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41 Protective Bits of Trivia That, Once in Your Brain, Might Actually Block Any New Info From Getting In

These facts will get a little jealous of the other facts in your head

41 Protective Bits of Trivia That, Once in Your Brain, Might Actually Block Any New Info From Getting In

December 17, 2024

Most facts don’t care to know anything about your past facts, but these ones want to know everything! They’ll be hunting for every picture of you with a fact and hounding you like, “Who’s that fact? What does it mean to you?”

Assuring them that they’re the only facts for you might ease their minds for a second, but they’ll always be wary. And let’s face it, you’re a red-blooded fact-seeker. You can’t help but look at other facts, and you might think there’s no harm in looking, but they won’t see it that way.

We just wanted you to know what you’re about to get yourself into.

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Rocky IV

Dolph Lundgren sent Sylvester Stallone to the hospital while filming Rocky IV. CRACKED.COM In order to capture the most realistic boxing possible, Stallone, who directed the film, asked the hulking Lundgren to really go for hard hits to the body. After wrapping, Lundgren got word that production had to be halted after Stallone was hospitalized for swelling of his heart. — Source: 14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You

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Blue Whales

A BLUE WHALE'S HEART IS ABOUT AS TALL AS A SHORT PERSON A blue whale's heart is about 4 feet wide by 5 feet long by 5 feet tall. It weighs about 400 pounds. CRACKED.COM — Source

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David O. Russell

AMY ADAMS & DAVID O RUSSELL CRACKED.COM There could be a whole list for o Russell. In 2014, Amy Adams and David o Russell clashed on American Hustle. Adams said that he made her cry with his process of shouting at actors mid-scene. Не was hard on me, that's for sure, she told GQ. I was really just devastated on set. She has no intention of working with him again. — Source: 15 Actors And Directors Who Hated Working With Each Other

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Centralia

NITE TENDER FLEEING POR BE THEIR دون K KR462 OWN FIRE KB B2 ROUKS - TENSER adidas 12 NOTE ANDS FORD - Done - D DE GRACKED COM FOR In 1962, the government ordered a landfill set on fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania. The fire spread to a кв coal deposit and will burn for another 250 years. Congress spent $42 million to relocate the 46279 60 I town's residents. 860 I — Source

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Toy Story

41 Protective Bits of Trivia That, Once in Your Brain, Might Actually Block Any New Info From Getting In — For details, read 5 Insane Early Drafts of Famous Movie Characters

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Celebrity Lies

Khloe Kardashian bragged about baking. But her Instagram pies looked a little familiar. Sweet Lady Jane bakery owner Jane Lockhart confirmed they were her pies, quipping, I thought, 'She has to be kidding me.' I want to say, 'Good job. You want a job here? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mookie Betts

Boston Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts bowled a 300 at the World Series of Bowling. B BOS T CRACKED.COM The 25-year-old base- ball player bowled a perfect game in 2017, just days before he was awarded an MLB Gold Glove. — Sports Illustrated

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Customs

CRACKED SPITTING ON BABIES In the Philippines, if a stranger looks at a baby, they have to say the phrase pwede usog and lick their thumb, then make a cross on the baby's forehead with saliva to ward off bad luck. — Filipino Doctors / Peace Tree UMC

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George Washington

1776. WASHINGTON CROSSED THE DELAWARE. CRACKED COM HIS FORCES DEFEATED THE BRITISH'S HESSIAN ALLIES. They captured not just 1,000 Hessians, but also a — For details, read The 5 Most Important Things Ever Done While Black Out Drunk

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The National Cathedral

Darth Vader's head is stuck high the National Cathedral in up on Washington D.C. In 1980, while the Cathedral being built, was there was a kids' compe

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Dwayne Johnson

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Meat

Why does meat change color when cooked? When you cook meat, the proteins in white meat break down and recombine, making it turn white. Red meat changes color when it's heated up to 140 degrees F because the myoglobin in it transforms into hemichrome, which makes it look slightly brown. CRACKED — Maria Komar/Shutterstock
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29

WALL-E

The Hello, Dolly holding hands moment in WALL-E wasn't in the original. Holding hands is a crucial symbol in WALL-E, but there was no hand holding in Hello, Dolly except in one wide shot, so they just faked a close-up. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cars

CARS HEREEN CRACKED.COM When they first rolled out, automobiles were so exciting, yet so expensive, that one journalist predicted the fad would meet an end as complete and as disastrous as was that of the cycling boom. — Source: NY Times

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Rhode Island

Not all 13 states were represented. UNITED STATES Rhode Island refused to send a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, fearing a federal government that would take away states' rights. CRACKED.COM — Source: Constitution Center

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Simon and Garfunkel

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel MISTEL THE LUXU OF HOLLY Garfunkel felt that Simon's solo single True or False was a betrayal. They were hyper-competitive and envious of each other. Manager Mort Lewis said that Paul thought the audience viewed Art as the star, and Art felt inferior since Paul wrote the music. CRACKED — Source

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Grey’s Anatomy

Isaiah Washington threw fists and slurs. GREY'S ANATOMY CO CRACKED.COM In a single altercation, he choked out Patrick Dempsey and called a fellow cast member a homophobic slur. — Source

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Birth Control

Apes in ZOOS take human birth control as a means of animal population control. CRACKED.COM Other ZOO animals eat hormone-spiked food or have slow-releasing hor- mones implanted in their bodies. — American Association for the Advancement of Science

23

School of Rock

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS Jack Black made a personal plea to LED ZEPPELIN CRACKED.COM Не videotaped an appeal, filmed in front of a huge crowd, asking Robert Plant and the boys for permission to use Immigrant Song in the film. It may seem corny but it worked, says Black about nailing the audish. The moral of the story is: Don't be too proud to beg. — Source

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Pandas

CRACKED PANDAS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CARNIVOROUS. However, they inexplicably lost their appetite for meat during evolution, and we don't know why. — Source

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Batman

In the 1960s Batman series, Batman and Robin buckled their seatbelts before taking off in the Batmobile. This occurred after a complaint by the National Safety Council & the Dynamic Duo set a good example thereafter. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sweet Brown

CRACKED Sweet Brown Sweet Brown became an internet star after her famous phrase Ain't nobody got time for that! blew up online. She's since been in a bunch of local TV ads, like for a lawyer, a dentist, and a real estate agency. — Nicki Swift

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Game of Thrones

Maisie Williams is beloved for her role as Arya Stark on Game of Thrones. CRACKED.COM She recently admitted that she only accepted the role so she'd have the money to buy a laptop! — Source

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The Stonebreakers

CRACKEDcO Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakersh was one of the earliest artworks to feature Realism instead of Romanticism. The focus of this paintin

17

Clams

When two hermaphrodite clams mate, they can choose who will take on the male or female role. GRACKED.COM Male clams produce sperm and release it into the water, which gets drawn into the fe- male bivalve through her siphons, and fertil- ization occurs. — EcoSpark

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Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling wasn't invited to Harry Potter's 20th Anniversary. CRACKED.COM Because of her transphobic tweets in 2020, HBO didn't include Harry's creator in HBO Max's Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts. The main Harry Potter trio have all publicly spoken out against Rowling's views. — Source

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Third-World Country

CRACKED COM Third-world country doesn't mean poor country. RUSSIA CANADA UNITED STATES CHINA WSN BRAZIL During the Cold War, the countries allied — More: 5 Misunderstood Terms That Needlessly Freak Everyone Out

14

Men in Black

Vincent D'Onofrio wore basketball knee braces for Men in Black. He saw them in the window of a sporting goods store, and realized you could use them t — Source: Vulture, Uproxx

13

Batman Returns

Batman Returns Michelle Pfeiffer had to be vacuum sealed into the catwoman suit. The tight-fitting outfit was one of the most uncomfortable experiences ever for Pfeiffer. They had to powder me down, help me inside, and then vacuum-pack the suit, she said. GRACKED.COM — Source

12

Ace of Base

ACE OF BASE MEANS 'MASTERS OF THE BASEMENT. 0 The I Saw The Sign group made their music in the basement of an auto repair shop. It was a shithole

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Japan

THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL FAMILY IS THE OLDEST HEREDITARY MONARCHY IN THE WORLD, WITH A LINEAGE DATING BACK OVER 2,600 YEARS. CRACKED.COM However the monarchy is currently threatened by a male only succession law and a lack of male heirs. — NatGeo

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Victorinox

Knife manufacturer, Victorinox, claims never to have had to lay off an employee. CRACKED.COM To avoid this they set aside profits during boom peri- ods to supplement reces- sionary periods, as well as temporarily contracting employees to other com- panies as outsourced labor during recessions. — Source

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Tierra del Fuego

the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego MAMIHLAPINATAPAL a look shared by two people who both want the other to do something, but neither acts on it CRACKED.COM — Mental Floss

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311

311 is an Omaha police code for indecent exposure. The guitarist got arrested for skinny dippinng, so they used the citation code as a band name. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Airplanes

YOU'RE NOT DOOMED IF YOU LOSE YOUR PLANE'S ENGINES. The engines' job is to give you forward thrust it's the wings that keep you in the air, and you still have those (hopefully). You may have as much as 20-30 minutes to find where to land. — Source: Flight Deck Friend

6

Oregon Trail

Oregon Trail exists because of a nosey roommate. A teacher created Oregon Trail as a pen- and-paper game for a history lesson on westward expansion, but his roommate thought it could be a computer game. You have died of dysentery. — Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium
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9/11

The only uninterrupted audio recording of the 9/11 attack is from an undercover operation. CRACKED.COM The recording comes from an FBI informant that secretly wore a wire to breakfast with a city official suspected of brib- ery, meeting the suspect at the WTC Marriott. — Source

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Chadwick Boseman

CRACKED Chadwick Boseman was fired for speaking up. His character Reggie Montgomery was written as a stereotypical thug, and when he spoke up, he was immediately replaced with his future Black Panther co-star Michael В. Jordan. Boseman reported, They said, 'You are too much trouble. ALL MY CHILDREN EVOLT I VOLT REVOLT UMME — Source

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Shakespeare

William Shakespeare CRACKED.COM Shakespeare left the bulk of his estate to his eldest daughter but left his second best bed to his wife. Sounds weird, but this was common practice for the time, with children receiving the best of the furniture. — Source

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Goldeneye

CRACKED GOLDENEYE 007 A small team of nine people created GoldenEye 007, and eight of them had never made a game before. Somehow, they managed to make one of the most beloved video games ever. — Source

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Sweden

CRACKEDco COM Thanks to wind turbines, Sweden will reach its 2030 renewable energy goal THIS YEAR! As the saying goes, never leave till tomorrow that

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