31 Random Bits of Trivia We Had to Wait 24 Hours for Our Dog to Pass After He Ate Them Off the Sidewalk
Proof that we’ll get facts from anywhere
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When people ask us how far we’d go for our facts, we ask them to specify. Do you mean distance-wise, or what we’re willing to do to obtain them? Both answers are shockingly far. We’ve found facts in the farthest reaches of the known universe, and we’ve also done some pretty shameful things for other facts. We’d care to not relive those moments.
The facts were well worth it, though. These ones especially…
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![James Gunn's story treatment for Guardians of the Galaxy 2 included a song mix on a CD. Не kept a list of 500 songs he thought Meredith Quill would love, and referenced that list while writing the treatment and script. The CD had the songs he drew on for inspiration. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/1/0/1086810.jpg)
![Vietnam war POW Jeremiah Denton used Morse code to confirm he was being tortured. When they let a Japanese TV reporter interview him, he looked into the camera and blinked the Morse code for torture. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/9/1086809.jpg)
![MTV's Video Music Award is a Moonman because of an early MTV graphic. The channel opened with footage of an astronaut putting an MTV flag of the moon, and they replayed that every hour, at the top of the hour, for the next five years. So when they designed the VMA statue, the Moonman was the most iconic choice. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/8/1086808.jpg)
![The tradition of leaving cookies and milk for Santa became popular in the Great Depression. FOR: Santa Parents used it as a way to try and teach kids that giving to others and showing gratitude for gifts were important. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/7/1086807.jpg)
![When Breaking Bad ended, Walter White got a funeral in Albuquerque. C Around 200 people attended, and the show's set decorator, Michael Flowers, gave a eulogy. The whole thing included a procession led by not just a hearse, but also the RV from the show and a few of the Sheriff's Department deputies. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/6/1086806.jpg)
![Charlie Day turned down the sitcom Life on a Stick to do It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. - ALWONS SUNNY PHILADEL It was a major network show, and IASIP was a small project he made with his friends. Life on a Stick ended after one season, and IASIP became one of the longest-running sitcoms ever. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/5/1086805.jpg)
![Today we celebrate our Independence Day wasn't in Independence Day's script. The studio insisted that the President end his speech with that line, because they wanted to change the movie's name to Independence Day. Mentioning those words in the movie itself would help, they thought. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/4/1086804.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD An ocean cleanup crew got accused of faking it because the plastic looked fake. The plastic looked too clean, actually - so the crew were accused that they'd just staged removing it from the ocean. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/3/1086803.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A new Tennessee bill would turn some gun owners into law enforcement agents. And it's pretty open about it - it expands the definition of law enforcement officer, apparently. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/2/1086802.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD If you're a worker at Meta, you are now officially a Metamate. That's Zuck's new word for Meta employees, and it's part of the rebranding initiative at the company. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/1/1086801.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD In a sitcom-style plot, 3 Nigerian men tried to pass as Arab women at an airport. C9-C23 C9-C2 Son Gold UAE police busted them, and posted photos of them with and without their disguises. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/0/1086800.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD In California, one guy got arrested 3 times in a span of sixteen hours. Apparently, the last arrest happened at 3 AM, after police had to pursue him-they tried to cite him for jaywalking, but he fled. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/8/1086798.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD Because of Google Maps, an Indonesian guy nearly married a stranger. RA. 3 MIFTAHUL TPA-TPQ JANNAH CIMANGOU KECA RT.OI/W 2018.11 13 09:2 The app took him to the wrong wedding venue - apparently, there was both a wedding and an engagement taking place at the same village. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/9/1086799.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD The Ukrainian Ambassador to Japan posed as a Samurai warrior. It was for a message to Russia that he tweeted - and he was in full Samurai get-up, with a katana and everything. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/7/1086797.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A married couple in NYC live in separate apartments, and it's worked great. They say that it's done wonders for their marriage, and they started living apart in October. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/6/1086796.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD There's such a thing as uncombable hair syndrome, it turns out. A toddler in Georgia was diagnosed with it, and it's kind of exactly what it says on the tin - but it's extremely, extremely rare. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/5/1086795.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A 14-year-old tried to hire a hitman to kill her ex-boyfriend. And it didn't work, luckily, because she tried to do it via rentahitman.com, which is a fake website and which reported the case to the police. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/4/1086794.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD The Tinder Swindler is now setting his sights higher - on a government job. Apparently, he'd like to be the foreign minister of Israel, he said. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/3/1086793.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A British man revealed on TV that he has 50,000 balloons at home. Не also revealed a sexual obsession with balloons - on a show called, appropriately, My Strange Addiction. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/2/1086792.jpg)
![CRACKED 138 STUDENTS PROTEST BEER PRICES (BECAUSE PRIORITIES). On November 16, 1949, 138 students from the University of Ghent staged a protest at the Gravensteen Castle in Ghent, Belgium, because of a hike in beer prices. This event is fondly remembered today as The Battle of Gravensteen Castle.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/1/1086791.jpg)
![CRACKED imme in THE U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING: NOT SUITABLE FOR NUCLEAR POWER, BUT RADIOACTIVE ENOUGH. The Capitol Building in D.C. has a lot of uranium in its granite walls, which makes it so radioactive that it could never be used as a nuclear power reactor site.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/0/1086790.jpg)
![CRACKED WE'VE OUTSMARTED THE COLD (AND ALSO MOTHER NATURE). People have relied heavily on behavioral adaptation to survive in cold climates. We're a tropical species, and without inventing tools and changing our habits we'd just be hairless popsicles in places like Scandinavia.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/8/1086788.jpg)
![CRACKED COOKIE MONSTER IS LIVING A LIE. Cookie Monster's cookies are just painted rice cakes that look like real cookies. The reason is that cookies might leave oil and chocolate stains on the puppet's fabric. Right in the childhood, we know.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/9/1086789.jpg)
![CRACKED GRAY HAIR ISN'T JUST A SIGN OF AGING-IT'S A SIGN OF VITALITY. Gray hair is linked to active hair growth, as shown by the higher levels of genes and proteins that help hair grow in white hair compared to black hair. So there's that to think about next time you see more white hairs in the mirror.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/7/1086787.jpg)
![CRACKED NEBRASKA: GIVING UP KIDS SINCE 2008. In 2008, Nebraska passed a law that let parents freely give up babies they couldn't or didn't want to take care of. It was originally for babies up to 30 days old, but they changed it so it applied to any child, which led to teenagers being given up.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/4/1086784.jpg)
![CRACKED MATTEL'S NIMBUS 2000: A SHORT-LIVED HIT WITH KIDS AND ADULTS ALIKE. In 2001, Mattel released a vibrating version of Harry Potter's broomstick, the Nimbus 2000. It was a big hit, but it was quickly taken off the shelves after people on Amazon.com started talking about how popular it was among younger girls.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/5/1086785.jpg)
![CRACKED MILLIONS WATCHED A PIG GET BARBECUED (AND THE OWNER GOT DEATH THREATS). The YouTube channel Eaten Pig After 100 days had millions watching the final video, where the pig was cooked on a BBQ. The channel owner got death and bomb threats for it, despite the name of th channel making the deal 100% clear.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/3/1086783.jpg)
![CRACKED BROWN RICE: WHITE RICE'S LESS GLAMOROUS COUSIN. Brown rice is really just white rice, but the outside layer has been taken off. Washing it won't do the same thing as washing white rice, because the outside layer is still there.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/6/1086786.jpg)
![CRACKED MIKE HUGHES: FLAT EARTH BELIEVER HOISTED BY HIS OWN PETARD. Mike Hughes, a pilot who died while trying to launch a homemade rocket in the California desert, was famous for his idea that the Earth was flat. Не wanted to prove his theory by going to space - but he never got that far. H WEEPE OLI](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/2/1086782.jpg)
![CRACKED JIRO SATO TRAGICALLY DIED AT 26-DAVIS CUP DREAMS CUT SHORT. Jiro Sato, the greatest Japanese tennis player ever, died in 1934 when he jumped off a ship that was taking him to the Davis Cup. His suicide was due to the guilt he felt for not being able to meet the expectations of others.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/1/1086781.jpg)
![CRACKED TITANIC'S ICEBERG, WITH A SIDE OF RED PAINT, IMMORTALIZED. A photo of the iceberg thought to have sunk the Titanic, with red paint on it that could have been from the ship's hull, hung in the offices of Titanic owner company White Star Line for decades until the company closed up.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/0/1086780.jpg)