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35 Random Bits of Trivia Recently Awakened From Their Long Winter Slumber

April 24, 2024

Today, we’re proud to announce that we woke up every one of these facts without going the Disney Prince route. Yup, we didn’t kiss any of them while they slept. Why was that a thing anyway? Sleeping Beauty is one thing, but Snow White died from that poison apple. Her Prince just stumbled upon a corpse in the woods, and his first instinct was to kiss it on the mouth? Wowzers.

Anywho, yeah, we just shook these facts awake because their alarms were going off for way too long.

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Don Rickles

CRACKED DON RICKLES WAS SCARED TO OFFEND, BUT HIS MOM SAID, GO FOR IT. At first, Rickles was scared to do comedy because he thought he might offend people. But his mom told him to give it a shot, and he became a legendary insult comic. — Source

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CRACKED CLEAN UNDERWEAR WAS THE ULTIMATE STATUS SYMBOL. In colonial Europe, people thought that having clean underwear was a sign of having a clean soul, and it was typical to show it off by having it sticking out from their shirt sleeves and collars. — Source

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CRACKED A.I. MODELS ARE STEALING JOKES. Sarah Silverman and two authors filed a lawsuit against two Al language models, claiming that the Al was trained on databases that copied from websites without giving credit to the authors. — Source

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CRACKED 47 BONG JOON-HO BORROWED FROM SEINFELD. Bong's movie Barking Dogs Never Bite and the Seinfeld episode The Engagement both tell stories about people trying to get rid of their noisy neighbor's pet. Bong has admitted that Seinfeld had an influence on him. — Source

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Snooki and South Park

CRACKED SNOOKI IS PROUD OF HER GOBLINHOOD. Snooki from The Jersey Shore was featured in an episode of South Park in 2010, where she was shown as a silly, humping rat goblin. She was really happy about this, and has since seen it as a compliment. — Source

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CRACKED EMPLOYEES GET THE LAST WORD IN SEVERANCE NEGOTIATIONS. Employers now can't include clauses in severance agreements that prevent laid-off employees from discussing their job with others. This gives employees more power in severance negotiations and could have a big impact. — Source

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CRACKED JAPAN'S JUSTICE MINISTRY WANTS TO RAISE THE AGE OF CONSENT FROM 13 TO 16. In Japan, the age of consent is currently 13, which is lower than in other countries. The Justice Ministry wants to - finally - raise it to 16 as part of a plan to update laws on sex crimes. v1.300 93 TO AVA OPE — Source

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CRACKED REI IS FINALLY CATCHING UP TO THE TIMES. In 2022, REI said it would no longer carry items with forever chemicals used in waterproof clothing and camping cookware, and it asked its suppliers to do the same. REI wants all the cookware and apparel it sells to be free of PFAS by 2024. — Source

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CRACKED A KID WAS FOUND SAFE AFTER 8 MONTHS OF WANDERING. An 8-year-old boy, Breadson John, was found safe after being missing for 8 months. Не had disappeared from Washington state in June 2022, and it's still a mystery how he ended up in Missouri. — Source

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CRACKED FOUR-DAY WORK WEEKS: LESS STRESS, FEWER SICK DAYS, AND FEWER QUITTERS. A recent trial in the UK tested out a four-day work week and it was a success. People reported lower stress and illness levels, and 57% fewer people left their jobs. — Source

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CRACKED FINALLY, A WAY TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST INVASIVE SPECIES. Scientists have developed a way to make American chestnut trees resistant to blight, which could be released as soon as summer 2023. This is a big deal, as it could help protect other native trees from foreign pests and diseases. — Source

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CRACKED STUDENTS FIGHT BACK AGAINST ADMIN MISTREATMENT AT CONNECTICUT COLLEGE. The Dean of Institutional Equity and Inclusion at Connecticut College resigned after feeling mistreated by the admin. This sparked outrage, and students united to support the Division of Institutional Equity and Inclusion against the admin. — Source

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CRACKED EX-MARINE FINDS MISSING 2-YEAR-OLD ALIVE AND BAREFOOT IN THE WOODS. An ex-Marine and former supervisor for Hernando County parks found a 2-year-old boy alive and barefoot in the woods after he had been missing for almost a day near D.S. Parrott Middle School in Brooksville, Florida. — Source

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CRACKED LOVE CONQUERS ALL, EVEN WAR. A Ukrainian couple that got married the same day Russia started a full-scale attack on their country celebrated their first wedding anniversary. Despite the war still going on, the couple has stayed strong and grown even closer together. — Source

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CRACKED PUTIN'S WAR LEADS TO EUROPE GOING GREEN IN 2022. The war in Ukraine has led the European Union to reduce its use of Russian fossil fuels and increase its use of renewable energy sources. This has resulted in wind and solar sources producing more electricity than gas in 2022. — Source

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CRACKED FLORIDA TOWN RAISES $10 MILLION TO PRESERVE 44 ACRES OF UNTOUCHED LAND. The people of Dunedin, Florida, joined forces to raise an impressive $10 million to purchase the 44-acre Gladys Е. Douglas Preserve. It has 143 native plant species, 11 of which are endangered, threatened, or exploited. DINON Gladys E. Douglas Preserve Hours 7 am Sunset No Oversight Parking Help Protect Nature! The following and postard e the park Alcohol Golf Carts Smoking Bicycles - Dogs which — Source

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The guy who wrote the Redwall series was actually an unhappy milkman. - IN EVENTERS The Original ENTERS سعود : AIR Well, he was unhappy because he'd been reading to blind kids, and he thought the books available were pretty crappy, so he wrote new ones. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The vice president of the US wasn't always the president's running mate. Before they added the 12th amendment, it was whoever got the 2nd most votes in the election. CRACKED.COM — Source

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People tried to grow vanilla for 300 years in Europe, totally unsuccessfully. In 1836, they finally figured it was because vanilla was pollinated by an insect that didn't live in Europe. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Sweden, people sometimes do something that's known as death cleaning. It basically involves getting rid of everything you don't need before you die, so others won't have to clean up after you. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Turns out, T-Rexes grew so fast, you could almost watch them grow. Teenage T-Rexes could sometimes add 35-45 pounds to their frame in as little as a week. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Whiskey distilleries sometimes keep cats around just to catch mice. Distilleries have been using cats for that for centuries and, despite the many alternatives that exist today, they still do. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's an organization that sends out saplings and seeds that survived the A-bomb. Specifically, the bomb that exploded over Hiroshima - Green Legacy Hiroshima is spreading them worldwide. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Drinking alcohol used to be a regular part of participating in the Olympics. For example, runners drank it in the 1908 London olympics - i it was believed to be a performance enhancer. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1916, a New York construction worker was literally shot up on a geyser. Just like in a cartoon - he was working on a subway tunnel, and got shot through a hole in the tunnel. Miraculously, and also just like in a cartoon, he survived. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Brazil has the country with the most Japanese people outside Japan itself. There's a total of 1.5 million Japanese living in Brazil - this is partly due to the Japanese government promoting emigration until the '60s. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a fruit fly gene that's named after Kenny from South Park. TRASH Fruit flies that have a bad version of it die two days after they've gotten a specific bacteria. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The filming of 1971's A Bridge Too Far had a single million-dollar hour. They had an hour to shoot a scene with Robert Redford - if they didn't, they'd have to pay him a million dollars and try again in a week. Luckily for the budget, they made it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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They asked Benedict Cumberbatch to use an English accent in 2018's Grinch. But he pushed back, because the Grinch was already so different from the other characters, and Cumberbatch didn't think he should be English as well, but I thought just not thematically a bad guy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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If your mouth burns when you eat pineapple, that's because it eats you back. It secretes an enzyme called bromelain, which breaks down protein - and it works on the proteins that make up your mouth tissue. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2010, a group of people made up a fake case just to get on Judge Judy. It involved smashed TV sets and a dead cat, and four roommates just made it up out of thin air. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Not all vanilla beans are created equal - the taste depends on the country of origin. Sure, they all have a base vanilla flavor, but they might also have, say, mocha or floral or buttery tones, depending on where they're grown. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the early 20th century, an American explorer smuggled 30,000 Mayan artifacts. Не took them from a structure in Chichen Itza - basically a giant well - where they had piled up for centuries and smuggled them out of Mexico in his friends', colleagues', and own wife's luggage. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A curator replaced exhibits at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with fakes. Не then sold over a hundred of the exhibits, for millions of dollars. Не was arrested, and in his defense claimed that somebody had already been replacing paintings with fakes when he started work at the Academy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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It's not really a universal custom to leave out milk and cookies for Santa. 17 50 GUINNESS In Argentina, they leave hay and water, in Britain they leave sherry, and in Ireland they leave a pint of Guinness. CRACKED.COM — Source

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