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September 28, 2024

A Dairy Queen Blizzard is supposed to be so thick that it can safely be turned upside-down, and company policy dictates that staff do so once per order. If they don’t, and you call them on it, you’re supposed to get a coupon for a free one.

Interestingly, the Blizzard isn’t technically ice cream. In fact, Dairy Queen can’t legally call its frozen dairy products “ice cream” because the FDA requires products claiming to be “ice cream” to possess a butterfat content of at least 10 percent. DQ’s are only 5 percent.

This, however, hasn’t stopped the Blizzard’s spread. Started in 1985, the frosty treat has amassed a total of more than 170 flavors over the last four decades. Which is why, in its honor, we’ve assembled an incredible slurry of delicious trivia that should be its own Blizzard flavor for you to enjoy.

And yes, we turned it upside-down. We turn all our trivia sets upside-down before posting them.

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SHOE STORIES CRACKED.COM IN 1997, MICHAEL JORDAN LED THE CHICAGO BULLS TO A GAME FIVE WIN IN THE NBA FINALS, WITH THE FLU. AFTER THE GAME HE GAVE THE AIR JORDANS HE WAS WEARING TO THE BALLBOY, WHO SOLD THEM ON EBAY FOR $104,765. — Source

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A WELSH TOWIN WAs TAKEN OVER BY A GOAT HERD. SACRED kNOT EWE FELTY THNG ewtwms SoneNdd Phillip J Watters Solkcicors Ioa With no people around, a herd — Source: BBC News, CNN

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Eastern Whip-poor-wills lay their eggs in phase with the lunar cycle so they hatch 10 days before a full moon. GRACKED.COM When the moon is near full, the adults can forage the entire night and capture large quantities of in- sects to feed to their nestlings. — Source

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CRACKED.COM YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN USED THE LABORATORY FROM THE ORIGINAL FRANKENSTEIN. Mel Brooks' opus nailed the look and feel of the lab from 1931's Fr — From 6 Movie Sets That Were Shamelessly Recycled From Other Films.

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Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick once challenged race car driver Jeff Gordon to build The Ultimate Race Car while following all the rules se

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The Little Red-Haired Girl in Peanuts was inspired by Charles Schulz's ex. Her name is Donna Mae Johnson, and she worked in the accounting department at Art Instruction, Inc. in Minneapolis, where she met Schulz, who worked as a cartooning instructor. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Indian farmers streamed fake pro cricket matches to Russian bettors for two weeks.

Farmers streamed fake cricket matches to Russians for two weeks. CRACKED.COM A group of Indian farmers set up a fake Indian Pre- mier League cricket tour- nament so convincing that they managed to trick a Russian audience into making real bets. — The Verge

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Bats

Bats eat enough insects to save the US over $1 Billion a year in crop damage and pesticide. CRACKED.COM While many bats eat in- sects, others feed on nectar and provide criti- cal pollination for a vari- ety of plants like peach- es, cloves, bananas and agaves. — Source

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THE GOOD DINOSAUR Arlo's movements were based on elephants. Since you can't exactly look at the way a living dinosaur walks, the animators mimicked the movements of elephants for the main dino character. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS stands for Bulletproof Boy Scouts. illbc b rc S S 10 -10 SIC A CA RDS na The Korean expression is Bangtan Sonyeondan. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Russell Crowe sold his violin from Master and Commander for $104,000. Не called it very dear to my heart, and said the buyer might want to lend it to a young musician so it starts to play in concert halls around the world. CRACKED.COM — Vanity Fair

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CRACKED THE FRESHWATER SNAIL IS ONE OF THE DEADLIEST ANIMALS ON EARTH. Snaill carry a parasite that can give humans bilharzia, a deadly pee-blood disease that kills 200,000 people each year. — Source

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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Harold and Kumar were originally written to go to Krispy Kreme Krispy Kreme didn't want to be associated with the movie, but White Castle took the risk. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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1990's TOTAL RECALL WAS CALLED THE AVENGER OF THE FUTURE IN SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE. CRACKED.COM

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Bigfoot Pizza was just too-big pizza. CRACKED.COM Its whole... thing was that it was too big: too big for minimum wage-earning delivery guys to comfortably hold it, and too big for your ravenous family to snarf it down in one sitting. — Source

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Robin williams helped Steven Spielberg get through Schindler's List. Spielberg says he had a really tough time while filming the brutally depressing f

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МУТН: ORGANIC FOOD IS ALWAYS BETTER. Organic food has not been found to be significantly healthier than non-organic and eating the recommended servings of fruits and veggies is more important than how it is grown. GRACKED GOM — 21 Debunked Food Myths

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Mark Hamill is a big fanboy of the fake doc What We Do In The Shadows. He tweeted about it multiple times to recommend it to his followers, and the people behind it cast him in the TV show, to his glee. CRACKED.COM — Source: Collider

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Dodgeball's Original Ending

Behind-the-scenes Drama NO - - - - в Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story The team was supposed to lose. Keeping with its irreverent tone, the film originally ended with the team losing. When the studio changed that, the credits included Ben Stiller's White Goodman mocking the fact that they won. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Cases of Behind-the-Scenes Drama that Showed Up On-Screen

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CRACKED.COM Keanu Reeves was in an awful movie because someone forged his signature. Keanu never signed up to play a serial killer in 2000's The Watcher - but some friend signed up for him. Keanu couldn't prove that wasn't his signature on the contract, so he was forced to make a movie he wanted nothing to do with. — Source

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Movie and TV Aliens The Thing The Thing put its FX artist in the hospital. FX wizard Rob Bottin got pneumonia and bleeding ulcers for overworking himself. An up-and-coming Stan Winston stepped in to help (uncredited, as he insisted that it was Rob's film). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Soju must be sold at $1 a bottle, so everyone can afford it.

South Korea's national drink has to be sold at $1 a bottle. CRACKED.COM Soju is a clear alcohol, typ- ically made from rice or barley, with an alcohol content of about 20% and a government-mandated price of about $1 per bot- tle, so all citizens can af- ford it. — NY Post

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Monroe didn’t get to finish the movie that showed her topless.

Marilyn Monroe would have been the first mainstream star to go topless in a Hollywood picture if her last movie was finished. GRAGKED.COM Something's Got to Give was shot in 1962. It was Monroe's last work, but from the beginning its production was disrupted by her personal troubles, and after her death the film was abandoned. — Life Magazine

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The world's most expensive parking spot costs $1.3 million A luxury building in Hong Kong sold a spot for more than $10,000 per square foot. CRACKED.COM — NPR

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Ruby Sparks

Ruby Sparks CRACKED.COM Zoe Kazan wrote and starred in this smart anti-romcom about an author whose perfect dream girl comes to life.

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Hedge Funds

WORST FUND MANAGERS Long-Term Capital Management LTCM was a big hedge fund run by Nobel Prize- winning economists. But in 1998, soon after being founded, it failed so hard that the U.S. government had to step in to stop the financial markets from crashing. Not so Long-Term after all. CRACKED — Matej Kastelic/Shutterstock
Investopedia

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Mars refused to grant permission for Steven Spielberg to use M&Ms in ET The Extra- Terrestrial SO Elliot instead uses a trail of Reese's Pieces to lur

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Thanksgiving in Summer

The Addams Family CAMP CHIPPEWA'S THANKSGIVING PLAY IN ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES TOOK TWO WEEKS TO SHOOT. The screenwriter noted that he found it funny how no one questioned them doing a Thanksgiving play in the middle of summer. CRACKED.COM — Source

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NO BEER FOR THE TV COACH OF THE BAD NEWS BEARS BEARS BEAS BEARS 2 BE ARS CRAGKED The fun of the original Bad News Bears movie was watching kids curse and fight as they lost baseball games. Take away the bad words and violence and you're left with a — Retroist

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THE STEREOTYPE... MEN HATE COMMITMENT. BUT in REALITY... NOT AS MUCH AS WOMEN DO. Polled men are quicker than women to fall in love and want children — For details, read 5 Ridiculous Sex Myths Everyone Believes

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People tried to grow vanilla for 300 years in Europe, totally unsuccessfully. In 1836, they finally figured it was because vanilla was pollinated by an insect that didn't live in Europe. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Looking at photos of puppies helps you work One study found that just looking at photos of cute animals can help increase your attention and concentration. (So we're not distracting you from work...we're helping you right now.) CRACKED.COM — Source: APS

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50 CENT PARADED HIS WEALTH WHILE FILING FOR BANKRUPTCY. In 2016, a bankruptcy judge ordered the rapper to appear in court after he raised questions for posting pictures of himself with piles of cash despite filing for bankruptcy just a few months prior. He would go on to delete his — 6 Celebrities Who Accidentally Revealed Embarrassing Things

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Kaufmich, a German social media network for escorts, hired a BROTHEL TESTER They assess the cleanliness and quality of service at various brothels - which includes sleeping with the women and rating their performances. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Fresh Boatload Of Movie And General Trivia - Someone pranked Bobby Flay while he was getting his star on the Walk of Fame. — Source: E! Online

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Oscar Pistorius tragically fulfilled a metaphor. CRACKED COM The South African sprinter, who rose to fame as the blade runner, shot his longtime gir

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DOGS SWEAT oUT OF THEIR PAWS. Dogs' merocrine glands are located in their paws. If dogs sweated out of other parts of their body, the sweat would be a — Source: AKC

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Robert de Niro had loads of his late father's paintings stolen by a crooked art dealer. Lawrence Salander was in charge of managing and selling the art made by De Niro Sr. and used his position to sell his paintings and used the money to settle old personal debts. more CRACKED.COM — Source

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Phyllis Smith was a casting associate Before she was cast on The Office, Smith was a NFL cheerleader, a burlesque dancer, and in the casting department for 19 years. She was 54 years old when she landed her big break. CRACKED.COM — Source: Slate

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The Ferengi were supposed to replace Klingons as the new Star Trek villains, but they were too goofy looking. After their debut episode in Star Trek: The Next Genera- tion, they were rewritten to subsequently be comic foils due to producers finding their appearance comical and non-threatening. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Dolly Parton

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THERE'S A REJECTED SNL SKETCH INVOLVING A CHARACTER CALLED DONNIE PARTON. That's where you're the boy version of Dolly Parton but you have huge balls, explained SNL writer Tim Robinson. — Source

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Iconic Movies You Didn’t Know Reused Their Props And Sets - The Starship Troopers armor has been reused everywhere. — Source: 4 Movie Props You Never Noticed Popped Up Everywhere

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These are not caused by the skin's absorbing water. They're actually the body's way of improving the hands' grip on wet objects, similar to a tire's t

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British politician John Stonehouse faked his death in November 1974, leaving a pile of clothes on a beach in Miami. It was presumed he had gone swimming and drowned. But Stonehouse was actually en route to Australia to set up a new life with his mistress and secretary, Sheila Buckley. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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17 percent of all American restaurants are pizzerias. These pizza places sell 350 slices of the good stuff ev- ery second. Americans eat 100 acres of pizza every day-that's 3 billion piz- zas, or 46 slices for every person in the country. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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No, Vikings did not drink from the skulls Of their enemies. That was simply a mistranslation of a poem. This belief was derived from an Old Nordic poe

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There is a clock so accurate it does not lose or gain a second for billions of years. Ye's Optical Lattice Clock.is the world's most accurate clock. The clock would neither gain nor lose one second in 15 billion years-roughly the age of the universe. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bumpers

CRACKED.COM adult swim The bumpers are outsourced to artists Much care is put into Adult Swim's famous bumpers, with some of them being outsourced to prolific internet artists and animators like Worthikids, partially as a way of finding new talent — Cartoon Network
UIC Radio

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Honor the Dead

Halloween is a mashup of different cultures and traditions. It originated with the Celtic people and was a festival called Samhain. The Celts believed that at the end of summer in the north, the barrier between our world and the world of spirits were at its thinnest. So they had a festival to honor the dead and keep evil spirits away. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM In 1979, The Beast broke world records for the fastest roller coaster, propelling guests at 65 mph. Today's fastest coaster, Formula Rossa, makes that ride look downright leisurely. Its hydraulic launch system brings the coaster to speeds of 149 mph, and guests are required to wear protective glasses. — Source: 18 Ways Technology Has Changed In A Short Time

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MARTHA STEWART knows the true meaning of Christmas CRACKED.COM When Marge needs holiday help, Stewart knits a jetpack and soars to Springfield. Reminding Marge that magical memories don't make themselves, she duct-tapes Bart and Milhouse into Nutcracker soldiers. — Source: 13 Non-Entertainers Who Got Animated on The Simpsons

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CRACKED GOODHUE, MINNESOTA: WHERE MIRACLES HAPPEN IN UNDER TWO HOURS. In 2011, a group of over twenty emergency responders in Goodhue, Minnesota worked together to give CPR to a man for over an hour and a half, until the paramedics showed up. Amazingly, they were able to bring him back to life. — Source

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A machine-gun mower would have been awesome

THE INVENTOR OF THE AK-47 SAID I WISH I'D MADE A LAWNMOWER. Although Mikhail Kalashnikov died saying he was proud of his invention, he said he wishe

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Former housekeeper is suing Jeff Bezos for long hours, no breaks, and UTIs.

JEFF BEZOS' HOUSEKEEPER IS SUING HIM FOR CAUSING HER A UTI. Mercedes Wedaa is suing Bezos and two companies for making her work long hours with no breaks in conditions that led to urinary tract infections. According to the complaint, housekeepers were not allowed to use the bathrooms in the main house and had to climb out of a window onto a path leading to a downstairs bathroom. CRACKED — lev radin/Shutterstock
Sky News

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Aeschylus was killed when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head.

A Greek playwright was killed by a falling tortoise. CRACKED.COM An eagle mistook the bald head of Aeschylus for a rock, and dropped the reptile on him, thinking its shell would break. — A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities

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Never noticed, was too busy shooting everything

Hell is in... New Mexico? DOOM The game's first episode canonically happens in a moon of Mars, but the sky is a stock photo taken in Yangshuo, China. The sky graphics for episodes 2 and 3 come from Utah and the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, respectively. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Alan Hale could've at least removed his hat

GILLIGAN'S ISLAND You can see a flag at half-mast in the intro sequence. MINNOW CHARTER P-FREE LUNCHES President Kennedy was assassinated just before they filmed it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Great news, Sweaty Face

Don't bother trying to wipe the sweat off your brow. It's just going to make you sweatier. It needs to evaporate naturally to serve its purpose of coo

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This is very metal

Cicada wings are built in such a way that they kill bacteria they touch. The wings are covered with tiny pillars that trap bacteria, then slowly tear them apart (the more elastic a bacterium's skin, the more vulnerable it is). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Many Talent Tatum

CRACKED CHANNING TATUM used to strip. Не says that he only ever performed for 25 people at most, and it wasn't glamorous at all. Не and a friend made a deal to do it for a short time, just to be wild and crazy, and then they would quit. — Warner Bros. Pictures
Showbiz CheatSheet

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Ok, but seal gravy?

IF IT EXISTED, THE FIRST THANKSGIVING MORE LIKELY CONSISTED OF SEAL THAN TURKEY. CRACKED.COM Seal, eels and lobster were more commonly eaten by the Wampanoag tribes than Turkey. In addition, in the next century or so following the first Thanksgiving, the holiday was most likely celebrated in December. — Source

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And then there was Sam Peckinpah...

CRACKED.COM CREATIVE WISDOM FROM BRILLIANT FILMMAKERS wear a suit and tie as a sign of respect to the cast and crew. I like a very serious and well-ordered film set-for me it's the best way to work, and out of that order I like to get a tremendous amount of creativity. -Sam Raimi — Source: UNCUT

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So long, Screech

Childhood icons who had a rough time Dustin Diamond Diamond, best known as Screech on Saved by the Bell, had difficulty finding work and resorted to reality shows and a sex tape to make money. Не also served three months in jail for a bar fight involving a stabbing. Не died from lung cancer in early 2021. CRACKED — Source

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This is what they should have used for snow in 'The Wizard of Oz' instead of asbestos

AMMONIUM NITRATE a fertilizer, is a common chemical that can be used to make explosives, like ammonium nitrate fuel oil, which is used in mining. CRACKED — Criniger kolio/Shutterstock
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Stanley Kubrick did fake 'The Shining,' though

STANLEY KUBRICK did not fake the moon landing CRAGKED.COM Filmmaker т. Patrick Murray claimed to interview Kubrick three days before his death, with Stan admitting to perpetuating a huge fraud on the American public. A few problems: Kubrick didn't look or sound like Kubrick. And his widow says the whole thing is made-up jibba jabba. — Source: 14 Outrageous Celebrity Urban Legends That Aren’t Even Remotely True

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