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43 Disoriented Bits of Trivia That Don’t Know How They Got in Your Brain But Are Sure Glad They Did

February 06, 2025

It must be incredibly shocking to find yourself plunked into a new setting like some form of teleportation. That’s how facts feel when they suddenly land in your brain. Their teleportation device is your reading and comprehension skills. They get sucked in through your eyes and plopped into some strange new place.

So be patient with them while they get a lay of the land.

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Math

CRACKED.COM Zero took an amazingly long time to catch on. It's downright impossible to do complex math without a numeral to represent a zilch-ful of something. And yet, humans mathed away without a zero for millennia. It wasn't until the fifth century that zero was invented in India-and the idea didn't hit Europe until the 12th century. — Source

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Lord of the Rings

Viggo Mortensen got a black eye while learning to surf on the Lord of the Rings set. Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan tried to teach him how to surf on their day off, and Mortensen got hit right in the face. It took a month for the swelling to die down, which meant they had to avoid that side of his face in close-ups in the Mines of Moria scenes. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Imposters

CRACKED PERFORMING INVASIVE SURGERY, ON A WHIM Ferdinand Demara, a con man, managed to medically treat all the Korean War casualties aboard a Canadian Navy Destroyer while posing as a surgeon. Не hastily studied a medical textbook, which was apparently enough to successfully perform a major chest surgery. — Time / Independent

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Bill Murray

Puzzling decisions PHIL Bill Murray refusing to film the last scene of Groundhog Day Murray wouldn't film the scene until everyone voted on whether his character should keep wearing the same clothes from the night before or not. CRACKED — Columbia Pictures
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Talladega Nights

BEHINO-THE-SOENESPACTS John C. Reilly almost said I'M BRICK TAMLAND - Old Sp + SE - EL CUP - with NE t MIDEL NEXTEL - Hi SE UP TEL TALLADEGA NIGHTS GRAGKED.COM THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY The original Anchorman weather guy was Reilly, who had to drop out and was replaced by Steve Carell. McKay kept Reilly in mind when it came time to cast Talladega Nights. Coincidentally, Carell had to drop out of a planned Nights cameo. — Source

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Liz Miele

COMEDY NERD Liz Miele got a kind of surprise mentoring from George Carlin himself. As a young comedian, she wrote to 40 established ones-only two contacted her, and one was Carlin, who even gave her a call. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sugar

Sugar doesn't cause hyperactivity in children. Over 12 studies showed no behavior change, even among kids with ADHD. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Germany

In Nazi Germany, an astrologer was arrested after making an accurate prediction about an attempt on Hitler's life. After his arrest, Karl Ernst Krafft was hired by the Nazis to churn out propoganda but was eventually sent to a concentration camp with a host of other astrologers. CRACKED.COM — Source: Zodiac and Swastika

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Toxic Sets

THE YELLOWISH SMOKE DURING THE OPENING CREDITS WAS PRETTY TOXIC THE RETURN of THE LIVING DEAD. Apparently the only way to get yellow smoke was for the production team to use sulfur. It took a few minutes of pumping that smoke to give most of the people on set terrible headaches. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lady Godiva

Lady Godiva HISTORY rode THE through town nude. She took her naked horseback ride through the town of Coventry as a protest of her husband's exorbit

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DaimlerChrysler

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32

Trees

The knobcone pine requires fire to complete its reproduction cycle. CRACKED COM Cones remain closed for many years until a fire opens them and allows reseeding. As a result, knobcone cones may even become embed- ded in the growing wood as the tree matures. — Source

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Atoms

The atom is SO infinitesimally small that a single grain of sand contains more atoms than all the beaches of the world contain grains of sand CRACKED.COM — Source

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Corpses

Baffling Corpse Discoveries STANDING UP A 24-year-old diabetic German woman was found dead and standing up. The first hypothesis was instantaneous rigor mortis, but the doctors who did the autopsy discarded this, suggesting a ketoacidotic coma instead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lenin

A car dealership tried to buy Lenin's corpse CRACKED.COM In 1991, Moscow had to issue a press release stating that, no, they weren't trying to raise money by selling Lenin's body. Forbes had run a satyrical piece making the claim, then ABC News reported it as fact, causing tons of serious inquiries to flood in from the US -- including one from a car dealership looking for a gimmick. — Source: 6 Historical Hoaxes That Are Too Stupid Even For 2017

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Squirrel Pelts

Squirrel pelts were a common currency in medieval Russia. It's speculated that murdering all those squirrels actually helped stave off the spread of The Black Plague. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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World War II Fighter Pilot DIY Ice Cream

In WWII, US bomber pilots tried to create ice cream using engine vibrations. They thought the vibrations would churn the mixture, and the altitude would keep it cold enough to make ice cream. But their first attempts didn't work out. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Naval History

26

Bob Hope

A riot between US troops and armed guards happened at a Bob Hope special. When Bob Hope made a joke about Nixon's plans to save the Vietnam war, the troops started booing and rioting, causing a showdown between soldiers and armed guards. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Tense Moments In Stand-Up Comedy History

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David Arquette

celebrity Hobbies M ON Car David Arquette CARDIO moutt loves to knit. Alam Sample usa You The Scream star and occasional pro wrestler learned to knit from his grandmother.. He's so good that he graves the cover of Celebrity Scarves 2, a knitting book that raises money for breast cancer research. CRACKED.COM — Source: Amazon

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Nicolas Cage

$150 Million spent on rich-guy knicknacks. Nicolas Cage has splurged on a private island, a dinosaur skull, 15 homes, two castles, a huge burial tomb, shrunken рудту heads, a Lamborghini, a pet octopus, and the first Superman comic - all adding up to a whopping $150 million. — Source

23

Tesla

WEIRD WORLD Because of a bug, the Tesla Model 3 farts very loudly at times. Apparently, the weird bug makes the car fart every time its doors were opened. CRACKED.GOM — Source

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Nintendo

Mario walked SO that Pikmin could... scuttle. DISPA will are X Super Mario 128 was a bizarre demo designed to show that the GameCube could render 128 Marios in a single environment. That rapid object generation is the basis for the now-classic Pikmin army. CRACKED.COM — Source

21

Star Wars

Luke Skywalker could have been a girl. The original treatment was about a princess and an old man, George Lucas said. Then !I wrote her out for a while, and the second draft didn't really have any girls in it at all. I was very disturbed about that. I didn't — Source: Newsweek

20

Egypt

You can view the pyramids from a Pizza Hut. Even 4,500-years-old tombs for kings aren't immune to urban sprawl. The Egyptian pyramids are right across — More: 6 Great Historical Places (That Are Dumb As Balls In 2020)

19

The Thinker

When The Thinker statue is brought up in conversations, you imagine a huge, lonesome statue of a thinking man. However, the original statue is a very

18

Nike

In the aftermath of the Heaven's Gates cult tragedy of 1997, the Nike '93 Air Decade style shoes worn by cult members were removed from the production

17

Pollyanna the Reindeer

A WWII submarine had a reindeer onboard for six weeks. The British sub HMS Trident carried Pollyanna the reindeer, a personal gift from a Soviet admiral, back to England. She ate so much food (plus some navigation charts) that she got too big to walk out, and had to be lifted out with a winch (a sailor with a broom helped). CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Historical Facts That Don't Get Mentioned

16

Bob Ross

CRACKED BOB ROSS Bob Ross was a master sergeant in the US Air Force, but he left to become an artist. I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work, he later said. — CS Monitor / Franklin Park Arts Center

15

Burger King

Burger King's Bacon Sundae Burger King has not earned our trust with ice cream, let alone experimental ice cream. It was only available for the summer of 2012, a simpler time when bacon was trendy. CRACKED.COM — Source

14

Goats

In 2015, scientists studied dwarf goats to see if they could track down uncooked pasta when hidden. CRACKED COM Multiple times, in several different locations, the dwarf goats suc- ceeded in sniffing it out. — Source

13

Goodfellas

The movie was expected to bomb. The test screening was disastrous-70 people walked out, grossed out by all the violence and blood. As a result, Warner Bros. scaled down the opening from 2,000 theaters to just 000. GoodFellas Behind the Scenes CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'Goodfellas'

12

Steve Jobs

Pixar Easter Eggs 84 Cars Apple car Steve Jobs was one of Pixar's first investors and stayed as its CEO until 2006. As an tribute, a sleek Apple car appears emblazoned with the number 84. (1984 was the year the Apple Macintosh computer first came out.) CRACKED.COM — Source: ScreenCrush/YouTube

11

Breaking Bad

PETE 1 FH t MABTY enec ROBBINS DIGRESTAT This song from the Breaking Bad finale tells us how the episode ends. A cowboy steals a ride, flees to New Me — For details, read 6 Mind-Blowing Bits of Foreshadowing in Famous TV Shows

10

Flounder

Flounder isn't a flounder THE LITTLE MERMAID CRACKED.COM He's a yellow and blue tropical fish, which is a much worse name, we have to admit. Flounders are flatfish and are much less cute.

9

Halloween

At first, Halloween wasn't widely celebrated in the US. The Puritans in colonial New England didn't share the pagan traditions, and celebrating Hallow

8

Sunglasses

Sunglasses were originally designed for Chinese judges to hide their facial expressions in court. CRACKED.COM Sunglasses were originally made out of smoky quartz in 12th century China, where they were used by judges to mask their emo- tions when they were ques- tioning witnesses. — Source

7

The Swiss Army

In 1968, the Swiss army threw five mortar bombs at the (only) Liechtenstein skiing resort. No one was hurt. A police spokesperson from Liechtenstein s — Source: The Canberra Times

6

Spiders

CRACKED.COM Spiders can go paragliding. The little critters can knit themselves a sort of kite, and go flying (or ballooning, as this is called). They can travel 2.5 miles up and 1,000 miles out. Not freaky enough? Then try this: Spider flight is driven by the Earth's electric field. — Source

5

Dr. No

In the villain's aquarium in Dr. No, that's just stock footage of fish swimming. The movie could only afford to buy footage of goldfish-sized fish, so — Source: The Guardian, IMDB

4

DC Comics

THE WHITE GOD OF KILIMANJARO! Kyluujity DC's response to Black Panther was... yet another white superhero. After Marvel launched Black Panther, DC followed suit with their own Africa-based hero: B'wana Beast, the Jungle Master - a white dude who saved black villagers with his animal powers. The comic was soon cancelled, as no artist wanted to touch this racist crap with a 10-foot pencil. CRACKED COM — Source

3

Caroline Rhea

CELEBRITIES who had their own talk shows It wasn't Rosie for CAROLINE RHEA. Rosie named Rhea her successor of the highly successful Rosie O'Donnell Show. They renamed it THE CAROLINE RHEA SHOW, but it only lasted one season. The Caroline CRACKED — Warner Bros. Television
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Forensics

Forensic lab results don't come back quickly. So you need this toxicology report ASAP? By the episode's second act, you say? Sorry chief, but lab results in real life can take weeks or even months, depending on a lot of factors. — Source: Lab Tests Online

1

Martian Rocks

Macaulayite is a red mineral found in a small corner in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and possibly on the whole surface of Mars. The mineral forms when granite undergoes weathering accompanied by water. Scientists believe that this mineral is what gives Mars its bright red color. CRACKED.COM — 27 Things Which Only Exist In One Place

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