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This might be the one time you don’t get kicked out of a theater for loudly interrupting a movie. Sure, some fellow movie-goer might be annoyed enough to alert an usher, but once that usher hears these interesting random facts you’re sharing, he’ll gladly let you continue.

Heck, he’ll probably take a seat and listen to the entire list!

39

The Yeti Crab

THE YETI CRAB IS CRAWLING WITH BACTERIA. Scientists think the yeti crab cultivates and grows bacteria, which lives in its arm hair, to eat. http:/heww

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Tumors

A WOMAN'S BRAIN TUMOR WAS DISCOVERED BECAUSE THE VOICES IN HER HEAD TOLD HER TO GET A BRAIN SCAN. The woman, called Patient AB hallucinated the voic

37

Trevor Noah

Trevor Noah was the voice of Griot in Black Panther. If that talking A.I. sounded familiar, it's almost certainly because you've seen an episode of Th

36

Codebreakers

CRACKED.COM Benedict cumberbatch He's related to Alan Turing. The real codebreaker that Cumberbatch plays in The Imitation Game is his 17th cousin. — Source: The Telegraph

35

The Eiffel Tower

CRACKED.COM The Eiffel Tower was a popular suicide spot. The Eiffel Tower holds a death toll of over 350 suicides, some of whom chose to hang themselves from the tower. Preventive barricades have since been built along with tightened security to preserve the lively image of the monument. — Source

34

John Harrington

18 Amazing People Too Many Of Us Haven't Heard Of - Harrington invented the first flush toilet. He was also an army commander and a poet, but we shoul — Source: University of Houston

33

Bacteria

You're more bacteria than human. You have 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells in what you once thought was your body. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Kinda Gross Facts About The Human Body That'll Make You Feel A Little Uncomfortable

32

Tig Notaro

Tig Notaro managed bands in Denver. She was also a guitarist and drummer herself in bands called Chinese Laundry and Think or Thwim. CRACKED.COM — Source: Magnet Magazine

31

Flavor Flav

Flavor Flav is a musical prodigy. GRAGKED.COM By the time he started performing with Public Enemy, he was proficient in 15 different instru- ments, from drums to oboe, and co-wrote their first album with Chuck D. — Source

30

Emile Hirsch

In 2015, Emile Hirsch was arrested for choking and dragging a female studio executive through a bar at the Sundance Film Festival. The actor pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15 days in jail and given 50 hours of community service. CRACKED.COM — Source

29

The Amazonian Wolf Fish

The Amazonian Wolf Fish CRACKEDO It can weigh over 80 pounds and has been known to jump onto land or into canoes, trying to catch prey. Also, it has antifreeze in its blood. — Animal Planet

28

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg called a meeting with a venture capital firm just to troll them. He met with Sequoia Capital in his PJs, with a pitch titled The Top Ten Reasons You Should Not Invest. CRACKED.COM — Source: CBS Insights

27

7-Eleven

CRACKED 7-ELEVEN HATES ITS FRANCHISEES 7-Eleven had been underpaying workers and terminating franchise agreements without compensation, leaving franchisees with nothing. It was so bad that some considered a class action and one official called it horrifying. Fountain DRINKS hooli Fountan DRINKS Ford Coke Sprite OUBLE GULP — SMH / Product Placement Blog

26

Johnny Ramone

You would never guess that this kid would be on the front lines of the punk rock explosion unless you already knew that JOHNNY RAMONE went to military

25

Wall-E

Amount of time it would take for Wall-E to build VOLAR DATE UM one trash tower: 95 WALLE years CRACKED.COM — Source

24

The Shining

CRACKED.COM STANLEY KUBRICK'S THE SHiNiNG uses an interesting technique to make the viewer feel uneasy. The layout of the hotel makes по freakin' sense Most viewers don't tend to figure out exact floor-plans while watching a movie, but subconsciously they will start to feel disoriented and like they are in a dream (or, in The Shining's case, nightmare) — Source

23

Hoaxes

CRACKED A HOSTAGE HOAX FROM AFAR. Zachary Morgenstern used social media and phone calls to threaten Minnesota schools. Не told Minn. police that he'd kill hostages, but it was revealed that he called from Texas. Не was sentenced to 3.5 years in federal prison for the hoax. — FBI / MT

22

Lions

Lions can tear off an adult human's weight in one go. Once they sink their teeth into their prey, they can bite off up to 110 lbs of flesh. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Kruger Park

21

Kate Moss

Kate Moss was the face of H&M, Chanel, and Burberry. Apparently, they didn't know she had been in rehab. In 2005, when pictures surfaced of Moss appea

20

TikTok Trends

ATTEMPTS AT ONLINE FAME PUTTING A BUCKET ON A STRANGER'S HEAD In March 2023, a woman from Tustin, CA was taken to the hospital after someone pulled a prank on her at Target. They put a bucket over her head as part of a joke that's popular on TikTok, and she passed out. CRACKED — Rob Bayer/Shutterstock
Los Angeles Times

19

Cameron Diaz and Snoop Dogg

Celebrities who were high school buddies Cameron Diaz and Snoop Dogg They had some friends in common at the Long Beach Polytechnic High School, where Diaz was on the cheerleading squad. Snoop says he never asked her out because she was younger than him. CRACKED.COM — Source: Yahoo Entertainment

18

William Clark

William Clark took control of an emergency rescuen CLARK S ARM ...by pretending to be a Green Beret. Clark just showed up at the scene of a deadly bri

17

Suzanne Somers

13 Movie-Related And Other Facts You Had No Clue About --Suzanne Somers was fired from Three's Company for asking for equal pay — Source: People Magazine

16

J.J. Abrams

J.J. Abrams apologized for overusing lens flares in the Star Trek movies. Abrams says that he started using flares as a way to show how bright and ene

15

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

The working title for the show was It's Always Sunny on TV Another name supposedly floated was, understandably, Jerks. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED COM — Source: Monsters and Critics

14

Geoffrey Owens

what's the deal with TRADER JOE'S? Elvin from the Cosby Show got JOB -SHAMED CRACKED Geoffrey Owens got shamed on social media after someone posted a picture of the actor working at Trader Joe's between gigs. Owens turned organic lemons into 320 NW lemonade with Shift Happens, his show featuring essential workers. — LA Times

13

Sheep Farts

A Singapore Airlines cargo plane had to make an emergency landing because of sheep farts. CRACKED.COM The flatulence from the 2,186 sheep on- board allegedly trig- gered the plane's smoke detector, a claim in which the air- line denies. — Huffington post

12

Pet Wasp

A Victorian-era scientist had a pet wasp. CRACKED.COM Inventor and politician John Lubbock came up with a scheme to train a swarm of wasps to attack his foes. Не spent a lot of time training them to eat out of his hand and generally behave like dogs. Не got stung a ton, but (reportedly) managed to train a single wasp to obey his commands. — Source

11

Narwhals

CRACKED NARWHAL TUSKS ARE TECHNICALLY A BIG TOOTH. Only 15% of female narwhals grow a tusk. — Whale Scientists

10

Arthropods

Arthropods expand their body after shedding an exoskeleton to make sure they have space in the new one. It's basically the arthropod version of your mom buying you shoes with room to grow in middle school. CRACKED.COM — Source: Encyclopedia Brittanica

9

Microscopic Sandcastles

Science has managed to etch castles into grains of sand. MIT Media Lab designer Marcelo Coelho and artist Vik Muniz spent four years crafting four tiny sandcastles on sand grains, using an ion beam under a scanning electron microscope. Selecting and preparing the suitable grains was just as tricky as the high-tech etching itself. CRACKED.COM — More: 5 Wondrous Ways People Used Science To Make Art

8

City Hospital

When TV saves lives (or destroys them) City Hospital A British man was lucky enough to avoid a heart attack after watching an episode of the BBC One documentary. It featured a man with the same symptoms as him, which made him realize he needed help. Не got it and had a successful triple heart bypass operation. CRACKED — BBC
Daily Mail

7

McDonald’s

The first McDonald's drive-thru opened next to a military base in Arizona. 5 McDonald's SERVICE SYSTEM HAMBURGERS McDonald's The have Sold OVER 1 MILLION Soldiers at the base couldn't show up in public in a work or duty uniform, so a drive-thru was set up to allow them to buy at McDonald's anyway. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

6

The Godfather

The Godfather's score got nominated, then de-nominated, for an Oscar. 0000000*00 After its nomination, they found out composer Nino Rota already used part of it for a 1958 Italian movie, which made it ineligible. CRACKED.COM — Source: Classical-music.com

5

The Drip Rifle

The Drip Rifle CRACKED.COM When the Allies finally ditched the hopeless Gallipoli Campaign in WWI, a couple of ANZAC Troopers rigged Ottoman Bafflers. These rifles were Rube Goldberg'd to fire at regular intervals, using dripping water or burning candles to engage the trigger. This automated cover fire allowed most of the army to escape — Source: The 6 Most Badass Weapons Ever Improvised in Battle

4

NASA

Australia fined NASA for dropping a space station on them. Skylab, the first U.S. space station, came down in 1979 after just six years in orbit. It didn't fall anywhere populated, as it was feared - but when NASA came to collect the debris in the Australian Shire of Esperance, they got hit with a $400 fine for littering. — More: Australia Fined NASA For Littering ... A Space Station

3

Pac-Man

Legend has it that 26-year-old designer Toru lwatani came up with Pac-Man when he removed the first slice from a pizza pie. And our old pal Scott Pilg

2

New Coke

CRACKED.COM NEW cc Conservatism played a big part in the failure of New Coke. desmark The backlash against the new recipe was particularly strong amongst Southern conservatives, who saw it as a new aggression from those damn Yankees. A University of Mississippi professor called it an intrusion on tradition that Southerners won't like, regardless of how it tastes. — Source

1

Betty Boop

BETTY BOOP BEGAN AS A SEXY POODLE. Betty Boop was created by Fleisher Studios. Her first appearance was in 1930 as a nameless canine cabaret singer in — Source: Fleischer Studios

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