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36 Little Green Bits of Trivia That Abducted Your Brain, Pumped It Full of Knowledge and Left It Naked in A Field

February 10, 2025

We’ve never been abducted by aliens before — unless they were so covert that we had no idea it happened. But if we had been, and they inserted a ton of interesting facts into our brains, we imagine that there could be two ways to take it. We could feel a little violated and resentful, or we could just be grateful that we were chosen as a storage unit for amazing random facts.

We’d go with the latter, but we can’t tell you how to feel. Think about it and get back to us.

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Shedding Human Skin

How much skin do we shed? Humans shed around 77 pounds of skin over the course of their lives. CRACKED COM — Source: Science Focus

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Bank Robbers

WEIRD WORLD In Minneapolis, robbers tried to hold up a bank with a vial of HIV. It's not really clear if there was HIV in the vial, and the FBI is investigating everything. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Social Media Fails

CRACKED TERRIBLE NETTRENDS SETTING YOUR BATHROOM (AND YOURSELF) ON FIRE A 13-year-old got very bad burns while trying to copy a TikTok video where someone draws a shape on a mirror with a flammable liquid and then sets it on fire. She had to have multiple skin graft surgeries, and now has long-term mobility problems. — Viktor Prymachenko/Shutterstock,
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ABC News

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SNL Mexico

SNL around the world SATROAI NIGHT MÉXICO Kickstarted in 2013, Saturday Night Live México was consulted on by American SNL alum Horatio Sanz. It was officially canceled in 2017. CRACKED.COM — Saturday Night Live México
Vulture
El Universal

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Bill Murray

Bill Murray has no agent or manager. He can be I contacted for roles only via a secret 1-800 number. I As far as how often he checks it, he has said, — Source: Indie Wire

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Smuggled African Land Snails

A trail of slime led German customs officials to a stash of almost 100 giant African land snails. CRACKED.COM Officials stumbled over one of the snails on a baggage truck and initially thought it was a toy until it started moving. By following the trail left by the 8-inch snail, they found a bag with a hole, and more snails. — CBS

30

Godzilla

An American B-movie inspired Godzilla. The movie was The Beast from 000 Fathoms, about an ancient dinosaur awoken by a nuclear explosion who heads towards New York City- Japanese producer Tomoyuki Tanaka just mashed that up with then-current hydrogen bomb testing in the Bikini Atoll, creating Godzilla. — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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The Princess Bride

CRACKED.COM THE PRINCESS BRIDE Wallace Shawn was inconceivably worried. Shawn's agent decided to tell him that he only got the role of Vizzini because Danny DeVito was unavailable. This got into Shawn's head, and he feared to be fired whenever he did a bad take. — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Ryan Adams

Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now RYAN ADAMS has musical talent and indie cred. НЕ ALSO HAS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM OF ASSISTING FEMALE MUSICIANS TO THEN PURSUE THEM, as well as retaliating and even underage pestering. Nothing has been proven, but even his ex-wife Mandy Moore called his behavior psychologically abusive. CRACKED.COM — Source

27

Andy Kaufman

CRACKED ANDY KAUFMAN- HEARTBEEPS This 1981 sci-fi rom-com about two robots falling in love was so bad that people questioned if it was another one of Andy's pranks. Не passed away just 3 years later. — MTV / IMDB

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Reindeer

Reindeer can change the color of their eyes. Their eyes turn from golden brown to blue during the dark Arctic winter months to help them catch more light. This happens by putting pressure on the eyeball to reduce spacing between its collagen fibers, making it reflect blue light. Such a dramatic shift has never been seen in mammals before. CRACKED.COM — Live Science

25

Product Recalls

Product Recalls CSI Fingerprint Examination Toy Kit The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization did a study in 2007 and found out that the hit had asbestos in it. That's not something you want anywhere, let alone in a toy for kids, so the kit was recalled. AGES 10+ CSI: ADULT SUPERVISION RECOMMENDED WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD Jomal parts Not for - - 3 yours CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION WARNING: FINGERPRINT - - - e EXAMINATION KIT - - - USE FINGERPRINT BRUSH COLLECT TO GUST EXAMINE, REAL D RECORD PRINTS FINGERPRINTS WITH CHISSON'S CSI TEAM CSI: un nar VAO Done Always F HAND CRIME — Source

24

Star Wars

The Jedi can hook up all they want, as long as they don't catch feelings. The Jedi Order isn't celibate, but they don't allow Jedi Knights to get atta

23

Music Videos

Shot in Prague for $2.3 million by Nigel Dick, the video for It's All Coming Back to Me is a masterpiece of melodrama, all giant four-poster beds and transparent spectral lovers. There's a bit where it looks like a guy's head's fallen off that is very silly. CRACKED — Source

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The Warmest Day on Earth

The highest recorded temperature on Earth was 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit. °C °F 50 120 40 100 30 80 20 60 10 CRACKED.COM 40 0 Researchers at Sandia Na- tional Laboratories pro- duced the record-break- ing temperature in their lab using a superheated gas, reaching 15 million degrees kelvin. — Source

21

Saw II

The writer of Saw wasn't aware that Saw existed. Darren Bousman was upset when he learned that his script The Desperate was very similar to this incom — Source: ComingSoon.net

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Owls

CRACKED HOLES THAT LET OWLS CATCH RODENTS IN BARNS For centuries, people have been creating holes in barns to INVITE BARN OWLS to live there and help get rid of pests. This creates a mutually beneficial relationship between humans and the owls. — Rosser1954/Wiki Commons,
Anan Kaewkhammul/Shutterstock
99% Invisible

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Dave Chappelle

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM WE ALMOST GOT A DAVE CHAPELLE SPINOFF OF HOME IMPROVEMENT. It was called Buddies, and it was on air for a short while, but as Chappelle, says, It was a bad show. It was bad. I mean when we were doing it, I could tell this was not gonna work. — Source: 13 Short-Lived Sitcom Spinoffs We Totally Forgot About

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The Torah

A single mistake in a Torah scroll makes it unusable. CRACKED.COM When writing a Torah scroll, an error of a single letter, ornamentation, or symbol of the 304,805 stylized letters that make up the Hebrew Torah text renders it unfit to use. — Source

17

Dazed and Confused

Matthew McConaughey's Alright alright alright is from Jim Morrison. Just before filming the Dazed and Confused scene when he says that, he'd been listening to a live Doors record where Morrison says that between tracks. CRACKED.COM — Source: TheWrap

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Mariah Carey

CRACKED.COM Mariah Carey threw a costume party where guests dressed as... Mariah Carey... OK... — Source

15

PMS

THe STEREOTYPE... MOODY? MUST BE THAT TIME OF THE MONTH! BUT in REALITY... PMS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MOOD SWINGS. We're not saying that hormones don't change behavior-they do, in both women and men. But there's little evidence that women become emotionally compromised or irrational during the supposed PMS phase. CRACKED.COM — Source: Widely Believed Stereotypes That Are Completely False

14

Dumb Comments

WRONG WRONG WRONG HANK JOHNSON Congressman Johnson was worried that if too many military personnel were sent to Guam, the island might flip over. My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize, were his exact words. CRACKED — Source

13

Olivia Munn

To help her meditate, Olivia Munn uses a particular app with a headband. It's no ordinary headband, though - it's a device that monitors her brain waves, and the whole thing apparently helps her calm down. CRACKED.COM — Source

12

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg called a meeting with a venture capital firm just to troll them. He met with Sequoia Capital in his PJs, with a pitch titled The Top Ten Reasons You Should Not Invest. CRACKED.COM — Source: CBS Insights

11

X-Ray Pills

Wild Homeopathic Medicines X-RAY X-ray pills cure horny dreams. Do you want horny dreams cured, though? Well, in case you do, just pop these pills which have been exposed to X-rays - also useful for lost sexual desire and dry skin. (Won't give you X-ray vision, we're sorry to inform you.) — Source: Free Materia Medica books

10

The Mimic Octopus

The mimic octopus can instantly transform itself to look like other animals. These octopuses can mimic several animals in rapid succession (most animals can only mimic one other species). They contort their bodies in different ways, and can even mirror behavior. CRACKED COM — Source: 15 Animals With Envy-Inducing Biology

9

Family Video

Family Video outlasted chains like Blockbuster, only shutting down because of the Covid pandemic. CRACKED COM They own the real estate where their stores are lo- cated and they own all of the media they rent out so they keep all of the profits. In early 2021, Family Video closed all their 248 remain- ing stores. — Variety

8

Mangoes

Foods we've been engineering for centuries MANGOES Mangoes were first grown in India 4,000 years ago and spread to six continents. It's now one of the world's most important tropical fruits. As it moved east to Southeast Asia, it was exposed to over 35 other Mangifera species, making it more diverse. CRACKED — JIANG HONGYAN/Shutterstock
National Science Foundation

7

Prius

The plural of Prius is Prii. - CRACKED GOM After a general vote of the public in 2011, Toyota decided that the official pluralization of the word Prius is Prii. Knowing how most public polls go, they got lucky. — Source

6

Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp Workshopped Characters With His Daughter's Barbies. DEPP Depp would practice his weird character accents for roles like Willy Wonka and Ja

5

Pirate Smarts

CRACKED NETFLIX CLOSELY MONITORS WHAT SHOWS AND MOVIES ARE BEING ILLEGALLY PIRATED TO DECIDE WHAT SHOWS THEY SHOULD PURCHASE FOR THEIR LIBRARY. 0010101000110:101010100101 1011010101001 00010010001011000100! 1010010101101110100 10:1011101001 011010001001 00010010101 They started doing this in 2013 when they were just launching in Europe and there weren't a lot of streaming sites on the continent. — Forbes / Media Silo

4

Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland married a woman he helped raise. Her name was Frances Folsom, and she was 28 years younger than Cleveland. Не supervised her upbringing after her father passed away, and was the executor of her father's estate. CRACKED.COM http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/tirstfadies.aspxbiography=23 — Source: 22 Facts That Shatter Your Image of American Presidents

3

IKEA

WEIRD WORLD People had to spend the night at an IKEA in Denmark because of heavy snow. 10 Entrance IKEA 4 Since they couldn't get home, 25 staff and 6 customers had to sleep on some of the IKEA beds lying around the shop floor. CRACKED.GOM — Source

2

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Mind Spotless of the Mark Ruffalo got his part thanks Sunshine to his fresh take on the character. Eter - Gondry says that when he met up with the actor, Ruffalo told him that the character should be a SCEI big fan of The Clash and even u look a bit — The Daily Beast

1

The Moon

WE LEARNED THAT PEE WILL BE A MISSION-CRITICAL RESOURCE FOR BUILDERS ON THE MOON. A study by the European Space Agency found that human urea would make lunar concrete, made from the moon's powdery soil, easier to work with before it hardens. That cuts down on the need to launch supplies from Earth. CRACKED.COM — Source

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