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40 Hallowed Bits of Trivia That Fact-Seekers Pilgrimage From Far and Wide to Bear Witness To

February 21, 2025

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Disney

Disney uses a green paint to hide visually hide items in their park The paint is called Go Away Green. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Apartment Therapy

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Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

Pee-wee's Big Adventure was almost a kind of adaptation of Disney's Pollyanna. Paul Reubens got a new idea when he got a gift bike with the sign that said Bicycle parking for Pee-wee Herman only and had a picture of Pee-wee. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Weird Early Versions Of Movies And Shows We Love

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Escolar

Restaurants often serve a fish called Escolar, disguised to be Tuna on the menu. CRACKED.COM Eating too much of this fish, more than 6 ounces, will cause explosive, oily, uncontrollable orange di- arrhea. Accidents can also happen while pass- ing gas. — Source

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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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Government Spending

In 2010, the GSA spent $800,000 on a conference in Vegas. conositara P | I I P no 850198IN2 D OM НО ВЕ ... OTI CCOS OOT NATION eep ried Twinkie The General Services Administration is the eRm agency that is in charge of eliminating government waste. Expenses included a $75,000 team building exercise, various $5,600 in-room parties, $31,000 networking receptions and assorted mysterious catering bills, such as a $7,000 sushi bill. CRACKED.COM http://www.gsaig ov/?LinkServID=90537F5B-FBF8-E39E-A4F0D09005742C28&showMeta=0 — Source

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Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II worked as a mechanic during World War II 608R Then-Princess Elizabeth served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM — Source: Snopes

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Florida Rental Car

A man in Florida returned a rental car with his granddaughter still locked in the back seat. CRACKED.COM The toddler was left in the back of the Hertz rental car, in an un- shaded airport parking lot, for 45 minutes be- fore Hertz employees found her. — WREG / Unsplash

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Doritos

WEIRD WORLD Doritos is taking 5 chips out of the mouths of children everywhere, thanks to inflation. Analysts estimate Frito-Lay will potentially save more than $50 million by shorting bags of the 5 chips, but the toll it will take on the nation is incalculable. CRACKED.COM — Penn Live

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Plants

We've found out that some plants produce noise when they're stressed. They're ultrasonic clicks that humans can't hear, and plants begin making them if they're being harmed .. say, if they're suffering drought or being attacked. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Community

40 Hallowed Bits of Trivia That Fact-Seekers Pilgrimage From Far and Wide to Bear Witness To — IMDB IMDB

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Colorado

BIZARRE EVENTS NAKED PUMPKIN RUN Every year, people in Colorado who are not afraid to show off their bodies join in the Halloween NAKED PUMPKIN RUN in Boulder. They take off all their clothes and carve pumpkins to put on their heads while they go for a jog. CRACKED — Naked Pumpkin Run (via archive.org)
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Tom Selleck

Tom Selleck's dad was a major real estate developer in the LA area. He also served on many, many LA committees and commissions, and was director of the Los Angeles Olympic Organization Committee. CRACKED.COM — Source: LA Times

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Back to the Future

Marty McFly's Hooverboard went for $500,000 The prop from Back to the Future // was signed by Michael J. Fox and significantly outsold the estimated $80,000 to $100,000. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lawless

CANCELED RIGHT AWAY LAWLESS In 1997, former Seattle Seahawks linebacker Brian Bosworth played John Lawless (an ex-special forces officer solving cases in Miami) for one whole episode. Even the original Aunt Viv, Janet Hubert, couldn't help the cause. CRACKED — Columbia Pictures Television
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The Seawise Giant

CRACKED JAHRE VIKING In 1979, the Seawise Giant became not only the world's biggest ship, but the largest moving human-made object ever. It was 1,500 feet long, weighing nearly 600,000 tons, with a stopping distance of, insanely, five and a half miles. — Source

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Shrimp

IS YOUR SHRIMP NICELY COOKED? THE SECRET'S IN THE TAIL! Push the tail back against its curvature and it should immediately return to its natural posit

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Supermarkets in France

It's illegal for supermarkets in France to waste food. B x CRACKED.COM France does not allow grocery stores to throw away unused food. Instead, all food that they think they can no longer sell must be given to the poor and donated to charities. — PBS

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Denmark

Denmark says it will accelerate plans to reduce the EU's dependence on Russian energy CRACKED.COM The Danish govern- ment aims to harvest the full potential of offshore wind and ac- celerate the produc- tion of renewable en- ergy on land. — Offshore Wind

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Anthony Bourdain

Like all of us, Anthony Bourdain loved Ratatouille, but maybe not for the same reasons. It's a measure of how deficient Hollywood has been in making an accurate restaurant-food based film that far and away the best was about an animated rat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ada Lovelace

ADA LOVELACE wrote about Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a computer he had designed, and showed that it could do complicated calculations by following a set of instructions (essentially, a program) in the early 1800s. CRACKED — Alfred Edward Chalon/Wiki Commons
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Plant-Based Foods

Thanks to Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, 1 million animal lives were saved. The non-profit World Animal Protection estimates that 630,000 animals were saved thanks to those two companies just in 2021, according to data =E2=80=93 and WAP says that the real figure is probably closer to 1 million.com — Source: 13 Positive Headlines To Remind Us Of The Good Happening Right Now

19

Sword Trouble

Ryu's actor had to learn the sword himself at the last minute. For the Ryu/Vega cage match, there was no one who could show Ryu's Byron Mann how to perform his sword flourish. Mann had to pick it up from a random extra just as the scene was about to be shot. — Source: Polygon

18

The Wolf of Wall Street

Leonardo DiCaprio's security detail inspired the sell me this pen! scene in THE WOLF OF WALL STREET. John Bernthal explained: When Leo was walking to the set that day, his security was a New York City detective and he said he had a job interview with the real Jordan Belfort. And Leo said, 'Really? What was the interview?' And he said, 'He handed me a pen and said sell that pen.' So, Leo, he didn't tell anybody. Не just threw that into that scene. And everything was reactive off of that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Guns N’ Roses

AxI Rose and Slash didn't remain friends post-GNR. They've been sniping at each other for 20 years. Rose calls Slash a cancer that was wisely removed

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NASA

AVENGERS MARVEL'S CRACKED.COM When not used to experiment on the Tesseract, NASA'S Space Power Facility, near Sandusky, Ohio, is the world's largest v

15

Friends

Matthew Perry got Julia Roberts to guest-star in Friends by writing a paper on quantum physics. Perry asked her to come on the show, and she said she'd do it only if he wrote her a paper on quantum physics. Apparently, a day later, he wrote one and faxed it to her. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gut Bacteria

Brain development is influenced by gut bacteria GRACKED.COM Very premature babies are at a high risk for brain damage because of their undeveloped gut microbiome. — Source: ScienceDaily

13

Tron

Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - Programs fighting other programs in the Disc Arena was Tron's way of paying homage to Spartacus. — Source: Film School Rejects

12

Plastics

Many BPA-free plastics contain BPS, a similar chemical that can affect cells the same way. bpafree BPS was a favored re- placement to BPA be- cause it was thought to be more resistant to leaching. However, 81% of Americans have BPS in their urine. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Scientific American

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Ghostbusters

A crewmember knocked over the bookcase. GHOSTBUSTERS CRACKED.COM A falling bookshelf should have been a disaster, but Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd turned it into comedy gold. — Source

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Gwen Stefani

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Koalas

Just like humans, koalas have thumbs - - that way, they can climb better. But, unlike humans, they have four thumbs -- two on each paw. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Area Rugs

CRACKED COM That rug might really tie the room together, but it could kill you. An estimated 3,800 people aged 65 and over die each year from slips and falls caused by area rugs. — Source

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Alien 3

The chestburster in Alien 3 was supposed to be played by a very good boy. They wanted to make the alien take on some of the traits of the host organism, so they dressed up a dog, since the alien burst out of a baby ох. But the dog looked too funny, so they dropped the idea. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

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Rogue Planets

Rogue planets (planets that don't rotate stars) could outnumber the stars in our galaxy They are hard for astronomers to spot as they don't emit light or much heat. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

5

Pogs

Collectible Bubbles Pogs Pogs were incredibly popular for a little while, but so many companies started making them-and the designs weren't very good-that the bubble burst. CRACKED — Source

4

Pranks

Historical Pranks HARVESTING SPAGHETTI FROM TREES On April 1, 1957, the BBC broadcast a two-and-a- half-minute prank about spaghetti trees. This involved people hanging 20 pounds of uncooked homemade spaghetti from the branches of laurel trees, and then pretending to harvest it. CRACKED — Source

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Space Size Comparisons

EARTH SUN SUN NML CYGNI CRACKED.COM — Source

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Genghis Khan

One in every 200 men is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. CRACKED.COM ~10% of the men who re- side within the borders of the Mongol Empire as it was at the death of Geng- his Khan may carry his Y chromosome, and so do about 16 million individu- als alive today. — Discover Magazine

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Running

Humans are the best long distance runners in the animal kingdom. This is due to our ability to regulate our body temperature better than other animals. However, a horse can beat us on a cooler day. CRACKED.COM — Source: Popular Mechanics

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