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With this much info, your brain might need an external hard drive

40 Random Bits of Trivia to Drag and Drop Into Your Neocortex

November 03, 2024

Did you know that your brain holds as much memory as some of the world’s biggest supercomputers?

That fact isn’t on this list, so it was just a fun little bonus fact to wet your whistle. We wanted to kick off this list with a computer comparison because we just got word that the Cracked higher-ups have made it possible to drag and drop these facts into your brain. No more reading! What a brave new world indeed!

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Redwall

The guy who wrote the Redwall series was actually an unhappy milkman. - IN EVENTERS The Original ENTERS سعيد : ATE Well, he was unhappy because he'd been reading to blind kids, and he thought the books available were pretty crappy, so he wrote new ones. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jonathan Taylor Thomas

40 Random Bits of Trivia to Drag and Drop Into Your Neocortex

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Your Miranda Rights

YOU WILL NOT BE READ YOUR MIRANDA RIGHTS WHENEVER YOU'RE ARRESTED Police aren't required to read your rights to arrest you, only to interrogate you once you're in their custody. If you are caught red-handed, they don't need to ask if it was you who destroyed that mailbox with a baseball bat, SO they won't inform you that you have the right to remain silent. CRACKED.COM — Oakland Criminal Lawyer

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Aire Masks

CRACKED JOCO PAULO LAMMOGLIA'S AIRE MASK WAS DESIGNED TO ENABLE PEOPLE TO RECHARGE THEIR MOBILE GADGETS BY INHALING AND EXHALING. The tiny wind turbines in the mask converts free, renewable energy into electricity, which is then sent via a cord that connects to the device. — ZDNet / HuffPost

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London’s Monuments

WEIRD WORLD We've found out London has way more statues of animals than of named women. There are almost 1,500 monuments, and only 4% are monuments to named women. Turns out, animals have twice as many monuments as women. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Sound of Music

The Sound Of Music CRACKED COM In The Sound Of Music, the grumpy, -nosed captain learns to enjoy music. But the real Georg von Trapp was a sweet man who loved music. His children were never happy about the way their kind father was portrayed on film. On the other — For details, read 7 Movies Based on a True Story (Are Shockingly Full of Crap)

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Alice Cooper

Keanu Reeves Не hung out with Alice Cooper when he was young. Reeves' mother was a costume designer, and Cooper would hire her for various outfits. Не brought fake vomit and dog poo to terrorize the housekeeper. He'd hang out, a regular dude. CRACKED.COM — Whoa Is (Not) Me

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Grease 3

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS BEHIND The original screenplay was for GREASE 3 Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were the potential stars of Grease 3, with Travolta and Newton-Joh approached to cameo. The studio eventually nixed the project, and the script was reworked to become High School Musical. — Screenrant

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford was a certified moron (as proven in court). Ford was good with machines, but not much more. When a newspaper called him ignorant, he took them to court for libel - and then proceeded to make a complete fool out of himself on the stand. He said, among other howlers, that Benedict Arnold was a writer — More: 6 Historical Figures That Pop-Culture Got Pretty Wrong

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Nicolas Cage

It was Nicholas Cage's idea to eat real cockroaches while filming Vampire's Kiss (1988). CRACKED.COM The script had called for Cage's character to suck a raw egg, but he felt that was too tame. Cage de- cided on cockroaches be- cause they are the thing he hates the most. — Source

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Transformers

CRACKED THE TRANSFORMERS CARTOON WAS MADE TO HAWK PRODUCT. In 1984, Hasbro bought a toy line from the Japanese company Takara, and rebranded them as Transformers. They created the Transformers series based on the toy line, and made $950 million in toy sales from 1984 to 1990 alone. — AP News / Coming Soon

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Canadian National Parks

In Canada, doctors can officially prescribe you a one-year National Park pass. That's possible in several Canadian provinces at this point, and it's part of a program that's trying to get patients to spend at least two hours per week in nature. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Predator

The actors in Predator didn't look tough enough at first. CRACKED.COM Gary Goldman, an officer during the Vietnam war, was brought in to run the actors through military simulations. Director John McTiernan had told Goldman that these guys look like a bunch of ballerinas. — Source: Hollywood Reporter

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The Statue of Unity in India

597 ft. The Statue of Unity in India is so tall the Statue of Liberty could barely touch his knees with her torch. 152 ft. CRACKED.COM — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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Weird Al

Weird Al Yankovic says he took several first dates to see The Naked Gun. Не wouldn't mention his cameo. He'd just wear the same shirt and wait for his date to notice. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Celebrity Romantic Moves (Only They Can Pull Off)

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Bette Davis

Bette Davis kicked Joan Crawford in the face. Crawford finally got back at her during a later What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? scene, in which Davis had to drag her around. Unbeknownst to Davis, Crawford had lined her dress with lead weights, causing the 54-year-old Davis throw her back out. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown's dinky little tree comes from a fairy tale. Producer Lee Mendelson suggested the idea of decorating a scrawny, ugly tree because he'd read Hans Christian Andersen's The Pine Tree, and that was on his mind. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall

There's a real funny DELETED SEQUENCE of Sarah Marshall on a RUNAWAY HORSE. The horse is pretty tame as it veers off the horse trail and onto a golf course, but Kristen Bell's character can't ride a horse, so she freaks out when no one tries to help her. BEHIND THE SCENES I FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Shawshank Redemption

No human could survive Shawshank Redemption's sewage pipe crawl. Ammonia would sting Andy's eyes to the point of blindness, and methane would kill him in minutes. Similar jailbreak attempts have used steam pipes or drainage pipes, but no one's ever made it through 1,500 feet of a narrow pipe full of raw sewage. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Blockbuster Movies That Got Their Science Totally Wrong

21

Biblical Plagues

THE BIBLICAL PLAGUE OF FROGS MIGHT HAVE BEEN JUST ONE HUGE FROG. We imagine the plague as a whole lot of frogs getting everywhere- but according to some medieval rabbis, it was just one big-ass frog that covered the entire land of Egypt with its gigantic body (and spawned — More: Bible's 'Plague of Frogs' May Have Been Just One Giant Frog

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Richard Nixon

RICHARD NIXON BOWLING CRACKEDCO Dick and Pat both loved bowling, SO friends paid to have a single lane installed in a workspace below the White House driveway. The disco glow-bowling wasn't installed until the Carter administration. — White House Museum

19

Space Invaders

SPACE INVADERS Space Invaders' increasing speed is because of a + hardware problem. Even after a year working on the hardware, the invaders moved really slowly. They only sped up when there were fewer of them on the screen, because they'd been shot. Hence the slowly accelerating pace. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Games We Grew Up On (With Weird Backstories)

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Zero Gravity

One fun thing about zero gravity is that you get taller. And it hurts like crazy. The human spine is a very nerve-dense part of your body, and stretching it out like an accordion is excruciating. Oh, and the nerves themselves are also in danger of getting damaged. Then, when you touch foot on terra firma again, you run the risk of your disks slipping as they snap back together. CRACKED.COM http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/space_health/background/ — Source: 23 Facts That Challenge Accepted Beliefs About Outer Space

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein's Failing Grades Einstein never failed math. Не did fail the Zurich Polytechnic entry exam but not the math section. And it might have been due to being rusty on French, the language the exam was in. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Man with Two Hearts

40 Random Bits of Trivia to Drag and Drop Into Your Neocortex — ABC News

15

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind R2-D2 is briefly seen (upside down) on the alien ship. Do the aliens come from a galaxy far, far away? Do they use astromech droids? So many questions! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Deer

Deer CRACKED.COM During the mating season, a rutting deer will gore you to death if you stand between them and some white-tail. Or if you're just minding your own business, as several people have found themselves being ambushed by horny males. — 5 Super-Adorable Animals That Can Kill The Hell Out Of You

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Seinfeld

ON SEINFELD, JERRY AND ELAINE EAT NONFAT FROZEN YOGURT BUT GAIN WEIGHT. THEY DEDUCE THAT THE YOGURT ISN'T AS NONFAT AS IT CLAIMS. just a few months

12

Missing White Woman Syndrome

Missing White Woman Syndrome MISSING! the disproportionate media coverage that young, white, middle- to upper-class missing women receive — Source: NPR

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The Matthew Effect

The Matthew Effect Named after the parable of talents in the Gospel of Matthew, this theory suggests that rich get richer and the poor get poorer. CRACKED.COM — Source: Science.org

10

Poltergeist

STRANGER THINGS INSPIRATIONS POLTERGEIST JoBeth Williams did the mud scene like a pro - only to later find out those were actual human skeletons, not props. The FX artists got medical skeletons and dressed them up to look gross. CRACKED.COM — More: 5 Famous Movie Scenes That Were Totally Disgusting To Film

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Thriller

Michael Jackson's THRILLER is so much more than a music video. In December 1983, the 13-minute short film was solely responsible for increasing MTV's ratings tenfold. It is the only music video to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. CRACKED — Michael Jackson/YouTube
Billboard

8

Shuffling Cards

CRACKED SHUFFLING A DECK OF CARDS It's almost impossible to shuffle a deck of cards into the exact same order twice - it's like trying to arrange the same number of atoms as there are in our entire galaxy. So it's almost certain that every single shuffled deck of cards, ever, is unique. — Source

7

(Very) Underage Driving

WEIRD WORLD A five-year-old caught driving had the most adorable explanation for doing that. Не told cops that he was just out trying to buy a present for his sister, apparently. CRACKED.COM — Source

6

The Eiffel Tower

CRACKED THE EIFFEL TOWER WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO BE A TEMPORARY STRUCTURE. It was built for the 1889 World's Fair, and meant to be dismantled 20 years later. However, they kept it around to act as a radio tower after radio was invented in 1895. — Source

5

Bohemian Rhapsody

Rolling Stone said that Queen's BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY invented the music video. It only took four hours and £3,500 to make, but its success in 1975 had every record company thinking about video! Director Bruce Gowers became a star, and went on to make videos for the Bee Gees, Rod Stewart, Michael Jackson, and Prince. CRACKED — Source

4

Total Recall

Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - For Total Recall, the actors had to contort their faces in ridiculous grimaces for a day. — Source: SyFy

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40-Year-Old Virgin

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Apatow worried that Steve would lose a BODY PART CRACKED COM We were looking for who was a professional waxer, says Apatow. Somebody said 'this is the person. And the woman who claimed to know how to wax I think lied. She put the wax over Steve's nipple and we almost lost a nipple. That's all I'm going to say. — Rotten Tomatoes YouTube

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Chamber Pots

CRACKED COM Chamber pots were used by our ancestors to ease their burden and SELECT to PARSENGERS DO NEE EMPIT TES GER - TEXA now are sold to collectors for prices high as $3870. — Source

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Birds of Prey

Birds of Prey has a subtle homage to Harley Quinn's first appearance. She wears the number 92 on her derby outfit -- that's a nod to the episode of Batman: The Animated Series, broadcast in '92, where she first appeared. CRACKED.COM — Source: Insider

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