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39 Social Bits of Trivia That Can’t Wait to Mingle With the Other Facts in Your Brain

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39 Social Bits of Trivia That Can’t Wait to Mingle With the Other Facts in Your Brain

January 15, 2025

These dolled-up little tidbits have been waiting all day for this moment. Once they heard that your brain was hosting a swanky little fact soiree, they rushed to the store for something to wear, spent all day grooming, researched great talking points and are about to down a dry martini before bursting into those big double doors in your skull.

They’re truly about to have the time of their lives.

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David Bowie

Myths with real-life consequences Ghosts (that check up on you from the afterlife) According to someoone close to him, David Bowie said his dad's ghost called him every day for a week after he died. It was always at the same time, so he was sure it was his dad WX from beyond. CRACKED — Source

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Jake from State Farm

JAKE STATE FARM LAP DANCE A FILM BY GREG CARTER Fast money Before he offered great rates at State Farm, Kevin Miles made it rain as Kevin the Customer in the Carmen Electra vehicle Lap Dance. FYI: Unlike Jake, she doesn't wear khakis. — YouTube

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The Goonies

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Carlos Kaiser

CRACKED.COM CARLOS KAISER FAKED A WHOLE SPORTS CAREER. For over 20 years, Brazilian Carlos Kaiser Raposo was hailed as a soccer star-without ever playing. Не managed this by being charismatic while constantly faking injuries and feeding stories about his feats to the media. His real talent was hoodwinking everyone-even a dangerous gangster who hired him to play for his team. — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Head

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JB Smoove

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM JB SMOOVE PITCHED A TON OF ODD SKETCHES TO SNL THAT GOT REJECTED. NB One of them, for example, was about a bank teller who gets a job as a Subway sandwich maker and compulsively licks sandwich ingredients as if they were stacked dollar bills. — Source: 13 Rejected Saturday Night Live Sketches We'll Never Get To See

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Bismack Biyombo

An NBA player is donating his entire season salary to build a hospital in DR Congo. Phoenix Suns player Bismack Biyombo is taking his seven figure salary back to his home, in memory of his late father who he lost in 2021. CRACKED.COM — Source: CNN

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Snoop Dogg

CRACKED Snoop Dog thanks Tupac Shakur for his entire personality - Rock & . Roll HoF Snoop describes meeting Tupac (and Mary Jane) in 1993: And on the night, 'Pac passed me my first blunt. That's right, Tupac is the one who got Snoop Dogg smokin' blunts. 2017 — Youtube

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Potato Park in Peru

Potato Park in Peru houses samples of 2300 of the 4000 varieties of potatoes in the world. The seed bank is managed by indigenous communities and focuses on Andean crops and plants. CRACKED.COM — Heinrich Boll Stiftung

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Julius Caesar

GENERAL GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR WAS FAMED FOR BEING SUCH A LADIES' MAN THAT HIS OWN SOLDIERS OFTEN MARCHED TO THE TUNE OF ROMANS, LOCK UP YOUR WIVES. THE

30

Kratos

20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - When designing Kratos, the God Of War team looked to Edward Norton's character in American — Read More: 5 Characters Amazingly Based on Real People

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Kevin Hart

Kevin Hart's dad was a drug addict who went in and out of jail all the time. IY leve Hart's older brother Robert later described their childhood this way: We come from a fucked-up situation. We come from the worst living conditions. CRACKED.COM — Source: Variety.com

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Tattoos

A police officer was fired after getting tattoos that say Pure Evil on his hands. USB 020N CITY ELA M.V. MAKOWSKI CRACKED.COM A month before officer Eric Weyda was reas- signed for his tattoo, he was counseled for do- ing a burnout in his per- sonal vehicle in the dis- trict 3 parking lot. — WLWT

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Adele

Adele knits pom-poms, and even sells them through an Etsy account. I have a new hobby making pom-poms. I'm quite good at it! I am such a natural. I made a real cat on purpose, she told a concert crowd in 2017. CRACKED.COM — Source: NME

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Space

CRACKED THE COLDEST PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE IS THE BOOMERANG NEBULA. Located at about 5,000 light-years from Earth, its temperature is -458°F (-272°C), which is just one degree above absolute zero. — Source

25

Spock

Spock was originally supposed to have red skin. But TV sets at the time were still black-and-white, so Spock would have looked black on screen. So, thankfully, Gene Roddenberry dropped the idea. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Lava Lamps

The lava lamp was invented by an ACCOUNTANT Edward Craven Walker, a British accountant, created the lava lamp. Не was also known for making nudist films that were set underwater, as you do. Truly a Renaissance man. CRACKED — Paket/Shutterstock
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23

Skittles

The United States is the only country with grape Skittles. $ In other countries the purple Skittles are blackcurrant, a fruit which was banned in the the USA in the early 20th century because they thought the plants were transmitters of a wood-destroying disease. CRACKED.COM — Source: 29 Ways America Is Super Weird, Compared To Other Countries

22

Nick Fury

In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, a line from Ezekiel 25:17 is shown on Nick Fury's tombstone. COl. NICHOLAS T FUry THE PATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS

21

Jason Momoa

JASON MOMOA MADE UP A MODELING CAREER. BAYWATCH: HAWAII When Momoa went to audition for the show, he almost got turned away for not having an acting r — square mile

20

Mad Max: Fury Road

CLIMATE CHANGE MOVIES MAD MAX: FURY ROAD THE MOVIE ALMOST HAD NO SCENES IN THE CITADEL. With the production over budget and behind schedule, the studio gave the crew a tight deadline despite the initial and final scenes not being shot yet. Editing showed the movie to be incomprehensible, so a year after filming wrapped, the studio ponied up the money for the Citadel scenes. CRACKED.COM — 4 Ways ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Seemed Destined To Fail

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Russell Crowe

Hollywood feuds RUSSELL CROWE VS A GLADIATOR PRODUCER While filming Gladiator, Crowe allegedly threatened seasoned producer Branko Lustig, and said that he would kill him with his bare hands, because he was annoying the hell out of him. CRACKED — Source

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Ancient Art

We solved a mystery of the Venus of Willendorf Created over 30,000 years ago, the ancient piece of art is now believed to have been made from material from Italy. That shows us that the material moved from south of the Alps to the Danube north of the Alps, an incredibly long journey for early modern humans. CRACKED.COM — Source

17

Bread

16 Products In Wide Use (That Don't Do Much) - Whole wheat is good for you ... if that bread you buy is marked “100% whole wheat.” Otherwise, you’re j — Source: Cleveland Clinic

16

Rage Against the Machine

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE ATURDAYNIGHTLIVE APRIL 13, 1996 CRACKED COM Profanity, an upside down flag, then flinging shreds of said flag into the dressi — Life and Times

15

Buckethead

Buckethead is prolific to an almost extraterrestrial degree. He has released more than 300 albums in his career- most of them made since CRIC 2013 whe

14

Porn

A man was acquitted because people watch too much porn. In 1996, Utah resident Larry Peterman was indicted for carrying obscene material in his video store. But his lawyer proved that Peterman wasn't breaking any community standards. Не just showed that that particular community consumed even more porn than America on average. CRACKED.COM — Source

13

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings trilogy mixed hobbits, dwarves, and humans. With forced perspective. Making normal-sized actors look vastly different in size wa

12

Cyndi Lauper

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11

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin's debut was slaughtered by critics. Rolling Stone's John Mendelsohn bashed Jimmy Page's weak, unimaginative songs and called Robert Pla

10

Watchmen

In the Watchmen TV show, a book on the sheriff's desk is a big Easter egg. UNDER THE HOOD He's reading Under the Hood-that's Nite Owl's autobiography, bits of which show up at the end of the original comic book's chapters. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Comic Book Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Their Source Material

9

The Cavalry

There is one recorded case of men on horseback capturing a naval fleet. In the Battle of Texel in January 1795, a fleet of 14 Dutch ships was trapped in ice near Texel Island. The French heard of that and sent infantry, cavalry, and horse artillery forces to capture them. Apparently, there was no fighting - after a five-day standoff, the ships surrendered. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

8

Sequoia Trees

CRACKED.COM Sequoia seeds Grown sequoia — Source

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Game of Thrones

You can learn the High Valyrian language from 'Game of Thrones' on Duolingo. GAME OF THRONES CRACKED.COM High Valyrian is the Latin-like language used in formal circum- stances by the fiction- al nobility of Essos and Westeros. — Duolingo

6

Rush Hour

Jackie Chan doesn't really like the Rush Hour films he made. Chan said he found the ac- tion to be too American- ized and he did not under- stand the humor. Не re- turned for a sequel after being offered an irresist- ible amount of money. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

5

Pearl Harbor

They really kept donated blood in Coke bottles in the hospital at Pearl Harbor. It happens in the Michael Bay film, but it's not made up. A nurse who worked there said, It did happen, even though it seems awful unsanitary. CRACKED.COM — Entertainment Weekly

4

Growing Human Brains Inside of Mice

Growing human brains inside of mice CRACKED.COM Scientists at Stanford have been studying neurological disorders by injecting human stem cells into the brains of rats.The brains began influencing the rats' behavior, which doesn't necessarily mean anyone is trapped inside a rat, but, well... it's not like they could tell us. — NBC News

3

The Innkeepers

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2011 THE INNKEEPERS The movie is based on a haunted hotel Ti West where and his crew stayed while shooting The House of the Devil. During production, they witnessed flickering lights, slamming doors, and according to West, actress Sara Paxton would wake up in the middle of the night thinking someone was in the room with her. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sperm

A study found that daily ejaculation can increase sperm quality in men. After a group of 118 men ejaculated every day for a week, there was an 8% impr

1

Barack Obama

Barack Obama earned the nickname O'bomber in high school. CRACKED.COM Obama played on his high school basketball team with a group of friends who gave him the nickname Barry O'bomber because of the long-range jump shots he loved taking. — ABC News

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