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36 Unruly Bits of Trivia That Will Push Your Brain’s Patience to the Limit

October 24, 2024

We did everything we could to get everyone of these facts in order, but it was a lot like herding cats. They should all be here now, but if number 7 or 23 ran off again, we apologize.

You know what? We’ll stay here giving them death stares like a strict principal while you read. That oughta keep them in line.

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Liz Lemon's favorite cheese snacks in 30 Rock have the saddest flavor in the world. DIRI DISHING WEEK SABOR DL SOLEDKOJE gA EMMA CRUJENTE Their name is Sabor de Soledad, or in Spanish, Taste of Loneliness. CRACKED.COM — Source

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An iannual income of $82.000 qualifies low-income dl u007 as in San Francisco.

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Moscow, 2014 Christophe de Margerie died when he CRASHED AGAINST A SNOWPLOW. WITH HIS AIRPLANE. De Margerie, CEO of a big French company, was about to — Source: Reuters

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AND A DE GUARDE SH Nintendo existed while Jack the Ripper was terrorizing London. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Les Catacombes de Paris. OSSEMENTS DES ANCIENS CIMETIÈRES DE LA TRINITE ET DE ST. LES (BOULEVARD SÉBASTOPOL) DEPOSES EN 1850 DANS 1. OSSUAIRE DE LOUEST ET TRANSFERT ES DANS LES CATACOMBES EN 7th 1859 The Catacombs of Paris is an underground cemetery with the skeletal remains of an estimated 6 million people. In 1810, skulls and bones were neatly stacked in this subterranean cavern that visitors can see today (Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 8pm). CRACKED — Source

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Michigan man wins big with $10 investment. Lottery Ticket . LE 11 M - TV IN 14 121 10 9 17 DE 11 a 19 24 10 a 2 DE 29 2 21 F 40 10 to 12 T 0 VIN за AD AT - et IF и 2 - in . TE - TO 12 IF 14 DE 5G 17 15 DE 1. TO BA e If . - 12 D AO A guy from Michigan got really lucky when he won an $886,062 lottery jackpot. Не initially only spent $10 on a Club Keno ticket, and then decided — Source

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101 Dalmatians Cruella De Vil's car doesn't just reflect her opulence and her favorite color scheme. It's a Panther De Ville. — Source: HotCars

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Adult jokes in children's movies DE-WORMING has never been this easy a de Port Behind You FOR COULDIT DE TIME 18 NET YOURSELE, FIXED? zootopia Get yourself fixed How are you going to pay your mortgage if you have a thousand kids? By getting fixed! Nip, tuck, Nick! CRACKED.COM — Source: Reddit

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EARLY GIGS OF STAR TREK ACTORS JOHN DE LANCIE ARCADE This film about a virtual reality game made out of a dead boy's brain cells sounds like the type of movie The Simpsons would have on in the background - but it's what Q actor John de Lancie starred in before becoming God. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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In 2013, Walt Disney tried to trademark the Dia de los Muertos holiday. It was for Pixar, of course, and it was an attempt to fully secure rights to Dia de los Muertos-themed merchandise, toys, games, and so on. CRACKED.COM — Source: CNN

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Sandwiches Named After Celebrities THE BRUNO SAMMARTINO HERO Hero to Italian Americans and wrestling fans in general, Da Brune is honored by Lioni Italian Heroes with a sandwich made of fried eggplant, fresh ricotta, salt, pepper, basil, and sun-dried tomatoes. A hearty meal like that can make anyone a WWF champion for 2,803 days in a row. CRACKED.COM — Source

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DARRY NETSON EST ERT - DA CHRISTI The first actor who played James Bond was BARRY NELSON. Many people think Sean Connery was the first to portray the 007 character. Not so. Nelson did it first in a 1954 TV adaptation for the show, Climax! The Bond story was taken from the first book, Casino Royale, but saw an American version of Bond in Nelson working for the Combined Intelligence Agency. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Three companies own almost all of the S&P 500. S&P 500 3,669.01 +6.56 2-DA 3681 3672 3663 3654 7 SSS Taken together, the financial firms Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street are the largest single shareholder for almost 90% of the companies that make up the S&P 500. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Three burglars snorted a man's ashes thinking it was cocaine. GRAGKED.COM In 2010, the burglars thought that they had found a stash of cocaine while breaking into a wom- an's house in Central Flori- da. They ended up snort- ing the ashes of a man and his two great Danes. — Source

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There used to be a typo on the north wall of the Lincoln Memorial. The wall that was supposedly engraved with Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address misspelled FUTURE as EUTURE. The bottom part of the E has since been filled in. mail THAN T EFLY MENT THE PUBLIC THE W TRUST REASON- AND ENCOURAGING TO WHIC IGH HOPE FOR THE ANTIC FUTURE NO IN REGARD TO IT IS VENTURED MIGH FLICT CCASION CORRESPONDING TO AN В ARS AGO ALL THOUGHTS WERE DAM DIRECTED TO AN IMPENDING SAM EAC ALL DREADED IT-ALL SOUGHT IT WHILE THE INAUGURAL AD- DA CRACKED.COM BEING DELIVERED — Source

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Norway owns an uninhabited frozen island located halfway between Africa and Antarctica. CRACKED.COM Bouvet Island is a volcanic island that is the world's most remote, called the loneliest place on Earth. It is 1,404 miles from Tristan da Cunha, the most remote inhabited island in the world. — Atlas Obscura

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Barry Manilow didn't write one of his biggest hits, I Write the Songs. CRACKED.COM Manilow vowed to not use an- other song written by some- one else after his hit Mandy, but Arista Records' Clive Da- vis kept sending him demos - one of which, I Write The Songs, was written by Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys. — NJ1015

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Farts on and off-screen THE DA VINCI CODE PAUL BETTANY BEAT A FART OUT OF TOM HANKS. While assaulting Hanks' Robert Langdon as a sadomasochistic monk, Bettany accidentally beat a fart out of the Oscar winner. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Independent

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SAMUEL L. JACKSON AND MARLON BRANDO The two first met backstage at a Michael Jackson concert. Somebody comes up behind me and starts doing the Ezekiel speech . People do that to me all the time. 'Arrgh, Ezekiel, da da da.' And I turn around, and it's Marlon Brando. I'm like, 'Oh my God!' CRACKED.COM — The Hollywood Reporter

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The first oil paintings ever made are attributed to Masolino da Panicale, created in the 1420s. Up until recently, this honor belonged to the painter Jan van Eyck, but earlier oil works by Masolino were found. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Cool Facts To File Away For The Future

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dabdabhada lap-DAP-ah-da/ In Korean, dabdabhada is a suffocating frustration, like the type you feel when you haven't heard from someone. CRACKED.COM — 13 Amazing Foreign Words We Desperately Need In English

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Hulk Hogan was slappin' da bass. CRAGKEDCOM Before he became a beloved pasta mogul, he was trying to make it in the Florida rock scene as a bass guitarist. Some pro wrestlers saw him at a gig, and put him in touch with legendary trainer Hiro Matsuda. — Source: The 5 Most Accidentally Famous Movie Stars

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THE SUPERFANS HAD POLISH SAUSAGE LODGED IN ITS HEART UNPRODUCED B CICLGO 3 CHRIS FARLEY'S MOVIE CAREER TOOK OFF JUST AS THE SUPERFANS MOVIE WAS BEING DEVELOPED. WHEN IT NO LONGER MADE SENSE FOR FARLEY TO DO AN ENSEMBLE PIECE, DA MOVIE WAS DOOMED. POUR ONE OUT FOR THE — The Ringer

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36 Unruly Bits of Trivia That Will Push Your Brain’s Patience to the Limit — Source: Billboard

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Writers O'Bannon and Shusett originally titled the film Star Beast. Gex Dayad Sceeneay an Based by OEANNOD DAN ssoy By Shussett Ronald and OT Banow Da — Source: Alien Anthology Wiki

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Scully wasn't allowed to walk next to Mulder on The X-Files. Producers on the original series insisted that Gillian Anderson stay a few feet behind Da

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FERRIS BUELLER IS AN ADORABLE, FREEWHEELING TRUANT. PERHAPS YOU DIDN'T KNOW... HE WAS ALMOST A THIEF AS WELL. In an early draft of Ferris Bueller's Da

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CRAy Leonardo Dicaprio's first name was inspired by none other than Leonardo da Vinci. While his mother was pregnant with DiCaprio, she and his father

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Leonardo Da Vinci dressed up a lizard to look like a dragon for one simple reason: So that he could use it to scare the crap out of his friends. He'd

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Cadillac DA RE GREATLY Why would Cadillac lift a phrase from a Teddy Roosevelt speech for a new slogan... ...when that phrase specifically refers to f

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Eminem refused to leave Detroit. CHEMMPATI 3H ELYSUM Director Neil Blomkamp chose Marshall Mathers to play Max Da Costa in his second sci-fi project.

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