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From the farthest reaches of the globe, our truth seekers have returned!

32 Non-Native Bits of Trivia That Have No Natural Predators and Will Slowly Envelop Your Entire Mind Palace

December 03, 2023

They’ve searched far and wide. High and low. Then some other weird places. Anywhere that interesting things have happened, our trivia hunters have been there. Machete in one hand, woven basket in the other, and they’re chopping facts out of the jungle like the juiciest of papayas. Eat up.

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CRACKED DAME JUDI DENCH'S CONNECTION TO SHAKESPEARE. As a Shakespearean actor, her first ever role was as Ophelia in Hamlet. The play is set in Denmark's Elsinore castle (where Ophelia lived), and Dench's 10x great-aunt was a lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Denmark in that very castle. BFI LON FESTIVA — Source

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Tina Fey

CRACKED TINA FEY'S ANCESTOR HAS ART IN THE MET. Her 5th great-grandfather John Hewson was a master quilt-maker whose work hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. To this day, textile historians study his work. au ESTD H 19 ork stage IW Ш — Source

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CRACKED ТОМ HANKS IS RELATED TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Through Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Tom is Abe's third cousin, four times removed. — Source

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CRACKED EDWARD NORTON IS A DIRECT DESCENDANT OF POCAHONTAS. Pocahontas and John Rolfe were his 12th great-grandparents. The ancestry was traced via the couple's 1614 marriage certificate. Norton said, It just makes you realize what a small piece of the whole human story you are. — Source

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The trash can in the Parasite house cost $2,300. Bong Joon-ho wanted that specific model because it would look great in the movie: it opened and closed very smoothly, and it made a quiet sound instead of a loud clank. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Eric Bana made $550 off Brad Pitt in Troy. They had an agreement that they'd pay each other for hits during training for their fight scene - - 550 for minor ones, and $100 for major ones. Eric Bana apparently got a whacking, because Pitt had to pay him $750 while he had to pay Pitt $200. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The San Diego ZOO has the world's first frozen zoo. FROZEN ZOO EN DURA-GYL NITROGEN It stores the living tissues and stem cells of over a thousand animal species in freezers (like the facility in Jurassic Park, just not for dinosaurs). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Viagra is used for saving premature babies' lives. VGR 100 01 897 DC azija dazija ool fixer VGR zer 1100 ze p PE The drug makes it easier for the heart to pump blood through the lungs, which can literally save the life of a baby who has developed pulmonary hypertension. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Australia

In Australia, there's a fire that started burning before the pyramids were built. A coal seam under the surface of Mount Wingen began smoldering 6,000 years ago, and hasn't stopped since. It's the world's oldest continuous coal fire. X NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2020, a New Zealand town banded together to save a cat. Rodney had been a fixture at a local store in Marton, New Zealand, until a staff member apparently drove him about 9 miles out of town and left him there. Locals were outraged and spent a month looking for Rodney, eventually finding him on a nearby farm. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A giant paperclip-like creature roamed the seas 68 million years ago. Diplomoceras maximum was about five feet long, similar to a squid, and had a shell shaped like a paperclip. D. maximum's lifespan might have been 200 years, and it grew a new rib on its shell each year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the early 19th century, West Point's 1st year curriculum was just math and French. The best math textbooks at the time were in French, so students had to learn the language first. And they needed math because they were all military engineers -- West Point was the first engineering school in the U.S. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The First F-Bomb

CRACKED VULGARITY HISTORY The first F-bomb on SNL Letterman's bandleader Paul Schaffer was an SNL cast member in 1980, and is credited with the show's first F-bomb. During the show's 100th episode, he was meant to say the word flogging, but well, you know... — Source

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CRACKED V RNE VULGARITY HISTORY The most curse words in a movie The honor usually goes to The Wolf of Wall Street because of its popularity in the U.S. But its 715 curse words (569 F- bombs) is overshadowed by 935 F-bombs in the 2014 Canadian film Swearnet. — Source

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The eyes of the world are upon you.

CRACKED VULGARITY HISTORY The first audible curse words in film The 1929 Paramount film Glorifying the American Girl has the first curse words in cinema history. They say damn six times, and jackass twice. — Source

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CRACKED VULGARITY HISTORY The first TV show with a warning label In 1975, because of controversial characters like prostitutes, illegal immigrants, and one of the first gay couples on TV, the Norman Lear show Hot I Baltimore was the first TV show to be slapped with a warning label before each episode. — Source

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CRACKED MAKING A GIANT MEATBALL OUT OF EXTINCT MAMMOTH MEAT. In 2023, the Nemo science museum in the Netherlands created a giant meatball made from flesh cultivated from the DNA of an extinct woolly mammoth. They wanted to get people talking about cultured meat, calling it a more sustainable alternative to real meat. — Source

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Experiments

CRACKED SEPARATING TRIPLETS AT BIRTH FOR AN EXPERIMENT. The 2018 doc Three Identical Strangers follows orphaned triplets given to 3 families in varying economic levels as part of a psychological study. The parents each describe the babies as crying profusely, later realizing they were missing each other. One triplet killed himself, so although this wasn't illegal, it's so unethical that it should be. — Source

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CRACKED ELON MUSK GETS AWAY WITH LITTERING. In July 2022, space debris from a SpaceX rocket landed on a sheep paddock in Australia. The farmer found the 10-foot charred object, which would later be identified as the largest piece of space junk to land in Australia since 1979. — Source

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CRACKED A SEAGULL IMITATION CHAMPIONSHIP. 50 participants in De Panne, Belgium competed in a seagull screeching championship. Each was judged by a jury, which awarded points for imitating the seagull's sound, and movements. — Source

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Florida Man

CRACKED A FLORIDA MAN TOLD POLICE THAT HIS DOG SHOT HIS GIRLFRIEND. A man from Jacksonville, Florida claimed that when his dog jumped up into bed, his paw hit a gun on the nightstand and it went off, shooting his girlfriend in the leg. She luckily had no life-threatening injuries, and no charges were filed. — Source

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Weird Science

CRACKED CREATING THE FIRST-EVER HUMAN/MONKEY HYBRID EMBRYO. An international team of researchers created part-human and part-monkey embryos. The interspecies chimera formations are made with human pluripotent stem cells. — Source

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CRACKED NAMING BABIES AFTER IKEA PRODUCTS. Following an uptick in births, Ikea Norway offered to help parents with baby names. We at Ikea have given names to products for more than 70 years. So, if you are completely stuck, or just want some inspiration, here you will find over 800 boys' names and girls' names. Nuestro precio más bajo Puedes Nacerlo DI misma pero - denes qué 82499 — Source

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CRACKED SOMEONE DUMPED ALMOST 400 LBS OF SPAGHETTI IN THE WOODS. In May of 2023, residents of Old Bridge, New Jersey found a massive pile of the cooked pasta along a wooded creek. One resident called the mystery, Mission Impastable. — Source

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CRACKED SELLING VENDING MACHINE BEAR MEAT. After multiple bear attacks in Semboku, Japan, hunters began shooting intruding bears, and Daishi Sato sold the meat in a vending machine outside his noodle shop. 24h8 SECOM 00015 - 5-84 NATURE DE - 10:00 1500 - 2 — Source

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CRACKED THE INDIAN SNAKE WEDDING. In 2010, a couple from a remote village of Maharashtra, India decided to get married by garlanding each other with snakes (floral garlands are the traditional custom). — Source

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CRACKED Angelina Jolie started flying because her toddler thought planes were cool. When her three-year-old son Maddox was interested in planes, she said, If I could actually fly a plane by the time he's four, I'll be like Superman to him. She got her pilot's license less than a year later, in December 2004. — Source

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CRACKED AT&T Chris Paul chose pro basketball over pro bowling. As a kid, he went to the alley for the first time with his dad, fell in love, and returned daily. After high school, he had to make the difficult decision of going pro in bowling or in the NBA. Bowling offered $25,000 while the Hornets offered him $3.4 million. — Source

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CRACKED Mike Rowe was a professional opera singer. I joined the opera to get my union card and meet girls. I was a saloon singer, so I went down to the Baltimore Opera and learned an aria and auditioned. I figured I'd do one show and quit. But the girls were everywhere and the truth is, the music was really decent. — Source

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CRACKED Jack White IS a professional upholsterer. Former neighbor Brian Muldoon was an upholsterer, and at 15 Jack apprenticed under him as a job. They even joined a band together called The Upholsterers, and he opened his own shop, Third Man Upholstery. — Source

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A high school friend helped Steve Martin become a world-class banjo player. At 15, he fell in love with bluegrass music, so friend John McEuen (who joined the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) helped teach him the banjo. In 2010, he won a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album, and launched the Banjo Prize, awarding $25,000 to $50,000 to banjo players each year. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED Margot Robbie found tattoo artistry while preparing for Suicide Squad. After picking up a (tattoo) gun as Harley Quinn, she really took to it and began tattooing crew members on set. She's tattooed her friends, herself, and even a staff member live on The Graham Norton Show. — Source

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