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40 Rare and Valuable Bits of Trivia That You Better Not Take Out of Their Protective Sleeves

February 28, 2025

We hope that your brain isn’t hoping to actually play with these. It might be hard for it to understand, but these facts cannot be clanked around like action figures. They shouldn’t even be removed from their original packaging. If you’re looking to give them to your brain right now, maybe you should also get it some less valuable facts to play with.

It’ll understand their true value one day.

40

Nails

PAINTING NAILS The custom first started with warriors going off to battle in Babylonia in 3200 B.C., with the color signifying their class. CRACKEDCOr — Source: Byrdie

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Reservoir Dogs

Wes Craven walked out of a screening of Reservoir Dogs because of its graphic violence. CRACKED.COM Several people walked out of every screening of Res- ervoir Dogs at the Sun- dance film festival due to the gore, including the horror movie director best known for A Nightmare On Elm Street. — Entertainment Weekly

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New Orleans

THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS BURY THEIR DEAD ABOVE GROUND, IN PLACES THEY CALL CITIES OF THE DEAD. THE REASON: WATER LEVELS ARE so HIGH IN THE CITY, COFFINS HAD A TENDENCY TO FLOAT. GRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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Val Kilmer and Tommy Lee Jones vs. Joel Schumacher

Hollywood feuds VAL KILMER & TOMMY LEE JONES VS JOEL SCHUMACHER Schumacher said, I'm tired of defending overpaid, overprivileged actors. I pray I don't work with them again. Не called Jones an asshole and Kilmer psychotic, and said, The two weeks where Kilmer didn't speak to me was bliss. CRACKED — Warner Bros.,
Everett Collection/Shutterstock
The Independent

36

Beverly Hills Cop

CRACKED.COM sylvester slallone blew his own chances to play Axel Foley. BEVE HI Stallone was the first choice to star in Beverly Hills Cop. He accepte

35

Ben-Hur

Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The first large scale prep 1959 for a large scale stunt Yakima Canutt had over one year to train 78 horses, build chariots, and train actors for Ben- Hur. The now iconic scene had only one injury (Canutt's son, Joe, who doubled for Charlton Heston). The 1925 Ben-Hur film killed one stuntman and five horses, so... Progress! CRACKED — MGM
British Action Academy

34

World War II

Russians used a biplane during WWII that was purposefully slow. 28 The Polikarpov Po - 2, used on the Eastern Front, was so slow that its maximum speed was the stall speed of Ger- man planes, making it hard to target. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

33

Quaker Oats

Quaker Oats was sued by a woman who thought Cap'N'Crunch had real berries. CRACKED.COM Jeanine Sugawara felt tricked that the Crunch Berries cereal didn't have a single real berry, so she sued Quaker Oats on the grounds of false advertis- ing. The case was quickly dismissed. — Source

32

Warhorses

WEIRD WORLD We've learned that medieval warhorses were way less awesome than we thought. Apparently, scientists say that, it turns out, warhorses at the time were no bigger than ponies today. CRACKED.COM — Source

31

Dodgeball

Behind-the-scenes Drama NO - - - - Gyu Rates в Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story The team was supposed to lose. Keeping with its irreverent tone, the film originally ended with the team losing. When the studio changed that, the credits included Ben Stiller's White Goodman mocking the fact that they won. CRACKED.COM — Source

30

Paula Abdul

67294 67294 PAULA ABDUL WAS HAMMERED ON FOX NEWS. During the live broadcast, she giggled uncontrollably, slurred her words, and failed to answer the simplest questions. Her publicist blamed the strange behavior on technical difficulties. CRACKED — Everett Collection/Shutterstock,
Fox News
TheFW

29

Bitcoin

Scientists think Bitcoin alone could push global temperatures above 2°C. That could happen by 2033, according to a study that looked at the power efficiency of BTC mining machines, their locations, and the CO2 emissions of those locations. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

28

Japanese Law

Japan passed its first anti-stalking law in 2000 after a student was murdered. CRACKED.COM 21-year-old Shiori Ino went to the police about a stalk- er but had been turned away multiple times and falsely portrayed her as a promiscuous flirt in the media before finally being murdered. — Japan Times

27

A Fake Tuna Spy

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26

Oprah

Oprah is kind of afraid of balloons - it's the sound of popping that she hates. It reminds me of gunfire, she says. And just being around balloons is enough to really freak her out, she adds. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebs We Didn't Know Have Very Surprising Phobias

25

Art Theft

A painting stolen by Nazis was finally returned to its owners, after 80 years. Or rather, to the original owners' descendants - it was given back by Brussels' Royal Museums of Fine Arts, where it was kept since 1951. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Celebrity Feuds

Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell UNIDED NOW In 2006, O'Donnell ripped into him over the Miss USA pageant controversy, and they've traded insults since. Не mocked her weight-loss surgery and departure from The View, and she has actively protested his presidency. CRACKED — Source

23

YouTubers

ATTEMPTS AT ONLINE FAME CEMENTING YOUR HEAD INSIDE A MICROWAVE In 2017, five firefighters spent an hour trying to help a YouTuber who had gotten himself stuck in a microwave. Не had put a plastic bag over his head, his head into the microwave, and then filled the microwave with bags of cement. 12:00 Auto Cook People Family Vegetable . Fooden Veganobie CRACKED — goir/Shutterstock
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22

Water

Drinking too much water can be fatal. GRACKED.COM Water intoxication is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain functions that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside safe limits by excessive water intake. — National Library of Medicine

21

Kleenex

Kleenex tissues were originally intended for gas masks. x CRACKED.COM When there was a cotton shortage during World War I, Kimberly-Clark developed a thin, flat cotton substitute that the army tried to use as a filter in gas masks. The company redeveloped it to be smoother and softer, then marketed Kleenex as facial tissue instead. — CNN

20

Saving Private Ryan

Steven Spielberg promised Tom Sizemore a role in Saving Private Ryan as long as he never failed a drug test while shooting. If he failed once, even on the last day, Spiel- berg promised to kick him out of the movie and reshoot all of his scenes with a new ac- tor. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

19

Jared Leto

Jared Leto came up with the reacharound line in Zack Snyder's Justice League. Near the end, Joker says no-one would give Batman a reacharound if he didn't join Batman's team. Leto thought the line would never make it in. CRACKED.COM — Source: CinemaBlend

18

Walt Disney

CRACKED WALT DISNEY WORLD RESORT IS AROUND THE SAME SIZE AS SAN FRANCISCO. At 43 square miles, that makes it twice the size of manhattan. — Source

17

Slow Lorises

Slow Lorises CRACKED.co These Beanie-Babies-made-real are actually the only venomous primate. By rubbing their poison armpit secretions onto their teeth, they deliver a bite that rots flesh, if it doesn't send you into anaphylactic shock first. — 5 Super-Adorable Animals That Can Kill The Hell Out Of You

16

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone was created because of racist backlash in the '50s. The TWILIGHT ZONE Rod Serling's script about the murder of Emmett Till, a Black boy, was rejected by studio bigwigs who feared blowback .. so Serling started writing sci-fi. CRACKED.COM — Source

15

Sorcerer

A myriad of diseases on the set of SORCERER William Friedkin's 1977 thriller was shot in Ecuador and the Dominican Republic for 10 hellish months. Не lost 50 pounds and contracted malaria, and at least 50 cast and crew were evacuated from the set with malaria, food poisoning, gangrene, or other injuries. CRACKED — Source

14

NASA

NASA halted an auction of moon dust and dead cockroaches. CRACKED COM The moon dust was col- lected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission and had been fed to cockroaches to determine if it contained any pathogens that posed a threat to terrestrial life. — US News

13

Demolition Man

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12

The Killing Caves

An eerie tourist ECEC attraction in Cambodia are The Killing Caves of Phnom Sampeau, the open graves of Cambodians slaughtered in the Khmer Rouge genocide. At a different entrance to the caves, a swarm of bats flies out each day for their evening hunt. CRACKED.COM — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

11

Stamps

Stamp Placement EFT-HAND TOP CORNER. R TOP ANNED 3NO 150d 1A07 Pt. POST ONE PENNY LOVE ONE CANNOT 00 YOU I I YOURS. SEND YOU LOVE YOU AM ALWAYS THENKING LOVE ME. TRULY. OF YOU. A KISS. T- -HAND SIDE OF SURNAME CRACKED.com 19th century sweethearts would send private messages to each other using their letters' stamp placements as code when their parents would censor their mail. — Source: Mental Floss

10

Caillou

Childhood icons who had a rough time Caillou Jaclyn Linetsky, the voice of Caillou for two years until 2002, sadly passed away in a car accident on Montreal's south shore when she was only 17. CRACKED — Cookie Jar Entertainment,
Clockwork Zoo,
Wiki Commons
CBC

9

Mummies

Mummies were shipped to America in the 1800s to use their wrappings as paper. CRACKED.COM Several shiploads of Egyp- tian mummies were import- ed so that the linen rags could be used to make ра- per to accommodate news- paper printing - which was as much as England and France combined. — Source

8

The Smithsonian

CRACKED.COM James Smithson is entombed in the Smithsonian. Secres la the shampry James Sellow who died at Sense of Society the N yeon In a crypt just inside the north entrance of the Smithsonian Castle lies the relocated remains of the institute's founding father, James Smithson. Не was a chemist who enjoyed studying things like human tears and snake venom. — Source

7

Time

TIME SLOWS DOWN WHEN YOU'RE ON THE MOVE According to special relativity, time passes more slowly for something that's moving compared to something that's standing still. If it's moving really fast, like the speed of light, time almost stops. CRACKED — Source

6

Thumbs Up!

GIVING A THUMBS UP It's believed the positive gesture derives from English archers in the Middle Ages. The thumbs up was the correct brace height of — Source: BBC

5

Maurice Tillet

THeRe WAS A REAL SHREK. Maurice Tillet was a French wrestler known as the freak ogre of the ring in the '40s. Tillet suffered from acromegaly, a thickening of the bones. CRACKED.COM — 15 Mind-Blowing Old-Timey Photos You Won't Believe Are Real

4

Eminem

CRACKED EMINEM Eminem almost died after taking too many pills that he got from someone he knew. My doctor told me the amount of methadone I'd taken was equivalent to shooting up four bags of heroin. Even when they told me I almost died, it didn't click, he said. WANGOL — MTV / People

3

Death of a President(s)

3 of the first 5 Presidents died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died a few hours apart in 1826, and Monroe died in 1831. — Read More: 6 Insane Coincidences You Won't Believe Actually Happened

2

Papua New Guinea

The flag of Papua New Guinea was designed by a 15-year-old school girl. CRACKED.COM Susan Karike won a nationwide competition to design the national flag in 1971, being chosen over the tricolor design proposed by the Australian administration. — PNGAA / Wikipedia

1

Iron Maiden

Bruce Dickinson is my copilot IRON MAIDEN CRACKED.COM Dickinson has flown the band's jet while on tour on multiple occasions. Не even became a pilot (and marketing director!?) of an airline that, bewilderingly, no longer exists. — BBC

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