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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Fell Off the Back of the Truck, If You Know What We Mean

September 23, 2024

One Austin Powers character was surprisingly autobiographical.

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CRACKED.COM Pineapples used to be a status symbol. For centuries, pineapples in Europe were rare, exotic, and above all expensive, as they were imported from across the ocean. The rich would often get one-not to eat it, but to show off their wealth by parading the fruit in front of other people. — Source: 18 Random Facts For Your General Edification

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CRACKED THE SHORTEST VERSE IN THE BIBLE IS JESUS WEPT. It can be found in the Gospel of John, chapter 11, verse 35. Ente said Jesus wept Then — Source

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Star Wars

Q. Why was Han Solo frozen in carbonite? Harrison Ford only had one Star Wars sequel included in his contract, so writers wanted to allow for different narrative options before he signed on for the next film. CRACKED — Source: ScreenRant

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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Fell Off the Back of the Truck, If You Know What We Mean — Source: 6 Times Rampant Substance Abuse Led To Cinematic Genius

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Zoe D. Katze CRACKED.co A German psychologist set out to prove that the American Psychotherapy Association would certify anyone. He successfuly got a psychotherapy certification - and several hypnotherapy credentials -- for Zoe the katze.

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Tie Domi

A fan falls into the penalty box MI CRACKED.COM In 2001, Flyers fans were pestering notorious ass-kicker Tie Domi in the penalty box, when the glass broke and a dude fell right in. Domi did what Domi does, and said in a post-game interview It's nice to see the fans get involved, I guess. — Source: 15 Big-Time Freak-Outs From Sports History

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The Road to El Dorado

Adult jokes in children's movies The Road to El Dorado That didn't involve his mouth. Chel and Tulio are presumably making out off camera - but then she definitely pops up from his waist. CRACKED.COM — More: 6 Movies Aimed At Kids (With Scenes That Definitely Weren't)

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Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn CRACKED.COM Colin Quinn's nightly news commentary on Comedy Central, Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn was a mixed bag for audiences. Be- fore the time of podcasts in 2002, Colin Quinn had a roundtable of comedians dis- cussing current political topics and philoso- phy. Patrice O'Neal, Jim Norton, Keith Rob- inson, Greg Giraldo, and Nick Di Paolo were writers and panelists on the show, but while some loved the brash arguments, many peo- ple felt the show was just a screaming match. It was canceled after its first season but is remembered fondly by O'Neal fans. — Source

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Biodegradable, but deafening.

FOOD CONTROVERSIES eam Sun 24 Sun 0 pare ALE ~100% WHOLE GRAIN ~100% W FRITO-LAY'S ON LAST adidas Onion sun CHIPS BAG In 2010, Frito-Lay released a new bag for Sun Chips that was made from 100% biodegradable material. It was incredibly loud, measuring 95 dB, which is louder than a gas lawnmower, and almost as loud as a subway. CRACKED — ZikG/Shutterstock,
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That ‘70s Show

CRACKED.COM The fact that Eric and Donna stay together for the majority of the series makes no sense. That 70s Show Yes Eric and Donna are neighbors and are each other's first love, but beyond that their differences are stark. Donna is cool, smart, thoughtful, and ambitious. Eric is a selfish nerd, who is a jerk to anyone and everyone if given the chance. He's just kind of a mean person and someone like Donna would have never put up with that for very long. — Source: 28 Doomed Movie And TV Relationships

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T.I. PRETENDED TO BE AN OWNER OF A CRYPTOCURRENCY COMPANY. EXCHANGE AND COMMISSION SECURITIES In 2020, the SEC charged T.I for promoting FLiK, an unregistered and fraudulent ICO, to his followers and claiming to be its co-owner. Не was forced to pay $75, ,000 and got barred from participating in the cryptocurrency market for five years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Chainsaw Attached to Your Wrist Stump

Improvised weapons in pop culture Evil Dead/Army of Darkness CHAINSAW HAND Ingenuity, thy name is chainsaw hand. Ash not only found a suitable replacement for his lost appendage, but one that can tear up anything in his way. CRACKED.COM

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Margot Robbie held an unbroken 24-hour party to celebrate her birthday. t started at 9 AM, and included under-the-sea-karaoke, a Western-themed part, progressively filthier and filthier bars, and finally champagne at 9 AM next morning. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fat Bastard hit a little too close to home for Mike Myers.

CRACKED MIKE MYERS AS FAT BASTARD THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME FBD It brought up some real insecurities. Не said, I've always struggled with my weight. When I turned 25, I was like, 'Jesus, I have a weight problem. Не wrote, I eat because I'm unhappy and I'm unhappy because I eat because he genuinely felt it. — EW / Reddit

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Segways

CRACKED Segways and Hoverboards were portable death traps. On top of bursting into flames, hoverboards landed over 26,000 kids in the ER between 2015 and 2016. Segway has doled out its fair share of injuries, and ironically, the company's owner, Jim Heseldon, accidentally rode one off of a cliff and died. OS TAILOR adidas — Source

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Chekov was added to Star Trek to attract young viewers. CRACKED.COM Pavel Chekov did not ар- pear on 'Star Trek' until the first episode of the second season. The character was created to attract young viewers by resembling Davy Jones of The Monkees.

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Virginity

MYTH: LOSING YOUR VIRGINITY WILL HURT. FACT: IT PROBABLY won'T. The hymen isn't a barrier that gets painfully ripped open, and it has generally dissolved before a woman's first time having sex. If sex is uncomfortable, it's probably just a physiological response to anxiety, making this myth only a self-fulfilling prophecy. CRACKED.COM — Sex Myths You've Probably Believed Your Entire Life

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Ren Kylo's helmet in The Rise of Skywalker drew on a Japanese practice. It's called kintsugi, and it involves repairing any cracks with visible material (like gold or silver), so that the cracks become part of the object's history and not a defect. CRACKED.COM — Inverse

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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Fell Off the Back of the Truck, If You Know What We Mean

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The Temptation of St. Anthony

1650 The Temptation of St. Anthony Joos van Craesbeeck paints religious iconography in the weirdest way possible. Gotta appreciate a giant head. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Historic Art Pieces That Show Humans Have Always Been Freaky Weirdos

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James Mangold's father helped inspire Logan's ending. His father, a painter, made two series of paintings that explored the plus and the X symbols, respectively, so Mangold has a very ingrained sense of the relationship of the cross and the X --and that's part of what inspired him to make Laura rotate the grave marker, turning it from a cross into an X. CRACKED.COM — Film School Rejects

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Ratatouille Chardonnay BUY NOW CHARDONNAY BOURCOCNE RATATOUILLE Disney and Costco stopped plans for their Ratatouille Chardonnay in 2007 (that was supposed to feature Remy) after getting criticism from California winemakers and people who don't support underage drinking. Were we deprived ... or spared? CRACKED — Source

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The gang's all here... and still going strong.

CRACKED ROIS P SAVED BY THE BELL The cast of Saved by the Bell reunited in 2019 for dinner, and shared a pic on Instagram. They've gotten together a few times since the show ended in '92. They've all had successful careers in TV and film, and some will be in the 2020 Peacock reboot. — E Online / Esquire

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The cost of an oil change for a Bugatti Veyron is $20,000. CRACKED.COM The car literally has to be split in half in order to get to the oil inspection area. This includes taking off the heads, inspecting inside the engine thoroughly, and checking to make sure that oil is being applied in key areas. — Source

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Picasso was once suspected of stealing the Mona Lisa in 1911. One of Picasso's friends had sold him art stolen from the Louvre before and reported him to the police. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM — Source: Mental Floss

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TEMPERATURE CRACKED COM Women have colder hands and feet than men by a couple degrees but higher core temperatures. Women have less blood than men, and this blood more quickly shifts inwards toward vital organs. — Source: The Lancet

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Standup comics have a tendency to die early compared to actors. In a study of about 500 comedians and actors, the standups died at around the age of 67.1, the comedy actors at 68.9, and the dramatic actors at 70.7. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Beaver teeth are incredibly strong, and even have some iron in them. That's why their teeth have a reddish, or orange-ish tint - the enamel is fortified with iron. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM DO Taxi Driver was written in two weeks. Screenwriter Paul Schrader was going through marriage problems, lost his job, was broke, and suffered a bleeding ulcer. His depression from all this at the same time drove him to write about Travis Bickle, or I was going to start to become him. — Source

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A comic book artist kept drawing Power Girl’s boobs bigger until someone noticed.

Power Girl's artist kept drawing her boobs bigger until editors noticed. CRACKED.COMP When the character was created, the writer and art- ist were convinced that they were being ignored by editors, so for 8 issues they steadily increased her bust size until someone spoke up. — Comics Bulletin

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With Newman, the term “The Fifth Beatle” comes to mind.

CRACKED Signation Free - NOS *TODOS - - the with Wayne Knight as Newman on Seinfeld. The character was heard off screen in Season 2 (voiced by Larry David), but Wayne Knight appeared in Season 3's The Suicide. Originally meant to appear in 1 episode, he nailed it and landed 42 more (roughly a quarter of the show's total episodes). — Looper / Shaken Not Stirred

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A Little House on the Prairie Actor Created Malcom in the Middle. MALC IN THe LM MIDDLE Linwood Boomer, who played Mary Ingalls' husband, based the character of Malcom on himself as a kid. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Big Bird is a different color in different countries. Pino They're called his cousins on the show, and they include Abelardo (green, from Mexico), Pino (blue, from the Netherlands) and Minik Ku (orange, from Turkey). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE SHOW MUST GO ON... OR IT DID, PRE-2020 K SIDE E FOO STORY WEST SIDE SIOU STORY 1-I TAI CRACKED Before the pandemic closed theaters for a year and a half, the only times Broadway had shut down for more than four days was for strikes and labor disputes. — Source: NY1

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"Wubalubadubdub" - Curly meets 'Rick and Morty'.

RICK AND MORTY wubalubadubdub The nonsense phrase was inspired by the Three Stooges; it was supposed to be like that sound Curly makes that you can't quite describe. The final version ended up being so dumb, the writers hoped it wouldn't catch on. CRACKED — Adult Swim,
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Quitman, Arkansas: Don’t Get Fetched by the Arkansas Dog Boy

The Arkansas Dog Boy is, it's said, six feet tall and 300 pounds. Half human, half canine, he might be what's left of Gerald Bettis, a local boy who spent the 1970s torturing and killing dogs, eventually becoming a monster. CRACKED — Source / Allied News

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Emo Philips

Emo Philips I used to be scared of pretty girls, until one confessed they're just as scared of me. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — YouTube

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Three notorious bombers became friends in prison. 6 9 11 O. i2 1 1 0 5 4 Timothy McVeigh, Ted Unabomber Kaczynski, and Ramzi Yousef (who bombed the WTCi in 1993) were all locked away in the same supermax prison in Colorado. And they shared common interests other than bombs, so they struck a friendship. The gang was broken up when McVeigh was executed in 2001. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cursing

Die Hard Then vs. Now From cursing to PG-13 language McClane's yippee ki yay, motherf*ker famously became yippee ki yay, Mr. Falcon in Die Hard 2's TV version. By the fourth movie, the catchphrase was muffled under a gunshot, and while the fifth one was R-rated, the edge was gone. CRACKED.COM — More: The Censored Version of 'Die Hard 2' Makes Sense, Actually

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