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Today, we’re pampering your brain

37 Random Bits of Trivia That’ll Treat Your Brain Like It Deserves to Be Treated

October 25, 2024

Let’s be honest: Your brain is a bit of a fact-pleaser. It loves a fact’s attention and never wants to rock the boat by speaking its mind.

Well, that all ends today. Not only did we find a loving, nurturing batch of facts that will love your brain for what it is, but we’ve been teaching your brain to truly love itself. So before you read these facts, have your brain look itself in the mirror and repeat, “I am worthy of love. I am worthy of facts.”

Many blessings.

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Death, Taxes and Cleopatra

Cleopatra's handwriting is on display on a papyrus document at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute. GRAGKED.COM The document refers to a tax break for a friend of her husband Mark Antony. Cleopat- ra signed it with a Greek word meaning make it happen. — Reuters

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Nickname

WEIRD WORLD Mark Zuckerberg says that Meta employees lovingly refer to him as The Eye of Sauron. The Bar-B-Que brat himself seems to think being compared to a lidless eye of flame that serves as the last vestige of the abhorred Dark Lord's terrestrial will is a compliment. CRACKED.COM — Consequence

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Starbucks

Baffling things done by the CIA Having their own top-secret Starbucks Somewhere in Langley, the CIA's exclusive Starbucks is so secret its exact location is unknown. It's there instead of normal coffee machines because they wanted to humanize the CIA headquarters' work environment. You know, through a massive corporation. TM CRACKED.COM — Source

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Brain Games

MYTH8 ceRTain GAmES CAn IMPROVE YOUR BRAIN. Memory Attention Speed Focus FAGT8 THEY JUST MAke yoU BETTER AT THE GAme. Most studies that say brain-trai

35

300

300 GERARD BUTLER'S STUNT DOUBLE PLAYED HIS FATHER. During flashbacks to King Leonidas' childhood, Butler's stuntman Tim Conolly played Leonidas's father, which helped the family resemblance. CRACKED.COM — Source

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District 9

The District 9 voices were made from the sound of pumpkins being rubbed together combined with clicking and the actors' voices. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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More Harvey Weinstein Trash Behavior

CRACKED HARVEY WEINSTEIN AND KATE BECKINSALE When Kate Beckinsale was 17, she says Harvey Weinstein made unwanted sexual advances towards her. She believes that turning him down damaged her career. — People / Vanity Fair

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Gary Busey Knows Heaven

Gary Busey once complained on a movie set because Heaven didn't look real. egr Fou Children Не died and came back, apparently, and said he'd seen Heaven - and the movie's portrayal of it was totally inaccurate, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Don’t Wait to Report Someone Missing

Contrary to media, you shouldn't wait 24 hours to file a missing person report. POLICE DEPARTMENT CITY OF NEW YORK CRACKED.COM The No. 1 biggest problem is that family members wait too long to report a missing persons case, says Joseph Giacalone, an adjunct professor of criminal justice at John Jay College and a former sergeant with the NYPD. — The Missing NY

30

Gone Too Soon

James Dean's stardom lasted just one year. Other than bit parts, Dean was in only three movies. Two of those were released after his death, including Rebel Without a Cause, which turned him into a legend. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Famous People Who Were Total Nobodies While They Were Alive

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Spain’s Nazi Clocks

Spain has been in the wrong time zone for 70 years. GRAGKED.COM Spain's dictator Francisco Franco set the country's clocks an hour ahead in World War 2 in order to be aligned with Nazi Ger- many, and the change was never reverted. — NPR

28

The Cigarette That Brought Down an Airplane

An EgyptAir flight that crashed en route to Cairo, killing all 66 people on board, was brought down by a cigarette. SO PRE The pilot had enjoyed a mid-air smoke break, which resulted in a fire when his cigarette ignited oxygen leaking from an oxygen mask in the cockpit. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — NY Post

27

Iceland

Iceland is split between the Eurasian and North American plate. CRACKED.COM Although Iceland is considered political- ly as part of Europe, it is geographically North American and European at the same time. — Source

26

Charles Schulz’s Ex

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

25

Phobias

is the feanrtpnobia of peanut butter. Specifically, getting it stuck to the roof of your mouth and choking. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM — Source: Healthline

24

‘Yep’

The series ended not with a bang, but with a yep. CRACKED The first and last lines of the series are Hank and the boys exchanging a round of yeps. — 15 Dang Ol' Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'King Of The Hill,' Man

23

Aubrey Plaza

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SHE WAS KICKED OUT OF AN AWARDS SHOW TO DO LIST In a slightly awkward stunt Aubrey tried to steal Will Ferrell's Comedic Genius Award in a Kanye West style intrusion. It was reportedly unplanned, and Aubrey was kicked out of the awards after. Watch the clip, does the joke land? — Source: Youtube

22

Mystery DNA

We still don't know what 98% percent of our DNA is supposed to do. JUNK DNA oc Scientists haven't still figured out what all this junk DNA does: som

21

The Paperclip Squid

A giant paperclip-like creature roamed the seas 68 million years ago. Diplomoceras maximum was about five feet long, similar to a squid, and had a shell shaped like a paperclip. D. maximum's lifespan might have been 200 years, and it grew a new rib on its shell each year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

20

Mo’ Morphine, Mo’ Problems

GRACKED THE CIVIL WAR WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING OVER 400,000 MORPHINE ADDICTS. For this reason, the addiction was referred to as Soldier's Disease. — Talbott Campus / Maryland Reporter

19

Martian Rocks

Macaulayite is a red mineral found in a small corner in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and possibly on the whole surface of Mars. The mineral forms when granite undergoes weathering accompanied by water. Scientists believe that this mineral is what gives Mars its bright red color. CRACKED.COM — 27 Things Which Only Exist In One Place

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King George V

King George V's time of death was chosen for its PR value. When George lay dying in 1936, the royal family wanted the morning journals, not the lower-class evening ones, to announce his death. So he got a lethal dose of morphine and cocaine at 11:55 p.m. on January 19. Не apparently wasn't asked, and probably wouldn't have approved. CRACKED.COM — Source

17

Irrational Fear

Sarah Michelle Gellar has an irrational fear of cemeteries... ooos ...which didn't bode well for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She was left hysterical a

16

Not Really Dragons

The dragons in Game of Thrones are actually wyverns. CRACKED.COM The difference between a wyvern and a dragon is that a wyvern has 2 legs and a dragon has 4 legs. They also happen to be make-believe, so it doesn't really matter. — Source

15

Battles and Bridges

The Battle of Little Bighorn was raging while the Brooklyn Bridge was being built. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

14

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd based the group's name as a mocking tribute to their old P.E. teacher. Coach Leonard Skinner at Robert Е. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida disciplined two of the band's members for letting their hair grow long. CRACKED.COM — Source

13

Three Mile Island

One light on a control panel was badly designed. Which caused the meltdown at Three Mile Island. The signal light was programmed to indicate that the

12

Soapy Milk

To make milk look freshly poured, food stylists add dish soap bubbles to the surface just before the shoot. This works for coffee and other drinks, too. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Huckleberry Finn

The Walter Scott was a steamboat in Huckleberry Finn. It was narned that as an insult. Author Mark Twain thought Sir Walter Scott's novels glorified w

10

A Shared Library

There is a library built on the US/Canadian border. CRACKED COM Exiting the Haskell Free Li- brary and Opera House through the opposite en- trance requires one to re- port to the country's cus- toms thereafter. It also has two addresses; one in Ver- mont, and one in Quebec. — Source

9

Murderous Meerkats

Meerkats kill more of their own kind than any other animal. The team kill average among all mammals is just 0.3%, but meerkats blow that out of the wa- ter with a staggering 20%. We wonder if this includes humans. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

8

Left-Handed People

Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction. I'm a lefty Left-handedness is 2.6 times more likely in sports with higher time con- straints (baseball, cricket and table tennis) than in ones with lower time pres- sure (badminton, tennis and squash). CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

7

The Largest Coin

The largest piece of legal tender in the world is 220 pounds. MILLION DOLLA, ILLION DE DOLLA Canada's Big Maple Leaf is a $1 million coin made of about $2 million worth of nearly-pure gold, that somehow reached a market value of $4 million. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

6

The Vergara Family’s Heartbreaking Story

Actors with cursed lives Sofía Vergara GLORIA PRITCHETT in MODERN FAMILY Vergara moved to the U.S. with her family in 1998 after her older brother Rafael was murdered in a kidnapping plot gone wrong. Her brother Julio then spiraled into drug and alcohol addiction, and was eventually deported back to Colombia in 2011. CRACKED — 20th Television
The Sun

5

Jamie Foxx

CRACKED JAMIE FOXX GOT INTO A PHYSICAL ALTERCATION WITH ANOTHER PATRON AT CATCH RESTAURANT IN WEST HOLLYWOOD. The dispute started when the other guy complained about Jamie's group being too loud, and things escalated quickly from there. Eyewitnesses say that Jamie ended up putting the guy in a choke hold and taking him down before he was kicked out of the restaurant along with his group. — TMZ / EW

4

Austin Powers

Austin Powers was created by Mike Myers as a persona for his faux 60s rock band, Ming Tea. CRACKED.COM Myers said that the movie and the character were inspired by the British films, music and comedy of the 1960s and 70s his father had introduced him to as a child. — Newsweek

3

Squirrel Traffic

A bridge for squirrels in the Netherlands didn't see much squirrel traffic. Costing £120,000 ($150,000 USD) over a two-year span, the bridge was used by just five squirrels in two years between 2014 and 2015. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

2

Nature Heals

Nature truly is healing: there are sharks and seahorses in the River Thames. And eels and seals too, according to a new study. CRACKED.COM — Source

1

You’re A Star

Most of the elements in your body were made in stars Most of the elements were created over billions of years during the lifetimes of multiple stars. Elements in your body heavier than iron went through at least one supernova. CRACKED.COM — Source: Natural History Museum

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