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45 Scrappy Bits of Trivia That Are Just Itching for You to Open Their Cage

November 28, 2024

Have you ever seen those pre-fight weigh-ins where two fighters get all up in each other’s grills?

Well you’re about to see something like that today. Your brain and list of random facts are about to square off any second now, and it doesn’t seem like these facts are gonna play nice. They’re ready to tear your brain lobe from lobe, so you better warn that thing to be ready.

If you think it can’t handle these, you should probably throw in the towel now.

45

Nicole Richie

Nicole Richie has a tattoo that says virgin. Viigs L She got the tattoo when she was 16 supposedly because she's a Virgo. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM — Source: E!

44

I Love Lucy

William Frawley I LOVE LUCY CRACKED.COM The actor who played Fred was reportedly a tough guy to work with. His weirdest hangup was probably the Yankees clause in his contract: he would get extra time off whenever the Yankees made the World Series, which happened 7 times over the course of the show. — Source

43

Telemarketing

CRACKEDOON On average, a telemarketer has to spend 7.5 hours making cold calls to get one appointment.

42

Marlon Brando

SAMUEL L. JACKSON AND MARLON BRANDO The two first met backstage at a Michael Jackson concert. Somebody comes up behind me and starts doing the Ezekiel speech . People do that to me all the time. 'Arrgh, Ezekiel, da da da.' And I turn around, and it's Marlon Brando. I'm like, 'Oh my God!''' CRACKED.COM — The Hollywood Reporter

41

Income Taxes

People outside the U.S. think it's crazy that Americans have to file their own taxes. OPOL Many non-U.S. countries have taxes prepared by their revenue agency. For example, in Japan you get a postcard with your earnings and taxes owed and withheld. You only have to reply if there is a problem. CRACKED.COM — Source

40

The Thinker

Rodin didn't intend The Thinker to be, well, a thinker. He created it as the crowning piece of his sculpture The Gates of Hell. His name for it was Th

39

Russian Blizzard

In Russia, a 10-year-old and a stray dog survived a blizzard together. The girl hugged the dog for 18 hours straight, which enabled them to survive a freezing winter blizzard. CRACKED.COM — Source

38

Dairy Farming

Dairy farmers in San Francisco sued to get almond milk relabelled as Nut Juice. CRACKED.COM The Federal District Court dismissed the suit, in 2013, as No reasonable consumer would mistake a product like soy milk or almond milk with dairy milk from a cow. — Source

37

Yes Man

CRACKED YES MAN MADE $225,990,976. Remember when Jim Carrey couldn't tell a lie?! Okay, what if now he has to say Yes to everything?! These 3-minute sketch premises stretched into movies need to stop! — IMDB

36

France

In France, at least 40% of radio songs have to be in French. A 1994 law made that requirement, so that English-language songs don't flood the airwaves. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

35

The Goonies

The house from The Goonies got so many visitors, it drove the owners nuts. So, at point, they covered it with blue tarp - not that unreasonably, considering they couldn't get much peace otherwise. CRACKED.COM — Source

34

Emotions

MYTH: EMOTIONS BLOCK YOU FROM BEING LOGICAL. NO YES FACT: WITHOUT FeeLInGS, YOU CAN'T mAKe Decisions. The brain uses emotions to remind us about the consequences of our choices. Patients who suffer damage to the orbitofrontal cortex, the bridge linking our emotional amygdala and the rest of our brain, often become totally rational but can't make decisions - precisely because they don't have emotions to guide them in the right direction. CRACKED.COM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wup_K2WNO — Source

33

The Cornea

THE CORNEA BE IS A LONER GRAGKED.COM The cornea is the only part of the body with no blood supply. It gets its oxygen directly from the air. — Source

32

Cloning

CRACKED SOME U.S. STATES HAVE LAWS AGAINST CLONING HUMANS. It is also prohibited by federal law in Canada. — Source

31

Billy Joel

THE WORKING TITLE FOR BILLY JOEL'S SAPPY BALLAD HONESTY WAS SODOMY. IT'S SUCH A LONELY WORD... Joel's drummer Liberty DeVito used to write inappropriate lyrics to songs as a way to motivate Joel to write more acceptable ones. CRACKED.COM Bill DeMain, 2004. In Their Own Words: Songwriters Talk about the Creative Process. — Source

30

The Office

GRACKED.COM MIZUNEL SCOTT tother - Quality Certificate Of Authenticity This certifies that MICHAEL Scott is the proud owner of a Quality Seyko timepiece CERTIFICATE NUMBER 00842MBA the office In his office, Michael Scott has a framed certificate of authenticity for his watch. Note that it's for a Quality Seyko, not for a Seiko watch. Не was tricked into buying a knock-off and lets the world know. — Source

29

The Walk

CRACKED Director Robert Zemeckis used IMAX and 3D to make the heights involved in The Walk - a biopic of Philip Pettit, the man who went between the towers of the World Trade Center on a rope - feel extremely real to theatergoers, leading to vomiting, vertigo and panic attacks. — Source

28

McDonald’s

Since 2007, all McDonalds' fleet trucks in the U.K. have been fueled with cooking oil from their restaurants. 10 M WE RECYCLE ALLOUR USED COOKING OIL INTO BIODIESCA a IIII In 2018, the company successfully repurposed 80% of its waste cooking oil for use across its European fleet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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27

Gamers

Gamers embarrassed scientists at their own game. Emerican con - Gones 1.50% - Purio Good - I Gares 102 IN General now Emerited SAFE BY Show scrps.commands loss - FREE Gresary CRACKED.COM Gactione Protein folding is complex, but the game Foldlt turns it into a fun puzzle. FoldIt players beat scientists and AI algorithms in folding competitions. — Source: Digital Trends

26

District 9

District 9's aliens could have looked like hobos. Bodbex Sarttex adidas An early idea was that they'd have such sensitive skin, they'd cover themselves with whatever they found nearby - from plastic bags to traffic signs. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Way Different

25

The Grinch

The Grinch was made green for the TV special. But the sound wasn't sad! Why, this sound sounded merry! It couldn't be so! But it WAS merry! VERY! In the original book, he was black and white. CRACKED.COM — Vulture

24

Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket's private Joker's full name is Davis J.T. The first American casualty of the Vietnam war was a U.S. Army cryptologist named James T. — Source: The National Security Agency

23

The Universe

The death of the universe will be very, very dark and lonely. The last stars to explode will be so far apart, it'll be physically impossible for light to travel from one to the other, so none will see the others explode. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

22

Air Conditioning

WHAT'S THE DEAL: HISTORY OF A/C Doctor Freeze CRACKED.co COM Next to tackle temperature was Dr. John Gorrie. Around 1840, he developed the first indoor cooling technology to aid uncomfortable hospital patients. It required ice to be shipped south from colder climates, though, so... not exactly breezy. — Source: Energy.gov

21

Expensive Music Videos

The morphing technology used in John Landis's $4 million epic was totally cutting-edge stuff at the time, which could probably be done fairly well on an iPhone these days. Plus, a cameo from Macaulay goddamn Culkin. CRACKED — Source

20

Cats

In 2019, a Russian cat was used by prisoners to sneak drugs into their penal colony. CRACKED COM The cat had 6 grams of hash- ish and 1.5 grams of amphet- amine under its collar. De- fense and prosecution law- yers each wanted the cat to support their case but it es- caped before trial. — Source

19

Dan Spitz

Dan Spitz is a watchmaker. In the mid '90s, Spitz grew bored with pulling guitar riffs for Anthrax and pursued a different interest: precision clockwo

18

Vince Vaughn

Vince Vaughn worked as a lileguard for his local YMCA He was fired for being late too many times. IISTMRIRIMIE CRACKEDCONN

17

Tomatoes

A tomato has 7,000 more genes than a human does. 4 2+8 the CRACKED.COM Turns out that there's a lot more to what makes an organism complex than just the number of genes mgs in its genome. — Houston Chronicle

16

School of Rock

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS School was adapted for Nickelodeon and BROADWAY CRACKED.COM The School of Rock show on Nick lasted for three forgettable seasons. It fared better on the stage, with new songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber and four Tony nominations. Though it didn't win, the kids shredded during the awards show, sticking it to the Broadway man. — Rolling Stone

15

Paper Folds

A piece of paper folded 42 times would reach the moon. CRACKED.COM It would also be as tall as all of the planets in our solar system stacked on top of one another. Doubling the thickness of the thin paper with each fold would lead to an exponential increase in thickness as you keep folding. — Coder's Revolution

14

The Statue of Unity

597 ft. The Statue of Unity in India is so tall the Statue of Liberty could barely touch his knees with her torch. 152 ft. CRACKED.COM — Source

13

Ghislaine Maxwell

WEIRD WORLD Ghislaine Maxwell did something bone-chillingly terrifying in court. When the court artist sketched her, she looked right into his eyes and sketched him back. Truly, Nietzsche was right - surprisingly literally so. CRACKED.COM — Source

12

Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson loves Wellingtono The New Zealand capital served as his base in his mission to film all things Tolkien. It's more like Mordor, than The

11

Heil Honey I’m Home

Disastrous Comedy 1990 Heil Honey I'm Home! A British sitcom involving Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun not being able to get along with their Jewish neighbors aired one episode, but everyone wondered how the highly offensive show ever aired at all. This shock value was out of touch. CRACKED — Source

10

Lawyers

LAWYERS ARE TWICE AS LIKELY TO STRUGGLE WITH DRINKING PROBLEMS THAN THE REST OF THE POPULATION. 000 ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, ONE IN

9

Star Wars

A Tusken Raider's vocalization is the braying of a donkey. To make the Tusken Raiders' distinctive cry, sound designer Ben Burtt very slightly manipul

8

Joe Manganiello

Joe Manganiello turned his wine cellar into a D&D room. He calls it The Gary Gygax Memorial Dungeon.

7

Heroic Sherpa

A climber blocked the Sherpa who saved his life. A Malaysian climber was saved from a certain death on Mount Everest by a Sherpa, but then he thanked his sponsors instead of his rescuer. The Sherpa says the guy even briefly blocked him on Instagram. CRACKED — Yongyut Kumsri/Shutterstock
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6

Cyclist Smokers

It used to be normal for cyclists to smoke during the Tour de France.

5

Private Investigators

CELEBS & Pls 50 CENT After Love & Hip Hop star Teairra Mari disappeared while owing 50 Cent money, he reportedly hired a PI to find her. CRACKED.COM — Source

4

The Manhattan Project

THE MANHATTAN PROJECT CONTINUED POST-HIROSHIMA. DOCTORS INJECTED UNWITTING PATIENTS WITH PLUTONIUM. They also pulled 15 teeth from the first injectee, for research. At no point did anyone inform him why. Finally, he figured out he was a test subject and fled the hospital at night, somehow going on to live for eight more years until his heart failed in 1953. CRACKED.COM — Source

3

Amanda Peet

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM AMANDA PEET Peet also shows up in the films A Lot Like Love, Saving Silverman and Gulliver's Travels after being Jerry's demanding girlfriend in The Summer of George in season 8. — Source: IMDB

2

Google Glass

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1

Roald Dahl

ROALD DAHL WAS A BRITISH SPY WHO SEDUCED WOMEN. Before Roald Dahl was a famous writer, he was in the British Army. After an injury moved him to a desk — Source: Mental Floss

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