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27 Random Bits of Trivia to Slake Your Permathirst for Knowledge

May 08, 2024

We’ve been bottling this up for a while now, and we just have to get it off of our chests. When it comes to random facts, you’ve been a little hard to please lately. Your undying thirst for knowledge is great. Commendable even. But you’re really putting our dedicated fact-finders through the ringer. They’re panting away in our office, slamming water, awaiting your next fact order. So please, read these slowly. Give them time to catch their breath.

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CRACKED.COM Star Wars planned for a low-budget sequel. In case his space movie didn't take off, George Lucas had plans in place for a sequel with a much smaller scope. Titled Splinter of the Mind's Eye, it took place almost entirely on a jungle planet. The story eventually became the first Star Wars novel. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Al Pacino takes parts in bad movies to make them better. When you've been a respected actor for as long as Pacino, you need to find new challenges - and for him, it's to try to make sucky movies less sucky. I'm starting to want to do films that aren't really very good and try to make them better, he has said. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Goldfish become kaiju in the wild. Strip away the branding, and goldfish are just a type of carp - and carp grow as big as their environment lets them get away with. If you release them in a big lake with no natural predators, they'll become huge monsters and wreak havoc in the local ecosystem. So please don't. — Source

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Nikola Tesla was into eugenics. What's not to love about Tesla? Well, there's the fact that he was very for eugenics. Around the 1930s, he started writing some pretty disturbing ideas on how to treat the mentally ill and criminals, and arguing for forced sterilization. Yeah, better to remember him as an inventor. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted the Terminator to get drunk. Schwarzenegger suggested a scene where the Terminator becomes intrigued by a beer can, so he drinks it and gets tipsy. James Cameron had to explain to him, It's a machine, Arnold. It's not a human being. It's not E.T. It can't get drunk. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Winston was done dirty by the first Ghostbusters. Winston Zeddemore had an elaborate backstory as an Air Force major and a demolition guy - that is what Ernie Hudson signed up for. Hudson was so excited about the part that he took a half pay cut to play it. Не wasn't at all happy when Winston was reduced to little more than an afterthought. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Titanic saved three sailors' lives. In 2004, an explosion quickly sank the tanker Bow Mariner - but while everyone else jumped into the water, three crew members remembered Titanic and clung to the railings until the last possible second, as Jack and Rose did. They turned out to be among the only six survivors. — Source

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Dolly Parton's Jolene is about a red-headed clerk who had a crush on her husband. CRACKED.COM The song's title is named after one of her fans. Dolly told her, That is pretty. That sounds like a song. I'm going to write a song about that. — Source

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The voice of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh was an inventor that created many patents still in use today. GRACKED.COM Paul Winchell was one of the original inventors of an artificial heart, an automo- bile that runs on battery power, a method for breeding tilapia, and many other inventions. — Source

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The first international war crime trial took place in 1474. Liln and Branbe MICH Wegbaling Cross Babies Barm des Kom Desding Habon Company Pfale Mamberg - Bland Ambidan: H Kim Sodurs bern Class David Thujia Calout Dagman Bainn Supply authodign . Delicio Standard Krinegh credition Gavaben Searching - Melloverb Delen Sam Stramberg Baten Cutting KUL CRACKED.COM Peter Von Hagenbauch of Alsace, Germany was found guilty of atrocities committed during the ос- cupation of Breisach and beheaded in the Holy Ro- man Empire. — Source

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A message in a bottle from a doomed Titanic passenger was found near his home. CRACKED.COM The mother of 19-year-old Jeremiah Burke recognized his handwriting, and an- nounced that the bottle was the same holy water bottle she had given to her boy on the day of his departure. — Source

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Beer, rather than bread, may have been the inspiration for our ancestors to domesticate grains. CRACKED.COM Demand for reliable sup- plies pushed humans first to plant the wild grasses and then over time to se- lectively breed them into the high-yielding barley, wheat, and other grains we know today. — Source

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The costume designer for Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice designed the SpaceX space suits. CRACKED.COM Elon Musk commissioned Jose Fernandez, and said he wanted the suits to look badass and heroic. Fer- nandez didn't know what SpaceX was at the time, and thought it was for a film. — Source

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MOUNT RUSHMORE WASN'T ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO BE A NATIONAL MONUMENT. THE INITIAL IDEA WAS JUST то HAVE GIANT SCULPTURES THAT WOULD ATTRACT THOUSANDS OF TOURISTS TO SOUTH DAKOTA. GRACKED COM — Source

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When people think of Joan of Arc being burned at the stake it's usually for the crime of being a witch. In actuality she was burned alive for wearing men's clothing, the only thing she was ever formally charged with. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Henry Ford tried to end WWI by sailing to Europe on a Peace Ship. Не sailed with a group of pacifists and reporters, planning to convince European soldiers to go on strike. When they landed, they were greeted by eight college students in total. The half-million-dollar expedition ended in failure and ridicule. Ford told the pacifists he couldn't go on to Stockholm because he was sick, and then he sailed home on an ocean liner. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The distinction of being the very first reality show goes to the 1973 PBS mini series An American Family. The show followed the Louds (a large middle class Californian family) which documented their divorce and featured their openly gay son - both rare on TV at that time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Like wearing pajamas? You have WWI air raids to thank. In WWI, people were being driven out of their homes by night-time air raids, and they needed warm, practical, and decent-looking sleepwear. So pajamas became hugely popular: they were loose, covered you up, and could be very stylish. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Isaac Newton was a waiter. Until he got an undergraduate scholarship, he waited tables at Cambridge. CRACKED.COM — Source

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George Washington never wore a wig. TE SPRINKLE WASHINGTON The kind of hairstyle one would see in most of his portraits was achieved by following a process which includes yanking the hair, gathering and tying it up, and curling the side hairs. The last step is covering his natural, reddish-brown hair with a generous amount of white powder. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Just weeks before he died after slamming his Porsche head-on into another vehicle, JAMES DEAN made a PSA for the National 130 Safety Council, warning of PORTAGE the dangers of reckless TAKE IT driving. EASY DRIVING. THE LIFE YOU SAVE MIGHT BE MINE. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Val Kilmer has lost his speaking voice due to the intense treatments for his throat cancer. Audio tech company Sonantic is building an AI program to help synthesize Kilmer's voice using past performances. CRACKED.COM — Source

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After Lance Armstrong was stripped of his wins, seven Tour De France races were declared without winners. Armstrong may have been caught doping, but so have many riders that finished behind him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A dog will play sneeze to show us and other dogs they are having a good time. Dogs also tend to curl their lips while they are playing a fun activity. This lip curl creates a wrinkled nose that can cause their body to erupt in a sneeze. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The German government posthumously thanked David Bowie for the fall of the Berlin Wall. Germany credits a concert Bowie held in 1987 as a major reason Berlin was unified and tore down the wall. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A British man legally changed his name over a £20 overdraft fee from his bank. CHURCH STREET Yorkshire Bank y Want محمد Was - with - - - mirs 1534 - Michael Howard changed his name to Yorkshire Bank plc are Fascist Bastards just to receive a return check in that name to settle his account. CRACKED.COM — Source

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