31 Random Bits of Trivia We Scaled a Cliff and Stole Out of an Eagle’s Nest
A few talon scratches on the face was totally worth it!
![31 Random Bits of Trivia We Scaled a Cliff and Stole Out of an Eagle’s Nest](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/2/1/1118021_320x180.jpg)
The higher-ups at Cracked like to make us work for our facts. On one hand, we totally understand that the hard-to-reach facts tend to be more interesting. But on the other, we’d love a much easier day. Like, just let us find random facts under some couch cushions for once, would ya?
We know they’ll read that, because they have to edit it before publishing. We’ll see how receptive they are. For now, here are some facts that we bled for.
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![People used to think that witches could actually shapeshift into cats. Apparently that's why one pope said that the cat was the devil's favourite animal and idol of all witches. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/0/1110360.jpg)
![During the filming of Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Robin Williams improvised constantly. So much so that there were PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 edits of the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/1/1110361.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/3/5/9/1110359.jpg)
![The dial code of the Czech Republic is 420, and the country is among the highest users of cannabis in the world. During an appearance on The $100,000 Pyramid, Snoop knew that fact without delay. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/8/1110358.jpg)
![In 2006, suspected serial murderer Ricky Simonds was found dead of heatstroke in the trunk of his ex-girlfriend's car. Investigators theorized he became locked in as he lay in wait to ambush and kill her. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/7/1110357.jpg)
![In 1979, programmers working for Atari met with the CEO and demanded the company treat them more like musicians, with access to royalties & credit on packaging. Natural - as - - OIG DOG zero NTED HOUSE The CEO refused, stating that anyone can do a cartridge. The programmers left and started Activision. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/6/1110356.jpg)
![Stephen Hawking is buried between Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, at Westminster Abbey. During the burial, the European Space Agency beamed recordings of Hawking's voice to the nearest black hole. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/5/1110355.jpg)
![Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones never met while making Star Wars. Their first face-to-face meeting was in 2014 on The Big Bang Theory. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/4/1110354.jpg)
![U.S. government advice for running from bears says you shouldn't sacrifice your friends. A set of recommendations from the National Park Service cautions against pushing down a friend who's slower than you (even if you think the friendship has run its course). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/3/1110353.jpg)
![There's a Guinness World Record for farthest distance walking barefoot on Lego bricks. OI and RAY'S BIG EYE STUDIO and PHOTOGRAPHY GUINNESS OFFICIAL WORLD CORDS ATTEMPT Bricks of Farthest ce Wait ... It's 5.1 kilometers, or 3.15 miles. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/2/1110352.jpg)
![Garfield phones have been washing up on a French beach for decades. It took 35 years to solve the mystery, and it turned out that they were coming from a container that fell off a cargo ship and got lodged in a coastal cave. At high tide, the water would carry some of the phones out of the cave. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/1/1110351.jpg)
![Roy Lichtenstein directly reproduced from comic artists I DONT CARE/ TO RATHER SINK THAN CALL BRAD FOR HELP/ His paintings sell for milliions, while the original artists struggled to make end's meet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/0/1110350.jpg)
![Warner Brothers makes $1 billion a year from syndicating Friends. Tapes ME CLOOKO Each of the main cast members gets 2% of that, or $20 million a year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/9/1110349.jpg)
![Prehistoric painters used burnt bones to make black pigment. They also used charcoal for black. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/8/1110348.jpg)
![Adult lions kill so many cubs, they cause up to 25% of all cub deaths. That happens when a new group of male lions takes over a pride - they kill all the lion cubs. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/7/1110347.jpg)
![Vitamin с doesn't prevent the common cold. It might, however, help with physical exertion or exposure to cold. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/6/1110346.jpg)
![Lord Byron wasn't allowed to have a dog at university so he got a bear While at Trinity College, the poet was upset that students were forbidden from keeping dogs, so he proved a point by acquiring a pet bear. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/4/1110344.jpg)
![North Korea's military used Bitcoin to steal over half a billion dollars. They stole it from online trading platforms in 2017 and 2018, and used blockchain technology (the basis of Bitcoin) to be able to do it undetected. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/3/1110343.jpg)
![One cicada species has. a sense of time that's SO good, you could set your clock by it. It's called the six o'clock cicada, lives in the forests of Borneo, and it got its name because it starts to sing at exactly six o'clock in the evening. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/5/1110345.jpg)
![The death of the universe will be very, very dark and lonely. The last stars to explode will be so far apart, it'll be physically impossible for light to travel from one to the other, so none will see the others explode. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/2/1110342.jpg)
![Dragonflies used to be much more dragon than fly. 300 million years ago, they had a wingspan of 2.5 feet, and they ruled the skies - - there were no birds back then. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/1/1110341.jpg)
![After filming Guardians of the Galaxy, they had to melt down the Kyln set and sell off the steel. That was the only way to make the budget for the Kyln scenes work. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/0/1110340.jpg)
![People with sexsomnia perform sexual acts while asleep. It's like sleepwalking but, well, horny. People who suffer from it might, say, masturbate or thrust their hips during sleep - and in the morning, they'll have no idea they did that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/7/1110337.jpg)
![James Stewart's despair in It's A Wonderful Life was real. When his character, George Bailey, ends up in a restaurant and, full of despair, calls to God, Stewart felt the loneliness, the hopelessness of people who had nowhere to turn, and started sobbing. Director Frank Capra, a big fan of spontaneous performances, was thrilled. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/9/1110339.jpg)
![Every year, Halifax, Nova Scotia sends a Christmas tree to the city of Boston. It's to thank Boston for help when Halifax was devastated by a freighter blowing up in 1917 - - the largest man-made explosion at the time. Boston sent a 500-bed hospital unit, 30 doctors, 70 nurses, and tons of medical supplies, and raised $100,000 in just the first hour of fundraising. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/8/1110338.jpg)
![The U.S. Interstate system exists partly thanks to Eisenhower's WWII experiences. During and after WWII, Germany's four-lane highways were probably the best in the world, and Eisenhower used them to move troops and travel across the country. So he thought four-lane highways were a great transport system, and fought hard for the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/6/1110336.jpg)
![All freshwater fish kind of come from duck poop. The first fish in a new pond or pool come from eggs eaten by ducks. 0.2% of the eggs come out of the duck's other end intact -- a really low percentage, but ducks are very abundant, so a swarm of ducks moving to a new pond will leave enough eggs to populate it with fish. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/4/1110334.jpg)
![The rain in Singin' in the Rain wasn't milk. It was just really good lighting and filming -- they lit it from behind, making sure you couldn't see all the lighting equipment in the shopfronts' windows. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/3/1110333.jpg)
![Someone pranked Bobby Flay while he was getting his star on the Walk of Fame. BOBBY PLAY Rella 3OBBY FLAY During the ceremony, a plane with a banner that said cheater flew overhead. His wife, who he was divorcing at the time, absolutely denied being behind that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/1/1110331.jpg)
![Keira Knightley had a small role in The Phantom Menace (that she mostly can't remember). She was 12, and played Padmé's body double / decoy. All she remembers from that is the headache she got from one of the headdresses they gave her, and falling asleep while sitting on a chair in the background. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/0/1110330.jpg)
![Some of the wolves that show up in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping were direwolves in Game of Thrones. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/5/1110335.jpg)