12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Tuesday, March 4, 2025

12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Andrew Schulz Says Censorship Is Good for Comedy

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40 Conspiracies, Myths and Legends You Need to Pressure Wash Out of Your Brain Immediately

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That May Technically Be Haikus and You’d Never Know

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Jerry Seinfeld Was Desperate to Work With Joan Rivers, Who Called Him ‘Perfectly Average’

Jerry Seinfeld Was Desperate to Work With Joan Rivers, Who Called Him ‘Perfectly Average’

40 Militant Bits of Trivia That Expect Your Brain Up at 0400 Hours

These facts wait for no one

40 Militant Bits of Trivia That Expect Your Brain Up at 0400 Hours

January 31, 2025

You better hurry up if you hope to keep up with these facts, because they’re not the “read at your own leisure” type. They’re on a mission to spread their truth to as many eyeballs as possible, so straighten up that back, have those scrolling fingers ready and get to it.

Oh, and after each fact, they like it when you shout, “Thank you, sir! May I have another?”

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Resident Evil

On the shoot of Resident Evil: Retribution, the zombie costumes put actors at risk. At one point, 16 actors fell from a platform, and EMTs had to be called in - but the costumes meant EMTs had a hard time diagnosing their injuries. None of the injuries turned out to — Source: The Guardian

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Spartacus

76,000 people CRACKED.COM The sound crew from Spartacus went to a Michigan State Spartans game, directing over 76,000 people to scream and cheer to use in the movie's soundtrack. — Source

38

Atomic Bomb Rehearsal

As a rehearsal for the very first atomic bomb test, they stacked 100 tons of TNT. Trinity Well, 108 tons, to be exact - and they detonated them simultaneously in May, 1945, two months before the real thing: Trinity, the first nuclear explosion. CRACKED.COM — Source

37

The Dark Knight

That's really Christian Bale on top of the Sears Tower in The Dark Knight. He told his stunt double You get to do a lot of fantastic stunts. You're not taking that one away from me. CRACKED.COM — Source: WIRED

36

Chinese Sunglasses

chinese judges wore sunglasses to appear impartial. In 12th-century China, judges wore smoky quartz glasses for the same reason you wear your Ray-Bans - to look aloof and above it all. Masking their facial expressions gave them the appearance of being impartial and detached. CRACKED.COM — More: The First Sunglasses Were Meant To Make You Look Like An Emotionless Slab

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Pope Pius XII

The Pope in 1950 did not reject the theory of evolution. CRACKED COM Pope Pius XII confirmed there was no conflict be- tween Christianity and the theory of evolution, and the Church supports the idea of theistic evo- lution. — Wall Street Journal / Wikipedia

34

The Sopranos

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA SHOWED UP ON THE SOPRANOS BACK IN 2007. Не was a hotel bellman who refused to give Tony and Pauly the answer they wanted - it was basically the definition of a minor role. — Source

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The Simpsons

The golden age of The Simpsons is generally considered to be seasons 2 through 7, and there's a reason for that. Season 8 It changed showrunners and d

32

Bitcoin

The first real-world Bitcoin transaction involved buying two pizzas for 10,000 ВТС. That happened on May 22, 2010, and it was the equivalent of about $25 at the time -- it'd be roughly $360 million in late May 2021. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Coindesk

31

Humo

Belgian comedy magazine Humo ran a 9/11 ad in 2004. Back when the site of the World Trade Center was still an empty lot called Ground Zero, Humo tried

30

Video Games

One woman is the voice of tons of your favorite video game heroes. TUITO Ashly Burch got her start all the way back in 2008 with a show she and her brother made called Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'? Since then, she's lent her voice to huge games like Life is Strange, Valorant, and Horizon Zero Dawn. CRACKED.COM — Ashly Burch is the Voice Of Your Favorite Video Game Hero

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Immigrants

MYTH: Worried about criminal activity? It's got to be all those immigrants. FAGT8 Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes. First-generation immigr

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Comas

CRACKED.COM A guy spent 12 years in a coma, but completely aware. South African Martin Pistorious slipped into a coma at 12. At 16 he began to regain consciousness, but he still couldn't move or speak for years. His strongest memory of his time locked in is Barney & Friends reruns on the TV. Today, he hates Barney more than any other living person. — Source

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Hip-Hop

40 Militant Bits of Trivia That Expect Your Brain Up at 0400 Hours

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Operation Unthinkable

CRACKED INVADING THE USSR JUST AFTER WWII In 1945, Winston Churchill asked his military leaders to make a secret plan called Operation Unthinkable to fight the Soviet Union right after the end of WWII and take back East Germany and Poland from their control. — The History Press

25

Congress

THE FOR FEDERAL - a TEXTUR recorn KB462 NOTE en 60 I REGISTER KB WILL B2 TOSHER PRIME of NATURAL THE con I098 VES RUC AJATE سفتا LITTEN SCRIPTA MANET THE REGISTER FEDERAL VOLUME 1 OF THE UNITED 1934 STATES NUMBER 1 D 46 Washington, Saturday, March 14, 1936 8 22'28 g. 19.26 ebs to curner No. 2 . point on the nor RESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES seesbore of mull Island, facing easterly end of the this coruer & U. B. 21 IL standard Atlantic Ocien: from e EXECUTIVE ORDER -2 WC OOR 2 BULLA ISLAND 1935 crete poet marked — Source

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Radiation

FATAL x ERROR A RADIATION THERAPY MACHINE KILLING PATIENTS In 1987, the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine caused serious burns and even some deaths because of software bugs, and a lack of hardware locks and other safety features CRACKED — Source

23

Dairy Queen

Dairy Queens in Texas have a different menu Dairu Queen Dairu Oueen Some Texas-specific products include the Hungr-Buster and the Dude Chick'n Fried Steak Sandwich. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM — Source: Texas Monthly

22

South Park

EASTER EGGSTRA Overwatch South Park The easter egg. HALLOWEEN OUTLET In 22's The season Problem with a Poo, the Halloween Outlet features costumes for classic poP culture characters like Darth Vader and Pinhead. Also featured is the masks of two Overwatch characters, Tracer and Reaper. CRACKED.COM — Source

21

The Thames

The Thames is one of the world's great rivers, and contains comes a shocking amount of islands. Some tiny, some large enough to be inhabitable, there are around 180 river islands, or eyots on the Thames. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

Batman

Arkham Asylum's name is a nod to H.P. Lovecraft and his Arkham Sanitarium. Climb Up Arkham Sanitarium showed up in his books, and it had his trademark sense of subtly unsettling madnesscwhich Arkham Asylum evokes, too. CRACKED.COM — Source: CBR

19

Billy Madison

THE BOYS THERE'S A CONNECTION WITH BILLY MADISON. Jonah Vogelbaum's estate on the series is the exact same mansion as Billy's father's home in the movie: Parkwood Estate in Oshawa, Canada. CRACKED.COM — Sources: CBR, Looper

18

The White House

40 Militant Bits of Trivia That Expect Your Brain Up at 0400 Hours — Source: White House History

17

The International Space Station

The ISS is weightless because it's in orbit, not because of its distance from Earth. CRACKED.COM An airplane at the same altitude, under its own power, would have 89% as much gravity as the Earth's surface. — OpenLearn

16

Zoom

WEIRD WORLD A utility regulators' Zoom meeting in Louisiana was interrupted by porn. Trolls joined the meeting and started running explicit porn just before it started, so it had to pause while staffers kicked them out. CRACKED.COM — Source: Weird World: 12 Inexplicably Ridiculous Things That Somehow Happened

15

The Dark Knight

Surprising Ways Beloved Movies Accomplished Their Effects - The chase scene in The Dark Knight was all physical. — Source: 8 Movie Special Effects You Didn't Know Weren't CGI: Classic

14

RNA

RNA Transcription DNA RNA Protein Translation GRAGKED.COM DNA needs proteins to form, and proteins need DNA to form, so how could they have formed without each other? According to Molecular Biology of the Cell, the answer may be RNA, which can store information like DNA, and serve as an enzyme like proteins to help create both DNA and proteins. But how did RNA get here? — Source: livescience

13

Knitting

Knitting is part of the school curriculum in Finland. CRACKED.COM Crafts as well as knitting have long been an integral part of Finnish culture, hence why it is a part of the school curriculum and part of the tradition that has long been passed from one generation to the next. — Source

12

Burgers

Whataburger and What-a-burger opened on the same day without the knowledge of each other's existence. Texas Texas House of Senate Representatives CRACKED.COM Both Whataburger and What-a-burger opened in 1950 (in Texas and Virginia, respectively), and sued each other for trademark infringement two decades later. The courts ruled Whataburger had a legitimate trademark but the Virginia establishment wasn't infringing. — Open Jurist

11

Sewers

Alligators weren't the first mythical sewer dwellers. Urban legends about sewer gators have their roots in Victorian London. Underground workers known as toshers had tales of wild pigs and supernatural rats. Similar myths go back even to ancient Rome. CRACKED.COM — Source

10

The U.K.

WEIRD WORLD In the UK, a judge sentenced a 21-year-old Nazi sympathizer to reading. Ben John has been forbidden from reading white supremacy stuff, and has to read authors including Jane Austen, Shakespeare, and Dickens. CRACKED.COM — Source: Lincolnshire Live

9

Beethoven

Beethoven was so bad at math, he couldn't track his spending and income. Не left school early, and never learned how to multiply and divide. CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Geniuses Who Are Surprisingly Stupid (In One, Glaring Way)

8

Total Recall

Super-Weird Early Versions Of Famous Characters - Total Recall's Quaid was supposed to be an accountant. — Source: Film School Rejects

7

Hubble

The Human Genome Project was 1990 1991 1998 1999 1990 launched in 1990. So was the Hubble Space Telescope. 1995 NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s CRACKED.COM

6

Sweat

Men's sweat smells like cheese and womens' smells like onions. CRACKED.COM The odor is not caused by the sweat itself. Bacteria that live on the body in- gest compounds present in the sweat, the metabo- lism of which causes the smell. — Reference

5

Space Jam

Space Jam was a spin-off of a Nike Super Bowl commercial. The 1992 ad featuring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny was very popular, leading Jordan's agent to take the now famous duo to the big screen. CRACKED.COM — Source

4

Texas

CRACKED TEXAS LAWMAKERS WANT TO ARM THIRD GRADERS (WITH MEDICAL SUPPLIES). Two Democrats from the Texas House proposed a bill that would make sure third graders in public schools had access to medical supplies used by the US military in battle. How reassuring. — Newsweek

3

Nobel Prize

CRACKED MALARIA: A CURE FOR SYPHILIS. Julius Wagner-Jauregg won the first Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1927 for his discovery that malaria inoculation could be used to treat paralysis - but really, his patients had syphilis, and the malaria fever killed off syphilis bacteria. — Nobel Prize

2

Knives Out

Harlan Thrombey's name in Knives Out was based on a Choose Your Own Adventure book. It came from Who Killed Harlow Thrombey, one of Rian Johnson's favorite childhood books. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

1

Pirates

If a pirate ship had a red flag flying, it meant no life would be spared. A black flag signaled quarter would be offered. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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