36 Random Trivia Tidbits to Launch Through Your Forehead Like a Molotov Cocktail

You’ve never truly felt the explosive power of a fact — until now
36 Random Trivia Tidbits to Launch Through Your Forehead Like a Molotov Cocktail

Has your brain wronged a spicy group of facts by any chance? Because they seem pissed. 

In fact, word on the street is that these ones in particular are plotting a fiery attack that will no doubt leave your brain in ruins. They’re facts, so either way your brain is sure to get something out of the whole ordeal. But after this full-blown bombardment, it will need at least a couple of days to recover.

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36 Random Trivia Tidbits to Launch Through Your Forehead Like a Molotov Cocktail
Source: PBS

Australia had a Rum Rebellion.

One of the currencies in early colonial Australia was Rum. GETV BLENDED VX MELANCE ALAMAN DOMAINE APPLETON ESTATE SINCE-DEPUIS 1749 - 47kcal RHUM JAMA PRODUCT CRACKED.COM New South Wales Corps of- ficers bought up all the im- ported rum and estab- lished a monopoly on its trade. It resulted in Austra- lia's first and only military coup. It would later be called the Rum Rebellion.

AU News

Yoko Ono put a stop to a Weird Al parody of a Beatles song.

Weird Al intended to parody the Beatles Free as a Bird on his album Bad Hair Day. CRACKED.COM Paul McCartney gave permission for the parody, but since John Lennon wrote the song, he passed the decision on to Yoko Ono, who said no.

Weird Al 

Aladdin was modeled after Tom Cruise. Animator Glen Keane originally envisioned the Disney hero looking like Michael J. Fox, but went with Cruise when

The new millennium has been kind to the King.

CRACKED ELVIS EARNED ALMOST $1 BILLION SINCE THE YEAR 2000. At the time of his death in 1977, Elvis Presley's net worth was around $5 million, but his estate has earned roughly $924 million in the 21st century so far. His albums continue to sell, and Graceland alone brings in over $10 million per year.

Parade

THE STORY THAT INSPIRED NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION IS ABOUT VIOLENT CRIME. In Vacation '58, the Griswolds go to Disneyland but find it closed, So Cla

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding was watched by 30 million Americans.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding was watched by nearly 30 million viewers in the U.S. CRACKED.COM This is more than the Friends, Cheers, Seinfeld, and M*A*S*H finales combined. This is noth- ing compared to Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana's wedding, in which 750 million people worldwide tuned in.

CNBC

Audiences scored “Thumbelina” higher when it followed the Disney logo.

Test audiences enjoyed Thumbelina more after it was prefaced by the Walt Disney logo. Two separate test screen- ings were done by Warner Bros for the 1994 animated movie; the audience reac- tion fell flat during the first screening, but just adding the Disney logo made the second test scores soar. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

LA Times

A weasel shut down the Large Hadron Collider.

The Large Hadron Collider had to be temporarily shut down when a weasel fell in. GRACKED.COM A spokesman for Cern said that the weasel did not get into the tunnels, just the electrical facilities. The unfortunate creature did not survive the encounter with a high-voltage transformer.

BBC

Eight years before Brown VS. Board of Education Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez challenged the segregation in their childrens' school system. Their succe

Cable company charges deceased customer for her own murder.

Spectrum cable charged a customer for services that ended with their murder. LUNAR D MARK INAL U VENIRS NATU IT DEAR are - TV HD INTERNET Spectrum VOICE spectrum.com 855-70-SPECTRUM CRACKED.COM Attorneys said Thomas' family later received a bill from Spectrum that includ- ed a $58 charge for the murderer's service call and continued to receive bills for service weeks after Thomas died.

WFAA

A father from Virginia claimed an uninhabited bit of Sudan for his seven-year-old.

A Virginian man planted a flag near Egypt so his daughter could be a princess. CRACKED.COM The flag was placed in Bir Tawil, a 2,060 square km swath of land between Egypt and Sudan that is the last habitable land on earth that is not taken or claimed by any government.

The Guardian

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