30 Trivia Tidbits Hiding in Plain Sight
Missed one! Missed another one! Man, you gotta keep your eyes peeled out here!
![30 Trivia Tidbits Hiding in Plain Sight](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/9/1085789_320x180.jpg)
Ignorance is bliss, so it must feel pretty gloomy to now know that you’re losing a game that you didn’t even know you were playing.
Ha! You should see your face!
Luckily, because of some crafty creators who like sprinkling in their own secretive brand of fun, this game will probably be played for a long, long time. So shake it off and finally get wise to being on the lookout for all kinds of fun little Easter eggs like these.
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![CRACKED Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors contains one of the art world's better-known but also super-rad Easter eggs - a mysterious diagonal blur on the floor is actually a giant skull that only becomes clear if you stand way off to the right.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/7/1082707.jpg)
![CRACKED Giotto's 13th century frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi had a hidden secret for centuries - nobody could get up high enough to spot a side-on portrait of Satan hidden in the clouds.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/6/1082706.jpg)
![CRACKED The Adoration of the Magi places multiple well-known figures of the time around Christ, including the powerful Medici family and the guy who commissioned the painting. The dude on the far right looking straight at us? Botticelli himself, showing off.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/5/1082705.jpg)
![CRACKED Raphael's The School of Athens is hella dense, featuring 52 characters. The setting is also quite something: it's modeled on the architectural plans for St. Peter's Basilica, which wouldn't be finished for another century - like a renaissance CGI walkthrough.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/4/1082704.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM THE BRONX ZOO Between the giraffe legs in the logo of the Bronx Zoo, is New York's iconic skyline from the point of view of a park in the Bronx.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/3/1082703.jpg)
![Many cathedrals have a cruciform plan; that is, if CRACKED.COM you see them from above (as God would), they look like a cross. Washington National Chartres Cathedral, Cathedral, USA France Peterborough Amiens Cathedral, Cathedral, UK France](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/2/1082702.jpg)
![The smiley face of the Goodwill Industries logo GOODWI BOY'S SHIERS goodwill CRACKED.COM is also the g in the beginning of the nonprofit company's name.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/1/1082701.jpg)
![The gold and blue swishes around Dairy Queen's symmetrical ellipse BLIZZARD represents the food it serves. DQ The gold signifies the hot foods and the blue signifies the soft-serve treats. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/4/1082694.jpg)
![A luxury apartment sits at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Gustave Eiffel had it built for himself when the tower went up, and kept it secret for a long time. He'd get offered crazy sums for a night in it, but always said no. It didn't open to the public until 2015, 90 years after he died. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/8/1082698.jpg)
![The clock tower Harry Potter flew over has a fancy apartment. Inside the St. Pancras clock tower, there's an apartment with ridiculously high ceilings and two bedrooms. Unfortunately, since it's literally on top of a train station, neither bedroom can give you a good night's sleep. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/9/1082689.jpg)
![Disney World is hiding an abandoned island. Disney used it as a wildlife observatory, but shut it down in 1999 when they opened Animal Kingdom and moved all the animals there. Today, it's an overgrown jungle of empty animal cages, ruled by vultures (the actual kind, not the cartoon Disney kind). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/2/1082692.jpg)
![There's a creepy secret chamber inside Mt. Rushmore. Its sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, wanted Mt. Rushmore to have a Hall of Records, where historic American documents would be stored. When he died in 1941, it was unfinished. In 1998, the government put a sealed titanium vault with copies of important documents in there. So he kinda got his wish. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/7/1082697.jpg)
![The Washington Monument has a tiny, hidden twin. A 12-foot replica of the Monument is buried right next to it. It was built in the 1880s as a surveyor's tool-they'd use its scale to verify readings. The ground level rose over time, and the Mini Monument was encased in a tube, buried, and forgotten. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/9/1082699.jpg)
![Radio City Music Hall has a swanky apartment. Radio City built it for its first impresario, Samuel Roxy Rothafel, who had brought in a ton of top-shelf acts. It became his bachelor pad and party venue. And today, it could be yours - it's been kept in top shape, and is up for rent. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/0/1082690.jpg)
![NOT 2018 TOSHIBA HAPPY NEW YEAS TOSHIBA OTOK HAPPY NEW YEAR A major building in Times Square is empty. It's the building where they drop the New Year's Ball - One Times Square. There's one tenant: a Walgreens on the ground floor. The building has been used as a gigantic, vacant advertising stand since 1992. It makes $23 million a year. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/1/1082691.jpg)
![CRACKED Flemish artist Clara Peeters' Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels features another incredibly subtle self-portrait - Peeters painted with such accuracy that she included herself reflected in the rim of the jug.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/5/1082695.jpg)
![CRACKED The Adoration of the Magi places multiple well-known figures of the time around Christ, including the powerful Medici family and the guy who commissioned the painting. The dude on the far right looking straight at us? Botticelli himself, showing off.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/3/1082693.jpg)
![CRACKED It wasn't until 1990 that anyone realized that in Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the cloak surrounding God and his angels is a giant brain, complete with cerebellum, optic chiasm and pituitary gland.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/6/1082696.jpg)
![CRACKED An Italian musician recently theorized that placing a musical staff across The Last Supper and treating the bread rolls as notes results in a short hymn to Jesus. Leonardo was more musical than people realize, but still, whoa, that's insane.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/6/1082686.jpg)
![CRACKED Ghirlandaio's 15th-century The Madonna with Saint Giovannino contains a baffling detail that looks a lot like a flying saucer, with a dogwalker pointing at it. It's probably not incontrovertible proof of aliens, but, you know, maybe it is.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/7/1082687.jpg)
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![Judd Apatow went full frontal in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. The Lonely Island's second movie crams in a bunch of different celebrity guest stars, but only one showed us their junk instead of their face: Judd Apatow. You'll know the scene when you see it, believe us. Perhaps it was a special treat for anyone who's complained about having to look at his face. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/0/1082700.jpg)
![There was a Beatle in Monty Python's Life of Brian. George Harrison not only donated $3 million to get this movie made, but also founded a company to produce it. And what did he get in return? 15 seconds of screen time as a random dude who breaks the fourth wall with a Liverpudlian allo, then disappears. If only they had given him a bigger role; just imagine how famous he might have been. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/4/1082684.jpg)
![HOOK Glenn Close CRACKED.COM She plays the nervous pirate who was forced into the Boo Box and introduced a generation to claustrophobia.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/8/1082688.jpg)
![GOLDEN GIRLS Quentin Tarantino CRACKED.COM Tarantino says the residuals from his role as an Elvis impersonator helped him make Reservoir Dogs.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/3/1082683.jpg)
![GEORGE LUCAS MAKES A BRIEF CAMEO IN REVENGE OF THE SITH. CRACKED.COM The director made his first Star Wars cameo in the last Star Wars movie he directed. Lucas blue himself to portray Baron Papanoida-a blue-skinned politician attending the opera.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/2/1082682.jpg)
![JOE RUSSO IS IN SEVERAL OF HIS MCU MOVIES. CRACKED.COM Russo played a doctor in The Winter Soldier, a corpse in Civil War, and one of the survivors attending Captain America's meeting group in Endgame.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/1/1082681.jpg)
![RIAN JOHNSON'S HAND IS IN THE TDC 90000 LAST JEDI. CRACKED.COM The gloved hand grabbing Han Solo's dice at the end of the movie doesn't actually belong to Mark Hamill-it's the hand of the director, Rian Johnson.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/0/1082680.jpg)
![COMEDY NERD At one point, they got an astronaut to cameo on The Big Bang Theory. It was Buzz Aldrin himself - he was in The Holographic Excitation, and he was actually the second ever astronaut to appear on the show (the first was, of course, Mike Massimino). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/9/1082679.jpg)
![ZACK SNYDER IS IN ZACK SNYDER'S JUSTICE LEAGUE. Come in We're OPEN PRESAGEN COFFEE GRACKED COM The director can be spotted inside the coffee shop Lois Lane is exiting. The location is the actual coffee shop Snyder frequented while storyboarding the film.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/8/1082678.jpg)