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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Comically Circled Our Heads After Getting Our Lights Knocked Out by a Cartoon Bully

October 27, 2024

Today, we’re spinning a bad situation into a positive one. It’s all about perspective! Sure, a beefy, brawny bully just socked us right in the kisser, but did we let that get us down? Nope!

Well, actually, it quite literally got us down to the ground. But those starry, fluttery little things spinning around our peripheral vision began morphing into facts, and we were luckily just conscious enough to jot them down!

So please enjoy these little stars while we go get a bag of frozen peas.

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Star Wars

Michael Jackson really wanted to play Jar-Jar Binks. LUCA At a concert, George Lucas introduced Ahmed Best to Jackson as Jar-Jar, after which the King of Pop acted awkward. Lucas later told Best that it was because MJ wanted the part, but he wanted to do it in prosthetics and makeup like Thriller. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Behind-The-Scenes Star Wars Facts

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Family Video

Family Video outlasted chains like Blockbuster, only shutting down because of the Covid pandemic. CRACKED COM They own the real estate where their stores are lo- cated and they own all of the media they rent out so they keep all of the profits. In early 2021, Family Video closed all their 248 remain- ing stores. — Variety

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Petroglyphs

In 2010, Paintballers destroyed 800 year old Native American petroglyphs. 11 dollar paintballs priceless ancient art The residual paint cannot be cleaned off without destroying the ancient artwork. CRACKED.COM — Source: National Parks Traveler

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CRACKED Play-Doh Play-Doh was originally invented in the 1920s as a wallpaper cleaner, but it wasn't until the 1950s that it was changed to a toy. Since then, it's become a huge hit, selling over 3 billion cans. Presumably some were used to clean wallpaper. PIDER 616 HEMP F1322B Play-D Y-Doh Play-Doh — House Beautiful

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JO CAMERON CAN'T FEEL PAIN AND HEALS WITHOUT SCARS. Doctors first found out about Cameron's condition when she seemed unbothered by a supposedly painful hip problem. She has a mutant gene that also makes her wounds heal without scarring. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Squirrels have shut down the NASDAQ twice by chewing through power lines. A stray squirrel interrupted trading for 82 minutes and shut its systems down in 1987, and then again in 1994 resulting in the stock exchange's own backup power system failing to kick on. CRACKED.COM — Live Mint

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It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. Researchers have used frogs for understanding the effects of weightlessness on the body and the vomit response, because their inner ears turn out to be quite a useful model for the human inner ear. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Strawberries

Strawberries don't have seeds on the outside. What are often assumed as seeds are actually achenes, which are technically fruits with a single seed inside. CRACKED.COM — Source: Science World

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Chris Pratt dropped the ball. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY CRACKED.COM Even though it was perfectly in character, Pratt wasn't supposed to drop the orb upon presenting it to the Collector. — Source

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The Battle of the Words happened during World War I. CRACKED.COM With their trenches only 150 feet apart, Belgian and Ger- man soldiers threw insults at each other all day and night. It became so annoying that the Belgian commander for- bade his men from talking to the Germans. — Chronicling America

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CRACKED CON Your body houses trillions of microorganisms, percent of which are unknown to science. — Source

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Troy Glaus Arizona Diamondbacks CRACKED COM On top of his $45 million contract, the Diamondbacks agreed to toss a quarter- million dollars at his wife's horse hobby. — Source: 15 Suspiciously Specific Clauses In Pro Athletes' Contracts

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30 Rock

John Lutz (Lutz) and Sue Galloway (Sue) are married in real life. So Lutz's girlfriend didn't live in Canada after all. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — FastCompany

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Moscow only had six minutes of sunlight in December of 2017. CRACKED.COM They usually get a whop- ping 18 hours of sun for the month, but a wall of cloud that never moved sat over the city thanks to cyclone anomalies over the Atlantic and warmer tem- peratures. — NPR

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There is a device used to intentionally derail trains that enter into unauthorized areas. STO AT WO MEN The derailer works by, you guessed it, derailing the equipment as it rolls over or through it. In these situa- tions, there is a risk of great- er damage to equipment, in- jury or death if equipment is allowed to proceed. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A herd of sheep BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN CRACKED.co Director Ang Lee said the groundbreaking ! sex scenes were nothing compared to the shepherding scenes: No more sheeps. Never again sheeps. — Source: BBC

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Kevin Smith killed Dante. CLERKS CRACKED COM As originally filmed, Dante is shot by a burglar and left to die on the floor... because Kevin Smith was out of ideas. He got around to coming up with a better ending after a test audience made it clear they hated it.

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Alexander Graham Bell offered to sell his telephone patent to Western Union for $100,000 in 1876. CRACKED.COM The committee ар- pointed to investigate the offer concluded the telephone was hardly more than a toy and inherently of no use to us. — Elon U

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Arabian Nights

Arabian Nights had to remove depictions of dancers with exposed bellies The 1942 film was forced to remove parts of the movie with revealing costumes, the least offensive part of the culturally insensitive film by today's standards. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Atlantic

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ROBERT DOWNEY JR. AS TONY STARK CRACKED COM Marvel Studios fought against the casting, and Director Jon Favreau stated, Robert was a tough sell. They wanted a lesser-known actor with no baggage who was 10 years younger. RDJ has since become synonymous with Iron Man, and kicked off the trend of superhero obsession we're currently living in. — Source

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The Navy wants to decommission 9 ships, none of them over 10 years old, that cost $4.5 billion: They're small, fast ships that were developed to chase down pirates, and are now described by the Navy as unsuitable for current needs. They want to decommission them to save on operating and maintenance costs, which they want to use to buy new, bigger ships. CRACKED.COM — The Navy Decided $4.5 Billion Worth Of Ships Suck And They Need New Ones

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In 1962, Laurel Children's Center in Maryland used children to test experimental acne medications. The researchers continued testing even after half o

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CRACKED.COM Minecraft's total surface area is over 9 MILLION EARTHS. Or if you prefer big, unwieldy numbers, 4,722,366,482,869,645 square kilometers. — Source

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SMITH HUBERT FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR I CAN SAY STRAIGHT UP THAT JANET HUBERT WANTED THE SHOW TO BE THE AUNT VIV OF BEL-AIR SHOW, SMITH SAID. TO HER — Newsweek

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For an awkwardly long time, everyone assumed that QUEEN BEES WERE MALE. From Aristotle's times until the 17th century, the main bee in a hive was call — Source: ScienceDirect

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GIBBERISH! The Teen Titans were created to rope in young readers -- so the Titans discussed teenage issues of the '60s — More: 5 Unintentionally Hilarious Franchise 'Hip' Reinventions

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Airbags in 37 million vehicles had to be recalled by an auto parts manufacturer in 2008. CRACKED.COM Faulty inflators in Takata airbags ex- ploded and shot shrapnel-like materi- al at the vehicle's ос- cupants. — Source

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CALENDAR MAN IT IS THE DAY OF THE CALENDAR 3 29 MAN! 5 1 O 24 15 6 3 1 GRACKED.COM How 'bout a case of the Mondays, Batman? With so many super-villains in Gotham, a good gimmick was hard to come by, but in 1958, Julian Day patterned his life around an obsession for holidays, dates and time, until he became... Calendar Man. — Source: DCcomics

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CRACKED COM In some people, COVID causes rashes. There's no telltale rash pattern rashes just show up sometimes when there's a viral infection. For so — Source: Cleveland Clinic

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Alex Jones

ALEX JONES IS KNOWN FOR BEING A POPULAR CONSPIRACY THEORIST... BUT BEFORE INFOWARS AND FAKE DIET SUPPLEMENTS, HE DEVOTED MOST OF HIS TIME TO GETTING RIPPED. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celeb Early Photos That Don't Look Like The Same Person

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Snoop

Snoop Dogg made the world's largest... cocktail. CRACKED COM While booze isn't his vice of choice, he mixed the massive paradise cocktail in 2018, and donated it to... VIPs at a Nappa Valley music fest. Cool. — Source: Guinness

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Mice don't love cheese. Like us, they actually think the smells of some cheeses are really gross and prefer sugary snacks. Remember what happens if you give a mouse a cookie. CRACKED — Billion Photos/Shutterstock
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emotional contagion when one person's emotions trigger similiar emotions in other people

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CRACKED.COM Interstellar The movie turned christopher Nolan into a corn farmer. Since he didn't want to use CGI, Nolan decided to grow a crop of his own for shooting. It ended up growing so well that he was able to turn the produce around for a profit when the movie was done. — Source

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George Clooney tricked a whole town with a fake celeb wedding. He put high-top chairs on the lawn of his Italian villa, making paparazzi swarm around the villa for weeks, as they thought Brad and Angelina's long-expected wedding was about to happen. Even the town's mayor got antsy and put police on alert, but nothing happened. CRACKED.COM — Source: 4 Legendary Pranks Pulled Off by Celebrities

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A bridge in Mexico collapsed immediately after being inaugurated. GRAGKED.COM The local city government said in a statement that four city council members, two other city officials and a local reporter were in- jured and had to be ex- tracted on stretchers from the gully. — NDTV

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CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON THIS WAS ZHANG ZIYI'S SECOND FILM. The 19-year-old didn't even have her first film appearance released before she was signed on for the Ang Lee classic. Lee chose her due to Zhang's innate cinematic charisma. CRACKED.COM — Source: CNN

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Behind-the-scenes Drama Euphoria Barbie Ferreira had a fight with sam Levinson. Anonymous reports and rampant internet speculation have blamed Kat's reduced role on fight between the actress and the show's creator. CRACKED.COM — Source: Elle Australia

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16 Badass, Little-Known Dolly Parton Stories - Dolly Parton is one of the people we can thank for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. — https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/dolly-parton-buffy-vampire-slayer-producer-sandollar-sandy-gallin-gail-berman-a9481656.html

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