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40 Random Bits of Trivia Your Parents Took Out of Your Childhood Bedroom and Donated to a Local Thrift Store

January 19, 2025

We know how you feel. Parting with a great list of facts isn’t easy. Our parents sold a giant crate of our old DVDs for like 50 bucks and we were devastated. Sure, we don’t even have a DVD player anymore, but still! They meant a lot to us.

When we heard that your parents got basically nothing for your old fact list at some thrift shop, we just had to get them back. Maybe keep them with you from now on. If we knew closet space was so important to our parents, we’d have lugged those DVDs with us from apartment to apartment over the years. You live and learn.

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NASA

NASA created a new 3D-printable metal alloy that is 1000x more durable than other alloys at extreme temperatures. When used in a jet engine, the alloy's higher temperature and increased durability capability translates into reduced fuel burn and lower operating and maintenance costs. CRACKED.COM — NASA

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Arnold Strong

CRACKED.COM Arnold Schwarzenegger Не was credited as Arnold Strong in his first movie. Way before Conan the Barbarian, there was 1969's B-movie Hercules in New York. His voice was dubbed, and his name was changed to match his co-star, comedian Arnold Stang. — Sources: Wikipedia, Trailer on YouTube

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Lost Teeth

WEIRD WORLD A British tourist lost his fake teeth in Spain 11 years ago, and he got them back. 11 years after it happened, he got them in the mail - to his enormous surprise. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Peter Stormare

Peter Stormare just kind of stumbled into a role in John Wick: Chapter 2. Не was hanging out with Keanu Reeves and, since he was a fan of the first movie, he asked Reeves What can I do? The rest is movie history. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dispatchers

40 Random Bits of Trivia Your Parents Took Out of Your Childhood Bedroom and Donated to a Local Thrift Store — Source: Mental Floss

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Mark Ruffalo

40 Random Bits of Trivia Your Parents Took Out of Your Childhood Bedroom and Donated to a Local Thrift Store — Vox

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LG

7:00 PM 7:00 PM Friday.October 11 Sprint g Photo Nickbook Goode Campus LG When LG promoted their G2 phone in Seoul by attaching phone vouchers to helium balloons in a park, fans turned out with BB guns (one woman came with a spear) to pop the balloons. TO the 1100 As a result of ensuing 010 chaos, several people were hospitalized. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Leslie Nielsen

Leslie Nielsen's brother was a Canadian political legend. Erik Nielsen represented the Yukon for three decades as their ongest-serving MP. He went on

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Parks and Rec

CRACKED ADAM SCOTT MET ROB LOWE MOMENTS BEFORE SHOOTING THEIR FIRST SCENE TOGETHER FOR PARKS AND REC. Both actors said it was pretty terrifying. — Source

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Revenge

CRACKED BOY SCOUT'S REVENGE Shigeta Miura, who used to be a Boy Scout, sent more than 500 packages of gross stuff to his old bullies over the course of a year and a bit. The packages contained things like rotten tea leaves, dirt, and old underwear. — Atlas Obscura

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Tacos

The most expensive taco costs $25,000 For the price of a car, you can get a gold-infused corn tortilla with kobe beef, lobster, black truffle Brie, Beluga caviar, and some more gold for good measure. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

40 Random Bits of Trivia Your Parents Took Out of Your Childhood Bedroom and Donated to a Local Thrift Store

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The Office

The Office made a calculated decision to lean into internet culture. I always credit YouTube for changing the way we look at things, says director Paul Feig. YouTube was real life captured and you have The Office, where the humor is all behavioral. It's about how people are reacting to each other. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Old Science

It was thought that THE UTERUS COULD MOVE AROUND, making you sick.
Hysteria comes from the Greek words for uterus, as it was believed that all kinds o — Source: Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris

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Ghost Rider

To get into character as a demon biker in Ghost Rider, Nicolas Cage sewed a small sarcophagus into his jacket, as a power object. It was a greenish

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The Shining

The Shining Sure, Stephen King's ode to how much Colorado sucks in the winter is about ghosts and furries, but that's really all just set dressing for a story about the dangers of alcoholism. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Arsole Chemistry

Arsole is a compound form of arsenic, and the subject of the 1972 paper Unusual Substitution in an Arsole Ring. In 2005, a Finnish scientist explored what arsoles smell like, in a test entitled Arsole Aromaticity Revisited. CRACKED — Source / ACS

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Beats by Dre

40 Random Bits of Trivia Your Parents Took Out of Your Childhood Bedroom and Donated to a Local Thrift Store — Source

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Weddings

The more you spend on a wedding, the more likely you are to get divorced Those who spend over $20,000 on their wedding are 46% more likely to get divorced than those who spend $5.000 to $10,000. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Atlantic

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Terrible Predictions

Nothing bad will happen to the stock market. IRVING FISHER CRACKED.COM 3 days before the stock market crash, an American economist declared that stocks had reached a permanently high plateau. — Source

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The Boys

Turns out that, like SO many of us, the 44th president is a fan of The Boys. That was one of Obama's picks for the best shows of 2020, alon with the miniseries Mrs. America (a slightly less surprising choice). CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Internet

50 THE INTERNET 5 DECEMBER 1995 CompuServe Internet Services AHBENET - - The - - Insurance - f I - - Resource WI - Marketing a iw I и M CRACKED.COM I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse. -Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet. Не said he'd eat his words if he were wrong. And so he did, sticking a magazine page in a blender then eating the goop with a spoon. — Source

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Natural Water Stairs

Water doesn't form perfectly flat levels, like stairs, right? Apparently it does in Pamukkale, Turkey. Pamukkale is a series of naturally-forming hot springs located on the side of a cliff. When the water from underwater springs reaches the surface, the calcium in it forms deposits. Over time, those deposits have created terraces. CRACKED.COM SOURCE IT — Source: 22 Ridiculous Places Right Here On Earth

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Fallout 3

Fallbut 3 GRAGKED.COM Due to nuclear warfare still being a sensitive subject in Japan, the Japanese version of Fallout 3 does not give the player the option to detonate the Megaton nuclear bomb. — Source

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Spider-Man: No Way Home

There's a deleted scene from No Way Home with Tom Holland's brother. Apparently, Harry Holland played a criminal that, after a chase, gets caught in Spidey's web. CRACKED COM — Source

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Buried Bombs

As city workers were digging a trench for a fiber optic cable at the Hollister Airport dog park, they found an active WWII practice bomb. DISARMED 9/10/18 MCSO CH The Jerry Gabe Municipal Dog Park located in California was once a former Navy base in the 1940s, so it is believed to host more bombs and fuel tanks underground. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Joker

Joker pretty much uses no CGI, but it makes an exception for a key scene. When Joker stands on a car and uses his blood to paint a smile on his face, the blood was CGI to make it look exactly right. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Drunk Birds

CRACKED SCIENTISTS GOT A BUNCH OF BIRDS DRUNK. FOR SCIENCE. It was to see if that made them worse at singing. (It did! Duh.) — Source

12

Chess

The rules of chess were changed in the 15th-century to reflect the accomplishments of Queen Isabella. CRACKED.COM The Queen's arrival at the siege of Baza, in 1489, boosted morale and led to the Crusader's victory. In response, the unofficial Queen chess piece was given a stronger standing and more mobility. — Source

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Classical Music

SOME RESTAURANTS WILL PLAY CLASSICAL MUSIC AS A TACTICTO GET YOU TO SPEND MorE. According to researchers, that's because classical music makes you fee

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Reese’s Pieces

E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL Reese's Pieces The product placement deal between Hershey Foods and Universal Pictures was a huge success, leading to a big boost in NET WT 3OZ(85g) KING SIZE sales for the peanut butter candies. Chances are, Reese's Pieces might have sunk into total obscurity without the movie. CRACKED - QUATER CANDY ICA eese's ieces — Amblin Entertainment,
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The White Death

SIMO HAYHA WAS A FINNISH FARMER IN 39. HE SINGLEHANDEDLY TOOK OuT 705 RUSSIAN SOLDIERS. Hayha grabbed his trusty rifle and a couple of cans of food, h

8

Ijen Crater

Hellish mines in bizarre terrain are a sci-fi staple. This one's real. Eastern Indonesia's Ijen Crater is an active volcano where cracks in the rocks release poisonous gases that sometimes burn a strange blue color. Every day, people climb 9,000 feet and then descend 3,000 feet into the crater to mine elemental sulfur while it's hardening. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Thing

CRACKED.COM The TV version of The Thing is almost a different movie. The edit of John Carpenter's movie CBS debuted in 1986 was weird, even by TV edit standards. Not only was a lot of the gore cut out, but a voiceover narration was added in for some reason. Also, the ending is made much less ambiguous by heavily implying the Thing escaped. — Source

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Koalas

BABY KOALAS EAT THEIR MOM'S POOP Joeys initially breastfeed, but for several weeks it will peek its head out of its mom's poach to feast from its mom's butt. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Horrific Facts About Adorable Animals

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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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Frank Miller

Frequent Batman writer Frank Miller can't stand any of the live-action' Batman movies, not even Christopher Nolan's trilogy. I can't watch a Batman m

3

Millipedes

The first true millipede has been discovered Scientists have discovered the first millipede that actually has more than a thousand legs. The 3.7 inch invertebrate with 1,306 legs has more legs than any other known creature on Earth. CRACKED.COM

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Amy Wong

Amy Wong dated Ross. CRACKED COM You've heard Lauren Tom most often as Minh and Connie on King of the Hill, and/or Amy on Futurama. But she's had a pretty prolific ive-action career, including a 7-episode stint as Ross' girlfriend on Friends.

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Sharks

Sharks have been around longer than trees have. Sharks started popping up about 450 million years ago, while trees showed up 100 million years later. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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