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41 Random Bits of Trivia That We Shook Out of A Particularly Knowledgable Vending Machine

December 24, 2024

You know the feeling. You only have enough for one tasty little snack in the vending machine, but there are like six that are calling your name. You look around the desolate office, and since no one is watching, you give it a big ol’ hockey-style body check. When that doesn’t work, you shake the holy heck out of it before shoving your arm up there in one last attempt at greatness.

Then your tired, panting, dejected self gives in and pays for one. Good thing no one was around to witness that. Well, except for whoever’s watching on that security camera. You poor thing. Here, since snacks failed you, hopefully this fact shower will be a welcome consolation.

41

Anting

Many bird species rub ants on themselves to rid their feathers of parasites. CRACKED.COM Called anting, the formic acid released by the ants helps to kill the parasites on the bird when they roll in ant hills or pick ants up by their bill and rub them on their feathers. — Source

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Family Guy

SETH MACFARLANE QUAGMIRE GRACKED.COM My father used to buy me old radio dramas, and commercials from the '40s and '50s had this high-pitched voice. So Quagmire's a 50's radio jockey on coke combined with a sex-crazed pervert. Giggity. — Source

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Lead Paint

WORST HISTORICAL CHILDCARE LEAD POISONING FROM VICTORIAN TOYS Victorian kids were in danger of being poisoned by lead in the paint of their toys, which sometimes even turned outright deadly. CRACKED — Rexjaymes/Shutterstock
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Lose/Lose

There is a video game, called Lose/Lose that deletes a random file on your computer every time you-kill-an-enemy. CRACKED.COM Styled after games like Galaga, the player controls a spaceship and can shoot at aliens in their path, each representing a random file on the player's computer. — Venture Beat

37

Keith Richards

A Fresh Serving Of Movie-related And Miscellaneous Facts - One of Captain Teague's rings in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies is — Source: Courts and Hackett

36

The Honjo-Masamune Katana

The Honjo-Masamune katana was lost during the U.S. occupation of Japan CRAGA after WWil. The katana was a rare confirmed work of the ancient swordsmit

35

The Metric System

CRACKED COM There are currently three countries that do not use the metric system-Burma, Liberia, and the United States. 2 a 81 LI 10FEET 3m s 3 Many U.S. industries have been slow to adopt the metric system, but it is becoming standard in certain areas of science, medicine, and government. — Source

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Deer

A deer was caught munching on human remains in the woods. CRACKED.COM Researchers from Texas State University left a hu- man corpse on a 26-acre woodland site to study how human bodies decom- pose in the wild, and end- ed up capturing the first image of this behavior. — Source

33

Batman Brotherhood

George Clooney would call out Brotherhood! to Michael Keaton on a movie set. It was on Out Of Sight, and Keaton only figured out later that, oh yeah, Clooney was talking about the fact that they both played Batman. CRACKED.COM — Source

32

Bluefin Tuna

Tuna can move so powerfully that they cook their own flesh. CRACKED.COM The warm-blooded Atlantic Bluefin Tuna is so powerful that when fighting fishermen it can cook its own flesh with sudden bursts of muscle activity. — National Geographic

31

Kal Penn

The Avengers was to be written by Kal Penn. Penn's script was all but thrown out when Joss Whedon came aboard. CRACKED.COM — Source: Thrillist

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Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson went to the hospital after falling off his daughter's hoverboard. He hopped on board the 2015 trend only to fall right on his back. CRACKED

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Ticks

The Paralysis Tick CRACKED.COM This Australian bug dispenses a toxin that can paralyze you. This doesn't help the tick-as a parasite, it prefers you healthy and mobile-but it does it anyway. — Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology

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Nintendo

Nintendo provided gamers special gloves if they injured their hands playing Mario Party 64. The biggest number goes first. 10 8 S 9 GRACKED.COM Complaints were received by New York's attorney general's office about inju- ries sustained while rotat- ing the N64 controller's analog stick, and Nintendo agreed to an $80 million settlement. — Source

27

Black Holes

We owe Wi-Fi to black holes. In 1992, to create Wi-Fi, a physicist used some math he had come up with while looking for signals from tiny black holes. This math was able to pick up faint signals hidden in a lot of noise, which was key to Wi-Fi. CRACKED — Source

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Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj worked at multiple Red Lobsters before she was famous She was fired from multiple locations. She once followed a customer who hadn't tipped and taken her pen out to their car. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — MTV

25

The Golden Horde of Mongols

Mongol attackers seized Caffa by catapulting dead bodies at the defending army The Golden Horde of Mongols, led by Khan Jani Beg, attacked Caffa, a Bl — Source: CDC.gov

24

The Nopperabo

CRACKED COM THE NOPPERABO FREAKS PEOPLE OUT WITH ITS LACK OF FACE. The ghosts in The Haunting of Bly Manor are creepy, aren't they? So is the nopperabo, a similarly faceless ghost from Japanese folklore. That's its main thing, in fact- it's mostly harmless, it just enjoys scaring the hell out of people. — Yokai.com

23

Seinfeld

Seinfeld's Soup Nazi showed up to his audition in military uniform. Larry Thomas thought the Soup Nazi was going to be an actual Nazi, so he put on a uniform to show how totally committed he was. He looked like Saddam Hussein, in his words. And he still got the — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

22

John Malkovich

John Malkovich saved a man who tripped and slit his throat. CRACKED.COM 77-year-old Jim Walpole fell and cut his neck open on a piece of scaffolding in 2013, and it was none oth- er than Malkovich who ар- plied pressure to the wound, saving his life. — The Guardian

21

Winona Ryder

41 Random Bits of Trivia That We Shook Out of A Particularly Knowledgable Vending Machine — Source

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Hammocks

You fall asleep faster, and sleep deeper, in a hammock compared to a regular bed. CRACKED.COM The rocking motion from a hammock leads to longer periods of N2 sleep, a form of non-REM sleep that takes up about half of a good night's rest. — Source

19

South Korea

WEIRD WORLD It's now technically illegal to play Gangnam Style in gyms in Seoul, South Korea. E E Y In group exercises, anyway - it's to make sure people don't breathe too heavily. Any music with a bpm over 120 (like Gangnam Style, with its bpm of 132) isn't allowed. CRACKED.COM — Source: Weird World: 12 Odd Yet Oddly Under-The-Radar Stories

18

Patton Oswalt

celebrities who Are Into Magic: The Gathering Patton oswalt General Patton is what they call him on the fantasy battlefield as he commands his magical troops. A rare and powerful card, according to him: Kneeling BUS Kneeling Bus Autobús que so desciende CRACKED.COM — Source: Patton Oswalt/Twitter, Patton Oswalt/Instagram

17

Subway Bread

CRACKED SUBWAY SUBWAY BREAD IS LEGALLY MORE CUPCAKE THAN BREAD. At 10 grams of sugar per foot-long, an Irish judge ruled that the sugar content is too high to be considered bread, and should actually be classified as a confectionary. — Source

16

Missy Elliott

Missy Elliott was bumped up two grades in school, because her IQ was super high. WANG She got so lonely, she decided to fail everything and get moved

15

Beating Up Clowns for Science

Albert Bandura beat up clowns, for science. Bandura wanted to know whether children would act out violence they'd seen committed by adults, so he made

14

Disasters

FATAL x ERROR LOSING $45 MILLION (ACCIDENTALLY CREATING A SALTWATER LAKE) In 1980, an oil rig team in Louisiana drilled in the wrong place, creating a 200-foot- deep saltwater lake and costing the company $45 million. Why? An engineer mixed up two types of geographical coordinates, leading to a mapping error. CRACKED — Source

13

Monster Goldfish

Goldfish become kaiju in the wild. Strip away the branding, and goldfish are just a type of carp - and carp grow as big as their environment lets them get away with. If you release them in a big lake with no natural predators, they'll become huge monsters and wreak havoc in the local ecosystem. So please don't. — More: Dumping Pets In Ponds Is Creating Schools Of Mega-Predators

12

Play-Doh

Play-Doh was originally made to be wallpaper cleaner. Play CRACKED.COM Cincinnati soap compa- ny Kutol made the com- pound to clean the soot off of walls in homes heated by messy coal burning fires. — Chicago Tribune

11

U.S. Voting

The United States is the only modern democracy to elect its president via Electoral College CRACKED COM — Source

10

The Jungle Book

The vultures from The Jungle Book are a barbershop quartet instead of a rock group because Walt Disney wasn't a fan of The Beatles. Originally, We're Your Friends was supposed to be have a Beatles sound to it, but Disney thought that they were a fad, and decided to go with something timeless. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

9

Fitbit

A Fitbit played a role in solving a murder. CRACKED.COM Using the Wife's Fitbit and analyzing her movements, analysts were able to create a timeline that proved the husband had cre- ated a false story. — Source

8

Hamburgers

In Australia and New Zealand, you will be understood if you order a hamburger with the works (or the lot), but make sure you understand you're asking for a burger with a chili-mayo spread, pineapple rings, bacon, fried egg, and beetroot (a thick slice of pickled beet). CRACKED.COM — Source

7

The Vatican

The Vatican forbids gluten-free wafers from use in communion. CRACKED.COM Bread and wafers used in the sacrament must be unleavened, purely of wheat, and recently made so that there is no danger of decomposition. — Source

6

The Hair on Your Head

CRACKED YOU HAVE ABOUT 100,000 HAIRS ON YOUR HEAD. Blonde people average the most amount of hair, while redheads average the least. — Source

5

Stunts

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY'S PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN STUNT DOUBLE... LISA HOYLE. MOST DANGEROUS STUNT: I did a 93-foot fall for the Charlie's Angels movie. It ended up on the cutting room floor, but it was the highest high fall I've done. -NOTABLE-MOVIES/TV- SHOWS: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, American Horror Story, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, Emma Stone's stunt double in Zombieland. CRACKED.COM — The New York Times

4

Dunkin’ Donuts

41 Random Bits of Trivia That We Shook Out of A Particularly Knowledgable Vending Machine — Source: LA Times

3

Scott Pilgrim

MOVIES SAVED BY RESHOOTS SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD THE MOVIE GAVE THE BOOKS A BETTER ENDING. Originally, Scott and Knives got back together, but they reshot an ending where Knives moves on. Creator Bryan Lee O'Malley liked it so much, he used this ending for the books that the movie was based on. CRACKED — Source

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Witches

60% OF JAILED WOMEN IN THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC ARE DOING TIME FOR BEING WITCHES. Pstic Ca And 40% of all criminal cases in the country are sorcery-related, making it the most commonly prosecuted felony. This has no parallel in the rest of the world. GRACKED.COM — Source

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The Hippo Lobby

HIPPOS HAD THEIR OWN LOBBY. Hippo proponents created the New Food Supply Society to pressure Congress to pass the Hippo Bill, so America could feast on delicious, delicious watery steaks. All their efforts, however, turned out to be in vain.

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