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34 Bits of Trivia to Guzzle Into Your Brainbelly

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We almost got a sprawling Game of Thrones RPG, but Skyrim killed it. Bethesda Softworks was offered a chance to make the RPG, and they were huge fans, but they had to choose between making that or making Skyrim. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The T-800's sunglasses are a deliberate symbol in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Не loses them as he starts to become more human, rather than a blank-faced killing machine, and that process starts in the hospital scene. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Kung Fu Panda 2, Mr Ping is kind of based on the actor who's playing him. His dad owned a noodle shop, and he worked in it from a very early age - so the filmmakers integrated into Mr. Ping and made him a noodle shop owner. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Hello, Dolly holding hands moment in WALL-E wasn't in the original. Holding hands is a crucial symbol in WALL-E, but there was no hand holding in Hello, Dolly except in one wide shot, so they just faked a close-up. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The house with a blue door in Notting Hill was owned by the writer, Richard Curtis. SERVICE Property prices there went up after the movie came out, and Curtis sold the house not long after, so he'd joke he made the movie just to do that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Twilight Zone was created because of racist backlash in the '50s. The TWILIGHT ZONE Rod Serling's script about the murder of Emmett Till, a Black boy, was rejected by studio bigwigs who feared blowback .. so Serling started writing sci-fi. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Absinthe isn't more dangerous than similar strength alcohols. It doesn't have any hallucinogenic properties. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's no evidence to support drinking eight glasses of water a day. With the exception of strenuous physical activity, long airplane flights, and a hot climate, you're probably drinking enough. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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We don't swallow 8 spiders in our sleep per year. There's no scientific evidence that would suggest we swallow a single one. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sugar doesn't cause hyperactivity in children. Over 12 studies showed no behavior change, even among kids with ADHD. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Vikings didn't wear horns. It was have been extremely impractical to battle in a horned helmet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mice don't like cheese. Mice prefer sweets and foods with more calories. They will eat cheese only as a last resort. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Great Wall of China isn't the only man-made object visible from space. No man-made object is visible with the naked eye from the moon, but from orbit, astronauts can see city lights. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ye wasn't really used to mean the in Old English Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese The 'th' sound used to be written with a 'p.' Early printers didn't have a 'p' so they used 'y' because it looked similar. Ye was revived in the 19th century to make things sound quaintly old timey. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bats aren't blind. Although many also use echolocation, they have sight that is well-adjusted for the dark. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Some monkeys are (theoretically) capable of human speech. Those monkeys (like the Japanese Macaque) have the right vocal anatomy, but not the brain anatomy they'd need to actually talk. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Roman Colosseum had a cloth awning that weighed about 24 tons. It was supported by an elaborate network of ropes, and it was there to protect the people in the Colosseum from the sun. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Nepal, there was a tiger that killed 400 people in the early 1900s. She was nicknamed The Demon of Chompawat, and was apparently the deadliest tiger in history (until she got killed by a hunter and tracker). CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Vatican had to pull 6000 papal medals in 2013 because of a typo. Instead of Jesus, the medals said Lesus - and, of course, collectors snapped up the medals with the misprint when they had the chance. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Richie Haven's iconic song Freedom came about by accident. Не just started playing it at Woodstock because he didn't have anything else he could play, but needed to stay on the stage. Later, to learn how to play it, he watched himself in the Woodstock movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Amish actually celebrate Christmas twice in a two-week period. The first celebration is on Dec 25, and the second one on Jan 6 - Christmas used to be celebrated all over the world on Jan 6 until relatively recently, and the Amish kept that tradition (but also took on the new one). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bears kind of act like big cats - they purr when they're happy or content. That purr-like sound is something they produce when they're say, eating a delicious snack, feeling comfortable, or nursing (if they're a cub). CRACKED.COM — Source

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There was a Civil War veterans' reunion in 1938 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was the 75th anniversary of the battle, and about 1800 vets from both sides attended - the youngest was 88 years old, while the oldest was 118 (so he claimed, anyway). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sammy Davis Jr thought his iconic song The Candy Man would bomb. His exact words: This record is going straight into the toilet. Not just around the rim, but into the bowl, and it may just pull my whole career down with it. It hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In First Man, they recorded the sound of Ryan Gosling's breathing with a real lunar helmet. Gosling breathed through the helmet worn by Apollo 16 astronaut John Young. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A giant paperclip-like creature roamed the seas 68 million years ago. Diplomoceras maximum was about five feet long, similar to a squid, and had a shell shaped like a paperclip. D. maximum's lifespan might have been 200 years, and it grew a new rib on its shell each year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2020, a New Zealand town banded together to save a cat. Rodney had been a fixture at a local store in Marton, New Zealand, until a staff member apparently drove him about 9 miles out of town and left him there. Locals were outraged and spent a month looking for Rodney, eventually finding him on a nearby farm. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Australia, there's a fire that started burning before the pyramids were built. A coal seam under the surface of Mount Wingen began smoldering 6,000 years ago, and hasn't stopped since. It's the world's oldest continuous coal fire. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the early 19th century, West Point's 1st year curriculum was just math and French. The best math textbooks at the time were in French, so students had to learn the language first. And they needed math because they were all military engineers -- West Point was the first engineering school in the U.S. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Avengers: Endgame plot grew out of a throwaway comment. The Russo brothers couldn't figure out what to do with Thanos, as he was super powerful and could beat the Avengers easily. One day, producer Trinh Tran said Kind of really wish we could just kill him, which gave the Russos a totally new idea. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The deepest man-made hole on Earth is 7.5 miles deep. It's the USSR's Kola Superdeep Borehole, and its deepest part is nine inches in diameter but reaches a third of the way down the continental crust. One of the Borehole researchers' most amazing finds was two-billion-year-old rocks with intact organic compounds inside. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Koala fingerprints are nearly identical to human ones. At one point, Australian authorities were even concerned that koala fingerprints might have messed up criminal investigations. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Ego's planet is based on fractal artwork. The filmmakers brought on Hal Tenny, who makes Mandelbrot set art, as a visual consultant. They based much of Ego's core, landscape, and the structures on the planet, on his concepts. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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We almost got a Sofia Coppola adaptation of The Little Mermaid. Her version was supposed to adapt the original fairy tale, and she wanted to shoot underwater. They did some underwater shooting tests, but she left the project when too much money started pouring in, because she couldn't make the movie she wanted to make. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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