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35 Random Bits of Trivia That Feel Like Putting Out a Lit Cigarette on Your Occipital Lobe

December 02, 2024

Do you think that when John Mellencamp sang, “Come on baby, make it hurt so good,” he was talking to a piping hot fact that was searing his brain?

We do!

Then again, we tend to think that everything is about facts. Only Mellencamp knows for sure, but we can give a lyric any meaning we want. Case in point: We’re sure we can make the next song dad plays on this road trip about facts, too!

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YouTube

There's simply no demand for YouTube. YOUTUBE COFOUNDER CRACKED COM Cofounder and СТО Steve Chen once said there's just not that many videos I want to watch. Strange that a man with zero foresight could accidentally invent a perpetual motion propaganda machine! — Source

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A Roman Goldsmith

A Roman goldsmith may have discovered aluminum 1800 years before modern chemists. CRACKED.COM Emperor Tiberius had the discoverer killed in order to ensure the metal would not di- minish the value of his own gold and silver as- sets. — The Papacy and the Levant

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An Egyptian Snail

1846: A snail from Egypt was thought dead so it was glued to an index card and put on display in a British museum. 1850: The snail starts moving and is found to be alive. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Metafilter

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The Ethel Waters Show

The Ethel Waters Show 1939 N в C CRACKED.COM Ethel Waters was the first Black person to star in her own TV show. She would later be the first Black woman to be nominated for a primetime Emmy. — Source

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Australia

AUSTRALIA IS WIDER THAN THE MOON The moon has more square area, but Australia is almost 4000 kilometres, compared to the Moon's 3,475 km. CRACKED.COM — Source: Australian Government and NASA

30

Hey Jude

A promotion by Paul McCartney was mistaken for an antisemitic slur. HeyJude Hey Bing! HEY JUDE AMOS THOSE WERE THE DAYS AAS 735 LITTLE GREEN APPLES CRACKED.COM THE STRAIGHT LIFE McCartney painted Hey Jude on the window of a closed boutique to pro- mote his newest single. A Jewish passerby mistook this for Jude meaning Jew in German, and smashed the window. — Life of the Beatles

29

Half Baked

HALF BAKED BEST WINGS DAY SPECIAL 99 BEST VEW ANDWICH - ausage sub Pop CRACKED.COM Dave Chappelle's stoner comedy was set in NYC, but Harland Williams feeds the police horse directly in front of Toronto's Pizza Pizza, an unmistakable chain only found in Canada. — Source: torontoist.com

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The Mongolian Navy

In 2001, the Mongolian Navy consisted of just 7 members, and only one knew how to swim. CRACKED.COM The Mongolian Navy was one of the largest in the world during the 13th century, but most of the fleet sank during the Mongol in- vasions of Japan. — The AV Club

27

Norway

Norway has countless dialects, and that's probably because many communities are pretty isolated. The terrain is so hilly and impassable (and often covered with ice or snow), people living pretty close can have a hard time reaching each other, which is probably what allowed for lots of small groups to develop their own dialects. CRACKED.COM — Source

26

RoboCop

It was Kurtwood Smith's idea to make Clarence an intellectual type in RoboCop: In the script, it just said that he wears glasses and that inspired Smith to build a whole pseudo-intellectual person for Clarence. CRACKED.COM — Source: Beloved Characters Saved By Actor's Behind-The-Scenes Suggestions

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David Lee Roth

David Lee Roth is an emergency medical technician. Between leaving Van Halen in 1985 and reuniting with the band in 2006, Roth got certified as an EMT in New York. Не has logged over 200 ambulance rides and is handy with a defibrillator. Не cut his mane to avoid being recognized and coming across as a glory hound. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Mike Judge

CRACKED THE MANY SHORT FILMS OF MIKE JUDGE. Before Beavis and Butt-Head fame, he made 5 animated short films in the early '90s, including a short for Office Space that was featured on SNL six years before the full-length movie in 1999. — IMDB / Sunny Skyz

23

Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi's first professional recording was backup vocals on a Star Wars Christmas album. CRACKED.COM The 17-year-old Jon was on 1980's tie-in album Christ- mas In The Stars because his cousin Tony managed the studio where the al- bum was recorded and had hired him as a janitor. — Source

22

Easy Rider

EASY RIDER crew members quit the party YAA AOTHERS WELCOM Wiy Clut JEAM T CRACKED.COM They just couldn't take Dennis Hopper's drug-fueled paranoid tirades. Jack Nicholson stuck to pot -- a lot of it. We were all stoned the night we shot the campfire scene, he says. Each time I did — Cheatsheet

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Durex

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Babies

Babies learn a language by hearing it spoken directly to them in person. CRACKED.COM As little as 12 hours with a human tutor produces dra- matic results in babies, compared with no results even after many more hours of exposure to for- eign language TV shows. — Linguistic Society

19

James Gunn

Unpredictably Weird Decisions That Gave Us Major Movie Moments - In Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Yondu has a bigger fin to please the fans. — Source: Film School Rejects

18

Pearls

Pearls are created when an irritant enters a mollusc's shell. CRACKED COM The mollusc secretes ara- gonite and conchiolin that creates nacre (aka mother of pearl) which encases the irritant (such as a parasite, sand, or other debris). — NHM

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17

Teddy Roosevelt

Teddy Roosevelt loved boxing with random people. Roosevelt liked fisticuffs so much that he had a boxing gym installed in the White House's basement, and would invite pretty much everyone to a bout. Не had to quit the sport after a military aide nearly blinded him in his left eye. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pink Floyd

Roger waters 79 They've been arguing since 1985, when Waters took legal action against the other three members of Pink Floyd for continuing to use the band's name without him. Just for perspective on their ages, Pink Floyd was founded in 1965. David Gilmour 77 CRACKED — James Jeffrey Taylor/Shutterstock,
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Michael B. Jordan

MICHAEL B. JORDAN IS REALLY INTO ANIME. Jordan regularly shares his vast anime opinions on social media, and in 2019 he even released a Naruto-inspired clothing collection. Не also producers and stars in his own anime, Gen:Lock. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Hollywood Stars Who Happen To Be Huge Nerds

14

Guns

Like birdshot and buckshot, there is a shotgun round called a Rat Shot. CRACKED COM It's a small caliber bullet cartridge that can be load- ed into handguns and rifles to be used as a low power shotgun round effective for killing small pests and birds without damaging buildings. — Source

13

Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II served in the army (that's where she learned to drive). She joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945 as a mechanic -- the first ever Royal to become a full-time, active member of the Armed Forces. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Royal.uk, National WW2 Museum

12

Campbell Johnstone

CRACKED CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE MADE HISTORY BY BEING THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ALL BLACKS PLAYER. Campbell Johnstone is the first openly gay player who played in the All Blacks, New Zealand's national rugby union team. Не had played for the All Blacks in 2005 and had told some teammates and family then, but hadn't come out. ВО PASA H-FINALE — Sky Sports

11

IKEA

A Big Helping Of Little-Known About Movies (And Other Stuff)IKEA has its naming system because its founder was dyslexic. — Source: Quartz

10

Joan of Arc

JOAN OF ARC WAS BORN BEFORE THE AZTEC EMPIRE. According to estimates, she only overlapped with the empire for three years, until her death in 1431. CR

9

The Archives of Terror

The Archives of Terror were found by accident by a lawyer and a judge in 1992. They were looking for files on a former prisoner in a police station near Paraguay and stumbled upon archives doc- umenting an international conspiracy involving the tor- ture, murder, and imprison- ment of 480,000 people. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — BBC

8

Enron

ENRON GOING BUST EUROUSO- 1993 00 00 00 14 glu EEST SCREWED EVERYONE. ENRON ® CEO KENNETH LAY WAS CONVICTED OF FRAUD. Lay died while on vacation in 2006, but his estate still managed to dodge paying off the victims of his misdeeds. Just a few short months after his death, a federal judge 1221 vacated his conviction. World Markets DE DI BASDAO down U 0.29 Name CRACKED.COM IS 5.72 prints Dow La — Source

7

New York’s Public Library

People literally used to live in New York's public libraries. Back in the day, janitors had to keep books warm and dry with coal furnaces, which needed to be fueled with coal 24/7. So libraries had special apartments for janitors. Those apartments are abandoned today, since there's no money to renovate them. CRACKED.COM — Source

6

Jason Momoa

JASON MOMOA MADE UP A MODELING CAREER. BAYWATCH: HAWAII When Momoa went to audition for the show, he almost got turned away for not having an acting resume. In order to get in, he made up a story on the spot about being a big-time model in Hawaii who worked for Gucci, Prada, and Louis Vuitton-they believed him because, well, just take one look at him. CRACKED.COM — Source

5

Memory Foam

MEMORY FOAM Originally developed for the shock absorption and comfort of airplane seats, memory foam is used in everything from helmets to mattresses — Source: Mental Floss

4

Beverly Hills

Way, way more people in Beverly Hills than you might think are Iranian. Apparently, 22% of the Beverly Hills population is actually of Iranian descent. CRACKED.COM — Source

3

Saint Arnold of Soissons

There is a Catholic Saint of Beer. Saint Arnold of Soissons saved the lives of many by urging them to drink beer rather than water that was spreading the plague. Boil- ing during the brewing process killed the patho- gens. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Beer History

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Buster Keaton

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Earth’s Water

Earth's water If you put all the water on Earth into a sphere, it would be 860 miles in diameter. That's the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Topeka, Kansas. CRACKED — USGS.gov
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