHL of FirstEnergy was supposed to spend that money on modernizing its electric grid, but there's zero evidence that that actually happened. CRACKED.GOM

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WEIRD WORLD After a parakeet breeding plan went wrong, parakeets crowded an animal shelter. A guy left some parakeets at the shelter in Michigan - he said he'd drop off a few, but there were 497 parakeets. Apparently, his son wanted to breed just a few of them, but had no idea how quickly birds would breed. CRACKED.COM

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WEIRD WORLD Usain Bolt said he can thank Mario Kart for all his extraordinary success. 20% Mario Kart and Mortal Kombat, to be specific - he says his love of gaming really helped him in becoming an Olympic Champion. CRACKED.COM

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The titan Cronos, from the God of War series, stands 1,600 FEET TALL. By way of comparison, the Empire State Building is 1,450 feet high. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED.COM Minecraft's total surface area is over 9 MILLION EARTHS. Or if you prefer big, unwieldy numbers, 4,722,366,482,869,645 square kilometers.

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In Star Trek: Voyager, the titular spaceship needs 70 years to make the 70,000-light-year trip back home. Today's spacecraft would take 300 MILLION travel years to the same distance. CRACKED.COM

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The website Obsessed with Film calculated that in order to master piano, ice sculpture, and Phil to spend so on, Connors 10 had stuck DAYS in Groundhog Day. 12,403 2 10 3 0 4 That's just under 34 years. CRACKED.COM

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The main cast of Seinfeld dated a grand total of 212 GIRLFRIENDS AND BOYFRIENDS over the course of the series. 27 73 50 62 CRACKED.COM

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A World of Warcraft player can run the whole length of Azeroth in one hour and ten minutes. At marathon speeds, this suggests that Azeroth is about 14 MILES LONG. Roughly the size of Manhattan. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED.COM In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the cloud that surrounds V'ger is stated to be 82 AU across. That is more than the distance FROM THE SUN TO PLUTO AND BACK. It was scaled back to only 2 AU (twice the Earth's distance to the Sun) in the special edition DVD.

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