37 Frank Bits of Trivia That Have No Problem Telling It Like It Is

You know what your problem is? You don’t know all of these facts yet!
37 Frank Bits of Trivia That Have No Problem Telling It Like It Is

We all have that one relative who has no problem spouting their wild ideas about the world ‘round the dinner table. The rest of the family has a choice to make: Do they keep their mouths shut and nod along until the rhetoric stops, or do they confront them and challenge their ridiculous claims? 

These facts are going to remind you of those relatives, but just hear them out, okay? Unlike those spicy aunts and uncles, they actually got their info from highly credible sources.

The Beatles

At one point, The Beatles were set on making a Lord of the Rings adaptation. They tired to get the film rights in the 1960s (and to get Stanley Kubrick as the director), but J.R.R. Tolkien wasn't having any of it, so the movie fell through. CRACKED.COM

Source: BBC

The Flagstaff War

The Flagstaff War CRACKED.COM Natives in the New Zealand town of Kororareka didn't take kindly to British troops raising their flag there. Chief Hona Heke chopped down the flagpole, then three more that replaced it. When the fourth was erected, Heke led a bloody rebellion that kicked off a 10-month war.

Italy’s Battle of the Oranges

15 Amazing Festivals You Wish You Could Celebrate Right Now - Ivrea, Italy, hosts an annual Battle of the Oranges, featuring 10,000 competitors throwi
Source: BBC

Cocoa

CRACKED.COM Eat more chocolates and cocoa. Studies have shown that chocolate and cocoa consumption have beneficial effects on your mood and cognitive

Orange Is the New Black

CRAZY EYES was originally in two episodes of Orange Is the New Black. The producers were sO amazed by Uzo Aduba's performance that they ended up usi

Power Rangers

Actors with cursed lives Jason David Frank TOMMY OLIVER in MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS Frank's wife Tammie confirmed that the Power Rangers star died by suicide at 49. She also shared that the couple had been trying to work through their problems, and had reconciled shortly before his death. birth CRACKED

The Kingsmen

Louie Louie by the Kingsmen SMEN Written by Richard Berry, the lyrics have were rumored to be so obscene that it caused an FBI investigation. But it's just a wholesome song about a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lover. CRACKED.COM

Source: Snopes

The Lincoln Memorial

There used to be a typo on the north wall of the Lincoln Memorial. The wall that was supposedly engraved with Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address misspelled FUTURE as EUTURE. The bottom part of the E has since been filled in. mai THAN T EFLY MENT THE PUBLIC THE W TRUST REASON- AND ENCOURAGING TO WHIC IGH HOPE FOR THE ANTIC IN REGARD TO IT IS VENTURED FUTURE NO MIGH FLICT CCASION CORRESPONDING TO AN E ARS AGO ALL THOUGHTS WERE DAM DIRECTED TO AN IMPENDING SAM ALL DREADED IT-ALL SOUGHT EAC IT WHILE THE INAUGURAL AD- DA CRACKED.COM BEING DELIVERED

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The First Movie Flashback

The first flashback: 1901 Histoire d'un crime is a crime drama (also the first of its kind, in France) that at one point projects a burglar's fond memories of his pre-burgling days on the wall above him.

Hanging Clothes

WEIRD WORLD The sub 1-minute hanging up 10 articles of clothing has finally been achieved. A father and son team took the record in London, successfully hanging pants, jackets, and shirts on hangers at a blistering pace, with a time of 56.87 seconds. CRACKED.COM

UPI 

Skulls as Theater Props

UNUSUAL INHERITANCES A COMPOSER'S SKULL André Tchaikowsky bequeathed his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company so they could use it as the part of Yorick in Hamlet. CRACKED

BBC

NPR

Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey has made over $60 million in royalties from All I Want For Christmas Is You. And that's a 2016 estimate, So the number must be quite a

Source: CNN

Robert Liston

Robert Liston killed three people in one surgery. During an amputation, Liston allegedly sliced a patient's leg, an assistant's fingers, and a spectat

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