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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Picked Up by Eavesdropping on the Two Dumbest People in Our Office

September 08, 2024

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Clue EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES While the 1985 parody film shares the same basic plot, Johnson wanted to stay clear of the arch parody in his own movie while paying an obvious homage to the classic whodunnit. Knives Out CRACKED.COM — Source: Bustle

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The world's most expensive parking spot costs $1.3 million A luxury building in Hong Kong sold a spot for more than $10,000 per square foot. CRACKED.COM — NPR

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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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Pluto was a planet for less than one of its own years Pluto's orbit takes 248 Earth years. It was only considered a planet for 76 years. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Austin Butler: The King of Commitment.

CRACKED Elvis AUSTIN BUTLER trained hard for his role as Elvis, not seeing his family for three years and talking like Elvis the whole time. — Warner Bros. Pictures
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THE ACTOR: Cher THE ROLE: Tess in Burlesque WHY SHE She called the movie horrible, and says the HATED IT: director told her, I don't care about what you say, I just want to shoot the dance numbers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BALL CHAIRS CRACKEDCO A ball chair is supposed to keep you active as you sit. Except, it really doesn't. Plus, it increases compression on your lower — Source: NY Times

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During the Vietnam War, the U.S. decided to relocate South Vietnamese villagers. It was called the Strategic Hamlet Program, and the idea was to move the villagers away from the soldiers, so they wouldn't get hurt. They'd be grateful, and support our side. But we grossly underestimated the number of villagers. It turned out there were 8 million of them, and the government had no way of providing for them. The resulting discontent made them easy recruits for the communists. CRACKED.COM http://www.britannica/ a.com/event/Vietnam-War#ref809122 — 20 Times Tax Money Was Flushed Down The Toilet

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A man tried to rob a woman standing outside her apartment in Rio. U The woman turned out to be ММА fighter Polyana Viana, who kept him handily subdued until the cops arrived. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A group of researchers found an old forest that was frozen in a glacier.

CRACKED Researchers have found an ancient forest that was encased in a glacier 1,000 years ago and is only now being exposed as the glacier melts. The team plans to return to the site to learn more about the conditions of the environment at that time. — Live Science

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Bumblebees stimulate plants to flower by biting them.

Bumblebee bites on plant leaves stimulate early flowering. Scientists compared bumble bee-bitten plants and unbitten plants. Bit- ten plants bloomed in 17 days and the unbitten took an average of 33 days to bloom. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Science Mag

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WEIRD WORLD Bad plant employee hygiene was partly why millions of vaccine doses got ruined. COVID 19 COVID-19 19 n Coronavirus Coronavirus Vaccine us Vaccine Employees at a Baltimore plant where millions of J&J vaccine doses went bad didn't shower or change clothes, which is likely a big part of the reason. CRACKED.COM — Source: CNBC

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Leopard Slug Mating Just a normal love story... two slugs dangle upside on a mucus rope, where their giant blue penises (protruding from the sides of their heads) wrap around the writhing mates, fertilizing each others' eggs. CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

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Earning their mane.

YOU GROW HUNDREDS OF MILES OF HAIR. Over the course of their life, the average person will grow enough hair to stretch out for about 590 miles. CRACKED — saltodemata/Shutterstock
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CRACKED WWI SPY PIGEONS. During World War I, the U.S. military used pigeons with cameras strapped to them to get information about the opposing forces. — Source

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Okay class, please open your textbooks to “Projection.”

NIKKI GLASER apologizes for body-shaming Taylor Swift. After calling her too skinny, and saying her body bothers her, she said, That should be used as an example of 'projection' in PSYCH101 textbooks. I talk openly about battling some kind of eating disorder for the past 17 years. I was probably 'feeling fat' that day and was jealous. CRACKED — Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock,
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The Tracy Morgan Show

The Tracy Morgan Show CRACKED.COM The Tracy Morgan Show was on the air from December 2003 to March 2004 for 16 episodes. Critics panned the show for not showcasing Morgan's unique comedy skills and instead hav- ing him mimic the funny dad who's trying his best arche- type. — Variety

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Go bleep bloop yourself!

CRACKED СЗРО VS. R2D2 Classically trained Anthony Daniels (СЗРО) constantly insulted the talent of former circus performer Kenny Baker (R2D2). Their performances boil down to Daniels proving he's far superior, and Baker proving he's more than a circus act. — Geektyrant / Twitter

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CRACKED JAY-Z- KINGDOM COME 2003's The Black Album marked his retirement, so fans were thrilled for his return with 2006's Kingdom Come. Commonly referred to as his worst album, it is remembered as a false start before 2007's American Gangster properly kicked off Hov's second coming. — Source

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The spikes on the Statue of Liberty's crown don't represent the seven seas. Or the seven continents, for that matter - they're just sun rays, and the circle represents a halo, which indicates she's divine. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — NPR

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Backstreet Boys are the best selling boy band in history Sorry, NSYNC fans but by the numbers, BSB wins fair and square, with over 100 million albums sold. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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MLB ALL STARS made Homer a baseball immortal CITY CHAMPS 1992 CRACKED.COM SPRINGENED 25 years after Homer at the Bat, Homer was inducted into the Baseball HOF. His speech: It is with great humility that I enter the Hall of Fame. And it's about time! I'm fatter than Babe Ruth, balder than Ty Cobb and have one more finger than Mordecai Three Finger Brown. — MLB.com

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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Picked Up by Eavesdropping on the Two Dumbest People in Our Office — Source: NPR

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Awful Knock-Offs The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens (2008) Yes, this family video-like movie is a blatant Harry Potter rip-off, but its respectful admiration for Adobe After Effects is undoubtable. Rowdy Roddy Piper is here, because we all have bills to pay, and every performer looks at the camera, flubs their lines, and cackles at whatever we thought cinema was. CRACKED.COM — Source

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AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER Carrie Fisher wrote four novels. Her first novel Postcards from the Edge was turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wishful Drinking

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

October on prime video The Curious Case of Benjamin October 1 Button Before Brad Pitt got involved, Tom Cruise was originally pursued to play the title character. CRACKED.COM — Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures
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People who marry at 18 have a 60% divorce rate Compare that to people who marry at 23, whose divorce rate is only around 30%. CRACKED.COM — The Atlantic

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Mockumentaries Bob Roberts In this prescient 1992 political mockumentary, Tim Robbins plays a narcissistic musician as he runs for senator, singing against lazy people, and even creating a Wall Street Rap. The movie has an insane all-star cast (including Jack Black in his film debut). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Neil Gaiman's Coraline got published as a kids' book because a little girl lied. The editor thought it was too scary for a children's book, but she read it to her daughter, who said it was OK. Much later, the daughter actually said she'd been afraid, but wanted to know what came next. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wes Anderson voiced one of the tennis commentators in The Royal Tenenbaums. The other one is Andrew Wilson. Apparently, some people think Wes Anderson's voice is actually Jason Schwartzman's, even though they don't sound alike. CRACKED.COM — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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The original Shrek was rough

shrek shrek looked... different. Before becoming the hot ogre we all know, his original design looked kinda old and busted. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Celebrity Items Sold in Auctions William Shatner's Kidney Stone It raised $25,000 for Habitat for Humanity. The president of Julien's Auctions joked that it would be the first Habitat for Humanity house made from stone. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A GRRM short story influenced how Chewbacca was designed. John Shoenherr Ralph McQuarrie Analog, July 1975 Circa November, 1976 GRRM's 1975 story And Seven Times Never Kill a Man was accompanied by an illustration that looks an awful lot like the initial design for Chewie. CRACKED.COM — ScreenRant

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The ridiculous meet-up instructions in All the Money in the World were real. They include steps like driving to a point at which a man will throw gravel at your car window, and the real kidnappers came up with them. CRACKED.COM — Vanity Fair

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A stranded sailor used cats to protect himself from hungry rats.

A sailor stranded on a deserted island used cats as protection. Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk survived for over 4 years stranded on a de- serted island, partly by us- ing feral cats to protect him from ravenous rats that attacked during the night. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Boater Exam

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Corned beef and cabbage is a rare dish in Ireland and never eaten on St. Patrick's Day. As of the late 1600s, beef was too expensive to be a regular meal in Ireland. The corned beef and cab- bage we know came from the Irish that emigrated to North America. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Get healthy the 19th century way: Mechanotherapy!

CRACKED EXERCISE YOUR WAY TO WELLNESS WITH DR. ZANDER'S MECHANOTHERAPY. K1 Dr. Gustav Zander pioneered the concept of mechanotherapy which promoted health and healing through the use of exercise apparatus, and his machines were popularized in the late 19th century due to the industrialization of society and the mechanization of labor. — Smithsonian Magazine

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Meat sealed in a vacuum pack is naturally purple, they just color it red to make it look better. That's done because purple meat looks pretty weird to consumers, of course - so carbon monoxide, rosemary extract and/or nitrite are added. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: MeatPoultry

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The father/son duo who shopped around a hit sitcom together.

CRACKED EUGENE & DAN LEVY'S SCHITT'S CREEK. A massively successful father/son creation, the Canadian comedy ran for 6 seasons and swept all the major comedy categories at the 2020 Emmys. Eugene won for outstanding lead actor in a comedy, and Dan took home outstanding supporting actor. — Youtube / TV Insider

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Surprise milk delivery.

Historical Pranks DELIVERING MILK AND A NEWSPAPER TO A MOUNTAINTOP In 1947, Ross Petrie, a forestry student, secretly made his way to the top of Mount Hood in the middle of the night and left a surprise for his friends who were camping there - a quart of milk and a Sunday Oregonian newspaper. CRACKED — Anatoliy Lukich/Shutterstock,
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