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45 Random Bits of Trivia That Will Swarm on Your Brain Like Flying Ants on A Fallen Hot Dog

November 04, 2024

Feel that tingling on your brain? That’s the feeling of thousands of little fact feet scurrying across it. As you can tell by now, there aren’t thousands of facts on this list, but each fact has one hundred legs, so we’re not lying. If you didn’t know that facts are like centipedes then that’s on you!

Either way, we just wanted you to know what you’re feeling, so you don’t have to frantically call a neurologist with your serious concerns.

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The Godfather

SPAIN THINKS THE GODFATHER IS ABOUTA CHESS MATCH AT OLIVE GARDEN. Toda herencia puede rehusarse, To let the menos la sangre audience know this movie i

44

Bruce Lee

Did you know that BRUCE LEE was a dancing champion, as well as a martial arts one? Не won the Hong Kong Cha Cha Championship in his teens, shortly before moving to San Francisco. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Celebrities As (Probably) Never Seen Before

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Alien

CRACKED COM Alien eggs were made to look less genital to avoid Catholic backlash. H.R. Giger had designed the top of the eggs in Alien to look like a — More: 5 Famous Films Hollywood Had Zero Faith In

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The Birds

Illegal filmmaking Alfred Hitchcock terrorized actors and birds) on The Birds. Hitchcock pelted actress Tippi Hedren with live birds (injuring and killing the birds), and force-fed whisky to seagulls to get them to stay still for longer. Hedren was hospitalized, and he ruined her career when she refused his sexual advances. CRACKED — Source

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A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born pays homage to its predecessors through a song (kind of). Early on, Lady Gaga hums Somewhere Over the Rainbow, which was sung by Judy Garland - who had Gaga's role in the 1954 version. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vanity Fair

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Bear Grylls

Bear Grylls' survival adventures were revealed to be fake. In one episode in the Sierra Nevada, Grylls bites off the head of a snake for breakfast. A producer revealed that Grylls actually spent the night with the show's crew in a luxury lodge with all amenities, presumably including breakfast. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Second City

Comedy hotbeds THE SECOND CITY CHiCAGO With top notch sketch and improv, it was basically an SNL farm system. Bill Murray, Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Chris Farley, Bill Hader, and many more began at the Chicago branch. Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert started there too. CRACKED — The Second City
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Beer Archeologists

CRACKED OBSCUREJOBS BEER ARCHEOLOGIST Beer archeologists bring back old recipes, like a beer that was popular with Vikings that has juniper branches and baker's yeast, a Peruvian drink made with chewed corn and saliva, or George Washington's favorite porter. — Master1305/Shutterstock
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Chameleons

Chameleon Camouflage u up? CRACKEDcO Turns out the reason everyone wants to get bitten by a radioactive chameleon isn't that accurate. Chameleons can — Source: Reader's Digest

36

Hidden Jokes

There's an STD reference in A Series of Unfortunate Events. When asked where he studied herpetology, Count Olat replies: I don't know anything about

35

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog What was the first game featuring Sonic? That's right - it was Rad Mobile. This racing game, which had a little Sonic as a rear view mirror ornament, was released a few months before Sonic the Hedgehog. — Sources: Sega Retro, Traxion

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Photography

GENUINE PHOTOS CAN STILL MISLEAD YOU. w20 A factor as simple as the camera angle can influence whether you view a person as strong or weak, trustworth

33

The Earning Potential of Popular Kids

People who are popular in school earn more money as adults. Scientists conducted a long-term survey where they interviewed high school students, then tracked them down 35 years later. They found that kids in the top fifth of the popularity rankings earned 10% more than those who were in the bottom fifth. CRACKED.COM — Source

32

Radiohead

In his spare time, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood raises chickens. In an interview with music mag Uncut, he's complained about foxes. We get foxes every few years and it all goes a bit 'crime scene' when that happens - lots of burials. CRACKED.COM — Source: NME

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World War II

In 1942, Nobuo Fujita fire- bombed BrookiNGS, Oregon. The city went on to make him an honorary citizen. Fujita was actually the only wartime enemy to

30

Adam West

Adam West tried for years to keep on playing Batman. West didn't quietly hang the batboots when his show ended in the '60s. Until the late '80s, he kept pitching increasingly deranged projects where he got to play the Caped Crusader. Не was bitterly disappointed when Michael Keaton was cast instead of him for the 1989 movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Heroes of Air Canada

In 2012, an Air Canada passenger flight took a detour to help find a stranded yacht. AIRCANADA ........... CRACKED.COM The plane dropped from 37,000 feet to 4,000 feet to search off the Australian coast. It took the passen- gers 25 minutes after the emergency beacon was ac- tivated to locate the yacht. — CNN

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Fine-Art Easter Eggs

CRACKED Flemish artist Clara Peeters' Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels features another incredibly subtle self-portrait - Peeters painted with such accuracy that she included herself reflected in the rim of the jug. — Source

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Affluenza

A kid got off easy for being a spoiled rich brat. 100 In 2013, 16-year-old Ethan Couch plowed his truck into a group of people, killing four and injuring nine. His father's defense team argued that he had affluenza, that is, he was too rich to know any better. Judge Jean Boyd agreed, and sent him to rehab instead of prison. CRACKED — Dmitry Lobanov/Shutterstock
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The Blogger Who Killed Her Son

Chestnut Ridge, New York The blogger who killed her son and blogged about it Lacey Spears slowly poisoned her kid with salt, and blogged about him falling ill due to natural causes. Doctors believe she has Munchausen by proxy syndrome. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Real Crimes Straight Out Of A Horror Movie

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Cocaine Use

Individually, Americans use more cocaine than any other country. The percentage of users in America is only a tenth of a percent higher than Brazil, but Americans use 36% of the world's cocaine, compared to Brazil's 18%. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Killing Eve

It turns out that Prince William is a big fan of the BBC show Killing Eve. He talked to the people behind it at one point, and Killing Eve producer Sally Woodward Gentle said that Apparently he has watched it all. CRACKED.COM — Source

23

Ratatouille

Remy's recipe in Ratatouille is real. ОПОИ LOTE It was created by a chef and takes 3 1/2 hours to prepare. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

WHO WAS DAVID WISE? DAVID WISE CREATED EVERYTHING YOU LOVE ADOUT THE NINJA TURTLES. The turtles' love for pizza, their individual personalities, Shredder being their main foe... Nothing of that was in the original comics - it all came from Wise. He wrote the cartoon's opening five-parter, and then went on to run the show. — Source: ScreenCrush

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Heidi Montag

CRACKEDC COM e V dg Heidi Montag spent nearly $2'million of her own money on her first album, titled Superficial. The album, which she and her husband

20

Plastic Bags

Americans use and dispose of 100,000,000,000 plastic shopping bags each year. If the average bag is around 12 inches in length, laying them end to end would stretch around the equator... Twice. Per day. Walmart CRACKED.COM — Source

19

Operation

The patient featured in the game Operation is named Cavity Sam. ELECTRO PROBE Не is presumably named after what cardiologists call SAM (Systolic Anterior Motion), an ailment that occurs in a ventricular cav- ity of the heart. Why not just Sam, Hasbro? Why Cavity? WHY CAVITY? CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

18

Chinese Caves

Three caves with triangular openings sit atop a mountain in China. And they're filled with pipes of unknown origin. Some of the Baigong pipes go deep

17

Black Holes

The largest black hole ever found shines with the brightness of a hundred trillion stars. CRACKED.COM TON 618 is a hyperlumi- nous quasar that possesses an ultramassive black hole that consumes galaxies' worth of matter. It is great- er than the mass of all the stars in the Milky Way gal- аху combined. — Source

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Food Myths

МУТН: ORGANIC FOOD IS ALWAYS BETTER. Organic food has not been found to be significantly healthier than non-organic and eating the recommended servings of fruits and veggies is more important than how it is grown. GRACKED GOM — Source

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The White House

As many as three U.S. presidents may have died because of contaminated water at the White House. Before 1850, there was a night soil depository (read: a field of human poop) upstream from the White House's water supply. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

14

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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Movie Myths

YOU CAN'T TRICK A SCANNER WITH A SEVERED HAND ID POSITIVE Biometric scanners check the capillary flow through your hand, not just the palm print. CRACKED.COM — Source

12

American Bread

BREAD To visitors from other countries, American bread tastes like cake. That's because manufacturers add a ton of high-fructose corn syrup-the stuff is so cheap there, thanks to corn subsidies. Some people think American bread tastes better. Others think the sweetness makes it incompatible with any kind of topping. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Lord of the Rings

Peter Jackson decided Stuart Townsend was too young. THE LORD OF THE RINGS Townsend was robbed of playing Aragorn, months into training for the part

10

The Secret of Nimh

The movie THE made SECRET NIMH one character mistake. CRACKED.COM Sullivan, the sidekick rat who turns on Jenner and gets killed for it, is never mentioned by name in the film. The creators only realized their mistake after the movie was released. — Source

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TV’s First Interracial Kiss

The first interracial kiss 1959 CRACKED.COM Star Trek often gets the credit for this, but the first televised interracial kis actually occurred 9 years earlier on the televised UK production of Hot Summer Night. — Source: 22 Television History Once-Taboo Firsts

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Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan had to do community service. She handled Whitney Houston's body bag. Or so she claimed, calling it an annoying chore criminals shouldn't have to do. The coroner's office debunked the story. No one in the probation program came near Houston, who was never even CRACKED.COM in a body bag. — Source: Bizarre Lies 19 Famous People Thought They'd Get Away With

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Martin Luther King

While attending Crozer Theological Seminary, Dr. Martin Luther King received a с in public speaking. CRACKED.COM King is widely known as one of history's greatest orators, but that particular skill might not have come so naturally to him. — Open Culture

6

Dune

The Easter egg Jason Momoa snuck into Dune for his son. For his climactic fight in the movie, Momoa included moves from the native Filipino martial art, Kali. He specifically chose these moves because his kid practices Kali, too, and said it was his way of signalling to his son. CRACKED.COM — Source

5

Watchmen

We almost got a Watchmen movie in the 90s. Terry Gilliam was supposed to direct, and they wanted Schwarzenegger for Doctor Manhattan, while David Bowie wanted to play Rorschach. But it turned out to be too expensive, and anyway, Gilliam later decided Watchmen was too big for one movie. NOW — Source: CBR

4

The Amsterdam Myth

YOU CAN FREELY CONSUME ANY DRUGS IN AMSTERDAM Actually, all drugs are forbidden in the Netherlands. The government only tolerates very small amounts

3

Healthy Sex Lives

Women who are satisfied with their sex lives are less likely to have high blood pressure. Good sex also helps enhancE blood vessel capacity, helping p

2

Relationships

Changing your partners probably won't change your relationship issues. 2019 In one long-term study, researchers found people repeated the same dynamic — Source: EurekAlert

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Wild Wild West

Notes From Execs WILD WILD WEST Director Barry Sonnenfeld said studio execs wanted to lower the budget if the characters were too complex, and asked to remove the subtleties (such as they are). Actual quote: Could you take out the nuances? CRACKED — Warner Bros. Pictures
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