40 Compact Bits of Trivia That Our Dad Will ‘Tetris’-Style Pack Into Your Brain Like the Back of the Subaru Before A Camping Trip

40 Compact Bits of Trivia That Our Dad Will ‘Tetris’-Style Pack Into Your Brain Like the Back of the Subaru Before A Camping Trip

Conan O’Brien Accidentally Gave a Shout-Out to a Literal Nazi During the Oscars

Conan O’Brien Accidentally Gave a Shout-Out to a Literal Nazi During the Oscars

Conan O’Brien and LAFD Just One-Upped ‘SNL’s Weekend Update Joke Swap

Conan O’Brien and LAFD Just One-Upped ‘SNL’s Weekend Update Joke Swap

‘Simpsons’ Fans Got Big Monorail Vibes From Conan O’Brien’s Opening Song

‘Simpsons’ Fans Got Big Monorail Vibes From Conan O’Brien’s Opening Song

Bowen Yang’s Oscars Appearance Borrowed a ‘Three Amigos’ Joke

Bowen Yang’s Oscars Appearance Borrowed a ‘Three Amigos’ Joke

27 Secrets That We’re Gonna Spill Into the Open

Psst. They told us not to say anything, but the designer of Mt. Rushmore was a white supremacist. Yeesh

27 Secrets That We’re Gonna Spill Into the Open

December 06, 2023

We’re not ones to kiss and tell, so we won’t tell you which of these secret holders we made out with. But we will divulge the sweet nothings they whispered in our ears. Sure, it might be an itsy-bitsy betrayal, but they’re just too dang interesting to hold in any longer!

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NOT 2018 TOSHIBA HAPPY NEW YEAS TOSHIBA OTOK HAPPY NEW YEAR A major building in Times Square is empty. It's the building where they drop the New Year's Ball - One Times Square. There's one tenant: a Walgreens on the ground floor. The building has been used as a gigantic, vacant advertising stand since 1992. It makes $23 million a year. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Meghan Markle

MEGHAN MARKLE HAS AN HOMAGE TO PRINCESS DIANA IN HER CHILDREN'S BOOK. The The the ..... - BENCH Meghan, The Duchevack SOMA e The 2 THE - M - en - The The Duchess of Sussex said they added Diana's favorite flowers, forget-me-nots, to the illustrations. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The US Supreme Court Building has its own basketball court located a floor higher than the courtroom. Literally making it The Highest Court in the Land — Source

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THERE'S BOTH 3G AND 4G COVERAGE ON THE SUMMIT OF MT. EVEREST GRACKED.COM — Source

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Radio City Music Hall has a swanky apartment. Radio City built it for its first impresario, Samuel Roxy Rothafel, who had brought in a ton of top-shelf acts. It became his bachelor pad and party venue. And today, it could be yours - it's been kept in top shape, and is up for rent. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Washington Monument has a tiny, hidden twin. A 12-foot replica of the Monument is buried right next to it. It was built in the 1880s as a surveyor's tool-they'd use its scale to verify readings. The ground level rose over time, and the Mini Monument was encased in a tube, buried, and forgotten. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A luxury apartment sits at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Gustave Eiffel had it built for himself when the tower went up, and kept it secret for a long time. He'd get offered crazy sums for a night in it, but always said no. It didn't open to the public until 2015, 90 years after he died. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a subway station under Grand Central Station. It led directly into the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, so the well-to-do wouldn't have to mingle with the masses. It was used from the '30s to the '60s, when it was abandoned (except for a 1965 party by Andy Warhol), and it was eventually totally closed off. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The highest floor of the Empire State Building is reserved for a chosen few. The 103rd floor, which is so secret it's usually not listed, is only open to the rich and/or famous. It's a small observatory with 360-degree views. Almost no sounds reach it, so there's near-total silence. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Air Traffic Controllers

Air traffic controllers have to retire by 56. You have to start the job when you're 30 or younger, and everyone must retire young to avoid any age-related mental decline. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Target has two forensic labs. O TARGET 1000 Based in Las Vegas and Minneapolis, there are two locations specifically to analyze security footage and find evidence of crimes. Employees are expected to not interfere in case of shoplifters, only contact asset protection teams. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Astronauts say space shuttles smelled bad. - - - VOLATILE REMOVA ASSEMBLY FLIGHT EXPERIMENT (VRAF PORTS It's a tiny ship stuffed with people with a toilet in the middle. However, the International Space Station has a better ventilation system so it doesn't have a smell. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mystery shoppers even work at funeral homes. All kinds of businesses use mystery shoppers, including funeral homes. Which may result in a shopper pretending to have a terminal illness. CRACKED.COM — Source

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911 Dispatchers

911 dispatchers have regulars. Dispatchers have people whose number they recognize and develop a relationship with. A seasoned professional can also multi-task on a call, browsing the internet or knitting, while saving a life. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sketch Artists

Courtroom sketch artists sell their work to attorneys. Some lawyers like to use a sketch as a sort of trophy if they win a case. The Library of Congress has 96 courtroom drawings of famous cases. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Suicide hotlines receive frequent prank calls. ND 90101 Suicide hotline volunteers receive terrible, graphic prank calls reguarly, sometimes in batches as initiated by trolls on websites. Sometimes people will even call and try to make it sexual. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Bridge Of Sighs was built for prisoners. That pretty Venice bridge-known for gondolas, honeymoons, and yes, appearing in Madonna's Like A Virgin video-was built to transfer prisoners from interrogation rooms to prison. It's named after prisoners sighing at their final view of Venice before being taken to their cells. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Great Wall of China is actually a great cemetery. It is estimated around 400,000 construction workers had died building the Great Wall, and were just as easily buried in its foundation, which earned the deserved moniker longest cemetery on Earth. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Part of the University of Cambridge was built over a massive graveyard. Beneath the Old Divinity School at St. John's College lies one of the largest found burial grounds in all of Great Britain, with a staggering count of over 1,300 burials dating back to medieval times. A hospital stood opposite the graveyard, and used it to bury poor scholars and other wretched persons. — Source

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Mt. Rushmore was designed by a white supremacist. Gutzon Borglum, the man that sculpted Mount Rushmore, was a racist who had ties to the Ku Klux Klan and was deeply involved in their politics. Не said things like, I would not trust an Indian, and referred to African Americans as a mongrel horde. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM James Smithson is entombed in the Smithsonian. Secres la the shampry James Sellow who died at Sense of Society the N yeon In a crypt just inside the north entrance of the Smithsonian Castle lies the relocated remains of the institute's founding father, James Smithson. Не was a chemist who enjoyed studying things like human tears and snake venom. — Source

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CRACKED.COM IT WASN'T UNTIL 2015 THAT DISNEY STARTED INSTALLING METAL DETECTORS AT OF ITS THEME PARKS... ...A WEEK AFTER A MAN TRIED TO ENTER DISNEY WORLD WITH A HANDGUN-AND LONG AFTER SEVERAL OTHER INCIDENTS INVOLVING FIREARMS, INCLUDING TWO HOSTAGE SITUATIONS AND A SUICIDE. — Source

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There's a derelict water park, River Country, inside Disney's resort in Florida. Seph Lawless had to scale a twenty feet high, blacked-out fence to take these photos, after which he was banned from Disney World for life. CRACKED.COM — Source

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UNTIL 2001, LAUNDERING OF COMPANY-ISSUED UNDERWEAR WAS SO SUB-PAR, DISNEY PARK EMPLOYEES WERE GIVEN STINKY, STAINED UNDIES-AS WELL AS PUBIC LICE AND SCABIES. IT TOOK THE TEAMSTERS UNION TWO MONTHS TO CONVINCE DISNEY TO ALLOW EMPLOYEES TO TAKE UNDERWEAR HOME TO WASH THEMSELVES. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM In 1974, 18 year-old Debbie Stone became the first Disney Employee to die on the job. Following a performance of America Sings, a ride with a rotating stage, Debbie became trapped by a moving wall and was crushed to death. — Source

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Walt Disney himself helped to design a Mickey Mouse gas mask Though few remain, you can find several on display in various museums in the United States. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Disney made military training videos and war propaganda during WWII. Animators used their signature silly gags and cutesy art style to make things like Disney's instructional video for firing anti-tank rifles-- starkly at odds with the modern company's child-friendly image. CRACKED.COM — Source

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