43 Random Bits of Trivia We Pried From An Old Fact-Clutcher’s Cold, Dead Hands

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43 Random Bits of Trivia We Pried From An Old Fact-Clutcher’s Cold, Dead Hands

A war of attrition was won today, and we’re celebrating its victory here at the Cracked fact-finding offices. See, we normally track down and lug home a ton of great facts daily, but some take a little more time and effort. These were heavily guarded by a tough old guy who fought to keep them till his final breath. 

Could we have moved on to other facts years ago? Sure. But we desperately wanted these, and you’re about to see why.

Ants

There's an ant with a spine So dragon-like that scientists called it the Pheidole drogon, after Drogon from Game of Thrones. The ant uses its defined

311

311 is an Omaha police code for indecent exposure. The guitarist got arrested for skinny dippinng, So they used the citation code as a band name. CRAC

A Beautiful Mind

JOHN NASH A BEAUTIFUL MIND CRACKED.COM The real-life Nash was a lot less pure than his depiction. In the 2001 film, he's a faithful husband to his first love, Alicia. In reality, Nash had an illegitimate son, covert affairs with men, and was abusive toward Alicia, whom he regarded as his slave.

Source: Goliath

Moonlight

Moonlight The three lead actors never met. The three actors who play the protagonist at different stages of his life never met each other in the 25 days of shooting. CRACKED.COM

Source: Vogue

John Krasinski

John Krasinski GRACKED.COM Krasinski took a handful of gap years after high school, teaching English in Costa Rica. When he saw a woman caught in a riptide one day, he swam out to save her... and immediately regretted it: Oh my God, you just made a poor choice and it might cost you your life.

Rats

43 Random Bits of Trivia We Pried From An Old Fact-Clutcher’s Cold, Dead Hands
Source: BBC

Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Radcliffe was allergic to his 'Harry Potter' glasses at first. CRACKED.COM It took a week for Daniel and the film crew to realize the ring of spots coming up around his eyes were due to his nickel sensitivi- ty. Не was then given a pair made from hypoaller- genic materials.

ABC

Jerry Springer

CRACKED A SUBWAY STATION Jerry Springer was born in a makeshift bomb shelter in London during World War Two. It happened to be at Highgate subway station, in use as a bomb shelter at the time.

BBC / NPR 

Palace of Fine Arts

San Francisco's Palace of Fine arts is not the original structure. It was originally constructed to be part of the 1915 Panama-Pacifi Exposition, and

Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream starts off using wide shots, but as the film progresses the shots get tighter and tighter. This was a technique Darren Aronofsky used in order to get the audience to feel what the characters were experiencing. CRACKED.COM

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Snoke

Snoke's look from The Last Jedi was based on Hugh Hefner. The decision to dress a space dictator as a playboy came from Andy Serkis and Rian Johnson,

Prisons

A reduced jail CRACKED COM time in exchange ORDENY for reading is possible in Brazil. For each book a prisoner reads, they must submit a report, and i

Black Sabbath

43 Random Bits of Trivia We Pried From An Old Fact-Clutcher’s Cold, Dead Hands

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