33 Random Bits of Trivia You’ll Have to Chug in the Security Line
Quick! Soak up these facts before someone else does!
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There’s nothing inherently dangerous about these facts, but since knowledge is power, the powers that be could start viewing you as a threat one day. They look down on you from their ivory thrones, scoffing at what they think is an insignificant existence. Little do they know, you become mightier and mightier with each fact. Soon enough, while a servant’s hand gently places grapes in their mouths, you’ll burst in with the brawny brain to overthrow them all!
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![A band gamed Spotify's low payments (with silence). Michigan-based funk band Vulfpeck released an album with ten short tracks of utter silence, and encouraged fans to stream it while they slept. That way, they made $20,000 instead of the diddly-squat independent artists usually get. Spotify took down the album after two months Spotif CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/0/1074860.jpg)
![Glaciers are plundered for luxury ice cubes. Ice from glaciers is highly valued by whisky snobs, which makes it a valuable trade good - great for a time when glaciers are retreating. This has led to hijackings - in 2012, a man was arrested in Chile with about $6,000 worth of ice from a Patagonian glacier. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/9/1074859.jpg)
![Groucho Marx began his career with a murderer. 14-year-old Groucho started out as part of a group called The Leroy Trio, headed by one Eugene Leroy - who became a wanted man years later for brutally murdering his wife. (Young Groucho was lucky - Leroy and his partner just left him stranded in Colorado.) CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/5/1074855.jpg)
![Finland's military used swastikas until 2020. The Finnish Air Force adopted the swastika in 1918 - and they kept it for decades, even after the symbol got the worst PR campaign ever in the '30s and '40s. It took about 80 years for them to realize it wasn't a good look and drop the thing. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/8/1074858.jpg)
![Duke Nukem got to keep his name because of an oversight. The most '90s video game hero debuted a couple years after Captain Planet, which had a villain with the exact same name. Luckily for Duke, the Captain Planet production company never bothered to file a trademark. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/7/1074857.jpg)
![D.B. Cooper wasn't called D.B. Cooper. The mysterious hijacker gave his name as Dan Cooper when he bought his plane ticket. Still probably fake, but he never used the initials D.B. - those came from Oregon journalist James Long, who misheard the name over the phone. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/6/1074856.jpg)
![Daredevil almost got a dog. A 1980s cartoon which was never produced planned to give Matt Murdock a seeing-eye dog, which also helped him in his superhero forays as... Lightning, the Super- Dog! (Не wasn't actually super, though-just a regular good boy.) CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/4/1074854.jpg)
![Black widow spiders don't usually eat their mate. The one thing that gives black widows their name isn't actually something they do more often than other spiders. The cannibalistic behavior tends to only be observed in caged spiders, and it rarely happens in the wild, where the male can easily get away. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/3/1074853.jpg)
![A 12-year-old fought in World War II. When a tween boy lies to his mom about what he's doing, it's usually not to pretend to be older and enlist in the Navy, but that's exactly what Calvin Graham did. His military career ended when his mom spotted him in a newsreel. By then, he had a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/2/1074852.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Great Britain got rid of their Soviet spies because one of them got drunk. You cannot beat me, Oleg Lyalin rebuked the cop who arrested him for drunk driving in 1971. I am a KGB КГБ C officer. MI5 eventually took him into custody, and got him to defect and rat out over 100 of his comrades.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/1/1074851.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Rock, papers, scissors was a sex game at one point. In the 1600s, an early form of the hand game was (somehow) used as foreplay in Japanese brothels. According to scholarly research, it seems that it especially fulfilled this role in homosexual relations.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/0/1074850.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Stan Lee tried to do smut for decades. Lee pitched a dirty comic to Playboy in the '70s, and didn't let that project's failure discourage him. Не kept pushing raunchy ideas for years, until he succeeded in the early 2000s with the cartoon Stripperella, starring Pamela Anderson.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/9/1074849.jpg)
![The water in Titanic contains traces of actors' pee. If you're shooting a James Cameron film, get ready to hold it in, because he doesn't believe in bathroom breaks. While filming Titanic, many extras just let it go in the water (also Kate Winslet, reportedly). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/8/1074848.jpg)
![The death of Robin was inspired by Saturday Night Live. Batman: A Death in the Family famously let readers decide Jason Todd's fate - a move DC lifted from an SNL sketch, where Eddie Murphy asked viewers to vote on whether a lobster would be boiled or spared. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/6/1074846.jpg)
![Scotty kicked ass during D-Day. While you rarely notice it in Star Trek, James Doohan was missing a finger - according to him, he gave it to Hitler. Lt. Doohan led an infantry unit as they stormed Juno beach, and the German couldn't stop him-it was friendly fire that wounded him. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/7/1074847.jpg)
![One of the Titanic's survivors was dubbed The Unsinkable Molly Brown. After the Titanic's disaster, she got highly involved in women's and worker's rights, and acquired a reputation. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/5/1074845.jpg)
![In an Indian park, rangers are legally allowed to shoot people hunting rhinos. Which led to rangers killing 20 people in Kaziranga park in 2015 - fewer rhinos got killed by poachers that year. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/4/1074844.jpg)
![Bees are known as hive animals, but there are also species of solitary bees. These bees sting only rarely, and male solitary bees can't sting you at all. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/3/1074843.jpg)
![Pizza Hut delivered a pizza to space. Pizza-Hut BODY adidas lies The company paid $1 million for the promotional gesture of sending pizza to the International Space Station. The pizza had salami instead of pepperoni due to the meat's shelf-life. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/2/1074842.jpg)
![A parasite fungus disintegrates cicadas butts and then makes them super-horny. The fungus replaces their butt with a blob-like mass of, well, fungus, and makes males seek out other males for sex (to spread the virus). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/1/1074841.jpg)
![The first woman in space was sent in a ship that wasn't programmed to descend Ground control was able to send and install a new program which allowed her to safely return. They also forgot to give her a toothbrush. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/0/1074840.jpg)
![Clara the rhinoceros inspired songs, poems, and fashion In the 18th century, Clara toured Europe to the delight of many people who had never seen a rhino before. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/9/1074839.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/8/1074838.jpg)
![Indigenous tribes who paint their bodies protect themselves from insect-borne diseases. Striped body paint provides protection against blood-sucking insects. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/7/1074837.jpg)
![The Treaty of Versailles took away Bayer's trademarks on Aspirin and Heroin. That applied in the U.S., UK, and France. Bayer is a German company, and this was one of the consequences of Germany's defeat. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/6/1074836.jpg)
![One man rescues cats in Fukushima's nuclear zone. Sakae Kato stayed behind when the 2011 Fukushima earthquake happened, and now he saves cats abandoned by their former owners. He's currently looking after 41 cats, and says I want to make sure I am here to take care of the last one. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/5/1074835.jpg)
![Vincent van Gogh's gun sold for $182,000 The weapon believed to be used in his suicide sold for double what was expected. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/4/1074834.jpg)
![A Canadian conservation officer was fired for refusing to kill bear cubs. In 2015, he was sent to kill a black bears that had entered a mobile home - - he killed a female black bear, but not her cubs, since they weren't seen eating food. Не got fired for not following orders, and fought that decision for years. Не only won in 2020. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/3/1074833.jpg)
![Female trout fake orgasms. During trout sex, the male and female both quiver, and release the egg and sperm at the same time. But sometimes, the female doesn't release her eggs, so she can keep them for another mate (plus, having more fake orgasms apparently attracts more male trout). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/2/1074832.jpg)
![The plane wreck in Tenet was filmed by wrecking an actual Boeing 747. Turns out that option was cheaper than CGI or miniatures. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/1/1074831.jpg)
![We've only known that other galaxies exist for 100 years. Before 1920, we just figured the Milky Way contained every star in the universe. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/0/1074830.jpg)
![A man tried to rob a woman standing outside her apartment in Rio. U The woman turned out to be ММА fighter Polyana Viana, who kept him handily subdued until the cops arrived. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/2/8/1074828.jpg)
![Bob Marley gave his friend Vincent Ford a songwriting credit on several songs, including No Woman, No Cry. Marley knew any royalties would be used to keep the soup kitchen Vincent Ford ran open. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/2/9/1074829.jpg)