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41 Chic Bits of Trivia That Will Make Your Brain Want to Rethink That Shirt It’s Wearing

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41 Chic Bits of Trivia That Will Make Your Brain Want to Rethink That Shirt It’s Wearing

December 09, 2024

Right about now, your brain is looking around this list and realizing that it’s severely underdressed. A T-shirt is okay for the schlubbier lists on schlubbier sites, but it better run home and grab a sport coat if it wants to be in here reading these classy facts — unless it doesn’t mind all the judgmental looks.

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Atomic Clocks

Clocks that measure vibrations of atoms are the most precise. The most precise atomic clocks, if running since beginning of the universe, would only be off by half a second by today. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: MIT News

40

Burger King’s Burger Pizza

Burger King's Burger Pizza In a clear publicity stunt (that we are continuing to help hype, so it's effective), a 2,500 calorie pizza-sized burger was only available in New York because New Yorkers aren't snobs about their pizza or anything. CRACKED.COM — Source

39

Win Ben Stein’s Money

In the game show Win Ben Stein's Money, money won by contestants was actually paid by the producers. Money left over at the end of a season was given to Stein. If the total amount paid out exceeded that budget, the production company paid the excess. Ben Stein was never in any danger of losing his money. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — IMDB / Wikipedia

38

Film Firsts

Historical Firsts in Practical Effects The earliest known 1902 color film footage British inventors Edward Turner and Frederick Lee produced color motion picture tests of Turner's children playing. Не died before perfecting it, but his work led to Kinemacolor in 1906 (the world's first motion picture in natural colors.) CRACKED — Source

37

Students in China

Chinese students can rent fake parents to meet their teacher to avoid embarrassment. CRACKED.COM Advertisements for the rented parents are posted in Chinese newspapers and on the internet, calling out specific events where their services might be needed, and cost $7.50 an hour. — Telegraph

36

The Storming of Bastille

Storming the Bastille CRACKED.COM By the time the Bastille fell in 1789, the oppressive wing had been out of commission for years, the involve so event didn't any mass release of political prisoners. Only seven inmates were housed in the sprawling complex, including four counterfeiters, two men guilty of the crime of being insane, and an aristocrat convicted of deviance. The Marquis de Sade had been transferred out days before. — Source: 20 Facts That Change How You Picture Historical Events

35

Scandals

CRACKED FELICITY HUFFMAN'S SAT FRAUD SCANDAL. She pleaded guilty to mail fraud, and admitted to paying $15,000 to a service that guaranteed to boost her daughter's SAT scores. She spent 14 days in prison, got 250 hours of community service, and paid a $30,000 fine. — Source

34

Ancient Egyptian Currency

Radish CRACKED COM Radishes were used to pay workers in ancient Egypt.

33

The Lego Movie

CRACKED.COM LEGO THE POLIC LEGO MOVIE The movie caused a 15% worldwide increase in Lego sales. The year the film was released, Lego sold 62 billion Lego elements. That would equate to 102 Lego bricks per living person. — Source

32

Blobfish

Blobfish might look like hideous caricatures of humans, but they're really not. They evolved for extreme pressure, and look like normal fish at their native depth. They just kinda go saggy when they reach the surface. CRACKED.COM — Source

31

Dieting

MYTH: DIETING? YOU SHOULD eAT CALORIE- BURNING FOODS. 80 Pd 100 FACT: THERE'S no SUCH THING. So-called negative calorie foods tend to be some sort of fruit or vegetable that supposedly contains fewer calories than it takes to digest it. But the calories your body burns in fueling the digestive cycle are minuscule compared with the calories in the food itself. Even chewing, and even celery. CRACKED.COM content ime.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804 1896439_1896359_1896346,00.html — Source

30

Professional Mourners

Moirologists, or professional mourners, are paid to grieve and comfort families at funerals. It's not a new profession. The practice of professional mourning dates back to Ancient Egypt. CRACKED.COM — Source

29

Titanic

KATE WINSLET TITANIC CRACKED.COM Fans are weird. Like the jabronis who hand Kate Winslet nude stils from Titanic and ask her to autograph them. I don't sign that . It feels very uncomfortable, she says. It's still haunting me. — Yahoo

28

Raven Wilkinson

Raven Wilkinson was one of the first Black ballerinas to dance full-time for a company. KKK members once stormed a performance, and a Georgia hotel owner refused to let her stay with the rest of the company. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

27

Twister

When Bill Paxton died, storm chasers paid him a fitting tribute. They used GPS markers to make a giant BP (the Twister star's initials) across 3 states. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

26

Cocaine-Fueled Amnesia

CRACKED WHILE MAKING STATION TO STATION David Bowie's cocaine use during the time he was making the album was so bad that he barely remembered recording it. I listen to Station To Station as a piece of work by an entirely different person, he said. — Far Out Magazine / BBC

25

Giant Whale

CRACKED ANCIENT FOLKS HAD A WHALE OF A TIME TRYING TO DEAL WITH A GIANT SEA CREATURE. In the 6th century, a huge whale measuring 45 feet long and 15 feet wide caused chaos in the Bosporus Strait. Eventually, the locals got so mad that they captured and killed it. — The Historian Shut / NY Times

24

All Saints’ Day

All Saints' Day didn't prove as popular as All Hallows' Eve. The pagan practices prevailed, however changed, as people weren't into celebrating the good and light exclusively. CRACKED.COM — Source

23

The Terror Croissant of Poland

WEIRD WORLD A croissant terrorized the people of Krakow, Poland. Krakow's animal rescue workers got a call from a woman saying that a scary creature on a tree was frightening people in the neighborhood, and some of them had been too afraid to open their windows for days. It turned out to be a discarded croissant. CRACKED.COM — Source: 11 Pieces of Deeply Strange News From Small Communities

22

McDonald’s

CRACKED MCDONALD'S VR HEADSETS. Promoting it as a VR headset, McDonald's in Sweden had kids re-fold their Happy Meal box, put an iPhone inside of it, and view it with the kit's plastic lenses. — Source

21

Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra hated My Way. He always thought that song was self-serving and self-indulgent, his daughter Tina said, adding that it stuck and he couldn't get it off his shoe. CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

20

3D Mantis Goggles

Scientists built tiny 3D goggles for praying mantises. This mantis isn't just fashionable with its slick little goggles-it's a boon to science. Mantises are the only known invertebrates with 3D vision, and can accurately strike moving prey even when the image beamed to each eye (via the goggles) is different. This mantis-vision research could help future worker robots navigate the world. Or more effectively murder enemies of the hive mind. CRACKED.COM — Source: Sci Fi-Grade Experiments That (Somehow) Happened

19

Game of Thrones

41 Chic Bits of Trivia That Will Make Your Brain Want to Rethink That Shirt It’s Wearing — Source: Nerdist

18

Disneyland

To prevent accidents Many rides at Disneyland include 'seat belt sensors' that prohibit rides from starting until all passengers are safe and secure C

17

Taco Bell

Taco Bell's Seafood Salad To compete with the Filet-O-Fish, Taco Bell introduced a seafood salad in the 1980s. Unsurprisingly, it was a complete flop. Salad AND seafood? From Taco Bell? Hard pass. CRACKED.COM — Source

16

Michael Jackson

THE SIMPSONS Michael Jackson CRACKED.CO Jackson voiced this character (a pop star named Michael Jackson) under the condition that an impersonator do all the singing. — 22 Surprising Celebrity Appearances Everybody Forgets About

15

Donald Trump

CRACKED Personal Habits of Billionaires Donald Trump's daily caffeine fix: 12 cans of Diet Coke Trump reportedly 12 twelve cans of They k by г Diet Coke per day, which is close to V T Diet 4 - the daily recommended adult г و # 1 4 human limit for caffeine. K 1 Coke 5 the — Source

14

Walk Hard

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS JOHN C. REILLY SANG ALL OF HIS SONGS. WALK! HARD. Reilly put a huge amount of effort into becoming Dewey Cox. He would be on set all day and then record songs during the night. I was really determined not to be treated like an actor playing a musician. CRACKED.COM — The Ringer

13

Hair and Nail Growth

MYTH8 HAIR And nAILs KeeP GROWING AFTER DEATH. FAGT8 THEY DON'T. THE REST OF you SHRIVELS. Just like anything else in your body, hair and nail growth

12

The Dark Knight

The Joker licks his lips based on practicality THE DARK KNIGHT The Joker's tic was started because Heath Ledger licked his lips to help keep the scar prosthetics on. It eventually became part of the character. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Batman Behind-The-Scenes Facts (From The Movies and Shows)

11

Richard Petty

CRACKEDCON The King Dinoco, from Cars... 43 ...is based on and voiced by Richard Petty, and designed to look like Richard Petty's 1970 Plymouth Superb

10

Julian Lennon

Julian Lennon has been collecting his famous father's memorAbiLia using money from the settlement of the late Beatle's estate., His father, rock icon

9

Portland, Oregon

Portland, OR was almost named Boston. CRACKED.COM When Portland, Oregon's two founders wanted to name the site after their hometowns of either Portland, Maine or Boston, Massachusetts, they decided to flip a coin. — Source: Boston Magazine

8

Jon Hamm

Jon Hamm voiced a sentient toilet. CRACKED COM In the episode O.T. The Outside Toilet, Gene discovers an advanced, talking toilet in the woods and VOWS to protect it from Max Flush, the toilet hunter. — Source: 15 'Bob's Burgers' Behind-The-Scenes Facts

7

Mortal Kombat

MORTAL KOMBAT CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER FREE PLAY CRACKED.COM Mortal Kombat was originally supposed to star Jean-Claude Van Damme, who would fight a cadre of digitized enemies. When Midway Games couldn't afford the rights to Van Damme's likeness, his character was renamed Johnny Cage and joined the lineup of other fighters. — Source: 16 Early Wack Versions Of Popular Video Games

6

Tonsil Surgery

WEIRD WORLD A woman in Brisbane, Australia, got an Irish accent after tonsil surgery. She thinks it's a case of foreign accent syndrome, which is a rare consequence of brain damage -- but she hasn't gotten an official diagnosis yet, and she's baffled by the fact that the accent appeared 10 days after surgery. CRACKED.COM — Source: 7News

5

Jerry Rice

Jerry Rice cut class in high school and became an NFL legend. .80 For cutting class, his principal punished him by making him try out for football. CR

4

Paxan Co.

The soaps produced by Iranian company Paxan Co. ironically carry a name that labels them as packaged filth. New Automatic Color - - - I Barf adidas - 4 / - i Detergent Powe Justin - I - Barf New Automatic Barf Powder Automatic Detergéni DE Casting colors Ultimate Clee a Brigh بنات 900 g e THE was - Coca . English Address 450g In an effort to translate a Farsi word that should mean Snow into English, the company somehow messed up, resulting in the sale of Barf soap. CRACKED.COM — Source

3

Deborah Ann Woll

CRACKED.COM celebrities who play D&D Deborah Ann woll 20 CC Woll was interested as a kid, but was officially 10 introduced to the game by her manager. She got hooked and is now hosting her own 20 8 16 DI Dungeons & Dragons show, Children of Éarte. — Sources: Forbes, CBR

2

Wheaties

Wheaties cereal has so much iron, it sticks to magnets. That's because it's highly fortified with iron (like other foods, including baby formula), to help combat iron deficiency. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Snopes

1

Sea Snakes

Some sea snakes breathe out of the top of their heads. CRACKED COM The blue-banded sea snake, Hydrophis cyano- cinctus, has a small hole and collection of blood vessels at the top of its head for picking up oxygen from the seawater and sending it to their brain. — Royal Society Publishing

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