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A few dozen facts per day. Doctor’s orders

36 Random Bits of Trivia to Take Daily on A Full Stomach and An Empty Brain

November 25, 2024

Okay, so we don’t have a medical license, but we think it’s safe to say that we’re experienced enough in the random fact realm to start prescribing facts. We’ve come to know what you need over the years, and after some deliberation with fellow Cracked fact experts, we’ve concluded that the recommended dosage is anywhere from 35 to 45 random facts per day.

Start with 35, then see how you feel before consuming any more.

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Jordan Peele

CRACKED.COM KEY& PEELE JORDAN PEELE ALMOST WAS ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. Peele was approached to do his Obama impression on SNL, but was unable to do so because he was still under contract with Mad TV. When the contract expired, he took his impression to his own show. — Source: The New Yorker

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Don Rickles

CRACKED DON RICKLES WAS SCARED TO OFFEND, BUT HIS MOM SAID, GO FOR IT. At first, Rickles was scared to do comedy because he thought he might offend people. But his mom told him to give it a shot, and he became a legendary insult comic. — Source

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Tattoos

Unless you're explicitly told otherwise, assume that a given tattoo ink isn't vegan. Sim. Plus, animal by-products are involved in tattooing throughout - for example, the strips of disposable razors often have glycerine. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: The Independent

33

The Rock

CRACKED.COM Dwayne The Rock Johnson не had a Guinness world Record for selfies. CERTIFICATE - - - - - - - - - At the San Andreas premiere in London, Johnson took 105 selfies within 3 minutes to win a world record. Не kept that record for three years, until it was broken in 2018. — Source: Guinness World Records

32

George Lucas

In The Secret of Monkey Island, you have to get past a troll guarding a bridge. It's George Lucas. Once you give him the item he's looking for, he pulls off his mask and reveals himself to be the founder of LucasArts, developer of the game. CRACKED.COM http://blogs ocweekly com/heardmentality/2010/07/11_things_you_did_not_know_abo_1.php — Source: 29 Video Game Features With Just Bonkers Backstories

31

Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo was the result of Robert Kennedy's assassination. In the '60s, action- packed cartoons were all the rage but after RFK was shot, a moral panic ensued against violence in the media. Pressured to come up with more wholesome content, Hanna-Barbera created Scooby-Doo and his gang. — More: RFK's Assassination Gave Us ... 'Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'?

30

China

China did not produce glass between the 14th-19th centuries. GRACKED COM Due to the early invention and their love of ceramics, they were left behind in the progression of sciences and didn't have things like glass windows and mirrors. — QI / Wikipedia

29

Khloe Kardashian

Khloe Kardashian really tries to avoid one part of the body: the belly button. I hate belly buttons. You can't touch mine and I don't want to touch yours, is the exact way she described the (extremely odd) phobia. CRACKED.COM — Source

28

The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid's Tale It's scary because it's all real. Yes, The Handmaid's Tale is itself fiction-but while writing it, Margaret Atwood made a point of not including any atrocity that didn't historically happen somewhere. I did not wish to be accused of dark, twisted inventions, she wrote in 2012. CRACKED.COM — Sources: The Guardian

27

Chris Hemsworth

Chris Hemsworth used to clean breast pumps. Before making it as an actor Hemsworth used to clean rented breast pumps for a pharmacy. He has described

26

Malaria

Product SYNTHETICDYE Original MALARIA CURE Purpose When a chemist was trying to develop an artificial form of quinine, he instead saw the color mauve, — Source: Gizmodo

25

Baby Driver

Unpredictably Weird Decisions That Gave Us Major Movie Moments - Edgar Wright got an idea for a Baby Driver scene from an ex-con. — Source: Film School Rejects

24

Bullet Ants

THE BULLET ANT GOT ITS NAME FROM THE FACT THAT ITS STING HURTS LIKE A GUNSHOT. ON THE SCHMIDT STING INDEX, BULLET ANTS RATE AS THE NUMBER ONE MOST PAINFUL IN THE ENTIRETY OF THE KINGDOM ARTHROPODA. THEY ALSO SHRIEK. CRACKED.COM Hogue, 1993 Latin American Insects and Entomology. — Source

23

Scotland

Scotland very recently blew up its last remaining coal-fired power plant. With the explosion of the Longannet plant in Fife, there's going to be no more coal-fired power generation in the country. CRACKED.COM — Source

22

Vanessa Williams

36 Random Bits of Trivia to Take Daily on A Full Stomach and An Empty Brain — Source: Time

21

Humor

Humor helps us cope One expert says, Laughter releases dopamine, enhances immunity, lowers stress hormones, increases blood flow, and strengthens the heart. Having a good sense of humor can also make us be more optimistic, which in turns helps us handle adversity. CRACKED — Source: ScienceDirect

20

Sonic the Hedgehog

The protein that gives cats extra toes is named Sonic Hedgehog. CRACKED.COM Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) is a signaling protein normally made by cells on just the pinky side of the develop- ing foot. As the toes form, their number and identity depend on their exposure to SHH protein. — Learn Genetics

19

Cats and Dogs

Humans are agenctically closer to cats than dogs. We share 90 % of our DNA with cats, but only 84% with dogs. Considering that most people would rather sleep all day than socialize and play outdoors, this really doesn't come as a big surprise. GRACKED.COM — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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18

Tokyo Drift

The Tokyo Drift production had a designated fall guy. They couldn't get permits to shoot on location in Tokyo, SO they hired one guy to say he's the director when police showed up. He spent a night in jail, and director Justin Lin is forever grateful. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Digital Spy

17

Vacuums

Operating Booths Pents ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE OSBORNE BRITISH VACUUM CLE NO Iinus THE FIRST VACUUM CLEANER WAS HUGE. The humongous thing was parked outsi

16

Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan got his start in showbiz as a child actor. Не got cast in his first movie when he was just five - it was Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, which was released in 1962. CRACKED.COM — Source

15

Bea Arthur

Golden Girls star Bea Arthur was a strong advocate of homeless LGBT youth. She willed $300, 000 to New York's Ali Forney Center, which is using the

14

Swordfish

HALLE BERRY, SWORDFISH Halle Berry scored $2.5 million to star in Swordfish - and an additional half a million dollars to go topless. It was such gratuitous nudity, and some people have a problem with that, she said. I knew it was gratuitous. I never made excuses for it. CRACKED.COM — Yahoo

13

Quaker Foods

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12

The National Guard

AIR NATIONAL GUARD MEMBER ARRESTED AFTER SOLICITING A HITMAN FROM A JOKE WEBSITE. A member of the Air National Guard was taken into custody and accused of trying to become a hitman through www.rentahitman.com. This website was made back in 2005 as a way to promote a cybersecurity business. CRACKED — vchal/Shutterstock
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11

Guns N’ Roses

THE RIFF FROM SWEET CHILD O' MINE IS A GUITAR EXERCISE. When Axl Rose heard Slash's string-skipping exercise, he insisted it be spun into a song, using a poem he'd written to his girlfriend as the lyrics. When it came time to record it, their producer asked for a dramatic breakdown for the middle. Rose's Where do we go now? was literal-he didn't know where to go with the lyrics. CRACKED.COM http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=628 — Source

10

Donnie Darko

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES AND MEANINGS DOnnie Darko Stanley Kubrick's Lolita Elizabeth Darko's costume at the party is modeled after the character Vivian Darkbloom in the 1962 movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: Cinema Garmonbozia

9

Pink Floyd

A flying pig caused Heathrow Airport to cancel all their flights. GRACKED COM When Pink Floyd was de- signing the iconic 'Animals' album cover, the inflatable pig tied to Battersea Pow- er Station broke free. It fi- nally landed on a farm in Kent, where it frightened a herd of cows. — Source

8

Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills 90210 spanned 996 the decade, airing from 1990 - 2000. 1000 1002 1001 1005 1006 10 In one the fell swoop 1997 1998 it the 1990 THAT 1997 1998 1999 pioneered the teen soap 1096 1997 1995 drama and spawned a 1992 1993 small army of copycats. 1991 CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s — Source

7

The Dominion of Canada

Canada is technically called The Dominion of Canada. The spooky formal title, which was applied after the Canadian confederation in 1867, was meant to signify Canada' place within the British empire, but has since been steadily phased out as the country grew more independent. CRACKED.COM — History Museum / Canadian Encyclopedia

6

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany made their own New Testament Bible to Aryanize Jesus. They removed the gene- alogies of Jesus that showed his Davidic de- scent, removed Jewish names and places, but left any mention of Jews that showed them in a bad light. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

5

Doctor Strange

Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown Doctor Strange rewritten Before COVID, Multiverse of Madness was to come before No Way Home leading into the film itself- which means a lot of the ending, including Strange disappearing, would've been vastly different. CRACKED.COM — 5 Weird Ways Movies Have Had To Change During This

4

The Titanic

The Titanic sinking GRACKED.COM After the Titanic sank, Congress forced ships to carry enough lifeboats for everyone. They meant well, but overloading ships created a whole new danger. On July 24, 1915, the Eastland operating out of Chicago set sail for Michigan City. The journey ended within seconds when the ship pitched its 2,573 occupants into the Chicago River, killing 844. It had been weighed down by lifeboats, as mandated after the Titanic sinking. — Source: 20 Facts That Change How You Picture Historical Events

3

Dogs

Domestic dogs are one of only a few species that can understand pointing. Other animals, includ- ing wolves and other primates, don't under- stand how it works and will only be inter- ested in your out- stretched finger. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

2

Smokeless Cigarettes

Turbine 3 Turbine 12 Gue THE 263 LA Mondensator PREMIER SOLI M at PREM FEET CRACKED COM RJ Reynolds spent $325 million to develop this smokeless cigarette to counter secondhand smoke. It was vaping decades before vaping ... but smokers said it tasted horrible, and was too hot to hold. — Source

1

The South Pole

At the South Pole, you can see a dramatic green rim on the sun during sunset. The sun sets once every six months, and for about 5 hours during that sunset, you can see a unique fringe of green around the sun itself. CRACKED.COM — Source: Antarctic Logistics

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