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37 Random Bits of Trivia That’ll Start in Your Brain’s Mailroom and Rise to Upper Management in No Time

These facts are going straight to the top of your head and the tip of your tongue

37 Random Bits of Trivia That’ll Start in Your Brain’s Mailroom and Rise to Upper Management in No Time

November 21, 2024

The other facts in your head are about to know what it feels like to be some mid-level player a few years into a professional sports league when a swaggering generational talent of a rookie strolls into the locker room.

Sure, those facts have been around, but to your brain, they’re just role players. These new-kid-in-town facts are about to be the cornerstones of your brain’s franchise. For their career’s sake, those other facts better know their place.

37

Viagara

Product VIAGRA Original HEART DISEASE Purpose SYMPTONS pjuer The medicene was ineffective against the intended issues, such as hypertension and angina — Source: Mental Floss

36

Jeopardy!

WEIRD WORLD To pass the time, the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial played Jeopardy! 200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 1000 $1000 $1000 $1000 $1000 $100 They had to wait while technical issues got sorted out, so Judge Bruce Schroeder started playing Jeopardy! with prospective jurors. CRACKED.COM — Source

35

Weather

The United States has the world's most violent weather. It receives more high-impact weather events than anywhere else on Earth. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

34

Bryan Cranston

BRYAN CRANSTON WAS JERRY SEINFELD'S DENTIST. Long before cooking meth in Breaking Bad, he was poking into Seinfeld's mouth as Dr. Tim Whatley. CRACKED

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Milk

Milk won't make your bones stronger. It stands to reason - if your bones are made of calcium, and milk has calcium, you should drink lots of milk, right? It turns out that biology is more complicated than that. Decades' worth of studies have failed to find any benefit to bone health from drinking extra milk. CRACKED.COM — Source

32

Kit Kat

Imperfect Kit Kat bars are made into Kit Kat filling. CRACKED.COM The defective candy bars, that don't meet standards thanks to air bubbles or weirdly shaped wafers, are ground up and turned into a paste that is incorporat- ed back into the produc- tion process. — Source

31

KFC

KFC bath bombs KFC x VILLAGE VONGUARD - dock - GRACKED.COM In 2017, KFC Japan offered bath bombs that would make your skin smell just like the decadent fried flesh offered by your favorite poultry murder syndicate. — Source

30

Dr. Strangelove

Stanley Kubrick insisted that the War Room table in Dr. Strangelove be covered with green felt, even though the entire movie was filmed in black and white. Kubrick wanted to create the feeling of a poker table, and how the characters in the War Room were gambling with the fate of the entire world. CRACKED.COM — Source

29

Attraction

After hearing music, women are more attracted to men. In a University of Vienna study, women rated photos of men as more attractive, and were up to ab

28

Pilots

AN AILERON ROLL IS NOT A BARREL ROLL. In a proper barrel roll, the plane follows a spiral path as it rolls on itself (like it was skating on the inside of, well, a barrel). If it just rolls while going in a straight line, that's an aileron roll. — Source: KnowledgeNuts

27

Saturday Night Live

SNL put Leia in a gold bikini years before George Lucas did. In 1978, Fisher hosted SNL dressed as Princess Leia. During a beach skit, Leia beams down (yeah, let's ignore that part) and takes off her robes, revealing her bathing suit t-a gold bikini. This was five years before Return of the Jedi. CRACKED.COM — Source

26

Hitler

CRACKED.COM The U.S. planned to feminize Hitler with estrogen. Stanley Lovell, research head of the OSS (CIA's precursor), hatched a plan to lace Hitler's food with estrogen and make him more feminine, which (somehow) would lead to Germany losing the war. This was even dumber than Lovell's regular dumb ideas, and was never carried out. — Source

25

NASA

NASA astronaut Alan Shepard golfed on the moon half a century ago. Не did that on live TV, during the Apollo 14 landing in 1971. Не took two shots - one travelled 2 yards, and the other about 40 yards. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Interesting Facts To Impress Others With

24

Madonnna

You'll have gathered by now, Madonna really, really liked spending money on music videos. Mark Romanek's $5 million surreal masterpiece featured innovative CGI, morphing landscapes, flying witch hats and Madonna in maybe 15 different wigs. CRACKED — Source

23

Octopuses

Veined octopuses have been observed carrying around coconut shells and using them as homes. The behavior of carrying around a form of shelter is not o

22

The Nazis

CRACKED ROOTING OUT THE ENEMY Leo Marks, who was in charge of secret codes for the British, suspected that the Nazis had infiltrated the Dutch network, so he tested his theory by adding HH (Heil Hitler) to one of his replies. Не got an HH back, confirming his suspicions. — 5 People Who Succeeded Because They Didn't Know It Was Impossible

21

Burying Money

WEIRD WORLD One judge defended his act of burying $100,000 in cash to hide it from creditors. It may seem strange, but I'm from Alabama, is how Nashville Judge Kelvin Jones defended himself in his divorce case. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

The Thing

A garbage bag was used for the titles in The Thing. THE IN The lettering was on the back of a fish tank filled with smoke, behind part of a plastic garbage bag that was stretched on a frame, all behind a bright light. They put a lit match to the piece of the bag, which burned a hole in the plastic and let the light through. CRACKED.COM — Source

19

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot was a trap Arnold Schwarzenegger | baited for Sylvester Stallone. Schwarzenegger knew right away that the movie he was being offered was crap - but knowing how hyper-competitive Stallone was, he pretended to be interested in taking the role, so his rival would try and take it away from him. And Sly just went and swallowed the bait. — More: Stallone And Schwarzenegger's Feud Was Ridiculously Lopsided

18

Elections

The vice president of the US wasn't always the president's running mate. Before they added the 12th amendment, it was whoever got the 2nd most votes in the election. CRACKED.COM — Source

17

Casino Royale

In the 2006 Casino Royale, Tsai Chin played Madam Wu. She also appeared in You Only Live Twice, in 1967. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

16

Legionella

Legionella lives in your car. This bacterium causes Legionnaires' disease, fatal in 10% of cases-and it could be swimming in your windshield wiper fluid. CRACKED.COM — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

15

Sean Connery

Sean Connery Connery famously loathed working on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, saying that idiots now making films in Hollywood drove him to quit. He later had a less bitter take on the whole thing, declining to appear in Crystal Skull because retirement is just too much damned fun. — Source: BBC

14

Huge Financial Losses

CRACKED TUTE MILK $33 BILLION IN 18 MONTHS Eike Batista, a Brazilian oil tycoon, went from an estimated wealth of $34 billion to less than $1 billion in just 18 months. Until Elon came along, that made him a contender for the person who has lost the most money in the history of the world. — Source

13

Phobias

HIPPOPOTOMONSTR OSESQUIPPEDALIO- PHOBIA New Compact Oxford ENGLISH Dictionary CRACKED COM Hippopotomonstrosesquippedalio- phobia is a fear of long words. This phobia may develop from the embarrassment of mispronouncing long words while reading in front of the class. Ironically (or just to be mean), it's the longest word in the dictionary.

12

School of Rock

There was a real School of Rock, that precedes the movie. NBC 1 un - ING Ministry The real School of Rock, started by Paul Green in Philadelphia, shared a lot of similarities to the movie - even down to Jack Black's look. Green considered suing, but thought the movie was ultimately good for business. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Thor

THOR ALMOST ROCKED A JACK KIRBY-INSPIRED LOOK. Thor: Ragnarok Before going with the more traditional gladiator look, Taika Waititi commissioned a Thor design that drew heavily from Kirby's art. Even though it wasn't used in the film, we can't but notice that the suit kinda resembles the Quantum suits used in Avengers: Endgame. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Iconic Characters That Almost Looked Radically Different

10

Bees

Two tablespoons of honey would be enough to fuel a bee's entire flight around the world. On average, a honeybee pro- duces 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey over the course of its life. Bees have been making honey since they split from wasps after the first flower- ing plants appeared 130 mil- lion years ago. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

9

Florida

FLORIDA: WHERE GATORS KNOCK (AND BITE). An alligator tapped on someone's door, and when the homeowner opened it, the alligator bit them. That's just Florida being Florida, we guess. CRACKED — Source

8

Jamaica

CRACKED.COM Everybody knows that Jamaica is a stoner country, right? Nope! Jamaica strictly banned all forms of marijuana use until 2015. Even now, they allow only 2 ounces per person. In comparison, Colorado legalized marijuana sooner than Jamaica! — Source

7

Clark Gable

Actor Clark Gable fought in World War 2 and was almost killed. When word of this reached MGM, studio executives began to badger the Army Air Forces to reassign him to non combat duty. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

6

Fruits and Vegetables

FRUITS ARE VEGETABLES. Botanists don't use the word vegetable, because it's not part of their language. What we call vegetables are actually fruits, stalks, flowers, leaves, bulbs, and roots from plants. Nothing is real, basically. CRACKED — Africa Studio/Shutterstock
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5

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson was rejected by J.K. Rowling CRACKED.COM Just two unproblematic celebs, doin' unproblematic celeb things. Jackson really wanted to do a Harry Potter musical, but Rowling found that, of all things, an inappropriate expansion of her vast empire.

4

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone was created because of racist backlash in the '50s. The TWILIGHT ZONE Rod Serling's script about the murder of Emmett Till, a Black boy, was rejected by studio bigwigs who feared blowback .. so Serling started writing sci-fi. CRACKED.COM — Source

3

Breast Cancer

A company patented the breast cancer genes. For 15 years, Myriad Genetics had a patent over two genes that can increase your risk of cancer, and wouldn't let anyone else test for them. This monopoly ended in 2013, when the Supreme Court ruled, WTF, you can't own human genes. CRACKED.COM — Source

2

Seth Green

Seth Green's new NFT show is in jeopardy after his Bored Ape jpeg was stolen. GRACKED.COM Green was robbed of sever- al NFTs this month after succumbing to a phishing scam and took to Twitter to plead with DarkWing84, who bought his ape from a scammer, to return it. — Buzzfeed News

1

Pizza Hut

The Priazzo was uncookably thick deep-dish pizza. Pizza Hut threw an Italian-sounding name on a casserole that was SO thick, it took longer to cook than anyone was willing to wait for it. — YouTube

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