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33 Random Bits of Trivia We Stole off the Neighbor’s Porch While They Were at Work

July 28, 2024

Quick! You gotta read these as fast as you can, because we have to get them back to their rightful owner ASAP. It’s embarrassing, but we got a little lazy today. Scouring the universe for facts on a daily basis got to be a bit much, so we snagged a few facts that may not have been ours. But we’re not monsters — we’re not gonna hold onto them forever.

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Iron Maiden forced a video game to change its title. In 2019, the band sued the developer of the retro-style game lon Maiden for $2 million, claiming it was an incredible blatant infringement on their trademark. The game people caved and renamed their product lon Fury. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Humphrey Bogart wasn't really a tough guy. According to James Cagney, Bogart was about as tough as Shirley Temple. In a time when studios pretty much owned the actors, everything about Bogie's public image was a fiction carefully constructed by Warner Bros. They even went so far as to rewrite Bogart's life history to make him fit his niche. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Joe Pesci sued Gotti for cutting him out. You'd think any actor would be happy not to be in a critically panned box-office bomb. Except Pesci was cut from his part after gaining 30 pounds for it, and offered to play a different character instead (with a pay cut). Не ended up receiving a settlement. — Source

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William Shakespeare was a price-gouging businessman. When he wasn't revolutionizing English literature, the Bard liked to keep himself busy by buying huge stocks of grain, which he'd then sell at inflated prices. Не was eventually prosecuted for tax evasion and hoarding food during a time of shortage. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRAGKED.COM Heroes in the Marvel universe have gained powers by eating Skrull burgers. In an early Fantastic Fourissue, Reed Richard hypnotizes some shapeshifting Skrulls into believing they're COWS. In the '90s, the comic Skrull Kill Krew followed up on that particular story. The comic stars random people getting superpowers from burgers made from those cow-Skrulls. — Source

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One third of Pakistan's pilots have been faking it. Just one false pilot is worrying-and in 2020, it came out that 262 of Pakistan's 860 airplane pilots had dubious licenses, which they got by cheating. These were all grounded, which is fine, but maybe entirely too many fake pilots kind of late. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Comic book artists are awfully underpaid. Almost nothing of Marvel and DC's mountains of money go to the artists who make the comics-in fact, it's one of the worst fields to make a living with ink and pencil. You'd almost have an easier time becoming Spider-Man than fully paying your bills drawing him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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0000 FOX CHOICE AWARDS Stone Cold Steve Austin got his ring name from tea. Hot leafjuice is the last thing you'd expect any wrestler to drink, but that's what Stone Cold was having as he tried to come up with a badass name. Then his wife told him to leave names for later and finish his tea before it got stone cold. CRACKED.COM — Source

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You're picturing Neanderthals wrong. The image of Neanderthals as hunchbacked brutes comes from the very first specimen that was ever found, which happened to be a geriatric man riddled with bone diseases. This conception has been debunked decades ago - Neanderthals were as good at walking upright as we are. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baby, It's Cold Outside helped usher in Islamic fundamentalism. Egyptian scholar Sayyid Qutb arrived in the U.S. in 1948- only to leave two years later with a raging hatred of American debauchery, which he felt was best summed up by the depraved Baby, It's Cold Outside. Qutb's writings were influential in the creation of Al Qaeda. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Your avocados may be grown by a drug cartel. Since trade restrictions were lifted in the '90s, avocados from Mexico became more and more popular in the U.S. while Mexican cartels were hit by the escalating War on Drugs. So what did the hardened narcos do? Exactly- they branched out into the lucrative avocado business. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pikachu could have had big boobs. Nintendo of America thought that the Pokémon were too cute for U.S. children, and proposed alternative designs. They turned Pikachu into something like a tiger with huge breasts, said Tsunekazu Ishihara, president of The Pokémon Company (sadly, with no accompanying pictures). CRACKED.COM — Source

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The guy who wrote the Redwall series was actually an unhappy milkman. - IN EVENTERS TheOriginal Milkhale ENTERS سعود : AIR Well, he was unhappy because he'd been reading to blind kids, and he thought the books available were pretty crappy, so he wrote new ones. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The vice president of the US wasn't always the president's running mate. Before they added the 12th amendment, it was whoever got the 2nd most votes in the election. CRACKED.COM — Source

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People tried to grow vanilla for 300 years in Europe, totally unsuccessfully. In 1836, they finally figured it was because vanilla was pollinated by an insect that didn't live in Europe. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Sweden, people sometimes do something that's known as death cleaning. It basically involves getting rid of everything you don't need before you die, so others won't have to clean up after you. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Turns out, T-Rexes grew so fast, you could almost watch them grow. Teenage T-Rexes could sometimes add 35-45 pounds to their frame in as little as a week. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Whiskey distilleries sometimes keep cats around just to catch mice. Distilleries have been using cats for that for centuries and, despite the many alternatives that exist today, they still do. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's an organization that sends out saplings and seeds that survived the A-bomb. Specifically, the bomb that exploded over Hiroshima - Green Legacy Hiroshima is spreading them worldwide. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Drinking alcohol used to be a regular part of participating in the Olympics. For example, runners drank it in the 1908 London olympics - i it was believed to be a performance enhancer. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1916, a New York construction worker was literally shot up on a geyser. Just like in a cartoon - he was working on a subway tunnel, and got shot through a hole in the tunnel. Miraculously, and also just like in a cartoon, he survived. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Brazil has the country with the most Japanese people outside Japan itself. There's a total of 1.5 million Japanese living in Brazil - this is partly due to the Japanese government promoting emigration until the '60s. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a fruit fly gene that's named after Kenny from South Park. TRASH Fruit flies that have a bad version of it die two days after they've gotten a specific bacteria. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The filming of 1971's A Bridge Too Far had a single million-dollar hour. They had an hour to shoot a scene with Robert Redford - if they didn't, they'd have to pay him a million dollars and try again in a week. Luckily for the budget, they made it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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They asked Benedict Cumberbatch to use an English accent in 2018's Grinch. But he pushed back, because the Grinch was already so different from the other characters, and Cumberbatch didn't think he should be English as well, but I thought just not thematically a bad guy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED THREE AMIGOS! WAS ALMOST DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG. Instead it went to John Landis, who directed it while on trial for involuntary manslaughter. — Source

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CRACKED THE TALLEST MAN IN THE WORLD SAVED TWO DOLPHINS IN CHINA. 7-foot-9 Bao Xishun used his really long arms to retrieve swallowed plastics from the dolphins, thereby saving their lives. — Source

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CRACKED A BIKER DIED AT AN ANTI-HELMET PROTEST BECAUSE НЕ WASN'T WEARING A HELMET. Even worse, he usually wore his helmet, but he didn't that day because of the protest. — Source

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CRACKED A GUY ASKED FOR A LONGER JAIL SENTENCE BECAUSE OF HOW MUCH НЕ LOVED DIA LARRY BIRD. 3 Не was given 30 years, but requested ATE 33-so he'd get the same number as Bird's jersey. — Source

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CRACKED SARAN WRAP IS PROBABLY IN YOUR BRAIN. A new study shows that food plastic wrap sheds microplastics that can cross the blood brain barrier in two hours. — Source

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CRACKED STEVEN SPIELBERG WANTED TO MAKE A CALVIN AND HOBBES MOVIE. But Bill Waterson, famously anti-licensing, wasn't into it. — Source

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CRACKED JACK DANIEL DIED IN THE DUMBEST WAY POSSIBLE. Не kicked a safe, injuring his big toe. Then it became gangrenous and he died. — Source

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CRACKED IN THE '90S, PEOPLE RELENTLESSLY MOCKED A WOMAN WHO CLAIMED A DINGO ATE HER BABY. ... ... including Seinfeld. However, the woman was proven right in 2012, when a court ruled that a dingo did in fact eat her baby. — Source

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