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40 Random Bits of Trivia We’re AirDropping to Internet Fact Deserts

We have so many facts, we don’t know what to do with them

40 Random Bits of Trivia We’re AirDropping to Internet Fact Deserts

January 24, 2025

As you’ll come to find out, when every nook and cranny of your workplace and/or home is overflowing with facts, you’ll need to start spreading the wealth. Not because you want to, but because you’ve run out of space. We guess you could spring for a bigger place, but we don’t know your financial situation.

We’ve started blasting ours out there in every way we can think of. This list is one way, but it’s only a drop in the bucket. For our sake and yours, please call up some friends with some extra square footage.

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Peanut Butter

Peanut butter was actually first made by the ancient Incas and Aztecs. George Washington Carver didn't invent it - in fact, the modern version was actually invented by three guys, none of whom were Carver. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: National Peanut Board

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NASA

NASA kept using the space suits from the first spacewalk for over 30 years. They were intended to be used for 15 years, but they were still in use in 2019, over 36 years after the 1983 spacenwalk in which they wore worn in space for the first time. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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MTV

MTV was only available in New Jersey when it first launched. CRACKED.COM Only certain cable sub- scribers in NJ were able to watch the new station and the first music video they decided to play, Video Killed The Radio Star, on August 1, 1981. — History

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Pennies

Most Americans support eliminating the penny, which costs more to produce than it is worth. ONE CENT the 2007 VIUUM booz TRUST BENO Jarden Zinc Products is the sole provider of zinc penny blanks and has lobbyists to preserve the penny. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

36

Mike Schur

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Mike Shur Hated Mose The Office Mike Shur, creator of The Good Place and writer for the office, hated playing Mose. Shur says The joke became with the writers because they knew how much I hated it. Greg Daniels even told Shur he had to grow the Mose beard himself because a prosthetic beard would look fake. — Source: Cheat Sheet

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Patents

THE U.S. PATENT OFFICE RULED THAT AN Al CAN'T BE AN INVENTOR. It denied applications for a food container and a flashlight invented by an AI named DAB — Source: CNN

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The Blue Giant

The Earth might be kind of small, but it's more massive than you might think. The mass of the Earth is greater than the combined masses of the Moon, Mars, Venus, Pluto, and Mercury. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ice Cube

Ice Cube geeks out over architecture. ICE CUBE CELEBRATES THE EAMES ARTIST 1045-2000 He's a Getty Museum expert on the subject. Before returning to Compton to revolutionize rap, Ice studied architectural drafting. So for their 2011 post-war exhibition, The Getty made him their resident expert on Hollywood architectural design legends Charles and Ray Eames. CRACKED.COM www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/garden/ice-cube-on-eameses-and-his-hometown-qa.html?_r=1 — Source: 12 Celebrities Who Are Fans Of The Last Thing You'd Expect

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CNN

The median age of people who watch cable news is more than 60 years old. CNN CENTER CRACKED.COM In 2017 CNN's me- dian age was 60, while the median age of the Fox News and MSNBC viewer was 65.

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Mila Kunis

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Jimi Hendrix

CRACKED JIMI HENDRIX TAUGHT LEMMY HOW TO PARTY AND ROCK OUT. Hendrix was kind of a mentor figure to Lemmy Kilmister from Motörhead. Не showed him how to get drugs in unexpected places, and gave him tips on how to put on a great show. — Scanpix/Wiki Commons,
Mark Marek Photography/Wiki Commons
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Witch Hunts

One popular way to see if someone was a witch was actually to weigh them. Witches were so light that they could float on water, the belief went, so suspects would get weighed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Old Hollywood

ACTRESSES WERE TORTURED INTO BEING SKINNY. Just like today, young female stars were expected to be thin. Sometimes they'd be ordered to even forced to. 14-year-old Judy Garland was kept on a very restricted diet, given diet pills, and reportedly made to smoke awful lor an to suppress her appetite — More: 5 Horrifying Ways Old Hollywood Was A Living Hell

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Getting Struck By Lightning

CRACKED GETTING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING It's really unlikely that you'll get hit by lightning in any given year - almost a one-in-a-million chance. Most people who do get struck by lightning make it out alive, with around 90% of them surviving. — Source

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Puppies

Dogs are cutest between six and eight weeks old. CRACKED.COM A 2018 study from Arizona State University compar- ing how people viewed the cuteness of dogs found that the highest ratings were between these ages, depending on the breed. — ASU

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London Underground

London Underground workers once gained concessions from management through a 'piss strike.' - - سعيد - J DO BAKER STRE 90 CRACKED.COM They followed safety rules so exactly that workers going to the toilet one after the other essentially shut down any work being done. — Solidarity Federation

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Uzbekistan

A SHIP GRAYEYARD SITS IN THE DESERT OF UZBEKISTAN. Many years ago, hundreds of ships docked at the bustling fishing port of Muynak by the Aral Sea, bu — For details, read The 8 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 4)

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Mrs. O’Leary

Mrs. O'Leary is remembered for causing the Great Chicago Fire. But she was innocent. And SO was her cow. Despite all the campfire songs to the contrary, the 1871 Chicago fire wasn't caused by Catherine O'Leary's COW kicking over a lantern she'd left burning. The official report actually cleared Mrs. O'Leary (and her cow). But that didn't stop The Chicago Tribune from publishing Michael Ahern's unproven story blaming O'Leary. Because of anti-Irish prejudice, she was reviled and literally spit on her entire life. CRACKED.COM https://www.thoughtco.com/mrs-olearys-cow-great-chicago-fire-1774059 — Source: 21 Historical Figures Everybody Gets Wrong

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The Great Famine

During the Great Famine, Ireland continued to export enormous quantities of food to England. GRAGKED COM This kept food prices far too high for the average Irish peasant to afford and was a major con- tributing factor in the large death toll from the famine. — Source

21

Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living, Dead began a horror as comedy about aliens. The movie that kickstarted the zombie genre was at first going to be about the wacky goings-on of a bunch of rowdy alien teenagers, and the bumbling cops who tried to stop them. — Source: Night of the Living Dead: Behind the Scenes of the Most Terrifying Zombie Movie Ever, by Joe Kane

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Obsidian Knives

CRACKED FRAGILE OBSIDIAN KNIVES Obsidian knives are really sharp, but they're quite delicate and not good for regular use because they're so fragile. — wonderisland/Shutterstock
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Eating Disorders

EATING DISORDERS ARE A FEMALE PROBLEM. 25% of anorexia & bulimia sufferers, and 40% of binge eaters, are (4 20 0lbs 320 men. 300 DE S 10 145 SI 25 140 O 20 09 N Many men 062 by 0٤ 08 SEL 130 280 SE don't get 125 OF OF OZZ 120 help because SV 260 50 00 115 052 110 55 OIL they're CRACKED.COM 105 240 100 OZ embarrassed. 95 DEL 06 DEZ no 60 99 GL 70 — Source

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Cricket

The longest Cricket Test match was played over 12 days. CRACKED.COM The game was between England and South Africa in Durban in 1939. It was eventually abandoned, otherwise, the England team would have missed the boat back home. — Source

17

Brain Damage

A test used to determine brain damage involves pouring water into the ear. CRACKED.COM If you pour cold water into a per- son's ear, their eyes will move in the direction of the opposite ear. If you pour warm water into their ear, their eyes will move towards that ear. This is used to test for brain damage and is called 'ca- loric stimulation.' — Source

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Weird Weapons

The billy club gun CRACKED.COM Early 20th century police asked themselves how do we make the bayonet worse? The answer: make it heavier and more phallic, SO it's harder to aim, wield, and justify. — 6 Awesomely Insane Guns People Actually Used (Pt. 2)

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Peter Lorre

A woman was spared from being a serial killing victim when her assailants learned who her father was. In 1977 the Hillside Stran- gler serial killers dropped their plan to abduct and murder her after learning that she was the daughter of Peter Lorre, who was known for playing dis- turbed characters. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Lakeland Ledger

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Ted Bundy

In June 1977 Ted Bundy served as his own defence lawyer in a murder case against him. He was allowed to walk without handcuffs or shackles. He was als

13

Museums

There is a museum just for failed inventions. CRACKED.COM The touring Museum of Failure features an interna- tional collection of more than 100 innovation fail- ures, such as Harley-David- son perfume, Colgate beef lasagna, and Google Glass. — Source

12

Ice

THE ICE INDUSTRY ENDED UP BECOMING HUGE. Frederic Tudor's gamble paid off big time- he became very rich, and was dubbed the Ice King. Many other companies sprung to rake in the cold bucks. Just before the Civil War, ice was second only to cotton as the most commonly traded commodity in the U.S. — Source: New England Historical Society

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Antoine Walker

Antoine Walker made over $100 million in the NBA, but filed for bankruptcy. Despite making a total of $108 million in his career, he was bankrupt two years after he retired. CRACKED.COM — Source

10

Napoleon Dynamite

BEHIND-THE-SCENESPACTS Heder shared dance moves with his TWIN BROTHER HOBe CRACKED.COM Napoleon Dynamite's signature steps can be traced to the days when Heder and his twin brother Dan would go to clubs and do syncronized dance routines. Once Hess saw Heder's swagger, he realized this is how we've got to end the film! — Source

9

Ford

Ford held a promotional campaign in Belgium with the bold promise that each car would come with a free zombie. Ford The ad was meant to say, Every ca

8

Scapegoats

The term scapegoat comes from an old Jewish ritual. CRACKED.COM A town would place all the sins of the townspeople onto a goat and then banish that goat from town to die, sending the burden of their sins with it. — My Jewish Learning

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William Frawley

William Frawley I LOVE LUCY CRACKED.COM The actor who played Fred was reportedly a tough guy to work with. His weirdest hangup was probably the Yankees clause in his contract: he would get extra time off whenever the Yankees made the World Series, which happened 7 times over the course of the show.

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Dallas

The most dangerous US city to drive in is Dallas, Texas, with a collision likelihood of 46.5% above average. There are 14 fatal accidents for each 100,000 people, and 42% of those involve a drunk driver. CRACKED.COM — Source: Outdoorsy

5

Dogs

DOGS CAN COUNT UP TOFOUR OR FIVEO 00000 S Dogs can also learn simple arithmetic. COM — Source: APA

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Atomic Energy Lab Toy

ATOMIC ENERGY LAB CIET pHyi ENERGY Ls ATOMIC Elany Sap! OILRT ALL SEHSCE CRACKED.COM E GILBERT Clouo Did the Atomic Energy Lab come with actual uraniu

3

MC Hammer

MC Hammer is an ordained minister. The rapper, known for songs such as '2 Legit 2 Quit' and 'U Can't Touch This,' now gives sermons at the Jubilee Christian Center in San Jose California. Не said it was the death of Tupac that triggered his transformation. CRACKED COM — Source: 36 Bananas Facts About Fav Celebs

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Flash Mobs

GRAOT The first flash mob occured in June 2003. RUG COLLECTION It was created by Bill Wasik, Harper's Magazine senior editor, as a social experiment.

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Travel

GRACKED THE UKRAINE TAKES A BREATHER BEFORE A TRIP. In Ukraine and Russia, it is traditional to sit down as a family for a few minutes before leaving on a trip. This grants good luck on the journey, and leaves an opportunity to remember anything you may have forgotten. — ABEA / West End 61

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