40 Random Bits of Trivia We Swear We Saw in Heaven When We Were Clinically Dead for Four Seconds

Facts plucked from the heavens
40 Random Bits of Trivia We Swear We Saw in Heaven When We Were Clinically Dead for Four Seconds

Of course, these facts were in heaven! With our sordid past, it was quite the relief to know that we got to the good place. But it also made us wonder, if we ended up in the not-so-good place, would there have been any facts there? To us, an eternity without facts would be a total “not-so-good place,” so we have to make sure we don’t end up there. 

You hear that, whoever needs to hear it? We’ll do everything we can to stay in your good books, so when it comes time for us to die for realsies, we’ll be with the facts! 

The Terminator

The T-800's inhuman presence and mannerisms came straight from 1976's Westworld. Schwarzenegger thought Yul Brynner's acting as the Gunslinger in that

Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko $4.5 MILLION CRACKED Director Richard Kelly calls that paltry budget a fair bit for a debut movie. They only managed to turn that into $7.5 million at the box office, but it became a cult sensation and a cultural touchstone that, most importantly, launched Jake Gyllenhaal's career.

Red Dead Redemption

19th-century artists inspired Red Dead Redemption 2. In The Mountains, Albert Bierstadt The game's lighting director, Owen Shepherd, looked to the pastoral and landscape painters like Turner, Rembrandt and American landscape painters from the 19th century such as Albert Bierstadt, Frank Johnson, and Charles Russell.

Source: Polygon

Falling Asleep at the Wheel

DRIVING MAKING YOU SLEEPY? BLAME THE VIBRATION. Your car is literally hypnotizing you. About 20% of fatal crashes are caused by fatigue, which can cre

Peter Ostrum

WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Charlie Bucket CRACKEDcO Actor Peter Ostrum bought a horse with some of his Wonka money, studied veterinary medi

Operation Magic Carpet

In Operation Magic Carpet, the US returned eight million people home. --ADN The operation, led after WWII ended, involved getting an average of 22,222 soldiers back to the US every day for almost a whole year. CRACKED.COM

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Real-Life Twins Mix-up

In a movie-style twist, two pairs of identical twin babies got mixed up in Colombia in 1988. It's not clear why, but apparently there was a hospital mix-up - a nd when they grew up, 25 years later, they found each other, and all four became close friends. CRACKED.COM

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Liquor Laws

A Big Helping Of Little-Known About Movies (And Other Stuff)You can't legally buy alcohol in 000 U.S. jurisdictions.
Source: Vox

Grand Theft Auto

Samuel L. Jackson is a commanding presence on film. And in GTA, he's commandingly evil. Jackson voices Officer Tenpenny, the central villain in Grand

Home Movies

40 Random Bits of Trivia We Swear We Saw in Heaven When We Were Clinically Dead for Four Seconds

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin travelled to the Galapagos islands as a geologist, not a biologist. He'd read Principles of Geology, a book that explained geological change as the gradual result of many small causes, which strongly influenced him. CRACKED.COM

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Dee was suppOSED to be the stereotypical female voice of reason. IT'S ALWAYS SUNNYN IN PHILADELPHIA Kaitlin Olson wasn't having it, and at first tur

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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Swear We Saw in Heaven When We Were Clinically Dead for Four Seconds

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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Swear We Saw in Heaven When We Were Clinically Dead for Four Seconds

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