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Let these take a few laps around your inner skull

45 Random Bits of Trivia That Our Brain Lets in at 6 A.M. Each Morning to Walk Its Halls Before It Opens for Business

January 30, 2025

As the facts who work the midnight shift in your head will tell you, you can always count on some new facts waiting patiently at the door each morning. While it’s not technically in a midnight-shift fact’s job description, letting the new ones in was a nicety that sort of became an unofficial task. After they mop the brain floor and clean the brain windows, they unlock the door and let those early-bird facts take a lap.

It’s a pleasant little tradition ‘round here.

45

Io

IO, a moon of Jupiter, has tides of rock. lo has no oceans-but that doesn't mean it has no tides. The gravity of Jupiter and the other moons causes the ground to move up and down the height of a 30-story building. CRACKED.COM — Source: Science Facts That Sound Like Nonsense

44

The Who

WHO ARE You IS ABOUT CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS. Who? 013 NHOB K who? Specifically, it's about Pete Townshend hashing out royalties for The Who's American sales. After 14 hours of negotiations, the execs handed Townshend a check, and he went on the bender described in the song. CRACKED.COM Geoffrey Giuliano, 1996. Behind Blue Eyes: The Life of Pete Townshend. — Source

43

Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo is about Mexican independence, right? Wrong. It's all about America. May 5 isn't Mexican Independence Day. it's the day a ragtag army in

42

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park Dennis Nedry is watching Jaws. Instead of working, Nedry is playing a movie about toothy animals eating people. Really, he should have seen it coming. CRACKED.COM — Source: Movies in Other Movies

41

The Death Penalty

The conviction of the last man sentenced to death in the UK was quashed in 2012. It had already been commuted to life imprisonment - and, 39 years after he was granted that, Liam Holden successfully appealed. CRACKED.COM — Source

40

Vanilla Sky

VIRTUAL REALITY MOVIES VANILLA SKY 2001 TOM CRUISE OPTIONED THE ORIGINAL RIGHT AWAY. Cruise was impressed by Alejandro Amenábar's Abre los ojos, and wanted to remake it as soon as he saw it. Then he invited Cameron Crowe in, who welcomed the chance to work with his Almost Famous crew. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

39

Bono

Bono CRACKED.COM PAUL DAVID HEWSON wanted to pay homage to his hometown... 's hearing aid shop. Bonavox Shop is a sporty little hearing aid store in Dublin. — Biography.com

38

The Wolf of Wall Street

The wolf of wall street got too real about financial crimes. The film was accused by the feds of being part of a money laundering scheme. CRACKED.COM — Source

37

Troy

Eric Bana made $550 off Brad Pitt in Troy. They had an agreement that they'd pay each other for hits during training for their fight scene - - 550 for minor ones, and $100 for major ones. Eric Bana apparently got a whacking, because Pitt had to pay him $750 while he had to pay Pitt $200. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

36

Eggs

Thanks to a specific process, you can't get salmonella from Japanese eggs. In Japan, they use machines that process eggs and make sure they're okay to eat raw, and each machine can process 33 eggs a second. CRACKED.COM — Source

35

Prisons

THE TREADMILL WAS CREATED TO PUNISH PRISONERS CHESS GROUP Through most of the 19th century, convicts in both Britain and the U.S. were made to climb the spokes of the tread-wheel, a large paddle wheel, for hours on end. The wheels were often used to pump water or grind corn, which is why they were eventually called treadmills. CRACKED.COM — Everyday Objects That Started Out As Something Else Entirely

34

The Polar Express as Torture

In 2010, a Florida jail forced some inmates to watch The Polar Express on repeat. One inmate said, I hear those little kids screaming through my brain. All night long I can hear them, he told CNN. I can close my eyes, but I'm still going to hear them over and over and over. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Cartoon Brew

33

8 Mile

The rap battle scenes in the Shelter in 8 Mile weren't actually shot there. The movie was shot in Detroit, but they didn't use the real Shelter -- for exterior shots, for example, they dressed up a place a few blocks away. CRACKED.COM — Source

32

Homages

SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING has a scene Where Michael Keaton's Vulture flies in front of the moon, recreating a shot from Burton's Batman (1989) starring Keaton. CRACKED.COM — Source

31

Play-Doh

Product PLAY-DOH Original WALLPAPER CLEANER Purpose It was a successful wallpaper cleaner until easy-to-clean vinyl wallpapers came into style. The co — Read More: The 5 Most Insane Original Uses For Famous Products

30

Death Proof

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ TARANTINO LEARNED ABOUT DEATH-PROOFING FROM SEAN PENN. While drinking together, Penn suggested that instead of buying a boring Volvo, Tarantino could have any car death-proofed by a stunt crew. Tarantino became obsessed with the idea, and wrote a movie about it. DEATH PROOF CRACKED.COM — Sources: Screen Rant, Wikipedia

29

Ragtime

Many today think of the xylophone as the instrument of grade-school music class and dancing skeletons. But it was a very popular instrument in ragtime music... which is now mostly played by ice cream trucks. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Cool Facts To Pack Into Your Pumpkin

28

Visual Cliff

TWO PSYCHOLOGISTS BUILT A VISUAL CLIFF. A GLASS SURFACE LOOKED LIKE A SUDDEN DROP. One at a time, they plopped a bunch of babies on the cliff and had their mothers coax them across the glass. In other words, they had mothers tell their babies to do something that the babies believed was certain death. Most crawled away from their mothers. CRACKED.COM — The 6 Cruelest Science Experiments Ever (Were Done on Kids)

27

Fontgate

CRACKED NAWAZ SHARIF In 2018, it was revealed that Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had tried to make fake documents to hide his corruption. The papers were in the Calibri font, which wasn't around until 2007, and the documents were supposed to be from 2006. — ARS Technica / Siasat

26

Bitcoin

Nobody knows who actually invented Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies in general). TROYOZ INTERNATIONAL MJB EUSTER bb ITALYOZ BITCON. NTRAL METALS B MAJIENDO The inventor went by the name Satoshi Nakamoto online, but the person (or group) behind the handle never came forward and has never been identified. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

25

Courtney Love

Courtney Love used heroin while she was three weeks pregnant with her daughter Frances. She defended herself by claiming that she didn't know she was

24

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

23

Pulp Fiction

Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - When Uma Thurman is foaming at the mouth in Pulp Fiction after snorting coke, — Source: Vanity Fair

22

Cold Showers

MYTH: Take a cold shower to kill your libido. FACT: cold showers raise hormone levels. Cold showers increase testosterone, which gives your libido a nice boost. They also increase your energy level and sperm count. Remember, your swimmers like it cool. So if you're trying to make yourself less horny, a cold shower is going to be fairly counterproductive. CRACKED.COM http://www.menprovement.com/boost-festosterone-naturally/ — Source: 24 Ways You've Misunderstood Sex Your Whole Life

21

Mattel

CRACKED In 1992, Mattel attempted to cherry-pick elements of Wonder Woman, Barbie and My Little Pony to come up with Wonder Woman and the Star Riders, a unicorn-heavy, Barbie-scale, girls only like horses and dresses line that was canceled before production. — Source / DC Universe Infinite

20

Meat Glue

Works for Duing plastic, metal Super Glue wood rubber. cardboard, loothes, and other seouls GEL surfaces CHEAP MEAT IS OFTEN GLUED TOGETHER. Transglutaminase, also called meat glue, is a substance used to build steaks and the like from cheap cuts. CRACKED.COM

19

The Eiffel Tower

A luxury apartment sits at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Gustave Eiffel had it built for himself when the tower went up, and kept it secret for a long time. He'd get offered crazy sums for a night in it, but always said no. It didn't open to the public until 2015, 90 years after he died. CRACKED.COM — Source

18

South American Woodpecker

There is a bird that looks like Pikachu. CRACKED.COM The male Cream Colored Woodpecker has the same coloration as the cartoon character Pikachu, from the Pokémon series, including the red cheeks. These birds are found in South America. — Ebird

17

Newfoundland

Vikings settled Newfoundland. In 1961, archaeologists found evidence of a small Norse settlement on the coast of Newfoundland. Archaeologists suspected the settlement, located in what is now L'Anse aux Meadows, was used as a temporary base from which the Norse explored northeastern Canada. CRACKED.COM — ROM / Wikipedia

16

Kenny McCormick

The character Kenny on 'South Park' is based on a real childhood friend of Trey Parker. CRACKED.COM Kenny was the poorest kid in town, wore a large parka that muffled his voice and would frequently skip school, inspiring the run- ning joke that he died by classmates. — South Park Wiki

15

Chris Simon

Chris Simon 65 GAMES TOTAL 17 CRACKED.COM This guy was the real-life Happy Gilmore. He was once suspended for taking a baseball swing at Ryan Hollweg's face, and another time for stomping Jarkko Ruutu's leg with his skate. — Source: 15 Of The Longest, Oddest, And Most Deserved Suspensions In Sports History

14

Lord of the Rings

Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Way Different - When Viggo Mortensen screamed and fell to his knees — Source: 6 Iconic Movie Scenes That Happened by Accident

13

Collect

1-800-COLLECT owned the misspelling of AT&T's competing service. 5 jkl 4 ghi 6 mno 8 tuv 7 pqrs 9 wxyz CRACKED.COM AT&T launched 1-800-Opera- tor, but found that many peo- ple misspelled Operator with 'er' at the end. 1-800-COL- LECT owned 1-800-OPERAT- ER and had been taking their customers.

12

The Terminator

CST3-KBL The Terminator The movie came from James Cameron's nightmare. Cameron was in Rome, Italy doing the final cut of Piranha II, when he was stricken with a 102-degree fever. As he tossed and turned at night, he dreamt of the unstoppable robot. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Japan

Fukushima, Japan, CRACKED.COM has become a tourist attraction. There are tours organized by the local authorities or you can ride a bus across the nuclear disaster zone. — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

10

Cathedrals

Many cathedrals have a cruciform plan; that is, if CRACN you see them from above (as God would), they look like a cross. Washington National Chartres

9

Tyra Banks

CRACKED.COM NORTH ULF Tyra Banks' first speaking role was on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Before she screamed her belief in us, Banks had a recurring role as Jackie, Will's friend/ex-girlfriend from West Philadelphia who got to University of California on a basketball scholarship. — Source

8

Spanish Words

verguenza ajena /ver-GWEN-za-ah-HAY-na/ Sometimes people act in such a way that you feel embarrassed on their behalf. Ever felt this? In Spanish this is called verguenza ajena - shame of others. CRACKED.COM — 13 Amazing Foreign Words We Desperately Need In English

7

Sharks

Selfies kill more people every year than sharks. CRACKED COM In India alone, 27 people perished from selfie-re- lated accidents in 2015. Sharks, on the other hand, are only responsi- ble for 7-8 deaths world- wide. — Washington Post

6

Checkers

Marion Franklin Tinsley beat a computer program at checkers by looking 64 moves ahead. Considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived, Tinsley beat the program Chi- nook by picking the only available winning strategy after Chinook made a fatal error during gameplay. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

5

Leashes

Is your dog SO happy to go walkies that he pulls on the leash? That's not happiness. It's confusion. Dogs need to be specifically trained to recognize what a leash is, and where you want their bodies relative to yours, during a walk. Otherwise they'll keep yanking harder and harder until they damage their tracheas. Training, by the way, does not mean simply yanking on the leash. That triggers your dog to pull more. CRACKED.COM http://dogmastersystem.com/behavior.ht — Source: 25 Pet Behaviors That Mean The Opposite of What You Think

4

James Bond

Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgia's richest man, lives in a $50 million steel-and-glass structure nicknamed the glassle. The top two floors are all glass. On-site aides greet visitors with Welcome to the James Bond house. CRACKED.COM — 24 Facts About One Percenters And All Their Money

3

The AK-47

CRACKED MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV: THE AK-47 Mikhail Kalashnikov wished he had invented something useful like a lawnmower instead of the AK-47 rifle, which he was proud of but was saddened to see it used by terrorists. — The Guardian / NY Times

2

It’s a Wonderful Life

Best Movies Ever It's a Wonderful Life The movie was going to be darker. It was originally about a congressman who tried to kill himself after losing an election. But what made it dark was Mr. Potter dying from a heart attack, Spooked by Clarence the angel. CRACKED.COM — More: 'It’s a Wonderful Life' Was Almost Way Darker

1

Rudyard Kipling

CRACKED GRADUATING ENGINEERS TAKE PART IN A WEIRD RITUAL IN CANADA For 100 years, graduating Canadian engineering students have been taking part in a strange, secretive ceremony called the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, which was made up by Rudyard Kipling back in 1923. — The Star

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