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32 Random Bits of Trivia Arrogantly Recited by Our Archnemesis Just Before We Wriggled out of His Trap

October 05, 2024

You wouldn’t think that we’d go to our archnemesis for facts, but we got a little desperate this week. With so many lists filled with so many facts, we had nowhere else to turn. So we ventured into the belly of the beast, let his horde of henchmen take us in, and clicked on the old voice recorder while he rambled on and on about his greatness.

As cringeworthy as his whole evil villain act is, the guy has some pretty top-notch facts. Plus, you know we always get away!

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CRACKED COM Of all primates, humans sleep the least. However, the sleep we do get is higher quality. Scientists believe sleeping less but more deeply

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Taco Bell is named after its founder, Glen Bell. TACO BELL Не was a California entrepreneur who first owned a mini golf course and a hot dog stand. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One COVID patient hid Ivermectin in a stuffed animal in a hospital, it turns out. Staff at the Windsor, Ontario hospital found the ivermectin behind a slit in the stuffed animal (belonging to an adult patient, as it happens). CRACKED.COM — Source

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World War I

Belgrade's Ruzica Church was built with WWI weapons and ammo. When the church was rebuilt in 1925 after WWI CRACY damage, they decided to turn it into

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Vanna White

Vanna White is the most prolific clapper in history. CRACKED.COM Guinness clocked her at nearly 4 million claps over 32 seasons, with an average of 606 per show. That's approximately half a million Tinkerbells saved. — Guinness

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A bookstore owner decided they could write better than the books they had in stock.

Nobel Prize in Literature winner Alice Munro co-founded a bookstore before she decided to write. GRAGKED.COM After reading some of the store's stock, she thought I can write better books than this. — The Global Mail

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Belgium workers opt for four-day work week, and ignoring emails after hours.

Belgium approves the four-day work week, and the right to ignore your boss. Under a series of labor market reforms, workers in Belgium will be able to choose a four-day week, and the right to turn off work devices and ignore emails after work hours. CRACKED.COM — Source: Euro News

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GRACKED.COM and the OF adidas IN PASSAND STOP that BOGLAH The wide crack on the Liberty Bell was actually the repair job. In the early 1840s, a narrow crack appeared on the bell, so the workers decided to widen it in order to prevent it from spreading. It didn't work, though, as the crack spread even further, permanently damaging the bell in the process. — Source

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Expelled

Richard Dawkins was tricked into appearing in Expelled. Dawkins was told he was interviewed for a film called Crossroads, about how religious ideas persist. The actual film is about Big Science oppressing religious freedom, and the film blames belief in evolution for everything from communism to the Holocaust. — For details, read Famous Actors Who Were Tricked Into Being In Bad Movies

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2019 ANNABELLE COMES HOME The set for the third Annabelle installment was so spooky, a priest had to intervene. A piano bench would move by itself, door knocks would be randomly heard, and performers saw shadowy figures on the set. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Having an extra bone in your knee is becoming more common. CRACKED COM Some people have a bone in their knee called a fabella, which has an unknown pur- pose and was fading away. In 1918, 11% of the popula- tion had the bone, which has jumped to 39% by 2018. — Source

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Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe was a Danish astronomer in the 1500s. He's been described as the first competent mind in modern astronomy to feel ardently the passion for exact empirical facts. THE CRAZY: He kept a dwarf under his dinner table. The little person was named Jepp, and Brahe believed Jepp had psychic powers. Brahe paid Jepp to dress as a jester and sit under the table during meals. CRACKED.COM Fdeath-of-tycho-brahe-historys-strangest-astronomer — Source: 24 Famous (And Insane) Historical Figures

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Behind-the-scenes feuds American History x УБ Edward Norton vs Tony Kaye After Kaye (the director) turned in his cut of the film, the studio demanded another with Norton's involvement. Kaye hated the Norton cut, publicly disowned the film, and punched a goddamn wall. Today he admits he got carried away by his ego. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Metallica

The father of late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton still gets royalties. For three decades he's been spending them on college scholarships in his son's honor. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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George Patton thought he had fought for ages. General Patton believed in reincarnation, and thought he had lived through many lives - always as a sold — More: 4 Famous Smart People With Little-Known Problems

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Wayne Gretzky had a cameo in the soap opera The Young and the Restless. He confessed to being a fan of soap operas, so a cameo was kind of natural. He played a mobster with one line: I'm Wayne from the Edmonton operation. CRACKED COM — Source: Mental Floss

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s

MARILYN MONROE COULD HAVE STARRED IN CRACKED.COM BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S. Truman Capote's novel had a more tragic tone than the Paramount production, and the author always pictured the character of Holly as a blonde. However, producers chose to put a more positive, innocent spin on the role, and chose Audrey Hepburn. And just like that, the world missed out on a breathy, sultry rendition of Moon River. — Source: 19 Roles That Were Almost Played By Waay Different Actors

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32 Random Bits of Trivia Arrogantly Recited by Our Archnemesis Just Before We Wriggled out of His Trap — Source: The New York Times

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REFRESHING SERVING OF SODA TRIVIA... CRACKED.COM COKE WAS INVENTED BY A CONFEDERATE CIVIL WAR VETERAN. Dr. John Stith Pemberton, suffering from a war wound, was addicted to morphine and created it as an alternative painkiller. — Source

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CRACKED COM If a hospital's PA system pages Dr. Firestone it means there's a fire and the building should be evacuated.

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Jon Snow's cloak is an IKEA rug. According to Michele Clapton, costume designer for Game of Thrones, the Night's Watch cloaks are made from rugs bought at IKEA. Of course, her job isn't just throwing the things on the crows' shoulders. They cut the rugs, shave them, add leather straps to them, and generally rough them up to give them that worn- down, smelly look. GRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know

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DEUS EX HINTS AT A CHARACTER'S ULTERIOR MOTIVES. CRACKED.COM The character of Paul Denton is a double agent, a fact that is hinted at in the password of his personal computer: Chameleon. — Source

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15 Feel Good Stories Of 2020 To End This Wretched Year - Someone dressed as Darth Vader helped locals during lockdown in a Philippines village. The p — Source: Reuters

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The Office

THE OFFICE was heavily influenced by THE SOPRANOS. The Sopranos was actually the biggest influence on The Office, actor and producer B. J. Novak has said. The way Michael Scott will say something very serious but mispronounce a word I feel is a direct descendant of the Tony Soprano sense of humor. — Source: Yahoo

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Stan Lee

Stan Lee was initially worried that blind people would take offense to the character Daredevil. CRACKED.COM Lee was worried about how far he exaggerated the way a blind person's other senses are enhanced, until he received letters telling him that blind peo- ple greatly enjoyed having the comics read to them. — Source

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The Powerpuff Girls' Mojo Jojo is partly based on an obscure Japanese TV villain. — Source: 6 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Movie Costumes

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The third Amazing Spider-Man would’ve featured the cloned return of Gwen Stacy

Superhero movies we almost got The Amazing Spider-Man 3 The Clone Saga? The third film in The Amazing Spider-Man would've featured Peter Parker using his blood to bring back cloned versions of Gwen Stacy (presumably evil ones). Other ideas for Gwen? Bringing her back as Carnage. CRACKED.COM — Source: Murphy’s Multiverse

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The Giraffe Weevil CRACKED.com The giraffe weevil can crane its neck. It lives in Madagascar, and that long neck helps the male fight off rivals and build nests. — San Francisco Zoo

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Bayer

Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - In 1984, aspirin manufacturer Bayer discovered that one of their blood clotting medicines had been infecting co — Source: Eerie Conspiracies Theorists Were Right About All Along

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People used to think that witches could actually shapeshift into cats. Apparently that's why one pope said that the cat was the devil's favourite animal and idol of all witches. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hollywood feuds REESE WITHERSPOON VS VINCE VAUGH On Four Christmases, they found each other to be entirely vile. The hatred was so intense that a source said, Sometimes Vince will be standing behind her and he has this look on his face that he just wants to kill her! CRACKED — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A 19th-century hydroelectric plant started mining Bitcoin with its spare power. 1 The Mechanicville, NY plant, built in 1897, can make more money doing that than selling the extra power to the National Grid. CRACKED.COM — Source: Tom's Hardware

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