43 Random Bits of Trivia That Our Parents Threatened to Throw Out If We Didn’t Dig Them Out of Our Childhood Closet

We’re just going to give these facts away anyways, mom!
43 Random Bits of Trivia That Our Parents Threatened to Throw Out If We Didn’t Dig Them Out of Our Childhood Closet

On our most recent visit home, our dad was making these not-so-subtle remarks about the mountain of facts we still have in “his house.” 

Okay dad, your attic, basement, crawl space and two spare bedroom closets have more than enough space to house these, but we guess we’ll get this burdensome batch out of here. Since our tiny bachelor apartment is already overflowing with facts, you guys can treat this list like a sack on the lawn with a big “FREE” sign on it. 

There. Happy now, dad?!?!

A Clockwork Orange

CRACKED.COM Stanley Kubrick had A Clockwork Orange pulled from the British market. STANLEY KUBRICK'S CLOCKWORK RANGE When the movie was released, the UK was dealing with a wave of crime, and some lawyers said their clients were only emulating the movie. Kubrick's family even got death threats. So the movie was banned in the UK from a year after its release until 1999, when Kubrick died.

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Gay Marriage

Gay couples in Chile are finally tying the knot. Same-sex couples have been able to enter into civil unions since 2015, but marriage between the couples was not recognized until a bill was pushed through at the end of 2021 in the overwhelmingly Catholic country. CRACKED.COM

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TV Firsts

The First Couple to Share a Bed Mary Kay and Johnny got away with sharing a bed- and the first on-screen pregnancy in 1948 -because the titular couple

Candy Bar Price Hikes

April 1947, Canada Canadian kids went on strike to protest a 60% hike in candy bar prices. HERSHEY'S NESTIE FSy CANDY ENACOLATE 9- Bars 8 BabyRuy IS B

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

COMEDY NERD Tom Hanks was almost Brad Hamilton in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. At that point, he was just a sitcom star who hadn't even started a movie career yet. CRACKED.COM

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The National Institutes of Health

The NIH has spent $1.55 million on a video game app called Kiddio: Food Fight. In it, you play a mother persuading her kid to taste vegetables. Because harried moms want nothing more than to spend rare moments of leisure playing force the kid to eat veggies on their phones. CRACKED.COM https://salmon house, .gov/media-center/press-releases/ rep-salmon-introduces-final-shrink-our-spending-bill-2015-cuts-funding

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Viking Myth

CRACKED ALL VIKINGS WORE HORNED HELMETS Actuallys the misconception came from a painter who had drawn the Vikings with horned helmets. He was inspir

Chris Hayes

Not only did MSNBC host Chris Hayes direct Lin-Manuel Miranda in his first musical while they were in high school together, in college at Brown he dir

Things We Put in Our Butts

An endoscopy department in Milan had to come up with a new technique to remove a massive 23 dildo from a 31-year- old man's rectum. It was too smooth

Muammar Gaddafi

MATTHEW PERRY'S SHOW SECOND CHANCE SHOWED THE CHARACTER IN HEAVEN WITH ST. PETER AND MUAMMAR GADDAFI. ACCORDING TO THIS SHOW, GADDAFI DIES ON JULY 29,

Bugs Bunny

WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, BUGS IS An ODD name FORABUNNY HE ACTUALLY GOT HIS name BEcAuSE OF A MISTAKE. BUGS BUNNY MOOEL SHEET M.M.22. Animator Ben Bug

Working Overtime

Working overtime is great, because of all the extra money. It's also a lot of extra deadly. That's not hyperbole. People who work 11-hour days run a 6

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise CRACKED.com Okay, it's not exactly a surprise that the most famous man in Hollywood changed his name to make it big, but buckle up for this one: Thomas Cruise Mapother IV. There were already three of those, and they thought the world neded more?

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