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26 Hidden Pieces of Trivia to Add to Your Infinity Gauntlet

September 03, 2024

We love a good hunt. When the Cracked higher-ups sent us on this journey to find hidden facts, we took our ADHD meds and scoured the globe — hyper-focused on the task at hand. It was a long, arduous journey, because there were people out there that really didn’t want us to find these. But we stuck to the plan and gathered up a solid batch.

It was nice to get out of the office too. We actually found them all days ago and just told the bosses it took longer than we thought. Obviously. Who wouldn’t?

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CRACKED.COM Knoxville's pride, the symbol of the 1982 World's Fair, the fabulous SUNSPHERE isn't just a cheap tourist trap. The glass panes of the sphere get their color from a layer of 24k gold. Their cost at the time it was made: $1,000 apiece. — Source

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GRACKED.COM One of the grotesques on the Washington National Cathedral is Darth Vader's helmet. — Source

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There used to be a typo on the north wall of the Lincoln Memorial. The wall that was supposedly engraved with Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address misspelled FUTURE as EUTURE. The bottom part of the E has since been filled in. ATET THAN T EFLY MENT THE PUBLIC THE W TRUST REASON- AND ENCOURAGING TO WHIC IGH HOPE FOR THE ANTIC IN REGARD TO IT IS VENTURED FUTURE NO MIGH FLICT CCASION CORRESPONDING TO AN g ARS AGO ALL THOUGHTS WERE DAM DIRECTED TO AN IMPENDING SAM ALL DREADED IT-ALL SOUGHT EAC IT WHILE THE INAUGURAL AD- DA BEING DELIVERED FROM — Source

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CRACKED PLYMOUTH, MA 50s FUCK you moss PPa Historic landmarks spray painted red. Two historic landmarks were vandalized with red spray paint in 2020. The Pilgrim Maiden statue, the National Monument to the Forefathers, and a seashell-shaped sign erected to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the pilgrims arriving on Mayflower were all hit. — Source

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CRACKED THE TEMPLE OF THE SUN Six jerks pooped all over Machu Picchu. Five South American citizens and one French national were arrested for vandalizing Machu Picchu in Peru. The vandals caused damage to the temple, defecated on the floor, and soiled walls. — Source

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UNITED NATIONS In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the flag display outside the United Nations includes the Jolly Roger and an LGBT Pride flag. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Alps are hiding dead soldiers from World War I. There were 150,000 deaths on the Alpine front during WW1. A third of those were battle victims. The rest died from avalanches, frostbite, and illness. As the globe warms and the glaciers melt, the bodies of those dead soldiers pop up. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Westminster Abbey turned black from killer smog. Britain's greatest church was once more black and yellow than Wiz Khalifa in Pittsburgh. The cause of the church's severe discoloration was a thick yellow fog that smothered over 4,000 Londoners in '52. It took 20 years of restoration to get rid of the layers of toxic grime. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Coney Island is the site of a gruesome fire. SHOWING DIVERS AT WORK UNDER WATER 12 TONE HISTORICAL FASTESPAR EDUCATIONAL & AMUSING CONEY ISLAND'S BIGGEST FIRE DISASTER FIGHTING THE FLAMES AT DREAMLAND In 1911, flames engulfed Coney Island's grandest amusement park. Dozens of animals that were housed in the park were roaring loud enough that owners started shooting them to keep them from burning to death. One of the lions got out and ran through the streets with his mane on fire, and was shot 60 times before a fireman axed him down. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Eiffel Tower was a popular suicide spot. The Eiffel Tower holds a death toll of over 350 suicides, some of whom chose to hang themselves from the tower. Preventive barricades have since been built along with tightened security to preserve the lively image of the monument. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Gibraltar Point Lighthouse is the site of Toronto's first unsolved murder. Centuries ago, the keeper of the lighthouse vanished with nothing left of him but his blood stains on the lighthouse's wooden steps. It was rumored that he'd been brutally dismembered. A century after his disappearance, his remains were found scattered around the lighthouse grounds. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Little Mermaid Statue is constantly being mutilated. What is considered the Statue of Liberty of Denmark has been a target of gruesome vandalism since the '60s. The poor thing has been blown up, decapitated, had its arms sawn off, and been painted over several times, both blood-red and blue. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The River Thames is full of bodies. The most famous river in England has been nicknamed by The Guardian The Watery Grave. It has some 60 dead bodies pulled out of it every year, averaging at one body a week. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Blue Mustang statue has tasted blood. Locals call him Blucifer. The red-eyed fierce-faced 9,000-pound sculpture at Denver International Airport actually killed its maker, Luis Jiménez, by falling on him and severing an artery in his leg. — Source

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CRACKED.COM In 1974, 18 year-old Debbie Stone became the first Disney Employee to die on the job. Following a performance of America Sings, a ride with a rotating stage, Debbie became trapped by a moving wall and was crushed to death. — Source

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There's a derelict water park, River Country, inside Disney's resort in Florida. Seph Lawless had to scale a twenty feet high, blacked-out fence to take these photos, after which he was banned from Disney World for life. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM IT WASN'T UNTIL 2015 THAT DISNEY STARTED INSTALLING METAL DETECTORS AT ALL OF ITS THEME PARKS... ...A WEEK AFTER A MAN TRIED TO ENTER DISNEY WORLD WITH A HANDGUN-AND LONG AFTER SEVERAL OTHER INCIDENTS INVOLVING FIREARMS, INCLUDING TWO HOSTAGE SITUATIONS AND A SUICIDE. — Source

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CRACKED.COM James Smithson is entombed in the Smithsonian. decre's la the Samply Sellow Famil of who Die'd of Sense Society the رض اليوم N year In a crypt just inside the north entrance of the Smithsonian Castle lies the relocated remains of the institute's founding father, James Smithson. Не was a chemist who enjoyed studying things like human tears and snake venom. — Source

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Mt. Rushmore was designed by a white supremacist. Gutzon Borglum, the man that sculpted Mount Rushmore, was a racist who had ties to the Ku Klux Klan and was deeply involved in their politics. Не said things like, I would not trust an Indian, and referred to African Americans as a mongrel horde. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Part of the University of Cambridge was built over a massive graveyard. Beneath the Old Divinity School at St. John's College lies one of the largest found burial grounds in all of Great Britain, with a staggering count of over 1,300 burials dating back to medieval times. A hospital stood opposite the graveyard, and used it to bury poor scholars and other wretched persons. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Great Wall of China is actually a great cemetery. It is estimated around 400,000 construction workers had died building the Great Wall, and were just as easily buried in its foundation, which earned the deserved moniker longest cemetery on Earth. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Bridge Of Sighs was built for prisoners. That pretty Venice bridge-known for gondolas, honeymoons, and yes, appearing in Madonna's Like A Virgin video-was built to transfer prisoners from interrogation rooms to prison. It's named after prisoners sighing at their final view of Venice before being taken to their cells. — 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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THERE'S BOTH 3G AND 4G COVERAGE ON THE SUMMIT OF MT. EVEREST GRAGKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The US Supreme Court Building has its own basketball court located a floor higher than the courtroom. Literally making it The Highest Court in the Land — Source

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MEGHAN MARKLE HAS AN HOMAGE TO PRINCESS DIANA IN HER CHILDREN'S BOOK. The The the ساكمة Booshite BENCH Mezhan The Duchessed SOMA . V The now Institute THE - by CLASSIC - en Pickets be The Duchess of Sussex said they added Diana's favorite flowers, forget-me-nots, to the illustrations. CRACKED.COM — Source

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