‘SNL’ Writer Debunks the ‘New York Times’ Story About Domingo’s Origin

40 Fresh-Faced Bits of Trivia That Dream of Getting Their Big Break on ‘Jeopardy!’

40 Athletic Bits of Sports Trivia That Brag About Their High School Varsity Days in the Beer League Dressing Room

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Beamed Directly to Your Brain by This Series of Tubes We Call the Internet

12 Pop-Culture Trivia Facts To Quell The Monday Madness

30 Complex Factoids That Evolved From Trivia Tidbits Over the Course of Millennia

These facts have traveled far and wide to get to your brain

30 Complex Factoids That Evolved From Trivia Tidbits Over the Course of Millennia

June 27, 2024

We haven’t fully wrapped our heads around the life cycle of a fact, but we’re close. We think that they begin as little nuggets of info that slowly evolve into tidbits, oddities, factoids, little-known facts and then full-blown now-you-know facts.

Scientists believe that this evolution is… You know what? We’re just going to admit that we have no idea what we’re talking about. You might honestly know better than we do, so let us know what these things are exactly.

Click right here to get the best of Cracked sent to your inbox.

30

Hackers discovered where all the children are in Elden Ring. Parry Grafted Scion One of the first tough enemies players encounter, the disgusting homunculus Grafted Scion, is a terrible assemblement of body parts under a cloak. Upon closer inspection, players discovered that it's the result of stitching a bunch of kids together. CRACKED.COM — Source

29

One woman is the voice of tons of your favorite video game heroes. TWITE Ashly Burch got her start all the way back in 2008 with a show she and her brother made called Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'? Since then, she's lent her voice to huge games like Life is Strange, Valorant, and Horizon Zero Dawn. CRACKED.COM — Source

28

Fast food restaurants keep their menu confusing to get you to spend more. BILL 10035 BELF BURG HUNGRY - REPLACE 17 JACK'S HUNGRY JACKS GOLDEN FRIES Expresso! Wraps to go LADVE FAR The Wraps $5.45 2 Wraps 2 Sousage, The jumbled mess of menu items that stare back at you are designed to not give you enough time to make a careful decision, forcing you to pick an item that catches your eye first - usually one of the more expensive ones. CRACKED.COM — Source

27

A man sued Trivial Pursuit for using his (wrong) facts. When Trivial Pursuit had a card asking What's Columbo's first name?, with the answer being Phillip, Fred L. Worth knew he had them. This is because that fact is from Fred's book Super Trivia, and it's also not true. CRACKED.COM — Source

26

Harry Markopolos warned people about Bernie Madoff, but no one would listen. The Boston financial analyst knew Madoff's results weren't possible, but between a petty rivalry between the SEC's New York and Boston offices and a staff consisting of lawyers who don't actually understand the financial industry, nothing happened. CRACKED.COM — Source

25

Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner's girlfriends had to be home by nine p.m. Otherwise, according to one woman, they were told they would have to sleep on the lawn. Breaking any rule, even once, also meant getting kicked out. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Sonic the Hedgehog

There is a mysterious, human-sized statue of Sonic The Hedgehog sitting in the woods. The Sega World Kadoma theme park in Takao, Japan closed in 2005, and the park auctioned off whatever people could carry away. A homeowner named Mr. Kadeo bought the statue to serve as a landmark guiding visitors to his house from the road. CRACKED.COM — Source

23

One indie dev's Superman demo was the highlight of the Unreal Engine 5 launch. THIS 15 OKIN WORLD MUST YOURS! The demo, by indie dev volodXYZ, shows a promising look of what-could-be, with the detailed city landscape from the Matrix Unreal demo, that wipes all memory of Superman 64 from our collective memories. CRACKED.COM — Source

22

The Navy wants to decommission 9 ships, none of them over 10 years old, that cost $4.5 billion: They're small, fast ships that were developed to chase down pirates, and are now described by the Navy as unsuitable for current needs. They want to decommission them to save on operating and maintenance costs, which they want to use to buy new, bigger ships. CRACKED.COM — Source

21

Goodwill executives make mid six figures while workers get $12.55 an hour. GOODWILL Regional Goodwill officials in California announced that they would have to cut 100 job training positions if a local measure to raise the minimum wage passed. The CEO of one branch told disabled workers they were getting fired after a minimum wage hike. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

19

Kevin Smith is selling a horror movie he made half a decade ago as an NFT. The movie, KillRoy Was Here, was filmed between 2017 and 2018 with Ringling college students and the release kept getting pushed back. In 2021 Smith announced the movie would be sold as an NFT for up to 5,555 people, including BTS material and other goodies. CRACKED.COM — Source

18

Space Invaders

Space Invaders had its own term for repetitive strain injuries in the '80s. Snacks WIN . UP TO Space Invaders Wrist was coined by one writer to the New England Medical Journal in 1981. By the following year, BBC was reporting that each family doctor typically now saw one new case of Space Invaders Wrist every month. CRACKED.COM — Source

17

The Office made a calculated decision to lean into internet culture. I always credit YouTube for changing the way we look at things, says director Paul Feig. YouTube was real life captured and you have The Office, where the humor is all behavioral. It's about how people are reacting to each other. CRACKED.COM — Source

16

School of Rock

There was a real School of Rock, that precedes the movie. NBC 1 un - ING Ministry The real School of Rock, started by Paul Green in Philadelphia, shared a lot of similarities to the movie - even down to Jack Black's look. Green considered suing, but thought the movie was ultimately good for business. CRACKED.COM — Source

15

This is the first personal photograph ever uploaded on the Internet. Les Horribles Cernettes It's a photo of a group of female singers who sang about physics during the 1989 CERN Hardronic Festival. CRACKED.COM — Source

14

Bras

The first TV commercial that showed bras on live models aired in 1987. Old commercials for bras featured women who demonstrated bras on mannequins. That changed in 1987, when Playtex released two TV ads that showed women actually wearing bras. CRACKED.COM — Source

13

eBay

The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. ebay eBay founder Pierre Omidyar disclosed in his listing that it didn't work. Yet, a bidding war ensued. His original price was $1, but he ended up selling it for $14. GRAGKED.COM — Source

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Beamed Directly to Your Brain by This Series of Tubes We Call the Internet

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are As Tantalizing As the Plump, Greasy Hot Dogs on the Rollers at 7-Eleven

49 of the Funniest Tweets from the Week of March 17, 2025

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Were Standing Right Behind You When You Were Talking About Them

25 Pop-Culture ‘Recession Indicators’ That Prove We’re in for A Market Crash

40 Myths and Misconceptions to Squeeze Out of Your Brain Like a Tube of Toothpaste

12

WEIRD WORLD Because of Google Maps, an Indonesian guy nearly married a stranger. RA. 3 MIFTAHUL TPA-TPQ JANNAH CIMANGOU KECA RT.01/11 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 — Source

11

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 — Source

10

WEIRD WORLD In a sitcom-style plot, 3 Nigerian men tried to pass as Arab women at an airport. C9-C23 C9-C2 Sem Go Carb UAE police busted them, and posted photos of them with and without their disguises. CRACKED.COM — Source

9

Meta

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 — Source

8

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 — Source

7

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 — Source

6

California has outlawed OREGON Ladies' Nights. 0024 Showle Cope Medicas Pyramid Loke No Sacromanlo SA OReno Lohe CARSON CICY (dhon Santa MENTO NEVADA San Francisco Mizzo Salinas dus oFresno Ower Cola PACIFIC CALIFORNIA Loke Mean Bakersfieldo O Las Vegas OCEAN Point Arguella Ladies' Nights are considered an illegal form of gender discrimination in California, and the penalties are steep - at least $4,000 per drink. Some California lawyers look for advertised Ladies' Nights and send over a man to buy drinks at any that they find, so they can file discrimination lawsuits with big payouts. CRACKED.COM — Source

5

As an American, It's not, at you could mistake least not in this gesture for a Britain and peace sign. Australia. If the palm is facing inward, it means up yours. Yup, that's Winston Churchill flipping you off. CRACKED.COM — Source

4

CRACKED.COM In Bulgaria, people nod to mean no and shake their heads to mean yes. NO YES — Source

3

While the rest of the world takes cars for granted, that means of transportation GRAGKED.COM isn't allowed on Mackinac Island, Michigan. People there use bicycles and horse drawn carriages. — Source

2

CRACKED.COM Openly carrying a firearm in California is prohibited. However in the neighboring states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona it's totally fine. No permit required. — Source

1

Birthday CRACKED.COM Girl The Queen's birthday is a public holiday in Australia and New Zealand, but not in England! — Source

Tags:

Visual

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

Movies & TV

Why ‘South Park’s David Blaine Parody Baffled David Blaine

Movies & TV

Lucille Ball Kick-Started Her Acting Career With A Dramatic 1980s TV Movie

Movies & TV

America’s Trade War Just Killed Kevin Smith’s New Movie

Trivia & Jokes

36 of the Funniest Tweets from Monday, March 24, 2025

Movies & TV

5 Legendary Comedy Rumors That Snopes Labeled As ‘False’

Trivia & Jokes

40 Random Bits of Trivia That’ll Wine and Dine Your Brain, But Drop It Off at A Reasonable Hour, Leaving It Wanting More

VIRAL ON CRACKED

1

36 of the Funniest Tweets from Monday, March 24, 2025

2

25 Fan (Non-Batty )Theories

3

How A Bizarre Wiretapping Scandal Ruined The 'Die Hard' Director's Career

4

An Oral History of the Cult Classic ‘EuroTrip’

5

21 Paranormal Photos That Even Unnerve Skeptics