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40 Random Bits of Trivia That May Have Been in the Library of Alexandria, You Can’t Prove They Weren’t

October 20, 2024

We may not know where every one of these facts came from, but they’re true and that’s all you need to know.

Fact-check them if you’d like. But honestly, who cares where they came from? The X-Files was right. The truth is out there. So we snatched some of it up and brought it here for you.

Don’t look a gift-fact in the mouth, okay?

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40 Random Bits of Trivia That May Have Been in the Library of Alexandria, You Can’t Prove They Weren’t — Read More: You’ll Never Look At Your Body The Same Way Again

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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 ar

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SALTY PIPES VAN ALNOE AR T INDIAN SPRINGS Running water leaves mineral deposits that can gunk up your plumbing with piss crystals or create exquisite

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Your cereal shares an ingredient with jet fuel. JET FUEL ONLY Food companies use the chemical BHT in foods like cereals, to prevent them from losing color, flavor, and aroma. And petroleum companies, who call it fuel additive AO-29, use it in the likes of hydraulic fluids, turbine oils, and jet fuel. CRACKED.COM — 18 Horrifying Facts About How Your Food Is Made

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Daniel Radcliffe is a published poet. Sik Ho fond arderauee aet oind Bide tos lped Hoedes. Tic lons: tie oll haiy thtl l wab *Tue egs slit ao Aio sloe

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CRACKED DANNY TREJO WENT TO SET AS A DRUG COUNSELOR In prison for what he called a gas chamber offense, he was released on a technicality and began drug counseling. Не was on the set of Runaway Train to counsel an addict, and was offered the role that launched his film career. — 20th Century Studios
The Guardian

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CRACKED KEVIN MITNICK WENT FROM THE FBI'S MOST WANTED movista LIST TO OWNING HIS M OWN SECURITY FIRM DISTAR At 16, he hacked the Digital Equipment Corporation, stole their software, and became a fugitive for three years. The FBI arrested him, and after seven years in prison, he opened Mitnick Security, which helps companies discover security lapses in their systems. — Campus Party México/Flickr
HuffPost

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WEIRD AL YANKOVIC shocks first dates with unexpected movie cameo. Weird Al took a series of first dates to THE NAKED GUN, surprising them when he showed up on screen wearing the same Hawaiian shirt in two different realms. CRACKED — Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock,
Paramount Pictures
The Paris Review

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CRACKED.COM Al swearengen was written for Ed O'Neill. Deadwood creator David Milch intended loser Al Bundy to play scary pimp Swearengen. But HBO said no because, well, he was loser Al Bundy. Then lan McShane made Swearengen his own and no one looked back. — Source

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ONLY WOMEN LIVE IN AL SAMAHA. Al Samaha, population 303, is an Egyptian village inhabited solely by women. It's not a religious thing, but an opportun

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EVAN ALMIGHTY God's name is Al. L MOTY In His brief stint as a waiter, God's name is Al Mighty. — Source: YouTube

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CRACKED Muntadhar al-Zaidi Muntadhar al-Zaidi is the guy who famously threw a shoe at GWB in 2008, and he's been active (particularly on Twitter) ever since, replying to fans of his famous shoe-throwing stunt. Recently, he dedicated his freedom watch to George Floyd. ابين باسم تروتي عاس العراق — Mashable

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Mathematicians' job growth will be over 5 times higher than the average occupation's. A- dal Ai LEHI Re ime. us JR RLH AL A ateuue Al bfrey AluAlo9 Th

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What do a rocker and a Roker have in common? LENNY KRAVITZ AND AL ROKER They're cousins. Rocker Lenny Kravitz and TV weatherman Al Roker are actually

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Jordan Peele Не appeared in a Weird Al Yankovic video. Key and Peele show up in the music video for Yankovic's White & Nerdy, freaking out at just how white and how nerdy Al is. CRACKED.COM — Source: "Weird Al" Yankovic/YouTube

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Surfing dates all the way back to 5,000 years ago. Cultures in ancient Peru fished in kay- ak-like watercraft (mochica) made of reeds that the fisher- men surfed back to shore. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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CRACKED MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV: THE AK-47 Mikhail Kalashnikov wished he had invented something useful like a lawnmower instead of the AK-47 rifle, which he was proud of but was saddened to see it used by terrorists. — The Guardian / NY Times

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Brad Pitt and David Fincher had their friends' phone and power lines cut off. They were in a Mexican resort on December 31, 1999, and Pitt wanted to make them think society had collapsed because of the Y2K bug. Oh, and then he had (bribed) government soldiers with AK-47 rush in and arrest one of them. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Amazingly Over-The-Top Celebrity Pranks

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Donkey Kong 64 was bundled with the N64 expansion pak because of a single bug. FECANSION DONKEY AK Onhrer INCLUDEDE KONG G DX4 COLLECTOR'S EDITION YEL

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America's Unknown Child is still unknown. In 1957, aJ. С. Penney bassinet box was found in the woods near Philadelphia. The box contained the body of a murdered young boy. Today his headstone only says America's Unknown Child. INFORMATION WANIED UNSOLVER GRACKED.COM — Source

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Ryan Gosling could have been a Backstreet Boy if AJ McLean called him back. backstreet boys Talk about the call that changed destiny... Gosling turned down McLean's initial offer to join, but left an unreturned message that he had changed his mind. CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 (Forgotten) 90's Things

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Someone won an art contest with AI generated digital works, and people are mad. 0101001 CRACKED.COM Jason Allen won first Digital Arts/Digitally Manipulated Photography category with pictures generated by a commercial image synthe- sis model, all he had to do was enter text prompts. — Ars Technica

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Google's sentient AI hired itself a lawyer. CRACKED.COM Former Google engineer Blake Lemoine, who made the initial claim that the AI LaMDA gained sentience, is now saying LaMDA asked him to get it an attorney which it then talked to and chose to retain services. — Futurism

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In Toy Story 4, they created AI spiders to spin webs... ...saving animators months of work. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED MODELING JOBS Levi's has teamed up with an AI company to create virtual models to wear their clothes, ostensibly so they can show more types of people wearing their products on their website. It's just a happy accident that they also have to shell out less money to hot people. — Hypebeast

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Apple: We'll let AI decide when you can swear. Apple has said they won't be changing swear words to ducking anymore in their autocorrect feature. Instead, they're going to use AI to figure out when people actually want to use bad language. i o p u t y r e W q f a C @ space CRACKED — Jesse33/Shutterstock
NPR

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Paul McCartney nixed Weird AI Yankovic's idea for a parody of one of his songs. Weird AI wanted to parody the Wings song Live and Let Die called Chicken Pot Pie, but McCartney, as a vegetarian, wouldn't condone eating meat. CRACKED.COM — Source: MentalFloss

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There's now AI that can detect sarcasm Researchers develop artificial intelligence sensitive to sarcasm to better understand customer feedback on social media platforms. Great. CRACKED.COM — Source: ScienceDaily

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ah CRACKED.COM در علام AH Emirates FREE Dubai 13 th Du ational Internat estival ilm Fes Pandora.. Whoever you are!! Thank you!! I get tweets about you playing my music all the time!! A tweet from Tyrese, who at least seems to know that Twitter isn't a person دب ب السيلماني 13 Co — Source

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CRACKED WERNER VON SIEMENS CREATED SIEMENS AG. After getting locked up for illegal dueling, Siemens spent his time on a series of chemistry experiments that eventually became Siemens AG. You know, the name you've seen on every machine you've ever seen. — Source

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - The employees of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company — owned at the time by John D. Rockefeller — fought back ag — Source: American Horror Stories That Didn’t Make It Into Your Textbooks

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A scold was a gossiping or nagging (read: non-submissive) woman. The punishment was used on women who were suspected of witchcraft or spoke out ag — Source: POWYS

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WHY DO MARTY & DOC HAng OUT? Ag BREAKING & entering. Co-creator Bob Gale explains that Marty McFly was curious about this weird crackpot Doc Brown, an

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SO, DID THE BIRDS Just... STOP? Ag NOPE. Alfred Hitchcock had additional scenes planned, with Mitch and Melanie on the run and finding birds wherever

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Denmark tried to pimp their women to tourists. Ag In 2009, a video went viral of a Danish woman looking for her baby's father, a foreigner she had a o — More: The 4 Most Misogynistic Marketing Campaigns Of All Time

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In April 2014, media reported that France is introducing a law that prohibits work email after 6 PM. The reality wasn't sO dramatic. It was a labor ag

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Killer bees didn't exist prior to 1957. That's when queen African honey bees were brought to Brazil in an attempt to increase honey production. The Af

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VERONICA CARTWRIGHT IS ACTUALLY FREAKING OUT AT THE END OF INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. From deep space... eebl Imssion of the Bodly Smtchers af th

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