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It’s not littering if people actually want you to intentionally drop these facts around town

40 Random Bits of Trivia to Scatter Around Disney World With Your Loved One’s Ashes

January 04, 2025

Normally, we’d never condone littering. It’s reprehensible. But although intentionally scattering facts everywhere we go is technically littering, we have a feeling that you — and every other person on planet Earth — will be more than happy to pick them up.

After bending over to pick each one of these up, you’ll see that this list — as well as the Easter Bunny — are the only litterers who get a free pass.

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Toys

Kids in the US have a disproportionately high amount of the world's toys. Although the country has 3.1% of all children in the world, it consumes way more .. a total of two-fifth of all toys available in the world. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Freddy Mercury

Freddie Mercury 15 1994 November 1092 died on 100g TOOT 24, 1000 1991.H 1000 He v was LA 45. 199 97 999 1001 1000 1002 1001 1005 ДНА 1592 1993 1950 The cause: AIDS-induced 995 1999 1990 1991 1992 1993 pneumonia. 97 1998 1999 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Amazing, Now-You-Know Things That Happened In The 1990s

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Moonlight

Moonlight The three lead actors never met. The three actors who play the protagonist at different stages of his life never met each other in the 25 days of shooting. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Coffee

GRACKED COFFEE: THE LIVER'S BEST FRIEND? Drinking coffee can help lower your chances of getting liver disease. Turns out, a regular cup of joe isn't such a bad habit after all. — NCBI / Insider

36

The Goonies

CRACKED WHAT OCTOPUS? THE GOONIES While describing their adventure to a reporter, Data says the scariest part was the octopus. The octopus scene didn't make the final cut, so fans wondered what he meant. A 90's Disney Channel cut reinserted it, so it made sense for some viewers. — Zimbio

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George Steinbrenner

COMEDY NERD One of the richest people in the country guest-hosted SNL a while ago. It's not Elon Musk-it's George Steinbrenner, who took the guest host spot back in 1990. Не shot down many of the writers' ideas and mostly just made his own way through it, which did not end well. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Taco Bell

Taco Bell has been trying to expand into Mexico for almost 30 years, but it's never worked. TACO BELL They opened Taco Bell locations in Mexico in 1992 and 2007, and both times closed them quickly - Mexicans thought the food was ugly-looking and inauthentic. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Facts About Movies (And Other Cool Stuff)

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Ancient Egypt

Gravesite Tech ANCIENT EGYPTIANS' TECH-SAVVY SECURITY Researchers have used computer models to digitally recreate the primitive machine ancient Egyptians used to protect artifacts from tomb raiders in the Great Pyramid, and evidence suggests similar security systems may have been used for other rulers. CRACKED — Nina/Wiki Commons
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Early Tinder

In 2015, only 54 percent of users on Tinder were single. to 5earch < Back 11:05 76% X tinder Tinder Tinder 0O inc.> Users who were married, in a relat

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Katy Perry

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Armie Hammer

Every studio cut ties with Armie Hammer. STAGE T WHITE MEN CRACKED.COM After a former girlfriend accused him of rape and abuse, and leaked texts revealed his apparent fetishes for rape, sadism and cannibalism, he was dropped from Billion Dollar Spy, and every other film he was attached to. — Variety

29

Graduation Ceremonies

CRACKEDCON * n Tsi A Tokyo university ceremony replaced students with robots. A graduation ceremony at Tokyo's Business Breakthrough University was he — Source: Reuters

28

College Degrees

A German student was sued for $3,772 for earning his bachelor's and master's too fast. CRACKED.COM Both degrees usually take 11 semesters, but Marcel Pohl graduated in 2. Не went to one class while having 2 friends share notes from other classes he was en- rolled in at the same time.

27

AC/DC

AC/DC CRACKED.COM FIRST SHOW: Bassist Dave Evans says the venue owner wasn't used to everything rocking and rolling, SO he would literally pull the plug on the band when they got too loud (approximately every 20 minutes).

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Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut delivered a pizza to space. Pizza-Hut The company paid $1 million for the promotional gesture of sending pizza to the International Space Station. The pizza had salami instead of pepperoni due to the meat's shelf-life. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — BBC

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The Red Hand of Ulster

The 'Red Hand of Ulster' sigil. may be based on the story of a boat race to determine the next king. The story goes that a race was held and the winner would be the next king. One potential king saw he was losing so he chopped his own hand off and tossed it to shore, winning the race. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Carnegie Council

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Instagram

When Facebook paid $1 billion for Instagram in 2012, Instagram had 13 employees. te It had a grand total of 9 investors, too. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Business Insider

23

Mushrooms

The sale of psychedelic mushroom spores is legal since they don't yet contain psilocybin. CRACKED.COM Most drug laws prohibit psilocybin rather than the mushroom itself, and psilo- cybin, the active com- pound in psychedelic mushrooms, is found only in the mushroom's cap and stem and not in its spores. — Source

22

Mad Max: Fury Road

THE FLAMETHROWER GUITAR THAT DOOF WARRIOR PLAYS IN MAD MAX: FURY ROAD S0FC0 0000 WAS MADE FROM BEDPANS. Director George Miller explained, everything

21

Science

CRAGKED.OON Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Mendeleev discovered and publishede a PeriodicTable of Elements a year apart. Neither man knew of the other's work

20

Winnipeg

WEIRD WORLD The filming of a heist movie in Winnipeg was delayed by a real-life heist. - Canon XF305 NAT Before shooting could start, all the crew's equipment was taken. The irony is not lost on us, said the director. CRACKED.COM — Source

19

World War II

Yang Kyoungjong was a Korean soldier in WWII who was forced to fight on 3 sides of the war. V Не was conscripted into the من Japanese army, captured and forced to fight by the Soviet army, then again by the German army, over the course of 5 years. CRACKED.COM — Source

18

Going to the Movies

In the 1910s, people thought kids who liked movies would be sickly adults. TO CALIFORNIA MALLPA FOO K Apparently, going to the theater often would rob them of exercise needed for healthy growth. CRACKED.COM — Source: The 16 Dumbest Ways People Freaked Over New Tech

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George Romero

George Romero was an FBI agent in Silence of the Lambs. After the conversation in which Clarice tells Hannibal Lecter about the lambs screaming in her nightmares, she's hauled away by a group of FBI agents. The agent with the beard is legendary zombie movie director George Romero. Fortunately, he resisted the temptation to reanimate Buffalo Bill's bathtub buddy. CRACKED.COM — Source: Big-Deal Celebrities Lurking In Famous Movies

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Movie Sword Fights

MOVIE SWORD FIGHTS WOULD END WITH BROKEN BLADES. Edge-on-edge parry would damage the swords, resulting in dull and damaged blades. Most sword fighting involves the swords not making contact. CRACKED.COM — Source

15

Mechanical Crimes

A mechanic sold thousands of devices that allowed trucks to bypass emissions controls. CRACKED.COM Matthew Geouge raked in $10 million for selling de- feat devices that helped shut off the emissions sys- tems on mostly die- sel-powered pickup trucks, and now must spend a year in prison. — Market Watch

14

Charles Darwin

CRACKED DARWIN BEING AN ATHEIST Darwin wasn't an atheist, but he was a deist and did believe in some kind of higher power. Не just didn't believe in Jesus as the Savior or Redeemer. — Oxford Academic / AMNH

13

Hedy Lamarr

CRACKED.COM HEDY LAMARR made WiFi possible. Lamarr was a big-name actress in Golden Age Hollywood. She was also an amateur inventor. She came up with an idea for radio communication that eventually led to cellphones, WiFi, etc. — Source: 24 'Wait-A-Minute-What?' Celeb Facts

12

The White House

CRACKED.COM In 1814, British troops set fire to the White House. You can still see burn marks. — Source

11

Pain

CRACKED WHAT IS PAIN? We know it has to do with nerves and signaling danger, but it's not something that can be measured, only described, experienced, and taken out on your stupid doctor. We can't even agree on a definition of pain. — Source

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Top Gun

Top Gun caused U.S. Navy recruitment figures to spike.Perhaps expecting to replicate in real life the movie's sexy, high-energy thrills, many people enlisted as soon as they walked out of the theater. And we mean literally as soon as they walked out - the Navy set up handy recruiting stations to catch psyched up moviegoers. — Source: Screen Rant

9

Toy Story 4

In Toy Story 4, the names of the neglected toys that Woody ends up with are puns on their voice actor's name. For example, there's Melephant Brooks (M — Source: Entertainment Weekly

8

Serial Killer Peter Kurten

Serial killer Peter Kürten asked a priest if he would be able to still briefly hear after execution by guillotine. Tell me, he said, after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

7

Robert Burks

Award-winning COM cinematographer Robert Burks was Alfred Hitchcock's go-to camera guy. Burks was responsible for the camerawork and lighting for many

6

Steven Tyler

40 Random Bits of Trivia to Scatter Around Disney World With Your Loved One’s Ashes — Source: Parade

5

The TSA

Weird Stuff Confiscated by the TSA A shotgun guitar Castle TSA agents at the Huntington Tri-State Airport in Wayne County, West Virginia confiscated a shotgun that was being transported in a guitar case. Unloaded firearms are allowed to be transported in checked bags, but they must be placed in a hard-sided, locked case and declared to the airline at check-in. CRACKED — TSA
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4

Drinking Ages

GRACKED WORLDWIDE DRINKING AGES. 64% of the world's drinking age is 18 or under. Canada is split between 18 and 19, but America's age of 21 is only behind the Eastern African nation of Eritrea (25 years old) and, of course, the 11 countries where alcohol is banned altogether. — Source

3

Slavery

Brazil received four million African slaves. CRACKED COM That's during the entire Atlantic Slave Trade and was over ten times the number that went to the United States. When Brazil abolished slavery in 1888, 40 percent of Rio were slaves, — Source

2

Carolers

40 Random Bits of Trivia to Scatter Around Disney World With Your Loved One’s Ashes — Source: Salon

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Rihanna

When a fan at a concert grabbed Rihanna, she hit her with a microphone. Somebody in the audience grabbed her sleeve, so she hit the person with the mic and walked away. She later clarified that, yup, she did it on purpose. CRACKED.COM — Source: Sky.com

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