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42 Belligerent Bits of Trivia That Will Take Your Brain Outside and Teach It A Lesson

January 02, 2025

Hey, you! Yeah, we’re talking to you! Get over here! You have no idea how bad you just messed up, do you?

See, that nerdy little fact list you’ve been pushing around happens to be this beefy list’s littler brother. It doesn’t take kindly to fact bullies, and it looks like it’s about to teach you some manners — some facts and some manners.

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Photography

War photographer Robert Capa was with the U.S. troops on D-Day, and took 106 up-close pictures of the battle. He handed the negatives to Life magazine

41

Amsterdam

CRACKED AMSTERDAM IS FAMOUS FOR ITS CANALS, BICYCLES, AND RELAXED CULTURE. However, it is also home to the Museum of Torture Instruments, which features over 40 different instruments used for torture throughout history. MUSEUM of medieval TORTURE instruments Museum DISTURE 1 RÁMEST mar MÉSTO POLICE = 194 TURACE adidas - - - WC EI SALAMOUNA AKI CHANGE CHANGE MECHBEL no — Source

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Paper Airplanes

Paper airplanes have existed for thousands of years. The Chinese have been folding paper into flying shapes for the last 2,000 years. Of course, they didn't call them airplanes- those were more like simple origami birds. Paper planes as we know them today date back to the Civil War, when they were called paper darts. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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The Ravenmaster

The RAVENMASTER is an actual job title at the Tower of London. The Ravenmaster protects the Tower CRACKED COM ravens from harm, which are kept because

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Hakeem Olajuwon

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The Beatles

In 1968, the Beatles signed a petition to get Mick Jagger in A Clockwork Orange. They sent it to Terry Southern, who was writing the movie adaptation's script, demanding to have Jagger in the lead role. Alas, it was clearly unsuccessful. CRACKED.COM — Source

36

Playboy

Hugh Hefner had a weird fixation with getting Britney Spears on the cover of Playboy. The obsession started from when Spears turned 18, and he apparently had a crush on her. — Source: Maxim

35

Auctions

Celebrity Items Sold in Auctions SPIKE Joan Rivers' Dog Bowl from Tiffany & Со After Rivers passed away in 2014, one of the objects in her estate auction was an engraved dog bowl for her pooch Spike, which sold for $14,000. CRACKED.COM — Source

34

Forrest Gump

The original author of the Forrest Gump novel wrote a sequel to the book. The Rollicking Sequel to the #1 New York Times Bestseller Forrest Gump GRACKED.COM It was titled Gump and Co, and in it Gump crashes the Exx- on Valdez, helps de- stroy the Berlin Wall, and fights in Opera- tion Desert Storm. — Source

33

Hot Fuzz

SONUM COMMUNE COMMUNITATIS WELCOME to SANDFORD BONUM COMMUNE COMMUNITATIS The Welcome to Sandford sign in Hot Fuzz has the village motto bonum commune communitatis. It means the common good of the community, and it's what the villagers chant in the finale. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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Pepsi

Public votes that backfired big time PEPSI NUMBER pepdi FEVER A Pepsi contest in the Philippines had a grand prize of 1 million pesos, but an error at the bottling plant led to 600,000 winning bottles. Riots and even grenade attacks injured dozens and killed 5 people in the deadliest marketing disaster in history. CRACKED

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Friends

MATT. LEBLANC dislocated his shoulder doing a dive for a chair while filming the episode The one where no one's ready. Instead of trying to hide it, the FRIENDS writers added a storyline where Joey hurt his arm jumping on a bed. CRACKED.COM — Source

30

Friday the 13th

Speed running the entire movie. FRIDAY THE 13TH CRACKEDCOR One trailer just straight up shows you each character getting killed, in the order they are — Source: Trailer

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Thigh Bones

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. GRAGKED.COM A cubic inch of bone can in principle bear a load of 19,000 lbs. or more -roughly the weight of five stan- dard pickup trucks. — Live Science

28

Oreos

Oreos were created before chocolate chip cookies Oreos were invented in 1912 while chocolate chip cookies weren't made until 1937. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: The New Yorker

27

Tattoos

In the Philippines, there's a tattoo artist who's 102 and, amazingly, still working. Whang-Od Oggay is a mambabatok, or traditional tattooist of the Kalinga province, and she's the oldest one who's currently active. CRACKED.COM — Source

26

Sex Thoughts

Think men think about sex every 7 seconds? Yeah, that's crap. In fact, experts estimate that 30% of men don't think about sex during the day at all. CRACKED.COM — Source

25

Smartphones

DON'T DRAIN YOUR BATTERY 12:48 16% Chuarged CRACKEDOON Somehow, the rumor started that you need to drain your phone battery to 0% before recharging it, to stretch out its capacity. Maybe that's true for some batteries, but not the lithium ion one in your phone. 101 — Source: Wired

24

Domino’s Pizza Russia

23

Al Gore

COMEDY NERD Al Gore appeared on 30 Rock twice, in 2007 and 2009 - both times as himself. His first appearance was in Greenzo, and the second one in Sun Tea. CRACKED.COM — Source

22

Cows

Dairy cows typically are born with horns and they are de-horned when young. Dairy farmers over- time use selective breeding to eliminate the recessive gene that causes horns in both male and female cattle. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

21

Crime

CRACKED A GIRL WAS LOCKED IN A ROOM FOR 11 YEARS FROM AGE TWO. When she was discovered at 13, she had never had any contact with the outside world and didn't know any words, because her father (and captor) only ever growled at her like a dog. — Source

20

Parasite

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS CRACKED THE CAST BONDED BY GETTING DRUNK. SAD PARASITE Bong Joon-ho says the cast was quite nervous around each other at first due to the fact many of them never worked with each other before. They got around that the old-fashioned way: by getting wasted together. — Insider

19

Water

THE COMMERCIAL SALE OF BOTTLED WATER STARTED IN 1767. Bottled water was sold by Jackson's Spa in Boston. Early drinkers believed the bottled mineral w

18

Our Little Genius

Production staff OUR LITTLE GENIUS CRACKED.COM A parent alleged that producers were sneaking kids the answers to upcoming questions. The show's creator made the tough call to axe it before it aired, depriving countless families the opportunity to exploit their gifted children. — Source

17

Centipedes

No species of centipede has exactly 100 legs. GRACKED.COM Despite the name, centi- pedes can have a vary- ing number of legs, ranging from 30 to 382. Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs. — Emporia

16

Mood Disorders

Having a hard time waking up is linked to having a mood disorder. People with a mood disorder are disproportionately likely to have a hard time waking up (and mood disorder treatments might target that someday). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: NIH

15

Superstitions

SITTING AT THE CORNER OF A TABLE There is a superstition in Russia that sitting at the corner of the table will result in seven years of no marriage prospects. CRACKED.COM — The Moscow Times

14

Mushroom Man

CRACKED FUNGI ARE GENETICALLY CLOSER TO ANIMALS THAN THEY ARE TO PLANTS. Which might explain why they have a meatier texture. — lego 19861111/Shutterstock
American Society for Microbiology

13

Cocaine

Individually, Americans use more cocaine than any other country. The percentage of users in America is only a tenth of a percent higher than Brazil, but Americans use 36% of the world's cocaine, compared to Brazil's 18%. CRACKED.COM — Source

12

Crypto

WEIRD WORLD One Tesla owner started using his car as a crypto mining machine. EN Try And he says his Tesla makes him $800 in cryptocurrency every month. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Indiana Jones

They had to remove 350 TV antennas to shoot Raiders of the Lost Ark. The antennas were around the houses around Sallah's home, and taking them down took one day. CRACKED.COM — Cinephilia & Beyond

10

The Flag

There's no evidence Betsy Ross made the flag. The story originated with Ross's grandson William Canby's account. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

9

Australia

Australia has an answer to the labor shortage: 13-year-olds. GRAGKED.COM The Australian Retailers Association is calling for changes to the national minimum working age re- quirements so that chil- dren as young as 13 years old can be put to work. — SBS

8

Heidi Montag

Heidi Montag spent $10 million prepping for the apocalypse. CRACKED.COM Montag and husband Spencer Pratt were so sure that the world was ending via asteroid in 2012, that they started spending (and tipping!) lavishly. When the world didn't end, they had to move in with Pratt's parents. — Source

7

The Americans

The Americans is extremely true-to-life even the sexpionage parts. The KGB didn't do a lot of that, but the East Germans did- the way Philip seduces Martha, for example, is just what the East Germans would do. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vanity Fair

6

Assassin’s Creed

After 'Assassin's Creed' flopped at the box office, the 'Mega Man' and 'Sims' movies were scrapped. Disney canceled the vast majority of films under de- velopment after their ac- quisition of 21st Century Fox, including a previously announced 'Magic: The Gathering' film. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

5

Fitzcarraldo

CRACKED Death and snake venom on FITZCARRALDO In Werner Herzog's 1982 film, several indigenous extras were killed or injured. A logger was bit by a venomous snake, and had to cut off his own foot with a chainsaw to stop the poison from spreading. — Source

4

Superman

CRACKED ON SUPERMAN, DIRECTOR RICHARD DONNER SAID HE'D SHAVE OFF HIS MUSTACHE. Не said he'd do that If Gene Hackman shaved off his for the role of Lex Luthor, that is. True to his word, he celebrated my last razor stroke by gleefully pulling off the fake whiskers he'd acquired for the occasion, I said Hackman. — Hollywood Reporter

3

Simon Biles

WHAT'S THE DEAL: SIMONE BILES Teen Titan CRACKED .COM Biles began competing in 2011, at the age of 14. In 2012 she placed first in all-around and vault, second on floor exercise, third on balance beam, and fourth on the uneven bars at the American Classic. After spending the whole event on the podium, she was invited to the USA Gymnastics National Championships. — Source: Wikipedia

2

Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton Was Awful to Her Own Children CRACKED.COM The creator of the Noddy series of books may have created fanciful worlds for other children, but her own daughter described her as lacking even a trace of maternal instinct, keeping her and her sister shut away in a nursery that she rarely visited except to yell at them. Oh, and her books were also deeply racist. — Source

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Hippos

Hippos kill 3,000 PEOPLE every year. Sharks kill fewer than six. Where are all the Hipponado movies? CRACKED. COM — Source

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