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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Found Swirling at the Bottom of the Fact Keg

September 06, 2024

Mangoes are the same thing as sweet potatoes? I reckon you get your ass kicked for saying something like that.

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Mango-gate: deadly serious.

CRACKED GROUNDS FOR EXECUTION Comparing mangoes to sweet potatoes In a small village in China during the Cultural Revolution, a dentist was put on trial and killed for saying a mango was like a sweet potato while a group of visitors were there. — Piyaset/Shutterstock
The Telegraph

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‘Fight Club’ Was a Flop

CRACKED.COM FIGHT CLUB THE MOVIE WAS A FLOP. Fight Club barely made 60% of its budget at the domestic box office. Edward Norton and David Fincher attribute it to studio execs neglecting the movie because they felt it was calling them out. — Source: Looper

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Having an active sex life can delay menopause. Having sex infrequently tells the body you no longer need your baby-making supplies, so it stops producing them. Having sex at least weekly keeps the hormone train rolling. CRACKED.COM — Source: Unexpected Ways Sex Affects Your Health

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CRACKED COM the office SUFFERING FROM FATIGUE, TIREDNESS, DEPRESSION, AND HAIR LOSS, IT SEEMS OBVIOUS THAT TOBY FLENDERSON IS SUFFERING FROM A CASE OF VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY. — Source

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CRACKED POUTING DOESN'T MAKE ROSS GELLER A NICE GUY. FRIENDS Seen as the ultimate nice guy, he's a jealous control freak who never supports Rachel's career. Не cheats (claiming they were on a break), lied about reading her letter, and lied about the annulment so Rachel would stay married to him (without her knowledge). — Source

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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Found Swirling at the Bottom of the Fact Keg — Source: It's Filmed Here

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CRACKEDcO CHUCK NORRIS IS OLDER THAN 1947 THE MODERN 1940 STATE OF ISRAEL.

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Surfing

SURFING RIPPED OUT AN EYE GROWTH 2014 CRACKED.COM A 61-year-old had a pterygium, fibrous tissue over the eye. Не surfed in Hawaii, dipped his face in the water while riding a 30-foot wave, and the water ripped the growth out. — Source

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Colonel Bouvar

CRACKED.COM COLONEL BOUVAR THUNDERBALL The opening moments of Thunderball see this minor villain attend his own funeral disguised as his grieving widow. Bond sees through the charade though, delivering a nasty sucker punch that sends this goon flying over the dinner table. — Source: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/g2496/best-james-bond-villains-ranked/

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Hugh Jackman says he owes his career to Russell Crowe. Crowe passed on the role of Wolverine, and then recommended his friend Hugh for the job, which eventually made him a household name. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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The House of Black and White

THE HOUSE OF BLACK AND WHITE IS NO MORE THAN AN ENTRANCE in front of massively wide green panels. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Behind-The-Scenes Images That Ruin 'Game Of Thrones'

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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Found Swirling at the Bottom of the Fact Keg — Source: The Ringer

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Keanu Reeves

WEIRD WORLD We found out that Keanu Reeves wore Dolly Parton's famous Playboy outfit. It had been designed by Keanu's mom Patricia Taylor - a costume designer - and, when Dolly was done with it, Keanu wore it as a Halloween costume. CRACKED.COM — Source

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This 1968 picture apparently shows Robert Ferguson's brother (who had died in WWII) next to him. Double exposure? Well, as this is a Polaroid, that's almost impossible. And a (rare) double-exposure Polaroid would have less contrast. Also, notice the differences in lighting and in the two men's ears. They don't look like the same person. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Spider-Man: No Way Home

Easter Eggs Spider-Man: No Way Home Spider-Man is referred to as just a kid in No Way Home when his identity is revealed, and in Spider-Man 2 when his mask comes off. In every universe, there is a confused person who thinks Tobey Maguire is a child. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Easter Eggs (Just in Time for Easter)

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NEGATIVE HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM - Jack Swigert What he actually said was okay, Houston, we've had a problem here, which sounds a lot more like a guy calmly doing his job than a frantic ASA engineer suddenly SUNGER! freaking out about the vacuum of space. CRACKED.COM — 10 Historical Quotes That Everyone Gets Wrong

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CRACKED.COM Mr. Burns' look was inspired by Barry Diller, former chief executive of Fox Broadcasting. Meanwhile, his body language - especially the famous hand gesturing -- was based on a praying mantis. Excellent. — Characters Based On Celebs, Really

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TigerSharks

Sharks Movies & TV TigerSharks The show was the forgotten cousin of Thundercats and Silverhawks. Beyond just having essentially the same tropey characters as the other two cartoons, TigerSharks also shared several writers and voice actors with both of them. (If you are under 30, you probably have no idea what we're talking about.) CRACKED.COM — Source: Syfy Wire

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Ted Bundy's Suicide Hotline

ANN RULE VOLUNTEERED AT A SUICIDE HOTLINE. SIEMENS TUV WXYZ PORS SHE AND A COLLEAGUE BECAME FAST FRIENDS. A few years later, she was working on a book about unsolved murders. One victim called the killer Ted, and his description matched her old colleague. She tipped off the police, who promptly arrested the man, Ted Bundy. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 True Crimes That Seem Impossible

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Christopher Lee

Tolkien Movies Christopher Lee campaigned to be in the Lord of the Rings films. Не was a huge fan of the books, and even met J.R.R. Tolkien in the flesh. CRACKED.COM — Mashable

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Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock shot Psycho as an episode of his TV show. THE IMPROVISATION: Hitchcock shot Psycho with the crew and assets of his TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, because the studio didn't want to give him a cent for a new movie. THE RESULT: An instant classic that influenced pretty much all later horror films. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2000, a woman basically performed an emergency C-section on herself. She made a slice to her abdomen that was 17 cm (about 7 inches long) and delivered her baby, because medical assistance was unavailable. She and her kid both survived after being hospitalized. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apparently, SpongeBob Squarepants is messing with kids' brains. That's according to a 2011 University of Virginia study, which found that the show impairs kids' readiness for learning (the issue is that the frequent camera cuts disrupts their attention span). CRACKED.COM — Source

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White Christmas was written by a Jewish composer. CRACKED.COM After finally finishing White Christmas, Irving Berlin sup- posedly said, Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it's the best song anybody ever wrote! Bing Crosby's 1947 record is the best selling single of all time. — Source

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So Many Arrests, So Little Time

WEIRD WORLD In California, one guy got arrested 3 times in a span of sixteen hours. Apparently, the last arrest happened at 3 AM, after police had to pursue him-they tried to cite him for jaywalking, but he fled. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Silverpilen In the 1960s, the Stockholm Metro bought new aluminum trains without any paint or advertising on them. They used these trains for test runs, but the public thought the trains looked derelict and no one took them. Soon, the legend was born that the Silverpilen (Silver Arrow) was a ghost train, and its station was an unfinished station called Kymlinge. It's said that you never get off the train alive because it gets stuck in a time loop and rides on forever. It's where the Swedish saying comes from: Only the dead get off at Kymlinge. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Creepy Urban Legends From Around The World

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NICKI MINAJ PREDICTED HER COUSIN'S DEATH, WITH A SONG. Why'd you have to leave in July? On a peaceful and serene summer night... Why the doctors could not stop the bleeding... Now you see you not bullet proof... I could've told you about my intuition ... Why'd you have to go so soon? -We Miss You A year after Nicki wrote this, her cousin Nicholas Telemaque was gunned down in July and left to bleed to death. CRACKED.COM http://www.nydailynews. com/news/crime/nicholas-telemaque- 27-shot-death-brooklyn-street-leaving-nightclub-article-1.155416 — Source

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Uber-rich mothers hire professional organizers CRACKED.COM to pack their kid's trunks for summer camp. MA تحت LURE LAU RE Energizer THIS are A professional organizer charges about $250 per hour - for the 4 or so hours that one trunk takes, that's $1,000. Professional organizers, who do all kinds of tidying and organizing work for high-income clients, have their own 4,000-member-strong national association. — Source

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George Washington Caver

CRACKED GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS AN AVID CAVER. In 1833, his initials were found carved onto a wall of a cave situated on a property once owned by his family. The initials remain there today. — DanielFreyr/Shutterstock,
Gilbert Stuart/Wiki Commons
Sports Illustrated

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Hellboy

Superhero Movies Then VS. Now Hellboy vs. Hellboy Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy movies stood for wild creativity, before the MCU set the current by-the-numbers template. The cost of this Marvelization was clear in 2019's non-del Toro Hellboy. CRACKED.COM

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The Lords of Salem

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2012 THE LORDS OF SALEM Some sequences were shot at the Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles, which has an infamous spooky reputation. Filming in the basement would make people sick, and the crew would report weird and random sounds at other empty parts of the hospital. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cicada

Cicada shells are a vital part of a traditional Chinese craft called hairy monkeys. It involves making figures about one inch high out of dried cicada shells and magnolia bulbs, so that they look like, well, very small hairy monkeys. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — China Daily

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Ticking away, relentlessly.

CRACKED YOUR HEART WILL BEAT BILLIONS OF TIMES. Throughout our lives, our hearts beat an average of about 2.5 billion times. In a day, that's 100,000 times, and in a year, it's 35 million times. — MDGRPHCS/Shutterstock
PBS

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Product Placement

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Five athletes have won medals in both the Winter and the Summer Olympics. While Christa Ludinger- Rothenburger is the only person to have won medals in the same year. Speed Skating in the winter, and cycling in the summer. CRACKED.COM — Time Magazine

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Souling

Children used to visit houses souling, and ask for food, money, and booze. In 1000 A.D. November 2nd became known as All Souls' Day, where the poor would go to the homes of the wealthy and promise to pray for the homeowners' dead relatives in exchange for pastries. CRACKED.COM — Source: History

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CRACKED COM You see someone drowning and your first instinct is to leap in and pull that person out. This will get you killed. A drowning victim will

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A teen turned down millions for his COVID- tracking website. 165,096,424 TOTAL 21,097.1 +207,530 33,775,147 United States 101,516.27 +202 25,592,273 India 18,386.55 +97,129 Brazil 15,735,485 73,569.68 HEST France 5,898,347 90,188.17 100 5,139,485 Turkey 60,368.92 65188 Avi Schiffman was 17 when he created nCoV2019.live, a widely visited COVID tracker. Despite the site taking up all of his free time, he has turned down offers for several millions dollars to include ads. I don't want to be a profiteer, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away

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Historical Firsts in Practical Effects The first use of miniatures 1899 In the 1899 short film The Windsor Hotel Fire by Albert E. Smith and J. Stewart Blackton, tiny victims fell from miniature cardboard buildings while squirt guns were used as fire hoses. CRACKED — Source

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Ben-Hur

Classic Hollywood Movies Original VS. Remake 1925 1959 Ben-Hur Ben Hur has had five adaptations (including a friggin' cartoon), with the 1959 version being a cinematic event that won eleven Oscars. The latest version got mixed-to bad reviews, and the hug-filled ending is baffling even for a Christian story. 2016 CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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