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44 Random Bits of Trivia That Smoke Under the Bleachers While the Curriculum Facts Play Football

November 10, 2024

If you’ve ever seen The Mighty Ducks or any of those kids’ sports movies, you’d know how hard it is to keep a ragtag bunch of hooligans on the same page. Well, we Gordon Bombayed the hell out of these random facts today. Each of their individual styles brings a little something to this list. And if we’ve learned anything, it’s that the list matters more than the individual fact.

Now let’s get out there and learn!!!

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Loki

Loki's pants in, well, Loki are very magical and cleverly symbolic. The costume designer says that what's really magical about Tom's pants is that sharkskin reflects two tones, and one is green and the other's brown on his pants, and green being very Loki. The brown kind of symbolizes the TVA seeming like a dull, ordinary, benign organization. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Deep Blue Sea

The entire premise of Deep Blue Sea is sharks don't get cancer. But they do. The myth of sharks not getting cancer spread in part due to a 1992 book called Sharks Don't Get Cancer, which pushes shark cartilage as a cancer cure. Funnily enough, if you read the book, even it admits sharks DO get cancer. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Blockbuster Movies That Got Their Science Totally Wrong

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Kevin Feige

Kevin Feige was hired on to the first X-Men film as an assistant. Feige was eventually given an associate producer credit when another producer dis- covered he was a walking encyclopedia of Marvel. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Backyard Matterhorn

Cribs of the rich and famous COVID roller coaster A man bored during lockdown recreated Disney's Matterhorn in his backyard, gaining fame from just how crazy his house is. CRACKED.COM — Source: indy100

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Power Rangers

CRACKED.COM Power Rangers The first season ran out of fight footage. They had the original producers of the show in Japan shoot footage specifically for them, to use in the back half of the season. — Source: Den of Geek

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Whales

YOUR HIGH-END PERFUME PROBABLY CONTAINS WHALE VOMIT. Ambergris (called whale vomit, but scientists aren't sure which end it comes out) is made by ma — Source: The Smithsonian Magazine

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X-Men

CRACKED.COM THE FIRST RUN OF X-MEN WAS A FLOP. X-Men changed the superhero game, but only after it came back from crashing and burning. Sales kept declining from the title's beginning, until it was cancelled in 1970. Five years later, it was relaunched with a more diverse roster of characters, and it GK DEC eventually took off. — Source

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Married by Potatoes

Some of the older games and traditions got lost over time. For instance, an old Halloween tradition centered around women finding a companion, or hoping that they would. In Ireland, some women would put a ring in some mashed potatoes, hoping that her future husband would be the one to find it. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Historical Halloween Facts To Hex Your Brain

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Finland

Finland's military used swastikas until 2020. The Finnish Air Force adopted the swastika in 1918 - and they kept it for decades, even after the symbol got the worst PR campaign ever in the '30s and '40s. It took about 80 years for them to realize it wasn't a good look and drop the thing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Trimethylaminuria

Trimethylaminuria is a disorder that makes people reek of fish. CRACKED.COM TMAU is caused by the body being unable to convert trimethylamine to trimethyl- amine oxide, resulting in the stinky trimethylamine being excreted through the pores, breath and urine. — NHS

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Diablo

44 Random Bits of Trivia That Smoke Under the Bleachers While the Curriculum Facts Play Football — Source

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The Passion of the Christ

CRACKEDcO COM While doing the Sermon on the Mount scene in The Passion Of The Christ, Jim Caviezel was struck by lightning.

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Stockbrokers

Want to invest some money? You'll probably want to pay a stockbroker to make smart investment decisions for you. 10-00 Except that 70% to 85% of fund

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Singin’ in the Rain

The rain in Singin' in the Rain wasn't milk. It was just really good lighting and filming -- they lit it from behind, making sure you couldn't see all the lighting equipment in the shopfronts' windows. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chance of Being Born

CRACKED CHANCE OF BEING BORN It's incredibly unlikely that you were born - the odds that all 150,000 generations of your lineage would remain unbroken are about one in 400 trillion. So ... go and make the most of it. — HuffPost / Healthline

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Coffee

COFFEE CRACKED.COM When coffee started replacing beer as the best part of waking up, it disrupted entire industries and caused governments to impose some bizarrely harsh prohibitions. But one forward-thinking Pope, Clement VIII, said this devil's drink is so delicious, we should cheat the devil by baptizing it. — Source: 15 Modern Conveniences That Were Met With A Bizarre Amount Of Resistance

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Global Population Growth

GLOBAL POPULATION HAS SLOWED. For the first time in history, humanity's billion-reaching speed has slowed down and even the most pessimistic projectio

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Always Be My Maybe

ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE The credits song, I Punched Keanu Reeves, wasn't originally in the movie. In the final scene Marcus asks Sasha, You think everyone knows that I punched Keanu Reeves? She replies, You should probably write a song about it just to be sure. After the first cut — IndieWire

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Remaining Silent After Being Arrested

CRACKED.COM MYTH: If you get arrested, you can just remain silent and the cops must stop questioning you. REALITY: You have the right to remain silent, but you need to state it out loud. Rulings by the Supreme Court have stated that you must vocally assert this right. You can also state that you will remain silent until you have a lawyer present. — Source: 14 Myths About Crime We Believe (Thanks To Pop Culture)

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Homeland

The background graffiti in Homeland's fifth season is a metaphorical middle finger. #blacklivesmatter Homeland is racist Ct A group of Arab street art

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Crows

WEIRD WORLD In Oregon, a friendly but sweary crow ingratiated himself with a whole school. The crow just showed up at the school one day and kind of became an unofficial mascot - but the whole thing ended with state police being called in. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Intelligence and Wealth

CRACKED COM People with below average intelligence are just as likely to be wealthy One study found people from similar backgrounds with higher IQ scores tended to earn higher incomes but weren't any less likely to avoid financial difficulty, making them just as likely to be rich or poor as anyone else. — Source

22

Disney

CRACKED WALT DISNEY WORLD RESORT IS AROUND THE SAME SIZE AS SAN FRANCISCO. At 43 square miles, that makes it twice the size of manhattan. — Source

21

Universal Healthcare

The American Medical Association torpedoed o-! universal health care. The National Physicians' INSERT CON Committee (often described front for the DUS — More: In the '40s, The American Medical Association Blocked U.S. Universal Healthcare?

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Robot Factories

There is a factory in Japan which can run unsupervised for 30 days at a time. CRACKED.COM Robots build other robots at the rate of 50 per 24-hour shift. Such factories are called lights out factories because no human presence is needed. — Red Shift

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Actor Value

CRACKED.COM The most overpaid actor in 2017 was Mark Wahlberg, whose films only grossed $4.40 for every buck he was paid. The best value actor for the same year was Jeremy Renner, with box office returns of $93.80 for each dollar he made. — Source

18

Burmese Pythons

Florida's top predator isn't the alligator, it's the invasive burmese python. CRACKED COM Thought to have been originally pets that either escaped or were let go in the swamps of Florida, the giant constrictors have taken over. — Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

17

Starcraft

STARCRAFT During development Blizzard had trouble keeping the harvesting units from bunching up together like L.A. traffic because of their pathfinding. 0 of 100 Oas 22/26 counter Decivated Terran Refinery NU Veapene der 4992 700/750 Their good enough fix was to make harvesters the only units in the game that can walk through other units. CRACKED COM — Source

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Vikings

Katheryn Winnick kind of went above and beyond to get cast in Vikings. I went to great lengths to try to do everything I could to get this role. I ended up actually going to a Halloween costume store and renting a costume to try to really embody what Vikings would wear for my screen test, she said. CRACKED.COM — Source

15

Home Alone

Home Alone held a box office record for a grand total of 27 years. Specifically, it held the record of the domestically highest-grossing live-action comedy in Guinness World Records, and eventually lost that title to the Chinese comedy Never Say Die. CRACKED.COM — Source

14

Wartime Viagra

The CIA used viagra to bribe Afghan tribal leaders. Pfizar GRAGKED.COM The Afghan chieftain offered up a bonanza of information about Taliban movements and supply routes followed by a request for more pills. — Washington Post

13

Vincent Van Gogh

A COUPLE RENOVATING THEIR HOUSE FOUND A CACHE OF VAN GOGH'S PAPERS STASHED UNDER CRACKED.COM THE FLOORBOARDS. UNION ASSURANCE OFFICE, A.D. 1714, Ala loved is Clak 1 FIRE и No. 81, Coenhill, E.C.: & 70, Baker Street, London. for - - - - - UPS - PENNY POCKET BOO OOK - THE - LIMBLARIE - - EVO - - - - - FRAN by - : - - - - ecit to - - - POYTER work - - 199 - - - - here TRAFF CO - No. 512522 The 2 5 Diy of March 1875 PRAYERS&HYMNS RECEIVED of Mr. Loyer — Source

12

Pugs

A secret Order of the Pug was created in the 18th century. Finding a loophole in the Catholic Church's ban on Masonry, German Fremasons founded the Order of the Pug - a para- Masonic group, chock-full of dog symbolism. Unlike traditional Masonry, the Order of the Pug allowed women to join. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Diamond Engagement Rings

Diamond Engagement Rings CRACKED.COM These days, asking someone to marry you without the presentation of a little velvet box is a good way to get a no, you cheapass, but few people ex- changed engagement rings at all be- fore the 1930s, and even fewer of those rings contained diamonds. That was around the time the De Beers company came into a massive glut of diamonds and, to avoid crashing prices, con- vinced the public via a massive market- ing campaign that you didn't really love someone unless you put the product of horrific mining practices on their finger. — BBC

10

The Abyss

The breathable liquid in The Abyss is real. In addition to looking like the LCL sea from Evangelion, this pink breathable liquid is all too real with the little rat ending up peacefully terrified. — Source: Film School Rejects

9

Bullies

CRACKED IAMA BUL CHILDREN AND I AM 1 HAVING TO STAND FOR HOURS WITH A SIGN SAYING I AM A BULLY A judge in Ohio has ordered a man to stand outside for five hours with a sign that says I am a bully as punishment for harassing his neighbors over the course of a 15-year feud. — UPI / The Guardian

8

Microsoft

CRACKED NOKIA 3 def g 1 2 abc 4 b ghi mno 5 jkl 7 pqrs wx 8 tuv * ب 0 MICROSOFT Microsoft has wasted at least $8 billion on its failed Nokia experiment, and CEO Satya Nadella's vision for the company has shifted away from a devices and services focus, resulting in the end of Microsoft's mobile subsidiary. — Source

7

LeVar Burton

44 Random Bits of Trivia That Smoke Under the Bleachers While the Curriculum Facts Play Football — Source: The Atlantic

6

Saddam Hussein

Detroit gave Saddam Hussein the key to the city. CRACKED.COM The newly minted President of Iraq threw a whole ton of cash at a Detroit church when its reverend simply publicly congratulated him on his electoral victory. That reverend made the understatement of the century, when asked in 2003 what's going on with his Iraqi bro: Money and power changed the person. — Source: CBS News

5

Charles Goodyear

ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERIES A HIGHLY DURABLE RUBBER Charles Goodyear discovered how to vulcanize rubber in 1839, when he spilled a combination of rubber and sulfur on a hot stove. Probably toxic, but certainly revolutionary. CRACKED — m.mphoto/Shutterstock
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Egg Cells

HUMAN EGG CELLS ARE ABOUT AS WIDE AS A STRAND OF HAIR IS THICK The egg cell is the largest of the cells in the body. It can be seen without a microscope. CRACKED.COM — Source

3

Fitbits

A Fitbit played a role in solving a murder. CRACKED.COM Using the Wife's Fitbit and analyzing her movements, analysts were able to create a timeline that proved the husband had cre- ated a false story. — Slate / Wikimedia

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Floppy Disks

Though they are a relic of the past, there is still a market for floppy disks in certain industries like embroidery, tool and die, and aviation. CRACKED.COM This is because, for example, some planes built decades ago can only receive or send data through floppy disks. — NY Post

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Halloween

WEIRD WORLD In Florida, a cop told a woman her Halloween costume was basically illegal. POLIZEI The costume looks like a building project she's against, and the cop apparently said that, if she wore it, that'd be protesting and she'd need a permit. CRACKED.COM — Source

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