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32 Random Bits of Trivia to Slop Into a Dish and Slow-Cook in Your Noggin Like a Nice Casserole

June 02, 2024

Thanks for having us. We didn’t know what to bring, so we just whipped up this list from random facts we found in the fridge. A bottle of wine would’ve been the safer choice, but we wanted to go the great aunt route and make something questionable.

Who knows? Maybe facts about robot monkeys and bean-related crimes will taste good together. Either way, you have to try some. We’re watching closely. And anything less than an “mmm, that’s so yummy” will offend us greatly.

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WEIRD WORLD To get around mask restrictions, a Texas school changed its dress code. The governor banned mask mandates, so the Paris Independent School District just made face coverings part of its dress code. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One of the first things the Taliban did in Kabul was, uh ... ride bumper cars. (illustration) Soon after the Taliban took Kabul, videos appeared of them riding around in electric bumper cars (and play horses) in an amusement park. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Larry David and Alan Dershowitz fought in a Martha's Vineyard grocery store. It was about Dershowitz' work with the Trump admin, and he said We can still talk, Larry, but David said No. No. We really can't. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A guy in Yakima, Wahington drove his SUV into a river on purpose. HQH-977 (illustration) Emergency crews showed up at the scene, but the driver told them he'd replaced the thermostat in the car and he needed to fill his radiator with water. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A theatre accidentally ordered hundreds of sausages instead of wigs. The London theatre wanted Frank-n-Furter wigs for a Rocky Horror Show performance, but they got 416 sausages (in 52 cans) instead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A dead body in Tulsa, OK, turned out to be alive and apparently just resting. (illustration) Firefighters and cops went to recover a body that had washed up on a sandbar, but the body soon just got up and walked away. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A Miami Beach couple faked their kids' vaccination cards for a Hawaii trip. And they only got found out because their kids were too young to get vaccinated, so the cards immediately looked suspicious. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A giant rubber duck appeared in a Maine city, and nobody knows why. (illustration) The duck is 25 feet tall, has the word Joy in large letters, and showed up in Belfast, Maine. It's not clear at all who put it there, or why. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A cat's meowing saved the life of her 83-year-old owner in Cornwall, England. (illustration) The woman fell into a ravine, and people went searching for her - and they found her because someone heard a cat loudly meowing near where she fell. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Police in a UK town are on the lookout for people committing bean-related crimes. In Wonersh, somebody has been pouring beans (and other food) onto people's front doors and cars overnight, and cops are trying to get to the bottom of it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A massive snake showed up in a supermarket in Sydney, Australia. (illustration) Luckily, one of the people around was a former snake catcher, and she took the gigantic python to the bushland near the store. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The siren in The Purge was based on a sound from Spielberg's War of the Worlds. The big tripod creature's sound was the one movie sound that freaked out James DeMonaco, so he asked his sound guys to base the siren on that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A species of fish can basically completely hibernate for up to five years in total. The African lungfish doesn't need food or water during that time and lives in a state of suspended animation, only waking up when water is around. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The original London Bridge was dismantled and moved to Lake Havasu, Arizona. An Arizona businessman bought it, thinking it'd make a great tourist attraction. They numbered each of the 10,276 blocks before taking it apart. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The world's heaviest carrot is basically a revolting, misshapen monstrosity. The vegetable, which looks like horror movie scenery, weighs 22.44 pounds, and it was grown by a man from Minnesota named Christopher Qualley. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A group of monkeys grieved over a robot monkey's baby death in a BBC documentary. (illustration) The doc put the (very convincing) robot in a group of monkeys, one of whom accidentally dropped it so it lay motionless. They all started grieving. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Driverless elevators became popular due to the 1945 elevator operator's strike. Elevators mostly had operators then -- but the strike kept about 1.5 million people from getting to work, so the elevator industry soon made changes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Support yachts are an increasingly popular thing among the super-rich. They carry all the sailboats, jet skis, seaplanes and so on that don't fit on the main yacht, and they're sometimes as flashy as the main yachts themselves. CRACKED.COM — Source

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As a prank, teenagers left glasses on a museum floor .. people thought it was art. The teenagers left the glasses in San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art in 2016, and then filmed people taking photos of them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Boston has a museum devoted to a collection a woman gathered over 30 years Isabella Gardner filled several warehouses with odd objects from foreign lands, then opened a museum. Anyone named Isabella gets in for free. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The rap battle scenes in the Shelter in 8 Mile weren't actually shot there. The movie was shot in Detroit, but they didn't use the real Shelter -- for exterior shots, for example, they dressed up a place a few blocks away. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The original ending for Snake Eyes had a tidal wave washing away the villain. Brian De Palma's thinking was that you need God to come down and blow it all away, but audiences didn't like the idea at all. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Colorado River has not flowed into the ocean since 1998. CRACKED.COM The Colorado originates in the Rocky mountains and tra- verses seven US states be- fore reaching Mexico, where it is supposed to flow on- wards to the Sea of Cortez. Instead, the river is dammed at the US-Mexico border. — Source

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Italian cowboys challenged Buffalo Bill when his troupe toured in Italy. CRACKED.COM The Butteri, led by Au- gusto Imperiali, chal- lenged his troupe in 1890 when they came around - and won, proving far more expe- rience. — Source

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No species of centipede has exactly 100 legs. GRAGKED.COM Despite the name, centi- pedes can have a vary- ing number of legs, ranging from 30 to 382. Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs. — Source

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Disney built a temporary theater just to show 'Fantasia/2000.' FANTASIA 2000 CRACKED.COM When the only IMAX theater in Central L.A. couldn't meet the demands of Disney to showcase the very first ani- mated IMAX movie, Fanta- sia/2000, Disney spent $4 million to build a theater to show it. — Source

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A boy raised by wolves lived among other humans in the 19th century. CRACKED COM Dina Sanichar was a feral child, born in 1861, and dis- covered by a group of hunt- ers among wolves in a cave in India. Не went on to live among other humans for over twenty years, but never learned to speak. — Source

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Xerox holds the patent for Ethernet. CRACKED.COM The idea was first docu- mented in a memo that Robert Metcalfe wrote in 1973, where he named it after an omnipresent, completely-passive medi- um for the propagation of electromagnetic waves. — Source

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Wheeler, Virginia is closer to the capital of 9 other states than it is to its own state capital. SE ... VII 192 - Herlb Cardin GRACKED.COM It is the southwestern- most populated place in Virginia, at the very tip of Virginia's west stretching arm, 411 miles away from Rich- mond. — Source

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Thomas Wise used his reputation as a legit collector of first editions to create and sell forgeries. CRACKED.COM Wise was a keen collector of first editions in original con- dition dating back to Elizabe- than era and given an honor- ary М.А. by University of Ох- ford. Не created and sold forgeries of nearly 300 works of English authors. — Source

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A Michelin star restaurant in Norway is completely underwater. CRACKED.COM Half-sunken into the sea, the building's 34-meter long monolithic form breaks the surface of the water to rest direct- ly on the seabed five meters below. — Source

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Pearls are created when an irritant enters a mollusc's shell. CRACKED.COM The mollusc secretes ara- gonite and conchiolin that creates nacre (aka mother of pearl) which encases the irritant (such as a parasite, sand, or other debris). — Source

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