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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Cobbled Together in a Pinch, MacGyver-Style

November 15, 2024

The best thing about a random facts list is that throwing it together haphazardly is kind of the whole point. We scour the universe for fresh facts daily, then we don’t even have to spend time arranging them into a concise order. It’s awesome! Crime facts, music facts and even a random fact about a dog mayor are all shuffled in here like a zany deck of cards.

You guys check out this mess while we get back out there for more!

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Nutmeg

Nutmeg contains a hallucinogenic compound called myristicin. CRACKED.COM Consumption of 15 g of grounded nutmeg is enough to cause halluci- nations, dizziness and memory impairment. 14 g? That's just a good time, brother. — Source

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The Oldest Porn Image in the World

A ROCK CARVING IN CHINA IS THE WORLD'S OLDEST PORN. The Kangjiashimenji Petroglyphs, carved into ancient volcanic rock in the second millennium BCE, represent a huge orgy, er, fertility ritual. The scene depicts about 100 ithyphallic persons (ithyphallic being a technical term meaning sporting a boner). — More: 5 Ways Love And Dating In The Past Were Weird, Man

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How I Met Your Mother

THE KIDS FROM HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER HAD TO KEEP THE SHOW'S ENDING A SECRET FOR ALMOST NINE YEARS. The ending of the show was filmed in Season 1 SO tha

37

Rats

Rats can live everywhere - except in Alberta, Canada. Alberta takes rats as seriously as any other place else would take kaiju. There's an overzealous, government- sponsored rat-control program, and every resident is responsible to fight the whiskered menace. As a result, Alberta has been rat-free for the last 70 years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sega

In the '90s, Sega got a gift of $700 million from its president. Не gave all his Sega shares back to the company - for unclear reasons. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Bizarre Facts About Famous, Giant Companies

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Hall & Oates

Rich Girl by Hall & Oates The song was originally written about a guy who was a fast food heir and was Hall's girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, but the gender flip sounded better. CRACKED.COM — Billboard's Number One Hits

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The Lottery

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Robert Pattinson

40 Random Bits of Trivia We Cobbled Together in a Pinch, MacGyver-Style

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The Dog Mayor

A dog was the mayor of a Californian town from 1981 to 1994. He was nominated as a joke, but he beat out the two actual candidates, and they kept him — Source: Atlas Obscura

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The U.S. Navy

CRACKED THE U.S. NAVY DIVING MANUAL HAS DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR ESCAPING A GIANT CLAM. This was due to a pervasive myth that divers could be eaten by the harmless mollusk. — Bence Sibalin/Shutterstock
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Tron vs. E.T.

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John Ashcroft

Senator John Ashcroft is the only Senator to lose re-election to a dead person. CRACKED.COM His opponent, Mel Carnahan, died in a plane crash three weeks before the vote and his name was unable to be taken off the ballot. — Source

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Daniel Webster

DANIEL WEBSTER, WHO RAN FOR PRESIDENT AND LOST THREE TIMES, DECLINED THE VICE PRESIDENCY TWICE, THINKING IT A WORTHLESS OFFICE. CRACKED Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would've become president after all. — Source

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Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga gave American Horror Story's producer Ryan Murphy a bag Of her own vomit. Before their first meeting, Gaga was So nervous about her very fir

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Math

The eighth power of a number is a zenzizenzizenzic. + x - 3п-ч Xn. n/n.19 II {=n}CR tn-w n+1 и 13-g; x Eyn6 Zn 13 مصلا II Yn CRACKED.COM X:O n This is an obsolete form of mathematical notation dating from a time — World Wide Words

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Aubrey Plaza and Michael Cera

Aubrey Plaza and Michael Cera almost got married in Vegas. 2010 It wasn't a joke or anything - they were in a relationship for a year and a half (they started going out after filming Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Peter Dinklage

CRACKED.COM PETER DINKLAGE HAD HIS HEAD SLICED OOEEN-DURING A ROCK SHOW. Like Tyrion, Dinklage has a nasty scar-and its story is just as epic. Back when he sang in a punk band, a performance got wild and a band member's knee slammed into Dinklage's temple. That didn't stop him- he kept at it, with blood dripping all over the stage. Rock'n' roll, baby. — 5 Weird Music Careers Of Marvel Movie Stars

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Bill Murray

CRACKED.COM Bill Murray in zombieland They hid Murray's appearance in all promotional material before the film came out. — More: 7 Movies That Secretly Hid Big Actors Under Special Effects

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Spoon Lung

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Utah Mayor Craig Petersen

CRACKED COM OCAL UIBTARY CRAIG PETERSEN, MAYOR OF LOGAN, UTAH, OFFERED TO WORK THE REST OF THE VEAR WITHOUT PAYSO THAT HIS SALARY COULD BE USED TO HEL

20

Pretty Woman

Richard Gere will charm a laugh out of anyone. PRETTY WOMAN CRACKED.COM Не slammed the jewelry box shut on Julia Roberts' fingers, prompting her to recoil and laugh endearingly. — Source

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Tim Burton

Tim Burton grew up in ever-sunny Burbank, CA, where pretty much only holiday decorations changed with the seasons. Burton would notice Christmas and H

18

Urkel

Characters that weren't supposed to last Steve Urkel on Family Matters Jaleel White's nerdy neighbor was only supposed to be for one-off appearances, but got so popular with viewers that he eventually became the central character of the entire sitcom! CRACKED.COM — ABC
Screen Rant

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Harry Potter

Michael Gambon and Alan Rickman hid a whoopee cushion in Daniel Radcliffe's sleeping bag. On the set of the third Harry Potter movie, for a scene where Hogwarts students camp out, Radcliffe asked to have his sleeping bag next to that of a girl he liked, so those guys put — Source: 6 Behind-The-Scenes Movie Pranks That Were Total Madness

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Michelle Trachtenberg wanted to make an off-set change on Buffy. When they asked her if she has any regrets about the show, she just said she wishes she'd stolen more things from the set. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Loreta Janeta Velazquez

Gender- Bending Badasses Loreta Janeta Velázquez was a Cuban woman who disguised herself as a man and fought in the Civil War for the South. She was wounded in two battles and later revealed to be a woman. She then became a Confederate spy and wrote a book about her exploits. CRACKED — Wiki Commons
American Battlefield Trust

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Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep heavily focused on playing the guitar for six months for a movie. It was Ricki and the Flash, where she plays a rock star and, while filming the movie's finale, she shredded so hard that she drew blood. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vanity Fair

13

Alien

Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Way Different - The transmission in Alien: Covenant was originally a prayer. But Ridley S — Source: Film School Rejects

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Near-Death Experiences

Near-death experiences show broad similarities Thousands of people have reported common near-death experiences: being unable to feel pain, seeing a bright light at the end of a tunnel, or having an out-of-body experience. CRACKED.COM — Source: Scientific American

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Community

Jeff Winger is named for John Winger, Bill Murray's character in Stripes. Dan Harmon had hoped he could get Murray to play Jeff's father on the show. NOW YOU KNOW: COMMUNITY CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 'Community' Expert-Level Facts

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‘Dangerous’ Neighborhoods

Dangerous neighborhoods aren't particularly dangerous. Yes, some neighborhoods have a high crime rate, but statistics alone don't make them less safe than other places. Crime is pretty much concentrated in highly specific areas, among highly specific people. You're not more likely to be robbed in a bad neighborhood than anywhere — Source

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Booze

Old-timey doctors believed booze could make you catch fire Since the 17th century, there have been scientific reports of people spontaneously combus — More: 5 Urban Legends From History That Were Wacky As Heck

8

The Matrix

Meet John Gaeta. He's the guy who designed the bullet time special effects in The Matrix. In fact, his prototype convinced Warner Bros. that the scrip

7

Zambia

Zambia entered the Olympics as one country and left the games as another. CRACKED.COM This is the only country to have done so. Northern Rhodesia, as it was called since 1911, declared inde- pendence on the last day of the 1964 Tokyo Olym- pics.

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Absenteeism

CRACKED ABSENTEEISM TAKEN TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL. A teacher in Italy was fired in 2017 after not showing up to work for 20 out of the past 24 years at schools near Venice. Really impressive in its own way, on multiple levels. Keys Typed: 72 Errors: 5 Word/Min 10 Goal WPM: 10 Accuracy: 93% Lesson Time: 1:00 — BBC / My Abandoned Ware

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Sweden

Provide power for your city. Three Swedish cities are partially powered by the considerable energy produced by local crematoriums. CRACKED COM — The 6 Coolest Things You Can Do With Your Dead Body

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Pentagrams

When you see a pentagram, you might think of evil. But it's a symbol of protection. Although the five-pointed star in a circle has long been associated with Satanism and the occult, it's actually worn as a ward against evil. Even an inverted pentagram, which has a much more negative connotation, represents an individual's desire to face and conquer darkness. CRACKED.COM http://www.angeffire.com/id/robpurvis/pentagram.html — Source

3

Cats

CRACKED CATS: NATURE'S CONTORTIONISTS. Cats have an amazing ability to change their shape to fit whatever container they're in. This was studied by a guy who got the Ig Nobel prize for this research in 2017. — Source

2

South Park

Isaac Hayes didn't actually leave South Park. The story goes that he quit the show in protest after the episode that mocked Scientology. But he was recovering from a stroke, couldn't speak, and had limited comprehension. Не wasn't able to resign, but someone in his inner circle - and everyone in it was involved with Scientology -- did it for him, says his son. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Joseph Stalin

Stalin was actually covered in scars - he'd had smallpox as a child. The reason his pictures don't show that is that he had all his photos heavily retouched. CRACKED.COM — Source

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