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41 Random Bits of Trivia That, When Properly Rearranged, Tell A Pretty Cohesive Story

October 30, 2024

For this list, you’re going to need a printer, some scissors and a whole lot of free time.

We know what you’re thinking, “A printer? Scissors? What is this, the ‘90s?” But put your judgment aside for a second, and listen up, would ya? If you cut out each fact and arrange them in a very specific order, they tell a tale that’d make Tolkien himself shudder.

So clear your schedule… It's story time!

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The Texarkana Phantom was out of a teen slasher movie. In early 1946, a mysterious serial killer attacked three young couples in parked ca — Source: These Unsolved Murders Will Make You Scared Of The Dark

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MLB

There were more 'immaculate innings' in 2017 than from 1929-1952. NEW YORK 34 CRACKED.COM An immaculate inning is when a baseball pitcher strikes out three batters with only nine pitches. 1929 to 1952 saw zero such innings, while there were 8 in 2017 alone. — Source

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The siren in The Purge was based on a sound from Spielberg's War of the Worlds. The big tripod creature's sound was the one movie sound that freaked out James DeMonaco, so he asked his sound guys to base the siren on that. CRACKED.COM — Source: Collider

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ON THE SET OF ROAR, A FILM ABOUT A FAMILY LIVING WITH LIONS, A 14 YEAR OLD MELANIE GRIFFITH WAS MAULED SO BADLY THAT SHE REQUIRED FACIAL CRACKED.COM RECONSTRUCTION AND ALMOST LOST AN EYE. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Hook Michael Jackson put a curse on Steven Spielberg. The king of pop really wanted to play Peter Pan, and wasn't at all happy when Spielberg turned him down - to the extent that he reportedly paid $150,000 to put a hex on the director. — Source: Far Out Magazine

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Water balloons can stop a bullet! Water slows down the speed of a bullet so much, 5 water balloons in a row can totally stop a bullet (even one from a rifle) CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ETHIOPIAN CALENDAR IS SEVEN YEARS BEHIND THE REST OF THE WORLD. It wAs developed by Orthodox and Coptic churches, based on their own calculations

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41 Random Bits of Trivia That, When Properly Rearranged, Tell A Pretty Cohesive Story — Source: The Guardian

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Rail commuters will suffocate. DIONYSIUS LARDNER Manaroil CRACKED.COM The professor at University College, London, was convinced that high-speed trains were simply impossible, because the passengers, unable to breath, would die of asphyxia. — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS DANIEL BRUHL IMPROVISED ZEMO'S DANCE. THE FALCON WINTER SOLDIER The actor revealed that the dance that set the internet on fire wasn't in the script. Bruhl thought the character would be itching to let off some steam after rotting in prison for so long. CRACKED.COM — YouTube

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John Tyler's son Lyon was born when his father was 63. Lyon had two sons, Lyon Jr. and Harrison, when he was in his 70s. Both are still around. A 19TH-CENTURY PRESIDENT HAS LIVING GRANDCHILDREN. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Crusin' USA FINISH CRACKED.COM Nintendo is notoriously prude, so making this game Family-Friendly was always going to be a tall order. The funniest update they had to make? Renaming the XL Power Shaft to the less phallic XL Power. — Source

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Behind-the-scenes Drama Spider-Man 2 Tobey Maguire was almost fired over his back. Maguire's back complaints, which some viewed as him being a prima donna, led to him almost being replaced by Jake Gyllenhaal. That didn't happen, but the writers added some back jokes which were later referenced in No Way Home. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Cases of Behind-the-Scenes Drama that Showed Up On-Screen

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WEIRD WORLD Dozens of guinea pigs were found roaming a parking lot outside an adult novelty store. Two people face more than 60 counts of animal cruelty after an argument led to one man grabbing his girlfriend's guinea pigs after she went to bed and dumping them outside. CRACKED.COM — Dozens of guinea pigs dumped near adult novelty store

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It’s A Wonderful Life

It's A Wonderful Life isn't just a classic - it's actually also a studio-killing flop. The movie bombed when it was released and bankrupted its studio. It only started to be considered a classic decades later. CRACKED.COM — Source

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41 Random Bits of Trivia That, When Properly Rearranged, Tell A Pretty Cohesive Story — Source: EurekAlert

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Under Pressure

He tried to change the bass riff for Under Pressure. CRACKED.COM In an interview, Queen guitarist Brian May said I remember David Bowie reaching over to John and saying, 'No, don't do it like that,' and John going, 'Excuse me? I'm the bass player, right? This is how I do it! — Ultimate Classic Rock

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Daniel Day-Lewis LINCOLN CRACKED.COM Day-Lewis forbade any members of the cast and crew of Lincoln from using their natural (British) accent, as to not taint his vocal performance. And with that, you can stop wondering when Daniel Day Lewis was going to show up on this list. — 16 Extremely Specific Celebrity Demands

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Johnny Depp has a room full of fancy Barbie dolls. Не reportedly uses them to test new voices. Не originally collected them for his daughter, and when she lost interest, he couldn't bring himself to get rid of them. Не has a number of limited-edition Babies, like Beyonce, Paris Hilton, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The life of celebrated architect FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT was marred by incredible TRAGEDY. In August 1914, he returned home to discover a disgruntled former employee had burned Wright's house down after murdering Wright's entire family with an axe. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Lions kill hyenas in the wild, just the because. 27% They kill hyenas even if they're not hungry, and they're so prolific that they cause around 60% of all hyena deaths. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: ABC

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She sang the first anti-lynching song CRACKED.COM In 1933 Ethel Waters sang Supper Time, a powerful song written for her by Irving Berlin. Her performance conveyed the heart-wrenching anguish of a woman setting the table for dinner as she comes to terms with her husband's murder. From 1882-1968, approximately 4,743 individuals were lynched (or recorded as such) in the U.S. The actual number is certainly much higher. — Source

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Bryan Singer got SO mad on Bohemian Rhapsody, he threw electrical equipment. Apparently, he'd had a fight with Rami Malek - which is kind of amazing, because Malek is considered one of the nicest actors in Hollywood. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Crocodiles are way, way more cunning and duplicitous than you might think. They've been seen putting twigs on their heads to lure birds in-that means they're part of a very small group of predators that catch their prey with bait. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Au.S. CONGRESSMAN SPIED FOR RUSSIA As Jewish immigrant, Samuel Dickstein was desperate to stop Hitler's rise to power but was ignored by Congress. He — Source: Politico

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A 130-ton clump of fat, wet wipes, nappies, oil and condoms' blocked a London sewer in 2017. The authorities said removing the fatberg would take — Source: BBC News

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PAT BUCHANAN AND HUNTER S. THOMPSON The unlikely pair met when Thompson covered Nixon's 1972 campaign. Thompson hated Nixon but got along with his con — Source: Mental Floss

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The Berlin airport in The Last Crusade was actually a radioactive San Francisco island. 1lll BERLIN ELUGHAEEN The man-made Treasure Island was where the U.S. Navy established its Nuclear War Academy which conducted exercises such as spraying a ship with radioactive material, then cleaning it. — Source: 7 Terrifying Places (Where Movies Were Filmed)

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Egyptian medicine was. surprisingly specialized, and they even had proctologists. The Egyptian term for those literally translates to shepherd of the anus. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED 10-YEAR-OLD BRITNEY SPEARS: FROM STAR SEARCH TO THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB. Disney Goldfis MAXXI CHANNEL FLAVOR BLAST Britney Spears appeared on Star Search in 1992 at the age of 10, singing the song Love Can Build a Bridge, before she was cast in The Mickey Mouse Club alongside other famous stars. — The 90s Ruled / Billboard

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No one noticed Chile misspelled their own name on their 50 peso coins. CRACKED.COM Chile printed a number of 50 peso coins in 2008 that misspelled the name of their country as Chiie. No one noticed until 2009, at which point the director of the Mint lost his job. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Native-Americans figured out the Enlightenment before it was cool. Native-American peoples practiced democratic arrangements whose sophistication was hotly praised by Enlightenment thinkers - meaning French and American innovations are more like the inferior, whitewashed remakes. — APChannel/Shutterstock
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Mark Hamill burst a blood vessel while filming the trash compactor scene in Star Wars. Не made his face red on purpose so he'd look like he's really really straining, but he overdid it and burst a blood vessel in his eye. It was so obvious, they had to make sure the camera wouldn't catch it until it healed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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dFB W Extrapolating evolutionary fitness. Dr. Fern Hunt's work focuses on applying probability to understand how genetics are transmitted within a population. Combining information about genetics with how populations move and the rate at which they reproduce, biologists can hypothesize about the evolutionary fitness of a particular group. CRACKED — Source

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In Victorian England, drunk homeless people would sleep on a rope. It was called a two-penny hangover, because you'd pay two pennies to spend the night hanging over a rope. At around 5 or 6 AM, you'd be woken up by falling onto the ground, as the rope would get cut (and you'd then get kicked out onto the street). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The shortest main event was less than nine minutes long. SummerSlam 1994 The Undertaker faced the Undertaker (never change, pro wrestling) in a mirror match that lasted eight minutes and 57 seconds bell-to-bell (but if you were to watch it, you'd swear that it was longer than the Lord of the Rings trilogy). CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A guy in Indiana got strange powers thanks to a horrible, freakish incident. X-X 1 Y-Y x2 -X 12-% After a head injury from a violent attack, he became kind of a math genius - and even found a home thanks to his gift. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Caccolube destroyed tanks and was made of condoms. During World War II, the OSS created an anti-vehicle weapon out of condoms filled with abrasive

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Barry Manilow got married in secret to his manager, Garry Kief. Apparently, they invited 20-30 people to Manilow's mansion for what was supposed to be a luncheon, back in 2014, but it turned out to be a wedding. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Crank Yankers Created by Adam Carolla, Jimmy Kimmel, and Daniel Kellison, Crank Yankers invites comics to make recorded prank phone calls. The show had knockout guest callers including Fred Armisen, Sarah Silvermen, Tim& Eric and Nick Kroll. — Source: Crank Yankers

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Someone returned a book 81 years late (with a bad review). A book was returned to a library in Washington that had been checked out 81 years earlier. The person who borrowed it wrote on the inside cover, I wouldn't read this book even if | was paid to. GRACKED — GNT STUDIO/Shutterstock
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