36 Random Bits of Trivia We Harvested From the Dark Side of the Moon
These bright, shiny facts were easy to find
![36 Random Bits of Trivia We Harvested From the Dark Side of the Moon](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/8/1115528_320x180.jpg)
Since we've previously found facts in the far reaches of the universe, going to the moon was nothing. Sure, it gets a little chilly up there, but we had received a hot tip about some hot facts. And hot they were. In fact, they were like little campfires scattered about. They lit the way and kept us warm.
Don’t get us wrong, we would’ve frozen in the dark for them, too, but the ease and comfort was nice. Something you’ll soon see — and feel.
![Cicadas have wings with antibacterial patterns. GRACKED COM The nanopattern made of nano pillars that make up the wings of a cicada shreds bacteria membrane, making their wings a chemical-free antibacterial.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/3/1107133.jpg)
![Dr. Joyce Brothers was too smart to get kicked off of 'The $64,000 Question.' GRAGKED.COM The shows' sponsor, Revlon, tried to get rid of Joyce since she didn't wear makeup on air. She was asked increas- ingly obscure questions in an attempt to trip her up, but she went on to be the show's first female top prize winner.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/2/1107132.jpg)
![A Turkish mother received an honorary degree after reading lecture notes to her blind daughter. CRACKED COM The University of Sa- karya gave Havva Merve Kul an honorary degree after she spent four years helping her blind daughter, Berru, with her law degree.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/1/1107131.jpg)
![Someone actually managed to cash one of those junk mail checks for $95,000. I THE . DELL flavor so SWEET 6LVS S . SO AFFORDABLE I WHEEL SALES 2 Gre ك OCAL OSELECT REKART OITO CRACKED.COM Patrick Combs received the $95,093.35 check in his junk mail and thought it would be funny to deposit it. To his sur- prise, the check cleared 10 days later, and the bank couldn't take it back since they missed their own legal deadline.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/0/1107130.jpg)
![Luke Perry was buried in a 'mushroom suit! CRACKED COM The Infinity Burial Suit is a biodegradable mush- room burial suit that al- lows bodies to rejoin na- ture by being digested as energy for growing organisms.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/9/1107129.jpg)
![A Titanic survivor won the Wimbledon Men's Doubles in 1920. CRACKED COM Dick Williams spent over 6 hours waist deep in freez- ing water after the Titanic disaster, and rescue doc- tors wanted to amputate both of his legs. Williams refused, and went on to be a tennis champion.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/8/1107128.jpg)
![Dana Carvey won a lawsuit against a hospital when the wrong artery was operated on during a heart bypass surgery. GRACKED.COM Carvey won $7.5 mil- lion when the surgeon worked on a healthy artery, and not the blocked one. The legal winnings were all do- nated to charity.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/7/1107127.jpg)
![In 1986, Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of tiny Carmel, California. One of his first official acts was to repeal a city ban on selling ice cream cones. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/6/1107126.jpg)
![Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes 24 hours apart. Presumed dead after the second, he emerged from the jungle with a bottle of gin & some bananas. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/5/1107125.jpg)
![In 1971, Sylvester Stallone sold his dog, Butkus, for $40 to buy food. After selling the script for Rocky, he bought him back for $15,000. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/4/1107124.jpg)
![A Virginia couple with the last name Null has a tough time filling out online forms. ! Error try again click here for more information Often, they're flagged for being null. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/3/1107123.jpg)
![1846: A snail from Egypt was thought dead so it was glued to an index card and put on display in a British museum. 1850: The snail starts moving and is found to be alive. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/2/1107122.jpg)
![Two people have fallen from the Empire State Building and lived. They both fell from the 86th floor and landed on the 85th. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/0/1107120.jpg)
![Tokyo Drift couldn't secure certain permits but filmed scenes anyway. REGARO Universal Studios hired a fall guy to go to jail instead of the director. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/1/1107121.jpg)
![Biologists don't fully understand how eels reproduce. No one has ever seen how they spawn. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/9/1107119.jpg)
![James Bond first appeared in 1953 and through all the books & movies... On HER MAJESTYS SECRET SERVICE There has been one monarch of Britain: Queen Elizabeth II. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/8/1107118.jpg)
![Two donkeys together for 10 years at a Polish ZOO were separated because of complaints they were mating in front of children. A petition with 7,000 signatures reunited them. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/7/1107117.jpg)
![Iconic Captain America #1, with Cap punching Hitler, came out a year before the U.S. entered WWII. Jewish creators Joe Simon & Jack Kirby received death threats, but the mayor of New York pledged protection. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/6/1107116.jpg)
![The Avengers: Endgame plot grew out of a throwaway comment. The Russo brothers couldn't figure out what to do with Thanos, as he was super powerful and could beat the Avengers easily. One day, producer Trinh Tran said Kind of really wish we could just kill him, which gave the Russos a totally new idea. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/5/1107115.jpg)
![Rutger Hauer thinks Deckard is the bad guy in Blade Runner. Не gets a gun pointed at his head and then he f***S a dishwasher, and then he falls in love with her. It doesn't make any sense, Hauer says. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/4/1107114.jpg)
![The deepest man-made hole on Earth is 7.5 miles deep. It's the USSR's Kola Superdeep Borehole, and its deepest part is nine inches in diameter but reaches a third of the way down the continental crust. One of the Borehole researchers' most amazing finds was two-billion-year-old rocks with intact organic compounds inside. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/3/1107113.jpg)
![Koala fingerprints are nearly identical to human ones. At one point, Australian authorities were even concerned that koala fingerprints might have messed up criminal investigations. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/2/1107112.jpg)
![In Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Ego's planet is based on fractal artwork. The filmmakers brought on Hal Tenny, who makes Mandelbrot set art, as a visual consultant. They based much of Ego's core, landscape, and the structures on the planet, on his concepts. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/1/1107111.jpg)
![We almost got a Sofia Coppola adaptation of The Little Mermaid. Her version was supposed to adapt the original fairy tale, and she wanted to shoot underwater. They did some underwater shooting tests, but she left the project when too much money started pouring in, because she couldn't make the movie she wanted to make. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/0/1107110.jpg)
![OK Computer got its name from a random Hitchhiker's Guide line. RADIOHEAD Lost Child Lost Chile x The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy contains the line OK, computer, I want full manual control now, and Thom Yorke just used the first two words. The whole album is really f*****g geeky. I was kind of a geek when I was a kid, unashamedly so, NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/9/1107109.jpg)
![On the Western Front of WWI, both sides regularly scheduled truces for meals and bathroom breaks. At least Germans did this a lot with the French and British - but very rarely with Canadians, as Canadians were incredibly bloodthirsty. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/8/1107108.jpg)
![Three men survived for 16 days in a sunken battleship after the Pearl Harbor attack. They were only found when the battleship was salvaged six months later - - next to their bodies was a calendar with 16 days crossed off. The Navy didn't tell their families how long they'd survived. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/7/1107107.jpg)
![Ghostbusters got its name almost accidentally. Columbia couldn't get the rights to the name from Universal, since there was an old TV show called The Ghost Busters. By chance, an exec involved with the movie left Columbia during production and became head of Universal, and he let Columbia use the name. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/5/1107105.jpg)
![Theodore Roosevelt was surprisingly progressive for his day. In his Harvard undergrad thesis, he said there was no question that women should have equal rights with men, and he didn't think married women should assume their husband's name. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/1/1107101.jpg)
![In Russia, complaining about winter is considered unpatriotic. The winter saved the country from two major invasions, so extreme cold is something to be thankful for, the thinking goes. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/6/1107106.jpg)
![Put together, all the plastic on Earth has more mass than all the animals (on both land and sea). AND H NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/3/1107103.jpg)
![The Star Wars film set provoked official concern from the Libyan government. The sandcrawler set looked like it might be a military vehicle, so Libyan authorities had to inspect it to make sure it was really just for a movie. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/9/1107099.jpg)
![There's a Lorax parody called Truax (from the National Wood Flooring Association). In Truax, the title character is a tree logger (and a good guy) who's harassed by Guardbark, a kind of environmental activist (and definitely a bad guy). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/4/1107104.jpg)
![Disney made the Lion King video game almost impossibly hard on purpose. Renting video games was super popular at the time, so Disney asked the developers to make the game too hard to beat in a rental period. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/2/1107102.jpg)
![Sea cucumbers have a weird defense mechanism-they eject their organs. Somehow, that's supposed to deter any predators --and it happens in response to, say, being prodded. They just regrow the organs later. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/0/1107100.jpg)
![In a strangely meta twist, KitKats are actually made up of other KitKats. Nestle KitKat DARK 70% SCHIDE AICI . TEAR HERE 22 kcal Cu ciocolata neagra have DARK The KitKats' filling is actually just ground-up older KitKats. Apparently, taking broken-up KitKats and turning them into fillings is called re-work. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/8/1107098.jpg)