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41 Random Bits of Trivia That We Found in the Back of the Fridge and Taste Just Fine

November 11, 2024

Welp! After a cautious nibble of a questionable fact, it looks like we can put off fact-shopping for one more day. They’re not the farm-fresh facts we’d love to gobble up right now, but they won’t kill us and that’s a huge win. We just put our cozies on, so venturing out into the world for a fresh batch is a huge no-go.

Wow, we really made these sound appetizing, didn’t we? They’re good, we promise!

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Toast

Toast really does land butter-side down more often than not. Toast always lands with the butter-side down isn't just a pessimistic worldview, it's a fact. A study by Robert Matthews confirmed that, when pushed from a table, toast will land butter-side down the majority of times, more than just the law of chance would predict. CRACKED.COM — Source: European Journal of Physics

40

Kill Bill

The Bride's fightin' clothes are a tribute to BRUCE LEE KILL BILL GRACKED.COM The Bride's yellow jumpsuit is a salute to Bruce Lee's outfit in Game of Death. Another nod to Bruce in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood wasn't as well received by fans. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

39

Burger King

Bundles were just sliders. CRACKED.COM Burger King's laughably small burgers were fun for the whole family: not quite enough to satiate a child, and a choking hazard for adults! — Source

38

Sir Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton was a waiter. Until he got an undergraduate scholarship, he waited tables at Cambridge. CRACKED.COM — Source: These 47 Facts Will Make You A Walking History Channel

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The Squid Worm

The Squid Worm CRACKED COM This bug is perfectly named. It's a worm with a head that looks like a squid. It uses those tentacles for breathing and grabbing stuff. — Source: National Geographic

36

World War I

Belgrade's Ruzica Church was built with WWI weapons and ammo. When the church was rebuilt in 1925 after WWI CRACY damage, they decided to turn it into

35

Lions

Lionesses can actually get birth control implants that work. And they receive those implants in ZOOS sometimes - that way, all the lions can hang out without new cubs being born all the time. CRACKED.COM — Source

34

Alexander Hamilton

Who founded the New York Post? Alexander Hamilton (yes, of musical fame) started what has become the oldest daily newspaper still published in the United States. Hamilton used it to publish political crusades. CRACKED.COM — Source: New York Times

33

American History X

Tony Kaye shattered his own hand. AMERICAN HISTORY X CRACKED COM Norton was an incredible pest during production and While editing, Kaye got so fed up that he offered to replace his name with Humpty Dumpty in the credits, then punched a wall sO hard he broke his hand.

32

Matthew Broderick

MATTHEW BRODERICK ELTA EA ING Ssrte While on holiday in Northern Ireland in 1987, Broderick collided with another car after he crossed into the wrong lane. A mother and a daughter in the other car died in the crash and the actor only received a $175 fine. CRACKED.COM — AP

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Jaleel White

Jaleel White is best known for his role as Steve Urkel. He is also the voice of Sonic from Sonic the Hedgehog (1993-1994) CRACKED.COM COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

30

Lions

A man tried to steal a lion's cubs and was mauled in a Ghana zoo. CRACKED.COM The man scaled two fences and approached the family of rare white big cats. Не was ripped apart. The Dep- uty Minister for Lands and Natural Resources asks that people please don't do that. — The Daily Beast

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The Self-Appointed King

A fake aristocrat had himself appointed king. Boris Skossyreff was a small-time Russian swindler who claimed to be a Count. In the 1930s he moved to A — From 6 Outrageous Cons That Shouldn't Have Worked (But Did).

28

Gangs of New York

Daniel Day-Lewis got pneumonia while shooting Gangs of New York. Why? He had insisted on wearing a ch-century coat on set that didn't really protect him from the cold. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Independent

27

World War Z

They rewrote the last act after production wrapped. WORLD WAR Z CRACKED.COM They'd already filmed and edited a gigantic zombie brawl, and were ready to call it a day, when the directed decided it wasn't character-driven anymore. They went back to the drawing board and rewrote a full third of

26

Halley’s Comet

People feared Comet Halley would kill everyone. When the comet visited us in 1910, many feared that its gases would poison the Earth's atmosphere. People donned gas masks and swallowed anti-comet pills, and hucksters sold protective umbrellas. There was much rejoicing when no one was hurt. — More: Goofy Ways Our Ancestors Thought We'd All Die

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Love

41 Random Bits of Trivia That We Found in the Back of the Fridge and Taste Just Fine — Source: Harvard

24

Katie Couric

CRACKED KATIE COURIC ASKED A TRANSGENDER MODEL ABOUT HER PRIVATE PARTS. She asked Carmen Carrera, Was the whole process painful, physically, for you? Your private parts are different now, aren't they? She shushed Couric and reminded her of the many other things they could discuss. — Source

23

Toy Recalls

CRACKED.COM THIS TRICYCLE WAS THE MOST OBVIOUS RECALL EVER. The Disney Princess Plastic Racing Trike brings a fantasy kingdom close to your children. So close, in fact, they risk getting it impaled in their little skulls. One sudden stop is all it takes. To no one's surprise, this murdercycle was recalled in 2011. — Source

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Shoes

CRACKED.COM Shops used X-rays to check the fitting of shoes. Sure, just trying on the shoe is often enough, but using a shoe-fitting fluoroscope was undeniably cooler. Too bad that people in the '30s didn't understand how stupidly irresponsible and dangerous this was. — Source

21

Geishas and Samurais

Lead can be detected in the remains of former Japanese geishas. CRACKED.COM The white face paint worn by geishas and samurai in ancient Ja- pan was lead based, and so lead can be de- tected in their bones. — Springer

20

The Eiffel Tower

A luxury apartment sits at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Gustave Eiffel had it built for himself when the tower went up, and kept it secret for a long time. He'd get offered crazy sums for a night in it, but always said no. It didn't open to the public until 2015, 90 years after he died. CRACKED.COM — Source

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China

SEVEN OF HISTORY'S TEN DEADLIEST WARS WERE FOUGHT IN CHINA. It comes with having a historically high population. A couple of wars in the region had a higher body count than World War I. CRACKED.COM — Source

18

Macaulay Culkin

CRACKED After his 1994 movie Richie Rich. MACAULAY CULKIN told his parents, I'm done, guys - 1 hope you all made your money, because there is no more coming from me. Не took his parents to court to stop them from controlling his $17 million in earnings. — Source

17

SNL

DRUNK UNCLE BOBBY MOYNIHAN CRACKED Moynihan spent hours on a sure-fire sketch about a suit salesman, the best character in SNL history. Colin Jost asked for a quick Update bit -. Drunk Uncle was whipped up in 15 minutes. Suit Salesman bombed and Drunk Uncle appeared 10 more times. — Rolling Stone

16

Terracotta Smut

The Babylonians mass produced erotica sculpted in terracotta. One such scene depicts a man and woman engaging in sexual relations while the woman casually sips a drink through a straw. CRACKED.COM — World History

15

High Heels

CRACKED.COM HIGH HEELS USED TO BE A WARRIOR THING. Long before it became an uncomfortable symbol of femininity, high-heeled footwear was all the rage on the battlefield. The heels allowed Persian horsemen to stand securely in their stirrups, giving them stability to use their bows and arrows. — Everyday Objects That Started Out As Something Else Entirely

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Disney

41 Random Bits of Trivia That We Found in the Back of the Fridge and Taste Just Fine — AtlasObscura

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Radodajka

15 Croatian Words The English Language Needs To Adopt ASAP Radodajka Pronunciation: Ruh-doh-duy-kah. Meaning: Lit.: One who gives gladly. A woman who, in times past, would have been accused of having loose morals. A devotee of free love. CRACKED.COM

12

The Good Ol’ Ball-and-Chain

There is little historical evidence that ball-and-chain flails ever saw widespread use. CRACKED COM A spiked ball at the end of a chain is a 'ball and chain flail,' not a morning star (which has spikes but no chain). — Source

11

Adam McKay

GRACKED ADAM MCKAY'S DIGITAL SHORTS. WS Long before directing huge Hollywood movies like The Big Short and Don't Look Up, his very first director credits are the very first Digital Shorts for SNL in 2000 and 2001. Не called them his training ground for directing. — Dailymotion

10

McDonald’s

McDonald's Onion Nuggets Onion Nuggets Before the Chicken McNugget, there was the Onion Nugget. Introduced in the 1970s, they were clumps of onions deep-breaded and fried. CRACKED.COM — Source

9

Bill Gates

CRACKED BILL GATES AND PAUL ALLEN When Bill Gates was 15 years old, he and his friend Paul Allen started a business called Traf-o-Data. It was a computer program that looked at traffic patterns in Seattle, and they made $20,000 from it. — Source

8

Ventriloquism

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7

The Steam Engine

CRACKED Pivot Directional Nozzle Steam exhaust causes sphere to spin. Steam rises through the tubes. Water vaporized in heated kettle. 62 A.D. THE STEAM ENGINE A Greek inventor named Heron created a steam engine way back in 62 A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt. It was called the Aeolipile. Weirdly, we still don't know what it was used for. — Popular Mechanics

6

Bea Arthur

'9 BEA ARTHUR SERVED IN THE US MARINES DURING WWII. When she was 20, the Golden Girl enlisted. Women's enlistment was so new that the Marines didn't have proper paperwork so she had to sign up using US Navy paperwork. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Surprising Celebrity Facts

5

Jaws

When John Williams shared his idea for the Jaws score, Spielberg laughed. AFL It was just two notes, so Spielberg thought it was a joke. He played it until I stopped laughing. CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

4

Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe almost didn't say one of Gladiator's most iconic lines. He hated And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next, so he tried to improvise alternatives - but none of them worked, so they weren't used. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

3

Will Smith

THE AFTERMATH OF AFTER EARTH WAS EXCRUCIATING FOR WILL SMITH. In an interview with Esquire, Smith admitted that the film was the most painful failu

2

Blade

Wesley Snipes choked out the director of Blade: Trinity. P4 Не said David Goyer should be fired, Goyer replied that Snipes should be fired, and Snipes tried to strangle him. Не spent most of the shoot in his trailer. The film relied on a stand-in for most scenes, then cut to unrelated Snipes closeups for reaction shots. CRACKED.COM — Source

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