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33 Random Bits of Trivia That Fell Out of Their Nest and We’ve Been Feeding With an Eyedropper

October 06, 2024

Some facts are late-bloomers. It doesn’t make them any less true than their siblings who are somehow just born ready to take on the world. These facts simply needed a little more time at home with us. We had all the confidence in the world that they’d beef up a little and become the facts they were born to be — and this list proves it.

It couldn’t have come at a better time either. We were getting pretty sick of scraping week-old pizza rolls off of plates hidden under crusty laundry mounds.

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9/11

The National September 11 Memorial is always carefully heated and cooled. ALAN // RICHARD /. GUADAGNO CHH MARTINEZ MARK BINGHAM It was designed so that people could always touch it, so an elaborate system of copper tubes heats or cools it as necessary at all times. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE FIRST STREET FIGHTER LITERALLY BLOODIED YOUR FISTS LIKE A REAL FIGHT. ON VS Initially, the cabinet didn't have buttons, but rubber pads you actually had to punch (and through those, your opponent), resulting in players getting their hands hurt. The game became much more popular after that baffling design choice was abandoned. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Wars

RIAN JOHNSON'S HAND IS IN THE TRIC LAST JEDI. CRACKED.COM The gloved hand grabbing Han Solo's dice at the end of the movie doesn't actually belong to Mark Hamill-it's the hand of the director, Rian Johnson. — Film School Rejects

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Colossal Bioscience

The CIA is investing in technology to resurrect the Wooly Mammoth. CRACKED.COM Colossal Biosciences, which aims to return the beasts to the tundra once again, has investors like Peter Thiel, Tony Robbins, Paris Hilton, Winklevoss Capital, and yes, the Cen- tral Intelligence Agency. — The Intercept / Wikipedia

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Terri Hill

WEIRD WORLD In Maryland, a lawmaker who's also a surgeon tried to combine those jobs. Terri Hill showed up in virtual legislative meetings while literally in the middle of surgery - and got fined a total of $15,000 for it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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AT A GLANCE ROBIN WILLIAMS The children in Mrs. Doubtfire originally met Robin Williams in costume, introduced as Chris Columbus's mother They believed it, passing the test as the initial guinea pigs to see if the costume was believable. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

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André had to use wires to lift Robin Wright. GRACKED.COM Despite his large physique, Andre needed assistance lifting the small actress because he was in so much physical pain from wrestling. — Source

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This authoritarian regime could have been an email.

The Nazis kept having daily meetings for a month after Hitler's death. CRACKED.COM Karl Dönitz became the führer after Hitler's suicide and his cabinet continued to have daily meetings for about a month, even though they had no power. They discussed how Germany should proceed after the war, despite the Allies showing absolutely no interest in adopting their plans. — Library of Congress

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CGI

Amazing effects made without CGI Independence Day Ronald Emmerich's movie is right at the hinge between old-school techniques and modern CGI, and the destruction of New York is a wonder ofthe former. The wall of fire slowly enveloping the city is real fire, climbing up a vertical model of the city. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Interstellar

The interviews at the start of Interstellar are (mostly) real. One of them includes an actor (Ellen Burstyn), but the others are interviews with real people, describing what they lived through, from the 2012 documentary Dust Bowl. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The liquid that comes out of meat isn't blood, it's water and myoglobin. Meat releases water over time, and myoglobin, which gives meat its red color, is carried out with the water. Blood isn't involved at all. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — MeatScience

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Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson was secretly married to Romain Dauriac. But word got out anyway, and apparently that was thanks to a clerk in Granite County, Montana, who couldn't resist blabbing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Robin Williams

J.K. Rowling stopped Robin Williams from playing Hagrid in the Harry Potter films. CRACKED.COM Williams wanted to play a role in the series, with Warner Bros. even pushing producers to cast as На- grid. It's hard to imagine the role being played by anyone but the incompara- ble Robbie Coltrane. — Source

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Three teens from Virginia chipped in on Tiny Toons.

THREE TEENS FROM VIRGINIA WROTE A TINY TOONS EPISODE. Eighth-graders Renee Carter, Amy Crosby, and Sarah Reef wrote a story titled Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian, and then sent it to the TV station on a whim. The story eventually made it to Steven Spielberg's desk, who liked it SO much that he bought it and produced it. — Source: Education Week

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Ghostbusters 2's fur coat gag was recycled. They were going to use the gag with the dead skins coming back to life in the first movie, but they just didn't get around to filming it. So they put it in the sequel. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie-Related And Other Now-You-Know Facts

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Peppers are named so because of Christopher Columbus. ORBEM.COM PENE ER AVEC IN CRACKED COM Chili peppers, bell peppers, and the rest got their English name when Columbus visited the Caribbean and thought they tasted like black pepper. — Source

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The chocolate pudding cans in Stranger Things were actually Vienna sausages. Hunt's Hunt's snack pa Ж snack pack CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE PUDDING PUDDING Hunt's Hunt's Arti Hunt's pa snack pack snack pack CK N ack PaCK snack pack LAI OCO CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE DINC JOO PUDDING PUDDING PUDDING PUDDING Busin Noth Hunt's mac snack pack CK snack pack PaCK CHO 1 CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE LATE DUE Propmaster Lynda Reiss said the canned meat used to recreate the retro Hunt's Snack Packs smelled so nasty that the child actors would gag when they had to open them. ENNA SAUSAGE MAD CRACKED.COM — Source

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Marilyn's Movies

CRACKED.COM Marilyn Monroe She did almost 30 movies. Her first movie was 1947's Dangerous Years. Her last, 1961's The Misfits. In between, her best works include Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Monkey Business, Some Like It Hot, Bus Stop, and The Seven Year Itch, — Source: Wikipedia

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‘Harry Potter’ has many elements that came from an earlier novel.

Many elements of Harry Potter are very similar to a book written 3 years before. CRACKED.COM The Secret of Platform 13 features a boy of magi- cal lineage who lives in an abusive house with a spoiled other child, and you get to the magical world through a platform at King's Cross. — DDG Books

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Terrence Howard claimed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from South Carolina State University. Uh, no. It was an honorary degree as a commencement speaker. Не never attended SCSU. So why the lie? It could be that he was on the show promoting his new business venture: diamond growing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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We have aspartame because a chemist licked his fingers. EQUAL SWEETENER CRACKED.COM Dr. James Schlatter was so busy working on an ulcer treatment that he didn't have time to wash his hands between experimentation and paperwork. Не licked his finger to turn a page, and noticed it tasted good as hell. That's aspartame, baby! — Culinary Lore

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FEAR OCTOBER 31, 1981 CRACKED.COM John Belushi not only convinced SNL to book his favorite band but to allow a mosh pit as well. A chaotic set led to $200,00 in damages, a destroyed green room, one busted camera, and a lifetime ban. Said one NBC tech: It's amazing no one was killed. — Far Out

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Keya Morgan, Stan Lee's former business manager, was arrested on elder abuse charges in 2019. Charges included false imprisonment and stealing over $262,000 from Lee's autographing sessions in 2018. ... MIDA KHEN ... I POLICE AWARE CAR TKE CONCRETA CRACKED VOLE COM U WH AS APPA us ad MAY — Source

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Canadians trade coupons from a tire company. Lienter CANADIAN TIA CANADARIAS 10c LS CANADIAN TIRE LA SOCIETE CANADIAN TRE LIMITEE I CASH BONUS out B BONI CANADIAN TIRE CARADUAN TIRE CONPORATI ion, LIMITED Canada Tire is so ubiquitous that lots of bars and small businesses an accept their official Canadian Tire Money. Someone was even caught counterfeiting $11 million worth. CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A Fact You Can Trust!

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THERE'S A SCRIPT WRITTEN FOR A BILL SWERSKI'S SUPERFANS MOVIE. Basino CHICAGO Rulle el Jordan CHICAGO au Chicago olls It was written by Bob Odenkirk and Robert Smigel, and it's about Superfans traveling the country amid a football strike. Chances are it'll never get made, though. — Source: 11 Proposed Saturday Night Live Movies That We Never Got To See

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3.6 million CRACKED.COM 3.6 million married Americans live in a separate residence than their spouse. Living together apart couples have doubled since 1991. — Source

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The Pennsylvania Hockey team, The Hershey Bears, held their annual Teddy Bear Toss for fans to donate stuffed animals by tossing them on the ice. TO

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Okay sweetie, you can join the resistance.

CRACKED BILLIE LOURD CARRIED THE TORCH FOR CARRIE FISHER. Fisher's daughter played Lieutenant Connix alongside Princess Leia in the sequel trilogy. After Fisher's passing, her face was digitally imposed on Lourd's for The Rise of Skywalker. — Time

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13 Surprising Facts About Movies And, Like, Life In General - Moray eels have two sets of jaws. — Source: National Geographic

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Hackers testified before the US Senate Committee using their hacker names.

A group of hackers testified before the US Senate Committee in 1998 using their hacker names. Brian Oblivion, Kingpin, Tan, Space Rogue, Weld Pond, Mudge, and Stefan described how they could make the internet unus- able for the entire nation with just a few packets. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Government Affairs Committee

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Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig just happened to hit a sandbank on the beach in Casino Royale. In the script, Bond would float off - Craig tried to do that, but hit a sandbank, so he got up and walked out of the water. Which gave us his iconic shot in blue shorts. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

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Electroshock doesn't zap you while you're awake. Electroconvulsive therapy passes small electric currents through your brain after giving you general anesthesia and muscle relaxants. This has been the case since the 1950s-1960s — Sources: Mayo Clinic, National Center for Biotechnology Information

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Terrible ideas about the future of movies The invention of smell-o-vision. In 1960, Mike Todd Jr. figured that releasing scents in sync to the action on the screen would improve scenes set in restaurants, perfume shops, and such. Needless to say, the gimmick stunk. CRACKED.COM — Source

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