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40 Chivalrous Bits of Trivia That Will Lay Their Jackets Over A Puddle for Your High-Heeled Brain to Tread On

40 Straightforward Bits of Trivia That Deliver the Truth Without All Those Fancy Bells and Whistles

The shortest distance between these facts and your brain is a quick glance

40 Straightforward Bits of Trivia That Deliver the Truth Without All Those Fancy Bells and Whistles

February 18, 2025

We’d like to get straight to the point: Your brain wants these facts, and these facts want your brain, so let’s just bypass all that cutesy will-they-won’t-they nonsense and hook them up! What’s your brain up to right now? Nothing? That’s perfect, because these little lovers are available right now, too.

They probably don’t want us to label them “too available” since that’s a bit of a dating faux pas, but we’re not playing games, remember? You kids go have some fun now, and be sure to have them home at a reasonable hour.

40

Frogs

There's a frog that headbutts and poisons anybody who tries to attack it. Corythomantis greeningi has spines on its head that let it secrete venom, and it can move its head in unique ways that let it release that venom. CRACKED.COM — Source: cbc.ca

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Guns N’ Roses

CRACKED.COM GUNS N' R OSES Terminator 2 GNR vs. NIN Before production settled on Guns N' Roses' You Could be Mine, Robert Patrick suggested Nine Inch Nails' Head Like a Hole as the movie's tie-in song. The T-1000 actor lobbied for it because his brother, Richard Patrick, was NIN's touring guitarist. Cameron answered, no, Arnold prefers Guns N' Roses. — 98KUPD

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Spider-Man 2

A bad guy from Spider-Man 2 was inspired by a real-life doctor. It was the German doctor who tortures Electro, Dr. Kafka - and, in the Spider-Man comics, Dr. Kafka is a female counselor. She was based on Frayda Kafka, the real-life counselor of Marvel writer J.M. DeMatteis. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nut Juice

Dairy farmers in San Francisco sued to get almond milk relabelled as Nut Juice. CRACKED.COM The Federal District Court dismissed the suit, in 2013, as No reasonable consumer would mistake a product like soy milk or almond milk with dairy milk from a cow. — Source

36

Sausages

WEIRD WORLD A British store made its sausages only available to people over 18. It was a truly dumb mix-up - they mistakenly listed saucisson sec as secateurs, which was a bladed item, and people who wanted to buy it had to prove they were of age. CRACKED.COM — Source

35

The Academy Awards

Jordan Peele Get Out made Oscar history. In 2018, Peele became the first African American ever to win Best Original Screenplay. It doesn't mean anything, though - we're sure the Academy would've voted for Obama a third time if they could. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

34

Bees

Bees are known as hive animals, but there are also species of solitary bees. These bees sting only rarely, and male solitary bees can't sting you at all. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hot Fuzz

The 'Hot Fuzz' character Simon Skinner was written for a Timothy Dalton type before he signed on. WORLD CRACKED.COM Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright wrote the character before thinking to ask Dal- ton himself to be in the film. To their surprise, Dal- ton had loved Shaun of the Dead and signed on for the role. — Source

32

Cougars

A bridge over a California freeway will help mountain lions escape an extinction vortex. CRACKED.COM The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing will provide cougars with safe passage to food and mates thanks to the contributions from more than 5,000 individuals, foundations, agencies and businesses. — LA Times

31

Star Wars

STAR WARS Leia was not supposed to be Luke's sister. There were plans for a sequel trilogy all about Luke's sister, but Lucas couldn't commit to that so he decided to end it here, and pulled the swerve that it was Leia (and the kiss was, uh, let's not talk about that anymore). CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Weapons

Henry VIII's Gun Mace CRACKED.COM At one point, Henry VIII replaced his run-of-the-mill 1 fancy walking cane with this brutal-looking mace. Passersby wouldn't have known that it was also a loaded gun, which could fire four bullets at any time by lighting a fuse at the end of the handle. — 6 Awesomely Insane Guns People Actually Used (Pt. 2)

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Colin Trevorrow

Colin Trevorrow got fired from The Rise Of Skywalker before JJ Abrams took over. The official statement was pretty dry - Lucasfilm just said that their visions for the project differ. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Brian Dennehy

Brian Dennehy lied about his military service. CRACKED.COM He used to claim that he was wounded in Vietnam, a lie that's still often reported as truth, even after he came clean. — Source: 20 Actors Who (May Have) Lied To Get The Part

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Calvin Harris

Calvin Harris CRACKED COM ADAM WILES won't answer to Calvin Harris when he's not behind the DJ booth: I'm sorry this is ridiculous. You're speaking

26

Math

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25

TikTok

WEIRD WORLD A TikTok trend made it sound like there'd be school shootings ... but поре. Tik Tok It was called National Shoot Up Your School Day-seriously - and school officials were afraid there'd be actual shootings. There weren't. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

The USSR

In 1966, the USSR put out a gas fire with a nuclear bomb. The fire had been burning in a gas well for three years, and they'd tried everything from capping the well to reducing the flow of gas. The bomb put out the fire in 23 seconds. The Soviets were so delighted, they did the same thing with four more gas fires over the years. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Frosty the Doughman

WEIRD WORLD A bakery in Pittsburgh made a delicious 7-foot monster named Frosty the Doughman. It's exactly what you might think - a 7-foot snowman, but made out of bread, not snow. Apparently, frosty weighs 200 or so pounds. CRACKED.COM — Source

22

Terminator 3

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Agent Coulson

Agent Coulson was not intended to reappear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe past Iron Man 1. CRACKED.COM It wasn't until a contract dispute with Samuel L. Jackson caused Nick Fu- ry's role in Thor to be dropped, and Clark Gregg was asked to reappear in a larger role. — Source

20

Tom Fogerty

GRACKED ТОМ FOGERTY: GONE TOO SOON, THANKS TO MEDICAL MALPRACTICE. Arr A by - Tom Fogerty passed away in 1990 due to tuberculosis, which was a result of AIDS he got from a blood transfusion he had during a back operation in the 80s. It only happened because they didn't screen the blood for HIV. — Source

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Squid Game

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Pleading Insanity

MYTH: Want to get away with murder? Plead insanity. FACT: That's not a Get Out of Jail Free card. The Insanity Defense is attempted in less than one percent of all legal cases, and the defense is successful less than 25 percent of the time. Three states in the US don't even allow insanity as a defense. If the plea succeeds, you don't get to just go home. You get sent to a mental institution where you don't have a set sentence at all. They keep you as long as they see fit, which may be forever. CRACKED.COM http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/crime/trial/faqs.html

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Top Gun

The film 'Top Gun' was made in collaboration with the Pentagon and enlistment spiked when it was released. CRACKED.COM The Navy set up recruitment tables at theaters playing the movie, and polls soon showed rising confidence in the military. — Washington Post / YouTube

16

Meryl Streep

MERYL STREEP THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA CRACKED.COM Streep got aspects of Miranda Priestly from Clint Eastwood. She told Vogue, The voice I got from Clint Eastwood. Не never, ever raises his voice, and everyone has to lean in to listen, and he is automatically the most powerful person in the room. — Source: cheatsheet

15

The iPhone 14

The iPhone 14 has a bad habit of dialing 9-1-1 while its owner rides a rollercoaster. 17E ± 17:21 CRACKED.COM The new Crash Detection feature, which is supposed to alert authorities when it detects you've been in a car accident, has an unex- pected side effect and is sending law enforcement to amusement parks. — The Verge / Wikipedia

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Venom

Marvel bought the idea of the Venom symbiote from a fan for $220. Randy Schueller, a 22-year-old comic fan, sent in a letter suggesting that Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four could create a black costume for Peter Parker using unstable molecules. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

13

Ethiopia

The reason so many African flags have green, yellow and red is because of the Ethiopian flag. CRACKED.COM It was one of the few in- dependent African na- tions during the colonial period and therefore the new countries of Africa looked to them for in- spiration. — Medium

12

Garbage Pail Kids

In the mid 80s, CRACKED.COM Cabbage Patch at Kids 33а dolls were the GARE height of popularity. GARBAGE PAIL KIDS 20b LOSING FAI PHAT PHIL 1000 TOPPS CHEWRO DUM NC PATO NUSA AGE PAIL KIDS 24a GARBAGE PAll DRESSY JESSE So naturally, collecting GARBAGE PAIL KIDS cards felt like the BONNIS ultimate BUNNY expression NC RVOUS of anti-establishment rebellion. — Source: 21 Things You Used To Love (That Have NOT Aged Well)

11

South Africa

IN SOUTH AFRICA, LIONS TOOK OVER A ROAD. With much fewer people in Kruger National Park, lions started sleeping on a road outside a rest camp. It wasn — Source: CBS News

10

Ramen

95 billion packets of ramen noodles are sold every Year. Yeah, those ramen noodles. High Hair This is according to the World Instant Noodle Association, and, when you do the math, adds up to 15 packs of noodles for every human being on Earth. CRACKED.COM — Source

9

Auctioning Off Virginity

A model sold her virginity for $3 million to an Abu Dhabi businessman. 19-year-old Giselle says she'll use money to pay for college fees and traveling, and a new house. She de- scribed being able to sell her virginity as a 'form of emancipation.' CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

8

Phony Interviews

Journalist Tom Kummer published incredible, exclusive celebrity interviews. He accomplished this by making them up. In the phony interviews, Mike Tyson pontificates on Nietzsche, Sean Penn discusses Kierkegaard, and Bruce Willis philosophizes about morality. In his defense, Kummer called his work borderline journalism. CRACKED.COM ww.nvtimes.com/2000/06/02/world/hallywwood-tales-just-fiction-german-paper-savs.html — Source: The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed

7

Shoe Polish Meat

CRACKED.COM SHOE POLISH MAKES MEAT SO APPETIZING. Grilled meats looks delicious in ads-even if it's raw meat with shoe polish rubbed on. It's easier than grilling it for real. — Source: 25 Marketing Lies Somehow Still Seen

6

Garfield

$ Jim Davis has said that Garfield was a conscious effort to come up with a good, marketable character. It's essentially a formula. I notice dog st

5

Phantom Thread

40 Straightforward Bits of Trivia That Deliver the Truth Without All Those Fancy Bells and Whistles — Source: Vanity Fair

4

Sharks

Sharks track their prey with their ability to smell in stereo. CRACKED.COM They can detect the tiny delays in the time it takes for a scent to reach one nostril compared to the other and use it to deter- mine the direction from where the scent is coming. — Source

3

Katrina

Hurricane Katrina improved children's health in New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina stirred up the sediment in Lake Pontchartrain to such a degree that when it overflowed, the sediment carried along helped bury the lead-contaminated soil of New Orleans, resulting in reduced amounts of lead in children's blood. CRACKED COM — Source: These 47 Facts Will Make You A Walking History Channel

2

Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro не almost made a video game with Hideo Kojima. Silent Hills - a game featuring Norman Reedus, directed by Kojima and with a story by del Toro - was in the works, but after it fell through nothing was left but the critically-acclaimed demo P.T. Though that hasn't stopped del Toro from making Silent Hill jokes, as recently as 2021. — Source: Destructoid

1

The Rock

When he was 15, The Rock saved his mom from committing suicide. She left her car on Interstate 65 and just started walking into traffic. The Rock followed her and pulled her back - - and today, he says, she doesn't remember any of that (Probably best she doesn't, he says). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Men's Health

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