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35 Acrobatic Bits of Trivia That Will Aerial Cartwheel All Over Your Brain

December 11, 2024

We know you have a lot on your mind lately, so we wanted to give your brain a little break today. For this list of random facts, it can just lay down and let them prance all over it — like a rhythmic massage of sorts.

It’s not quite as relaxing as full-blown meditation, since there’s some reading and comprehending involved, but we did cherry-pick the lightest, flutteriest facts to stride and strut across your brain as it lays out and forgets its troubles.

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Demetri Martin

CRACKED Demetri Martin left NYU Law School for The Comedy Cellar. After turning down Harvard twice, and leaving Yale for a full scholarship to NYU Law, Martin saw the Comedy Cellar right across the street, dropped out and never looked back. — Boston

34

The Jungle Book

2016's The Jungle Book took something from Saturday Night Live into the jungle. While Louie (played by Christopher Walken) sleeps, Mowgli goes through

33

Coca-Cola

Coca Cola is responsible for Santa Claus being depicted as fat. CRACKED.COM In 1863, cartoonist Thomas Nast began drawing Santa with a huge stomach, but his jolly weight problem wasn't cemented in pop culture until the 1930s with Coke's advertisements. — Beaumont Enterprise

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The Constitution

The U.S. Constitution is the oldest active single-document constitution. Well People Princle Viction:/ til Signature Rave Since 1789, the mean lifespan of a constitution is only 17 years. CRACKED.COM — Source: University of Chicago

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Firsts in Vulgarity

First comedian to be arrested for obscenity In 1946, Marty Wayne was arrested in Philadelphia for an obscene show VULGARITY including filthy HISTORY jokes at two local nightclubs. The venues were fined $25.13 each, and Wayne spent six months in prison. CRACKED — Showbiz Imagery and Forgotten History/Tumblr
Los Angeles Times

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Meat

Ribeye and prime rib might come from the same part of a COW and have similar names, but they aren't the same. CHUCK RIB ROUND SHORT LOIN BOTTOM SIRLOI

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Bacon

The government had to step in to correct deceptive bacon packaging in 1974. CRACKED.COM The federal government intervened in 1974 by enacting strict regulations requiring that a representative slice be made visible through a transparent window. — Source

28

Elf

The costumes of the Central Park Rangers in Elf are basically an elaborate reference. They were designed as an homage to Lord of the Rings, because Jon Favreau thought of them as a lot like the Ringwraiths. CRACKED.COM — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

27

Iran

WEIRD WORLD Iran prohibited a scene with a doll eating a cucumber on a children's show. Apparently, it was considered too sexy - for similar reasons, they said a man accepted a flower on-screen in a way that was inappropriate and erotic. CRACKED.COM — Source

26

The Atom

The atom is SO infinitesimally small that a single grain of sand contains more atoms than all the beaches of the world contain grains of sand CRACKED.COM — Source

25

Proposals

Public proposals are more likely to get rejected 85% of people say they would prefer a private proposal. CRACKED.COM — The Cut

24

Smokey Robinson

A song was inspired by Smokey Robinson CRACKED.COM Paul McCartney has claimed that the musical melody of the song, In My Life, was heavily inspired by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles' tune The Tracks of My Tears. John Lennon, of course, asserted that he wrote the song entirely himself. — Source: Rolling Stone

23

Africa

The reason so many African flags have green, yellow and red is because of the Ethiopian flag. CRACKED.COM It was one of the few in- dependent African na- tions during the colonial period and therefore the new countries of Africa looked to them for in- spiration. — Source

22

Friday the 13th

CRACKED.COM Jason Voorhees barely shows up in the original movie. 20 The villain in Friday the 13th is Pamela Voorhees, Jason's mother, seeking revenge for her son's death. THE Murderous Jason doesn't show up until the sequel- and he only gets his hockey mask in part three. FRI — Source: 15 Big Characters Who Started Small

21

Clouds

An average cumulus cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds You don't have to worry about the sky falling as the weight clearly isn't concentrated in one space; it's spread out over a very large area. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 True Facts That Don't Seem Real

20

Animal Farm

The CIA slipped 'Animal Farm' over the Iron Curtain via balloon. The CIA had such a program for banned books (like Doctor Zhivago), codenamed Operation Aedinosaur. From 1952 to 1957, West German sites tied millions of copies of Animal Farm to 10-foot balloons and released them into nearby communist countries. CRACKED.COM — Source: The CIA Slipped 'Animal Farm' Over The Iron Curtain Via Balloon

19

The French Navy

The French Navy used Cleopatra's daughter's mausoleum for target practice. Luckily, the mausoleum was mostly unharmed - and when Emperor Napoleon III visited, much later, he demanded that it be preserved. CRACKED.COM — Source

18

Emma Watson

Sport Celebrities Emma Watson never played quidditch, but she did play field hockey for Brown University. CRACKED.COM — BuzzFeed

17

John Kruk

CRACKED JOHN KRUK: RETIRED MID-GAME, STILL A .300 HITTER. John Kruk was a great MLB hitter who famously retired in the middle of a game, watching the rest from his couch, and is now a color commentator for the Phillies. His retirement was a unique and humorous way to go out as a lifetime .300 hitter. — SportsCasting / Inquirer

16

Edward Packard

Choose Your Own Adventure books were invented by A LAWYER Edward Packard came up with the idea of a Choose Your Own Adventure book while he was telling bedtime stories to his two daughters, and they each wanted the main character to do different things. CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE® 2 THE CLASSIC SERIES IS BACK! JOURNEY CHOOSE FROM 42 POSSIBLE ENDINGS. CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENT UNDER THE SEA BY R. A. MONTGOMERY CRACKED — Ben__Stevens/Shutterstock
The New Yorker

15

Santa Claus

CRACKED MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE EACH OTHER'S HOLIDAYS IN SENEGAL. The mostly Muslim country celebrates Christmas with decorations, Christmas trees, and Santa Claus costumes, demonstrating the social inclusion and unity of the nation. Muslims and Christians alike participate in each other's holidays. — Sergey Bezgodov/Shutterstock
VOA

14

Meteorites

WEIRD WORLD In British Columbia, Canada, a meteorite landed on a woman's pillow. illustration She was in bed at the time, and got woken up after hearing a crash there was a hole in her ceiling, debris on her face, and a rock on her pillow. CRACKED.COM — Source: Castlegar News

13

Baby Bob

CRACKED BABY BOB 2002 Baby Bob, another talking baby, got his own CBS primetime show after a successful string of FreeInternet.com commercials. That's early 2000s TV for ya. The show's 14 episodes of Wait, that baby can talk? are exactly what you think they'll be. — Michigan Daily / Youtube

12

Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds has launched his own streaming service, Mint Mobile +. The platform's only offering is Foolproof, the 2003 movie he starred in with Kristin Booth. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Motorcycles

A French mechanic built a motorcycle from his car that broke down in the desert. His name is Emile Leray, and the motorcycle he built out of a busted — Source: 6 Things You Won't Believe Were Built by a Single Person

10

Mars

Mars' ocean water may still be there A new NASA study proposes that water on Mars didn't disappear into space, as previously believed, but might be trapped within minerals in the planet's crust. — Source: Science Daily

9

Film Firsts

The first cell phone. 1987 CRACKED.COM It's roughly the size and shape of a decent vacuum, but that's in fact Murtaugh barking into film's first cell phone in Lethal Weapon. — Source: 16 Game-Changing Movie Firsts

8

Robert Pattinson

ROBERT PATTINSON TOOK AN OBSESSED STALKER OUT TO DINNER AND BORED HER. Не complained about his life the whole time, and he never saw her again. CRACKED.COM

7

The Grinch

They asked Benedict Cumberbatch to use an English accent in 2018's Grinch. But he pushed back, because the Grinch was already so different from the other characters, and Cumberbatch didn't think he should be English as well, but I thought just not thematically a bad guy. CRACKED.COM — Source

6

7 Up

7 Up used to have a bipolar disorder medication. Seven-U SEVEN-UP FLAVOR BOTTLES Seven 7up 7up 7up - - - - the 7up SEVEN-UP ! HUNNO INC VENDED INTERNATIONAL HOME adidas GNO 7UP 7UP CRACKED.COM It's common knowledge that Coca Cola used to contain cocaine, but its competitors weren't just using sugar, spice, and everything nice. 7 Up was once steeped in lithium, a chemical used to treat bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and depression. — McGill

5

African Birds

The most common bird on Earth is the red-billed quelea. Native to sub-Saharan Afri- ca, these little birds are considered agricultural pests because their mas- sive flocks can obliterate entire crops. There are an estimated 1 to 10 billion queleas. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Audubon

4

Christina Aguilera

CRACKED About her low- selling album Bionic, CHRISTINA AGUILERA said, I can proudly say it was ahead of its time, to be honest. You had to be a real music lover, a true fan of music and the love of being open to really appreciate that record. — Everett Collection/Shutterstock
Gawker

3

Two Political Parties

TWO PARTIES There are ten political parties represented in Israel's parliament, the Knesset. The Bundestag in Germany has six. Eleven in the Oireachtas in Ireland. Brazil's Chamber of Deputies has 28. New Zealand? Seven parties. South Africa's Parliament? Thirteen. CRACKED.COM

2

Meat Your Maker

CRACKED A MEAT TYCOON IN CANADA DIED BY GOAT. While peeing on the side of the street, a goat headbutted meat tycoon Willaim Davies, who succumbed to his injuries two months later. DAVIES Choice Tomatoes CAMBRID SAUSAG Good Se OM 16 M 1. I Davies DAYS Davies Good Bot Sweet Ford Mis Finest Cooking Relish - POR Pi MinceMent Feve DAVIES 15° 10 lb Fresh 5 E TEA age Tripe 12 7 meat 12 th Sea DAVIS MEMA Herring SEUSAGE 10 DA 15 A C. SAUSAÒ, — 5 Millionaires Who Suffered Ignominious Deaths / Wikiwand

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Ice Cube

Ice Cube knows his architecture CRACKED.co Before he hit it big as a rapper, Cube studied architecture at the Pheonix Institute of Technology. The Getty later tapped him for a promotional video, in which he explains This is going green 1949-style, b*tch.

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