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40 Random Bits of Trivia That We Won Fair and Square, No Matter What That Lame Rulebook Says

November 19, 2024

It may not come as a surprise to you, but the fact game can be pretty cutthroat. The competition for the most interesting facts has us up all night conjuring up new ways to obtain the creme de la creme.

The best we’ve come up with so far is weaponry to ward off any rival find finders. We’ll spare you the gory details and just lay out our bounty before you. Apologies if a few are still a little bloody.

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American Hustle

Christian Bale shaved his for American Hustle to get the combover right. The character he was playing was based on a real person who had a combover, so Bale partly shaved his head to mimic his hairstyle exactly. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kiribati

KIRIBATI IS THE ONLY COUNTRY SITUATED WITHIN ALL FOUR HEMISPHERES. This Micronesian nation straddles both the Equator and the 180th Meridian, SO its t

38

Pipe Organs

The phrase pull out all the stops comes from the pipe organ. Each set of pipes has a knob called a stop. Pulling them all out makes the biggest sound. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

37

School Buses

CRACKED SCHOOL BUSES USED SUPER TOXIC YELLOW PAINT. When school buses were first painted yellow, it was with a kind of chromium paint that caused genetic mutations and cancer, but don't worry. It was just kids! SCHOOL BUS STOP 54 SCHOOL DISTRICT 54 — Source

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Target

Target associated plus-size women with manatees. add to registry add to list Mossimo® Women s Plus-Size Kimono Maxi Dress - Assorted Colors 12 reviews $22.00 Free shipping when you spend $50 choose color: Manatee Gray quantity: size : 1 Please make a selection Target listed kimono maxi dresses in regular size as dark heather gray. In plus size, they were called manatee gray. Target said that both names are regularly used, and this happened because different teams posted the different dress information. CRACKED.COM — Source

35

Succession

The Sulzbergers were part of the inspiration for Succession's Roy family. The Sulzbergers control The New York Times, but they weren't the only inspiration -ot the biggest one was probably media mogul Rupert Murdoch. CRACKED.COM — Source: NY Times

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The Yamato Battleship

300 men died at their stations when the battleship Yamato was intentionally flooded by their captain. CRACKED.COM The Japanese ship was list- ing severely in the water during a suicide mission, being bombarded by Al- lied bombers, and the cap- tain made the difficult de- cision to flood the engine room to try and correct it. — Source

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Halloween

The 1978 Halloween poster features a hidden screaming face. HALLOWEEN The Night Не Came Home! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mall of America

40 Random Bits of Trivia That We Won Fair and Square, No Matter What That Lame Rulebook Says — Source: Mall of America

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Princess Bride

Princess Bride saved lives An extreme skier once told Rob Reiner that, after being trapped by an avalanche, she recited the entire movie to keep herself and others awake and active. — Source: Variety

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Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives The show was meant to be a 30-minute comedy. Marc Cherry noticed the pilot script he was writing kept getting longer and a bit more dramatic. Instead of fighting this, he decided it would be a different kind of show. CRACKED.COM — Source

29

Friday the 13th

Kevin Bacon is basically sick of signing Friday the 13th autographs. Fans always want him to sign the shot of him dead, and at this point he's thinking You're like, really, do I have to sign another picture of me dead? CRACKED.COM — Source: ScreenRant

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Whole Grain

What is whole grain and why is it healthy? Germ Endosperm Bran All grains (like rice, wheat, and corn) have three parts: the bran, the germ, and the e

27

Louis C.K. and Dane Cook

COMEDY DEL NERD For years, Dane Cook and Louis CK were in a feud about stealing jokes. Louis never claimed outright that Cook stole jokes from him, though- and, eventually, he totally backed off, saying I'm not sure he stole them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey went to the 1999 MTV Movie Awards disguised as a wild-haired, Jim Morrison-like hippie. Не didn't tell anyone about the disguise, including his friends, so Samuel Jackson talked to him for 15 minutes without knowing who he was. Later, he asked Carrey Man, why'd you do that to me? CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People

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The Cow Delusion

There is a disorder where a person is under the delusion they are a cow. GRACKED.COM A person suffering from bo- anthropy usually has dreams that take over as full-blown delusion. King Nebuchad- nezzar, according to the Book of Daniel, was said to be driven from men and did eat grass as oxen. — Source

24

Toy Story

LOTS-O'-HUGGIN BEAR FROM TOY STORY 3 WAS ORIGINALLY MEANT TO APPEAR IN THE FIRST FILM. CRACKED However the technology needed to animate his fur did not yet exist. — IMDB / Fandom

23

Galaxies

The oldest known galaxy can be viewed as it was 13.4 billion years ago. CRACKED.COM The oldest known galaxy in the uni- verse is 32 billion light-years away from us. — Source

22

Fifth Harmony

CRACKED COM NG LUGO Levra CLUB Normani of the band Fifth Harmony always requests applesauce in their contract riders, because she likes the texture. It reminds her of baby food. — Source: 16 Extremely Specific Celebrity Demands

21

Seattle

Seattle has a tiny house village for homeless residents. CRACKED.CON They can use them to sleep, eat and shower. It costs residents $90 a month to cover utili- ties and is designed to help them get back on their feet. — Source

20

The Beatles

50 THE BEATLES 5 FEBRUARY 1962 CRACKED.COM We don't like the sound. Guitar groups are on their way out. -Dick Rowe, head of artists and repertoire at Decca Records. The Beatles then went on to some success, as did rock music in general. — Source

19

Manuka Honey

There are turf wars in New Zealand over Manuka honey. CRACKED.COM Due to the cost of the honey going up 20 fold in the last few decades, there are now turf wars with thefts, poisoning of hives and vandalism on the increase. — The Guardian

18

Claymation

CLAY ANIMATION 1912 CRACKED.COM Modelling Extraordinary was released in 1912 and was one of the first clay animation movies to use stop motion. It was met with great critical acclaim. — Stop Motion Central

17

Queen

Rolling Stone said that Queen's BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY invented the music video. It only took four hours and £3,500 to make, but its success in 1975 had every record company thinking about video! Director Bruce Gowers became a star, and went on to make videos for the Bee Gees, Rod Stewart, Michael Jackson, and Prince. CRACKED — Source

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Snooki and South Park

CRACKED SNOOKI IS PROUD OF HER GOBLINHOOD. Snooki from The Jersey Shore was featured in an episode of South Park in 2010, where she was shown as a silly, humping rat goblin. She was really happy about this, and has since seen it as a compliment. — Source

15

The Lord of the Rings

CRACKED.COM Humongous Movie sets The Lord of the Rings Hobbiton was fully built and still remains in New Zealand for you to discover. — Source: Our Live v3/YouTube

14

Breakups

Reflecting on a breakup speeds up the recovery process. 2015 Repeatedly talking about a breakup is actually good for you, even if it's annoying for yo — Source: ScienceDaily

13

Taxi

Latka Gravas was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder in Taxi's third season. Comedian Andy Kaufman had grown tired of the role, which had its roots in the Foreign Man persona in his stand-up routine. Giving Latka the disorder appeased Kaufman, allowing him to create new personalities for his character. Among Latka's alters was notorious lounge-lizard Vic Ferrari. GRACKED.COM — Source

12

Puff the Magic Dragon

Puff, the Magic Dragon has nothing to do with drugs. Leonard Lipton, who wrote the poem the song was based on, is sick of people asking him if it's really about smoking pot. Не swears it's a straightforward children's tale, and that advocating marijuana for little kids is not a good thing. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Of Our Favorite Songs (Have Surprising Backstories)

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Interrogations

40 Random Bits of Trivia That We Won Fair and Square, No Matter What That Lame Rulebook Says — Source: Law & Human Behavior

10

Mila Kunis

CRACKED MILA KUNIS STRIKES BACK IN HER MOTHER TONGUE. Promoting Friends With Benefits in Russia, a reporter asks Mila Kunis why pop star Justin Timberlake feels he needs to try acting. In Russian, she snaps back, What would you rather have him do? What kind of question is that? Why are you here? — YouTube / Town and Country

9

World War II

The U.S. Interstate system exists partly thanks to Eisenhower's WWII experiences. During and after WWII, Germany's four-lane highways were probably the best in the world, and Eisenhower used them to move troops and travel across the country. So he thought four-lane highways were a great transport system, and fought hard for the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

8

Germany

WEIRD WORLD To get more people to get vaccinated, they used sheep and goats. Well, they arranged sheep and goats - 700 of them, into the shape of a syringe, in Germany. CRACKED.GOM — Source

7

Salvador Dali

When Dali's remains were exhumed, his mustache was still perfectly intact X His body was removed for DNA samples for a paternity case, 28 years after his death. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Now-You-Know Facts From Art History

6

Fortune Cookies

The Powerball drawing on March 30, 2005, produced 110 2nd-prize winners. CRACKED.COM All 110 winners had played numbers found inside for- tune cookies. The total pay- out was $19.4 million, 89 of them receiving $100,000 each, while the other 21 re- ceived $500,000 each. — Source

5

Dog Survivor

CRACKED IN 2009, A DOG SURVIVED FOR FOUR MONTHS ON A DESERTED ISLAND. The dog had fallen off a boat and swam five miles to the nearest island. She survived by hunting baby goats. — Source

4

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise saved the American release of 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.' | THEY BEST BRITISH MOVIE... YEAR'S - to adBenticity of The Long Good Friday adidas jest -black humor of Reserved Dogs old'se intricatoly platted et of The Italian Job. one of THE FUNNIEST FILMS I have SEEN IN YEARS - - - - lock stock CRACKED.COM Cruise endorsed the film at a buyer screen- ing, launching the ca- reers of Jason Statham, Guy Ritchie & Matthew Vaughn in the process. — Source

3

Ice Cube

Ice Cube geeks out over architecture. ICE CUBE CELEBRATES THE EAMES - - He's a Getty Museum expert on the subject. Before returning to Compton to revolutionize rap, Ice studied architectural drafting. So for their 2011 post-war exhibition, The Getty made him their resident expert on Hollywood architectural design legends Charles and Ray Eames. CRACKED.COM — Source: 19 Celebrities Who Are Huge Fans Of Surprising Stuff

2

Central Park

New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco. Measuring 843 acres, Cen- tral Park is larger in land mass than the principality of Monaco which is just un- der 500 acres large. Cen- tral Park isn't even the big- gest park in New York. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Mark Zuckerberg

Personal Habits of Billionaires Mark Zuckerberg takes eating meat to a whole new level Zuckerberg has set himself the challenge of becoming a vegetarian by slaughtering his own meat, and has expressed his belief that meat eaters should take responsibility and be thankful for what they eat. CRACKED — Frederic Legrand - COMEO/Shutterstock, Dudarev Mikhail/Shutterstock
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