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44 Random Bits of Trivia That Hide a Cryptic Message When You Play Them Backward

October 12, 2024

We wonder if all those artists who left cryptic messages on their albums were upset when vinyl stopped being the main option for music consumption. Like, the message is completely lost on Spotify. Looks like the only way for you to enjoy these backwards messages is if we press this list on vinyl and ship it to your local record shop.

But hey, with the quality of these facts and the hilarity of our secret messages, it’ll totally be with the 50 bucks.

44

Airplane!

Airplane is more than just a general satire of disaster movies. HYDRASSEN CONTROL FR NO SINTER mit CRACKED.COM Comedy film Airplane! is a direct parody of the 1957 movie Zero Hour! Many scenes, situations, lines of dialogue, as well as the entire storyline, are redone almost verbatim. — YouTube

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Knife Money

China used to trade knife-money. Knife-replica coinage was developed in the regions where knives were commonly used tools, while spade-money hailed fr

42

DAVENILES Ben Cursk e BuR Cak Almost ten years after Niles went missing, a funeral home was hanging decorations when they spotted his car in a pond fr — Source: The Independent

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People Who Didn't Want Anything To Do With Their Own Work - Keanu Reeves refused to promote The Watcher.

Reeves agreed to take a minor part in his fr — Source: Screen Rant

40

The Olympics

1956, Australia Pranksters protested the Nazi origins of the Olympic torch relay by stealing its spotlight. UEISOURNE ASTUAL TORCH Barry Larkin and fr

39

Robert Pattinson

While shooting his very first scene for Twilight, Robert Pattinson almost tore a gluteal muscle by lifting Kristen Stewart. He'd attempted the move fr

38

SOME CIGARS SEPTEMBER 1862 Ke H tii fu paym Thi adehi witl Ln ke i out triypels fsbuy He Pli He rn porL eu hed Ihe bpsninr bnn. CAatre fr AA Oha, CRAC — Source: National Parks Service

37

MADMEN Right before Don punches him, insult comedian Jimmy Barrett says: CRAOA IF iT iSn't THE MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT. BAAR GREGORY JENNFER FR

36

In K's memories in Blade Runner 2049, he has a full head of hair, unlike the kids around him (their heads are shaved). When he visits the orphanage fr — Source: 6 Sneaky Ways Movies Foreshadowed Huge Twists

35

Apparently, Godzilla ravaged the world of Jurassic Park. In The Lost World: Jurassic Park, there's a shot of terrified Japanese businessmen running fr

34

Getting into a diet? The color blue will help you. Blue is the color of mold and is rarely found in naturally-occurring food. You can eat your food fr

33

The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

Being 112.5 feet tall and 37.5 feet wide, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters contains roughly 925, 000 GALLONS of marshmallow. The goo fr

32

Jennifer Grey

Jennifer Grey GOT A NOSE JOB CRACKED C Grey didn't have a huge, public implosion; she just had minor cosmetic surgery. What she calls the nose job fr

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Edward T 00 Dawkins Aw CRACKEDCON When this pro biker crashed and ripped a patch of skin off his shoulder, a reporter asked him where it hurt. I'm fr — Source: Sky Sports

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On average, most people have fewer friends than their friends have. FRIENDSHIP PARADOX CRACKEDCOMT This is due to a sampling bias: people with many fr

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15 Bizarre Things Actors Had To Do For Auditions - Barry Keoghan had to throw a tennis ball against a wall and pat himself on the stomach to detach fr — Source: The Culture Trip

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Everyone in the ’70s smoked — drenched in blood or not. - We should cut young Carrie some slack here. The night when you get horribly humiliated in fr — Source: Dangerous Minds

27

Back to the Future

Back to the Future's iconic hoverboards... HOVER em $711 were made possible thanks to huge cranes and extensive wiring systems that kept the actors fr — Source: This Is The History Of

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Emily Blunt threw tantrums over wearing gloves as a kid... FR IN E ...but she couldn't avoid them while shooting The Young Victoria. She feels suffoca

25

EVERY ONE EXPECTS KEVIN BACON TO PERFORM THE FOOTLOOSE DANCE. The actor HAS gotten sO sick and tired of being pressured into stealing the spotlight fr

24

CRACKED COM Salt contains dextrose, made from corn. Bottled water has added minerals from corn. DO YOU KNOW Corn is in salads, sprayed on WHERE YOU fr — More: 5 Terrifying Food Secrets Supermarkets Will Never Tell You

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Apparently, Godzilla ravaged the world of Jurassic Park. In The Lost World: Jurassic Park, there's a shot of terrified Japanese businessmen running fr

22

'Umarells' is a term used in Italy used to describe old men that watch construction sites. G10 GRAGKED.COM The elderly men gather to observe, comment and criti- cize, often with their hands clasped be- hind their backs. — Source

21

Jakarta is sinking 10 inches per year. CRACKED COM This is in part due to ex- cessive use of groundwa- ter and lack of piped wa- ter. It is expected that the city will be completely submerged in the next 30 years. — Source

20

Guns

Like birdshot and buckshot, there is a shotgun round called a Rat Shot. CRACKED COM It's a small caliber bullet cartridge that can be load- ed into handguns and rifles to be used as a low power shotgun round effective for killing small pests and birds without damaging buildings. — Source

19

Michelangelo wrote poems to another man, Tommaso dei Cavalieri. CRACKED COM After his death, his grand-nephew pub- lished his poems and changed the pronouns of the person ad- dressed from mascu- line to feminine. — Source

18

A test used to determine brain damage involves pouring water into the ear. CRACKED.COM If you pour cold water into a per- son's ear, their eyes will move in the direction of the opposite ear. If you pour warm water into their ear, their eyes will move towards that ear. This is used to test for brain damage and is called 'ca- loric stimulation.' — Source

17

The British planned to seal 6 men in a cave if the Axis ever captured Gibraltar during WWII. CRACKED COM The men would be situated in a secret cave overlook- ing the harbor to secretly monitor and radio back en- emy movements. The cave had enough provisions for the men to stay for up to 7 years. — Source

16

Tony Hawk published a book called Tony Hawk's The A to Z of Skateboarding. HIGHPOINTE GRACKED.COM The book was written by British comedian Tony Hawk, who was frustrated with being mistaken for the pro-skateboarder, and contains nothing about skateboarding. — Source

15

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

14

Phil Collins was the only artist to perform at both Live Aid 1985 benefit concerts. CRACKED.COM Не played at Live Aid Wembley, went by heli- copter to Heathrow, flew to New York on the Con- corde, then another heli- copter to Live Aid Phila- delphia. — Source

13

An Indian book from the 4th century accurately described the Earth's diameter. CRACKED.COM Surya Siddhanta was only off by 72 miles by current standards, describing the planet as 8,000 miles in di- ameter. The book also pro- vided an accurate distance between the Moon and Earth, much before Galileo. — Source

12

World War II

The most decorated American unit in WWII was almost exclusively a Japanese-American infantry regiment. CRACKED.COM The 442nd Regiment re- ceived more than 18,000 awards, including 9,500 Pur- ple Hearts, 5,200 Bronze Star Medals, 588 Silver Stars, 52 Distinguished Service Cross- es, and 7 Distinguished Unit Citations. — Source

11

Some people have a tiny, extra spleen. CRACKED COM Not only do 1 in every 10 people have a tiny second spleen called an accessory spleen, but also that if the main spleen is removed, the tiny second spleen can grow to function as a new spleen. — Source

10

Madagascar was settled by a small population of no more than 30 women. CRACKED.COM Madagascar was one of the last landmasses to be reached by peo- ple. Those 30 women are the ancestors of all native Malagasy today. — Source

9

Monks

Tibetan monks can raise their body temperature with their minds. CRACKED.COM A 1982 Harvard study con- firmed practitioners of g-tummo yoga demon- strated the ability to raise the temperature of differ- ent parts of their bodies through meditation alone. — Source

8

The first commercial airliner shot down by hostile forces was refurbished, returned to service. CRACKED.COM It was later believed to be an assassination attempt on Chi- nese president Sun Yat-sen's only son, Sun Fo, who was be- lieved by the Japanese to be aboard but missed the flight. The plane was later involved in a second shootdown incident. — Source

7

The London Underground has its own subspecies of mosquito. GO UN PICCADILLY CIRCUS CRACKED.COM The mosquitos live exclu- sively in the stations and tunnels. They were first re- ported during World War II, when people who used Tube stations as bomb shelters learned that the depths held plenty of pests. — Source

6

There are no bridges on the entire 4300 mile length of the Amazon river. CRACKED COM During the rainy season, the river rises thirty feet, and crossings that were once three miles wide can balloon to thir- ty miles in a matter of weeks. — Source

5

The largest hailstone ever documented fell in Aurora, Nebraska in 2003. CRACKED.COM The National Climate Extremes Committee documented the hail size that fell in that storm, with many being about the size of a soft ball. One particular hailstone found from that storm was just a little smaller than a standard soccer ball. — Source

4

Vincent Price took a flat fee for his work on 'Thriller! CRACKED.COM When Vincent Price agreed to do the voice work for 'Thriller,' he was given a choice between taking a percentage of the album proceeds or being paid a flat $20K. Не chose the $20K. — Source

3

Smedley Butler

One of the most decorated marines became an anti-war advocate. CRACKED.COM Smedley Butler wrote War is a Racket about war profiteering. Не said the best he could do was to operate his racket in 3 districts. I operated on 3 continents. — Source

2

A drawing of a penis from Andy Warhol was snuck onto the moon. CRACKED.COM The small ceramic wafer, dubbed the Moon Museum, was snuck onto the Moon during the Apollo 12 mission, and contains 6 drawings, two of which include a penis drawn by Andy Warhol and a single straight line. — Source

1

McDonald's character Grimace was originally introduced as Evil Grimace. CRACKED.COM Evil Grimace had four arms and would steal milk- shakes. The greatest trick Evil Grimace ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist. What do we really know about the good Grimace, anyway? — Source

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