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It does look pretty cozy in that brain of yours

40 Random Bits of Trivia That Want to Move Into Your Skull Like a Hermit Crab

January 13, 2025

When these facts asked if they could move into your brain, we thought they were insane — until we took a look at it for ourselves. Wow. Just wow. That thing you got up there is nice. We don’t know what your daily regiment is, but every little nook, cranny and brain fold is like a New York City penthouse with a Central Park view.

You know what? Don’t read these facts, please. If they get up in your brain first, there might not be any room for us to snuggle up in there!

40

Ghostbusters

Louis Tully was SUPPOSED to be a swinging bachelor. The character was written as a portly young bachelor and indomitable swinger, with John Candy in

39

Grocery Stores

Stores are designed to make you spend more. Grocery stores are laid out to force you to walk past as many shelves as possible, increasing your chances

38

Moths

The Macrocilix maia moth confuses predators with design patterns on its wings that mimic two flies eating bird poop. It even releases a pungent odor to drive home the deception. The poop design and smell just about completes our knowledge of this species. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

37

The Simpsons

HA-HAW! YOU DiDn't know THAT neLson IS JOHN BenDeR! Not only is the Simpsons tough guy based on the Breakfast Club tough guy, but he shares a name wit — Source: 4 Cartoon Characters (Surprisingly) Based On Real People

36

Love Puzzles

Homemade Love Puzzles Diarest vot Love devive hickwid here your heartshirs I This flower Araminated Save, Arban Loyal hearts carnation to the confid bu Display# the viows are nove Commons to all The True love will joise Welle 40 bweet both to smell one No with So give beauts praises Fores do think where hearts hassing agree what has been When Sweetness That gold. There malice be all which clisson is can Mar Hripe war All must applaud great M R CRACKED.COM A form of 18th century Valentine, the intricately folded love letter would reveal new sentiments as the reader unfolded — Source: Women's History

35

The Lord of the Rings

New Line Cinema gambled their entire company on the success of the 'Lord of The Rings' franchise. CRACKED.COM They committed to all three films for more than $270 million up front in the early 2000s, and now Amazon is producing the 'Rings of Power' series for a reported $1 billion. — Source

34

Government Spending

When healthcare.gov launched and immediately crashed, the government paid $4 million to fix it. Affordable Care Act That money went to the same contractor who screwed it up. Despite the fact that the flaws were generated by the contractor, the CMS withheld only $267,420 of the $4 million. http://www bloomberg com/news/articles/2015-09-22/-s-paid- GRACKED.COM healthcare-gov-contractor-4-million-to-fix-its-own-mess — Source

33

Back to the Future

Marty McFly's Hooverboard went for $500,000 The prop from Back to the Future // was signed by Michael J. Fox and significantly outsold the estimated $80,000 to $100,000. CRACKED.COM — Source

32

Stephen King

LIFE AND LEGACY OF STEPHEN KING CRACKED.COM It took a long time for critics to take King seriously. The author was nre-shamed and mocked by critics for his literary tastes and horror works. It was only after the film adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption was released and received critical acclaim that people started paying more attention to him. After 1998, his books were finally marketed as literary fiction.

31

Anderson Cooper

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt. Famous since childhood. thanks to the multi- million-dollar trust fund battle between her

30

Predator 2

CRACKED.COM отосото PREDATOR 2 SOME PREDATORS WERE LOS ANGELES LAKERS. A huge Lakers fan, Danny Glover convinced some players to come on set and get dressed and fully made up as Predator extras in the final sequence. — Source: Eighties Kids

29

Red Lights

The average person will spend 6 months of their lives waiting for red lights to turn green. The average time spent waiting at a red light is 75 seconds, accounting for approximately a full fifth of all time behind the wheel for the average person. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Nacto

28

German Soldiers

CRACKED.COM Soldiers in an elite German unit are growing left breasts. w on m 123 In their drill, they're hitting that side of their chests with rifles over and over, and that seems to be making breast tissue grow. Scientists just aren't sure how. — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

27

Water Balloons

Water balloons can stop a bullet! Water slows down the speed of a bullet so much, 5 water balloons in a row can totally stop a bullet (even one from a rifle) CRACKED.COM — Source

26

Grandmaster Flash

GRANDMASTER FLASH COLLECTS MUGS The rapper keeps his collection of 5,000 souvenir mugs in a temperature-controlled room. CRACKED.COM — BBC

25

Gritty

Sports Reinvented GRITTY: THE PHILADELPHIA FLYERS MASCOT With Philly's Broad Street Bullies era in the '70s, it's clear that the Flyers' identity is things everyone else hates. The newest offense is Gritty, the ugliest, meanest mascot, who terrorizes fans and opposing players. CRACKED — GrittyNHL/Twitter
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24

Braille

YOUNG INVENTORS A BADASS 15-YEAR-OLD BLIND KID INVENTED BRAILLE. 10-year-old Louis Braille got to attend the only school for the blind in the entire world, in France. But he still felt he could learn even more if he could just read, so he got to work, and by age 15 he had invented the Braille alphabet as it is today. CRACKED.COM — PRESSLAB/Shutterstock
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23

Slave Insurance

Your insurance carrier might have sold slavery policies. In the 19th century, insurance companies sold slave owners policies against their human prope — More: 4 Storied American Institutions (With Screwed-Up Origins)

22

Sea Horses

SEA HORSES CRACKED.COM In this monogamous couple, the male gives birth to the offspring. Females compete for a specific male, and although they have a fairly short lifespan, these aquatic animals spend it together. — Source: rd.com

21

World War II

The most decorated American unit in WWII was almost exclusively a Japanese-American infantry regiment. CRACKED.COM The 442nd Regiment re- ceived more than 18,000 awards, including 9,500 Pur- ple Hearts, 5,200 Bronze Star Medals, 588 Silver Stars, 52 Distinguished Service Cross- es, and 7 Distinguished Unit Citations. — Source

20

Donkey Kong 64

Donkey Kong 64 was bundled with the N64 expansion pak because of a single bug. WINTENDO* EXPANSION PAK DONKEY OnlyFor INCLUDED! KONG64 - - to - - Para x DOLBY - G COLLECTOR'S EDITION YELLOW GAME PAK SURROUND PAL VERSION DONKEY NINTENDO KOME The mystery bug caused the game to crash randomly unless the pak was inserted. The game didn't really need the pak, but Rare convinced Nintendo to include it at great expense to fix that one stubborn bug. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

19

Marketing Mishaps

CRACKED #powergenitalia Powergen (UK's leading gas and electricity company) chose an unfortunate domain name for their Italian subsidiary. Powergen Italia really could've used some capitalisation. POWERGEN — Source

18

Grey’s Anatomy

Katherine Heigl started beef with her own writers CRACKED.COM Heigl made a whole thing about how she wasn't submitting herself for an Emmy, because she thought the writing on Grey's Anatomy wasn't up to snuff. The writers responded by, duh, writing her off the show. — Source

17

Rituals

Sagada, Philippines - Dead people hanging from a cliff - In coffins, that is. Coffins they made themselves before they died. It’s a nice little ritual — Source: 6 Creepy Places Where Dead Bodies Just Lay Out In The Open

16

Marx and Engels

Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works - The Communist Manifesto was the result of an epic booze-up. — Source: 7 Great Works Of Literature (Written While Wasted)

15

Iceland

Iceland had to move a 70 ton rock because protestors claimed it was an elf church. 62% of people in Iceland be- lieve in elves, and the con- struction of a proposed high- way would threaten the sanc- tity of their house of worship. The rock was moved, with the help of a crane, and con- struction resumed. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

14

Mean Girls

Tina Fey had to give Tim Meadows carpal tunnel. MEAN GIRLS CRACKED CO Meadows broke his wrist a week before filming started, and would need a cast for the entire shoot. Instead of kicking one of their biggest stars to the curb, Tina Fey decided the chronic condition would explain why — Source: ScreenRant

13

Dr. Dre

CRACKED DR. DRE Dr. Dre used to be part of the rap group N.W.A and, in 1992, he got into a few fights and was convicted of assault for breaking someone's jaw. Despite his rough past, Dre is now a successful producer and businessman with a pretty clean image. — Rollingstone / Pitchfork

12

The Okapi

The okapi is an animal that likes its privacy, preferring to live a solitary life within a large secluded area. They mark their territory with a sticky tar-like substance coming from their hooves. And urine, of course. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Hand Sanitizer

CRACKED CON Hand sanitizers kill 99.99% of germs* *Under laboratory conditions. When tested in real world settings, they kill as few as 46% of germs.

10

Frogs

At 7-8mm in length, the Paedophryne amauensis frog from Papua New Guinea are the smallest known vertebrates on Earth. Here's one sitting on a dime. CRACKED.COM — 38 Real Size Comparisons That Will Make Your Head Explode

9

Weasels

The Chippewa thought a weasel could make use of its small size to overcome a Wendigo. CRACKED.COM The North American tribe of Chippewa believed a weasel could kill the dreaded Wendigo by rushing up its anus. This method of dispatching a strong foe was sadly not used in Avengers: Endgame, despite Ant-Man being RIGHT THERE. — Wisconsin Chippewa Myths & Tales

8

Terrible Predictions

50 DEMOCRACY 5 1936 CRACKED.COM Democracy will be dead by 1950. -John Langdon-Davies, British journalist. Yeah, it got hairy there for a bit, but they haven't quite managed to get rid of democracy so far. — Source

7

Bobbing for Apples

Bobbing for apples was part matchmaking, part fortune telling. Young women would mark their apples in secret before dumping them in a water barrel. The men would then try to catch the apples with their mouths, resulting in future matchup predictions. CRACKED.COM — Source

6

Immigration

CRACKED AN UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT WAS WORKING FOR US IMMIGRATION SERVICES. A former CBP officer was shocked to find out he was an undocumented immigrant. Не had been working for US immigration services for almost 20 years and suddenly had to start trying to get the opportunity to stay in the country. — CNN

5

Randy Quaid

Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now RANDY QUAID is an Oscar- nominated actor. НЕ THEN WENT FULL MAGA, and started supporting networks too extreme RIN even for Fox News. And this without even mentioning his star whacker conspiracy theory about movie star assassins he claims killed Heath Ledger. CRACKED.COM — Source

4

The Oldest Love Poem

The oldest known love poem 2037-2029 BC It's an erotic love poem from an unknown female speaker directed to Shu-Sin, king of the Neo-Sumerian Empire. CRACKED.COM — Source: Atlas Obscura

3

Zoolander 2

Zoolander DRAKE SATHER CRACKED.COM Comedian Drake Sather created (and named) Derek Zoolander, and wrote sketches that he and Ben Stiller molded into the screenplay. Не sadly killed himself in 2004, and Stiller dedicated the 2016 sequel to him. — Esquire / Reddit

2

Carl Switzer

Actors with cursed lives Carl Switzer ALFALFA in OUR GANG On 1959, Switzer died in a fight, allegedly about money. Не was 31. CRACKED — Halcyon Studios
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1

Friends

MATT LANC 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

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