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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Tasted Better When We Were Kids

February 26, 2025

Don’t get us wrong, these are some pretty tasty facts. All we’re saying is that, back in our day (before all those pesky “regulations”), the dyes and chemicals in these facts really made them pop. We’ll take Red Lake 40 over beet juice any day of the week!

You won’t be able to taste the discontinued recipe for comparison, but take a big ol’ scoop of these and let us know what you think.

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Pigeons

Pigeons have a gambling habit, just like humans. In a study, eight pigeons were given two options: a key that dispensed 3 pellets 100% of the time and another that dispensed 10 pellets 20% of the time. The first option gave the pigeons 50% more food, on average, but they only chose it in a fifth of the trials. CRACKED.COM — Animals That (Eerily) Demonstrate Human-Like Behavior

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Singing Out of Tune

A Bangladesh man was arrested for singing out of tune. CRACKED.COM Hero Alom, a Bangladeshi singer with a huge internet following, was hauled in by police at dawn, told to stop performing classical songs, called too ugly to be a sing- er, and told to sign an apol- ogy bond. — Live Mint

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The Florida Fairy Shrimp

A type of shrimp only found in one pond was obliterated by land development. PERIAD UNTER STARBUCKS COFFEE ON CRACKED.COM The Florida fairy shrimp was discovered in 1952 to be a unique species of fairy shrimp specific to a single pond in Gainesville, Florida. When re- searchers returned to that pond in 2011, they realized it had been filled in for development. — Biological Diversity

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Keanu Reeves

Sport Celebrities Keanu Reeves was the MVP goalie for the De La Salle College hockey team. Не was nicknamed The Wall. CRACKED.COM — Source

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King of the Hill

CRACKEDOON Mike Judge based the voice for the marble-mouthed character of Boomhauer on King Of The Hill off of a rambling and angry voice mail he got

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Genetics

Seven women are the direct ancestors of 95% of people with European origins. Nearly all European men and women were de- scended from just seven females who lived be- tween 10,000 and 45,000 years ago, referred to as The Seven Daughters of Eve. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Worcester News

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RUN-DMC

RUN-DMC RUN MC NG OF ROCK CRACKED COM In 1986, Run-DMC's 3rd album, Raising Hell, gave hip hop so many firsts. It was the first hip hop album to go platinum (and multi platinum), the first to be nominated for a Grammy, and although their 1984 song Rock Box is credited as the first rap rock song, Walk This Way with Aerosmith brought rap rock to the masses. — Source: recordingarts
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Astronauts

40 Random Bits of Trivia That Tasted Better When We Were Kids — Source: Buzzfeed News

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Ford’s Theater

Ford's Theater refuses to perform the play which Abraham Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated. GRACKED COM The theater says: What would a full-scale reenact- ment of a night that ended in violence do for even someone who hadn't experienced gun violence - much less some- one who had. — Source

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Stats

Almost 15% of women say they'd rather be blind than fat. A survey by Arizona State University found stigma around obesity is so pervasive that many women say they'd prefer to be blind or suffer severe depression instead. CRACKED COM — Source

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JFK

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave John F. Kennedy a dog named Pushinka, whose mother was one of the passengers of Sputnik 5. Pushinka had four puppies, to which Kennedy called them the Pupniks. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Pete Best

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London Cryptids

Sightings of the mysterious Spring-Heeled Jack stretch from 1837 to 1904. A MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES CRACKED.COM Jack was a boogeyman that was said to ring resi- dents of Londons' door- bells dressed as a bear, a ghost or a devil and scratch them with metal claws before leaping away with unnatural agility. — Atlas Obscura

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Cicadas

Cicadas have wings with antibacterial patterns. CRACKED COM The nanopattern made of nano pillars that make up the wings of a cicada shreds bacteria membrane, making their wings a chemical-free antibacterial. — Cell

26

Lyndon B. Johnson

LYNDON JOHNSON HELICOPTERS CRACKEDC How much did LBJ love choppers? His desk chair in the Oval Office was an actual, green vinyl, aaingoodness, helicopter seat. Insiders it would have worked as a personal flotation device. — Mental Floss

25

Sea Creatures

Bone-Eating Snot Flower CRACKED.COM These sea creatures are actually WORMS who mainly feed on whale bones (or any other bones that come across their path) — Source: The Guardian

24

Candyman

Real bees were used during the making of the'90s horror trilogy CANDYMAN. Over the course of the three films, actor Tony Todd got stung 23 times. Than — Source

23

Cheese

You need 10 years of cheese making experience to become a Master Cheese Maker. CRACKED.COM Candidates are required to have had a Wisconsin cheesemaker's license for at least 10 years before they're even eligible to ар- ply to the Wisconsin Mas- ter Cheesemaker Program. — Source

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22

B.B. King

GRACKED LUCILLE (B.B. KING) Lucille was the name given to many of the Gibson ES-335 and ES-355's owned by the Blues Legend. When a fire at a venue started by two men fighting over a woman nearly killed him, King chose her name, Lucille, as the nickname for his guitars. — Rollingstone

21

Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan Не did porn. Chan was young and needed the money, so in 1975 he was in All in the Family, a softcore comedy in which he apparently has an explicit sex scene. Before you rush to find it, consider that he said in 2006 that the movie is actually pretty tame by today's standards. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt has really bad scoliosis. The fastest man in the world said, My spine's really curved bad... But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

19

Kevin Smith’s Prince Documentary

Unreleased movies Kevin Smith's PRINCE DOCUMENTARY Smith made a documentary about Prince that was never released. Не filmed it at Prince's home, Paisley Park. It was supposed to be about how people felt about his music, and also about religion and race. CRACKED — Northfoto/Shutterstock,
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Chipotle

CHIPOTLE NOROVIRUS CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL 3871 GRACKED COM In 2018, Chipotle paid $25 million to resolve criminal charges for serving tainted food. 1,100 people nationwide got food poisoning, and 234 people in Simi Valley, California and 136 in Boston were infected with Norovirus. — Source

17

Devils Tower

Wyoming's 'Devils Tower' has no apostrophe in its name. CRACKED.COM It was accidentally left off when Teddy Roosevelt signed the document making it a National Landmark and has never been fixed. — The Vintage News

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Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat

Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Over half a decade before Warhol's death, the young Basquiat and Warhol collaborated on (critically panned) paintings together. Basquiat frequently appeared in Warhol's diary, as they were inseparable for a few years. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vanity Fair

15

Fart Art

Nearly every culture has had Fart Artists. CRACKED.COM Japan had heppiri otoko. The irish had braigetoirs. At one point, France's highest-paid entertainer was The Fartomaniac, who could play the flute, do impressions, and blow smoke rings with his ass. His practice regimen included 5 enemas per day. — Source: 5 Gross Tales From History You Never Learned In School

14

Dazed and Confused

Matthew McConaughey's Alright alright alright is from Jim Morrison. Just before filming the Dazed and Confused scene when he says that, he'd been listening to a live Doors record where Morrison says that between tracks. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Super-Cool Facts To Show Off Your Smarts

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Government Spending

FOR NIS A MSA TEKOTA S PRODUTO KB45 ONE HUNDRED THE FACEBOOK ITAL HENERVB NOTE 3 / LIKES KB46279860I B2 RU TESDER PRODUTE 110 LESS - NOT - - Done Bibal - - CLASS live DEF HS UNITED ST GRACKED GOM DIO PER Coolede The State Department spent $600, ,000 in 2012 to attract fans to its Facebook page. Shockingly, KB4 this did nothing to raise America's standing in the world, not even in terms of the sad metric of social 46279 60 1 media engagement. 860 I — Washington Post

12

The Beatles

Rock Band: The Beatles was produced under a code name to deflect curiosity about it. ROCKBAND The code name: Rock Band: Nickelback NOW YOU KNOW — Source: The New York Times

11

Congo

The Democratic Republic of Congo had an imaginary minister for some time. To better his chances to be named trade minister, Honorius Kisimba Ngoy proposed himself for the position, along with a hilariously unqualified dude he made up to make himself look better. As it turned out, the prime minister disliked Kisimba so much that he picked the fake guy. CRACKED.COM — Source

10

Air Bud

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO... Comet FULL HOUSE CRACKED.COM Buddy the golden retriever was discovered on America's Funniest Home Videos, playing football, basketball, and other traditionally human-dominated sports. That all tracks, since he went on to get his own franchise: Air Bud. — Source: IMDB

9

The Random Transiter

One of the most mysterious stars in the galaxies the The Random Transiter. CRACKED.COM it has 28 equal plan- et-sized objects orbiting it in random ways. The Ке- pler planet-hunter space- craft observed this star for 87 days during the second- ary K2 part of its mission. — Source

8

The Simpsons

A classic Simpsons Olympics episode is based on something that really happened. MILKS In Lisa's First Word, Krusty Burger offers free burgers if the US team wins, and that comes back to bite him. This really happened to McD's in 1984. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Conversation-Starting Facts We Never Knew

7

The Chinese Ghost Town of Fengdu

FENGDU IS A CHINESE GHOST TOWN, SUPPOSEDLY HOME TO DEMONS. The area used to be a Taoist graveyard but sank when a dam was built. Today, it's full of t — For details, read The 7 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 3)

6

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind R2-D2 is briefly seen (upside down) on the alien ship. Do the aliens come from a galaxy far, far away? Do they use astromech droids? So many questions! — Sources: Yahoo Entertainment, Movie clip on YouTube

5

Psycho

CRACKED PSYCHO'S TOILET FLUSH SCENE Psycho was the first movie to make a toilet flush in one scene a key part of the story. It caused a lot of trouble because it went against the Hays Code, which was a strict set of rules that controlled what could be shown in movies from 1934 onwards. — Collider

4

The Shining

Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now The Shining The original, 146-minute version lasted for a week in theaters. Following Kubrick's lead, Warner Bros. asked projectionists to cut the last two minutes from the expository wrap-up. Later, for the European release, Kubrick cut another 25 minutes that weren't really working, which just sounds like cheating by now. CRACKED.COM — Warner Bros.
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3

Lampreys

19 Terrifying Real-World Monsters You Won't Believe Exist - Lampreys grow to 3.5 feet and feed by eating their way into the sides of fish till guts co — Source: NOAA

2

The Sound of Music

GRAGKED.COM When The Sound of Music was released in 1965, the critics tore it apart. ROBERT THE - WISE SOUND RODGERS -HAMMERSTEINS OF MUSiC cellus JULIE ANDREWS CREATOPRES PLUMMER RICHARD - Richard HAYDN - ELEANOR PARKER - - I Robert Whe Rodgers - Oscar Hammerstein II Production KALORE - - سلام Active - Ernest Lehman We have been turned into emotional and aesthetic imbeciles when we hear ourselves humming the sickly, goody-goody songs. was one of the harshest reviews. — Source: 24 Pop Culture Iconic Things (That Bombed Initially)

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The Island Nation of Niue

The nation of Niue puts pop culture icons on their money. Niue, an island nation in the Pacific, is so tiny that it doesn't have much of an economy. A sizable portion of its revenue comes from the pop culture coins they mint. While the coins are certainly legal tender, their true value comes from selling them as collector items. — Source

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