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33 Trivia Tidbits Hiding in Plain Sight

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33 Trivia Tidbits Hiding in Plain Sight

August 09, 2024

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The U.S. CYBER COMMAND STATES Cyber Command UNITED emblem contains a hidden code. 2 When cracked, the و 32 character string e ~ translates into the unit's (lengthy) mission statement: USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to... ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Cathedrals

Many cathedrals have a cruciform plan; that is, if CRACKED.COM you see them from above (as God would), they look like a cross. Washington National Chartres Cathedral, Cathedral, USA France Peterborough Amiens Cathedral, Cathedral, UK France — Source

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ZACK SNYDER IS IN ZACK SNYDER'S JUSTICE LEAGUE. Come is We're OPEN GRACKED GOM The director can be spotted inside the coffee shop Lois Lane is exiting. The location is the actual coffee shop Snyder frequented while storyboarding the film. — Source

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RIAN JOHNSON'S HAND IS IN THE TRC ! LAST JEDI. CRACKED.COM The gloved hand grabbing Han Solo's dice at the end of the movie doesn't actually belong to Mark Hamill-it's the hand of the director, Rian Johnson. — Source

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JOE RUSSO IS IN SEVERAL OF HIS MCU MOVIES. CRACKED.COM Russo played a doctor in The Winter Soldier, a corpse in Civil War, and one of the survivors attending Captain America's meeting group in Endgame. — Source

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HOOK Glenn Close CRACKED.COM She plays the nervous pirate who was forced into the Boo Box and introduced a generation to claustrophobia. — Source

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ALIEN Ridley Scott CRACKED.COM Scott (specifically, his hands) played the part of Putrid, Pulsating Egg Sac just before John Hurt gets facehugged. — Source

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You probably missed Bill Murray in Dumb and Dumber To. His character is hard not to notice, but since he never removes the mask, few have realized he's Harry's meth-cooking roommate, Ice Pick. Which turned out to be the least dumb decision in that film, in retrospect. CRACKED COM — Source

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Goodwill

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The gold and blue swishes around Dairy Queen's symmetrical ellipse BLIZZARD represents the food it serves. DQ The gold signifies the hot foods and the blue signifies the soft-serve treats. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A luxury apartment sits at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Gustave Eiffel had it built for himself when the tower went up, and kept it secret for a long time. He'd get offered crazy sums for a night in it, but always said no. It didn't open to the public until 2015, 90 years after he died. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The clock tower Harry Potter flew over has a fancy apartment. Inside the St. Pancras clock tower, there's an apartment with ridiculously high ceilings and two bedrooms. Unfortunately, since it's literally on top of a train station, neither bedroom can give you a good night's sleep. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a creepy secret chamber inside Mt. Rushmore. Its sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, wanted Mt. Rushmore to have a Hall of Records, where historic American documents would be stored. When he died in 1941, it was unfinished. In 1998, the government put a sealed titanium vault with copies of important documents in there. So he kinda got his wish. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Washington Monument

The Washington Monument has a tiny, hidden twin. A 12-foot replica of the Monument is buried right next to it. It was built in the 1880s as a surveyor's tool-they'd use its scale to verify readings. The ground level rose over time, and the Mini Monument was encased in a tube, buried, and forgotten. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Radio City Music Hall has a swanky apartment. Radio City built it for its first impresario, Samuel Roxy Rothafel, who had brought in a ton of top-shelf acts. It became his bachelor pad and party venue. And today, it could be yours - it's been kept in top shape, and is up for rent. CRACKED.COM — Source

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People literally used to live in New York's public libraries. Back in the day, janitors had to keep books warm and dry with coal furnaces, which needed to be fueled with coal 24/7. So libraries had special apartments for janitors. Those apartments are abandoned today, since there's no money to renovate them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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NOT 2018 TOSHIBA HAPPY NEW YEAS TOSHIBA OTOK RAPPY NEW YEAR A major building in Times Square is empty. It's the building where they drop the New Year's Ball - One Times Square. There's one tenant: a Walgreens on the ground floor. The building has been used as a gigantic, vacant advertising stand since 1992. It makes $23 million a year. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED Flemish artist Clara Peeters' Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels features another incredibly subtle self-portrait - Peeters painted with such accuracy that she included herself reflected in the rim of the jug. — Source

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CRACKED The Adoration of the Magi places multiple well-known figures of the time around Christ, including the powerful Medici family and the guy who commissioned the painting. The dude on the far right looking straight at us? Botticelli himself, showing off. — Source

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CRACKED It wasn't until 1990 that anyone realized that in Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the cloak surrounding God and his angels is a giant brain, complete with cerebellum, optic chiasm and pituitary gland. — Source

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CRACKED An Italian musician recently theorized that placing a musical staff across The Last Supper and treating the bread rolls as notes results in a short hymn to Jesus. Leonardo was more musical than people realize, but still, whoa, that's insane. — Source

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The Madonna (The Painting, Not the Singer)

CRACKED Ghirlandaio's 15th-century The Madonna with Saint Giovannino contains a baffling detail that looks a lot like a flying saucer, with a dogwalker pointing at it. It's probably not incontrovertible proof of aliens, but, you know, maybe it is. — Source

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