29 Random Bits of Trivia That Are the Eye of Newt to Your Toe of Frog
These facts are your good day’s missing ingredient
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These facts are the Cory to your Topanga, the Jim to your Pam, and the what’s his name to the what’s her name from The Notebook. We know it was Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, but we’re blanking on their characters’ names and don’t have time to Google it. It took us a little longer to find these facts than usual, so we’re hustling to get them out there.
All of which is to say, they’re what you need, okay? They’ll complete you. Ooh, they’re the Jerry Maguire to that single mom he likes!
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![ROBIN WILLIAMS LOVED LEGEND OF ZELDA so MUCH, НЕ NAMED HIS DAUGHTER AFTER IT. CRACKED They would both go on to star in a commercial for the game in 2011.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/7/6/1095076.jpg)
![THE 70S OIL CRISIS FORCED THE WHITE HOUSE TO LET WOMEN WEAR PANTS. GRACKED The White House repealed the skirts-only rule for ladies when they had to turn off the heat in the winter and let the women cover their legs.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/7/5/1095075.jpg)
![THINKING ABOUT FOOD MIGHT HELP YOU EAT LESS OF IT. GRACKED In one study, participants who thought about their lunch were less likely to overeat cookies given to them by researchers.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/7/4/1095074.jpg)
![MOST OF THE INNUENDOS ON NEW GIRL WERE WRITTEN TO PLACATE THE NETWORK'S CENSORS. ODEEN GRACKED Because the show was aired on network television, the writers had to get creative around weird rules. For example, they could only say penis 5 times in one episode.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/7/3/1095073.jpg)
![IN 1923, A JOCKEY DIED WHILE WINNING A HORSE RACE. 12 L'ANNOS GRACKED Не died as a result of heart disease which was brought on by rapidly losing weight in order to win the race.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/7/2/1095072.jpg)
![TED LASSO WAS ORIGINALLY A CHARACTER FROM 2013 NBC SPORTS COMMERCIALS. CRACKED And even though it took almost 10 years to get the show on the air, Jason Sudeikis' soccer knowledge still only comes from Playstation.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/7/1/1095071.jpg)
![ABRAHAM LINCOLN CREATED THE SECRET SERVICE THE MORNING НЕ WAS ASSASSINATED. CRACKED However, it wouldn't have helped him much - it was originally created to stop counterfeiting.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/9/1095069.jpg)
![Y2K WAS A VERY REAL THREAT. WELCOME TO THE WILLOWE une MOUNTAIN COMMAND CENTER GRACKED Luckily, a bunch of tech nerds saw it coming and fixed the issue before anything bad happened - except for the nerds at a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, which did experience a computer crash on January 1st 2000 at 12:00 am.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/7/0/1095070.jpg)
![THE REASON BRITISH PEOPLE SOUND SMARTER TO AMERICANS ISN'T BECAUSE OF THEIR ACCENT-IT'S BECAUSE OF ONE WORD. CRACKED British people use the word right when being told new information, which, according to some studies, makes them seem like they already knew the information.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/8/1095068.jpg)
![IN THE LATE 70S, JOAN RIVERS MADE A MOVIE WHERE BILLY CRYSTAL GETS PREGNANT. CRACKED It was her only film; she mortgaged her house to make it, and it was shockingly very successful at the box office.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/7/1095067.jpg)
![NETFLIX ALMOST HAD THE WORST NAME EVER. NETFLIX INSTANT STREAMING PS3 - Dise FOR FBC NETFLIX DO NOT USE EVERY RETURN DIS TIME TO WATCH TO NETFLI INSTANTLY CRACKED When Netflix split its business between streaming and DVDS they dubbed their DVD service Qwikster. It was Qwikly changed.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/6/1095066.jpg)
![During the French Revolution, radicals tried to introduce two competing religions. CRACKED.COM The atheists had the Cult of Reason, and the deists had the Cult of the Supreme Being, all to replace Christianity.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/5/1095065.jpg)
![Charlize Theron was discovered by a talent agent when she was yelling at a bank teller. CRACKED.COM The teller had refused to cash a check the 19-year-old Theron needed to pay her rent. She got the attention of a talent agent behind her, who introduced her to casting agents and an acting school.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/4/1095064.jpg)
![A type of small Australian mammal mates itself to death. CRACKED.COM The male of a tiny marsupial species called the antechinus goes into a mating frenzy once in its short life and has sex with as many females as possible until his body disintegrates.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/3/1095063.jpg)
![Queen Elizabeth had to use clothing ration coupons to pay for her wedding dress. CRACKED.COM She was given hundreds of clothing coupons by brides-to-be to help her, but she had to return the coupon gifts as it was illegal to transfer them.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/2/1095062.jpg)
![Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times. CRACKED.COM After spending three years in ninth grade due to truancy and poor grades, he dropped out of Lincoln High School at age 17.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/0/1095060.jpg)
![The FBI was told about the attack on Pearl Harbor before it happened but they ignored it. CRACKED.COM A Serbian double agent named Duško Popov knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor months before the attack.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/1/1095061.jpg)
![Violent crime in the US and Europe was at its highest in areas with the most lead pollution. CRACKED.COM Violent crime peaked 20 years after lead additives in petrol and paint were banned, before declining thereafter.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/9/1095059.jpg)
![In 1920, the town of Jackson, Wyoming elected an all-female town council. CRACKED.COM The petticoat rulers won by a margin of 2-1 over the men, drawing the most voters the town had ever seen. They served for 3 years and did a great deal to clean up the notoriously lawless town.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/8/1095058.jpg)
![There is little historical evidence that ball-and-chain flails ever saw widespread use. CRACKED COM A spiked ball at the end of a chain is a 'ball and chain flail,' not a morning star (which has spikes but no chain).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/7/1095057.jpg)
![Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time with 2 billion books sold. CRACKED.COM Her estate claims she ranks 3rd overall, behind Shakespeare's works and the Bible. She is the most-translated author with works in at least 103 languages.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/6/1095056.jpg)
![The Veryovkina Cave in the country of Georgia is the world's deepest cave. CRACKED.COM Since 1982, a team known as Perovo-speleo has been researching and going deeper and deeper. In 2021, at over half a mile down, they found the body of a tourist.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/5/1095055.jpg)
![Ingesting enough apple seeds can kill you. CRACKED COM When metabolized in the digestive system, the chemical contained in apple seeds degrades into highly poisonous hydrogen cyanide. Fortunately you would need to chew up thousands of seeds in one sitting to be at risk.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/4/1095054.jpg)
![14,000 pieces of space junk are being tracked in Earth's orbit. CRACKED.COM The U.S. Space Surveillance Network tracks pieces of floating debris larger than 4 inches in diameter, made up of defunct satellites and rocket stages.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/3/1095053.jpg)
![Hippopotomonstrosesquippe daliophobia is the fear of long words. CRACKED.COM The American Psychiatric Association doesn't officially recognize the phobia, which for some reason is one of the longest words in the dictionary.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/2/1095052.jpg)
![Water boils at a different temperature at the top of Mt. Everest. CRACKED.COM The boiling point for water at the top of Mt. Everest is 162°F, about 50 degrees below the boiling point at sea level.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/1/1095051.jpg)
![Ralph Breaks The Internet animators had to have meetings about what certain Disneyprincesses-pars looked like. en you CRACKED COM Fare Cinderella, for example, never showed her ears in her film. Another hurdle was determining how tall each princess was compared to each other.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/8/1095048.jpg)
![Decaffeinated coffee is made by literally washing the caffeine off of the beans. GRACKED.COM The most-common methods of decaffeination involves steaming and then rinsing coffee beans repeatedly with a chemical solvent to flush away the caffeine.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/0/1095050.jpg)
![Daylight Savings Time was changed to sell more candy. CRACKED.COM Lobbyists in 2007 pushed to get an extra hour of daylight for trick-or-treaters, so Daylight Savings Time jumped from the last Sunday in October to the first Sunday in November.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/9/1095049.jpg)