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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Obtained From A Sunken Pirate Ship Off the Coast of Morocco

February 13, 2025

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Ants

THE HONEYPOT ANT IS A LIVING PANTRY. They gorge themselves on flower nectars during the rainy season, then feed the other ants mouth-to-mouth the rest

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James Gunn

Unpredictably Weird Decisions That Gave Us Major Movie Moments - In Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Yondu has a bigger fin to please the fans. — Source: Film School Rejects

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Cockatiels

WEIRD WORLD A pet cockatiel was identified after three years on the loose thanks to a classic TV theme song. The owners contacted the church the bird was found at and used the theme to The Andy Griffith Show to see if it was indeed their cockatiel. When the bird danced to the music, they knew they found their lost pet. CRACKED.COM — WGAL

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Bob’s Burgers

LINDA BELCHER OF BOB'S BURGERS IS BASED on youtube VIDEOS BY HER voice ACTOR, JOHn ROBERTS. John made several videos parodying his mother that went

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Fisher Price

WEIRD WORLD Fisher Price is cashing in on nostalgia by creating a mobile phone. It looks exactly like a Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone, complete with a rotary dial in rainbow colors, but it's actually a working, Bluetooth-equipped phone. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Museums

Qing Dynasty vases CRACKED.COM Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge kept their prized vases sitting on a window sill, unprotected, at the bottom of a staircase. Sure enough, a visitor fell down the stairs and smashed the entire collection to smithereens. He panicked, fled the scene, and hid out for 3 months until 25 cops busted down his door. — Source: 5 Priceless Works of Art Destroyed by Unintentional Hilarity

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Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash got his ass kicked by an ostrich. Cash liked to take walks in the animal refuge outside his compound, and one day an angry ostrich attacked him. Cash wound up with two broken ribs and a huge gash in his abdomen. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mummies

Mummies were shipped to America in the 1800s to use their wrappings as paper. CRACKED.COM Several shiploads of Egyp- tian mummies were import- ed so that the linen rags could be used to make ра- per to accommodate news- paper printing - which was as much as England and France combined. — Source

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Soccer

Shortest Career PREMIERE LEAGUE FOOTBALL CRACKED.COM Joe Sheerin was called up from Chelsea's bench at the literal last minute. Не was subbed in with less than 60 seconds remaining in their 1997 win over Wimbledon (and never played in another game). — Source

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Game of Thrones

An early version of the Game of Thrones theme can be found on the soundtrack to the first 'Iron Man! CRACKED.COM 18 seconds into 'Mark Il' you can hear composer Ramin Djawadi wrestling with the notes that will three years later become part of the Game of Thrones tune. — Source

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Blondie

Blondie was a common catcall to Debbie Harry. You can thank uncreative, creepy truckers for this band name. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The NFL

Plaxico Burress Wide receiver, New York Giants CRACKEDCOMI In 2008, Burress brought a gun to a nightclub, tucked securely in his wasteband. Then the unthinkable happened the gun misfired, he shot himself in the leg, and spent three years in jail. — Source: ESPN

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Apples

The seeds of an apple will not necessarily grow the same variety of apple they came from. Apples are not 'true to seed,' so if you planted seeds of Granny Smith it likely will produce a wide variety of different and unknown apple tree types. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Sea Lampreys

Sea Lampreys CRACKED.COM The eel-like fish attaches itself to prey, sucking the blood and other bodily fluids out. It produces a chemical to keep its prey's blood from clotting. In worse news, we're descended from its distant ancestor. — Source: Great Lakes Fishery Commission

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Barry Humphries

CRACKED.COM ESTAM S ERSI Despite spending most of his career dressed as a woman, Barry Humphries possesses some transphobic views. Не even described transgender woman Caitlyn Jenner as a mutilated man. — Source: 18 Surprising Things That Celebrities Believe

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Friday the 13th

Speed running the entire movie. FRIDAY THE 13TH CRACKEDCOR One trailer just straight up shows you each character getting killed, in the order they are — Source: Trailer

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Nicolas Cage

NICHOLAS CAGE IS A SUPERMAN FANBOY. Cage loves the character so much that he named his son Kal-EI (Superman's Kryptonian name). He also used to own Superman's first comic book appearance, before selling it for $2.1 million in 2011. In the '90s, Cage almost played Superman in Tim Burton's Superman — yahoo!, THR & People

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Protected Lands

Indigenous peoples and local communities will get $1.7 billion in funding. That'll be given out by the British, American, German, Norwegian, and Dutch governments, to help protect lands and forests. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bayer

Bayer once sold heroin as a cold and pain medicine. BAYER \l EARBENFABRIKEN Vr FRIEDR.BAYER ELBERFELD: Heroin Name gesettunge Nom depose And they're h

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Chernobyl

PRIPYAT'S BEEN DECAYING SINCE THE INCIDENT AT CHERNOBYL. The city is located in the Exclusion Zone, the 30-kilometer radius affected by the nuclear m — For details, read The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth

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Elvis

Elvis was a natural blonde Не dyed his hair black because he believed it brought out his features better on film. CRACKED.COM — Source: Graceland

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Terrible Predictions

Brick-and-mortar stores have nothing to worry about. TIME MAGAZINE CRACKED.COM Their 1966 prediction that remote shopping will flop was based on the observation that women like to get out of the house. — Source

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Australian Serial Killer Ivan Milat

An Australian serial killer refused to eat to get a PlayStation. Ivan Milat, convicted for killing seven hitchhikers, went on a hunger strike in 2011 to protest a heinous injustice committed against him: Не wasn't given a PlayStation to exercise his mind. Не lasted nine days before deciding he liked food better than video games, and gave up. — More: A Serial Killer Went On Hunger Strike, Demanding A PlayStation

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The Dirtiest Man in the World

Amou Haji is considered the world's dirtiest man. CRACKED.COM Не hasn't bathed in over 60 years, eats the rotten meat of dead animals, lives in a hole, and uses animal poop to smoke from his pipe. — Source

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Hitler

Hitler granted his childhood doctor, Eduard Bloch, special protection by the Gestapo. CRACKED.COM When Hitler's mother couldn't afford cancer treat- ment, Bloch reduced his prices. Teenage Adolf de- clared undying gratitude, and when Austria was an- nexed, Hitler kept his word to the Jewish doctor. — LBV

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Bags

16 Products In Wide Use (That Don't Do Much) - They degrade more easily than plastic, yes. But factor in production costs, and each one leads to 70 ti — Source: Washington Post

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The Zodiac Killer

CRACKED A CALIFORNIA HOUSEWIFE CRACKED THE ZODIAC KILLER'S CODE. NXOSDE /A0@Z 7APOBV + ОДАД В BOTORUO+DGY QUASOW VZ3GYKE 20 L10 HIFBX A OXADOVALITA 0300003 OPORX QFB GO ZOJ T100 AJI + Я BPQWO VEXRAWIOPE HMOTUIX She was smart enough to realize the egotistical killer would start the message with I. — Wiki Commons,
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Gone With the Wind

GONE WITH THE WIND CRACKED.COM For the burning of Atlanta, the sets of several previous movies were set ablaze, including King Kong and King of Kings. New sets for the sprawling production were built in the space cleared. — Source: 15 Unexpected Facts About Movie & TV Show Locations

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The NRA

A few hours after the tragic shooting in Aurora, the NRA obliviously tweeted this: CR American Rifleman Follow RA_Rifleman Good morning, shooters. Hap

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Texas

WEIRD WORLD In Texas, golfers apparently shut down a home daycare. That's what the woman who ran it alleges - the golfers complained about the noise, she says, so city officials shut it down. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dexter Holland

CRACKED.COM DEXTER HOLLAND is a molecular biologist. The Offspring's singer put his studies on hold when band took off, but finally got his PhD in 2017. — 24 'Wait-A-Minute-What?' Celeb Facts

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Breaking Bad

Characters that weren't supposed to last Jesse Pinkman on Breaking Bad Show creator Vince Gilligan thought of killing off Pinkman early in the series, but after pitching the idea to the show producers and seeing their reaction, he reconsidered. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Goodfellas

Jimmy Conway spends real money. GoodFellas Behind the Scenes The stack of bills Robert De Niro carries around is made of real, legal-tender greenbacks, belonging to prop master Robert Griffon. Special care was taken to keep track of every bill after each take. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Handwriting

First-grader born without hands wins a national handwriting competition. Anaya Copy e sartnce helow in you bes thondwriling The quick brown fox jumps

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Channing Tatum

Channing Tatum skipped the 2018 Oscar awards to stay home with his daughter. Then-wife Jenna Dewan said he was happy to be spending the night with their daughter Everly, preferring daddy time to the red- carpet spotlight. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With Impressive Parenting Skills

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Woodpeckers

A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second. CRACKED.COM They can usually peck about 10,000 to 12,000 pecks per day, consuming insects and sap from with- in trees. They also drum on objects to communicate instead of singing. — Bird Informer

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Plane Crashes

CRACKED COM THE ENGINES STOP. THE GROUND GETS CLOSER. WE'RE GOING DOWN! GOODBYE WORLD! CHANCES ARE GOOD Believe it or YOULL SURVIVE. not, 90%/ of pe

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Australia

People Who Didn't Want Anything To Do With Their Own Work - Nicole Kidman fled her home country after watching herself on screen at the premiere of A — Source: NZ Herald

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Metropolis

Amazing effects made without CGI Metropolis How do you have a real throng walking through a huge futuristic city in 1927? Easy - you film the people through a narrow slit, with the rest of the shot taken up by a mirror reflecting a painting of the city. BAVISSAN Mirror Real people CRACKED.COM — Source: Melanie76Mo/YouTube

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Early Seinfeld

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