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These facts are doing a deep dive into your brain

38 Random Bits of Trivia That Just Accidentally Liked Your Brain’s Post From Like Five Years Ago

December 27, 2024

Just know that while you’re checking out these facts, they’re checking you out, too. The perusing and judging goes both ways here. When you read one, whether you like it or not, it’s up in your brain looking around at the other random facts it’ll have to associate with.

These highly intelligent factoids don’t like being affiliated with lesser facts from lesser sources.

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The Iranian Viper

There's an Iranian viper that's equipped with a fake spider at the end of its tail. The structure resembles a spider but it's actually a lure to attract birds when scientists first saw it, they thought it was an abnormal growth. CRACKED.COM — Source: NatGeo

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RoboCop

The idea for Robocop was born at around 3 AM on the Blade Runner set. Ed Neumeier started working in the art department for Blade Runner. One night at — Source: GamesRadar, The Dissolve

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Meat Ads

CRACKED.COM SHOE POLISH MAKES MEAT SO APPETIZING. Grilled meats looks delicious in ads - even if it's raw meat with shoe polish rubbed on. It's easier

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Australian TV

AUSTRALIA'S naughtiest HOME VIDEOS With DOHLS CANCELED RIGHT AWAY AUSTRALIA'S NAUGHTIEST HOME VIDEOS In 1992, this raunchier version of America's Funniest Home Videos included a boy eating maggots and a man spinning a basketball on his penis. It was pulled halfway through the first episode, and a Cheers rerun took its place. CRACKED — Source

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Al Pacino

AI Pacino turned down the movie. Pacino was offered the part of Jimmy Conway, but didn't want to be typecast as a gangster. FINAL DICK Daily For Murder Mayor Building Describes GoodFellas House Civis Behind the Scenes And yet, that same year he played a cartoonish gangster in Dick Tracy. You remember Dick Tracy, right? CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'Goodfellas'

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Dannon Yogurt

When the little guy beat The Man - one YOGR - - - BMW - AC H I LOWFAT YOGURT - DANNON 1,5% MILKEAT I MA VITAMIN I ACTIV a Indasio ACTIVIA I I United PROBIOTIC YOGURT I Getting GF Peach - - Black Cherry Trish Wiener takes on Dannon Dannon agreed to fork out up to $45 million to people who were misled by their false advertising for Activia and DanActive yogurts. A judge gave the go-ahead after Wiener, a caterer from Los Angeles, took them to court. CRACKED — Helen89/Shutterstock
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Laughter

SAT 314 Thomas Urquhart 1611-1660 DIED OF LAUGHTER Urquhart passed away in exile in the Netherlands in 1660. Allegedly, he died laughing after hearing about Charles II being restored to the throne. CRACKED — Source

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In-N-Out Burger

In-N-Out managers make $160,000 per year IN-N-OUT BURGER Of all large fast food chains, In-N-Out is believed to have the best wages and benefits. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jaws

JAWS FOR A MOMENT, WE GET A GLIMPSE OF THIS ILLUSTRATION FROM A BOOK BRODY IS FLIPPING THROUGH WHICH FORESHADOWS JUST HOW THE SHARK GETS KILLED IN THE END. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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Mick Jagger

In The Bank Job, Mick Jagger has a cameo as a bank employee. It shows him as he might look if the Rolling Stones didn't pan out t - he was a finance and accounting student at the London School of Economics. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Stealthy Celebrities Cameos In Films

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The Goonies

The truffle shuffle scene in The Goonies was difficult to shoot for Richard Donner. He later helped Chunk actor Jeff Cohen lose weight, and Cohen went on to become captain of his high school wrestling team and football team. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Independent

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Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson grew up with his father behind bars. POLICE HOUSTON DEPT. TEXAS to 5116 5-20-60 Charles Harrelson went to prison when Woody was only 7

26

Bear Attacks

Playing dead around a bear CRACKED.COM Playing dead is only advised with brown bears in certain situations but does not work for black bears. If a bear actually attacks you, it's important to fight back. — Source: National Park Service

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Jobs

Ashton Kutcher copied Steve Jobs' all-fruit diet for Jobs. Which wasn't a great idea- two days before filming was supposed to start, he ended up in th — Source: 7 Famous Actors Who Lost Their Minds Getting Into Character

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James Madison

James Madison was tiny. Не was 5'4-7 inches shorter than the presidential average- and weighed 100 lbs. Не was also the first president to wear trousers instead of breeches. CRACKED.COM www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/james-madison/videos/ames-madison-did-you-know — Source: 22 Facts That Shatter Your Image of American Presidents

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Jacques Mesrine’s Prison Escape

JACQUES MESRINE ESCAPED PRISON. THEN НЕ CAME BACK TO FREE ALL HIS FRIENDS. Не was finally captured, but this time they couldn't even hold on to him long enough to sentence him. Не escaped from the courtroom during trial by smuggling a gun into court and holding the judge hostage. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 True Crimes That Seem Impossible

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The Man Who Ate 350 Coins

350 COINS 2002 THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL CRACKED.COM OF MEDICINE 2004 A 12-pound mass in a French man turned out to be 350 coins he'd eaten over the course of 10 years. They were so heavy that they'd pushed his stomach between his hips. — BBC

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Quantas Luxury

GRACKED #QantasLuxury Aussie airline Qantas asked customers to share their experiences just one day after the airline grounded their fleet and locked out staff over a union dispute. Disgruntled staff and customers used the hashtag to put them on blast. QANTAS ............ Spirit of Australia — Source

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SpaceX

The costume designer for Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice designed the SpaceX space suits. CRACKED.COM Elon Musk commissioned Jose Fernandez, and said he wanted the suits to look badass and heroic. Fer- nandez didn't know what SpaceX was at the time, and thought it was for a film. — Forbes

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Stanley Weyman

In 1921, Stanley Weyman introduced Princess Fatima of Afghanistan to President Harding. Не did it by posing as a government official. Weyman told the princess he could get her an audience with the president, then bluffed his way in by saying he was the State Department Naval Liaison Officer. CRACKED GOM http://www.newyorker. ar.com/magazine/1968/11/16/he-big-little-man-from-brooklyn — Source

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Trans People

CRACKED.COM The early 20th century was more accepting of trans people than you think. While life for transgender people was never exactly easy, there were places 100 years ago where you could be out as trans. Berlin was a particularly accepting city in the 1920s. A lot of research in the field was done there, before the Nazis came marching in and burned it all. — Source

17

Wigs

CUSTOM WIGS HAVE EACH HAIR ATTACHED BY HAND. Hairs are inserted and knotted into the foundation a few at a time, sometimes individually. Repeat 40,000 times and you have a full wig. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Battery Wars

38 Random Bits of Trivia That Just Accidentally Liked Your Brain’s Post From Like Five Years Ago — Source

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Kirby

KIRBY Kirby was a placeholder for a to-be-designed + character. Game designer Masahiro Sakurai dropped a circle into his game as he was designing it, figuring he'd flesh out the character later. Eventually he decided he liked the little sphere as-is, and added a few little details to give it personality. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Games We Grew Up On (With Weird Backstories)

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Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name is Moon. CRACKED.COM Marion Moon was the daughter of an Army chaplain and married Buzz's father, Edwin Eugene Aldrin, a colo- nel in the U.S. Air Force. — Source

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Hiroshima

There's an organization that sends out saplings and seeds that survived the A-bomb. Specifically, the bomb that exploded over Hiroshima - Green Legacy Hiroshima is spreading them worldwide. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Cost of a Dollar

A $1 bill costs 6 cents to make. EEERAL RESERVENOTE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1 THIS NOTE 19 LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE 1 В 03542754 F WASHINGTON,D.C. В 2 В 2 135 US OF B03542754 F Bns 2 los bunatates Rio 1 SERIES 9000 Timity F. Grathan 2 Sentery or Sunnay 1 ONE DOLLAR CRACKED.COM Each dollar costs 6 cents to make and lasts only about six years. The latest estimate shows that there is about $1.79 trillion of U.S. currency in circulation right now. — Source

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Paper Sizes

Most Of the world uses theA series Of paper sizes; doubling in size but maintaining the same aspect ratio throughout. Neat. A1 594 x 841 AOcomdime.

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Natalie Portman

NATALIE PORTMAN'S ACCENT SOUP IN JACKIE. GRACKED Linguists say that her movie accent might sound ridiculous to most, but it's spot-on. They describe it as Long Island mixed with Ivy League colleges of the time. It has Mid-Atlantic intonation and is partially aristocratic with a dash of Massachusetts. — The Guardian / Time

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The Type of Bacteria on Dollar Bills

According to the U.S. Air Force, 94% ofthe dollar bills they tested harbored bacteria. TH ENTED IB NTITEN #334947230 OEA :IIES This bacteria could cau

8

Gaming Headset Hero

WEIRD WORLD A Razer Kraken gaming headset saved an 18-year-old from a stray bullet. After the bullet flew through his bedroom window, Reddit user Enough_Dance_956 said it ricocheted off his headset as he was talking with his friends in the early morning, saving his life. CRACKED.COM — Tech Radar

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Hidden in Logos

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Picasso

Picasso's Les Demoiselles d Avignon revolutionized artistic representation G by showing multiple perspectives simultaneously. such as the figure in th

5

Game of Thrones

You can learn the High Valyrian language from 'Game of Thrones' on Duolingo. GAME OF THRONES CRACKED.COM High Valyrian is the Latin-like language used in formal circum- stances by the fiction- al nobility of Essos and Westeros. — Duolingo

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Holiday Movies How the Grinch Stole Christmas The scene where the Grinch directs his dog to be a reindeer was Jim Carrey's homage to the film's director, Ron Howard. Carrey's mannerisms in the scene echoes Howard's directing style. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Wars

The Y-Wing craft in A New Hope is partly made out of hosiery packaging. The front caps on its two engines are actually L'eggs containers L'eggs were hosiery that came in, well, egg-shaped containers. CRACKED.COM — Source: StarWars.com

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Medieval Times

Medieval Times CRACKED.COM All the way back in the '60s, a Spanish barbecuist and history buff got the idea to marry slow-roasted meats with live jousting, and twenty years later, his weird fetish came to life in the form of the first Medieval Times restaurant, which opened in 1983. Of course, it was in Flori- da. — Source

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MAS*H

Minutes after the finale of M.A.S.H., 6.7 million gallons of water surged through the Big Apple's sewer. C0ODEE One million New Yorkers held their pee

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