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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Have Been Burning a Hole in Our Pocket

We’ve been dying to get these off our hands

40 Random Bits of Trivia That Have Been Burning a Hole in Our Pocket

February 01, 2025

We’re playing hot potato with these facts. It’s all you can do with these little knowledge-packed truth bombs. They’re just too hot to hold, so before you get started, we recommend reading one and then immediately relaying it to the person beside you. Then have them relay it to… What are we going on about?

You know the game. Just try not to burn your brain today, okay?

40

Georgia

Georgia banishes its citizens for DUIs and shoplifting. As recently as 2011, residents of Georgia can find themselves banned from setting foot in almost all of the state's counties. Most often, they'd banish someone from every county except for Echols County, a literal swamp. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Charlie Chaplin

A deaf friend helped Charlie Chaplin pantomime techniques. CRACKED.COM Chaplin asked his friend Granville Redmond to help him develop the tech- niques Chaplin later used in his silent films. Chaplin even gave Redmond a stu- dio on the movie lot for his paintings. — Source

38

Star Wars

64 years old in 2015 63 years old in 1977 MARK HAMILL IS OLDER IN THE NEW STAR WARS TRILOGY THAN ALEC GUINNESS WAS IN THE FIRST MOVIE.

37

Bayer

Bayer once sold heroin as a cold and pain medicine. BAYER \l EARBENFABRIKEN Vr FRIEDR.BAYER ELBERFELD: Heroin Name gesettunge Nom depose And they're h

36

Ancient Rome

Eyes d little und 1 not physiological. Act requiring a prescription ntinues to be a problem today FOND it TAMPON OPIUM BELLADONHA IN ANCIENT ROME, of ON TONY OPIUM-SOAKED AMPON Co TAMPONS WERE USED TO ALLEVIATE MENSTRUAL PAIN. The wool tampons were also soaked in almond oil, ох marrow, and goose fat. CRACKED.COM — Atlas Obscura

35

Saburo Sakai

SABURO SAKAI'S COCKPIT EXPLODED DURING WW2. SAKAI HIMSELF WAS SHOT SQUARE IN THE FOREHEAD. This removed a chunk of his brain, blinded his right eye, and paralyzed the left half of his body. But Sakai pulled up, wiped away the blood with his scarf, and made the five-hour flight back to his base. Of the 150 pilots in his unit, he was one of just three to survive. CRACKED.COM — Source: People Who Survived Completely Unsurvivable Situations

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Hey Jude

A promotion by Paul McCartney was mistaken for an antisemitic slur. HeyJude Hey Bing! HEY JUDE AMOS THOSE WERE THE DAYS AAS 735 LITTLE GREEN APPLES CRACKED.COM THE STRAIGHT LIFE McCartney painted Hey Jude on the window of a closed boutique to pro- mote his newest single. A Jewish passerby mistook this for Jude meaning Jew in German, and smashed the window. — Life of the Beatles

33

Vitamin C

Contrary to popular belief, Vitamin С doesn't prevent you from catching a cold. But it can have some benefits for colds, like reducing their severity or duration - that's the finding of a meta-analysis of 29 scientific studies. CRACKED.COM

32

Harry Potter

Helena Bonham Carter perforated Matthew Lewis' eardrum in Harry Potter: In a scene where Bellatrix threatens Neville Longbottom, she poked his ear with her wand just as he moved (luckily, the injury was temporary). CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

31

The U.S. Navy

A sailor aboard a US warship divided by zero, causing an overflow error and killing the entire ship. In 1998, the US Navy war- ship USS Yorktown be- came paralyzed in the water after the Navy opt- ed to run the ship on Windows NT 4.0 instead of a more fitting OS. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

30

Hannibal Lecter

Morgan Freeman was up for the part of Hannibal Lecter. You think The Silence of the Lambs, you see Sir Anthony Hopkins. But the iconic character created by Thomas Harris was once considered to go to either Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, or even Sean Connery. Gene Hackman would've played Dr. Lecter and directed the movie himself if he could-only his daughter asked him not to. CRACKED.COM — Source

29

Burgers

One burger can contain hundreds of cows. All thanks to a 1960's innovation called the disassembly line. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

28

Star Wars

Behind-the-scenes feuds Star Wars Kenny Baker vs Anthony Daniels Baker, who plays R2-D2, has called C-3PO's Daniels boring, infuriating, and rude. And while Daniels has discussed the feud much less, his side of the story kinda confirms Baker's. CRACKED.COM — More: Scully Hates Mulder: 7 On Screen Friends, Real World Enemies

27

Starbucks

In Buffalo, NY, workers at Starbucks have voted to unionize-for the first time ever. FFER STARBUCKS COSSE Specifically, it's the first time that happened in any Starbucks store in its 50-year history. CRACKED.COM — Source

26

It’s A Wonderful Life

It was shot during a heatwave. YOU ARE N FALLS Despite the cold winter setting, It's a Wonderful Life was actually shot during an intense summer heatw — BBC

25

Listerine

LISTERINE WAS LISTERI A SURGICAL ANTISEPTIC. DEEPER CLEAN THAN BRUSHING ALONE LISTERINE FRESHBURST ANTISEPTIC Kills Germs that Cause Bad Breath, Plaque & the Gum Disease Gingivitis ADA Accepted Denter The reason why you wash your mouth with Listerine is that 100 years ago, its peddlers didn't think surgeons alone were giving them enough money. So they convinced the world that their bad breath was a medical problem, and that they needed their germ-killer to cure it. CRACKED.COM — Everyday Objects That Started Out As Something Else Entirely

24

The USSR

A Soviet general got Coca-Cola into the USSR. Coke's imperialistic reputation bugged General Georgy Zhukov, who had taken a liking to the brown sugary beverage during World War II. So through his foreign contacts, he got crates of and colorless Coke sent to him, which he could happily chug without anyone suspecting it wasn't vodka. CRACKED.COM — Source

23

T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot Was a critically acclaimed poet. THE WASTE LAND T. S. ELIOT GRTICAL His poem The Waste Land'' was largely stolen. The poem is a haunting s

22

Dennis Hopper

Celebrity overseas gigs DENNIS HOPPER rides that Speed popularity. In 1995, Hopper was in a Japanese ad for Tsumura cleaning products. Не starts as his villainous Speed character, then gets belly deep in a bubble bath, plays with a rubber duckie, and cackles like a lunatic. CRACKED — Denis Makarenko/Shutterstock,
Tsumura
YouTube

21

Knives Out

Chris Evans Не got his dog a Knives Out sweater. The cable knit sweater Evans wore in Rian Johnson's mystery-comedy movie became an internet sensation - so when he got his pooch Dodger one, it couldn't not go viral right away. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Page Six, Chris Evans/Twitter

20

Hiccups

WHY DO WE HICCUP? Hiccups are extremely annoying and they don't serve any real purpose. sO, WHY DOWE EXPERIENCE THEM? Well, scientists aren't sure, th

19

No Time to Die

NO TIME TO DIE Safin's poison garden is a nod to the Garden of Death in lan Fleming's 1964 Bond novel, You Only Live Twice. The Garden belonged to Dr Guntram Shatterhand-who we know as Blofeld-and at one point the working title for No Time to Die was, in fact, Shatterhand. CRACKED.COM — Source

18

Precious

Precious PUSH CRACKED.COM SAPPHIRE Sapphire plays a woman at the day care center toward the end of the film. — 17 Author Cameos In Movie Adaptations You Might Have Missed

17

Jim Jones

SHADY TIES HARVEY MILK AND JIM JONES When Jones (who conducted the mass-suicide of 918 people) was getting bad publicity, Milk wrote a letter to President Jimmy Carter, praising the cult leader and the work he was doing. They left that out of the Milk biopic. CRACKED — Ted Sahl, Kat Fitzgerald, Patrick Phonsakwa, Lawrence McCrorey, Darryl Pelletier/Wiki Commons,
Nancy Wong/Wiki Commons
San Diego State University

16

Mao Zedong

A mango cult developed after Mao Zedong gifted them to workers during China's Cultural Revolution. CRACKED.COM Workers worshiped mangoes, holding processions that cel- ebrated them and equating them with Mao's image. One dentist who compared them to sweet potatoes in appear- ance was executed. — BBC

15

Reddit

The first ever post on Reddit was a link to a story about the Downing Street memo. reddit REDDIT.COM comments other discussions (3) This is an archive

14

Easter Eggs

Pixar Easter Eggs Sully You can see a wood carving of Monsters, Inc.'s Sully in the background of the Witch's workshop. Fan theories suggest the Witch is actually little Boo, but we would object that that's not far-fetched enough. Brave CRACKED.COM — Source

13

The Internet

CRACKED.COM THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 'II' IN SITES IS SORRY. http://w Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the world wide web, said the said the double slashes after 'http' are unnecessary and that he didn't realize that the slashes would cause so much hassle. — Inventors Who Can't Stand Their Own Creations

12

Betty White

Her first name is not short for anything. Betty is her legal name, and despite her first TV series, it's not short for Elizabeth. Her parents chose this SO she wouldn't have to deal with her name being shortened to Beth, Liz, or Lizzie. CRACKED.COM — Source: Cinema Blend

11

Weed Smoking

BARELY ANYONE SMOKED POT IN THE 1960s. Ah, the '60s. Flower power, peace and love, everyone was high... Except that by 1969, only 4% of Americans had ever tried marijuana, and a whopping 34% didn't even know what its effects were. CRACKED.COM — Source

10

Pennies

CRACKED.COM These tiny crystalline flowers are growing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial... ...on a penny. http://hyperallergic.com/72044/sculpting-the-tiniest-flowers-in-the-world-to-build-the-future-of-nanotechnologyl — Source

9

Corporate Law

Dodge sued Ford for trying to use company profits on their workers, and set the precedent for US corporate law. Ford Ford wanted to use extra profits to raise employee wages and employ more people in 1919, but Dodge sued them, saying a corpo- ration's only responsibility is to increase shareholder value. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Harvard

8

Maya the Bee

Maya The Bee was created to suck up to the Kaiser. Published in Germany in 1912, Waldemar Bonsels' book was pretty much a cautionary tale against unconformity and rebellion, which explicitly kissed up to Kaiser Wilhelm II. When the Nazis came goose-stepping years later, Bonsels started pandering to them in his writing. GRACKED.COM — Source

7

Intoxication Laws

MYTH: You probably think drinking in a bar can't get you arrested. FAGT8 But in states with broad intoxication laws, it can. In 2006, Texas scored the

6

Eminem

AT A GLANCE EMINEM Eminem fired his first manager because he wouldn't buy him a Whopper His manager went to Burger King and didn't offer to buy Em anything, even though he was broke. Eminem felt his manager wasn't invested in him and called it off. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Way I Am

5

Rat Fetishes

Rats can develop sexual fetishes just like people. Researchers have been able to influence lab rats to be attracted to perfume and even rat lingerie

4

Australia

AUSTRALIA IS WIDER THAN THE MOON The moon has more square area, but Australia is almost 4000 kilometres, compared to the Moon's 3,475 km. CRACKED.COM — Australian Government and NASA

3

Greensman

Both the real and artificial plants on a film set are handled by a GREENSMAN. Shooting a film can take months, and they have to maintain the landscape for the entire time. CRACKED COM — Source

2

The Secret Service

40 Random Bits of Trivia That Have Been Burning a Hole in Our Pocket — Source: Mental Floss

1

RuPaul’s Drag Race

PUBaub CRACKED.COM RACE DRAG Rupaul's Drag Race films several different endings of their finale so that no one will be able to leak the winner. taping

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