30 Random Bits of Trivia to Write on a Loved One’s Back in Sunscreen on a Hot Summer’s Day
Today, SPF stands for Some Proven Facts!
![30 Random Bits of Trivia to Write on a Loved One’s Back in Sunscreen on a Hot Summer’s Day](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/9/1120339_320x180.jpg)
If you’re all about fun in the sun, you can 100 percent pull up this list on your phone. On the flip side, if you’re in need of a little break from the heat, maybe dip inside for this cool list. The roof and subsequent floors beneath it are the best possible sunscreen anyway. It’s just nice that these facts can be read pretty much anywhere. So wherever you are, enjoy!
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![Michael Jordan really did wear UNC practice shorts under his jersey during games. It's not just a random bit from Space Jam - apparently, concealing those shorts was why he started wearing baggy shorts in the Chicago Bulls. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/6/1114856.jpg)
![There's a woman who pretty much lived the story of 50 First Dates in real life. Michelle Philpots, from the UK, is stuck in 1994 and can't form new memories, so she has to relearn everything every day (and sometimes, even more often). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/5/1114855.jpg)
![The famous Nickelodeon slime is actually made up of delicious ingredients. It's a mix of oatmeal, applesauce, vanilla pudding, and green food coloring - so, although it looks vile, it'd be totally safe to eat. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/4/1114854.jpg)
![CRACKED THE WORLD'S MOST ADVANCED ROBOT SUCKS AS A COMEDIAN. Created by the British company Engineered Arts, Ameca can tell a joke when asked to. An example: A robot was asked what 2 + 2 is, and it replied 4. Yeah, that's the joke. Don't quit your day job as a creepy robot, Ameca.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/3/1114853.jpg)
![CRACKED CHICAGOANS TAKE THEIR COMEDY TO AMSTERDAM. Two Chicagoans moved to Amsterdam and started the improv group Boom Chicago. They held auditions back in Chicago in the late '90s and put together a great team of comedians, including Seth Meyers, Amber Ruffin, and Jordan Peele.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/2/1114852.jpg)
![CRACKED BABIES: MASTERS OF MANIPULATION SINCE DAY ONE. Babies are experts at getting their parents to love them. Even though they can't actually smile, their cries are like a secret signal that makes adults feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Plus, babies have a special smell that makes adults feel really happy.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/1/1114851.jpg)
![CRACKED ERIC ANDRÉ WAS STARSTRUCK BY CONAN O'BRIEN'S GOOD LOOKS. André was really taken aback by how attractive O'Brien was, and he felt himself getting flustered during their conversation. Specifically, he said he became moist.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/9/1114849.jpg)
![CRACKED HEISENBERG'S MISCALCULATION SAVED THE WORLD. Werner Heisenberg, leader of the Nazis' nuclear research, thought it'd take thousands of pounds of uranium-235 to make an atomic bomb. In fact, it only needed about 100 pounds. This mistake stopped the Nazis from getting nukes.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/0/1114850.jpg)
![CRACKED KRISTEN SCHAAL TRIED TO TALK HER WAY INTO ACTING CLASSES. Schaal once put on a surprise show in the dean's office at Northwestern University in an attempt to get permission to take acting classes, which she had been denied because she was studying performance studies.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/8/1114848.jpg)
![CRACKED GUESS NO ONE'S HOME. These days, no one has been able to get a reply from any of 15 fictional character email addresses mentioned on-screen in TV shows even though, back in the day, some of those addresses sent pretty funny replies. Sic transit gloria mundi.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/7/1114847.jpg)
![GRACKED NAPOLEON'S PENIS HAD A BETTER POST- MORTEM LIFE THAN НЕ DID. It was sold to a collector of old books, and people said it was really small and shriveled. People even used it to play soccer.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/6/1114846.jpg)
![CRACKED MCDONALD'S TRIED, BUT ONION NUGGETS JUST WEREN'T NUGGET-Y ENOUGH. McDonald's Onion Nuggets Back in the '70s, McDonald's had a snack called Onion Nuggets, made from bits of onion that couldn't be shaped into rings. Unfortunately, they weren't very popular and were taken off the menu in 1984.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/5/1114845.jpg)
![CRACKED RANDY NEWMAN: TOY STORY THEME SINGER. Randy Newman won an Oscar for his song You've Got a Friend in Me from Toy Story. They always mentioned friendship. he said about the instructions he got, so he rolled with that.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/3/1114843.jpg)
![CRACKED A MAN ORGASMED TO DEATH. Charles Majawa is the only person on record to pass away from having too much pleasure - or, to use the police's exact words, of excessive orgasm.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/4/1114844.jpg)
![A lot of groundbreaking AI is actually low-paid people. Artificial intelligence is hot right now, but it's also expensive. Human workers, on the other hand, can be dirt cheap. Many Al-driven services (even robots) keep turning out to have little to no Al at all, with all the work actually done by lowly-paid contractors in developing countries. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/2/1114842.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Elephants can learn to imitate human speech. A male Asian elephant named Koshik, at South Korea's Everland Zoo, uses his trunk to change the shape of his vocal tract and produce eerily human-like sounds. Koshik's vocabulary of five words doesn't sound like a lot, but it's still better than humans can imitate elephants.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/1/1114841.jpg)
![Filing your taxes is complicated because of industry lobbying. Companies like Intuit (of TurboTax) and H&R Block are just too invested in you needing their services. That's why they keep pouring millions into preventing your taxes from getting easier to file. Then they pump out ads telling you how the only want to help you. + U.S. - Corporation INM IT'S IN CRACKED COM - 1040 U.S. Individuo - Status - Since - -](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/0/1114840.jpg)
![The Chinese government banned puns. Wordplay is common in Mandarin language - or it was until 2014, when the government disallowed puns in TV and advertisements. The rationale was ostensibly to uphold traditional values and avoid cultural and linguistic chaos. Punbelievable. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/9/1114839.jpg)
![Gamers are living regular lives on Grand Theft Auto. The most transgressive thing you can do in GTA V isn't shooting cops or pedestrians, but living a normal, unremarkable life as a law-abiding citizen - and Grand Theft Auto Roleplay is exactly about that. While the community has been around since 2019, it has become wildly popular during lockdown. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/8/1114838.jpg)
![Godzilla began as a rip-off of an American movie. When plans for a post- war drama fell through, producer Tomoyuki Tanaka decided to use the budget for a copy of the recent The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. Ray Harrysausen, who made the creature effects for The Beast, was still peeved about that decades later. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/7/1114837.jpg)
![BLOCKBUSTER® Blockbuster passed on the chance to buy Netflix. Back in 2000, a struggling Netflix kept aggressively shopping themselves to then- booming Blockbuster. But Blockbuster CEO John Antioco laughed at Netflix's pitch. The dot-com hysteria is completely overblown, he said, with epoch-making business acumen. NETFLIX CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/6/1114836.jpg)
![Mötley Crüe demand a boa during their tours. A usual request in Mötley Crüe's tour contracts is a list of local AA venues, which makes sense considering their hard-partying history. Harder to explain are the submachine gun and the 12-foot-long boa constrictor. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/2/1114832.jpg)
![Rats can live everywhere - except in Alberta, Canada. Alberta takes rats as seriously as any other place else would take kaiju. There's an overzealous, government- sponsored rat-control program, and every resident is responsible to fight the whiskered menace. As a result, Alberta has been rat-free for the last 70 years. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/3/1114833.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM The first Smurfs story was about a zombie apocalypse. The comic The Black Smurfs (which became The Purple Smurfs in the U.S.) had many tropes of modern zombie stories: Mindless ghoul Smurfs, an infection which spreads by biting, the near extinction of Smurfkind... And it came out more than 10 years before Night of the Living Dead.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/4/1114834.jpg)
![Hundreds of billions of dollars in Bitcoin have been lost to forgotten passwords. About 20% of all Bitcoins only are locked in inaccessible digital wallets, in many B cases because the owners have forgotten the password. As it turns out, people don't get better at remembering passwords 1958-1 when the stakes get higher. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/1/1114831.jpg)
![Mr. Rogers had to weigh exactly 143 pounds. Mr. Rogers being Mr. Rogers, even his weirdest habits were wholesome deep down. In this case, he insisted that he always had to weigh 143 pounds, because 1-4-3 is the number of letters in I love you. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/5/1114835.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Harry Potter has made owls miserable. The franchise's popularity caused a boom in the illegal owl market, which in turn led to a lot of neglected and abandoned pet owls. But not only were wild owls threatened - multiple handlers who provided owls for the Harry Potter movies have been charged with causing their birds unnecessary suffering.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/2/7/1114827.jpg)
![The Jedi are officially wild sleazebags. While Jedi Knights are often assumed to abstain from sex, George Lucas has clarified that they can, as a matter of fact, bone. The thing that is forbidden is attachment, he has said. You just know the lightsaber-wielding players keep using relationships are against my religion as an excuse to run away from commitment. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/2/8/1114828.jpg)
![I Will Always Love You is about ending a commercial relationship. It certainly sounds like a love song, but Dolly Parton wrote it for her partner Porter Wagoner. Не wasn't cool with Parton leaving to pursue a solo career, so she wrote the song to tell him that she really appreciated him, but needed to go. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/0/1114830.jpg)
![Marvel teased fans for decades with Bucky Barnes' return. For a long time, Marvel had a standing rule that Captain America's dead sidekick would never be brought back - but that didn't mean they couldn't suggest the possibility to boost sales. Many fake Buckys came and went, until the Winter Soldier storyline revived him for real in 2005. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/2/9/1114829.jpg)