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33 Magical Bits of Trivia We’ve Imbued With Our Lifeforce Like a Trivial Horcrux

November 19, 2023

Do you ever find yourself wrapping up the “Happy Birthday” song and some guy chimes in with “and many more?!” Well, we like to think of ourselves as the “and many more” guy in the fact game. Just slightly less annoying.

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All freshwater fish kind of come from duck poop. The first fish in a new pond or pool come from eggs eaten by ducks. 0.2% of the eggs come out of the duck's other end intact -- a really low percentage, but ducks are very abundant, so a swarm of ducks moving to a new pond will leave enough eggs to populate it with fish. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Someone pranked Bobby Flay while he was getting his star on the Walk of Fame. BOBBY FLAY Della 3OBBY FLAY During the ceremony, a plane with a banner that said cheater flew overhead. His wife, who he was divorcing at the time, absolutely denied being behind that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Keira Knightley had a small role in The Phantom Menace (that she mostly can't remember). She was 12, and played Padmé's body double / decoy. All she remembers from that is the headache she got from one of the headdresses they gave her, and falling asleep while sitting on a chair in the background. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Some of the wolves that show up in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping were direwolves in Game of Thrones. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM For 2007's Harry Potter OF THE PHOENIX It took ONE glass blower 24 MONT HS to create all of the orbs for the Hall OF prophecy. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Several Pixar animators were thrown out of Le Chevalier Blanc, Emeryville CA's only French bistro, after bringing a live rat into the restaurant to study diners' reactions for use in the film Ratatouille. — Source

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This famous scene in Silence of the Lambs required several takes, as Anthony Hopkins had never heard the word chianti spoken aloud. Не had to be coached on its pronunciation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED GOM The apples in the Wizard of Oz were originally green, as described in the original novel, however they didn't show up well on film. There wasn't time to buy new apples, so the ones you see on screen are green apples painted red. Which no one told Judy Garland before she took a bite out of one. — Source

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AIRPIANAT Hilarious star, LESLIE NIELSEN actually had NO SENSE OF HUMOR. AT ALL. Co-director David Zucker said in an interview, The first actors we looked at kept cracking up during the screen tests. Leslie was the only one who didn't get any of the jokes and played it completely straight, which is what we wanted. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Daniel Day Lewis insisted upon growing his own facial hair for the role of Daniel Plainview, threatening to quit the movie over the issue. Filming was halted for five days while he cultivated the specimen. GRACKED COM — Source

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IN 2003's FINDING NEMO Extensive motion capture was used of actual great white sharks to get Bruce the shark's look. - Six different sharks were used, including two from the private collection at Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GWYNETH PALTROW'S PROSTHETIC HEAD, USED IN THE BOX SCENE FROM THE 1995 MOVIE SE7EN, WAS RE-USED IN THE AUTOPSY SCENE FOR THE 2011 MOVIE CONTAGION. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED DROP THE POUNDS, GET THE RING. Unmarried adults who have weight-loss surgery are much more likely to get married within five years than the average person in the U.S., it turns out. — Source

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GRACKED ТОМ FOGERTY: GONE TOO SOON, THANKS TO MEDICAL MALPRACTICE. Arr A by - Tom Fogerty passed away in 1990 due to tuberculosis, which was a result of AIDS he got from a blood transfusion he had during a back operation in the 80s. It only happened because they didn't screen the blood for HIV. — Source

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GRACKED TAXPAYERS: 720 MILLION DOLLARS DOWN THE DRAIN... ... LITERALLY. From 2007 to 2011, the U.S. Mint has made more than 2.4 billion dollar coins, which has cost taxpayers around $720 million. It's not a terribly cost-efficient operation. — Source

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GRACKED GIANLUIGI BUFFON'S JERSEY CHOICE SPARKED CONTROVERSY. An Italian goalkeeper caused an outcry when he put the Nazi-associated number 88 on his shirt. Не said he had no idea what it meant - but his first, denied choice was 01, picked because he admired General Lee from Dukes of Hazzard. — Source

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GRACKED THE SS PULLED A FAST ONE IN '39, DRESSING UP PRISONERS. Granica Pou SepelensLieg gmine Sepolno Kr In August 1939, the SS tricked people with a false flag operation. They dressed up six prisoners in Polish uniforms and staged a fake attack on the Gleiwitz Radio Station, which was used as part of the pretext for invading Poland. — Source

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GRACKED WHITE IS THE NEW BLACK FOR BEEKEEPERS. Bees don't like dark colors, as they've evolved to be repelled by animals with dark hides. That's why beekeepers usually wear white when they're taking care of their hives. — Source

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Token suckers would steal subway tokens in an amazingly filthy way. We don't know how desperate you need to be to press your lips against New York subway turnstiles and suck the tokens out - but we're guessing very. The practice was so common, the Transit Authority would spray mace (or sprinkle chili powder) on token slots. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM A few mussels keep a Polish city unpoisoned. The water treatment plant in Poznañ, Poland employs eight experts to test the water for dangerous contaminants - these experts being mussels. When the mollusks taste something funny in the water, they slam their shells shut, triggering sensors that shut off the water supply. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Home Depot was at first full of empty boxes. When Home Depot opened in 1979, vendors weren't willing to give goods on consignment to this unproven company. Vendors did, however, accept to give them lots of empty boxes - which Home Depot stacked on their shelves to lure in customers with all that stuff they had. — Source

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Cyclops were probably prehistoric elephants The huge hole at the center of Deinotherium giganteum's skull accommodated a trunk - but ancient Greeks who found the bone heads didn't know that. It's speculated that imaginative Greeks thought that the big nose hole was an eye socket, and ran with that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Alcohol was used to prevent premature births. In the 1960s, obstetrician Fritz Fuchs thought of using research made (on rabbits) by his wife Anna-Riitta Olsson, and started administering alcohol to halt premature labor. The treatment was used for many years - sometimes in the not-too-scientific way of a vodka-and-orange juice cocktail. — Source

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Scientists are trying to give sperm cells motors. Researchers have concocted a method to (theoretically, for now) boost lame swimmers that struggle to make it to the egg - turbocharging them. A tiny metal helix is wrapped around the sperm's tail, and then a magnetic field propels the spermbot forward. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Casper's success was the result of censorship. Horror comics were really hardcore in the 1950s - until moral panic struck, and all those ghouls and guts were declared a no-no. It's most likely not a coincidence that harmless, baby-looking ghosts became big around that time, with Casper (and a bunch of knock-offs) rushing in to fill the paranormal void. — Source

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Big Bird is a different color in different countries. Pino They're called his cousins on the show, and they include Abelardo (green, from Mexico), Pino (blue, from the Netherlands) and Minik Ku (orange, from Turkey). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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2012's Skyfall revived the straight razor industry. The movie's straight razor scene led to a spike in demand that didn't totally fade away even years later. One company went from making 8,000 straight razors per year in the mid-2000s to having orders for 110,000 a decade later. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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That was Jim Carrey's real chipped tooth in Dumb and Dumber. 27% It got chipped in grade school, and he had a cap put on it t - - he just took it off for the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Penguins can drink saltwater like it's regular water. A gland above their eye filters the salt from their blood, and that salt then gets sneezed out or it comes out through their bill. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 17th-century London, you'd have to pay one of several fire brigades to save your building. A fire mark You'd insure it against fire, and the company would place its fire mark on the building. That way, when it caught fire, the company's firemen would know they were supposed to put out the fire (otherwise, they'd just leave). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apparently, teeth come from our fish ancestors. Ancient fish had dermal denticles -- small, spiky scales that some fish, like sharks or mantas, still have. Scientists think that, as those fish evolved into land animals, the denticles moved from the skin and into the mouth, where they became teeth. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Thomas Jefferson gave his library to Congress after the British burned the Capitol in 1814. That doubled the size of the Library of Congress -- there were 3,000 volumes before the fire (all of which burned down), and Jefferson sent about 6,500 volumes. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2011, a Japanese hospital admin gave his life to help his co-workers survive a tsunami. OR has ЖОВ puss MIYAKO When the tsunami hit, Shigeru Yokosawa ran back into the building and got a satellite phone, then threw it to a co-worker with seconds to spare. That gave the survivors a way to reach the outside world. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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