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Your brain better roll out the red carpet for these

35 Cool, Calm and Collected Bits of Trivia That’ll Strut Into Your Brain Like They Own The Place

February 08, 2025

There are new facts in town, and boy are there gonna be some changes. Why fight it? If the other facts in your brain just hear them out, they’ll realize that this new way of life will be better for all of them.

It’s the dawn of a new, more knowledgeable age, and any existing fact that wants to up their game will thrive. The rest will be forgotten.

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Domino’s

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Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher regretted taking her most iconic role, Princess Leia. When asked whether she would have taken the role had she known the film would be b

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Rabbit Sonic

CRACKED.COM Sonic the Hedgehog Originally, Sonic wasn't a hedgehog. Sonic started out as a bow-tie wearing rabbit. After being a dog, a clown, a person, and a rabbit, Sonic appeared. — More: 6 Popular Games That Were Meant to Be Totally Different

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Cats

A CAT CO-AUTHORED AN INFLUENTIAL PHYSICS PAPER. In 1975, a professor of physics wrote an academic paper on atomic behavior at varying temperatures. He — Source: Atlas Obscura

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The Yakuza

WEIRD WORLD Former yakuza members have a tough life: they basically can't find work. And that's even with police support - for example, in the 2010-2020 period, only 3.5% of people who left the yakuza ended up getting work. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Shortest War

The Anglo-Zanzibar War was the shortest war in recorded history. N Est The 1896 skirmish between Aniward the British Empire and the Zanzibar Sultanate lasted 45 minutes, tops. The British managed to kill 500 soldiers in that time, while losing only 1 of their own. CRACKED.COM — Source: 10 Historical 'Now You Know' Facts

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Rogue One

Rogue One was going to have a happy(ish) ending where everyone survives. The filmmakers assumed that that was the only option Disney would let them do, but it turned out Disney had no problems killing the entire main cast. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Weird Early Versions Of Movies And Shows We Love

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Montana

19 MONTANANS THOUGHT THEY FOUND A NATURAL SPRING. 19 people in Montana got sick with diarrhea after drinking water from a concrete box that they thought was a natural spring, but it was actually just a creek that had a lot of bacteria in it. CRACKED — chaoss/Shutterstock
Ars Technica

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Jim Henson

Jim Henson made his first Kermit puppet using his mother's old coat. CRACKED.COM The original Kermit from Sam and Friends was made from a green coat discarded by Jim Henson's mother and his eyes were each one half of a ping pong ball. — Source

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TV Firsts

The first toilet flush 1971 CRACKED.COM Leave It To Beaver was the first to show a toilet (tank only!) in 1957, but All In The Family really went there with a daring toilet flush sound effect. — Source: 19 Television Firsts (That We Never Really Recovered From)

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Frogs

Nope, a frog won't let itself be boiled. When trying to make a point, people often bring up this froggy experiment which was done by... someone or other. It is a real experiment, though, done in 1869 by German scientist Friedrich Goltz - who first removed the frog's brain. That feels like an important detail. — More: 5 Scientific Misconceptions People Believe For Extremely Dumb Reasons
Photo: James Lee/Flickr

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Child Driver

WEIRD WORLD A five-year-old caught driving had the most adorable explanation for doing that. Не told cops that he was just out trying to buy a present for his sister, apparently. CRACKED.COM — Source

23

Jersey Shore

The Smush Room JERSEY SHORE CRACKED.COM Jersey Shore fans have been known to write messages to the cast on the exterior walls, and break off chunks of the house where the magic happened. — Source: 20 Iconic TV And Movie Locations (Ruined By Fans)

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Food Ads

A little shoe polish or Marmite gives meat that perfectly charred look we see in photos. Yum! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut used to be the largest purchaser of kale in the U.S. Pizza Hut Pizza-Hut 5' It wasn't even eaten - it was a garnish on their salad bars. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Boston Magazine

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Venus

CRACKED Venus' atmosphere You would need a really strong, airtight outer shell to survive the pressure of the atmosphere, since just walking on the surface would put you under the same pressure as being 0.6 miles underwater on Earth. — Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock
NASA

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30 Rock

30 Rock's gay bomb was real. It isn't just some absurdist joke - it really happened. In 1994, the U.S. Air Force commissioned a laboratory to experiment with pheromones and aphrodisiacs as a weapon, to cause homosexual 2 F - I J - I I 1 I I I I I Y I . do I I , i I I ي . 1 ! 2 I I 1 E I . the I 2 & I 1 I : I 1 a I behavior among the enemy. PENTAGON REJECTS SO-CALLED GAY BOMB - - - - - - Yuman - — Source

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Superman

Richard Donner tricked Gene Hackman into shaving his mustache for Superman. Hackman refused to wear a skull cap to play Lex Luthor - and to shave his '70s 'stache. Donner said, you take yours off, I'll take mine off, and Hackman grudgingly accepted. Only after the deed was done did Donner reveal his own facial hair was fake. Hackman wasn't pleased. — More: The Greatest 'Superman' Story Ever Told Is A Richard Donner Anecdote

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Ready or Not

DESSERTS WERE USED TO CREATE THE GORE IN READY OR NOT. Bananas and jelly were used to create human innards, and the blood on Samara Weaving's face was caramel syrup dyed red. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Facts About The Making Of Your Favorite Horror Movies

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Teeth

MYTH: HEALTHY TeeTH ARE GLEAMING WHITE. FACT: THE nATURAL COLOR FOR TeeTH IS YELLOW. You might think white teeth are attractive, but as far as being natural, they're the dental equivalent of fake breasts. The actual color of healthy human teeth is yellow. Know what's unhealthy? Whitening your teeth, either by bleaching or scouring off the enamel. See, tooth enamel is bluish- white. It's the dentin below the enamel that's yellow. CRACKED.COM http://www.sciencefocus.com/qa/are-yellow-teeth-stronger — Source

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The United Kingdom

WEIRD WORLD A UK local council rejected planning applications using dumb comments. Apparently, a worker thought they were on a test website and left comments like Your proposal is wack. But the decisions are legally binding. CRACKED.COM — Source: Sky News

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The Friend Zone

Friends gave us a super-popular bit of modern vocabulary: The friend zone. It first appeared in a season one Friends episode, when Joey complained that he doesn't have a shot with Rachel and is in the friend zone. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

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Keith Richards

Keith Richards literally composed (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction in his sleep. Richards woke up in the middle of the night, recorded about 30 seconds of the song on a tape recorder, and then fell back asleep. In the morning he didn't remember any of it, until he played the recording. — Source: Brian Jones: The untold life and mysterious death of a rock legend, by Laura Jackson (via Google Books)

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New Delhi

CRACKED.COM New Delhi's deputy mayor was murdered by a gang of monkeys. About 30,000 Rhesus macaques live in New Delhi. The monkeys are a pest-they often break into homes to steal food. Not even government officials are safe from the monkey menace- in 2007, monkeys caused the city's deputy mayor to fall off a balcony to his death. — Source: 15 Creepy Random Facts for Spooky Season

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North Korea

North Korea's military used Bitcoin to steal over half a billion dollars. They stole it from online trading platforms in 2017 and 2018, and used blockchain technology (the basis of Bitcoin) to be able to do it undetected. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

10

Senses

Smell and taste are completely intertwined. It's believed 80% of taste is influenced by smell. CRACKED.COM — Source: Science World

9

Chestnut Trees

About 4 billion American chestnut trees once blanketed the east coast of the USA GRAGKED.COM They all disappeared by the 1950s due to an invasive species of fungus that has made them extinct. — Timeline

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Nike

Nike's raised sneaker treads were invented with a waffle iron. Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman realized the pattern left by his waffle iron would make f

7

Donnie Darko

DOL 8 Donnie Darko Everyone thought the Head Over Heels sequence was too much. While choreographing it before acquiring the song's rights, the crew thought it was all an indulgent music video. Only after they finally saw thesequence did they agree it was a good idea. 2 CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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World War II Spies

American Virginia Hall was a British spy during World War II. CRACKED COM She created a network of 90 secret agents called Heckler in southern Franc

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Tigers

The largest population of tigers in the world is in the USA. With an estimated 5,000 tigers, the U.S. captive tiger popula- tion exceeds the ар- proximately 3,200 ti- gers in the wild. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The Paypal Scam

Crypto Scams B THE PAYPAL Pay SCAM In 2023, a 79-year-old was tricked out of $79,500 by a crypto scammer using PayPal. The scam relied on fear, guilt, and all sorts of other tactics to take advantage of the victim's lack of computer knowledge. CRACKED — Primakov/Shutterstock
ABC Action News

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Monkey Bites

King Alexander of Greece 1893-1920 KILLED BY A MONKEY Alexander was the only European monarch to ever be killed by a monkey. Не was trying to keep his dog away from a Barbary macaque when it bit him. CRACKED — Charles Chusseau-Flaviens/Wiki Commons,
Thorsten Spoerlein/Shutterstock
Royal Central

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Jewelry CEO

CRACKED CORPORATE CRASH & BURN SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD Gerald Ratner, the CEO of a jewelry group, made a speech in 1991 that included the musing: People say, 'how can you sell this for such a low price?' I say 'because it's total crap. His careless words are now known as doing a Ratner, and cost his company a whooping £500 million. — Gerald Ratner/Wiki Commons
BBC

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Danielle Harmon

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS DANIELLE community HARMON All Dances At the dance during the season 1 finale, the Dean announces the nominees for the Transfer Dance Queen. One of the names is Danielle Harmon, a shout-out to the show's creator, Dan Harmon. CRACKED.COM — Video clip

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