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42 Random Bits of Trivia That End Up Saying the Wrong Thing at the Wrong Time

November 27, 2024

There’s a time and a place for everything, but these facts haven’t quite grasped that concept. They like to pop up at any given moment, no matter where they are or who’s around.

We were just talking to a friend, and this list told them that the Goliath Frog is as big as a house cat, jumps over 10 feet and eats small rodents and bats. But our friend is deathly afraid of cats, bats, small rodents and giant frogs.

Thanks a lot, list of random facts!

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Blaise Pascal

17 Unexpected Accomplishments of Famous People - Pascal is famous for his work in math and physics. He also invented the world’s first bus service. Th — Source: Wired

41

Titanic

The founder of the Titanic Historical Society showed up in James Cameron's Titanic. Edward Kamuda consulted on the movie (Cameron introduced him as the man who made it all possible,) and also had a cameo, with this wife, as a passenger. CRACKED.COM — MassLive, WBUR

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The Lorenz Machine

Part of a Nazi encryption machine turned up on eBay. The Lorenz machine that the British National Museum of Computing had on loan was missing a few parts. One day, while casually browing the web, they found the teleprinter (the thing's keyboard) listed on eBay as a telegram machine. For just £10 (about $14), they rescued an invaluable piece of engineering history from a trash-filled garden shed. GRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know

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The Exoskeleton Shoe

Tech Superpowers SUPERHUMAN SPEED A high-tech new running shoe speed you up up to 50%. It has a special exoskeleton device that helps to redirect the vertical motion of your body, so you can reach your top running speed. CRACKED — Antonio Gravante/Shutterstock
Science Advances

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Coke Cans

Diet Coke cans float in water while regular Coke cans sink 12FLOZ(355 mL) Coke Diet R The difference? The density of the sweetener used. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss

37

Vikings

Katheryn Winnick kind of went above and beyond to get cast in Vikings. I went to great lengths to try to do everything I could to get this role. I ended up actually going to a Halloween costume store and renting a costume to try to really embody what Vikings would wear for my screen test, she said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wendy’s

The lady who claimed to find a finger in her Wendy's chili was sentenced to 9 years in prison Anna Aayala was released after four years on good behavior. She apologized to the food chain for the attempted scam. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Now-You-Know Fast Food Facts, By The Numbers

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American Healthcare (Or Lack Thereof)

37% of Americans skip going to the doctor or refilling prescriptions because of the cost. In Great Britain and Sweden, that number is 4-6%. $ A hip replacement costs $80,000 in the U.S. and less than $14,000 in Europe. Nexium costs $215 in the U.S. and $20-60 in Europe. http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/ CRACKED.COM 05/30/n0-the-us-doesnt-have-the-best-health-care-system-in-the-worid — Source

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

GRACKED THE O.G. HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ENDS IN COMPLETE TRAGEDY. In the end, Esmeralda is hanged, and when Quasimodo visits her grave, he refuses to leave, so he starves to death. — The Sun / The List

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Our Taste Receptors

Taste receptors are neatly grouped. We often think that the taste receptors for salty, sweet, bitter and sour are only located in certain parts of the tongue, but that's not true. Actually, these receptors are spread out all over the tongue. CRACKED — Source

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Actress Torture

CRACKED.COM Alfred Hitchcock Не tortured actresses on set. While some actresses defended him, the bad stories are really bad. For example, he'd refer to The 39 Steps' lead actress as the Birmingham tart (not a cool word, fellas), and then he'd direct her by pretending he was going to jerk off, to get a shocked face. — More: 12 Classic Movie Moments Made Possible by Abuse and Murder

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Robin Thicke

Robin Thicke claimed credit for Blurred Lines. Then Marvin Gaye's estate sued. Thicke then changed his tune, pointing at his producer and claiming Pharrell had written it all by himself. Не said he couldn't have written anything because he'd been high on Vicodin at the time. CRACKED.COM — Source: Bizarre Lies 19 Famous People Thought They'd Get Away With

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Spain

Spain is banning unhealthy food and drink ads aimed at kids and adolescents. | SEE I سر OEC Ads for those products will be banned on kids' TV, and any ads for them aimed at kids under 16 will be banned outright both online and in print. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Maple Syrup

In 2017, a Canadian man got 8 years in prison and a fine of 9.4M CAD (over 7M USD) for a maple syrup heist. Richard Vallières stole 3,000 tons of maple syrup from a warehouse. The theft was discovered in a routine check in 2012, when a maple syrup barrel turned out to be empty. After an investigation, 26 people were arrested. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

28

The Constitution

President Harding literally saved the US Constitution. The Constitution was deteriorating as it was improperly stored at the State Department. President Harding had it preserved in a glass case. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Our White House

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Metallica

Metallica's only Top 10 charting single was off Load. CRACKED.COM The '90s transition from thrash metal to hard rock didn't delight all of their fans, but Until It Sleeps, with its Soundgarden-like quality, was Metallica's first and (as of yet) only song to hit the top ten of the US Billboard charts. — Ultimate Classic Rock

26

Dragon Ball Z

Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama hates Hollywood's Dragon Ball movie. Не hated Dragonball: Evolution so much, he says, that that made him rewrite the whole script for Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods. CRACKED.COM — Source

25

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street is filled with sex scenes and swear words, SO 45 minutes of its total runtime were cut upon entering the United Arab Emirates.

24

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera was basically a corpse In the original novel, Erik is described as skeleton thin with basically just human skull for a head ... sunken yellow eyes and no nose. Hardly Gerard Butler in a half-mask. CRACKED.COM

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Australia

The Australian Slouch Hat has one side of the brim turned upwards to aid rifle maneuvering. CRACKED.COM The intention of turning up the right side of the hat was to ensure it would not be caught during the drill move- ment of shoulder arms from order arms. — Source

22

Dark Phoenix

Sophie Turner and Jessica Chastain pranked James McAvoy once. It was on the Dark Phoenix set - when he was suspended on wires for a stunt, they played the Macarena and had the stunt guys puppeteer him to the beat. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks

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Apple

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Stranger Things

SADIE SINK LIED ABOUT BEING A SKATER. STRANGER THINGS Sink says the production was looking for a girl with skateboarding and rollerblading experience. She had no skateboarding experience, and very little rollerblading experience, but decided to lie and said she was skilled with both. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Lies Actors Told (To Get Big Breaks)

19

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison recorded the first cute cat video Made in 1894, it features two cats boxing. CRACKED.COM — Source

18

Diet Coke

Coke, somehow, tried to cash in on apathy. Colle - A Diet Coke commercial with Gillian Jacobs has her basically shrugging and saying do whatever. She says that marathons are super hard, and you can go live in a yurt if you want. The takeaway? Drink Diet Coke or something, whatever, not like it matters anyway. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

17

Loki

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind partly inspired, of all things, Disney's Loki. LOKI INTERNATIONAL That movie (like, say, Scott Pilgrim), had a lot of elaborate practical sets that look like CGI - and Loki did too, to make its world feel like a real environment. CRACKED.COM — Source

16

Water

According to studies, filtered tap water is just as good as expensive bottled 'smart water. Although it's true that minerals, vitamins, and electrol

15

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park Dennis Nedry is watching Jaws. Instead of working Nedry is playing a movie about toothy animals eating people. Really, he should have seen it coming. CRACKED.COM — Movies in Other Movies

14

Celebrities

Nicole Kidman was in a relationship with Lenny Kravitz in the 2000s. It was apparently pretty serious they were engaged at one point but they eventually split amicably. Some things just don't work, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source: E! Online

13

Horrible Toys

CRACKED COM WHAT'S CUDDLIER THAN A BABY? A PREMATURE BABY! In a misguided attempt at... well, something, Coleco released preemie Cabbage Patch Kids in the 1980s. The preemies were smaller and had less hair that the regular dolls. Not included were the incubator and tubes required to keep real prematures babies alive, as that could have made them less adorable. — Source

12

George Washington

George Washington's® farewell party was a rager. According to the bar tab, the 55 attendees drank 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, 8 of whiskey, 22 of Porter, 8 of hard cider, 12 of beer, and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Reason

11

Minecraft

GRACKED.COM The sounds Minecraft's ghasts make are the sound designer's vocalizations and the noises of his cat being disturbed in its sleep. — Source

10

Guns N’ Roses

CRACKED Guns N' Roses and Dr Pepper have a complicated relationship. When GNR released their long-awaited album Chinese Democracy, Dr Pepper promised every American a free can of soda, but the website to claim it was inaccessible. Axl Rose threatened legal action against Dr Pepper, because not everyone in America got a free drink. Pepr Est. E — Source

9

Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, playing a board game is part of getting your driver's license. TRAFFIC POLICE VEHICLE EXAMINATION 1 Y STATION CENTRE CHECK GAS 3 R TRAFFIC CHECK A CHECK I VEHICLE CHECK U DIRECTION I 40 I CHECK VEHICLE N CHOICE . PARKING LOT RAILWAY CROSSING ALLOW TRAIN TO CROSS MILLTI-LANE CHOICE Applicants have to play Driver's Way (which involves rolling dice, moving car models on a board, and answering + questions about road laws) at least once before their actual driving test. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects Now-You-Know Facts

8

Frogs

THE GOLIATH FROG IS THE SIZE OF A HOUSE CAT. These bad boys can jump 10 feet. They eat rodents, bats, and other frogs. CRACKED.COM http://animals sandiegozoo.org/animals/goliath-frog — Source: 25 Animals IRL That Will Haunt Your Dreams

7

Plane Crashes

A teenager survived a plane crash still strapped to his seat after being ejected from the plane. TOP CRACKED COM In 1985, a 17-year old named George Lamson Jr. was ejected from Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 upon the crash, and landed up- right in his seat in the mid- dle of a street. Не was the only survivor. — Source

6

Alan Turing

ALAN TURING came up with the idea of a universal Turing machine, which was like a blueprint for a computer, and helped create the first electronic computer-all in the 1940s. CRACKED — Arthur Reginald Chaffin/Wiki Commons
American Scientist

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Firsts in Film

Historical Firsts in Practical Effects 1907 The glass shot Known as Hollywood's first effects man, Norman О. Dawn shot real-life footage through painted settings on glass in 1907's Missions of California. This layering could place an in-studio actor on the edge of a cliff, like Chaplin in 1925's The Gold Rush. CRACKED — Source

4

Strawberries

Strawberries don't have seeds on the outside. What are often assumed as seeds are actually achenes, which are technically fruits with a single seed inside. CRACKED.COM — Source: Science World

3

Skiing

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Fish

All freshwater fish kind of come from duck poop. The first fish in a new pond or pool come from eggs eaten by ducks. 0.2% of the eggs come out of the duck's other end intact -- a really low percentage, but ducks are very abundant, so a swarm of ducks moving to a new pond will leave enough eggs to populate it with fish. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The ‘90s

Some absolutely huge websites were 199 launched in the '90s. 1999 1948 1995 1994 1997 MAM 14.26 Sep 14:08 Tablet Alliage Beerbater Verlauf Fecabe - Associate the - m Schweler - Internal - منا Google Disney Google Deutschland Google home IMDb (1993), EBay (1995), Amazon (1994), GeoCities (1994), Netscape (1994), Yahoo! (1995), AltaVista (1995), ICQ (1996), Hotmail (1996), Google (1998), and Napster (1999). CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s — Source

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