40 Random Bits of Trivia That Unfortunately Don’t Like the Cut of Your Jib

Time for your brain to prove itself worthy
40 Random Bits of Trivia That Unfortunately Don’t Like the Cut of Your Jib

This fact reading game has been one-sided for far too long. You keep coming around here for facts, breezing through the great ones and scoffing at the slightly less interesting, widely-known ones. 

Well, you’re not the only judge around here. What if these facts don’t like your brain? What if they think it’s a little basic and don’t want to end up in there? Ever thought of that? 

So before you peruse this list, why don’t you pop open that skull of yours and show them what you’re workin’ with? And we’ll see if it’s a good fit.

The Nobel-Prize Winning Wife Guy

A Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner owes his achievement to his wife being cheap. CRACKED.COM Herbert C. Brown's wife bought him the book The Hydrides of Boron and Sili- con as a graduation gift because it was the cheap- est in the book store. In 1979, he won the Nobel for his work with Boron.

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Karl Marx

CRACKED cO GO HIKING WITH KARL YOU CAN AND HIS FRIENDS! MARX OuNAY Japanese toy maker Mountain Research released a foursome of surveyors modeled after

The Miss America Pageant

The Miss America Pageant CRACKED.COM Believe it or not, New Jersey hasn't always been an enthusias- tic supporter of young women's excellence. The Miss America pageant began in 1921 as a swim- suit competition to lure tourists back to Atlantic City once sum- mer was over in the time-hon- ored marketing tradition of boobs.

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Russian Winnie the Pooh

The USSR had its own, more hardass version of Winnie the Pooh. In the shameless ripoff Vinni Pukh, from 1969, comrade Pukh has a voice that sounds lik

Reality TV

Good Grief Lifetime A 2014 reality show about a family-owned funeral home that was scrapped when 8 rotting bodies were discovered by the landlord, and

Italian POWs

POWs in an Italian prisoner camp created a quite sophisticated makeshift stove from tin cans. KLM AIRINLET KLIM PLCARROS Mr Aouy COcO BRSE Woopsn tau

The Passion of the Christ

God checked in on Mel Gibson's Jesus tribute. THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST CRACKED COM Actor Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in the film, was struck by li

Donald Trump

In 1996, Donald Trump crashed a charity event for the Association to Benefit Children and didn't donate a dime. ASSOCIATION TO BENTFIT CH R' A ARC Tru

A Grotesque Discovery

A family in Auburn, PA was trying to insulate their home but upon tearing down the wall, dozens of animal carcasses spilled out. hodes The corpses wer

Happy Gilmore

FIRST MTV BEST FIGHT B CRACKED.COM Adam Sandler and Bob Barker's brawl won the very first MTV Movie Award for Best Fight. In 2015, Sandler and Barker went at it again on Comedy Central's 'Night of Too Many Stars'. There... Now you've had enough.

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Rob McElhenney from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was raised by a lesbian couple. McElhenney plays the for- merly homophobic and now out-of-the-closet (and ripped) homosexual charac- ter, Mac. The show has used gay marriage to illustrate America's hipocracy re- garding marriage equality. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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