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44 Random Bits of Trivia That Will Tear the Dance Floor Up at Your Cousin’s Wedding

January 28, 2025

These facts can’t dance, and after being called out like Elaine on Seinfeld, they gave up trying completely. That doesn’t mean that you won’t find them on the dance floor. They’ll be the ones standing on the outer rim with their drink, whispering random tidbits to the distant relatives and the plus-ones.

44

New Delhi

CRACKED.COM New Delhi's deputy mayor was murdered by a gang of monkeys. About 30,000 Rhesus macaques live in New Delhi. The monkeys are a pest-they often break into homes to steal food. Not even government officials are safe from the monkey menace- in 2007, monkeys caused the city's deputy mayor to fall off a balcony to his death. — Source

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Bloody Mary

WAITRESS FIRED FOR SPICING UP DRINKS WITH HER OWN BLOOD. A cafe in Sapporo, Japan let go of a waitress, accusing her of putting her own blood into the drinks she served. No, we won't go for the obvious Bloody Mary joke - whoops, we just did, didn't we. CRACKED — etorres/Shutterstock
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42

Rambo

Somehow, they turned Rambo into a kid-friendly Saturday morning cartoon. Not even the show's head writer could believe it got greenlit, but 1986's Rambo: The Force of Freedom ran a surprisingly long time - for a total of 65 episodes. CRACKED.COM — Source: CBR

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Alcohol Consumption

CRACKED ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION: THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE HEAVY DRINKERS. People consume alcohol in a skewed distribution, with a tiny minority responsible for almost all the nation's drinking, a pattern that has remained more or less a constant over many decades, and holds for other countries too. — Slate / MXDWN

40

Scrubs

Scrubs The janitor knew Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. The janitor correctly predicted in 2007 that the U.S. should be looking for bin Laden in Pakistan, and a clip of this prediction went viral. CRACKED — Source

39

Elephants

When not nursing, baby elephants seek comfort From sucking their trunks just like how human newborns suck their thumbs and pacifiers. Some adult elephants were also observed having the when same mannerism they are feeling nervous. CRACKED.COM — Animals That (Eerily) Demonstrate Human-Like Behavior

38

Gran Torino

BEE VANG SAYS HE'S HAUNTED BY CLINT EASTWOOD'S GRAN TORINO. Vang recently criticized the film for mainstreaming anti-Asian racism in America. At the time, there was a lot of discussion about whether the movie's slurs were insensitive and gratuitous or simply 'harmless jokes.' I found it unnerving, the laughter that the slurs elicited in theaters with predominantly white audiences. And it was always white people who would say, 'Can't you take a joke?' Today, I shudder at the thought of what that meant. GRACKED COM — IndieWire

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Interracial Marriage

Interracial marriage was banned in South Africa from 1949 to 1985 - 36 years It was banned in USA from 1776 to 1967 - 191 years GRACKED.COM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws — Source

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Eye Color

Eye color genetics are more complicated than we thought CRACKED.COM Move over, Punnett Squares. Scientists have discovered over 50 new genes for eye color. — Source

35

Schweppes

Schweppes sold their Tonic Water in Italy without realizing that no self-respecting person would dare to drink it. INDIAN I THE Schweppes TONIC WATER The problem wasn't with the drink itself, but with the name Schweppes Tonic Water, which translated to Italian as Schweppes Toilet Water. CRACKED.COM — Source

34

Star Trek

STAR TREK CRACKEDCOR The Paramount Lot where all episodes were filmed had a problem with stray cats. So when they shot alien planets, the Enterprise c — Source: San Diego Reader

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Snakes

CRACKED SNAKES CAN PREDICT EARTHQUAKES. If it's a big one, they can start behaving extremely erratically and smash their heads against walls. — Source

32

Celebrity Lies

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

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Trollitical History Lyndon В. Jonhson sinking of his car LBJ had an Amphicar that could drive on land and in water. Не would take his friends for a spin in it and pretend to lose control and drive it into a lake (laughing while he did it). CRACKED — Arnold Newman/Wiki Commons,
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30

Burger King

CRACKED BURGER KING SOLD HORSE MEAT IN EUROPE. In 2013, after meat suppliers were caught mixing horse meat with beef, trace amounts of horse meat was found in European Burger King burgers. — The Guardian / Easy Care Inc

29

The Woman Buried Inside a Tree

GRACKED.COM A dead woman was found inside a hollow tree. In 1943, four children were poaching in the woods in Worcestershire, England when they chanced upon a human skeleton inside an elm tree. The woman, nicknamed Bella, had been apparently suffocated with a piece of taffeta found in her mouth. No arrests were ever made. — Source

28

Robert L. May

Robert L. May chose his subject based on his daughter's obsession. He picked a reindeer to write about not just because reindeer were popping up on Ch — Source: TIME

27

The Air Force

The Air Force flies their С-17s in a large V formation similar to geese. GRAGKED.COM If an airplane is positioned in the right spot, the up- draft from the vortex will help keep the airplane aloft. By doing so, the Air Force saves more than 10% of fuel, or millions of dol- lars. — Source

26

Hitchcock

Off-screen, Hitchcock was creepily obsessed with his leading ladies. It's rumored Hitchcock drilled holes in Psycho star Janet Leigh's dressing room i

25

Baby Deer

You shouldn't worry about a baby deer that is without its mother. Fawns are often left alone for hours while their mothers forage for food. Sometimes well-meaning people 'kidnap' the fawn think- ing it's abandoned. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

24

Leighton Meester

Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester sued her mother over misappropriation of funds. Leighton was sending Constance Meester money every month to pay for her brother's medical treatment, but Constance was financing cosmetic procedures for herself with it. Constance argued that the money was owed to her for her role as her daughter's manager but the actress destroyed those arguments in court, forcing Constance to withdraw and Leighton to receive a summary judgement in her favor. CRACKED.COM — Source

23

Darth Vader’s Super Star Destroyer

CRACKED.COM Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer, the Executor, is about 12 LES long. It would crush most of Manhattan if it were to use the island as a landing strip. — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

22

Coca-Cola

WEIRD WORLD A North Carolina county banned Coke machines just to get back at Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola x THE PALASE 2785 Coke the Faut Coke Fauts 3pends pibly Pibb WATER Coca-Cola was against a recent Georgia election law, so Surry County removed all Coke machines from government facilities in response. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hill

21

Gears of War

CRACKED.COM According to tie-in novels, soldiers in Gears of War maintain their peak physical form with a daily intake of 6,900 CALORIES human. Three times that of a normal adult KFC That's over 10 Bargain Buckets from KFC. KFC KFC KFC KFC KFC KFC KFC KFC KFC — Source

20

Hand Gestures

As an American, It's not, at you could mistake least not in this gesture for a Britain and peace sign. Australia. If the palm is facing inward, it means up yours. Yup, that's Winston Churchill flipping you off. CRACKED.COM — Source

19

Earth’s Water

Earth's water If you put all the water on Earth into a sphere, it would be 860 miles in diameter. That's the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Topeka, Kansas. CRACKED — USGS.gov
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18

Star Wars

Star Wars rips off French comics. If you're familiar with Moebius, or with Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières' Valérian and Laureline, you might have noticed that Star Wars borrows heavily from them. Mézières in particular claimed to be dazzled, jealous and angry about the whole thing. CRACKED.COM — Source

17

Wyatt Earp

GRACKED.COM Kevin Costner did Wyatt Earp out of spite. Costner was attached to star in Tombstone, but left because he wasn't the film's sole focus. So he signed up for a different movie about Earp, and tried to use his Oscar clout to stop Tombstone from being distributed. Spite, sadly, wasn't enough to win the competition. — Source: 15 Random Facts to Flex Your Knowledge Muscles

16

Revenge

After Aline Lawlor Coker had a falling-out with her brother, she bought the 262 available plots in their local cemetery SOLD to prevent him from being buried with the rest of the family. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

15

Movie Hitmen

MYTH: Being a hitman requires a special skill set. FACT: Fancy hitmen don't exist in the real world. A U.K. study of hitmen showed that the stereotype of the suit-wearing, surgical, master assassin is far from the truth. Most hitmen are average Joes (aside from the killing people thing). They're usually first-time, local individuals who are so hard up for money they can't even leave the area after the kill. Incidentally, they also get caught a lot. CRACKED.COM http://manbcmedia.msn.com//MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/HOJOTheBritishHitmanIR2.pdf — 23 Widely-Circulated 'Facts' About The Law That Are Myths

14

Jonah Hill

Jonah Hill had to be hospitalized on the shoot for The Wolf of Wall Street. It was all the fake coke he'd snorted - it was vitamin powder, which sounds harmless, but he'd snorted so much that he got sick. CRACKED.COM — Source

13

Glenn Close

CRACKED COM GLENN CLOSE SPENT HER YOUTH IN A CULT. When Close was seven, her parents joined a militant religious group called Moral Re-Armament. She — More: 6 Celebrities With Family Histories Crazier Than The Movies

12

Alien 3

Alien3 (1992) Sigourney Weaver insisted they kill off Ripley. Weaver said that when she heard about the studio's plan to do Alien VS. Predator it depressed her, and she wanted out. She claims that it's the same reason Ridley Scott didn't return for Alien 3. CRACKED.COM — Movieweb

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Speeches

I have a dream.. Repeating key phrases in carefully spaced intervals makes an argument more persuasive, and may lead to a better reception and agreement of the listener. A good example of this would be Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech. CRACKED.COM — Source

10

Zombies

Zombies act the way they do in Night of the Living Dead because the movie couldn't afford special effects. There was no money for effects showing dead people rising from graves, so the filmmakers came up with the ideas that only recently dead people could become zombies and that humans — Source: 7 Iconic Scenes (We Only Got Because The Movie Was Broke)

9

Armadillos

ARMADILLOS CAN SPREAD LEPROSY. They're the only other animal known to get the disease. 95% of people are immune to leprosy so it's not too worrisome. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Horrific Facts About Adorable Animals

8

Nivea

Nivea made a white supremacy ad. NIVEA WHITE IS PURITY KIVEA GRACKED.COM The Facebook ad ran with the caption, Keep it clean, keep it bright. Don't let anything ruin it and was targeted to customers in the Middle East. — Source: 13 Brands That Addressed Sensitive Issues In Cringeworthy Ways

7

Amnesia

GRACKED.COM YOU CAN GET AMNESIA FROM AN ORGASM. Transient global amnesia is a sudden, short-term loss of memory that can follow strenuous activities. Just like, you know, plain ol' doin' it. Medical literature is full of cases of people with short spells of amnesia after having sex that turned out to be a bit too mind-blowing. — Source

6

Concussions

Not being knocked out doesn't mean you didn't get a concussion. In about 90% of concussions, there's no loss of consciousness. You can be awake to go Ouch! and still have your brain shaken like jello, requiring medical attention. CRACKED.COM — Source: BrainFacts

5

Jon Stewart

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM JON STEWART IS APPARENTLY A PRETTY BIG FAN OF PRO WRESTLING. In fact, he's so into wrestling, he came out of retirement in 2015 so he could host WWE Summerslam. — Source

4

Ginuwine

CRACKED Criss Angel and Ginuwine were rehearsing a magic stunt when Ginuwine passed out. The stunt involved being submerged in water, and things took a turn for the worse when Ginuwine lost consciousness. According to Angel, it was unclear as to whether or not Ginuwine was suffering from a stroke or heart attack, but thankfully he made a full recovery. — Source

3

The Monkees

Monkee Michael Nesmith's mother invented Liquid Paper. LiQl Mid Pa Bette Nesmith Graham created the office staple after the advent of electric typewri

2

George Washington

A plot aimed to resurrect George Washington. Family friend William Thornton planned to warm Washington's corpse by the fire then inject it with lamb's — For details, read 6 Real-Life Horror Movies Your History Teacher Skipped Over

1

Corina Kavanagh

CRACKED.COM When her engagement to a member of Buenos Aires' aristocratic Anchorena KAVANAGH BUILDING, 1936 family was thwarted- Corina Kavanagh built a 33 story building to block the family's view of their private church.

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