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40 Random Bits of Trivia to Load Into a T-Shirt Cannon and Blast Into the Cheap Seats

November 07, 2024

When Bronx-born rapper Fat Joe wrote the hit track “All the Way Up,” he made it pretty clear that going up is a great thing. That seems pretty obvious, right? Going up to the number one spot on the charts, taking an elevator up to the penthouse and traveling high up in a private jet all sound pretty awesome.

It was ironic that we first heard “All the Way Up” while climbing all the way up to the cheapest possible seats in an arena, but once these facts were blasted up to us with a high-powered T-shirt cannon, we were thrilled that the song’s integrity remained in tact.

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Robert Rodriguez

A Robert Rodriguez movie won't be released until 2115. The only copy of 100 Years, directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring John Malkovich, is currently sitting in a time-locked safe set to open in November 2115. The movie was made as a publicity stunt for an extra-fancy cognac that is aged 100 years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dr. Oz

Dr. Oz tired to ban breakfast. At the start of 2020, Dr. Oz told TMZ that he was going to swear off breakfast as part of the whole intermittent fasting trend, and encouraged everyone to ban their morning meal. I don't think we need to eat breakfast. That's an advertising ploy. CRACKED.COM — Today

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Aquariums

Aquariums usually can't buy animals, so they barter for them. Putting a price tag on animals leads to poaching, so aquariums mostly barter with other aquariums to get the specimens they want (sometimes in very elaborate deals that take weeks or months of planning). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — NPR

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Myrtle Beach

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Apples

McDonald's has a surprisingly massive influence on the apple industry. The consumption of sliced apples in the U.S. went up by more than 3x since McD's put them on the menu in 2004, and McD's now sells over 10% of U.S. sliced apples. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Business Insider

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The Vatican

The Vatican had to pull 6000 papal medals in 2013 because of a typo. Instead of Jesus, the medals said Lesus - and, of course, collectors snapped up the medals with the misprint when they had the chance. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jesus

Jesus was intitially thought to have been born on January 6th In 200 A.D., Jesus was believed to be a January baby. We don't really know why or how it changed, but it might have moved to take over pagan holidays that fell near December 25th. CRACKED.COM — Source: Washington Post

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Hurricanes

The storm surge is RRICANE often the SURGE STORM most ELEVATION dangerous part of CATEGORY 5 a hurricane. CATEGORY 4 A Category 2 hurricane can produc

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Latex

The International Latex Corporation's seamstresses made the Apollo 11 spacesuits. That company, AKA Playtex, had specialized in latex girdles and bras, but decided to branch out into pressurized space suits, thinking it'd be profitable. CRACKED.COM — Source: GlamourDaze

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Jamie Lee Curtis

Gaming Celebrities nives wars Jamie Lee Curtis is a big eSports supporter. Curtis got into gaming when her son introduced her to Street Fighter. The two now support Team SoloMid during League of Legends competitions. CRACKED.COM — Source: Digital Trend

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Windows XP

Windows XP was first launched in 2001 and it is still being used by some people today. CRACKED.COM NetMarketShare reported that 1.26% of laptops and desktop computers were running on the 19-year-old os last month. This means that there are 25.2 million PCs running on Windows ХР, which is a problem because it is a highly insecure system. — Source

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Warm Climates

CRACKED WE'VE OUTSMARTED THE COLD (AND ALSO MOTHER NATURE). People have relied heavily on behavioral adaptation to survive in cold climates. We're a tropical species, and without inventing tools and changing our habits we'd just be hairless popsicles in places like Scandinavia. — Source

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Centralia, Pennsylvania

Centralia, Pennsylvania. The town sits on an underground coal mine fire that has been burning since 1962, so the ground is always warm. Poisonous smoke kills plants, and sinkholes have swallowed up pets, deer, and a young boy. The U.S. government ordered a total evacuation in 1984, but a handful of residents refused to leave. CRACKED — Source

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

LOVE & MURDER drep WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? The inspiration for The Office's Diner Party, the movie shows you a marriage held together by fairies and wishes, and foces you to watch as it all disappears in the sunlight. CRACKED.COM

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Chadwick Boseman

Performers Bookends First episode / Last Episode Chadwick Boseman Boseman's final performance was voicing T'Challa in Marvel's What If...? animated series, but his first principal on screen role was a character on the soap opera All My Children, a role in which he was replaced by his Black Panther co-star Michael В. Jordan. CRACKED.COM — ABC, Marvel Studios
IMDb
All My Children Wiki

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Dark Green Veggies

Eating dark green vegies and green powder can make your poop green, but it's nothing to worry about. It's just the chlorophyll in the food. CRACKED — Aprilphoto/Shutterstock
Healthline

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Twister

CRACKED A NAKED MAN IN A CORNFIELD. While the tornado hunters take a detour through a cornfield, we see a random naked dude for a few frames. Who is he? Why is he naked? And how did they not notice him in the final cut? TWISTER — Youtube / What Culture

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Amphibious Police Chases

WEIRD WORLD A Dutch family in an amphibious car outran the police on a German river. (illustration) The cops started chasing them in a borrowed electric boat, but the battery died and the cops got stranded and had to wait to get rescued. CRACKED.COM — Source: WJLA

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Captain Kangaroo

40 Random Bits of Trivia to Load Into a T-Shirt Cannon and Blast Into the Cheap Seats

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Godzilla

The monster of Gojira, the granddaddy of Godzilla films, was supposed to be a giant octopus. THE IMPROVISATION: The movie's special effects wizard rea

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The CIA

CIA inserted LSD in the bread of a bakery. GRACKED COM The CIA secretly spiked the bread from a bakery in the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit with enormous quantities of LSD as part of its cold war mind-control experiments. — Source

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Hard Rock Cafe

In 2006, The Seminole Tribe of Florida purchased the Hard Rock Café hotel and casino business. HardRod CAFE The deal, valued at $965 million, now includes 180 Restaurants, 24 Hotels, and 11 Casinos in 74 different countries. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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College Years

CRACKED COM In the US, it's normal to go to college for four years. BIOLOGY HISTORY ENGLISH sociology POLITIC GEOMETR MATHEMATICS 9 ELIGION ECONOMY PHYSICS TUC ARTS OG EDUCATION MISTRY In Europe, it's usually just three years, as lots of the general education that US students take is taken care of in high school. — Source

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Cy Young

Biggest Loser MLB CRACKED.COM He's better known as the namesake of the yearly award for best pitcher, but Cy Young's prolific career also produced a fair amount of duds. In 22 years, he had a league-record 316 losses. — Source

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Mt. Everest

THERE'S BOTH 3G AND 4G COVERAGE ON THE SUMMIT OF MT. EVEREST GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Milk and Bones

MYTH: MILK BUILDS STRONG BE BONES. CRACKED.COM This myth started when schools were provided nutritional material that boasted the importance of dairy in your diet, when studies cannot link milk consumption with healthy living and especially stronger bones. Who gave them this material? The National Dairy Council. — Source

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Harry Potter

The clock tower Harry Potter flew over has a fancy apartment. Inside the St. Pancras clock tower, there's an apartment with ridiculously high ceilings and two bedrooms. Unfortunately, since it's literally on top of a train station, neither bedroom can give you a good night's sleep. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Peter Cushing

Grand Moff Tarkin was wearing slippers in most of his Star Wars scenes. CRACKED.COM Peter Cushing, the actor who played Grand Moff Tarkin, found his costume's boots to be very uncomfortable. Any time his feet were not visible in the shot he would be wearing comfy slippers. — Den of Geek

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Bad Dancing

DANCING IS A RISKY VENTURE. BAD DANCING CAN TURN A WOMAN OFF, HARD. Your lack of rhythm may foreshadow that you're bad in bed. Or, as scientists prefe — For details, read 6 Things Men Do to Get Laid That Science Says Turn Women Off

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Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran's childhood friend was financially struggling so he wrote Thinking Out Loud with her The song has since been streamed almost 2 billion times on Spotify and has gone triple platinum in the UK. She never has to worry about money again. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

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George Washington

CRACKED IN 2010, GEORGE WASHINGTON HAD A 221- YEAR OVERDUE BOOK. Mount Vernon returned the book. STUD LANA — Gilbert Stuart/Wiki Commons,
Casezy idea/Shutterstock
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Bear Dominance

In Bow Valley, Canada, one grizzly bear has been dominant for some 10 years. illustration Не has the humdrum name of Bear No. 122, weighs 500-600 pounds, and has been at the top of the local grizzly hierarchy for about a decade. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The O.J. Trial

A retired ad executive came up with The Puppy Channel while watching the O.J. Simpson trial. CRACKED.COM Dan FitzSimons realized that he liked to channel surf while he waited for the program he was watching to come back from commercials, so he came up with a channel that showed nothing but puppies playing for 24 hours a day. — Source

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John D. Rockefeller

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER NEVER MISSED A TRAIN. NOT FOR 28 YEARS, ANYWAY. Then on December 18, 1867, he arrived to the station moments after the train left.

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Halloween

Hattoween costumes were meant to be scary enough to frighten ghosts. In the ancient Celtic precursor of modern Halloween, people dressed as witches, ghosts, and goblins to avoid being possessed by them. However, shortly after Irish immigrants brought Halloween to America, efforts to remove frightening or grotesque elements from Halloween made costumes less scary and more festive. CRACKED.COM — 21 Holiday Traditions With Shockingly Bizarre Origins

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Mini Brains

CRACKED EYES (SORT OF) Scientists reported in 2021 that mini brains grown in a lab from stem cells had rudimentary eye structures. This could help us understand eye development and diseases. — ScienceAlert / Fandom

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The NBA

An NBA player had to retire because he fell asleep with a pack of ice on his ankle. CRACKED COM B.J. Tyler accidentally fell asleep with a pack of ice on his ankle, causing severe nerve damage. Robbed of the speed that his game was based on, he was subse- quently forced to retire. — Source

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District 9

The District 9 voices were made from the sound of pumpkins being rubbed together combined with clicking and the actors' voices. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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Hunger Games

Hunger Games: Catching Fire was heavily influenced by Breaking Bad. Director Francis Lawrence binge-watched the show while making the movie, and its cliffhangers inspired him to end his own movie on a cliffhanger. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Super Smash Bros.

SUPER SMASH BROS. LUIGI MARIO DK LINK SAMUS C.FALCON NESS YOSHI KIRBY FOX PIKACHU JIGGLYPUFF 1PHMT 2PHN 3PHMN 4 HMN CRACKED COM Super Smash Bros. was pitched as a 4-player brawler, but Nintendo did not initially want their licensed characters to appear. After the small team of developers added Mario, Link and Samus anyway, Nintendo liked the demo so much they granted them permission to use the characters. — Source: 16 Early Wack Versions Of Popular Video Games

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