33 Bits of Trivia Scooped Directly From the Zeitgeist
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![A fan drove three hours + 15,000, to bring rapper Boosie OVER 0743,000,000 IN CASH PR OVER 1175,000,000 m PRIZES FROM $500 UP 100130 Badazz some much-needed SINNING NUMBERS Z insulin to his home. YOUR RUMBERS $ $ $ $ PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE $ S PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE $ $ $ PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE S S $ L PRIZE PRIZE 99 PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE VAL $ $ PRIZE PRIZE STON EN She refused payment but stopped to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket after leaving the house and won $14,000. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/2/1034212.jpg)
![Stevie Nicks is the only woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. Once for being a member of Fleetwood Mac, once for her solo career. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/1/1034211.jpg)
![Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has never approved a Hobbes plush toy. Не says it's ambiguous whether Hobbes is real or a stuffed animal & he won't mess with that. It's estimated he's left $300 million on the table as a result. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/3/1034213.jpg)
![Since 2007, all McDonalds' fleet trucks in the U.K. have been fueled with cooking oil from their restaurants. 16 M WE RECYCLE ALLOUR USED COOKING OIL INTO BIODIESEL S ma In 2018, the company successfully repurposed 80% of its waste cooking oil for use across its European fleet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/7/1034207.jpg)
![Goats are totally immune to poison ivy, oak, and sumac. They can eat up to several pounds per day. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/0/1034210.jpg)
![Snoop Dogg employs a professional blunt roller he pays $40-50k annually. About employing people with talent, Snoop says, If you are great at something I need, I am hiring you. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/9/1034209.jpg)
![To combat a rise in the number of accidents by elderly drivers, the Japanese government offered discounts on ramen for those who surrender their licenses. One 97 year-old Buddhist monk publicly handed his in, saying to fellow older drivers, I hope you will surrender your driver's licence and live to the end of your natural lives. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/6/1034206.jpg)
![Michael Jackson's Super Bowl halftime show in 1993 had higher ratings than the game itself. It is estimated to have been one of the most watched events in TV history, with 133.4 million viewers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/8/1034208.jpg)
![In France during 1986, Nadine Vaujour took helicopter flying lessons for six months. She then rented a helicopter. JBG Vaujour flew it to the prison where her husband was being held, dropped a rope down to the roof, and spirited him away. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/5/1034205.jpg)
![In 1872, hunters in India observed and 'rescued' a boy trailing a pack of wolves. Не only ate meat, hated clothes, and sharpened his teeth on bones. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/3/1034203.jpg)
![Arnold Schwarzenegger has said I'll be back in other movies besides the Terminator franchise. Eleven other movies, to be exact. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/2/1034202.jpg)
![In 1984, a policeman asked a NYC pizza joint waitress to pick his lottery numbers, saying he would split the winnings. own Pizzeria & Restaurant FREE DELIVERY 237-777 SCHARESTEN DOI BRASIL OPEN TWT 100 UNITED STATES KB94571448I NDRED DOLLARS Не won, and true to his word, gave her $3 million dollars. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/1/1034201.jpg)
![Jim Carrey is the first actor to have three films reach number one at the box office in the same year. It was during 1994. The films were The Mask, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, & Dumb and Dumber. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/9/1034199.jpg)
![Stephen Hawking is buried between Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, at Westminster Abbey. During the burial, the European Space Agency beamed recordings of Hawking's voice to the nearest black hole. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/4/1034204.jpg)
![Paul Revere III is the great-great-great-great grandson of the original. Не currently serves as legal counsel for a copper manufacturing company founded by Paul Revere in 1801. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/0/1034200.jpg)
![Paul McCartney hid his face and went to see Yesterday. Не watched from the back row, and tried not to laugh whenever he heard his name. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/8/1034198.jpg)
![The father of late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton still gets royalties. For three decades he's been spending them on college scholarships in his son's honor. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/2/1034192.jpg)
![CJ Jones, the actor who plays Joseph in Baby Driver, is actually deaf. Writer/director Edgar Wright says, I started auditioning other very good actors who were pretending to be deaf. It made me feel immediately uncomfortable. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/7/1034197.jpg)
![Some fish eggs can survive being eaten and pooped out by waterfowl. It might actually explain how fish miraculously appear where they've never existed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/6/1034196.jpg)
![In Pirates of the Caribbean, Mackenzie Crook had to wear two contact lenses in the same eye. It's uncomfortable, but not painful, he says. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/0/1034190.jpg)
![Mohammed V of Morocco protected Jewish people in Casablanca from the Nazis. Не reportedly told them, There are no Jews in Morocco. There are only Moroccan subjects. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/3/1034193.jpg)
![A fan of Peking Duk added himself to their Wiki page as a relative. peking duk @pekingduk som1 edited our wiki 2 say he was our family. showed security, got in2 the green room and had a beer with boys.. Security bought it, and let him backstage. The band was super impressed, and they had a bunch of beers with the guy. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/5/1034195.jpg)
![The phrase pull out all the stops comes from the pipe organ. Each set of pipes has a knob called a stop. Pulling them all out makes the biggest sound. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/1/1034191.jpg)
![Producers wanted Christopher Reeve to wear fake muscles. Не refused, and got so yolked they had to re-shoot the early scenes, for continuity. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/4/1034194.jpg)
![We've only known that other galaxies exist for 100 years. Before 1920, we just figured the Milky Way contained every star in the universe. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/5/1034185.jpg)
![When Bill Paxton died, storm chasers paid him a fitting tribute. They used GPS markers to make a giant BP (the Twister star's initials) across 3 states. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/9/1034189.jpg)
![Iceland is split between the Eurasian and North American plate. CRACKED.COM Although Iceland is considered political- ly as part of Europe, it is geographically North American and European at the same time.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/6/1034186.jpg)
![Finnish people receive a top hat and a sword when completing their doctoral degrees. CRACKED.COM The sword comes with a scabbard, a black or golden scab- bard holder and the golden emblem of the University.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/8/1034188.jpg)
![Not even Stan Lee knew how the Hulk's pants stay on. CRACKED.COM Lee liked to work science into all of his stories, but the Hulk's miraculous inde- structible pants were the only time he never had a clue how the exact science behind it worked.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/4/1034184.jpg)
![The original ending of Pretty Woman was much darker. CRACKED COM Originally titled 3,000, the movie ended with Julia Rob- erts' character being tossed out of a limo into a dirty alley and thrown $3,000 in cash. The screenplay changed when Disney took over pro- duction.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/7/1034187.jpg)
![The underbelly membrane of lobsters is as tough as industrial rubber. CRACKED.COM It is the toughest material of all natural hydrogels, includ- ing collagen, animal skins, and natural rubber. The membrane is about as strong as the rubber used to make car tires, garden hoses, and conveyor belts.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/3/1034183.jpg)
![Russian officers played the game Battleship before WWI. CRACKED.COM The game dates back to the turn of the 20th cen- tury, where it was played with just paper and pen. A version using plastic pegs wasn't created until 1967.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/2/1034182.jpg)
![A B-52 bomber can have its engine kickstarted with explosive cartridges. CRACKED.COM The explosives can be in- serted into the bomber's engines to get them up and running more quickly if needed. The cart start reduces takeoff time from about an hour down to ten minutes.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/1/1034181.jpg)