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42 Random Bits of Trivia Peeled From the Most Fruitful Facts in the Orchard

November 29, 2024

Take it easy with these, okay? We cut them off of some incredibly sweet little tidbits, and although they do look amazing, too many can make you a little queasy. Try a few, then see how you feel before trying a few more.

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Nazi Hunters

The Oversteegen sisters were teenage Nazi hunters. Freddie and Truus Oversteegen were only 14 and 17, but did their part in helping the Dutch resistance take care of Nazi occupiers. They would seduce Nazis in bars and then lead into the woods- where a resistance fighter would shoot the Nazi creeping on underage girls. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Random Facts For Your General Edification

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Frozen

Animation code from Frozen was used to solve a 63 year old, erm, 'cold' case. CRACKED.COM The Dyatlov Pass incident left nine Russian hikers dead in 1959. Engineers recently relied on animation codes in Frozen to prove a long- standing theory that an ava- lanche resulted in the deaths of the nine hikers. — Source

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Tennis

You give your opponent a do-over if your hat falls off TENNIS CRACKED.COM If your hat falls off during a match, your opponent has the option to declare it a hindrance and redo the stroke. In 2008, Nathalie Dechy's hat fell off as she was delivering her killing blow, and her opponent was able to call shenanigans and ultimately win the match. — Source: 14 Bizarro Rules From The Weird World Of Pro Sports

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Rusty Icicles

CRACKED RUSTICLES: TITANIC'S IRON-EATING ICICLE DECORATIONS. For years, people have seen rusticles - icicle-shaped clumps of iron-eating microbes - on the Titanic shipwreck. They can grow up to 2.5 inches long. — Ocean Explorer

38

Ted Lasso

Jason Sudeikis actually hit his head on the door frame. The scene where Lasso excited jumps and hits his head on the door frame was an accident. Sudeikis cut his head open and had to get his head glued shut — YouTube

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The Luxor Massacre

15 Of The Most Shameful Cases Of False Reporting From The Media - When they didn’t manage to nab a gory enough photo from this Egyptian terror attack, — Source: Scientific American

36

The Victoria

BRITISH SINK THEIR OWN WARSHIP DURING A SHOWCASE 1892 CRACKEDG COM In an attempt to show off the aquatic mastery of the British fleet, Vice Admiral George Tryon concocted a plan to have two fleets of warships synchronize a turnabout in the water; this wasn't a complicated maneuver, but Tryon got his math wrong and the two lead ships, the Victoria and the Camperdown, collided, causing the Victoria to sink. — Source: 13 Embarrassing Military Blunders From History

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The CDC

42 Random Bits of Trivia Peeled From the Most Fruitful Facts in the Orchard — Source: The CDC

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The Razzies

CRACKED THE GOLDEN RASPBERRY AWARDS TAKE BACK WHAT WAS NEVER THEIRS TO GIVE. The Razzies have rescinded Shelley Duvall's Worst Actress nomination for The Shining, citing Stanley Kubrick's mistreatment of her on set. Kubrick may be overrated, they said, but they're willing to admit their mistake in nominating Duvall. — Source

33

The Karate Kid

CRACKED.COM THE KARATE KID THE MONTAGE SONG WAS INTENDED FOR ROCKY III. Joe Esposito's You're the Best, used in The Karate Kid's montage, was going to be used in Rocky III before they chose Eye of the Tiger instead. (Also, both songs are stuck in your head now.) — Screen Rant

32

Worst Video Games

E.T. the Extra Terrestrial RELEASED ON: ATARI 2600 E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL 9546 CRACKED.COM This infamous movie tie-in, considered the worst game ever made, was rushed out the door in 6 weeks by one guy, with no time to play test - and it shows. — Source

31

Fake Moon Rock

The moon rock gifted to the former Dutch Prime Minister by the U.S. ambassador was a piece of wood. The petrified wood from U.S. ambassador J. William Middendorf was gifted to former Prime Minister Willem Drees, part of the Giant Leap goodwill tour after the first moon landing. CRACKED.COM — NBC

30

Normandy

THE NORMANDY LANDINGS WERE AMERICA'S FINEST DAY EVEN IF AMERICANS WERE IN THE MINORITY. There were over 83,000 men in the British Second Army that sto

29

Billy Joel

Billy Joel doesn't want his fans in the cheap seats. CRACKED.COM Joel has said in interviews that he reserves the front row, then sends his road crew to find his fans in the worst seats and brings them up to the front. Joel said it prevents what he calls gold chainers, extremely wealthy fans and/or scalpers from buying out the best seats in the house. — Billboard

28

The Most Expensive Aircraft Crash

The most expensive aircraft crash $1.4 billion U.S. Air Force's Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Bomber is the most expensive aircraft in history. When one crashed in 2008 due to heavy rain, the crewman were ejected without injury, but the vehicle was damaged beyond repair. CRACKED.COM — Source: Military Watch Magazine

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Nomads

ANCIENT NOMADS BURIED THEIR DEAD NEAR EL CONCHALITO BEACH. They later dug up the bodies SO they could paint them red and buried them again. It's not u — For details, read 6 Creepy Places Where Dead Bodies Just Lie Out in the Open

26

Goofy

EHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS This was the Disney icon's FIRST FEATURE CRACKED.COM While Goofy has starred in more than 30 Disney short films and in TV series like Goof Troop, this was his first feature-length movie. — Disney

25

Ron Jeremy

Ron Jeremy's grandmothert had to leave her home for a month after she was pestered by gay men trying to reach him. Born Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, his admir

24

Grand Theft Auto

GRAND THEFT AUTO CRACKED.COM Grand Theft Auto, originally titled Race'n'Chase, struggled to find its identity during development. The game first gave players the option to play as law enforcing police, but after realizing playing as a criminal was more fun, they decided to lean into the mayhem the series became known for. — Source

23

Harvey Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein's lawyer asked a witness to fake an orgasm Right, Harvey again. This trial just keeps on giving. After all the stunts he pulled himself, his lawyer asked Jennifer Siebel Newsom to pretend to have an orgasm in court. Не wanted her to recreate how she did it for Weinstein, apparently. CELEBRITY COURTROOM ANTICS CRACKED — lev radin/Shutterstock,
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New York Post

22

Scrooge

SCROOGE McDUCK is a feathered ANDREW CARNEGIE. Just like Donald's rich uncle, Carnegie left his native Scotland at an early age to seek (and find) fortune in America. — Source: PopMatters

21

Female Drivers

THE STEREOTYPE... WOMEN SUCK AT DRIVING. BUT In REALITY ... NOT AS MUCH AS MEN DO. Men die twice as often in car crashes. In fact, auto insurers histo — For details, read 6 Things Everyone Knows About Women (That Aren't True)

20

Harry Potter

Jamie Waylett was busted with gillyweed. HARRY POTTER CRACKED.COM Malfoy's sycophantic yes-man lost his role in the Deathly Hallows films after he was arrested for marijuana possession in 2009. Не later did jail time after the 2012 London Riots. — Source

19

Matt Groening

Matt Groening first thought of Bart in high school In high school, he wrote a book about a kid named Bart Simpson whose father Homer would get mad at him. CRACKED.COM — Source: Smithsonian

18

The First Easter Egg

ADVENTURE The first Easter egg was created by a disgruntled + Atari employee. ADVENTURE معر VIDEO COMPUTER SYSTEM GAME PROGRAM 3 GAMES VIDEO THREE SKOD LEVELS ONE PLAYER SALE created Warren Robinett, the programmer on Adventure, knew he wouldn't get credit for his work. So he created a secret room with his name written on the floor. By the time it was discovered, the games had hit the shelves. Atari decided to tell people it was a hidden feature, and coined the term Easter egg. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Games We Grew Up On (With Weird Backstories)

17

Morgan Robertson

Morgan Robertson wrote about the Titanic in 1898. That year, Robertson published The Wreck of the Titan: or, Futility, a novel about a huge ocean liner deemed unsinkable until it hit an iceberg. CRACKED.COM — Source

16

Peter Cushing

CRACKED Peter Cushing is in Rogue One as a digital version of Grand Moff Tarkin. John Knoll, the film's visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer for ILM, says they used actor Guy Henry as a digital stand-in and employed motion-capture and a facial-expression tracker to animate footage and photographs of Cushing. — Lucasfilm
The Guardian

15

Spanish Speakers

The US now officially has more Spanish speakers than Spain itself does. That was the case in 2015, and presumably there are even more Spanish speakers now - back then, the US had 41 million native Spanish speakers and 11 bilingual ones. CRACKED.COM — Source

14

The Nobel Prize

CRACKED THE BRAGGS: NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS FOR X-RAYING CRYSTALS IN 1915. A father and son duo, the Braggs, were given the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 for their work in using X-rays to study the structure of crystals. — Mediatheque / Innovation Intelligence

13

Apple Fail

Before the iPhone, Apple had tried its hand in the game business by teaming up with Bandai to create the Pippin, a disc-based console with a trackball in the controller. aTMORK STRAKK. PewerPC The combination of a $600 price tag, barely any software support, and terrible management during Apple's years without Steve Jobs caused the Pippin to die within two years. GRACKED.COM — Source

12

The Thing

John Carpenter's 1982 classic THE THING made keen use of practical effects to create a visceral, haunting alien menace... The 2011 uasi-prequel of the

11

John Williams

John Williams almost composed an all-new theme song for Mission: Impossible. He was the first choice for the movie's composer, but he wanted to start from scratch rather than rework the TV show's theme, so they fired him. CRACKED.COM — Source: NPR

10

Eliot Ness

Eliot Ness ended up selling burgers. Ness' life wasn't good after AI Capone went down among other things, he went broke by being involved in a start-up which turned out to be a scam. He spent his final days doing odd jobs, including selling frozen hamburger patties. — More: 5 Famous People Whose Final Days Were Surprisingly Undignified

9

Russian Performance Art

PERFORMANCE ART FIXATION Russian artist and political protester Petr Pavlensky kneeled in the middle of Red Square in 2013, took a Crucifixion-style nail and attached his scrotum to the paving stones to symbolize the passive nature of his country's people. CRACKED.COM — The New York Times

8

World War II

A WWII submarine had a reindeer onboard for six weeks. The British sub HMS Trident carried Pollyanna the reindeer, a personal gift from a Soviet admiral, back to England. She ate so much food (plus some navigation charts) that she got too big to walk out, and had to be lifted out with a winch (a sailor with a broom helped). CRACKED.COM — Source

7

Futurama

BENDER HAS THE PROCESSOR OF AN EARLY APPLE COMPUTER. 6502 Fry and the Slurm Factory A scan reveals that Bender is powered by a 6502 microprocessor, just like the Apple II computer from the late '70s. CRACKED.COM — Source

6

Childhood Trauma

Traumatic Beginnings Research shows that children exposed to family violence have the same pattern of brain activity as soldiers in combat. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Fast Facts About Child Development (To Explain Why We're The Way We Are)

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Goodwill

4

Fernando Tatís

CRACKED NEW YO In 1999, FERNANDO TATÍS made history when he hit TWO GRAND SLAMS IN ONE INNING while playing for the St. Louis Cardinals. Не is the only player in Major League Baseball to ever do this. — Keith Allison/Wiki Commons
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3

Volcanoes

CRACKED IN GUATEMALA, THERE IS A VOLCANO THAT ERUPTS EVERY HOUR. It started doing this 100 years ago and has yet to stop. — Nat Geo / Wikipedia

2

The Diderot Effect

The Diderot Effect This refers to a recognizable consumption pattern that the goods you buy you identify with, and if you bring in a nicer item, you will want to buy more, equally nice products to match its quality. This creates a spiraling consumption habit. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wiley

1

Lynchings

Only five states had no lynchings from 1882 to 1968. GRACKED.COM Those states were Alaska, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. (The Chicago Tribune started tracking stats in 1882, and the Tuskegee Institute stopped in 1968.) — Source: Washington Post

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