35 Magically Delicious Bits of Trivia That You Must Keep Out of the Hands of Those Ravenous Children at All Costs

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35 Magically Delicious Bits of Trivia That You Must Keep Out of the Hands of Those Ravenous Children at All Costs

We don’t know about you, but whenever we stumble upon a real doozy of a fact, we feel a warm little flicker in our brain. We’re no neuroscientist, but we suspect that this flicker is the new fact tucking itself in. It pulls a brain fold over itself like a warm blanket and nestles in for a lifelong hibernation. Sleep tight, little fact.

The first 1975 OHE MARVEL and DC present... a TRIGO Marvel/DC SPECIAL MGM's MARVELOUS ISSUE!! COLLECTOR'S crossover $150 LL 02944 HENRY WiZARD 4 UNCE OF was The AUNTIE M OF OZ Wizard BUT TOY CAT EVE of Oz. NOW LOOKIT, THY KATSU SEX YOURRE NO WE BUSY? IMM SOUR HEAD ABOUT THAT MISS GULCH! YOU SON'T By a coincidence, both publishers were SAUCE NO TROUBL E! working on comic book adaptations of The CKORY.. JUST GOT TOO HEART 10 MAD NT ANY Wizard of Oz at the same time. When Stan BODY! Lee learned of this, he approached DC to

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BRAIN HACKS GOOD LOOKS Good-looking people are less likely to be convicted of a crime and less likely to get a harsh sentence. In one study, the less attractive defendant was given an average sentence of 24.71 years, while the attractive defendant only received 15.11 years. CRACKED

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THE V2 BOMB WAS A HORNY THING. Wernher von Braun was known as a ladies' man- and that carried over to the flying death contraptions he designed. The V2 bomb wasn't just inspired by the rocket in the film Woman on the Moon, but it had naked women painted on its tail. CRACKED.COM

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COINS WERE FIRST RIDGED TO STOP CRIME. Back when coins were made of precious metals, enterprising felons would file a bit of gold or silver off each coin-a practice known as clipping. It was the Romans who first carved ridges into coins, to know if someone had clipped them. CRACKED.COM

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WELL. LET'S том, IF THE YOU US PAGANS PRAY, PRAY TO THE DOIT... REAL GOD! ARCHIE WAS RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA AT ONE POINT. Back in the '70s and '80s, long before Riverdale made Archie and Jughead cool again, Archie Comics licensed their characters to a Christian publisher. That's how we got plots like the Riverdale crew acting as missionaries to ethnic stereotypes around the world. CRACKED.COM

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In Nepal, there are honey hunters who climb granite cliffs to get hallucinogenic mad honey. It's produced by Himalayan giant honeybees, who make nests at high altitudes under the overhangs of vertical cliffs, and sells for $60 to $80 a pound on the black market. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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A real buffalo was killed in Apocalypse Now. To get permission from locals to film on their land, the movie crew gave them animals to slaughter for food, including two water buffalo. Francis Ford Coppola decided to film one buffalo's slaughter for the movie. I did not direct it or anything, that was the way they do it, he said in 2019. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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The Roosevelt hotel gave away a 7-night stay and spa treatment services to someone who stole a coffee pot. CRACKED.COM The hotel was running a contest to see who could steal the most outrageous item from the premises. Leigh Guglielmo, thanks to the historic coffee pot she nicked, won the hotel package worth $15,000.

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Two Virginia sisters sold a cornflake that was shaped like the state of Illinois for $1,350. GRACKED COM Monty Kerr, the owner of a trivia website from Austin, Texas, bought the cereal flake from eBay, explaining that he was starting a col- lection of pop culture and Americana items for a traveling museum.

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