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41 Random Bits of Trivia to Thrust Through Your Brain Like a Freshly Forged Sword

December 12, 2024

Brace yourself. These red hot facts are coming whether you’re ready or not. Sorry for the urgency. They just need to keep their perfect form or they might get misshapen before they harden. Forging facts in a big old knowledge oven is tricky business, so letting them cool in your brain would really help the cause.

In hindsight, we should have consulted you before making you part of the process, but we’re fact forgers. And everybody knows that fact forgers can get pretty impulsive sometimes.

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Baby Monitors

CRACKED Incendiary baby monitors. Lorex's baby monitor had motion tracking, night vision, and an ability to snap pics. All that tech cramming caused 488 reports of burn-temperature overheating, and cases of the battery pack expanding enough for the outer casing to shoot right off. — Source

40

Beetles

CRACKED THERE ARE MORE SPECIES OF BEETLE THAN ANY OTHER ANIMAL. picture-alliancerdpark Thiem There are over 400,000 species of beetles- which, on their own, makes up a quarter of all species on earth. — Source

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Farts

Some Japanese noblewomen of the Edo period had fart- blame-taking heoibikuni. There were servants em- ployed to take the blame for their farts if their boss passed gas in front of oth- ers. This was done by the servant 'confessing'/ver- bally proclaiming it was her at the moment. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Sora News

38

Reese Witherspoon

You used to be cool A drunk REESE WITHERSPOON pulls the I'm famous card. She was seemingly America's good girl, but her arrest was caught on film in 2013, and she drunkenly yelled, Do you know my name? You better not arrest me to officers. They did arrest her... for disorderly conduct. CRACKED — Source

37

Akon

Pop Musician Akon launched an initiative to get electricity to 600 million people in Africa. Akon's Solar Academy Institution is making progress bui

36

Manhattan

NYC's Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning to extend Manhattan's shoreline into the East River. CRACKED.COM By extending the island by up to 500 feet with two city blocks of parkland, they hope to create a buffer zone that will save up to 70 per- cent of lower Manhattan from possible future floods due to climate change. — NYC.gov

35

Jock to Genius

A JOCK GOT MUGGED, SUFFERED FROM A CONCUSSION, AND SUDDENLY BECAME A GENIUS. After recovery, Jason Padgett started seeing geometrical shapes everywher

34

Centralia

In 1962, council members in Centralia, PA, hired firefighters to burn their trash. It's still burning. The landfill was adjacent to an underground coal mine, and the fire spread to the tunnels beneath the city. Smoke continues to billow from the fire, which is expected to burn for another 250 years. In 1984, Congress spent more than $42 million to relocate the town's residents. CRACKED.COM David DeKok, 1986 Unseen Danger; A Tragedy of People, Government, and the Centralia Mine Fire — Source

33

In Good Company

On the set of In Good Company, Topher Grace was pranked by Dennis Quaid. Quaid sent his stand-in to act opposite Grace for a scene, and Grace thought that was Quaid being a diva and got annoyed - but he was just getting trolled by Quaid, who was watching everything from the bar. CRACKED.COM — Source

32

Blood Transfusions

Getting the wrong blood type in a transfusion could cause a feeling of impending doom. TOURS ГОЯЧА AB+ ICS a / Rh Positive ICS International AG Systeme Collection Date I : DE 61267 1 23 a Identicade 2/5/2000 SAMPLE Germany Volunteer Donor When people who have Only Rx SHOLE BLOOD und CHYOPRECIPITATE REDUCED DVDED e 1 g I one blood type receive - Y I - $ Author MINEC I blood from someone with a different blood type, it may cause their immune CRACKED.COM system to react, called ABO incompatibility. — Source

31

Soccer

Shortest Career PREMIERE LEAGUE FOOTBALL CRACKED.COM Joe Sheerin was called up from Chelsea's bench at the literal last minute. Не was subbed in with less than 60 seconds remaining in their 1997 win over Wimbledon (and never played in another game). — Source

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Being Overworked

CRACKED THE U.S WORKS WAY TOO MUCH. INSURICARE A adidas | I SERVICE Americans work almost 25% more hours than Europeans, 137 more hours per year than the Japanese, and 499 more hours per year than the French. Americans retire later, and take fewer vacations than most other countries. — Source

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Condoms

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India

India has met its non-fossil-based electricity goal 9 years ahead of schedule. The government committed to getting 40% of its electricity from non-fossil-based energy sources by 2030, but they accomplished that in November 2021. CRACKED.COM — Source

27

DC Comics

Tips from a murderer. owww! THANIS 1O TRAVIS CF LEE CLEVELAND.OHIO ALWAYS TAKE CARE THAT USING HOUSEHOLD WAY I HIt TCALS THOUGHE OTH-ERWISE You COULD THE NAIL HURT YOURSELF ANDOTHERS/ NOTT MY FINGERS! GEE. THANKS FOR THE TIP! TY IEMLEIDF ORACKED CO In the 1960's, a lot of DC comics included — Source: Grunge

26

The American Revolution

In 1777, 16-year-old Sybil Ludington rode through New York to rally American troops. Colonel Ludington received a warning about an incoming British attack, but had to prepare for the battle, so his daughter rode through the countryside to rally his men. She rode all night in the rain, covering 20 to 40 miles, and mobilized hundreds of soldiers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

25

Pufferfish

Pufferfish Japanese sushi chefs spend over two years training to be allowed to serve the poisonous delicacy pufferfish.

24

Napoleon

NAPOLEON WASN'T SHORT. At 5 feet 6.5 inches, he'd be barely an inch shorter than the average Frenchman today. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Historical Moments That Get Pictured Wrong

23

Hospitals

Hospitals share patient records through fax. Even when records are digitized, hospital computer systems aren't really made to communicate with one another. So pages are constantly printed out, faxed, and then scanned on arrival- a solution that frustrates everyone. 55554 EXPIRES 000 HEW STOP 8 MUTE FAX CRACKED.COM START — Source: 15 Old Technologies Still In Use Well Past Their Expiration Date

22

Arby’s

Arby's bought Dunkin for $11.3 billion ROAST BEEF Sandwich IS DELICIOUS. Arby's Several years prior, Arby's bought Buffalo Wild Wings for $2.9 billion. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

21

Rhenium

The element that holds the distinction of the world's highest boiling point is Rhenium. Boiling at roughly 10,100 degrees Fahrenheit, it's also one of the world's worst things to try to cook ramen in. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

McDonald’s

There's a McDonald's in Guantanamo Bay. TOUTE McDonald's BILLIONS AND BILLIONS SERVED oDonald's DRIVE-THRU - - Yup, that military base. There's also a bowling alley, a kickball league, and a water slide. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

19

Seinfeld

Broadway-trained singer Jason Alexander spent about three hours recording George Costanzas' answering machine jingle, trying to get it to SOUND bad. CRACKED.COM — The Crimson

18

The Inventor of the USB

The inventor of the USB says his team blew it. by not making the plug work both ways. Ajay Bhatt said that would need more wires and circuits, so it would have been more expensive - they thought about it, but it would have cost too much. Still, 20 years after inventing it, he says that was a mistake and the USB plug was good, but not good enough. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

17

Ludger: Sole Survivor

CRACKED Ludger Sylbaris, a criminal from Martinique, was the only person to survive the eruption of Mt. Pelée in 1902. It's estimated that around 30,000 to 40,000 people died. Не was saved by being thrown into a tiny, dark cell with no windows. — Wiki Commons,
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The Big Bang Theory

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Ghostbusters

41 Random Bits of Trivia to Thrust Through Your Brain Like a Freshly Forged Sword — Source

14

Craters

Deep beneath a Siberian impact crater, there are trillions of carats of diamonds. The Popigai crater, about 100 kilometers wide, lies above enough diamonds to supply all the world's diamond needs for the next three millennia. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Incredible Now-You-Know Facts About Russia

13

Vic Armstrong

18 Amazing People Too Many Of Us Haven't Heard Of - The world’s most prolific stunt double looked so much like Harrison Ford in the old days, crew mem — Source: TCM

12

Clouds

A cloud may look fluffy and lighter-than-air but an average cumulus cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds or 500, 000 kilograms. That's more than twice the

11

Blind as a Bat

A man named Daniel Kish went blind at 13, and taught himself to see with sound. Specifically, he uses echolocation, roughly the same method bats use - he clicks his tongue, and the echoes he hears tell him about the environment he's in. CRACKED.COM — Source

10

Your Tongue

MYTH: YOUR TONGUE IS zoneD BY FLAVOR TYPE. BITTER SALTY SALTY Méxica SOUR SOUR SWEET FACT: YOUR WHOLE TONGUE TASTES THINGS. The myth about your tongue being able to taste different flavors with different areas started with a mistranslation of an old German study. Turns out all areas in the tongue are about equally good at detecting different flavors. It's not an evenly distributed democracy of taste buds, but every tongue has different patterns of strength and weakness. CRACKED.COM http://www. livescience.com/7113-tongue-map-tasteless-myth-debunked.html — Source

9

Fortune 500

Over 66% of Fortune 500 companies base themselves in Delaware due to its business friendly laws... Laws that are written by just five people. The Dela

8

Genghis Khan

Legend says that steak tartare was created by Genghis Khan's Golden Horde. At the start of a day of riding, each man would put a chunk of horsemeat under his saddle to tenderize it by nightfall -- so began steak tartare. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: ParsonsNose.co.uk

7

Vogue

LAUREN SANTO DOMINGO NEVER WASHES HER OWN HAIR. We're not saying that Santo Domingo's hair is ever dirty. She's an editor at Vogue- -you'll never see

6

Apple

Apple was close to going down in the late '90s. The entire '90s was a string of failures for Apple, and by the end of the decade, industry insiders were saying that the company should seek a buyout to remain afloat. Of all the Apple takes at the time, it was Wired magazine who nailed the right one: Put Steve Jobs in charge of product development. — More: 5 Huge Companies That Once Were Failing Miserably

5

Stalin

Stalin was actually covered in scars - he'd had smallpox as a child. The reason his pictures don't show that is that he had all his photos heavily retouched. CRACKED.COM — Source

4

Baby Experiments

CRACKEDCON In 1960, psychologists Eleanor J. Gibson and Richard D. Walk devised an illusory cliff contraption to see if babjes' survival instinct woul

3

Jupiter

Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our solar system. CRACKED.COM Due to the intensity of its rotation the planet is flat at the poles and bulges at the equator. It takes less than 10 hours for it to com- plete a rotation on its axis. — Tufts

2

Gremlins

Source: Empire Online

1

Picasso

Pablo Picasso demanded his mistresses to be submissive and shorter than him. CRACKED.COM Не thought women were either goddess- es or doormats. Dora Maar, one of his lovers, called him an extraor- dinary artist but mor- ally worthless. — Vanity Fair

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