31 Random Bits of Trivia to Impress the Fellas Down at the Fact Factory
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Have you ever been playing a game of cards, knowing full well that you’ve got the best hand? You try to keep your cool, but you’re thinking, “Man, I can’t wait to slam these bad boys down on the table!”
Well, we’ve got that kind of hand in fact form. So get these up in your brain — or your hand if you print them out. Then any time you’re out at some pub’s trivia night or at some know-it-all’s house party, you’ll know that at any moment, you can drop these showstoppers!
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![One shot in Rushmore is a nod to French photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue. YANKEE RACERS FOUNDER Lartigue partly inspired the movie, and the shot of Max as the Founder of the Yankee Racers is closely based on a photo of Lartigue's brother. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/5/1071005.jpg)
![Darren Aronofsky considers The Wrestler and Black Swan closely related. Не started writing a movie about love between a wrestler and ballet dancer, but he had to split it up. He'd like to see them shown as a double feature. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/4/1071004.jpg)
![Mark Hamill ad-libbed his Star Wars line about not being able to see in Stormtrooper armor. Не complains he can't see with a Stormtrooper helmet on, and that wasn't scripted - since everyone liked it, he kept the line in later takes. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/3/1071003.jpg)
![Before filming X-Men, Hugh Jackman didn't know what a wolverine was. Не thought it was a made-up superhero name, so he studied wolves and watched wolf documentaries to prepare. Director Bryan Singer had to explain things. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/2/1071002.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Rock 'n' roll is, actually, the devil's music. Rock makes heavy use of the Devil's Interval - a chord so dissonant that the Church banned it in the Middle Ages. (On the other hand, it's not very likely that pearl clutchers are actually talking about chords and the history of music, is it?)](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/1/1071001.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Queen Victoria had a really creepy stalker. The young Edward Jones was obsessed with the newly crowned Victoria. Не would cover himself in grease to squeeze through Buckingham Palace's chimneys, and then remain hidden, just to be near the queen and steal her personal items.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/0/1071000.jpg)
![Brazilian prisoners get a chance to reduce their sentences by reading books. CRACKED.COM Prisoners can knock off four days for every approved book they read and write an essay on, for a total of 48 days a year. Approved books include various sci- ence, philosophy, and clas- sic literature novels.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/9/1070999.jpg)
![An American gymnast competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics with a wooden leg. CRACKED.COM George Eyser won six med- als: 3 gold in long horse vault, 25 ft. rope climb, and parallel bars; two silver in the 4-event all-around and pommel horse, and one bronze medal in the hori- zontal bar.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/8/1070998.jpg)
![Jean-Paul Sartre declined his Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964. GRACKED COM Не said, a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution. Не consistently declined all other such official hon- ors people tried to grant him over the years.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/7/1070997.jpg)
![The ancient Olympics always had a sacrifice for Zeus. CRACKED.COM The third day of the an- cient Olympic Games be- gan with a team of priests slaughtering 100 bulls. The thighs were burned, and the rest was served in the victory banquet.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/6/1070996.jpg)
![The original live action Dumbledore, Richard Harris, was a charting musician. CRACKED.COM Не had a hit single back in the 1960s with the song MacArthur Park, which managed to reach number four on the UK charts and number two on the Billboard Hot 100.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/5/1070995.jpg)
![Jamie Lee Curtis invented a type of diaper in 1987. CRACKED.COM Patent No. 4,753,647 is a disposable infant garment which takes the form of a di- aper including, on its outer side, a sealed, but openable, moisture-proof pocket which contains one or more clean-up wipers.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/4/1070994.jpg)
![Trimethylaminuria is a disorder that makes people reek of fish. CRACKED.COM TMAU is caused by the body being unable to convert trimethylamine to trimethyl- amine oxide, resulting in the stinky trimethylamine being excreted through the pores, breath and urine.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/2/1070992.jpg)
![Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double was paralyzed practicing a stunt. CRACKED.COM David Holmes, Radcliffe's stunt double through the first six Harry Potter films, was paralyzed from the waist down during the sixth film while practicing a flying scene that includ- ed an explosion.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/3/1070993.jpg)
![Soccer was once a popular name for Football in Britain in the sport's earliest days. 16 10 CRACKED.COM It was named Association Foot- ball to distinguish it from the other forms of football, eventual- ly being called Assoccer for short, and then soccer. When the game spread to countries that already had a form of foot- ball, they used the soccer term.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/1/1070991.jpg)
![The third founder of Apple, Ronald Wayne, left after less than two weeks. non Tour PUS Bus Just 11 days after helping found Apple, he sold his 10% stake in the company for $800, and within a year would receive another $1,500 to agree to forfeit all claims to the company when it was converted to a corporation.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/0/1070990.jpg)
![There's a species of wasps that preys specifically on cicadas (called Cicada Killers). These wasps capture and paralyze cicadas, then take them to their own larvae, where the cicadas are left as food for the larvae when they hatch. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/9/1070989.jpg)
![The wreck of Titanic may completely disappear by 2032. Bacteria is slowly eating away at the remains of the ship. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/8/1070988.jpg)
![Busta Rhymes shattered a windshield when he first heard Eminem PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT Busta Rhymes was on a tour bus when he first listened the Slim Shady LP and was so moved that he smashed his head against the bus' windshield. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/7/1070987.jpg)
![Backstreet Boys are the best selling boy band in history Sorry, NSYNC fans but by the numbers, BSB wins fair and square, with over 100 million albums sold. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/6/1070986.jpg)
![Astronauts can now print tools on demand on the ISS with a 3D printer. 18mm CRAFTSMAN U.S.A. PAT 17mm 42428-37-2- illustration The system was tested with a ratchet wrench designed on Earth in less than a week, then uploaded to space and 3D-printed in four hours. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/5/1070985.jpg)
![Dairy Queen can't legally call its product ice cream because it's only 5% buttercream. DAIRY QUEEN To be categorized as ice cream, it must have 10% butterfat, so they refer to it as soft serve instead. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/4/1070984.jpg)
![The liquid that comes out of meat isn't blood, it's water and myoglobin. Meat releases water over time, and myoglobin, which gives meat its red color, is carried out with the water. Blood isn't involved at all. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/3/1070983.jpg)
![Long-necked dinosaurs probably didn't eat foliage from treetops, actually. Turns out, their neck and shoulder anatomy is more suited to moving from side to side and covering a wide area than to extending upward. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/2/1070982.jpg)
![The most successful pirate in recorded history was a Chinese prostitute. Cheng I Sao was active in the early 19th century, and at her most powerful commanded 80,000 sailors and a fleet of over 1,500 ships. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/0/1070980.jpg)
![In the Middle Ages, it was a totally normal thing to put animals on trial. History records horses, goats, pigs, cows, dogs being put on trial for breaking the law and being treated just like bipedal lawbreakers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/7/8/1070978.jpg)
![The Old West was very, very gay (but, it turns out, nobody talked about it). It wasn't too uncommon for men to have sex, largely because there were so few women, but the widespread attitude was Don't ask, don't tell. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/7/9/1070979.jpg)
![For a while, in ancient Egypt, iron was more valuable than gold itself. For centuries, Egyptians had no technology for smelting iron, so they got iron from meteorites - and it was very, very rare. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/1/1070981.jpg)
![Keifer Sutherland found out there was a 24 drinking game - drink when he said damn it! So he decided to say it as often as possible. For the college kids. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/7/6/1070976.jpg)
![1846: A snail from Egypt was thought dead so it was glued to an index card and put on display in a British museum. 1850: The snail starts moving and is found to be alive. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/7/5/1070975.jpg)
![Since 2007, all McDonalds' fleet trucks in the U.K. have been fueled with cooking oil from their restaurants. 16 M WE RECYCLE ALLOURUSED COOKING OIL BIODIESEL FOR Person MB In 2018, the company successfully repurposed 80% of its waste cooking oil for use across its European fleet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/7/7/1070977.jpg)