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43 Nourishing Bits of Trivia to Holistically Replenish Your Fact-Depleted Brain

January 06, 2025

Your brain doesn’t need a full week away at some swanky resort to feel relaxed and recharged. Just a few minutes with this list should do the trick. Consider it a mini-meditation or a micro-massage of sorts. The magic fingers on these facts will make those brain folds melt.

You might honestly experience a little post-vacation blues after this one.

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Defenestration

15 Amazing Festivals You Wish You Could Celebrate Right Now - A neighborhood in Johannesburg saves its broken furniture and appliances throughout the — Source: Wall Street Journal

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Bill Tytla

WHO WAS BILL TYTLA? BILL TYTLA DEFINED YOUR CHILDHOOD DECADES BEFORE YOU WERE BORN. The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin... Those were all attempts to recreate the lush animation style Disney achieved during Tytla's tenure. So if ever enjoyed a Disney movie, you can thank this intense, energetic, mustached gentleman. — Source: Vladimir Tytla, Master Animator, by John Canemaker (via AnimationResources.org)

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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson's parrot had to be expelled from his owner's funeral... Because it wouldn't stop swearing. cRac

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The Sims

Iconic by random chance Same-sex relationships in The Sims The Sims accidentally allowed same- sex relationships to occur, during a live demo at E3 in 1999. It happened because a programmer received an outdated design document. CRACKED — Source

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Angelo Faticoni

A freak show performer in the early 20th century could stay afloat in water for hours. GRAGKED.COM Angelo Faticoni was known as the Human Cork, who could not sink, even with 20 pound weights attached to his ankles. Doctors concluded he did not have abnormal internal organs, but Faticoni died before he could reveal his secret. — Source

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John Lennon

John Lennon almost got beaten up at the Playboy mansion after he put his cigarette out on a Matisse painting. CRACKED.COM Lennon was in Los An- geles in 1974 during an infamous period in his life when he was drink- ing heavily due to a pro- longed split from his wife, Yoko Ono. — Contact Music / Wikipedia

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Horn Player’s Palsy

Horn Player's Palsy Playing the horn can result in weakening and contraction of the facial muscles. Then the nerves become inflamed, leading to facial — Source: Trumpet Doctors

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Star Wars

Alderaan got blown up in Star Wars because Alderaan scenes were too expensive. George Lucas' initial idea was for Alderaan to be the site of the prison Leia would get rescued from, but he didn't have as much money as he wanted, so he just put all those scenes on the Death Star. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Frank Zappa

The song Valley Girl perfectly captured' '80s slang. That slang was rnade up on the spot as an insult. The spoken parts of the song were improvised

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Dali

When Dali's remains were exhumed, his mustache was still perfectly intact X His body was removed for DNA samples for a paternity case, 28 years after his death. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Citrus

Foods we've been engineering for centuries CITRUS FRUITS Citrus fruits originated in Asia and were domesticated about 3,300 years ago, but they were too sour to eat. Eventually, a mutation of a single gene changed them to the sweet citrus fruits we know today, shortly after they were first grown as a crop. CRACKED — New Africa/Shutterstock,
Giuseppe Mosca/Shutterstock
OpenMind

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The Godfather

VITO CORLEONE is mostly FRANK COSTELLO. Don Corleone is a mashup of a few real-life crime bosses, but his life story and his diplomatic ways most closely resemble those of Costello, the Prime Minister of the Underworld. — Source: Den of Geek

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Ancient Rome

Virgil hated the epic poem he spent 11 years writing. llytar THE AENEID Virgil's Aeneid is the majesty BY an ode to of Rome, and it's considered one o

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Aliens

Aliens (1986) James Cameron tried to scare Newt actress Carrie Henn on set, but couldn't. Henn said that she always knew when it was a fake effect or a rubber chicken or whatever he tried to use to give her a fright, but it was only when she actually saw the movie that she legitimately felt scared. CRACKED.COM — Red Carpet News TV

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High Altitudes

CRACKED Why do recipes not give the right results at high altitudes? At higher altitudes, water boils faster, evaporation is quicker, and gasses expand more, which can mess up baking. Cakes can rise too fast, egg whites can burst, and yeast breads can over-proof. — Visual Storyteller/Shutterstock
Epicurious

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The Conjuring 2

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2016 THE CONJURING 2 Director James Wan talked about self-moving curtains: None of the doors were opened ... They just moved on their own. And I just watched the video Patrick showed me and this person who was filming just walked right up to the curtain ... and there's no one there swaying it, and there's no wind in the room. CRACKED.COM — New Line Cinema, Warner Bros.
The Star

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Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much

CRACKED CRACKING THE PRICE IS RIGHT'S CODE. The 2017 doc Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much follows Ted Slauson's 37 appearances, his multiple wins and perfect bids, and his help in getting a man the show's only perfect Showcase Showdown bid. This wasn't illegal, but the show made it virtually impossible for this to happen again. t:he PIRi i!S ALig VEAD — The Internet Says It's True / The Sun

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St. Patrick

Everyone honors St. Patrick by wearing green. But St. Patrick's official color is blue. The earliest depictions of St. Patrick show him clothed entirely in blue, not green, and when George III created a new order of chivalry for the Kingdom of Ireland, the Order of St. Patrick, its official color was a sky blue, known as St. Patrick's Blue. Blue was originally the color of Ireland, and a gold harp on a blue background still appears on the Irish constitution and presidential flag. The color green represents the divide between Ireland and Great Britain. CRACKED.COM http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/should-st-patricks-day-be-blue-180954572/ — Source

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Relatives

BERNIE SANDERS is David's distant cousin Larry David prayed Sanders wouldn't get the nomination as he didn't want to spend four years doing SNL. That would have beek OK by Bernie. I think we'll use Larry at our next rally. He does better than I do. — Deadline

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Snake Bites

A snake killed a man visiting for his brother's funeral, after he died from a snakebite. CRACKED.COM A man in India who had come to attend the last rites of his brother who died from a snake bite was killed after being bitten by a snake in his sleep. — Indian Express

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Crime Facts

LETTING A CONVICTED ROBBER GO FREE FOR 13 YEARS BIG OOPS! Due to a bureaucratic snafu, Missouri lost track of a guy sentenced to prison for armed robbery. Не stayed free until he was arrested at his home, 13 years later, and taken to jail. Не hadn't even changed his name or moved out of town. CRACKED — Fer Gregory/Shutterstock
St. Louis Riverfront Times

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Lemmings

43 Nourishing Bits of Trivia to Holistically Replenish Your Fact-Depleted Brain — Source: Alaska

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Michael Bay

Michael Bay is obsessed with West Side Story. It's the movie that motivated him to go into filmmaking. He begrudgingly took a class on musical theater

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Prison’s One Free Phone Call Rule

MYTH8 When you're arrested, you get one free phone call. FAGT Nope, that's absolutely not the law. The one phone call rule is purely a Hollywood inv

19

Wolverine

Celebrity Workouts HUGH JACKMAN lifts like a Wolverine. To stay as fit as an X-Man, Jackman does bunch of deadlifts and Olympic-style weightlifting into his routine, on top of intense cardio on the treadmill or a swim. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Peel P50

The Peel P50 car was designed for a single driver and one shopping bag. - TRIDENT CRACKED.COM Because it had no re- verse gear, drivers had to walk out of the car and physically drag it around, which was do- able because it weighed only 130lbs. — AutoFocus / Wikipedia

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Halloween

One Halloween store, Spirit Halloween, spends most of the year scouting. They scout for locations, and spend months negotiating deals to rent those locations as retail spaces for a brief pre-Halloween period. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vox

16

KFC

KFC offers a popular Christmas meal package in Japan Kentucky Christmas It's so popular they recommend ordering two months in advance. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

15

Trees

There is a registry for really, really big trees. GRACKED COM In 1940, the American Forestry Association asked the public to nomi- nate large trees in their area and added those trees to the National Reg- ister of Champion Trees. — Source

14

The Matrix

The Matrix grew out of Lilly Wachowski's rage. It was a rage at capitalism and corporatized structure and forms of oppression, and it was about my own oppression, that I myself to remain in the closet. CRACKED.COM — The Hollywood Reporter

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Colin Farrell

Celebrity Superstitions Colin Farrell's lucky belt. The gift from his father is falling apart, but he's spent over £3,000 over the years on repairs and restorations. Не once lost it and offered a £16,000 reward for its safe return. CRACKED — Andrea Raffin/Shutterstock,
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The Independent

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Grey’s Anatomy

DR. ERICA HAHN WASA BREAKOUT CHARAGTER on REY'SANATOMY BUT In seAson 6, SHE WALKED OUT TO HER CAR AND WAS never seen AGAIN. She was an open lesbian wh

11

Elf

Many of the scenes in Elf were filmed at an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Vancouver. CRACKED.COM In the '50s, Riverview Hospital was home to more than 4,000 ра- tients. The X Files, Super- natural, Saw, Deadpool 2, and many others have filmed scenes on the site. — Source

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Radiohead

MHR L-J. KI h HND IT 0 OS D Gue VAL $ FANUZI IS IN LEN SCREEN PINB OUT VAL $ SIN japr г akecos T K PI UVAL SPOINT t There's an 8-bit i secret EE IQFN VAL R message hidden G CREEN$ AT INKEY $ in Radiohead's Ui UW remastering of T O PI OmNot OK COMPUTER. 1 VAL SC M ORNDU ARREL ] m m U E The 2017 release came with a C90 cassette that needs a British 8-bit ZX Spectrum computer or an emulator of one to read the words and images encoded on it. CRACKED.COM — The Verge

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World War II

CRACKED A DEADLY DECISION. In 1940, it was unclear if the ships approaching Norway were Allies or Nazis. Col. Birger Eriksen had a feeling they were Nazis, and said, I will either be decorated or court-martialled. Open fire! Не was right, and gave the King and government time to flee Oslo. — YouTube / Wikipedia

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Grand Theft Auto

Samuel L. Jackson is a commanding presence on film. And in GTA, he's commandingly evil. Jackson voices Officer Tenpenny, the central villain in Grand

7

The Manhattan Project

THE MANHATTAN PROJECT CONTINUED POST-HIROSHIMA. DOCTORS INJECTED UNWITTING PATIENTS WITH PLUTONIUM. They also pulled 15 teeth from the first injectee, — For details, read 5 Military Experiments That Told Ethics To F*ck Right Off

6

Gift-Giving

Giving gifts matters, but it's all in how you give them. In one study, when a waiter gave diners two mints at the end of a meal, the waiter's average

5

Futurama

UTURA4 CRACKED.COM The character of Fry originally looked like that but was redesigned to look like that.

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Borat

CRACKED BORAT was sued by... Well, everyone. The villagers of Glod, Romania sued for implying they were incestuous. The two frat bros in the van scene sued for defamation, and Jeffrey Lemmerond sued for using his image. Artist Esma Redžepova was the only winner. She claimed her song was used without permission, and was awarded €26,000 out of her €800,000 lawsuit. — 20th Century Studios
Decider

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Multi-Level Marketing Schemes

GRAGKED.COM If you're planning to invest in multi-level marketing schemes, don't bother. More than 99 percent of those who participate lose money and only a few actually gain profit. — Source

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Bali

CRACKED BALI'S DAY OF SILENCE. In Bali, New Year has 24 hours of silence and meditation known as Nyepi. There is no talking, travel, work, or activities, and the only people outside are the Pecalang - Security enforcing the rules. Doesn't this sound better than a hangover at brunch? — Source

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Young Sheldon

The guy who hosted Blue's Clues also wrote the Young Sheldon theme song. Steve Burns not only wrote and performed the song Mighty Little Man, but he also showed up in a cameo on an episode of Young Sheldon. CRACKED.COM — Source: TVGuide

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