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41 Intrigued Bits of Trivia That Want to Know As Much About You As You Want to Know About Them

January 16, 2025

We hope you don’t think that this fact-consumption game is a one-way street. Sure, it might be at first, but once these facts get in your brain, they want to know about you too. They don’t just sit in their room, wasting away. They like to roam the halls and look through the photo albums of your memories.

It’s a mutually beneficial exchange, because you’re just as interesting as any one of these little tidbits.

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French Coffee Shop

There's a Coffee Shop in France that charges extra if you don't say hello and please. RENU Alfogato 10/200 ADITION FRENCH PRESSIT K 22/24X Coppuer TUBRUK 17K 5/268 jtk coje b V60 VIA top JAPANESE BREW 20K a 24/26 2/2416 Eat LICE Drink RELAX NE HAPPY COFFEE FFEE SETA The manager of Petite Syrah, Fabrice Pepino, started it as a joke after encountering too many customers who dropped their manners when they were in a hurry. CRACKED.COM — Mirror

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Polish Toy

WEIRD WORLD Wal-Mart pulled a toy that literally swore and sang about doing cocaine. Walmart Supercentre The toy spoke in Polish, which kind of helped hide what it was talking about. Anyway, you can (regrettably?) no longer buy it on Wal-Mart's website. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Coke

CRACKED COCA-COLA WAS CREATED TO WEAN SOLDIERS OFF MORPHINE. It was believed that cocaine was an effective treatment for morphine addiction, and Coca-Cola is still used this way, if the cans that pile up at NA meetings are any indication. a UNDER 4300 17 834 an D un 000-01154 6 es bottles ORIGINAL TAS Not a CocoCoca ORIGINAL TASTE ORIGINAL TASTE Coca-Coca-Cola NAL TASTE ORIGINAL TASTE ORIGINAL TASTE ORIGINAL TASTE Coca-Cola Coca-Cola pre Coca-Cola ORIGINAL TASTE ml - Womena VILE Coca: — Smithsonian Magazine / News4Jax

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Wombats

Wombat poop is cube-shaped. CRACKED.COM In the wombat, the grooved tissue and the irregular contractions of the intestinal muscles over many cycles shape firm, flat-sided cubes. — Source: Science

37

Star Trek

Live Long And Prosper The phrase was created by Amok Time episode writer Theodore Sturgeon, but the hand gesture was created by Leonard Nimoy, inspired by his childhood experience at a Jewish temple. Nimroy explains it is the shape of the letter Shin in Hebrew, which can stand for God and peace. CRACKED.COM — SyFy

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Big Ben

Big Ben's bell was cracked barely two months after its inauguration. After the crack in 1859, the bell has rung with a unique resonance. The bell has since been ori- ented in such a way that the hammer doesn't strike the 'crack.' CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — AC Versailles

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Russia

In 2007, Russia planted. its flag two miles beneath the sea near the North Pole. It was an attempt to strengthen Russia's claim to the ocean floor there, Source: and it involved two submarines that carried members of Russia's parliament. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: NY Times

34

Nintendo

CRACKEDCOMT 2 3 4 5 6 7 Shigeru Miyamoto, 8 Nintendo's video game designer, enjoys 9 guessing the length of 10 random objects and then measuring them

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Prescriptions

CRACKED.COM Drugs are more expensive in the US than other nations. A month's supply of diabetes medication Januvia costs $168.61 after discounts in the US. Canada pays the next highest price ($68.10), which is not discounted and still $100 less. — Source: 29 Ways America Is Super Weird, Compared To Other Countries

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Smedley Butler

One of the most decorated marines became an anti-war advocate. CRACKED.COM Smedley Butler wrote War is a Racket about war profiteering. Не said the best he could do was to operate his racket in 3 districts. I operated on 3 continents. — Source

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Arby’s

Arby's is a play on RB for Raffel Brothers, the founders. Arby's ROAST Beer Sandwich IS DELICIOUS Arby's Leroy and Forrest Raffel almost named it Big Tex. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

30

The Shining

A sitcom actor played Jack Torrance. Unhappy with Stanley Kubrick's take on The Shining, Stephen King produced his own miniseries adaptation in 1997 w — Source: The Dissolve

29

Ray Liotta

Ray Liotta wasn't actually Italian. CRACKED.COM The actor, best known for his roles as an Ital- ian gangster, is actual- ly of Scottish origin. Не was adopted as an infant by an Italian couple. — Source

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Breaking Bad

RIED THE ACTIVE A1A CAR - ASH Marius Stan, who played Bogdan on Breaking Bad, is actually a scientist - a computational physicist and chemist. Не works at Argonne National Laboratory as a Senior Computational Scientist. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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September 9th

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Pain

CRACKED WHAT IS PAIN? We know it has to do with nerves and signaling danger, but it's not something that can be measured, only described, experienced, and taken out on your stupid doctor. We can't even agree on a definition of pain. — Live Science / Pexels

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Drinking Ages

CRACKED WORLDWIDE DRINKING AGES. 64% of the world's drinking age is 18 or under. Canada is split between 18 and 19, but America's age of 21 is only behind the Eastern African nation of Eritrea (25 years old) and, of course, the 11 countries where alcohol is banned altogether. — Source

24

Smartphones

The smartphone industry spends about $10 billion a year on suing over, and buying, patents. 400 430g 440 440g 450 4500 752al 752g 12 75222 8-11 Excation no Au Bulford Basic LE-O POLICE NEL Quick Connect DO THE 980 Christina Holano 1130 NG 951-7 on DE 23 MFG tos : 751 251 Screenshot cactur ed 1018 G Touch to WT you S made Emily Clarke 0452 PM Icio Today month or to it Special 00 5 Connected # media devico South to other 153 adidas $54005 ast DE company 75202 7520 75506 75201 PO 450g 450 That money could launch four Mars — Source

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The NFL

CRACKED NFL PLAYERS ARE MICROCHIPPED. The NFL tracks players with RFID tags in their shoulder pads. The data collected are used to improve player safety, create more realistic Madden games, and even place bets. — Nomad_Soul/Shutterstock, Nor Gal/Shutterstock
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Empires

The maximum area of the Roman Empire was about 2.51 million square miles. Pretty impressive right? It was actually only the 19th largest empire in history CRACKED.COM http://en.wikipedta.org/wiki/List of largest, empires*All empires at their greatest_extent — Source

21

Violets

Every time you smell a violet, you're smelling it for the first time. A violet's scent comes from compounds called ionones that work by temporarily shutting off your scent receptors forcing you to immediately forget the smell.. The scent receptors then reset, and you smell the .violet again for the very first time. CRACKED.COM — 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

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Vampires

Vampires fear garlic and sunlight probably because rabid people do. Research says the vampire myth might be based on rabies. In the Balkans, 18th-cent

19

Brooklyn

Thin margins Brooklyn was almost its own city In the 1894 vote to consolidate surrounding counties into NYC boroughs, Brooklyn voted to join NYC with 50.11% of the vote. It was 64,744 to 64,467. Only 277 votes. CRACKED — Leonard Zhukovsky/Shutterstock
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Burger King

Burger King's Halloween Burger While it (subjectively) looked cool 'n spooky, there's an equation the fast food industry simply must learn: Black food dye = Green poop + the public will not let you live it down CRACKED.COM — The 16 Grossest Fast-Food Products (That Were Discontinued For Good Reason)

17

Bob’s Burgers

Guest Stars on Bob's Burgers SPI AWA FiLM iNDE MOLLY SHANNON as Millie Shannon got a recurring role as a girl who is obsessed with Louise. Basically, she's a Molly Shannon SNL character in the Bob's Burgers universe. CRACKED.COM — Source

16

The Great Pyramid of Giza

CRACKED COM The Great Pyramid of Giza compared to an adult human. — Source

15

Bill O’Reilly

Bill O'Reilly witnessed all sorts of combat. In the Falklands, Northern Ireland, El Salvador ... News sites found he was lying. For example, he said he saw nuns get shot in the back of the head in El Salvador, but he didn't step foot in the country till months after the conflict. CRACKED.COM — Source

14

Darth Maul

Darth Maul got his facial patterns because his designer was trying to fix his mistakes. Designer lain McCaig was having trouble with a concept drawing for Darth Maul, so in frustration he stuck tape over all of his mistakes, creating a Rorschach pattern. Both he and George Lucas ended up digging the look. CRACKED.COM — 26 Origins Of Characters' Signature Traits

13

Powerpuff Girls

It's in the Powerpuff Girls theme song CRACKED.COM In 1998 The Winstons' Amen Break was sped up and used as the basis for the Power Puff Girls theme song. For some reason, it took not one, not two, but three composers, James L. Venable, Thomas Chase, & Stephen Rucker, to compose the brief theme song. — Source

12

Simon Pegg

CRACKED TIVI 8 SIMON PEGG SAYS MARVEL MOVIES DON'T MAKE YOU THINK. Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you re-evaluate how you felt about... whatever. Now we're not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk just had a fight with a robot. — Buzzfeed

11

Punk’d

You used to be cool ZACH BRAFF beat up a kid on Punk'd. Friend and Scrubs costar Donald Braison helped punk the lovable Zach Braff by having kids fake-spray paint his new car. Zach got a hold of a 12-year- old boy and (in his words) just started pummeling him. The segment was cut from the episode. CRACKED — Source

10

Island Living

THE PHILIPPINES CONSISTS OF A STAGGERING 7,641 ISLANDS. CRACKED That's excluding numerous sandbars and other landforms that emerge during low tide. — Nat Geo

9

Kristen Wiig

Kristen Wiig worked as a waitress in the refectory at Universal Studios. She sometimes runt into someone familiar on a movie or show, but can't remember where she knows them from, And then I'll remember: oh yeah, I used to serve you Cobb salad, she says. CRACKED.COM — Source

8

Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian spammed social media with useless diet lollipops. Marketing sugar-filled lollipops with unproven secret ingredients as a weight loss tool may seem incongruous, but what's even less rational is posting an Instagram advertisement for such a product during Mental Health Awareness Week. kimkardashian Follow kimkardashian #ad You guys... FLATTUMMY @flattummyco just dropped a new LOLLIPOPS product. They're Appetite Suppressant LO Lollipops and they're literally unreal. Appetite Suppressont They're giving the first 500 people on their website 15% OFF so if you want to get your hands on some... you need to do it quick! #suckit Load more comments Which — Source

7

Jason Statham

Jason Statham Jason Statham ENORACKED.COM Statham made Derbyshire proud as part of Britain's National Diving Squad, making the Commonwealth finals at the 1990 Auckland Games.

6

Office Space

Someone was busted trying to pull off an Office Space-esque scheme.. CRACKED.COM 22-year-old Michael Largent, who apparently didn't watch the second half of the movie, wrote an automated script to open up 58,000 accounts with online brokerage firms -- each of which would deposit a few cents in his account for verification. He was... extremely caught. — 7 Completely Unrealistic Movie Plots (That Came True)

5

The Mummified Ship Captain

Two Filipino fishermen returning home for the day noticed a drifting partially submerged yacht. CRACKED COM They would then discover that its captain was still on board, as a mummy. How long he had been dead was impossible to determine, since conditions at sea could have mummified him within weeks. — Source

4

Evel Knievel

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Kristen Stewart

2

Deep Blue Sea

Sharks Movies & TV Deep Blue Sea There's a Jaws Easter egg. A license plate removed from the shark's mouth is the exact same number and plate as the one removed from the tiger shark in Jaws. Mil 0070981 72 LOUISIANA 73 VISINO 1860200 CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Facts About Sharks in Movies & TV To Sink Our Teeth Into

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The Battle of Stalingrad

In one day of heavy fighting during the Battle of Stalingrad, a local railway station changed hands from Soviet to German control and back again fourteen times in six hours. CRACKED.COM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle of Stalingrad

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