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43 Random Bits of Trivia That Have Been Waiting Patiently for Their Appointment With Your Cerebral Cortex

December 03, 2024

The facts are here! They want to get in your brain, so they don’t mind waiting outside of your skull — for now. Your ear has decent magazines, and the yacht rock radio is quite pleasant. But as it is in any case of waiting, they’ll get up and find some other brain at some point.

So finish up whatever thinking you’re doing and let them in, would ya?

43

Meat

Meat sealed in a vacuum pack is naturally purple, they just color it red to make it look better. That's done because purple meat looks pretty weird to consumers, of course - so carbon monoxide, rosemary extract and/or nitrite are added. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — MeatPoultry

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The Ten Commandments

CRACKED.COM Amazing effects made without CGI The Ten Commandments The parting of the Red Sea was made by reversing footage of two water sources flowing together. This was then composited with the walls of water (which were sideways shots of, well, rushing water), and the actors. — Source

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South Park

T b P RT W Yer The South Park Season 2 premiere CApril 1, 1998) was a meta prank. Trey Parker & Matt Stone promised that the identity of Cartman's dad

40

Maybe the Dingo Did Eat Her Baby

CRACKED IN THE '90S, PEOPLE RELENTLESSLY MOCKED A WOMAN WHO CLAIMED A DINGO ATE HER BABY. ... ... including Seinfeld. However, the woman was proven right in 2012, when a court ruled that a dingo did in fact eat her baby. — Source

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Myanmar

To get a waiter's attention in Myanmar, you have to make a kissing sound. It's kind of like the sound you'd make to call a cat, and it consists of two or three kisses. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Space

It would only take one hour to drive to space. CRACKED.COM If we had the vehicle to do so, driving straight up from the Earth's surface at a leisurely 60 MPH would end with us float- ing in outer space just an hour later. — Science Focus

37

The NFL

Longest Coach Suspension NFL VL BOWL CRACKED COM Saints coach Sean Payton was given a one-year suspension in 2012. And all he did was give his team cash payments for every opposing player they intentionally injured! — Source: 15 Embarrassing Sports Records No One Wants To Break

36

Antarctica

People who move to the Villas Las Estrellas settlement in Antarctica must first have their appendix removed. This is because the nearest hospital is 600 miles away. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

35

KFC

CRACKED KFC'S FASHION LINE. During British Fashion Week, designer Katie Eary and her team of 100 designers completed KFC's challenge to create a number of original garments in 1 hour. It was aimed at promoting their new KFC Ricebox. — Source

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Vanilla

Vanilla is the world's second most expensive spice. CRACKED.COM 99% of vanilla-flavored products on the market, from vanilla-flavored vod- ka to vanilla wafers and va- nilla pudding, don't actual- ly contain vanilla. Artificial vanilla essence is used in- stead. — Source

33

George Washington

CRACKED.COM George washington was a huge whisky producer (for a short time). After retiring from politics in 1797, Washington set up a whisky distillery in his land. During its first year, the distillery sold nearly 11,000 gallons of booze, and was one of the biggest in the U.S. But Washington soon died, and his nephew couldn't successfully continue the operation. — Source

32

Wolf Boy

In 1872, hunters in India observed and 'rescued' a boy trailing a pack of wolves. Не only ate meat, hated clothes, and sharpened his teeth on bones. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Billy Madison

In Billy Madison, Adam Sandler really hit kids with dodgeballs. When one of them started crying during the filming of the dodgeball scene, his parents came up to Sandler and complained. Sandler asked Didn't they read the script? and the parents told him They're six, they don't read yet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Big Lebowski

A murder took place at the Lebowski mansion. L.A.'S Greystone Mansion, where countless shows and movies were shot, was the stage of a real murder myst — More: Deeply Cursed Los Angeles Places (You Know From Movies)

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Hangingflies

Female hangingflies demand a food gift before a male can mate with her. CRACKED.COM The bigger the gift, the longer it takes for her to eat it, and thus the longer she'll allow the male to mate with her. — Source

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Goldfish

CRACKED.COM SWALLOWING LIVE GOLDFISH WAS POPULAR ONCE. Does sushi gross you out? How about eating a fish while it's still alive? A short-lived fad amo

27

Charles Manson

SHADY TIES NEIL YOUNG so VENTURA CAL 47623 AND CHARLES MANSON 22 A P R 1968 Manson had dreams of a music career, and Young really supported him. Impressed by Manson's improvised lyrics, Young suggested his work to record exec Mo Ostin. CRACKED — Source

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Truman Capote

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Diseases

CONTAGIOUS DISEASE In the 1700s to the late 1800s, ignorant of bacteria and viruses, people blamed the recently deceased's spirit of killing their family members. So the community would open tombs to discover natural decay like bloating and bleeding from orifices and accuse them of being vampires. CRACKED — Source

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Nazi Jazz

Nazis had their own jazz. Nazis were all about Wagner (and lame ideas). Except even they noticed jazz was badass, but since it was also degenerate they had to whitewash it. Joseph Goebbels pushed for their own propaganda- spewing big band (which sucked, of course). CRACKED.COM — pxl.store/Shutterstock
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‘German’ Chocolate Cake

GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE DOESN'T COME FROM GERMANY German's chocolate is named after Sam German, who is believed to be American or English. The cake recipe came from a Texas homemaker. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mustard Gas

1,673.5 tons 1,673.5 tons of mustard gas is stockpiled by the U.S. government, to be destroyed by 2024. — Source: Department of Defense

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Frank Thomas

A baseball card with no name WHITE Sox DRAF # 1 PICK Ausuy CRACKED.COM While some have the misfortune of a misspelled card name, Frank Thomas didn't get his name printed. One of those cards sold recently for $3,600. — Source: PSA Cards

20

Margaret Cho

COMEDY DEL NERD Margaret Cho actually pooped her pants on stage... while being applauded. DOS So she did the only thing you could possibly do in a situation like that: walk out backwards, making sure the crowd never sees your shame. CRACKED.COM — Source

19

Frigid Selfie

WEIRD WORLD In Canada, a woman took a selfie on top of her car as it sank into a river. Apparently, she'd been trying to drive across the frozen river, and it didn't work out --- so she snapped a selfie before the car fell through the ice. CRACKED.COM — Source

18

McDonald’s

McDonald's flamin' hot Fitbit if STEP-iT CRACKED.COM Step-Its were little Happy Meal pedometers that started giving kids mysterious burns, blisters, and rashes. McD's had to recall over 30 million units. — Source

17

Bill Murray

In the 1970s, Bill Murray played Human Torch from The Fantastic Four (seriously). Marvel did a 10-episode audio drama about The Fantastic Four, which had Murray shouting Human Torch catchphrases like Flame On! CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

16

Salt

Himalayane salt is no different than regular salt. The pink salt consists roughly Of 98% sodium chloride, the same amount as ordinary table salt The o

15

Green Day

CRACKEDGO Pop-punk paragons EKEENHY chose their name as tribute to their favorite plant, hoping to become the Cheech and Chong of punk rock.

14

Heroic German Shepherd

A German Shepherd saved a ZOO employee by fighting an escaped jaguar in a Belgrade Zoo. CRACKED COM The security dog Gabi fought the jaguar through- out the zoo, giving police enough time to try and cap- ture it, and in failing that, to shoot it. Gabi was nursed back to health and contin- ued working at the zoo. — Source

13

Back Pain

Lower back pain from standing too long can be relieved by squeezing your buttcheeks. CRACKED.COM By squeezing your butt like you're squeezing your cheeks together, you rotate your hips for- ward out of a position that might have too much anterior pelvic tilt. — Source

12

Key West

The original Spanish name for Key West was pretty grisly - Bone 00 Island. When European sailors first showed up, they noticed lots of human bones in plain sight (it was a ceremonial act). That name, Cayo de Guesas, became Key West. CRACKED.COM — Source: KeysDiscovery

11

Cats

Your cat showing you his belly might seem like a trap. It's really a sign of trust. Most cat owners have experienced it-seeing their cat splayed on hi

10

Pineapples

Biting Pineapple M 3,14 3 with coffee CRACKED.COM The reason your tongue feels sorey after eating pineapple is the fruit contains an enzyme called bromelain that breaks down proteins. While you're eating pineapple, pineapple is mg digesting you. — Source

9

The Nazi Bible

Nazi Germany made their own New Testament Bible to Aryanize Jesus. They removed the gene- alogies of Jesus that showed his Davidic de- scent, removed Jewish names and places, but left any mention of Jews that showed them in a bad light. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

8

Racist Monopoly

A board game released called Blacks & Whites was basically a racist Monopoly. EHALL 04 COMPANY ELECTRIC £150 ٢٩٨٨ MALL PALL CRACKED.COM The game explores issues of racial inequality by treating players differently based on the race in which they play, demonstrating how the odds were stacked against some races in com- parison to others. — Source

7

The Netherlands

Pretty much everybody in the Netherlands can walk to a nearby supermarket. 80% of Dutch people live within one kilometer of a supermarket the region with the longest average distance is Drenthe and Friesland, with 1.2. CRACKED.COM — Source: CBS

6

Skincare

CRACKED JAPANESE SKINCARE INCLUDED NIGHTINGALE POOP For centuries, Japanese skincare has included the use of nightingale droppings to lighten skin and take off lead-based makeup. This is now commonly referred to as the geisha facial. — Source

5

Refugees

Syrian refugees prevented a terrorist attack in Germany. CIRAUN The 3 refugees recognized Jaber al-Bakr from wanted posters. They tied him up and held

4

The First Text Message

The first text message was sent December 3, 1992. It was Merry Christmas. 3DEF 2AC BMNO 5 JKL Wxt Aohl BTuV # 7PRS OOPR SND CLR END STO FCN BCL VOL

3

Dinosaurs

Velociraptors probably. weren't actually cunning, cooperative pack hunters. It's a popular image in both pop culture and science, but some scientists now think they attacked the same prey but didn't cooperate much. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mission: Space

CRACKED NAVIGATOR MISSION: SPACE Over a three-year-period, a dozen people have gone to the hospital - and two have passed away - after riding Mission: Space at Epcot. In the year after one of the deaths, paramedics were called to help out nearly 200 people. — WDW Info / USA Today

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Chastity Belts

CRACKED EVERLAST CHASTITY BELTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES In the Middle Ages, people talked about chastity belts as a way to keep women faithful. But the truth is, not many of these belts actually existed back then. The references to them in writing were probably just symbolic. — Source

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