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30 Enlightening Bits of Trivia We Found Spray Painted Under a Bridge

By:: Cracked Writers; Jay L'Ecuyer

April 12, 2024

30 Enlightening Bits of Trivia We Found Spray Painted Under a Bridge

Yes, okay, so we found these facts under a bridge. Why do you care where they came from? Like you’re all of a sudden a fact connoisseur? So they’re not organic, locally sourced, pasture-raised facts. Big whoop. And sure, they probably can’t even be called facts since they didn’t come from the fact region of France. But, you know what? A fact is a fact in our books. We’d put every one of these up against any classy fact you got, monsieur!

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Less than one percent of Sweden's garbage ends up in a landfill. GRACKED.COM Despite producing about the same amount of waste per year as other Europeans, Sweden's waste-to-energy plants make good use of their refuse. — Source

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The only member of zz Top without a beard is named Beard. طانا GRACKED.COM Frank Beard, the drummer for ZZ Top, prefers to remain clean shaven, as opposed to guitarists Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill, who sport the iconic look. — Source

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The jay in jaywalker means foolish person. ON'T JAY WALK CRACKED.COM In the early 1900s, a jay-driver referred to a driver of a horse-drawn carriage or automobile who drove on the wrong side of the road. — Source

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Some female sharks can store sperm for years after mating CRACKED.COM Biologists found a female bamboo shark dropping an egg case after 4 years isolated from males. — Source

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Londoners in the 1600s used fart jars to combat the plague. CRACKED.COM Londoners were advised to keep jars consisting of trapped fart odors, the idea was that the potent smell would somehow purify the air. — Source

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Jim Henson made his first Kermit puppet using his mother's old coat. CRACKED.COM The original Kermit from Sam and Friends was made from a green coat discarded by Jim Henson's mother and his eyes were each one half of a ping pong ball. — Source

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Modern brunch was first proposed as a post-hangover meal. CRACKED.COM Guy Beringer, an English writer, first proposed the idea for the mixed meal in his 1895 essay Brunch: A Plea, defending those nursing their Sunday morning hangovers. — Source

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Q is the only letter that does not appear in any U.S. state name. New Hampshire Washington Vermont Massachusetts Maine Montana North Dakota Minnesota Oregon Wisconsin Idaho South Dakota New York Michigan Wyoming Rhode Pennsylvania lowa Conne Nebraska Nevada Ohio New J Utah Illinois Indiana Colorado Dela Kansas Missouri California Virginia Mar Kentucky District of C North Carolina West Vi Tennessee Oklahoma Arizona Arkansas South New Mexico Carolina us Virgin Alabama GRACKED.COM Georgia J and Z appear once (New Jersey and Arizona), В twice (Alabama and Nebraska), and California and Florida are the only states containing 'F' — Source

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Andrew Jackson's parrot was kicked out of his funeral for swearing. CRACKED.COM The parrot, Poll, learned the profane language from Jackson, who was an exceptionally volatile individual who often disregarded formality. — Source

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The first man who freely walked in space got over 300 feet from his space shuttle. NAS Astronaut Bruce McCandless' untethered spacewalk (with just a jetpack) happened in 1984, and he says he wasn't nervous about doing at all. CRACKED.COM — Source

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One Scottish town celebrates Halloween on the last Friday of October. In Kilmarnock, they hold Killieween celebrations on the last Friday for unclear reasons - it's a very old tradition, but nobody knows how it got started. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Visitors to a dinosaur park demanded refunds because the dinos weren't alive. The park was called Dinosaurs Live! and some people took it too literally - about six people asked for their $2.50 back, apparently. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The longest distance at which one tank destroyed another is about 3 miles. The record was made by a British Challenger tank in the Gulf War, in 1991 - kind of amazingly, it hasn't been beaten since. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The record for the fastest run from LA to NYC is 25 hours and 39 minutes. That was the Cannonball run record set in 2020 (by a team who beat their own 2019 record of 27 hours, 25 minutes). Their average speed? 112 mph. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a decaying, abandoned WWII US army base in the landscape of Greenland. The abandoned equipment includes about 10,000 rusted and leaking fuel barrels, which the locals charmingly call American Flowers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The shoot of There Will Be Blood got in the way of No Country For Old Men. Both movies shot in the same isolated area and, one day, No Country couldn't film because the other movie released too much smoke. CRACKED.COM — Source

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George Clooney would call out Brotherhood! to Michael Keaton on a movie set. It was on Out Of Sight, and Keaton only figured out later that, oh yeah, Clooney was talking about the fact that they both played Batman. CRACKED.COM — Source

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They poured Coca-Cola on an Italian town's cobblestones for No Time to Die. o They were filming a chase scene and the cobblestones didn't have enough grip, so they used Coke and it was incredible how well it was working. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The WAP music video spent $100,000 just on Covid testing. Every single person on the shoot had to get tested. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Andean condor glides 99% of the time it's airborne. It flaps its wings only 1% of the time, and it's the heaviest soaring bird in the world. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Russell Crowe's agent wanted Maximus' death in Gladiator to be fake. Не pitched Gladiator 2 as a movie that would start with Maximus' body being taken behind the arena on a stretcher, then Maximus would get up and high-five the people carrying him, saying Hey, it worked. That way, Crowe could do the sequel. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mark Hamill's phone number is in A New Hope. In the trash compactor scene, he was supposed to just say a long serial number, so he wanted it to be his own phone number. But Harrison Ford got the line instead, and he started saying his own number. Hamill nagged him to say his, Hamill's, so Ford did that and told him Happy now, you big baby? NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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It looks like sharks and swordfish fight brutal undersea duels. In the Mediterranean, since September 2016, at least seven dead sharks have washed up with a swordfish's sword broken off in their body. Scientists theorize they might be fighting for dwindling food in the overfished Mediterranean waters. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The bathrooms at the Super Bowl use more water than passes over Niagara Falls every second. MEN WOMEN IN OUT I ST: n It's almost a million gallons. That's used, among other things, for flushing the 8,000 gallons of urine produced. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Step Brothers showcases Will Ferrell's and John C. Reilly's musical talents. UPTOWN GiRL In the scene at the Catalina Wine Mixer where Reilly's character plays drums and Ferrell's sings, the actors are really doing that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Sierra Leone, playing a board game is part of getting your driver's license. TRAFFIC POLICE VEHICLE EXAMINATION CENTRE STATION CHECK ROSE Alt GAS TRAFFIC GAS CHECK R CHECK pows VEHICLE A CHECK C DIRECTION CHECK I 40 CHOICE CHOICE VEHICLE N PARKING LOT NAGUEST CROSSING ALLOW TRAIS MALZS-LASE TO CROSS CHOICE Applicants have to play Driver's Way (which involves rolling dice, moving car models on a board, and answering questions about road laws) at least once before their actual driving test. CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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In It, when Pennywise's eyes look in opposite directions, that's not an effect. Bill Skarsgård can really do that with his eyes, so he did it in the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Eric Bana made $550 off Brad Pitt in Troy. They had an agreement that they'd pay each other for hits during training for their fight scene - - 550 for minor ones, and $100 for major ones. Eric Bana apparently got a whacking, because Pitt had to pay him $750 while he had to pay Pitt $200. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The San Diego ZOO has the world's first frozen zoo. FROZEN ZOO SK DORA-GYL NITROGEN It stores the living tissues and stem cells of over a thousand animal species in freezers (like the facility in Jurassic Park, just not for dinosaurs). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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