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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Are More Than the Sum of Their Parts (Citation Needed)

February 21, 2025

Well, it looks like you’re locked in to reading this entire list. When a title lured you in with the promise of the facts being more than the sum of their parts, you know that it won’t be as special as it can be until you’ve read the very last fact.

They might seem completely random, but trust us, the last fact will somehow tie up all the loose ends. Or maybe that’s a different list. We forgot. Either way, we swear that they’re all really good facts on their own too!

40

Soul Train

WEIRD WORLD There's a new world record for a soul train line, and it's a total of 536 people. Black Entertainment Network organized the line in question, in New York City. CRACKED.COM — Source

39

Leonard Cohen

In 1988, Leonard cohen hired trusted friend Kelley Lynch to help him manage personal affairs, and eventually made her his manager. While he stayed in

38

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

40 Random Bits of Trivia That Are More Than the Sum of Their Parts (Citation Needed) — Source: Entertainment Weekly

37

Lake Geneva

Lake Geneva turned cars into ice sculptures. The Swiss ice scraper industry presumably boomed in the winter of 2012, when windy conditions at the lake

36

Joan Rivers

COMEDY NERD When Joan Rivers got her own show, Johnny Carson instantly wrote her off. Не refused to take her calls, or even to talk with her in person - she had gotten her start on his show, and she thinks he felt he owned her. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Comedian Feuds We Didn’t Know About

35

Ancient Egypt

GRAGKED.COM Embalmers would secretly cut out the hearts of commoners' mummies so the elite didn't have to share the afterlife with them DENO Ancient Egyptians believed the heart was the key to the afterlife, but researchers have discovered that by the time anyone could afford to mummify themselves, an overwhelming amount of mummies were missing the vital organ. — Source

34

Phone Usage

CRACKED co BABY BOOMERS ARE MORE ADDICTED TO THEIR PHONES THAN MILLENNIALS. According to a Nielsen Global Survey, baby boomers are more likely than yo — More: 5 Ways Baby Boomers Keep Getting Worse

33

Sia and Shia LaBeouf

Sia was conned into being in an adulterous relationship with Shia 4 LaBeouf. That's how she described what happened, adding that she was hurt emotionally by LaBeouf, who she says is a pathological liar. CRACKED.COM

32

Net Worth

CRACKED COM People with higher net worth at mid-life live longer. 50 If you're not rich by 46.7 years old, we have bad news for you. Even among sets of twins, higher net worth at around this age was associated with lower mortality risk. — Source

31

Planet of the Apes

THE FINAL SCENE OF PLANET OF THE APES (1968) WAS SHOTAT POINT DUME'S WESTWARD BEACH, IN MALIBU

30

The Pacifier

From the Director of Bringing Down the House THE SPANISH TITLE FOR THE PACIFIER TRANSLATES TO A SUPER HARD KANGAROO. Disney vin DIESEL is the PACIFIER GRACKED.COM WELCOME TO THE INFANTRY. namero - - INTERNATIONAL musers — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

29

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs once called Starbucks and asked for 4,000 lattes. It was the first ever public call with an iPhone, made on stage at the iPhone's unveiling, and it ended with him saying No, just kidding. Wrong number. Goodbye! CRACKED.COM — Source: Fast Company

28

Slam Dunking

GAME-RUINING INNOVATIONS SLAM DUNKING When it first started to appear, slam dunking was a big deal. They came up with all kinds of rules to try and prevent it, like having a no-scoring zone near the basket. They even tried to limit the total height of all five players on a team to 30 feet. CRACKED — Alex Kravtsov/Shutterstock
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27

Jerry Garcia

GRACKED 'TIGER' (JERRY GARCIA) Custom built by Luthier Doug Irwin, who also built instruments for 'Tiger' was Grateful Dead maestro Jerry Garcia's instrument of choice from 1979 to 1989. We assume it was built entirely out of spent hash pipes. — Extra Chill

26

Dinosaurs

There's a whole field of science dedicated to how dinosaurs sounded. Paleoacoustics actually deals with sounds associated with any fossils and, disappointingly, it theorizes dinosaurs didn't open their mouths to roar. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

25

Coldest Conceivable Temperature

Coldest conceivable temperature -459.67 F This temperature is absolute zero. In 2003, the coldest temperature recorded in the known universe was here on Earth at Wolfgang Ketterle's lab in MIT in 2003: 810 trillionths of a degree F above absolute zero. CRACKED.COM — Source: Smithsonian Lab

24

Tom Cruise

All three of Tom Cruise's wives were 33 when they divorced from him. And each was 11 years younger than the last. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

23

Gillette

The guy who invented the safety razor was actually also a utopian thinker. In 1894, King Gillette wrote a book about his plans for a utopian city in which there'd be no money - and therefore, he claimed, no crime. CRACKED.COM — Source

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22

Monsters, Inc.

RONSTERS, INC. Roz's line I'm watching you, CRACKED.COM Wazowski. Always watching cleverly foreshadows the fact that she's the head of Monstropolis' security agency. 00112 `02 CDA 001 — Source: 30 Ace Instances Of Movie And TV Foreshadowing

21

Schweppes

Schweppes sold their Tonic Water in Italy without realizing that no self-respecting person would dare to drink it. INDIAN I THE Schweppes TONIC WATER The problem wasn't with the drink itself, but with the name Schweppes Tonic Water, which translated to Italian as Schweppes Toilet Water. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

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

19

John Krasinski

CRACKED John Krasinski taught English. At Brown, he taught English in Costa Rica, and cited Management of Industrial and Nonprofit Organizations as his favorite class before acting in a play and never looking back. — Source

18

Rambo

First Blood nearly ended with Rambo killing himself with Col Trautman. Trautman came to kill him, but couldn't so Rambo shot himself. They filmed it, but Sly Stallone, who suggested it, thought it was too big a downer. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

17

Toy Story 2

Toy story 2 was almost deleted. A Pixar employee accidentally typed in a command that erased all the movie files. Thankfully, this multi-million dollar mistake was averted as a technical director on maternity leave had a copy of everything at home. CRACKED.COM — Source

16

Ghostbusters

15

The Last of Us

CRACKED.COM The Last of Us was initially pitched to George Romero. Neil Bruckmann came up with the basic concept while he was in college, and had a chance to pitch it to Zombiemeister George Romero himself - who passed on it. After that, Bruckmann tried to turn his idea into a comic book, before it became a game. — Source

14

Sugar Burns

In 2011, a Tennessee couple tried to heat things up in the bedroom by having him eat a melted giant gummy bear off of her body. Unlike massage wax, however, sugar melts at a very high CRACKED COM temperature, sending them to the hospital with severe burns on her breasts... and his tongue. — Source: 22 Ways Sex Can (And Did) Go Horrifyingly Wrong

13

Mustard Oil

CRACKED MUSTARD OIL You can't use mustard oil for cooking in the U.S., Europe, or Canada because it has too much erucic acid, which can be bad for your heart. — Mashed

12

Maternity Leave

The U.S. is 1 of only 4 countries in the world that does not require paid maternity leave. The U.S. ranks last among developed countries when it comes to paid parental leave. While many U.S. companies offer paid parental leave, the United States is the only advanced country without a federal law mandating it. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Dry Cleaning

CRACKED CONDENSATE г. DRY CLEANER A study from Columbia University found that kids whose parents work as dry cleaners have a 200-300% higher chance of developing schizophrenia. Why? Turns out, it's due to exposure to a chemical involved in dry cleaning. — Schizophrenia / Inquirer

10

Don’t Look Up

An entire day was dedicated to filming Jonah Hill throw those insults at Jennifer Lawrence in DON'T LOOK UP. Lawrence said it was hard keeping a straight face while Hill improvised his lines. We one time dedicated an entire day to him just improv-ing insults at me. It was amazing. Не and Meryl are the only ones who should do that kind of improv. He's a comedic master. We all did some stuff, but not as well as Jonah. CRACKED.COM — Source

9

Guns

You don't need to cock the hammer (and sometimes you even can't). IN many modern guns, pulling the trigger cocks the hammer for you. Others, like Glocks, don't even have a hammer that you can cock. — Sources: The Truth About Guns, The Truth About Guns

8

Toynbee Tiles

Who is creating the Toynbee Tiles?
Someone who is apparently very much into Stanley Kubrick and historian Arnold Toynbee has been embedding these mess — Source: The 5 Creepiest Unsolved Crimes Nobody Can Explain: Update

7

Al Capone’s Brother

CAPONE'S COP BROTHER CRACKED.COM As Capone built a fortune from illegal alcohol during Prohibition, while his older brother, Richard James 'Two Gun' Hart (born Vincenzo Capone) was tracking down bootleggers from Nebraska to South Dakota, exhibiting a tireless dedication to the law. — Source: 15 Embarrassingly Kooky Details From The World Of Organized Crime

6

Ancient Japan

Chugi JAPAN, 700 AD Ancient Japan used wooden sticks for internal and external anal cleaning. You have a stick up your butt could have meant you had — Source: BMJ

5

Family Matters

Steve Urkel was supposed to be in just one episode. The nerdy neighbor was created to take Laura Winslow on a terrible date, halfway through the first — Source: Los Angeles Times

4

Love Is Blind

CRACKED NICK THOMPSON LOVE IS BLIND The Season 2 contestant who married, then divorced, Danielle Ruhl said, You thrust us into this situation without any support, and everything's amplified. It literally ruins lives. — Jezebel

3

The Godfather

The horse's head in The Godfather was real. Francis Ford Coppola didn't like the mockup of the fake head the studio wanted him to use, so his scouts went to a dog food plant and found a horse that was going to be slaughtered. They asked for its head when the time came, and the plant dutifully shipped it to them in a crate full of dry ice. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

2

The Museum Snail

A snail spent several years glued to a card in the British museum before it was discovered to be alive. The zoologist who discovered this felt so bad he gave the snail another snail so he wouldn't be alone anymore. CRACKED — Source

1

Billboards

Ancient advertising ASTACIVS A STACIVS VRPV REV S-ENTINVS ~BACCIBVS ASTIV VS Gladiator billboards In Ancient Rome, giant billboards of famous gladiators were everywhere to get people excited for big events, with ad copy like, Twenty pairs of gladiators provided by Quintus Monnius Rufus are to fight at Nola May First. CRACKED — Via Banknotes
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