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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Are Like 50-Pound Dumbbells for Your Brain Gym

January 23, 2025

How do you think knowledge became power? By beefing itself up at the fact gym! It didn’t snap its fingers and magically develop those rock-hard info abs. It built up those thick encyclopedia muscles one fact rep at a time.

So let that be a lesson. One fact might not seem like much, but it can help get your brain seriously jacked or “yolked,” or whatever the muscly dudes are saying these days.

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Blood

The blood in your veins is never blue. CRACKED.COM De-oxygenated blood is a deeper red but appears blue because of the way our skin reflects white light. — Source

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Sharks

Sharks can track the position of the sun and often hunt with the sun behind them. This is so they can mitigate sun glare that may obstruct their vision while hunting and conceal their approach.

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Key and Peele

KEY AND PEELE claim Mr. Show as an influence ES As do writers and performers for the Daily Show, Saturday Night Live, Inside Amy Schumer, Portlandia, Human Giant, and Kroll Show. In other words, pretty much every comedy TV show since 2000. — Rolling Stone

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Movie Locations

SCARFACE BE CRACKED.COM After being run out of Miami for the movie's negative portrayal of Cubans, the shoot continued in LA. In the Freedom Town scene, Manny walks under that distinct V where the I-110 and I-10 intersect near Santa Monica. — Source: Curbed

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The Lottery

5% A of 35 31 25 8 3.4 lottery 29 5 5 ticket buyers buy 17 51% of all tickets 2 sold. 33 CRACKED COM — Source

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Tears

Scientists grew tear glands in a dish and made them cry CRACKED.COM Using human stem cells, scientists were able to grow tear glands and induce tear production. This is great news for people with tear gland disorders.

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The Dow Jones

40 Random Bits of Trivia That Are Like 50-Pound Dumbbells for Your Brain Gym — Source: Wikipedia

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Props

BIRDS OF PREY, 2020 НА UNN Every charm on Harley Quinn's necklace has a meaning. She has a Bruce tag for her pet hyena, several feminist symbols, and a bottle cap to add to a child-like DIY aesthetic, to name a few. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Esurance

Esurance had to drop their mascot because too much porn was made of her. CRACKED.COM The insurance compa- ny had to stop using their cartoon mascot Erin Esurance because when searching Esur- ance online, porn would come up first. — Source

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King Charles

Rich people requests THE MANNEQUIN KING A former Royal Family staffer said that King Charles won't undress himself. Не has an entourage undress and redress him five times per day. One member irons his shoelaces. CRACKED — Source

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Ridley Scott

40 Random Bits of Trivia That Are Like 50-Pound Dumbbells for Your Brain Gym

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Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome CRACKED COM In ancient Rome, laundromats pretty much ran on urine. The practice continued even after the invention of soap, as many Europeans preferred the all-natural goodness of bladder water. And long before toothpaste, 9 out 10 Romans agreed that gargling urine was the best way to keep your teeth clean and sparkly. — Source

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Stunt Doubles

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY'S PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN STUNT DOUBLE... LISA HOYLE. MOST DANGEROUS STUNT: I did a 93-foot fall for the Charlie's Angels movie. It ended up on the cutting room floor, but it was the highest high fall I've done. NOTABLE MOVIES/.TV SHOWS: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, American Horror Story, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Emma Stone's stunt double in Zombieland. CRACKED.COM — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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Taylor Swift

WEIRD WORLD Taylor Swift got beat out by a bunch of birds on a Top 50 list. Apparently, an album of the sounds of endangered birds, called Songs of Disappearance, was #3 on Australia's chart of top 50 albums, beating out Taylor Swift. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nas

CRACKED NASCRED NEW HIS SEVEN-YEAR- OLD DAUGHTER AS A PRODUCER. Nas listed his child daughter as an executive producer on his Platinum album Stillmatic, to ensure she will always receive royalties from the album's sales. — Ill Will Records,
Columbia Records
Genius

25

Penknives

Penknives were literally used to make pens. This type of pocket knife was created to thin out and sharpen the tips of quills to use for writing with ink. When pencils came into fashion, the knives were used to sharpen them as well. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

24

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins Mary Poppins Mary in the Poppins Park Opens the Door P.L. Travers Mary P.L. TRAVERS P.L. Pappins TRAVERE Travers Mary Poppins Comes Back RETRAL - KITCHCOC - Collint CRACKED.COM Author P.L. Travers so deeply regretted selling the movie rights to Disney that she cried throughout the world premiere. — Source

23

Lincoln Logs

Frank Lloyd Wright's son, John Lloyd Wright, invented the Lincoln Logs. Не got the idea when he saw his dad employ a similar interlocking style in order to earthquake proof one of his buildings. CRACKED.COM — Source

22

Paint

A new whitest-ever paint may cool buildings The paint reflects 98% of sunlight into space. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

21

Poland

POLAND You MAY NOT wear a Winnie The Pooh t-shirt. The pantsless Pooh has been deemed an inappropriate hermaphrodite. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

Get Out

GET OUT The name Armitage connects the movie to H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror, a novella about race mixing. CRACKED.COM — Source

19

The Two-Party System

TWO PARTIES There are ten political parties represented in Israel's parliament, the Knesset. The Bundestag in Germany has six. Eleven in the Oireachtas in Ireland. Brazil's Chamber of Deputies has 28. New Zealand? Seven parties. South Africa's Parliament? Thirteen. GRACKED.COM — Source

18

Mike Rowe

MIKE ROWE is an opera singer. You've seen him work dirty jobs on Discovery Channel, but have you heard him sing? People attending the Baltimore Opera

17

Film Feuds

Hollywood feuds VIN DWAYNE DIESEL VS JOHNSON Johnson said, I wish him all the best, and I harbor no ill will there, just because of the clarity we have. Actually, you can erase that last part about 'no ill will.''' They're only on screen together because of split-screening in post-production. CRACKED — Source

16

The London Fire

CRACKED GROUNDS FOR EXECUTION Starting a fire (without actually being there) Robert Hubert confessed to starting the Great Fire of London in 1666, even though he arrived in England two days after it began, and was too weak to throw a firebomb. Не was convicted and put to death by hanging. — Josepha Jane Battlehooke/Shutterstock
The Register

15

Brunch

Brunch dates back to at least 1895. The word first appeared in print in Hunter's Weekly, in which the article's author suggested a Sunday meal that was lighter than a post-church heavy breakfast. CRACKED.COM — Smithsonian

14

Saliva

The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body. CRACKED.COM Wounds in the oral cavi- ty heal faster and with less scarring than wounds in other parts of the body, because saliva promotes the healing of oral wounds. — PubMed

13

Ice Cube

Ice Cube is an authority on architecture. Before returning to Compton to revolutionize rap, Ice studied architectural drafting. And for their 2011 pos — Source: 6 Surprising Talents Celebrities Are Hiding From The World

12

Beetlejuice

BEETLEJUICE was inspired by bad neighbors. Writer Michael McDowell had neighbors who were extremely annoying. So his partner, Laurence Senelick, suggested flipping the premise of evil spirits preying on poor humans into a story of good ghosts having to deal with the bad people living in their house. CRACKED.COM — The Ringer

11

Government-Sponsored Child Theft

WORST HISTORICAL CHILDCARE GOVERNMENT- SPONSORED CHILD THEFT During Francisco Franco's rule in Spain, over 300,000 babies were taken away from their unacceptable parents and given to acceptable families between the 1930s and 1990s. CRACKED — Everett Collection/Shutterstock,
Wiki Commons
BBC

10

COVID

A teen turned down millions for his COVID- tracking website. Avi Schiffman was 17 when he created nCoV2019.live. a widely visited COVID tracker. Despite the site taking up all of his free time, he has turned down offers for several millions dollars to include ads. I don't want to be a profiteer, he said. — More: Rad Teen Invents News Way To Fight Virus, Turns Down Buckets Of Cash

9

Forrest Gump

CRACKED.COM Visitors to Chippewa Square in Savannah, GA, are often disappointed to discover that the famous bench from Forrest Gump was just a prop made for the film Chippewa Square — Source: How Famous Movie Places Look IRL

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September 9th

Su September 12 AUGUST 23 9th 21 30 Mon 19 JULY 12 26 Mou the 5 13 4 most Mon 10 9 popular 19 26 Thu 19 26 2. 16 6 13 20 27 Tr 1421 28 We 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 3 Thu 1 FI 8 15.22/29Thu 5 birthday in the US. 24 Sa 25 This means most babies are conceived around the holidays. CRACKED.COM — Source: Time Magazine

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The Dancing Plague

The Dancing Plague of 1518 affected 400 people in a month long groove-fest. In the summer of 1518, in what is now modern-day France, a woman began to dance in the street. Other women joined in, and eventually between 50 and 400 people were mysteriously affected with a mania that caused them to dance to exhaustion until that September. CRACKED.COM — Source: History

6

The Usual Suspects

Benicio Del Toro's character in The Usual Suspects was originally a bland nobody. Metro Goldege adidas POR Mayer TRADE MAXX He'd be the first to die, so the writers didn't give him any kind of personality. Since what he said wouldn't matter anyway, Del Toro talked in a near-incomprehensible way just for the hell of it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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From Dusk Til Dawn

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ FROM DUSK TILL DAWN TARANTINO WAS GOING TO DIRECT. In the end, though, he found that being a writer, actor, and director at the same time was too much. Не considered Renny Harlin and Tony Scott for the job, before landing on Rodriguez. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Friendly Facts About Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez Collaborations

4

Paper Planes

Paper airplanes have existed for thousands of years. The Chinese have been folding paper into flying shapes for the last 2,000 years. Of course, they didn't call them airplanes- those were more like simple origami birds. Paper planes as we know them today date back to the Civil War, when they were called paper darts. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bridges

In the 1930s, bridge construction projects expected one fatality for every $1 million in cost. The Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge enact- ed the most stringent safe- ty measures in history. Не even formulated diets to help fight dizziness and sauerkraut juice cures for hangovers. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Film Firsts

Historical Firsts in Practical Effects Hg1 Frank Williams: Grandfather 1916 of the green screen 5 Fig.2. 6 Williams' traveling matte system shot actors or vehicles against a black background and isolated them to be placed on other moving images. It could only work in black and white, but is a direct precursor of blue/green screen technology. CRACKED — Source

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Detox Teas

CRACKED DETOX TEAS ARE TERRIBLE FOR YOUR HEALTH. Instagram celebrities aren't picky about their endorsements, and some products they push aren't Five — More: 5 Trendy Tips You Find on Instagram (That'll Ruin Your Life)

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