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43 Scholarly Bits of Trivia That Find A Way to Name Drop Their Alma Mater in Every Conversation

November 27, 2024

We get it, list of random facts. You’re smart. It’s not hard to tell. So you don’t have to humble-brag your way through every conversation anymore, okay?

Didn’t think we noticed, did you? Well, your sneaky way of slipping your brainy facts into every conversation isn’t as subtle as you think. Just have some self-confidence and trust that we’ll come to you for the facts when we’re ready. Right now, for instance. We’re genuinely up for some fun facts, so let’s see what you got, smarty-pants!

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Platypuses

Platypuses can hear electricity. CRACKED.COM They have a 6th sense, electroreception, that's probably most similar to our sense of hearing. They can sense electric fields generated by muscular contraction. — 14 Weird Things Animals Can Do That You Can't

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M. Night Shyamalan

Directors and their beginnings Then vs. Now M. Night Shyamalan After making home movies in his childhood, Shyamalan's very first feature was autobiographical, a 1992 student film called Praying with Anger which featured a conflicted but still wise self-insert. The plot twist? Не played it, of course. CRACKED.COM — CBR

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Homicide

Homicide detectives work way fewer cases than you think. Put on a cop show, and you'll see detectives solving a different murder every week. But in real life, the average homicide cop works maybe five cases in a year. Even in such a stab-happy place as Detroit, the number barely goes up to eight. CRACKED.COM — Source

40

Farts

Every day, you produce nearly 24 ounces worth of farts. That's about TWO cans of soda. Think about that next time one fizzes all over you.

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Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett bought an entire company only to fire one person. In 1962, Seabury Stanton, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, tried to cheat Buffet in a contract deal. BH MATHAWAY HS BERKSHIRE Even though it wasn't a НАТ AY good investment, I Warren Buffett felt insulted and decided to become the owner of the company in order to fire Stanton right away. GRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Celebs Who Got Revenge (In Hilariously Nasty Ways)

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Texas

WEIRD WORLD In Texas, a woman tried to purchase a child at a Walmart store. Apparently, the woman offered $250,000 for another shopper's child. Eventually, she got arrested and charged with the third-degree felony of the sale or purchase of a child. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut delivered to the ISS. The company paid the Russian space agency $1 million to deliver a salami pie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Adult Diapers

WEIRD WORLD In Louisiana, they arrested a guy for fraudulently getting his diaper changed. Specifically, he posed as a special needs person, and conned someone into changing his diaper - so he got arrested for it, and this was the second time it happened. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Library of Congress

The largest comic book collection can be found at the Library of Congress. The library holds over 6,000 titles of comic books, with a total of 120,000 different issues. The library's collection slightly surpasses the largest personal comic book collection owned by Bob Bretall with 101,822 different issues. CRACKED COM — Source

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The Real Drogon

RIDING DROGON IS LIKE BEING ON A BARE-BONES THEME PARK RIDE. Emilia Clarke said this about the device (called a buck): He's an electric ... doing-what-it-wants kind of buck. I just literally get to react to what they re doing. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Behind-The-Scenes Images That Ruin 'Game Of Thrones'

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Teachers

Teacher turnover is rising, which is bad news for kids and for the system. Secute 1o Nationwide teacher turnover is almost 17% (50% higher than a deca

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Aloha

CAMERON CROWE apologized for casting Emma Stone as an Asian-American character. LO co. ake After much controversy about his decision to cast Stone in — The Verge

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iPhones

The iPhone 12 can screw up pacemakers. Implantable cardiac devices can be controlled by magnets (so that doctors don't have to open up the patient to change a setting). The iPhone 12 has a really strong magnet for its MagSafe chargerc- turns out it's strong enough to disable an implantable — Source: NBC25

30

The Black Panther Fish

The Vibranium Fairy Wrasse got its name because its glowing purple scales reminded the researchers of the Black Panther's suit. Its scientific name, Cirrhilabrus wakanda, was also inspired by the film. The scientists found it in a secretive and isolated African reef over 200ft below sea level-a location they likened to the hidden city of Wakanda. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The New York Post

The New York Post was founded by Alexander Hamilton & was a respected publication. YORKPOST KACHE 1 TT - ... - $60.000 HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR Gunman forces woman to decapitate favern owner - - SENATE OKAYS PREZ'S PICK FOR ARMS CONTROL - - Koch plans to hire 1,000 more cops ... - Taken kickin' TAXING DAY FOR It didn't become a tabloid until the 1970s. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Woodrow Wilson

Presidential jokes Woodrow Wilson went full debate bro with this way-too-accurate zinger: : A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. CRACKED.COM — Harris & Ewing
The Washington Post

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Dr. Death

The most prolific serial killer in recorded human history was a doctor. CRACKED.COM British doctor Harold Shipman (also known as 'Doctor Death') was prov- en to have murdered at least 250 of his patients but may have killed as many as 459 people. — BBC

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Dances with Wolves

KEVIN COSTNER DANCES GRACKED.COM WITH WOLVES This movie set the bar for White Savior tropes in Hollywood. It won Best Picture over Goodfellas. WINNER OF SEVEN ACADEMY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE 1990 OAM.P.A.S. — Source

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Fake Grill Marks

CRACKED COM Many fast food restaurants' hamburgers and chicken strips are imprinted with fake grill marks. — 19 Facts About Food We'd Bet Anything You Didn't Know

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British Clowns

CRACKED.COM British clowns use eggs as a makeup registry. Over 250 ceramic eggs are housed in the London's Clown Gallery-Museum, each painted with the signature look of a particular clown as a form of copyright protection. The gallery- museum is housed inside a church, because clowns are apparently trying to be creepy. — Source: 15 Random Facts to Make Your Life More Factual and/or Random

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World War II

Axis POWs during WWII were placed in a mansion bugged with listening devices. CRACKED.COM The British let Axis prison- ers live in luxury in Trent Park, while listening to their conversations. The program produced a lot of intel for the Allies, such as the location of a V2 rocket facility. — Source

22

High School Pals

Celebrities who were high school buddies Jeremy Piven and John Cusack They became close friends at Evanston Township High School. Sadly, the two drifted apart as their careers went in different directions CRACKED.COM — Source

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Extreme Hydration

CRACKED ONE MAN DRINKS 20 LITERS OF WATER A DAY (OR ELSE). German Marc Wübbenhorst man has a rare metabolic disorder called diabetes insipidus, which makes him incredibly thirsty and causes him to pee a lot. Не has to drink 20 liters of water a day, or he could die from dehydration. — Frühstücksfernsehen/YouTube
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Feral Chickens

Feral chickens began terrorizing an island in the UK in 2019. CRACKED COM Escaped chickens multiplied exponentially due to lack of predators, and 100-bird gangs began attacking jog- gers, destroying yards, blocking traffic, and waking residents at 4 AM with deaf- ening crowing. — MentalFloss

19

The World’s Biggest Liar Championship

CRACKED WORLD'S BIGGEST LIAR CHAMPIONSHIP Contestants have five minutes to tell the most creative and convincing lie they can think of. — BBC / IMDB

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Redheads

Redheads are more sensitive to pain than people with brown, black, or blond hair. As a result, they require 20 percent more anesthesia than average to get sedated for surgery. GRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner has a pet chicken that she's named after a Mean Girls character. The chicken is called Regina George (of course, who else?), and she's filmed herself for Instagram reading the newspaper aloud to Regina. CRACKED.COM — Source: ET Online

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Apocalypse Now

Two Apocalypse Now characters after are named important people in Francis Ford Coppola's life. General Corman Colonel Lucas George Lucas and Coppola h

15

McDonald’s

McDonald's stopped making spoon-shaped coffee stirrers... x ...because people were using them as cocaine spoons. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Fast Food Facts Real Fast

14

Stranger Things

Stranger Things Season 3 has a ton of Back To The Future references. 12 For example, there's the black-cat clock that shows up on Mrs. Driscoll's wall it looks exactly like the clock that Doc Brown has. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

13

Puritans

Late 16th-century Puritan communities in Southern Britain saw common names as too worldly. GRACKED COM They opted to name chil- dren with bizarre strings of religious slogans, such as Jesus-Christ-came-in- to-the-world- to-save, and Job-raked-out- of-the-ashes. — Source

12

Laptops

LAPTOPS CRACKED.COM In 1985, the New York Times catalogued what they saw as the demise of the laptop, due to the simple fact that folks just don't like having tiny computers on their person: Somehow, the microcomputer industry has assumed that everyone would love to have a keyboard grafted on as an extension of their fingers. It just is not so. — Source: NY Times

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Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift grew up on Christmas tree farm She spent some of childhood on Pine Ridge Farm in Pennsylvania, which she honors in her Christmas single aptly called Christmas Tree Farm. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

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Fights on Set

CHRIS FARLEY & DAVID SPADE CRACKED.COM FARLEY GOT TICKED AT SPADE WHILE FILMING TOMMY BOY BECAUSE SPADE AND ROB LOWE HAD A NIGHT ON THE TOWN WITHOUT HIM. A FIGHT BEGAN WITH A SMASHED SANDWICH, A THROWN DIET COKE, AND A SHOVE DOWN A SMALL FLIGHT OF STAIRS BEFORE THE COMICS WERE CALLED TO THE SET TO FILM A SCENE. — Slashfilm

9

Frankenstein

Frankenstein author Mary Shelley also came up with apocalypse fiction. Her novel The Last Man is set in 2100, in an extremely dystopian England where illness and fanaticism ravage the land- today, it might be called post-apocalyptic. CRACKED.COM — Source: Smithsonian Magazine

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American Stats

In the US, 70% of codebreakers were women 11,000 women were in the Army and Navy as codebreakers. In 1944, they intercepted 30,000 water-transport messages a month, enabling the Navy to sink almost every transport ship to the South Pacific. CRACKED.COM — Source: Washington Post and WNYC

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Twitch

WEIRD WORLD Twitch, owned by Amazon, banned an Amazon Prime Video channel over a breast. twitch Japanese Commentary English Commentary - ---- A presenter's breast was accidentally revealed during a live airing, and Twitch brought out the banhammer right away. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jefferson’s Tombstone

Jefferson's gravestone lists 3 accomplishments (being President isn't one). DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND FATHER OF THE They were: writing the Declaration of Independence; founding the University of Virginia; and drafting the Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom. CRACKED.COM — Source: Smithsonian Magazine

5

Breaking Bad

CRACKED BRYAN CRANSTON'S DAUGHTER TAYLOR WAS IN BREAKING BAD. In the 2010 episode No Mas, Bryan asked his daughter to play a traumatized student who describes her experience hearing the plane crash. — Youtube / Youtube

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Miss Congeniality

CRACKED MISS CONGENIALITY ة RS Fans continue to celebrate April 25th as the perfect date ('Cus all you need is a light jacket.) So there's some cultural relevance here, but overall it's a pretty silly premise that we're surprised made $213,420,951. — NY Post / Crooked Marquee

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Lenin

A car dealership tried to buy Lenin's corpse CRACKED.COM In 1991, Moscow had to issue a press release stating that, no, they weren't trying to raise money by selling Lenin's body. Forbes had run a satyrical piece making the claim, then ABC News reported it as fact, causing tons of serious inquiries to flood in from the US -- including one from a car dealership looking for a gimmick. — Source: 6 Historical Hoaxes That Are Too Stupid Even For 2017

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Neopets

Neopets was designed for and by college students create a neopet create.a.pet bet central Step 1 - Choose your pet's species! Click on the picture for more information about each explore species. Remember that creating a pet will earn you 50 Neopoints! You can have up to 4 Neopets, but no more, as soon they will begin to get very demanding. If you are just games starting out, it may be best for you to choose one. neomail shops boards new stuff In 2002, the site was the most popular site on the internet in terms of time on site. NOW YOU — Source

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Forgotten Silver

Mockumentaries Forgotten Silver Peter Jackson introduces us to the lost movies of one Colin McKenzie, who apparently came up with the tracking shot, the close-up, sound and color film, and even martial arts fights in cinema. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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