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40 Random Bits of Trivia the Old Lady From ‘Titanic’ Chucked Off the Side of A Boat

December 29, 2024

Some people don’t know what they have until it’s gone. We couldn’t believe that someone would just toss these facts away, but whatever. To each their own. One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. So on and so forth.

We know the true value of these facts, and we know that you will too!

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Sharks

CRACKED.COM Sharks are older than trees. The first plants we'd call trees appeared about 350 million years ago. By then, sharks had been swimming in the world's oceans for several tens million years. (Still, these early sharks were very different from what we know today.) — Source: 15 Random Facts to Flex Your Knowledge Muscles

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Gene Roddenberry

Gene Roddenberry was once in a plane crash in the desert in Syria. With two broken ribs, he repeatedly went back into the burning plane to evacuate passengers, then organized search teams to look for civili- zation. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Microwaving Food

MYTH8 MICROWave COOKING DESTROYS THE nurients in FOOD. 8 88:00 FACT8 ACTUALLY, IT PReSERVES THEM. Because microwave cooking often consists of less hea

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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

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Gun Seizures

A full 70% OF GUNS seized by police in Mexico can be traced back to the United States. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Courtroom Nudity

WEIRD WORLD A West Virginian woman showed up to a court hearing naked. The woman, who is facing a charge of domestic battery, was unable to be arraigned after being deemed unable to appear. When she did appear, she was nude, and had to be covered with a towel. CRACKED.COM — The Record Delta

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1994 U.S. Air Force Friendly-Fire Incident

2 USAF F-15s shot down 2 US Army Black Hawk helicopters in 1994. FF 026 GRAGKED.COM The friendly-fire incident, which killed all 26 helicop- ter passengers, is attribut- ed to a chain of errors, from the general heading up the Operation Provide Comfort Task Force all the way down. — National Interest

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Film Firsts

Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The first screen 1930s fighting techniques John Wayne and Yakima Canutt began working closely after Canutt stunt-doubled for Wayne in 1932. They pioneered techniques (still in use today) that make fake punches look real on camera. CRACKED — Source

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Kristen Stewart

Kristen Stewart has a paper on artificial intelligence. For her short film Come Swim, Stewart wanted frames of the movie to look like her paintings-so she worked with a producer and an engineer at Adobe to use a neural network for the style transfer. The paper, published in 2017, has been quoted several times by researchers. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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The X-Files

The child Scully is carrying in The X-Files series finale is definitely Mulder's. Creator Chris Carter confirmed that, but also added that Scully has alien DNA. CRACKED COM — Source

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Lizards

Some lizards can scuba-dive using bubbles CRACKED.COM Using bubbles attached to their snouts, some Anolis lizards can breathe underwater. — EurekAlert!

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The MCU

The MCU is based on an edgy comic. A lot of staples of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (like Tony Stark's personality) come from The Ultimates, which Marvel started publishing in the early 2000s. The edgiest parts, though (like Wanda and Pietro's incest) were thankfully left out. — More: The 'Avengers' Comic That Basically Created The Modern Superhero Movie

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Iggy Azalea

WTF CAMEOS IGGY AZALEA FURIOUS 7 Fans say that her two lines almost ruined the movie for them. She herself admitted to her lack of acting experience and with that horrible delivery, the lines could've been said by anyone else with minimal acting abilities. CRACKED — Universal Pictures
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The KKK

In 1971, a KKK member was sent to sabotage an activist's work on desegregation. The two joined forces to fight racial injustice. Black civil rights ac

26

Goosebumps

Goosebumps helped our ancestors ward off predators. When we get goose- bumps, small muscles at- tached to individual body hairs contract, which leads the hair to stand on end and made our hairy ancestors appear larger. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Scientific American

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Snapchat

Snapchat lost around $800 million in stock after running an ad on their platform for the mobile game Would You Rather? which mocked Rihanna's abuse. Would You Rather? Impossible Chocolat WOULD YOU RATHER! Slap Rihanna Punch Chris Brown Many users deleted the app following her response. CRACKED.COM

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Wood Frogs

Wood frogs can hold their pee for up to eight months Wood frogs have microbes in their guts that recycle urea, allowing them to avoid peeing all winter. CRACKED.COM — Source: CBC

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons CRACKED COM America's favorite jaundiced family first appeared as a short on The Tracey Ullman Show. — Source

22

Torture Mansion

Marie Delphine LaLaurie kept a torture mansion. When an 1834 fire attracted a crowd, they found a 70-year-old slave woman chained to a stove. She directed the mob to the attic, where seven slaves were suspended from the ceiling by spiky collars, apparently kept alive solely for horrifyingly inventive torture. They had been like that for months. CRACKED.COM — 5 Real-Life Horror Movies Deleted from Your History Books

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McDonald’s

Since 2007, all McDonalds' fleet trucks in the U.K. have been fueled with cooking oil from their restaurants. 16 M WE RECYCLE ALLOUR USED COOKING OIL INTO BIODIESEL S ma In 2018, the company successfully repurposed 80% of its waste cooking oil for use across its European fleet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Edie News

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Tara Lipinski

Tara Lipinski started as a roller skater. She went to nationals at age 9, when she switched to gymnastics. (Which is geriatric in gymnast years.) CRACKED.COM — Source

19

Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 2 There was originally going to be a love triangle with Peter, Mary Jane, and Doc Ock. The idea was to make Octavius younger and have Mary Jane reciprocate his feelings towards her. Luckily they went in another, more Molina direction. CRACKED.COM — Screen Rant

18

Wizardry

Alan Moore and Grant Morrison keep feuding over wizardry. Moore and Morrison are comic book legends, and both claim to be actual wizards. They're into — From 10 Famous Geniuses And Their Stupid Petty Feuds.

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Long Distances

THE LONGEST CONTINUOUS WALKING DISTANCE ON EARTH SPANS 14,000 MILES. . Magadan 4,364 b 22.088 km CRACKED L'Agulhas One can journey from Magadan in Russia to Cape Town in South Africa without any flying or sailing involved, only relying on bridges and open roads. — Source

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Mental Disorders

There is a disorder where a person is under the delusion they are a cow. CRACKED.COM A person suffering from bo- anthropy usually has dreams that take over as full-blown delusion. King Nebuchad- nezzar, according to the Book of Daniel, was said to be driven from men and did eat grass as oxen. — Source

15

Roald Dahl

CRACKED ROALD DAHL Roald Dahl had a tough time growing up. Не lost his dad and sister when he was young, and then was in a car crash that ripped off his nose. — Wired / NY Times

14

Russia

The Russian Railway is long enough to wrap around the world twice. The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest train journey in the world, with a length of over 5,772 miles. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

13

Bad Predictions

65 50 REMOTE 5 DIAGNOSES 1905 CRACKED.COM The Popular Mechanics version of medical video conferencing included an electric handshake that touches you from afar. That didn't come to pass. And if it did, you know we'd have it shaking body parts for decidedly non-medical purposes. — Source: 15 Really Inaccurate Predictions About The Future

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Marilyn Manson

Turns out Marilyn Manson may be everything your parents warned you about. AVE C GRAGKED.COM Не was dropped from his record label Loma Vista Recordings after multiple women, including Evan Rachel Wood, accused him of sexual assault and false imprisonment. Не kept women locked up in a bad girls' room for long stretches without food or water. — Source

11

The Beatles

No one could hear The Beatles perform over their screaming audience, not even The Beatles. The Beatles gave up on caring about their performances. They'd stop properly tuning their instruments and even slipped in swear words and gobbledygook, knowing not a single person could hear them. CRACKED.COM — SSource: Uh ... The Beatles Concerts Were Pretty Terrible

10

Big Bird

Big Bird's species was revealed in an episode of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. During an episode in the 11th season of Mr. Rogers, Big Bird was asked if he was related to a cassowary, and Big Bird noted to Mr. Rogers that he was a Gold- en Condor. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Pechakucha

9

Hinduism

HINDU DHARMA BE CRACKED.COM Hindus were evolutionists long before Darwin, but the main objection to Darwinian evolution is that it sees consciousness as a product of matter instead of the soul. Life exists conceptually within God, and evolves in conjunction with the desires of the soul. For example, when the desire to see arises in the soul, the eye manifests. — Source: beliefnet

8

Three Kings

David О. Russell headbutted George Clooney. THREE KINGS CRACKED.COM Russell, a notorious turd, was known to overreact and scream at crew members. Clooney stepped up to him during one tirade, prompting Russell to headbutt him. Clooney neutralized the weapon by putting him in a headlock. — Source

7

Marilyn Monroe

CRACKED COM Marilyn Monroe's signature sexy whispery voice was a strategy to decrease her stutter. — Source

6

NASA

Fish dishes like SEAFOOD GUMBO aren't allowed on space shuttles because of how strong the odor is. CRACKED — hlphoto/Shutterstock,
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5

La La Land

The massive, 25-pound apple pie in La La Land has kind of a weird inspiration. Ryan Gosling brought a 25-pound apple pie to a dinner party in real life, and that inspired the massive pie stuck in the oven during Mia and Sebastian's dinner. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma has a panhandle because of Texas' racism. Liberal Loktahoma City Clinton Z Oklah Amarillo Lawton Wichita Falls When Texas joined the U.S. in 1845, a lil' bit part of it was in territory where slavery was illegal - so they just chopped it off, because being able to remain a slave state was more important. That land strip was a chaotic outlaw paradise for decades, until Oklahoma took it in in 1890. CRACKED.COM — Source

3

Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones asked for a 40-yard running track during the 2017 Coachella. The track was also air-conditioned. CRACKED.COM — Source

2

Emojis

This is what the very first emoji set, from 1999, looked like. a M Ye 6a YO X 00 OSr D 2 FAX 3 6 8 9 C OK sm0 ON pnd Each emoji's dimensions were just

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Ketchup

Heinz ketchup costs more than other brands. But you're paying for GRAGKED.COM the name and the jingle, not the taste. In multiple blind tests, Heinz ketchup was compared with cheaper brands and ranked based solely on taste. Heinz didn't come out HEINZ on top in any of them. EXTY 1869 EITE TOMATO KETCHUP 57 VARIETIES GROWN UPT MADE* - 300ml-3429 — Source: 25 Things Where Expensive Doesn't Mean Better

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