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42 Random Bits of Trivia That Taste Like Chicken But, If We Told You What They Actually Were, You’d Have Never Put Them in Your Mouth

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42 Random Bits of Trivia That Taste Like Chicken But, If We Told You What They Actually Were, You’d Have Never Put Them in Your Mouth

November 23, 2024

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42

Pearl Harbor

They really kept donated blood in Coke bottles in the hospital at Pearl Harbor. It happens in the Michael Bay film, but it's not made up. A nurse who worked there said, It did happen, even though it seems awful unsanitary. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Sylvester Stallone

Syivester Stallone CRACKED cO When Sylvester Stallone was born, a pair of forceps severed a nerve on the left side of his face. This resulted in his t — Source: Chicago Tribune

40

Happy Days

CRACKED.COM HAPPY DAYS Fonzie's famous ayyyy came about due to Henry Winkler's dyslexia. Не struggled to learn lines so he'd say ayyyy in lieu of dialogue. — Source

39

McDonald’s

CRACKED #McDStories To improve their image, McDonald's asked people to share McDonald's related stories. Pouncing on the opportunity, the Twittersphere shared thousands of stories involving slaughterhouses, food poisoning, and diabetes. CO. m The Saweetie Meal GY M BBQ Sweetie CREW . — Source

38

Candyman

Tony Todd negotiated a fee of $ 1000 for every time he was stung by a bee during the filming of Candyman. That BY DIAGEITO the stipulation earned him $23,000. CRACKED.COM — Source

37

Grand Theft Auto

GRAND THEFT AUTO CRACKED.COM Grand Theft Auto, originally titled Race'n'Chase, struggled to find its identity during development. The game first gave players the option to play as law enforcing police, but after realizing playing as a criminal was more fun, they decided to lean into the mayhem the series became known for. — Source

36

UFOs

TIM BURCHETT WRONG WRONG WRONG Burchett, a congressman, said that the U.S. government is trying to figure out how to use technology from UFOs. I think that a lot of that's being reverse-engineered right now, but we just don't understand it, he explained. CRACKED — U.S. House of Representatives /Wiki Commons,
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35

Glee

42 Random Bits of Trivia That Taste Like Chicken But, If We Told You What They Actually Were, You’d Have Never Put Them in Your Mouth

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Orson Welles

A frozen peas commercial kind of drove Orson Welles into a total meltdown. Не was reading an ad for Findus, a Swedish frozen food company, and it just became too much for him. By the end, he was saying No money is worth this S**t. CRACKED.COM — Source

33

Absinthe

Absinthe isn't more dangerous than similar strength alcohols. It doesn't have any hallucinogenic properties. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: NCBI

32

The Navy

Navy pilots damaged helicopters taking a Facebook photo LAKE ТАНОЕ CRACKED.COM Two pilots caused half a million dollars in damage trying to take a cool photo in 2010. — Source

31

The Queen

The Queen of England accidentally received the band Queen's fan mail. After Queen's success with Bohemian Rhapsody, sacks of fan mail poured in from behind the Iron Curtain, addressed to Queen, Lon- don. It was mistakenly de- livered to Buckingham Pal- ace. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

30

August Bier

AUGUST BIER AND AUGUST HILDEBRANDT INJECTED COCAINE INTO THEIR SPINES. After it failed on Bier, he yanked out Hildebrandt's pubes and beat him with hammers, not out of anger but in one of the first successful tests of spinal anesthesia. ml 5 4 3 - 2 CRACKED — Wiki Commons,
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29

Us

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS US WAS INSPIRED BY A TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE. Us Peele says the film was inspired by the 1960 episode Mirror Image. The doppelganger storyline stroke primal fear into him which he has never been able to shake off, and he wanted to explore why that was. CRACKED.COM — Vanity Fair

28

Prom

A high school student was suspended in 2015 for an over-the-top promposal. CRACKED.COM Ibrahim Ahmad strapped fake explosives to his body and asked a girl to prom with a sign saying I know it's a little late but I'm kin- da the bomb. Rilea will you be my date to prom? She said yes. — Source

27

Tommy Cash

In 1965, Johnny Cash's younger brother, Tommy, released a song titled I Didn't Walk the Line. CRACKED.COM In late 1969 he delivered his biggest hit, a tune ded- icated to John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., en- titled Six White Horses. Не still performs concerts around the world. — Source

26

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie thought she was lroquois. AN B, ANG JC 444 CRACKED COM Her false heritage is, ironically, familial. Her mother allegedly made the false

25

Water

MYTH: YOU NEED TO DRINK 8 GLASSES OF WATER A DAY. CRACKED.COM Water needs vary by person, SO there is no specific amount everyone needs to drink. Drinking too much water can be just as harmful as not drinking enough. The real rule is to drink when you're thirsty. — Source: Healthline

24

Noah’s Ark

Hollywood tragedies that brought change Noah's Ark Drowning (well, allegedly) On the set of the 1928 movie Noah's Ark, three people reportedly passed away while filming a scene about the Great Flood. This caused safety rules to be put in place in Hollywood - a new idea at the time. CRACKED — Source

23

Hospitals

Hospitals can prescribe alcohol to alcoholic patients! ROYAL ALEXAOR US ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL ROYAL HOSPITAS ETHANOL 48% ALEXANDRA ETHANOL 40% (451L ETHANOL (45ML) (VODKA) 40% (VODKA) (VODKA) MANAGED ALCOHOL STORE AT MANAGED ALCOHOL PROGRAM MARED ALCOHOL PROOF FOR ORAL STORE ROOM TEMPERATURE AT ROOM TENPERATIVE AT LORE ORANGE USE ORAL USE FOR DRAL TREE, ORANGE TREE, ORANGE 2/900000457/0 FEB16/000088457/0-214 USE FOR ORAL FOR Beer, alcoholic beverages, and IV alcohol is often given to alcoholics before anesthesia to help patients tolerate procedures and help with withdrawal. CRACKED.COM — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

22

Snapchat

Snapchat Dysmorphia when patients seek surgery in order to appear like themselves with social media filters — Source: ScienceDaily

21

Computers

CRACKED AN EVIL COMPUTER WAS ELECTED MAYOR. A team from the University of Michigan found a flaw in the code of a new online voting system in Washington D.C., and exploited it to elect a malevolent computer program mayor (and other fictional characters to other positions). It took two days for officials to realize they had been hacked. ULL 100110010000100000 1 00 00101011101000110 011001010111001001 010000001000001011 0 11 000000001110011011010101 0001101 1010000010110 0110110111101101110 11 0011101 0 110100101101110011 11101000110010101110 11 01000016 0011 1111001000000110001 110011000010111001001 10010 111 0110010000100000011 110001101100101001000 011 1 0 11011000010010000 E COTTTOTTOOOOOOTOOTIC 10010 TTOOTTOOTTOTOOTOLT 11000110111010101101 K 101 TTTOTTOTTOOOOTOOTOTO C 1100110010101110010 1 — Source

20

LSD

Sidney Gottlieb dosed strangers with LSD. Gottlieb was an American military psychiatrist who worked with the CIA during the Cold War. Gottlieb headed

19

Paul Shaffer

The Weather Girls It's Raining Men The Weather Girls' It's Raining Men was co-written by actor, producer and long-time musical director for David Letterman, Paul Shaffer. CRACKED.COM — Source

18

Kissing

KISSING The first evidence of kissing is in the Hindu Vedic Sanskrit texts that describe kissing as soul inhaling. Researchers believe kissing serves — Source: BBC

17

Japanese Mythology

Himamushi nyudo is a Japanese spirit that lives under your floorboard. Its main hobby is to come out while you're studying late at night and snuff out

16

Toledo

Ohio and Michigan once went to war - over Toledo. N Est L MICHIGAN Maumee Toledo Bay Disputed Toledo Strip Perrysburg OHIO Maumee River Aniwage From 1835-36, the two states argued over a thin strip of land at their border. It escalated to a brawl wherein someone was stabbed with a pen knife, but that was the only casualty. CRACKED.COM — Source

15

Unbelievable Statistics

2,000 couples, six hours, two world records. In June 2021, a huge wedding in Baran, India saw over 2,000 couples tie the knot in less than six hours, setting two new world records for the most couples getting married in 12 and 24 hours. CRACKED — Guinness World Records (via UPI.com)
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14

The Universe

THE UNIVERSE IS GETTING BIGGER, FASTER CRACKED.COM To continue that expansion thought... In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding. Then in 1998, the Hubble Telescope studied distant supernovas and found that, a long time ago, the universe was expanding slower than it is today. — Source: space.com

13

Jurassic Park

We now how know how much a Jurassic Park ticket cost: $550 (for 3 days). JURASSIC PARK That's the price listed on the three-day park ticket item in the Visitor Centre Limited Edition Legacy Kit (which has a bunch of merchandise along those lines). CRACKED.COM — Source

12

Rory McCann

Rory Mccann didn't have his audition script. His sister printed out just the opening lines, by mistake. When he came to the audition, he saw everyone else had prepared a long speech he knew nothing about. So with nothing prepared, he just acted crazy ... and got the part. — For details, read 6 Crazy Auditions That Landed Actors Their Famous Roles

11

Black Holes

A black hole will turn you into spaghetti. The forces of a black hole are known to turn anything in its path into a long thin line, a process that science literally calls Spaghettification. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Terrifying Space Facts That Makes Us Love Earth

10

Tapirs

The tapir is up there with the platypus in the pantheon of animals that look like... maybe more of a first draft. But while their schnoz might hold them back in a beauty contest, it can be used as a snorkel when underwater. CRACKED.COM — Source: San Diego Zoo

9

The BBC

The BBC had to apologize for putting 'Manchester United are rubbish' on their news ticker. MA N СС H&E CRACKED.COM The mistake had ос- curred as someone was learning how to operate the ticker during a ten- nis news update and was writing random things not in earnest. — ABC

8

Michael Keaton

They offered Michael Keaton a role in Batman Forever, but he said no. Не just didn't like Schumacher's idea of Batman--apparently, Schumacher said at one point I don't understand why everything has to be so dark and everything so sad. CRACKED COM — Source

7

Friday the 13th

Movie Trivia Everyone Gets Wrong - Myth Quentin Tarantino almost directed a Friday the 13th movie. Reality He had no intention of ever doing such a th — Source: Digital Spy

6

France

French law forbids official surveys accounting for racial or ethnic origin. CRACKED CON Nobody knows the exact number of people of African de- scent living in France because it officially declares itself 'color blind.' — Source

5

Poker

The longest game of poker lasted 14 years. AD CRACKED.COM Dunglen Hotel in Thurmond, West Virginia is said to be the place of the legendary card game, in a town that was once envisioned to be a hard working, religious com- munity but became better known for its debauchery. — Source

4

Sideways

Sideways CRACKEDCO caused the wine industry to go sideways. In the movie, Paul Giamatti plays a wine critic who praises pinot noir, causing sales of t

3

Wheaties

Microscopes BOOK GRACKED.COM Inspiring little scientists everywhere. In the 50s, Wheaties offered a 2-inch microscope with an adjustable focusing lens that magnified objects 6 times their normal size, and finally made me realize that they really don't make 'em like they used to. — Source

2

Black Widow

Emily Blunt could have been Black Widow if it wasn't for scheduling issues. And, for the same reason, she ended up not playing Peggy Carter in the MCU either. CRACKED COM — Source

1

A Boy Named J.R.

JOHNNY CASH WAS BORN WITH THE NAME J.R. CASH BECAUSE HIS PARENTS COULDN'T THINK OF A NAME. CRACKED When he enlisted in the Air Force, they wouldn't let him use initials, so he began to call himself John. — Mentalfloss / Time

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