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33 Bits of Trivia We Dug Up From Our Quaint Little Trivia Patch

April 08, 2024

This list got us a little nostalgic for our old Facts Patch Doll. Did you have one growing up? They were the best! They were like a less cute and cuddly Cabbage Patch Doll with the voice of Alex Trebek. Sure, we were a tad jealous of every other kid’s Cabbage Patch Doll, but we bet they’re all a tad jealous of our facts now, aren’t they? Who’s the weird one now, huh?!?!

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Cary Elwes was knocked out for real in The Princess Bride. CRACKED.COM Elwes convinced Christopher Guest to really go for it and hit him with his sword, which was real and not a prop. Elwes was knocked out and woke up in the hospital, still in costume, getting stitches. — Source

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Plants at a castle in England are so deadly, they're grown in cages. GRACKED COM The Poison Garden of Alnwick Castle was created in 2005 when Jane Percy, the Duchess of Northumberland, wanted to show people the scariest plants around. — Source

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Jerry Springer was born in a London tube station. CRACKED.COM Daytime TVs controversial host was born during World War II in Highgate tube station when it was used as a bomb shelter. — Source

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Pine trees grow at right angles in a forest in Poland. CRACKED COM The appropriately named Crooked Forest in Poland is home to hundreds of pine trees curved at a 90° angle. — Source

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Jamaica's premier sex-resort was built by the government. GRAGKED.COM Although it is now in private hands, the clothing-optional resort Hedonism II, with its Kama Sutra Palace and Romping Shop Playroom, was originally built by the government of Jamaica. — Source

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Polaroid had to issue a statement in response to OutKast. OneStep Plus POLAROID LAND CAMERA GRACKED.COM After OutKast sang Shake it like a Polaroid picture, Polaroid released this statement: Shaking or waving can actually damage the image — Source

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One of the Titanic's survivors was dubbed The Unsinkable Molly Brown. After the Titanic's disaster, she got highly involved in women's and worker's rights, and acquired a reputation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In an Indian park, rangers are legally allowed to shoot people hunting rhinos. Which led to rangers killing 20 people in Kaziranga park in 2015 - fewer rhinos got killed by poachers that year. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bees are known as hive animals, but there are also species of solitary bees. These bees sting only rarely, and male solitary bees can't sting you at all. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The heir apparent of the Ottoman Empire fought in the Normandy landings. Не had studied at Princeton, and joined the US military, where he went on to have a 22-year career. CRACKED.COM — Source

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One guy spent seven hours skiing down from the world's second highest mountain peak. Не climbed for three and a half days to get up there - without any additional oxygen, which is pretty badass. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Russian Railway is long enough to wrap around the world twice. The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest train journey in the world, with a length of over 5,772 miles. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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One of the biggest occupational hazards for astronauts is losing your eyesight. Astronauts sometimes develop vision problems, and experts now consider that the #1 risk of going into space. Nobody knows why it happens. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Shaq owns 155 Five Guys Burgers and 17 Auntie Annie's Pretzels. FIVE GUYS ERERA 29 FREE SNAKE THE FIVE GUYS E BT - DE CARD - NOT ENTER That's more than 10% of the Five Guys in the United States. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Statue of Liberty only turned green 20 years after it was put up. LIBERTY 1990 It happened in 1906 - when it was first put up, in 1886, it was roughly the same shade of brown as a penny. The copper just oxidized over 20 years. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pterodactyls aren't dinosaurs - and they're not birds or mammals, either. The fact that they can fly, and that their limbs stretch to the side, disqualifies them from being dinosaurs and makes them dino cousins. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Turns out, we probably owe the popularity of guacamole to a pirate. William Dampier, who became a pirate in 1679, wrote down the first ever guac recipe (and we also got the words tortilla and soy sauce from him). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Medieval knights had a special dagger they used just for finishing off an enemy. It was called the misericorde (which came from the French word for mercy): a long, thin dagger you could kill a wounded enemy knight with. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the 1880s, people in the Old West made a whole DIY telephone system. They took the barbed wire used throughout the countryside, and turned it into telephone lines (barbed wire carried a telephone signal with no problems). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Only high-ranking Egyptians actually kept their hearts after their death. Hearts were removed from many mummies, and the heart was seen as the seat of consciousness - presumably, this kept commoners out of the afterlife. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Butter used to be associated with witches in Ireland back in the day. BUTTER 1 FIRST QUALITY 1 NET WT. 4OZ. (113g) BUTTER 1/2 CUP Butter was used in Celtic pagan rituals, START MEASURE HERE 1/4 CUP-> 1/3 CUP-4/ لم ESPOON MEASURE: 8 and also, a witch could steal a neighbor's 7 6 5 4 3 butter luck using magic. ABELED FOR RETAIL SALE CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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In 1971, Sylvester Stallone sold his dog, Butkus, for $40 to buy food. After selling the script for Rocky, he bought him back for $15,000. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A blind woman flying United Airlines was assured by the flight crew they would help her exit the plane. Instead, they forgot her, left, and locked up the plane. Luckily, she was found by a maintenance crew a short time later. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED.COM A flying head was cut out of the Bible. According to The Life of John the Baptist, after John was beheaded, his head flew around the world for 15 years, calling King Herod out the entire time. Yes, we also wonder why such an awesome thing was left out of the final cut. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Martin Luther King Jr. had an advice column. In the '50s, Reverend King had a column in Ebony magazine titled Advice for Living. He'd often talk about black issues, but he also gave personal advice (which sometimes, um, wasn't very good). — Source

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CRACKED.COM A (fake) queen lived for years in a train station. In 1974, the queen of the lost kingdom of Oudh set residence in New Delhi's central train station with her entire entourage. After 10 years, the Indian government ended up giving her the palace she demanded. It came out long after her death that she wasn't a real queen. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Blockbuster Video almost had its own city. BLOCKBUSTER® Back in the '90s, Blockbuster wanted to build a 2,500-acre theme park near Miami-and they somehow convinced the Florida legislature to give them powers restricted to governments. This Blockbuster Town was entitled to collect taxes and seize private land. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Alt-Right furries exist, somehow. You'd expect the animal dress-up people to be tolerant of difference, wouldn't you? And yet, a Fur Right community exists. Its members proudly wear pawstika armbands and engage in the same tactics as their furless counterparts. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Black Lightning was almost a white bigot. Black Lightning was DC Comics' first black superhero with his own title. At first he was going to be Black Bomber, a racist white guy who became a black man under stress. Then writer Tony Isabella had a better idea: not doing that. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Cats were accused of killing babies. Not too long ago, when a baby died with no explanation, the cat was often pointed to as the culprit. Some believed that cats would suffocate babies for a variety of reasons-including sheer jealousy. — Source

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CRACKED.COM China is building a new Great Wall made of trees. China is trying to stop desertification in the traditional Chinese way-by building a huge-ass wall. This Green Great Wall (made by planting trees, not piling stones) was started in 1987, and it will be several decades before it's finished. — Source

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CRACKED.COM DC let a harasser edit their comics for years. Eddie Berganza was Superman executive editor, and in 2010 he was promoted to executive editor. At least five people had reported him to HR by then. DC Comics let him keep this position for seven more years before doing something about his continuing harassment. — Source

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