40 Random Bits of Trivia That Made an Entire Career Out of Breaking During Will Ferrell Sketches in the ‘90s

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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Made an Entire Career Out of Breaking During Will Ferrell Sketches in the ‘90s

We’re not quite sure how we feel about breaking during SNL sketches. We can see how organic a cast member’s laughter can be when something unexpected happens, but sometimes it’s hard to tell if breaking is a sneaky ploy to get laughs in an otherwise bland sketch. It’s exactly how we felt about these facts. 

Some were written in a pretty humorous tone that the fact itself might find funny enough to chuckle at, but you let us know how you feel about them. Did they warrant a laugh, or were they just trying to spice up a more serious, straightforward fact?

Baseball

In 1957, Richie Ashburn hit a foul ball into the stands, striking a woman in the face. ilu Then he hit another foul ball and struck the same woman aga

Von Ostade’s Squatting Shitter

CRACKED When restoring Isaac van Ostade's 17th-century A Village Fair With A Church Behind in 2015, art historians discovered that a bush was a later addition, painted in by some poop-hating killjoy to cover a guy cheerfully taking a dump.

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The First Space Walk

The first man who freely walked in space got over 300 feet from his space shuttle. NAS Astronaut Bruce McCandless' untethered spacewalk (with just a jetpack) happened in 1984, and he says he wasn't nervous about doing at all. CRACKED.COM

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Interracial Marriage

CRACKED.COM THE UNITED STATES BANNED INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE FOR LONGER THAN SOUTH AFRICA. Famously racist South Africa banned people of different races from getting married between 1949 and 1985, or 36 years. The U.S. banned it from 1776 to 1967-a grand total of 191 years.

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The Shining

Pop culture inspirations The Shining Stanley Kubrick was inspired by A DIANE ARBUS PHOTOGRAPH to cast the Grady sisters as twins. The original book by Stephen King does not feature twins. CRACKED

Holographic Wife

A man who married a hologram is no longer able to communicate with her thanks to abandoned tech. GRACKED.COM Labeled as a fictosexual, the Japanese man married a hologram of fictional idol Hatsune Miku, but now the $1,300 device that projected her into a cylinder no longer exists.

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TV Firsts

The First Cartoon CRUSADER RABBIT 1950's Crusader Rabbit was the first animation designed for television. One producer would later create The Rocky an

Gone With the Wind

LUCILLE BALL TRIED OUT FOR SCARLETT IN GONE WITH THE WIND. CRACKED.COM Before her groundbreaking years in I Love Lucy, a relatively unknown Ball auditioned for Scarlett O'Hara. The role went instead to Vivien Leigh, and it netted her an Oscar. Ball later conceded that she was probably not cut out for the part. It's a shame, because a dose of Vitameatavegamin just might have cured some of Scarlett's ills.

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Wegmans

Self-checkout at Wegmans resulted in so much shoplifting that they're removing it. Wegmans CRACKED.COM The Wegmans SCAN app allowed customers to scan, bag and pay for their items themselves as they shopped - which, no duh, led to wanton theft.

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Mila Kunis and Macaulay Culkin

Mila Kunis & Macaulay Culkin R Before Kunis went on to marry former That 70s Show costar Ashton Kutcher, she had an eight-year, extremely private relationship with Home Alone child star Macaulay Culkin. She takes the blame for the terrible break-up, but Culkin and Brenda Song have a child together so it seems like everything worked out alright. CRACKED.COM

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Chris Pratt

CHRIS PRATT - CRACKED COM Most of us first met a looser version of Star-Lord on Parks and Rec, but teens in the mid 2000s knew him as Bright Abbott on the teen drama Everwood, and as Che on The О.С.

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Alexander the Great

In 15 years of conquest, Alexander the Great never lost a battle. CRACKED.COM From his first victory at age 18, he gained a reputation of leading his men to battle with impressive speed, allowing smaller forces to reach and break the enemy lines before his foes were ready.

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