40 Keyword-Packed Bits of Trivia to Pad Out Your Resume
Facts that exceeded expectations and outperformed the competition.
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![THERE IS A NOCEBO EFFECT, A NEGATIVE VARIANT OF THE PLACEBO EFFECT. - CRACKED It can make someone physically suffer from side effects that don't exist.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/3/1050373.jpg)
![URANUS IS THE COLDEST PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. CRACKED ...even though Neptune is farther from the sun by about a billion miles.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/4/1050374.jpg)
![HARVARD EARNS ENOUGH MONEY ON INTEREST FROM ITS ENDOWMENT THAT IT COULD OFFER FREE TUITION TO ALL STUDENTS AND STILL MAKE A PROFIT ON THE INTEREST. CRACKED The same is true of Princeton and Yale.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/2/1050372.jpg)
![DR. GAY HITLER, SON OF GEORGE WASHINGTON HITLER, WAS A LOCAL DENTIST IN CIRCLEVILLE, OHIO, AND SERVED THE COMMUNITY FROM 1922 THROUGH 1946. HITLER H RD T70 HUBER HITLER GRACKED Many roads in the area still contain the word Hitler in reference to this family.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/1/1050371.jpg)
![THE POPULATION OF IRELAND STILL HASN'T RETURNED TO WHAT IT WAS BEFORE THE POTATO FAMINE. CRACKED It wasn't until 2021 that the population grew to 5 million - but before the famine, it was around 8 million.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/0/1050370.jpg)
![LOTS-O'-HUGGIN BEAR FROM TOY STORY 3 WAS ORIGINALLY MEANT TO APPEAR IN THE FIRST FILM. CRACKED However the technology needed to animate his fur did not yet exist.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/9/1050369.jpg)
![THERE WAS A BATMAN VILLAIN NAMED CONDIMENT KING. CRACKED Не was defeated by slipping on his own ketchup.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/8/1050368.jpg)
![BALL CAPITAL CRACKED g O FAN STUNTS A fan gave the JONAS BROTHERS a dead shark. Joe and Nick said, The craziest thing we've ever been given is definitely a dead shark. It was a baby shark, but they'd preserved it in this tube for us. Kevin said, I mean, is there such a website as Buyadeadshark.com?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/7/1050367.jpg)
![CRACKED FAN STUNTS NORMAN REEDUS got a breast implant in the mail. She said she read an interview, and I sounded depressed. I wasn't. I think I just came off that way. Не now lets his phone rest on it in his trailer.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/6/1050366.jpg)
![CRACKED FAN STUNTS A fan insisted MATT SMITH looked like her hedgehog, then kissed him. Не said he was accosted by a fan who held up a picture of her pet hedgehog, insisted that he was an exact replica of it, then kissed him before security jumped in.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/5/1050365.jpg)
![CRACKED FAN STUNTS A fan sent JARED LETO their severed ear (and he wore it as a necklace!) Someone cut their ear off once and sent it to me, that was very strange. A whole ear. The van Gogh move. The note just said, 'are you listening? I never knew who it was, who's missing their ear out there? I poked a hole in it and wore it as a necklace!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/4/1050364.jpg)
![CRACKED FAN STUNTS A man challenged BRUCE LEE to a fight. Wong Jack-man didn't like the way Lee conducted himself in an interview, and wished to fight him. Lee accepted, and won, but spectators said it was a close fight.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/3/1050363.jpg)
![CRACKED FAN STUNTS DOLLY PARTON found a newborn baby named Jolene on her doorstep. Little Jolene was addressed to her with a note saying that her momma wished for Parton to care for her. Parton called the Department of Health and Human Services, and took care of the baby (until they arrived).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/1/1050361.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/2/1050362.jpg)
![School photographers try to shoot photos before lunch. The earlier in the day, the more avoidable stains are. That means less photo-editing work for the photographer. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/0/1050360.jpg)
![Obituary writers get invited to funerals. A strange perk of the job may include invitations to high-profile funerals, either as a gesture of the family's gratitude or as an assignment. The job can be surprisingly uplifting, as a celebration of accomplished lives. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/9/1050359.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/8/1050358.jpg)
![Audiobook narrators may only have one night to review. That means you may only be able to scan the book once before your performance. It's important that voice actors research words that describe vocal attributions, are hard to pronounce, or indicate accents before they record. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/7/1050357.jpg)
![Trash collectors find the weirdest things. From WWII helmets to working violins, people will throw away anything. Your garbage man may bring it home or give it away. It's hardly a fair exchange, considering how dangerous and physically taxing the job is. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/6/1050356.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/5/1050355.jpg)
![CRACKED A GIRL WAS LOCKED IN A ROOM FOR 11 YEARS FROM AGE TWO. When she was discovered at 13, she had never had any contact with the outside world and didn't know any words, because her father (and captor) only ever growled at her like a dog.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/4/1050354.jpg)
![CRACKED LOCAL POLICE KNEW THAT THE COLUMBINE SHOOTERS WERE DANGEROUS. They refused to do anything about it, despite one of the shooters maintaining a blog that explained how he built pipe bombs, and how he was going to use them.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/3/1050353.jpg)
![CRACKED BOULDER'S FIRST FIRE TRUCK AND POLICE CAR CRASHED INTO EACH OTHER. They were both on their way to the same emergency. B.F.D.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/1/1050351.jpg)
![CRACKED THIRSTY PLANTS SCREAM. We just can't hear them. When condensed and translated by scientists, it kind of sounds like bubble wrap.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/0/1050350.jpg)
![CRACKED IN THE EARLY 1990S, THE MEXICAN MAFIA STOPPED DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS. As hundreds of innocent people were getting killed or wounded, the Los Angeles Mexican Mafia put out a statement that anyone arrested and incarcerated for a drive-by would be murdered in prison. Killings dropped significantly.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/5/1050345.jpg)
![CRACKED TOUCH GRASS IS ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD HEALTH ADVICE. Over 28 studies have found that being outside can lower blood pressure and reduce depression symptoms.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/2/1050352.jpg)
![CRACKED THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE STILL USES MULES. There are a few locales, mostly located in steep canyons and the like, that require mules to get to.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/9/1050349.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM All old-timey laugh tracks were made by one guy. If you hate canned laughs, you can thank Charles Douglass for them. Douglass invented the Laff Box, a gadget to add pre-recorded snickers, guffaws, and chuckles to TV comic material. Не had a virtual monopoly in the canned-laugh business.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/8/1050348.jpg)
![Artist Vincent Castiglia creates huge paintings - with his own blood. Brooklyn-born Castiglia says that blood defines humanity, and is imbued with life's instructions, our genes, as well as our psychic energy. Не also calls his art a savior that helped him transcend years of childhood abuse. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/6/1050346.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM national MCLS Nathan's Famous used fake doctors to sell hot dogs. When Nahum Handwerker opened his first hot dog stand in 1916, he used a few publicity tricks - including planting fake customers dressed in white coats. People assumed these were doctors from a nearby hospital - and if these cheap hot dogs were good enough for doctors, then they couldn't be all that bad.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/7/1050347.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Whistles were used to hack phone systems. Before phone networks went digital, phone hackers (named phreakers) would use whistles to reproduce the frequencies used by the system for communication. A legend in the field is John Draper, nicknamed Captain Crunch, who used used a whistle from a cereal box to get free long-distance calls.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/9/1050339.jpg)
![Nintendo lied to us about Donkey Kong 64. When Donkey Kong 64 was released, you needed an Expansion Pack to play it. The official explanation was that the game was too DM big for the N64's regular memory setup - but this was a filthy lie. The real reason was that the game shipped with a bug that caused random crashes without the extra memory. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/8/1050338.jpg)
![Some of the trails in the International Appalachian Trail are in, uh, Ireland. The International Appalachian Trail includes trails not just in North America, but also in Greenland, Scandinavia, Great Britain, France, Germany, even Africa - and Ireland. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/3/1050343.jpg)
![The US is home to about 200 million starlings, and it's because of Shakespeare. In 1890, there was a program to bring every bird species from Shakespeare's plays to North America, and that included releasing 60 starlings in Central Park. Eventually, that number grew to 200 million. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/0/1050340.jpg)
![In 2019, a robber who'd just robbed a bank tossed all the money on the street. . - . ULLERS UNITED STATES MORE | g 1 t I E 2 ! SALON - - ... - - - 2 B - SURIA : 2 : - В 805040302 y PACKARE DO NOT REQUENDE THE THE | THE MUTES I 1 2 شعبية - В 05040302 Y 2 1 INGLUDE WORK in SUBSTITUTED INDIANATED 1 2 - - DE ONE DOI RUN HAVE an I ELLINA I / KTAPP DE op Late 2 ANTER Ones HEY THE THIN HUNREEN PACKAGE -](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/4/1050344.jpg)
![Bananas are actually everyday factories of antimatter-literally. Every 75 minutes or so, the potassium in a banana produces a single positron (an antimatter particle). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/2/1050342.jpg)
![Boneless ham seems to be solid because of a quirk in protein chemistry. After the bone is removed, the meat is tightly pressed into the packaging, and salt breaks down some of the proteins in it. Those proteins reconnect, making the meat an unbroken whole again. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/1/1050341.jpg)
![Making Gizmo work was a nightmare. Gizmo was supposed to be in just about 25 minutes of Gremlins, but then Steven Spielberg decided at the last minute that the fuzzball had to have a bigger part. So the puppeteers were left to improvise with a severely limited puppet that wasn't really made for basic stuff, like making it walk. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/7/1050337.jpg)
![Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot was a trap Arnold Schwarzenegger baited for Sylvester Stallone. Schwarzenegger knew right away that the movie he was being offered was crap - but knowing how hyper-competitive Stallone was, he pretended to be interested in taking the role, so his rival would try and take it away from him. And Sly just went and swallowed the bait. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/5/1050335.jpg)
![Richard Donner tricked Gene Hackman into shaving his mustache for Superman. Hackman refused to wear a skull cap to play Lex Luthor - and to shave his '70s 'stache. Donner said, you take yours off, I'll take mine off, and Hackman grudgingly accepted. Only after the deed was done did Donner reveal his own facial hair was fake. Hackman wasn't pleased. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/6/1050336.jpg)