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41 Adorable Bits of Trivia That You’ll Never Be Able to Say Are Your Favorite (But You Know They Are)

February 06, 2025

Like your kids, you’re never really supposed to say that you love one batch of facts more than the others. But we’re human, so we can’t really help it. Try as we might, one fact batch gets some subtly, slightly better treatment than batches that cried all the time as babies. Ugh! Just put your damn shoes on!

Sorry, our analogy got a little muddled there. All we’re saying is that these are about to be your new favorite facts.

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Huynh Tieu Huong

CRACKED HUYNH TIEU HUONG: FROM WEALTHY AMERICAN TO MOTHER TERESA OF VIETNAM. She gave up her life of wealth and fame in America to dedicate her life to helping the needy. She's become the mother of 346 children with the Huynh family name. — Via Viet My Magazine
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TV Firsts

The first decision to get an abortion 1972 CRACKED COM 2 months before Roe v. Wade, Bea Arthur's titular character on Maude chose to get an abortion at age 47. Or, actually, her husband decided on the abortion. Baby steps. — Source: 22 Television History Once-Taboo Firsts

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Janet Yellen

CRACKED JANET YELLEN MAY HAVE TRIPPED ON SHROOMS IN BEIJING. Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, apparently tried some magic mushrooms when she went out to eat in a restaurant in Beijing during her visit to China. — Independent

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Bloodsport

Donald Trump rewatches the fights in Bloodsport. Bloodson Bloodsport is one of Trump's favorite flicks ('an incredible, fantastic movie, he says). A

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Disgraced Former Congressman Martin Hoke

In 1993, Congressman Martin Hoke was recorded preparing for a live TV feed, commenting on a producer to another congressman. Не put on a Mario-esque accent and said, She's got ze beeeg-a breasts. His political career didn't last much longer. CRACKED — Source / Cleveland

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Video Games

The Team Fortress Spy is a glitch that never went away. A bug in the graphics caused some enemies to render as teammates. They pulled the old it's a

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Livyatan

LIVYATAN Dead for 13 million years. 57', 100, 000 LBS CRACKED.COM A literal leviathan, Livyatan melvillei was an apex predator with teeth the size of artillery shells. Unlike the similarly robust Sperm Whale which feeds by sucking in water and all the organisms that come with it, Livyatan used those foot long teeth to chomp down on other whales as a food source. — Source: New York Times

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Ancient Rome

THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS BIG. JUST NOT THAT BIG. Rome, the biggest empire that ever was... Except that, by surface area, it was more like the 25th, with about two million square miles at its height. GRACKED COM — Source

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Friends

Matthew Perry got Julia Roberts to guest-star in Friends by writing a paper on quantum physics. Perry asked her to come on the show, and she said she'd do it only if he wrote her a paper on quantum physics. Apparently, a day later, he wrote one and faxed it to her. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Amazon

CRACKED Amazon has been granted patents for wristbands that would allow for ultrasonic tracking of a worker's hands to monitor performance using haptic feedback, which buzz the employee if they move to the wrong item. 16 16 20 20 20 22 X 12 20 14 20 16 16 The new patents are ostensibly for wristbands that Amazon employees would wear, which work in conjunction with ultrasonic devices strategically placed around Amazon's warehouses. — Fast Company

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Shazam

SHAZAM! In Shazam!, the buttons that fasten Shazam's cape feature a tiger head, a subtle nod to the comics character Mr. Tawny, a talking tiger and al

30

Beyoncé

Celebrities' Favorite Foods Beyoncé Popeyes Chicken The Queen Bee loves that chicken from Popeyes - so much so that the franchise del gave her a card guaranteeing ALE GU her a lifetime supply! CRACKED.COM — Oprah.com

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Justin Bieber

CRACKED.COM Justin Bieber can solve a Rubik's Cube in less than two minutes! RUBIK'S 4LIFE Yes, probably faster than you can! Bieber has been showing his puzzle-solving skills in many interviews through the years, for example on The Late Late Show with James Corden in 2015. — Source

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Phil Collins

CRACKED GON Phil Collins' TAKE ME HOME isn't about going home. There's no point escaping I don't worry anymore It's about a patient in a mental hospital. Collins took inspiration for the song from the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep apparently could have gotten killed while making Into the Woods. At one point, right after she'd jumped up onto a table, she started falling off of it - but Emily Blunt caught her. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Electricity

Prokop Diviš and Benjamin Franklin both discovered the identity of electricity AND invented the lightning rod only five years apart. Franklin came up with the rod in 1749 whereas Diviš came up with his in 1754. CRACKED.COM — 12 Uncanny Instances Of Simultaneous Invention

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Swords

Greatswords aren't medieval. Two-handed greatswords became a thing in the late 1500s- during the Renaissance, not the Middle Ages. Terms like Zweihander are even more recent, and weren't used historically. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts

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30 Rock

Donald Glover did the vocals for Werewolf Bar Mitzvah Before being a Grammy-winner, Childish Gambino did his best Tracy Morgan impersonation. Не also contributed some lyrics to the song. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — Bustle

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Dark Souls

The idea for summons in Dark Souls came from people helping the creator when he got his car stuck. DARK SOULS REMASTERED Hidetaka Miyazaki was inspired to design its summoning based on an experience he had when his car got stuck in the snow on a hill and a bunch of strangers came and helped before vanishing. CRACKED.COM — Games Radar

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Shopping

An Australian woman went on an 11-month shopping spree after discovering she had an unlimited bank overdraft. CRACKED.COM She spent $4.6 million buying designer handbags, clothes, jewelry, phones and a vacuum cleaner. The bank discovered the with- drawals and she was ar- rested, but all charges were later dropped. — Source

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Pangolins

There's only one mammal that's completely covered by scales: the pangolin. They use those scales to instantly go into what's basically fortress mode - if a threat appears, they curl up into a tight, scaly, well-armored ball. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Link-Boys

Jobs that no longer exist Link-Boys Link-boys were hired for a small fee to walk in front of people holding a flaming torch to light their way on London's dark and dangerous streets. They were often associated with criminal gangs, and were mentioned by Shakespeare, Samuel Pepys' diary, and Charles Dickens' novels. CRACKED — Wiki Commons
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The Exorcist

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Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks' family is a textbook case of shared parenting done right. Not only did he, wife Trisha Yearwood, and first wife Sandy Mahl all take time

17

West Africa

A West African president was assassinated by his former bandmate. In 1987, Thomas Sankara (then president of Burkina Faso) was killed in a coup held by Blaise Compaoré. Ten years earlier, they were in a band together called 'Tout-à-Coup Jazz.' CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Divergent

DIVERGENT EDWARD STABBED CRACKED.COM Even though Edward is stabbed in the eye in the book, the film's version of the scene was deemed too gruesome, and cut to preserve the movie's PG-13 rating. — Source: Buzzfeed

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Halliburton

In 2003, Halliburton was contracted to fix Iraqi oil wells damaged as a result of coalition attacks in the region. During those repairs, they imported oil from Kuwait to supply U.S. troops and the Iraqi people at a rate of $2.64 per gallon. The going rate for oil from Kuwait was only 71 cents per gallon. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Howie Mandel

Howie Mandel went from stand-up goofball to game show host. And he was a gremlin along the way. Specifically, Howie was the voice of Gizmo, the adorab

13

Return to Babylon

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2013 RETURN TO BABYLON Not a horror movie, but the story is too juicy to pass. During production, actresses Jennifer Tilly and Maria Cochita Alonso said they felt weird presences. Then, while editing the film, the director saw ghostly images and distorted faces (that were left in the final film.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Purple Hearts

CRACKED THE PURPLE HEARTS GIVEN OUT TODAY WERE MANUFACTURED DURING WORLD WAR II. They were originally manufactured for the invasion of Japan, which was expected to result in half a million casualties. The invasion never happened, so they had tons of leftover medals. — Source

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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens is Wanted For Questioning About a Poacher Murder CRACKED.COM Delia Owens, writer of the best- selling book and upcoming Swift-soundtracked movie Where the Crawdads Sing, can't go back to Zambia, where she once worked for a wildlife conservation, because police would like to talk to her about her husband's and/or stepson's possible involvement in the murder of a poacher there in 1995. — Slate

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The Fast and the Furious

Movie Goofs The Fast and the Furious Baddie Johnny Tran is wearing a black shirt - but a fraction of a second later, he changes to a black tank top. Ugh, no wonder this movie never got a sequel. CRACKED.COM — Source: WatchMojo.com/YouTube

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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

8

The Wizard of Oz

The song over the Rainbow would have been removed from the film The Wizard of Oz had associate producer Arthur Freed not fought for it to stay. MGM

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Creepy Places

Nagoro, Japan THE VILLAGE OF THE DOLLS A local artist made it a custom to replace every person that dies in the village with a life-size replica doll. At this point there are more dolls than humans occupying the village. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Real Places That Will Give You Nightmares

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Andy Warhol

In 1964, Andy Warhol directed a feature film where Batman battles Dracula. CRACKED.COM Batman Dracula was never released as Warhol failed to get permission to use the character from DC Comics. — Source

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Lightning

Lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees. This is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun, which sizzles at a relatively temperate 9,941 degrees fahrenheit. The sun makes up for this measly number by heating up inside to 27 million degrees. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — NWS

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Iran

An ice cream ad led to Iran banning women from appearing in advertisements. GRACKED.COM The Islamic Republic im- posed the ban on any use of female images or actors in advertisements thanks to a commercial in which a woman takes a bite of a chocolate covered ice cream bar. — Iranintl

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Lady Gaga

Scientists love Lady Gaga due to her commitment to diversity and eccentricity. She has a huge amount of species named after her, including ferns, wasps and mammals, plus a treehopper with shoulder pad-like horns. CRACKED — Source / Marca

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Easter Eggs

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES AND MEANINGS BACK ROGER RABBIT TO FUTURET CAMEO THE TREE Happy Faces STATE OLD 10E 1962 INAC bother gerrier LAVA LAME The character can be seen in the antique shop store window: Who Framed Roger Rabbit was also directed by Robert Zemeckis and, of course, starred Christopher Lloyd. 'CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rats

Rats make a face when they feel pain... ...and get hurt when they recognize the look of pain on each other's faces. Their facial expressions are SO cl

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