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40 Random Bits of Trivia That We’ve Been Saving for A Brainy Day

February 11, 2025

We’ve been waiting for this moment for quite some time. This special batch of random facts has been aging in our desk like a fine wine, and we’re excited to finally share it with you. Originally, we were going to drop it like any other list, but as fact after fact came in, we started realizing just how remarkable it is.

Soak up the gold, you lucky devils!

40

Breakups

After a bad breakup. Jennifer Fitzgerald's ex-boyfriend bought a car in her name without her knowledge then parked it at Chicago O'Hare Airport. It wa

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Punishment

Burning at the stake as a method of execution has been practiced since Babylonia and ancient Israel. CRACKED.COM Bags of gunpowder were sometimes tied around the victim's necks, or they were hanged with a metal chain, to shorten their suffering. — Source

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Cow Farts

40 Random Bits of Trivia That We’ve Been Saving for A Brainy Day — Source: AP News

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SNL

THE BEES BELUSHI ET AL CRACKED.COM One of the show's first notes from meddling network execs: Cut the bees. Lorne Michaels responded by inserting the Bees into nearly every episode of Season One, making them the show's first recurring characters. — Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests

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The Empire State Building

Marriage ceremonies at the top of the Empire State Building are free on 2/14. CRACKED COM Couples who plan to wed or renew their vows have until December 30th of the previous year to sign up. If you make it on the list, your nuptials will be celebrated on the 86th floor. — Source

35

The Middle Ages

Squirrel fur may have spread leprosy during the Middle Ages Red squirrels are the only known rodent that can carry leprosy, and researchers theorize that the disease may have come to the UK during the Middle Ages via Vikings who traded squirrel fur and meat. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source: Smithsonian

34

Times Square

NOT 2018 HAPPY BY TOSHIBA ITO A major building in Times Square is empty. It's the building where they drop the New Year's Ball - One Times Square. The

33

Iceland

For years, Iceland secretly banned the US from keeping Black troops there. - The ban was there to protect Icelandic women and maintain a homogeneous national body .. it was revealed in 1959, and lifted in a few years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apricot-Picking

Foods we've been engineering for centuries APRICOTS Researchers studied the apricot genome to trace its domestication over 2,000-3,000 years. They found it originated from wild populations in central Asia, and humans have selected traits like life cycle, fruit quality, and disease resistance. CRACKED — vladm/Shutterstock
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Planes

You are about 40% more likely to survive a commercial plane crash if you sit in the back row. GRAGKED.COM According to a study done by Popular Mechan- ics covering every acci- dent aboard commercial planes from 1971 to 2007, the back row is 40% safer compared to the front. — Velvet Escpae

30

American Express

CRACKEDCO AMERICAN EXPRESS ITHE CARD) IS MUCH NEWER THAN AMERICAN EXPRESS ITHE COMPANY). American Express was founded as a shipping business in 1850,

29

Dogma

Kevin Smith attended a protest for his own movie, Dogma. When an unwitting reporter asked for a comment, Smith said, I don't know, but I've been told — Know More

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Futurama

COMEDY NERD Fry from Futurama was originally going to be called... ... uh ... Curtis, of all things. Plus, he'd also be from the future himself, and he wouldn't have been frozen for centuries at all. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bison

Despite what Oregon Trail may have led you to believe, bison are actually quite quick animals. Bison can run 40 miles per hour, which is enough fast-moving meat to turn you into applesauce. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ludwig Van Beethoven

Mr. Classical Music was troubled. His hearing went at the height of his career, and he endlessly chased unattainable women - he constantly pursued people, but there's no evidence he ever had sex. Не was also, by middle age, notoriously smelly. CRACKED — Source / Classic FM

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Chipotle

Chipotle 1993 Chipolle CINEMA GRAPHICS THE ULTIMATE POSTER SHOP CRACKED COM GOILL Steve Ells was working as a chef when he opened a burrito stand as a low-risk investment to support his dream of a full-scale restaurant. Не got a loan of $80,000 from his dad. — Source

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Katherine Heigl

Katherine Heigl started beef with her own writers CRACKEDG .COM Heigl made a whole thing about how she wasn't submitting herself for an Emmy, because she thought the writing on Grey's Anatomy wasn't up to snuff. The writers responded by, duh, writing her off the show.

23

New York Yankees

Yankees success: Keep the beards away. GI be L NEW The New York Yankees have upheld a strict no-beard, no-long hair policy for the past five decades, which is believed to have contributed to their success. Don Mattingly famously defied the rule in 1991, and Brian Wilson refused to sign with the team in 2013 due to his refusal to shave his beard. CRACKED.COM — Crown Shaving Co

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22

Guy Fieri

Guy Fieri is making sure restaurant workers can make ends meet. Fieri has been reaching out to big food service company CEOs to raise money for the Na — Source: Variety

21

Central Park

CRACKED.COM New York's Central Park was man-made. In fact, certain buildings in New York were built before the plans to create the park were even approved. — Source: 20 'Natural' Things That Aren't

20

Lily Collins

CRACKED.COM NEPOTISM BABIES Lily Collins The Work: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, Les Mis, Emily in Paris The Parent: Phil Collins The Parent's Work: He's goddamn Phil Collins — Source: Today

19

Old Hollywood

STUDIOS CONTROLLED EVEN THE ACTORS' LOVE LIVES. Since bombshells were supposed to be single, Jean Harlow was contractually forbidden to marry. Columbia Pictures brought in actual gangsters to stop their star Kim Novak from marrying Sammy Davis, Jr. (a black man, to boot). — Sources: Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair

18

Lawsuits

When the little guy beat The Man Carey, Molinarolo, and Dilbeck take on New Balance New Balance agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle false advertising claims from three women. People who bought the toning shoes get $100 back for each pair. The shoes didn't give them the tight butt they promised. new been alanc ENG CRACKED — Anatoly Vartanov/Shutterstock
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17

Sloths

Half of all sloths die while pooping. Sloths are permanently constipated - they only poop once a week, losing up to one-third of their body weight in each bowel movement. And for some reason they always do it on the ground, where predators can get to them. Up to half of all sloths are eaten while going to the bathroom. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Water and Fertilize the Brain

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh died as he was starting to get attention. Some of van Gogh's most famous paintings were completed not too long before his death, WHEN interest in his work was growing. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Famous People Who Were Total Nobodies While They Were Alive

15

Monkeys

MYTH Monkeys eat bananas, obviously. TRUTH Monkeys don't eat bananas like the ones in the grocery in the wild. If you feed a monkey a banana, it's nutritionally like giving them chocolate cake. CRACKED.COM — Source

14

Rock ‘n’ Roll

Trixie Smith released a song in 1914 called My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll, using rock 'n' roll as a euphemism for sex. It had probably been used earlier, but that's the first time it showed up in a popular song. CRACKED — UNIKYLUCKK/Shutterstock
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Video Games

ARCADE GAME RAD MOBILE REVEALS SONIC THE HEDGEHOG. 19 RANK the Round GRAGKED COM 41 Half a year before Sonic hit the Sega Genesis in North America, he could be seen dangling from the rearview mirror of a Ferrari 330 P4 Type in the coin-operated Rad Mobile. — Source

12

Smells

CRACKED ACCORDING TO SCIENCE, SMELLS CAN FALL INTO TEN CATEGORIES. Fragrant, woody/resinous, fruity (non-citrus), chemical, minty/peppermint, sweet, popcorn, lemon, pungent and decayed. — Source

11

Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine met his wife by stalking her after he saw her in a commercial. Shakira Caine (nee Baksh) was in a 1971 coffee ad, and Sir Michael was so entranced, he was willing to go anywhere to meet her. Luckily, she was in London, too. CRACKED.COM

10

Saddam Hussein

CRACKEDO COM SADDAM HUSSEIN WROTE ROMANCE NOVELS He consulted with professional writers on his works before releasing them under a pen name that translates to Written by He Who Wrote It. — Source: 22 Bizarre, Unexpected Facts About Historical Figures

9

Email

In the first few decades after email was first introduced, people believed that it could be detrimental to the users' IQ. A British study in 2005 even claimed that using emails hurt your IQ more than smoking pot. CRACKED.COM — Source: The 16 Dumbest Ways People Freaked Over New Tech

8

Wine

Nearly all French wine grapes are grown on vines grafted to rootstock from Missouri. In the 1860s, phylloxera bugs threatened to destroy the vineyards, but roots from the US were resistant. Hundreds of thousands were shipped in and used to save the French vines. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

7

Jennifer Grey

Jennifer Grey GOT A NOSE JOB CRACKED C Grey didn't have a huge, public implosion; she just had minor cosmetic surgery. What she calls the nose job fr

6

India

INDIA CRACKED.COM India has emerged as a global leader in renewable energy, investing more in them than in fossil fuels. Initially, their goal was generating 40% of its power through renewables by 2030, but the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy stated, The country has achieved this target in November 2021. — Source: business-standard

5

The CIA

Pizza orders made by the CIA soared the night before Iraq invaded Kuwait. Domino's Pizza Domino's THE YAO The owner of 43 Domino's in the Washington area said, The news media doesn't always know when something big is going to happen because they're in bed, but our deliverers are out there at 2 in the morning. CRACKED.COM — Source: LA TImes

4

Pogs

Pogs were a rip-off of the Japanese game Menko. Menko's been popular since the 1600s, travelling to Hawaii when Japanese people imigrated in the early 20th century. CRACKED.COM — Source

3

Formaldehyde

Formaldehyde is an appetite stimulant. SIGMA-ALDAID Lot#SZBC0620 - Contains Formaldehyde Methanol: 252549-100ML MU 30.00 gimol Formaldehyde solution 37 wt. % in H2O Formaldehyd Lösung* Formaldéhyde Solution* Formaldeide Soluzione* Formaldehido Solución Formalin CRACKED.COM reament. 37 wt % in H2O, contains hilizer (to prevent Formaldehyde Hun- ger is a well-known phenomenon in anato- my labs where med stu- dents get hungry while dissecting cadavers. — Source: 15 Head-Spinning Facts That Really Boggled Our Minds

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The First Word Spoken on the Internet

The first word spoken on the internet was lo. username OK The message was sent over the ARPANET in 1969. It was supposed to be login but the computer crashed af- ter the first two let- ters. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — University of California

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Kingsman: Golden Circle

GRACKEDOOME s Kingsman T HE GOLDEN CIRCLE Twentieth Century Fox canceled their premiere screening of Kingsman: The Golden Circle and donated the alloc

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