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40 Random Bits of Trivia Longing to Escape the Confines of Our Brains

Maybe they’ll find solace in your brain

40 Random Bits of Trivia Longing to Escape the Confines of Our Brains

January 14, 2025

If your brain was a ship in the ocean of knowledge, tell it to keep an eye out for random facts on life rafts below. We know that it’s on a clear mission for unknown truths in the new world, but random facts slip away all the time, and are begging to be rescued.

Right now, for instance. This stranded group of facts are frantically waving their hands on a makeshift raft as we speak. Pull up slowly and let them climb aboard.

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Pumbaa

Pumbaa was the first Disney character to fart on screen. Before The Lion King, no other Disney character audibly farted on a film. (That said, we have no idea which characters silently farted in previous movies. Smart money is on Tinker Bell.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chris Pine

Idris Elba gave Chris Pine a black eye. STAR TREK BEYOND CRACKED.COM Elba was exhausted while filming a fight scene, and accidentally landed a punch, hard. — Source

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Makeup

CRACKED.COM Cosmo did a test between $147 in drugstore makeup and $513 in department store makeup. The end result? The difference is negligible, and unless you know, you could never tell the difference. — 25 Things Where Expensive Doesn't Mean Better

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Tony Iommi

40 Random Bits of Trivia Longing to Escape the Confines of Our Brains

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Freaky Clowns

Myths with real-life consequences Clown panic In 2016, clowns started scaring people in the U.S. and UK. Hundreds of kids called the UK's National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children worried about them, and it kept happening for a while. CRACKED — Source

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Serial Killers

CRACKED.COM MORE SERIAL KILLERS ARE BORN IN JANUARY THAN ANY OTHER MONTH A study of 293 serial killer spread across 29 countries all over the world revealed that 11.2% of those were born in January, even though the month of January has 7.9% of all births. Fun fact: Hannibal Lecter was born on January 20, 1933. — Source

34

Mohammed V of Morocco

Mohammed V of Morocco protected Jewish people in Casablanca from the Nazis. Не reportedly told them, There are no Jews in Morocco. There are only Moroccan subjects. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

33

Earth’s Core

Scientists say EARTH'S CORE made of solid iron and the size of Pluto, may have stopped spinning in a 70-year cycle and reversed direction. CRACKED — Maxx-Studio/Shutterstock
Sky News

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The Seapod

A $1.5 million floating home prototype capsized immediately after being unveiled. GRACKED.COM The SeaPod by Ocean Builders features 300 square feet of living space and air filled steel tubes that results in buoyancy-or at least, they should. — Unilad / Wikipedia

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Star Wars

CRACKED.COM Lightsaber combat is based on all forms of swordplay. Stunt coordinator Nick Gillard created the amazing lightsaber fights in the Star Wars prequels. Не basically came up with a new martial art by combining a ton of forms of sword fighting - and even things unrelated to swords, like tennis or tree-chopping. — Source: 15 Random Facts To Share With The World At Large

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Star Trek

Red Shirt, Short Life Number of crew deaths in Star Trek: The Original Series: 59 Number of Red Shirt Deaths: 43 79% of dead crew-members wore red shirts. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Rock

The Rock CRACKED.COM Yeah, no duh, The Rock was a pro wrestler. But before that, he won a national championship with the Miami Hurricanes as a defensive end. An injury kept him out of the NFL, but he played Canadian ball for a little while. — Source: 14 Startlingly Athletic Hollywood Actors

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The Drunk Moose

AGNES WESTLUND WAS BLUDGEONED TO DEATH. POLICE ARRESTED HER HUSBAND. Then forensic analysis came back. She had the hair and saliva of a moose on her. Poor Agnes had been randomly kicked to death by a moose. A drunk moose-the local gardens were strewn with fermented apples. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 True Crimes That Seem Impossible

27

Heinz

CRACKED HEINZ: HELPING ONE MAN RECOVER FROM A MONTH OF KETCHUP-Y DOOM. Heinz is helping out a man who was stuck at sea for a month with just ketchup and spices. They're helping him get a new boat with the latest navigation tools. HEINZ HEINZ NET ESTP 1869 TOMATO TOMATO TIME KETCHUP KETCHUP 57 VARIETIES & 20 g - (1LB400) - — WDSU / Washington Post

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Dale Schroeder

A man called Dale Schroeder used his life savings to send 33 students to college. CRACKED.COM Не grew up poor in lowa, never married, had no children, and worked as a carpenter at the same company for 67 years and only owned 2 jeans. — CBS / Pexels

25

The Great Hypostyle Hall

Part of the Karnak Temple The Great Hypostyle Hall is the largest room of any religious building in the world. Built by Pharaoh Seti I and completed b

24

Jennifer Lawrence

40 Random Bits of Trivia Longing to Escape the Confines of Our Brains

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Cigarettes

Cigarettes made by American brands contain sugar, which makes them even more addictive and toxic. GRAGKED.COM — Source

22

The Siege of Antwerp

One of the earliest weapons of mass destruction was used during the Siege of Antwerp in 1585. CRACKED.COM A Dutch explosive fire ship containing 4 tons of explo- sive rammed a fortified Spanish bridge, killing 800 Spaniards, causing a small tsunami, and vibrating windows 22 miles away. — Source

21

The Walking Dead

Negan from The Walking Dead got his name in a pretty weird way. Creator Robert Kirkman wanted a name that sounded negative, so he tired using Nagus, but DS9 already had a Nagus, so he came up with Negan. CRACKED.COM — Source: ComicBook.com

20

Doctor Strange

CRACKED COM The 2016 Doctor Strange isn't the superhero's first live-action film. The 1978 Doctor Strange TV movie was initially created for CBS as a TV pilot, but was ultimately rejected. — Source: Pop Culture That's Older Than It Seems

19

The Lord of the Rings

PETER JACKSON had Shelob from The Lord of the Rings be based on the tunnelweb spider. That's a harmless but scary-looking bug from New Zealand Jackson hates above all other spiders (and that's saying something, as he's an arachnophobe). CRACKED.COM — Entertainment Weekly & Ben Britton (via Wikimedia Commons)

18

American Express

GRAGKED.COM AMERICAN EXPRESS (THE CARD) IS MUCH NEWER THAN AMERICAN EXPRESS (THE COMPANY). American Express was founded as a AM, EX.CO shipping business in 1850, over 100 years EXPRESS er AMERICAN before it issued its first credit card. AMERICAN EXPRESS WORLD SERVICE AMERICAN EXPRE RICAN EXPRESS AMERICA PRESS MER RESSI WORLD SERV WORLD SERVICE SS AMERICAN EXPRESS — Source

17

Avengers: Endgame

Ridiculous Behind-The-Scenes Stories From Your Favorite Movies And Shows - On the shoot for the Avengers: Endgame funeral scene, Gwyneth Paltrow — Source: Empire Online

16

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych isn't about Monroe's death, but about her life. 0 30 Or 0 01 OF 10 Os 0 0 0f 0 0f O The colorful side represents her p

15

Dennis Rodman

Dennis Rodman stomps a camera guy in the nards CRACKED COM When Rodman was bumped out of bounds in a 1997 game against the Timberwolves, he landed on a pile of photographers. In a huff, he heeled the nearest set of nads to his Nikes, a decision that would cost him — Source: YouTube

14

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston didn't speak to her mother, Nancy Dow, for years due to the latter being overly critical towards Aniston's looks.

13

101 Dalmations

CRACKED.COM P 101 DALMATIANS HAS A SEQUEL ABOUT A DOG RAPTURE. In The Starlight Barking, written by the same author as the original book, all dogs gain the ability to levitate and telepathically talk, as Sirius the Dog Star tries to save them from nuclear war. Also, there's a subplot about a cat trying to murder Cruella de Vil. — Source: 14 Random Facts to Shovel into Knowledge-Hungry Skulls

12

The Simpsons

The Arabic version of The Simpsons was almost a completely different show. RUCK The beer-swilling, bacon-loving lout that is Homer Simpson turned into a juice drinking, halal abiding man named Omar Shamshoon. The Arabic dub also cut strong religious references and scenes featuring Moe's Tavern. The end result left audiences confused as a lot was lost in translation. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Back to the Future

Back to the Future's iconic hoverboards... HOVER em $711 were made possible thanks to huge cranes and extensive wiring systems that kept the actors fr — Source: This Is The History Of

10

The First Website

THE FIRST WEBSITE IS STILL UP AND RUNNING. World Wide Web The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative Everything there is online about W3 1S linked directly or indirectly to this document, What's out there? Pointers to the world's online information, subjects, W3 servers, etc. Help on the browser you are using Software Products GRACKED.COM A list of W3 project components and their current state (eo The very first site to go live on the net was a simple page that helped inform the public about this new-fangled World Wide Web. launched in 1991 by CERN, the — Source: CERN

9

Hollywood

In the 1920s, the Hollywood sign used to be lit by thousands of light bulbs. HOLLYWOOD CRACKED.COM The guy who changed them lived in a little cabin near the sign, and had to replace non-working bulbs with fresh ones every day. — Source

8

The Victoria Airport

Canadian airport's extension worth almost $3.5 million turned out to be unusable. 2 The taxiway extension at the Victoria International Airport was supposed to make the airport safer and cut down on plane fuel consumption, but it was built in one of the control tower's blind spots - so it can't — Source: GoldStream Gazette

7

Michael Richards

CRACKED MICHAEL RICHARDS Michael Richards unleashed a tirade of racial slurs during a stand-up comedy set at the Laugh Factory, and was met with shock and disbelief from the audience. Не was responding to a comment from someone in the crowd who said he wasn't funny. — CBS News / IMDB

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Robert Zemeckis

CRACKED.COM Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis wasn't the first choice as a director. Barry Sonnenfeld was going to direct, but left to do Addams Family Values. Terry Gilliam was also considered, who simply turned it down. — Wikipedia

5

The Bay of Pigs

The Bay of Pigs invasion failed because the Pentagon forgot Middle BEAC about time zones. The plan for the 1961 invasion of Cuba was a 10 9 1 6 5 A 3 8 3 two-pronged attack: 7 6 4 5 ground troops and air 12 I support working 3 2 10 II 12 I together. 2 17747 9 4 Unfortunately, the Pentagon neglected 7 to take the time 12 / difference between 2 3 9 10 // 5 12 / A 2 3 Nicaragua and Cuba into 8 9 . 10 12 account, and the fighter KK المام PA PUERTO — Source

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SPAM

Bill Gates on SPAM: 2004 CRACKED.COM Gates had some high hopes for spam filters back in 2004: Two years from now, spam will be solved. Не envisioned a system where users would charge spammers a small fee for every email. — Source: 14 Smart People Who Said And Did Utterly Dumb Things

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The Passion of the Christ

Behind-The-Scenes Accidents 2004 The Passion of the Christ Former respected thespian and current QAnon wacko Jim Caviezel pretty much went through JC's ordeal. Не ended up with whip gashes and hypothermia, and carrying the cross dislocated his shoulder. Не was even struck by lighting-which was clearly God telling him, you're not gonna disrespect my son by becoming a QAnon wacko, right? CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia, Wikipedia

2

The U.S. Air Force

In the 1950s, the US Air Force tried to design a cockpit to fit the average pilot's body. CRACKED.COM After measuring 4000 pilots they discovered that none of them came close to having an aver- age body. This led to the introduction of adjust- able seats. — Source

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The God Helmet

michael Persinger TY- 3 CRACKED CON Persinger invented a helmet to see God. It's a modified snowmobile helmet with magnetic fields, and most people wh — Source: Wired

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