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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Saw Carved Out of Butter at the State Fair

September 21, 2024

Canonically speaking, Captain Picard is running an interstellar SeaWorld.

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There are dolphins aboard the Enterprise. According to The Next Generation Technical Manual, the crew of Captain Picard's ship includes twelve bottlenose dolphins and two orcas in a section called Cetacean Ops. These wet crewmembers were too expensive for TV, but they were mentioned in passing on a couple episodes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Saw Carved Out of Butter at the State Fair — Source: Mental Floss

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CRACKED DORITOS' CHIPPY Doritos has released a new movie and campaign featuring Chippy, a comedian with a unique twist, to get Gen Zs to take action on their mental health. That's exactly what we wanted from our chips: mental health awareness. — Source

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Frisbee Creator Ed Headrick WORLD KARA WORLD make CLASS CHAMPIONS FLYING DISC 165 G. CRACKED.COM Per his request, Headrick's ashes were molded into frisbees and given to his family and friends. — Source

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The voice actress for “Boo” was a real toddler.

The voice of Boo from Monsters, Inc., Mary Gibbs, was just an actual toddler during production. CRACKED.COM The crew couldn't get her to sit still and read her lines, so they had her play in the studio while following her around with a mic. — ET Online / YouTube

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John Quincy Adams’s Alligator

Extreme Celebrity Pets JOHN QUINCY ADAMS' ALLIGATOR НЕ REPORTEDLY KEPT IT IN A WHITE HOUSE BATHTUB. After receiving it as a gift from the Marquis de Lafayette, it's been said that Adams often directed visitors to the gator bathroom as a prank, until it got so large that he just let it roam around the big house. CRACKED — George Peter Alexander Healy/Wiki Commons, Independent birds/Shutterstock
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Water levels have receded enough that you can explore the flooded town St. Thomas.

Parts of the town that was flooded during the building of the Hoover Dam can be explored. CRACKED.COM St. Thomas was bought by the Federal govern- ment and abandoned when the dam was be- ing built, eventually be- coming Lake Mead. — NPS

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Kevin Smith's original ending for Clerks was extremely grim and brutal. 1993 Try Cambridge 7.49 1.50- In that ending, Dante Hicks would get murdered by a robber, and the movie's last shot would be of Dante's dead body lying on the ground. CRACKED.COM — Source: Rolling Stone

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Mexican Jumping Beans jump because of moth larvae inside them. CRACKED.COM The moth lays its eggs in the flower of the plant, and the eggs are incorpo- rated into the seeds. The larvae then eat out the in- terior of the bean and live there. — Source

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The tallest and shortest US presidents had an entire foot between them. CRACKED.COM Abraham Lincoln takes the top spot at 6'4, while James Madison lands at the bottom at 5'4. The most recent presidents have been above average height, as humans have on average become taller over time. — Source

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Case closed on Shirley Temple's dwarfism.

CRACKED SHIRLEY TEMPLE WAS NOT A 30 YEAR OLD WITH DWARFISM, DESPITE THE RUMORS. The Vatican was called upon to investigate a rumor that Shirley Temple, at the height of her fame, was actually a 30 year old with dwarfism. Father Silvio Massante visited the Temple family to ask about the rumor and declared that obviously, she is not. — U Catholic / Hollywood Reporter

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Eggnog was invented in medieval Britain. Because the ingredients were expensive, the nobility used eggnog in toasts to show off their wealth. CRACKED

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Brittany Murphy

Performers Bookends First episode / Last Episode Brittany Murphy Murphy started as Frank's Sister on an episode of Murphy Brown, and was last seen on our screens on the dramatic horror movie Something Wicked. CRACKED.COM — Tinseltown/Shutterstock, CBS, Merchant Films
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Eminem sued iTunes for deductions on digital download royalties. CRACKED.COM In the early days of iTunes, Universal Music Group deducted artist's iTunes royalties for costs such as packaging and breakages on digital downloads. — Source

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Alice Cooper

Keanu Reeves Не hung out with Alice Cooper when he was young. Reeves' mother was a costume designer, and Cooper would hire her for various outfits. Не brought fake vomit and dog poo to terrorize the housekeeper. He'd hang out, a regular dude. CRACKED.COM — Whoa Is (Not) Me

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Bruce Forsyth was a Neopet TM The bow-tied British game host was one of the original Neopet options. His character eventually evolved into a penguin, still with a bow tie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Early drafts of movies Toy Story RASER LIGHTYEAR SPRUS net Disney wanted Woody to be edgy. Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg said that the wooden cowboy had to have an edge to him - and the resulting storyboard reel tanked hard. Disney wanted to shut everything down, but Pixar instead made the movie they wanted to make. CRACKED.COM — Source

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David Beckham

Celebrity tattoos David Beckham has a stick figure girl in a dress next to a heart that his then four- year-old daughter drew on him. CRACKED.COM — David Beckham/Instagram

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CRACKED.COM Tea can climb back to the kettle as you brew it. Tiny tea particles can climb short distances from the cup to the kettle. Researchers have found that small waterfalls create counter-flows strong enough for water to go upwards. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Mercury has a fickle sun Because of Mercury's eccentric orbit and slow rotation, sometimes the sun reverses direction in the sky. If you were standing on the planet's surface, you could see the sun rise, then set on the same spot, then rise again. — 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

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Maya Angelou was the first Black streetcar conductor in San Francisco She was only sixteen when she staged a sit-in for weeks until she was allowed to apply for the job. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM — Source: WNYC

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English is the only language that capitalizes the personal pronoun 'I' T 1 T i CRACKED.COM There were no rules for capitalization until the 1700s, but the lowercase 'i' was difficult to read, so the capitalization makes it more clear that it is intend- ed to stand out. — Source

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Zach Braff’s ’crowdfunding’ success: nothing more than a facade?

Celebrity Crowdfunding ZACH BRAFF's movie is funded by fans! (And a financier.) Braff raised $2 million through Kickstarter for his film Wish / Was Here, and secured millions in extra support from a traditional film financier. Braff denied that this changed the picture he initially presented to fans. CRACKED — Focus Features
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Did you know that Maine has an official state cat? It is, as the name suggests, the Maine Coon. Maine also has an official state cat lady. Her name is Tabitha and her house smells TERRIBLE CRACKED.COM — Source: Maine.gov

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140 141 142 145 The same high school set was used on Saved By The Bell, iCarly, and That's So Raven. This means that same set of lockers first aired in 1989 during Saved By The Bell's heyday, and stayed on the air until iCarly's final season in 2012. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM ie TV ds Heidi Montag spent nearly $2 million of her own money on her first album, titled Superficial. The album, which she and her husband produced themselves, took three years to make. Despite boasts that it was comparable to Michael HETDI Jackson's Thriller in terms MONTAS of sound and quality, SUPERACIAL Superficial was met with poor sales and bad reviews. Au — Source

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One way of keeping people with dementia in care facilities is to use dark doormats. They tend to see such doormats as holes, and won't step on them to avoid falling into the hole. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wartime Bathroom Truce

On the Western Front of WWI, both sides regularly scheduled truces for meals and bathroom breaks. At least Germans did this a lot with the French and British - but very rarely with Canadians, as Canadians were incredibly bloodthirsty. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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Inspirational, but inaccurate.

REMEMBER THE TITANS Released in 2000, this Disney movie was allegedly based on a true story about a high school football team. It showed how the team overcame racial tensions, although quite a few of the facts were changed or left out. AU CRACKED — Buena Vista Pictures
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People can actually be "scared to death"

People can actually be scared to death Being scared to death isn't just a saying... there's an actual link between extreme psychological stress and fatal heart attacks. CRACKED.COM — Source: ScienceDaily

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Russians can't stop with the vodka

THE STEREOTYPE... RUSSIANS ARE THE WORLD'S DRINKERS. Славянская ЗААССИЧЕСКАЯ 11 Русский ПУТИНИ НАСТО СТАНДАРТ КЕДРОВАЯ Boyka PUTINK For FREE NORTH SALE TO was YODKA the AARA BNA водука ITTA OCOGAN NOTU BUT in REALITY... THEY DRINK THE SAME AS AMERICANS. The average Russian drinks 2.77 gallons a year, not much more than the average American's 2.42. In fact, it puts Russia at number 23 on the list of countries ranked by alcohol consumption. CRACKED.COM — Source: Widely Believed Stereotypes That Are Completely False

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Banned Episodes

Boy Meets world Three episodes are banned from Disney channel. One about getting drunk (If You Can't Be With the One You Love), one about sex (Prom-ises, Promises), and one about a lack of it (The Truth About Honesty). CRACKED.COM — Source: Showbiz CheatSheet

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DWAYNE THE ROCK CRACKED.COM JOHNSON'S STUNT DOUBLE... TANOAL-REED NOTABLE MOVIES Has been Johnson's double in every movie since Scorpion King in 2002. Non-Johnson movies include SmokIn' Aces, Gamer,Star-Trek-Into Darkness. SCARIEST INJURY (HE'S HAD A LOT): I tore my arm open In F7 when it went through a big piece of glass while I was doing a fight with Jason Statham's stunt double. I had to have emergency surgery for that one because there was shrapnel In my arm... I asked what the worst-case scenario was, and he sald, 'I have to reattach all the blood vessels, tendons, ligaments. Worst-case scenario is we — GQ

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Ben & Jerry's was originally supposed to make bagels and not ice cream. Partly to kind of commemorate that, Ben&Jerry's launched limited-editic ice cream bagel sandwiches decades later (called Ice ice Bagels). CRACKED.COM — Source: Today.com

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McDonald's in Norway serves fresh-caught salmon sandwiches. McDonald's INM - - Artes - They're called McLaks, and you can enjoy them in a classy building that used to be a bank. CRACKED.COM — Source

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NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALES' РОО IS NORMALLY BRIGHT ORANGE This is due to a diet of tiny crustaceans called copepods. One researcher said it floats but has the worst stink of any fecal matter. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Getting laid at all costs was a huge theme in the ‘90s and 2000s.

SETH'S CRACKED ENTIRE PLOT IS DATE RAPE. SUPERBAD His master plan is to get Emma Stone's character drunk enough to sleep with him. When he discovers she doesn't drink, he whines, gets grabby, and vomits on her. Worse, he seems to be practicing for a string of similar assaults in college. — Filmboards / Decider

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Electric chopsticks make things saltier, and this is seen as a good thing.

WEIRD WORLD Japanese researchers developed electric chopsticks to enhance the salty taste. The device uses a weak electrical current to transmit sodium ions from food, through the chopsticks, to the mouth where they create a 1.5 times enhanced sense of saltiness. CRACKED.COM — Reuters

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Water you drink may be older than the Sun According to astrophysicists, half of all water on Earth may be millions of years older than the solar system. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 True Facts That Don't Seem Real

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A COUPLE LOOKING FOR A HAWAIIAN SUNSET FOUND ANCIENT PETROGLYPHS ON THE BEACH. CRACKED.COM Lonnie Watson and Mark Louviere were in Honolulu when they stumbled across the 400-year-old sandstone carvings on the shore. Experts believe the glyphs, which number at least 17 and stretch across 60 feet of beach, were left by the early inhabitants of the Waianae coast. — Source

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