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40 Jazzy Bits of Trivia That Are More About the Facts They Don’t Prove Than the Facts They Do

February 25, 2025

If you can somehow find the beat, you can really bop your head to these soulful bad boys. They might be a bit more erratic and experimental than other facts, but they really grab the attention of the facts that just played before them. They’re fact’s facts, if you know what we mean.

Trust us. If you want everyone in the scene to think you have great taste, you’ll tell everyone in the scene that you love these facts.

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Sean Connery

Sean Connery defended himself against a gunman on the set of Another Time, Another Place. While filming a love scene for the movie, his co-star's gangster boyfriend got jealous and pulled a gun on him. Connery grabbed the gun from his hand and twisted the guy's wrist un- til he ran off the set. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Total Movies

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Robin Williams

Robin Williams was a huge gamer. Robin Williams had several Warhammer 40k armies (despite never playing the game.) Не also named his daughter Zelda after The Legend of Zelda. CRACKED.COM — Source: Robin Williams AMA

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Arabic Words

40 Jazzy Bits of Trivia That Are More About the Facts They Don’t Prove Than the Facts They Do — Source: Mental Floss

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Paid Leave

GRAGKED.COM Workers in the U.S. are legally entitled to exactly 0 DAYS of paid leave per year That's about infinity less than pretty much every other country. Spain 36 Germany 30 UK 28 Japan 10 U.S. Whatever your employer feels like. — Source: 25 Unsettling Stats That'll Shake Your Foundations

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Terrible Predictions

Movies are a fad. CHARLIE CHAPLIN CRACKED.COM Before becoming a silent film star, Chaplin declared what audiences want to see is flesh and blood on the stage. Right about the flesh; right about the blood; wrong about the medium. — Source

35

Ghosts of Mars

Snake Plissken almost went to space. Ghosts of Mars was originally a third Kurt Russell vehicle, called Escape From Mars. When Escape From LA tanked, they pulled a switcheroo, barely changing the name and tagging in Ice Cube.

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Little Shop of Horrors

CRACKED.COM LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS SIX PUPPETS OF AUDREY II WERE MADE. Six different animatronic puppets were used to show the growth of the mean green mother from outer space. The smallest Audrey II was four inches tall, and the largest was 12 feet tall. — Source: Moviefone

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Hubble Telescope

Nancy Grace Roman realized that, having no atmosphere, space would be the perfect place from which to make astronomic observations. She pioneered the

32

101 Dalmatians

CRACKED.COM 101 DALMATIANS HAS A SEQUEL ABOUT A DOG RAPTURE. In The Starlight Barking, written by the same author as the original book, all dogs gain the ability to levitate and telepathically talk, as Sirius the Dog Star tries to save them from nuclear war. Also, there's a subplot about a cat trying to murder Cruella de Vil. — More: 6 Huge Famous Works With Unknown Awful Sequels

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Google Earth

Tribes in the Amazon are using technology like GPS and Google Earth. They map their lands, monitor for illegal log- ging and mining, and maintain ties to their his- tory and cultural tradi- tions including knowl- edge of medicinal plants. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Mongabay

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Tokyo Drift

Tokyo Drift couldn't secure certain permits but filmed scenes anyway. RECARD Universal Studios hired a fall guy to go to jail instead of the director. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fascinating 'Now You Know' Facts

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Terry Gilliam

The Artist Behind The Animations The Python's iconography would be nothing without their resident animator Terry Gilliam. Because the animations are in a collage style, some of the most famous Python images are from other works of art. For instance, the gi- ant foot is actually Cupid's foot from the painting Venus Cupid Folly and Time. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — AtlasObscura

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Size Comparisons

This is not a view of the rings of Saturn & one of its moons from the surface of the planet. It's a human egg cell seen next to a human hair. CRACKED.COM — 38 Real Size Comparisons That Will Make Your Head Explode

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Toy Story

Early drafts of movies Toy Story LASER LIGHTYEAR SPAUR MARCON Disney wanted Woody to be edgy. Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg said that the wooden cowboy had to have an edge to him - and the resulting storyboard reel tanked hard. Disney wanted to shut everything down, but Pixar instead made the movie they wanted to make. CRACKED.COM — The Toy Story Fan/YouTube

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Royal Pranks

Princes Harry and William pranked Her Royal Highness with a voicemail message. In 2017, the Queen asked them to record an answering machine message for her, and they recorded Hey wassup! This is Liz. Sorry I'm away from the throne. For a hotline to Philip, press one. For Charles, press — Source: 7 Celebrity Pranks That Backfired Horrifically

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The Thing

The Thing is John Carpenter's take on 1951's The Thing From Another World. Carpenter's movie isn't just gorier - it's also closer to the original novella by John W. Campbell. — Source: The American Society of Cinematographers

24

Wizards

DE A New Zealand city has an official wizard. Since the 1970s, the city of Christchurch pays lan Brackenbury Channell a stipend of about $10,000 a year for acting as the city's wizard. Sadly, he doesn't cast spells - he's paid for his services as a comedian, educator, tourist attraction, and living work of art. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts About the World We Didn't Suspect

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Land Mines

WWII landmines are being dug up, and reused, by ISIS. Because the Sahara's dry, hot climate is great for preserving things, plenty of the 17 milliom l

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The Cold War

At least one Cold War-era microprocessor had a message for Soviet spies. certace A 1990s VAX computer It was VAX - when you care enough to steal the very best, engraved in Russian on the chip itself for any spies who stole the design. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Florida State University

21

Jennifer Lawrence

JENNIFER LAWRENCE LIED ABOUT TAKING A BREAK FROM ACTING. PHOENI© A D In 2018, the actress announced she'd be taking a year off from acting in order to focus on political activism. Just a few days later, she apparently dropped the idea as her reps told Entertainment Weekly that she would be returning to work as soon as one of her many projects was ready to start production. CRACKED.COM

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Isaac Asimov

The title of Asimov's I, Robot was swiped from a different work. Asimov wanted to call his robot book Mind and Iron, but his editor just reused the title of a story by author Otto Binder, thinking it was punchier. Asimov didn't want to do this, but eventually the editor had his way. — More: 5 Famous Titles That Were Stolen From Other Works

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Pills

Swallowing pills without water can make it take longer for them to work. SL NDd sd Magnet CRACKED.COM It also increases the chance of the pill to get stuck in your esophagus, and in worse scenarios make an ulcer in your esoph- agus mucosa. — Source

18

Myspace

Justin Timberlake bought MySpace. CRACKED.COM After portraying social media pioneer Sean Parker, Timberlake was part of a group that spent $35 million to buy MySpace. 4 years later, in 2015, he sold his shares to a fan for one exact dollar. — Source

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Expenses

40 Jazzy Bits of Trivia That Are More About the Facts They Don’t Prove Than the Facts They Do — Source: CNN

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English Muffins

English muffins were made in New York. They also aren't muffins. They're crumpets. What a misnomer. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Now-You-Know Food Facts To Chew On Today

15

Calvin & Hobbes

Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has never approved a Hobbes plush toy. Не says it's ambiguous whether Hobbes is real or a stuffed animal & he won't mess with that. It's estimated he's left $300 million on the table as a result. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Big Think

14

Wasps

Megalara Garuda CRACKED.co Scientists call this insect the king of wasps. That's because it's over 2 inches long, venomous, and has jaws that wrap around its own head. — National Geographic

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Crows

WEIRD WORLD In California, they're trying to fight crows with actual laser beams. Crows have been plaguing Sunnyvale, CA, for a while, so the city plans to try and scare them off with green lasers. CRACKED.COM — Source

12

Dress Code

CRACKED THAT'S NOT ALLOWED! WEARING A GAS MASK TO SCHOOL A student got into serious trouble when he was arrested for wearing a gas mask and army clothes to his high school on Valentine's Day. In the end, he wasn't expelled and the charges were dropped. — StockMediaSeller/Shutterstock
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Gene Therapy

We've gotten evidence that a revolutionary gene therapy works pretty well. The therapy was developed at UCLA, for kids with a rare immune system condition - and 90% of kids who got it 8-11 years ago are disease-free. CRACKED.COM — Source

10

The Rihanna Curse

Terrible weather hit the UK, New Zealand, and Romania when Umbrella topped their charts This became known as the Rihanna curse. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

9

Hash Brownies

WEIRD WORLD In the UK, postal staff were filmed eating hash brownies from a parcel. The parcel happened to be unclaimed, but that doesn't change too much-on the video, they were pretty clearly unable to do their jobs, and the Royal Mail is investigating. CRACKED.COM — Source

8

Pizza Hut

WEIRD WORLD A guy in Hull, England complained that Pizza Hut's tomato sauce is too sexy. Pizza Hut. Не didn't like the shake, squeeze and squirt label - Pizza Hut apologized, but that wasn't enough and he called his member of parliament. CRACKED.COM — Source

7

Crypto

In 2009, Lily Allen refused to get paid for a concert in 200,000 Bitcoin. She was offered the payment for a virtual performance in Second Life but said no, and later called herself an idiot. If she'd taken it, she'd be a billionaire today. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

6

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg has the sole film rights to all of MLK's speeches, which he bought in 2009. CRACKED.COM In the movie Selma, Ava DuVernay wrote speeches that were plausible, but differ- ent enough to avoid a copyright battle. — Source

5

Pulp Fiction

Mia Wallace from 'Pulp Fiction' is, technically, a Disney princess. CRACKED.COM Miramax was owned by Disney from 1993 to 2005, which means that the film was, in a way, a Dis- ney movie. — Source

4

Orangutans

Orangutans an ORANGUTAN Has LeaRneD HOW TO MIMIC HUMan SPeeCH. The 50-year-old great ape named Tilda has learned to make clicks and noises that sound like human speak. She can smack her lips together to make consonant sounds, and she can form vowels. The sounds she makes are also intentional, as she usually does this to get someone's attention, especially when she wants food. These sound-making abilities have never been seen in great apes before. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Washington Post

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Patrick Dempsey

PATRICK DEMPSEY is a racecar driver. Driving isn't exactly brain surgery, like his character a SAY HOKES BA used to perform in Grey's Anatomy. Still, not every driver competes at AT 58 Premium Parachu OF Le Mans and Daytona, as Dempsey has. CRACKED.COM — Source: 24 'Wait-A-Minute-What?' Celeb Facts

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Student Loans

GRACKED.COM Crippled by student loan debt? Thank Albert L. Lord. SHERVE NOTE 60 T As a top officer of the Student Loan Marketing Association (SLMA, or Sallie Mae), Lord did his aggressive best to dominate the student loan market and lobby Congress to keep profits high. Now that his own grandkids are in college, he pontificates about how gosh-darn expensive it is. — Source: 15 Random Facts That Are Making Us Question Everything We Know

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Saint Nick

There are seven towns in the U.S. named after Santa Claus. GRAGKED.COM There's a town named Santa Claus in Arizona, Georgia, and Indiana, and ones named Saint Nicholas in Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. — Stacker

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