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You should never meet your heroes. Unless your heroes are facts!

42 Random Bits of Trivia That Are As Nice in Person As They Are on TV

October 31, 2024

We were a little starstruck at first, but these facts eased our minds pretty much right away. So there’s nothing to be nervous about. We see you sweating a little and rehearsing a fun little story for them, but it’ll actually be a lot more chill than that. It’s so refreshing when such massive, knowledgable facts are down to earth.

Okay, here they are. Have fun!

42

Will Smith

Will Smith starred in The PrND ooooe of fBel-Air because he owed the IRS $2.8 million. Smith became a Hip Hop star at a young age, which led to some r

41

Fixing Games

The FBI outed an NBA referee CRACKED.COM Referee Tim Donaghy apparently got in deep with some mobsters, and was trying to pay off his debts by betting on the games he was officiating. The NBA didn't even notice - the FBI caught on while investigating said mobsters, and told commissioner David Stern come get your boy. — Source: 15 Of The Most Brazen Attempts At Cheating In Professional And Amateur Sports

40

Chuck E. Cheese

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39

The Clash

London Calling by The Clash The 1979 song is about climate change. The lyrics were inspired after the band read an article about the flooding of the Thames River. CRACKED.COM — Source

38

Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter filed a report in 1973 for a UFO sighting four years prior. CRACKED.COM Carter, as well as 10 to 12 other people who wit- nessed the same event, described the object as 'very bright chang- ing colors and about the size of the moon.' — Source

37

Horrible Toys

THIS IS THE HARRY POTTER NIMBUS 2000 VIBRATING BROOM. Sadly, they're no longer sold. It's a dick- shaped toy that vibrates when children stick it between their legs. (actual photo from Amazon) Actual Amazon review: When my 12 year old daughter asked for this for her birthday, I kind of wondered if she was too old for it, but she seems to LOVE it. Her friends love it too! They play for hours in her bedroom with this great toy. They really seem to like the special effects it offers (the sound effects and vibrating). My oldest daughter (17) really — Source

36

Guardians of the Galaxy

When Baby Groot throws up in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, that's James Gunn's nod to his roots. It's his way of acknowledging that he started out in B-movies and isn't afraid to resort to the lowest common denominator which is a baby tree vomiting. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

35

World War II

LIVE BOMBS FROM WWII CRACKED.COM A supermoon brought unusual tides to a Southampton beach, and with them a hundred live explosives. The WWII era bombs were wired to blow by a Navy bomb disposal team and detonated underwater, where the blasts could be more contained. — Source: Daily Mail

34

Motor Oil

Used motor oil was sprayed onto dirt roads in Times Beach, Missouri to curb a dust problem. CRACKED.COM The motor oil had been mixed with an- other chemical called dioxin, leading to one of the largest environ- mental disasters in U.S history. — Source

33

The Real Night King

The Paramonovius nightking is a bee fly that's characteristically similar to a certain villain from Game of Thrones. Like the Night King, the insect only shows up during the winter and has a crown of thorn-like spines on its head. According to the scientist who studied it, it also zombifies other species in the name of reproduction. CRACKED.COM — Source

32

David Carradine

Celebrity Endorsements David Carradine was a Sage of Phone Books. Yellow I Book i - - - - - METRO The star of Kung Fu and Kill Bill promoted enlightenment through the Yellow Book in 2006, even though Google had long replaced phone books. CRACKED.COM — Source: Ad On YouTube

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Size Comparisons

Amphicoelias Fragillimus, possibly the largest dinosaur that ever existed, giving a modern elephant a piggy back ride. GRAGKED.COM — Source

30

TV Firsts

The first network condom commercial 1991 CRACKED.COM The big networks wouldn't air an ad for jimmy hats until Fox aired a Trojan spot that reminded us that these days, some pretty terrible things are happening to some really nice people. — Source: 22 Television History Once-Taboo Firsts

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New York City

New York City has a total of 41 buildings that have their own ZIP code. One of them is the Empire State Building, with the ZIP code 10118. Most of the buildings are in midtown, but there are some in the Financial District. CRACKED.COM — Source: AMNY

28

The Oscar Streaker

THE 1974 ACADEMY AWARDS SAW A STREAKER ON STAGE. While actor David Niven was introducing Elizabeth Taylor as the next presenter, photographer and protester Robert Opel streaked across the stage behind him. Much laughter ensued, the band even played a couple of riffs, and Niven quipped: Well, ladies and gentlemen, — Groovy history, Video

27

Crime Myths

Cops don't investigate crime scenes. CENE DD NOT CROSS The people who collect and analyze the evidence do work for police departments, but they're not police officers rather, they're civilian technicians with no badge. CRACKED.COM — Deseret News

26

Chris Pratt

Chris Pratt used to be a stripper. Besides bachelorette parties, he even performed at his friend's grandma's birthday party (he only stripped to his boxers). CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Eyebrow-Arching Early Jobs Of Celebs

25

Nebraska

Whiteclay, Nebraska, sells 4 million cans of beer per year, and has a population of 14. ULES REY Bull Dog Doc COME Bull Dog Bull COURSE Dog DO Bell ALE Bug STORP BEER ALE UT Bürgermeis adidas ) Ingermeide 1000 Such tu Burgermelste BEE USUS Kargermei UMAS Kinis Gort Sutter - li Book - - - / FRISCO G Total Julia GB GLUER'S G isher BLUS B B OCK LAGER BEER Goebel UMER Goebel BELL BIO you BEER The Angel على Lote م BEER - Sing LUCKY UCKY X E CARPE and AFE LIFE Most of the alcohol sales go

24

Goodfellas

The producer didn't want Ray Liotta. GoodFellas Behind the Scenes Scorsese was dead set on Liotta, but producer Irwin Winkler kept pushing him towards hiring someone with more star power. Liotta was able to pitch himself to Winkler during a chance meeting in a restaurant, winning him over. CRACKED.COM — Source

23

Job Hazards

TV Meteorologists wear wet suits. PER 0.0007 If they need to report from a snow storm, meteorologists will wear wet suits and heat wraps like ThermaCare to stay warm for long amounts of time. CRACKED.COM — Source

22

Body Myths

CRACKED.COM It's mostly people in Western countries who get heart disease, right? Nope. About 60% of all people diagnosed with heart disease live in India, which has less than 20% of the world's population. The thinking is that this could be because of an Indian genetic vulnerability to heart disease, combined with India's rising junk food consumption and stress levels. — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

21

Emilia Clarke

Emilia Clarke, AKA Daenerys, had two brain aneurysms. And she founded an aneurysm charity - it's called SameYou, and it focuses on research to help uncover the cause of aneurysms and on support for people recovering from aneurysms. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

It's Always Sunny is the longest-running live-action sitcom. TDENNY MUFFLER CENE Despite this, it's only received three Emmy award nominations, all for stunt coordination. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED COM — Source: Emmys

19

Venus

If you were born on venus you'd celebrate your first birthday before you were even a day old. venus is the slowest rotating planet in the solar System. It can make a complete orbit around the sun in less time than it takes to rotate just once on its axis. CRACKED.COM — Source

18

Sarans K.K.

CRACKED Indian artist Sarans К.К. holds the Guinness World Record for the largest oil painting by a single artist, for his 1,800-square-foot portrait of three of the UAE's leaders. — Source

17

Phyllis from ‘The Office’

COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM Phyllis Smith Cast The Office NETFLIA I RT II E OA The Office A Phyllis Smith was originally a casting director for the show and was pulled in to play Phyllis because the directors liked her so much. Thank you producers, I live off of the way Phyllis says Popkern. — Source: 'The Office' 15 Now-You-Know Facts

16

The High Cost of Celery

Celery was a very popular food in the 1800s through the early 1900s. CRACKED.COM It was the third most popu- lar menu ingredient in New York City restaurants, be- hind coffee and tea. The celery cost more than cavi- ar because it was so hard to cultivate in those days. — Sporkful

15

Bridgerton

One of the big problems for Bridgerton's sex scenes was an actor's height. Re%e-Jean page was too tall for Regency-era beds so they had to choreograph his sex scenes very carefully to keep him from falling off. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

14

Shania Twain

Shania Twain's voice was damaged by Lyme disease CRACKED.COM One side effect of Lyme disease is particularly devastating to Shania Twain: dysphonia, a.k.a. hoarse voice. Through physical therapy and a vigorous vocal warmup regimen, she's been able to keep crooning, but was very scared for a little while that I wouldn't sing again.

13

The Beatles

28 years old GRACKED.COM 28 was the average age of the Beatles when they broke up. None of them were over 29-years-old. — Source

12

Ted Lasso

TeD LASSO'S HOMAGE TO Scorsese's CLASSIC Season 2's Beard After Hours episode pays homage to the 1985 dark comedy After Hours and drew inspiration from the film to create the entire plot of the episode. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Supreme Court

A woman fought to be able to sue herself, all the way to the Supreme Court. When a woman tried to sue herself for the wrongful death of her husband, the district court threw out the suit saying that you can't sue yourself. The case appealed to the supreme court who ruled that you can. CRACKED.COM — Justia US Law

10

Canine Medicine

Dogs have pain-relieving properties. Just a 10 minute visit from a friendly pup is enough to reduce the pain of emergency room patients, according to a study with hospital therapy dogs. CRACKED.COM — Source: CNN

9

Gnarls Barkley

GNARLS BARKLEY CRACKED.COM Maybe every project needs Danger Mouse. After Goodie Mob, CeeLo Green had 2 solo albums while Danger Mouse created The Grey Album in 2004. Their side project, Gnarls Barkley, began with platinum album St. Elsewhere, thanks to Crazy reaching top 5 in 20 countries. The song remains a bigger hit than each artist has had individually. — Source

8

Queen Elizabeth

A man who worked for Queen Elizabeth in the 1600s went into self-imposed exile after he farted in front of her. Cuz Daughter of Rouces ler in Coms Ita and died 24 of June JG CRACKED.COM Edward de Vere left England for 7 years. When he return,ed, the Queen greeted him by saying My Lord, I had forgotten the Fart. — Brief lives

7

Pharrell

6

Duran Duran

DURAN DURAN NAMED ITSELF AFTER THE VILLAIN IN CHEESY SCIFI FLICK BARBARELLA. The villain was actually named Durand Durand. Also in Barbarella: Jane Fonda, pictured above in the Orgasmatron. CRACKED.COM http://www.bandnameexplained.com/2013/07/duran-duran-band-name-meaning.html — Source

5

Trolls World Tour

CRACKED.COM Jukebox Musicals Trolls World Tour One part Polygon creators, all parts brothers, the McElroys created a podcast (on edibles) designed to chronicle how they got into Trolls 2 as they tried to get into Trolls World Tour. — Source: 15 Facts About Jukebox Musicals We're Singing Along To

4

St. Patrick

Everyone honors St. Patrick by wearing green. But St. Patrick's official color is blue. The earliest depictions of St. Patrick show him clothed entirely in blue, not green, and when George III created a new order of chivalry for the Kingdom of Ireland, the Order of St. Patrick, its official color was a sky blue, known as St. Patrick's Blue. Blue was originally the color of Ireland, and a gold harp on a blue background still appears on the Irish constitution and presidential flag. The color green represents the divide between Ireland and Great Britain. CRACKED.COM http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/should-st-patricks-day-be-blue-180954572/ — Source

3

Ant-Man

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES ANT-MAN LIVING NIGHTMARES CAN BEGIN IN MANY WAYS! HENRY PYM'S BEGAN WITH A CRY OF TRIUMPH! IT WORKS! I'VE DONE IT!! TALES TO ASTONISH Dr. Henry Hank Pym (played by Michael Douglas) first appeared in Tales to Astonish #27 in 1962. In the movie Ant- -Man when Darren Cross talks about Hank's career and jokes about his tales to astonish it's a reference to Hank's first appearance in the comics. CRACKED.COM — Source

2

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Danny DeVito's casting saved the show from being canceled after the first season The network demanded star power. Luckily, DeVito's kids were fans of the show So he joined on. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED COM — Source: Hollywood Reporter

1

Kevin Hart

CRACKED KEVIN HART stepped down as host of the Oscars in 2018. Не tweeted a pretty standard apology for his past homophobic tweets, but later said, I apologize. Now we're in a space where I'm around people of the LGBTQ community, and I'm now aware of how these words make them feel, and why they say 'That shit hurts because of what I've been through.' I'm riding with you guys. I understand you. — Jaguar PS/Shutterstock
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