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40 Lukewarm Bits of Trivia for Your Brain to Soak in With A Glass of Wine While Its Loving Hubby Puts the Kids to Bed

March 04, 2025

Your brain’s been through a lot lately, and it’s time to pamper it a little. Amidst the hustle and bustle of the ol’ rat race, it’s hard for it to stop and think about self-care. It might not have the time and money for a full-blown spa day, but there are ways to unwind right there in its own skull.

Here, we’ll start by plugging the bottom of this list and letting these warm bits of trivia soak your brain till it’s even prunier than it already is.

40

Tim Pppppppppprice

A man changed his name to Tim Ppppppppppice to spite telemarketers. GRACKED COM It's pronounced Tim Per-per-per-per-per-per-per-pe r-per-per-ice, the 49-year-old from Leicester said.

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Steve Carell

Sport Celebrities Steve Carell played Division II hockey at Denison University, and even considered a career in the NHL. CRACKED.COM

38

The Mongols

Japan was invaded by the Mongol army twice. Both times it was saved by harsh storms that crippled the Mongols. They called these storms Kamikaze or Divine Winds. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Etym Online

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Ancient India

In ancient India, Diabetes was called honey urine as the urine would attract ants. 8 M Indian physicians Su- shruta and Charaka identified Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes as separate conditions for the first time in 400-500 CE. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

36

Vanilla Ice

Vanilla lce starred in an Insane Clown Posse infomercial. He played Vanilla Zerg, an alien who came to Earth and reported that there was war, there was poverty, fighting, suffering, and unfortunately there was lots of straight-up hate. CRACKED.COM — Source: AVClub

35

LFO

P C CL BE I jelt SUMMER GIRLS If you're a millennial, you probably remember LFO's radio earworm as the Abercrombie and Fitch song. Officially titled

34

The Nazi Rat Tank

CRACKED THE NAZIS' RAT TANK The Nazis wanted to build a super tank called The Rat that was five times heavier than even their insane Panzer VIII Maus. It would have weighed an incredible 1,000 metric tons. — War History Online / Quora

33

George Washington

George Washington PRESIDENT CRACKED.COM SALARY IN 1789 $25,000 ESTIMATED SPENDING POWER NOW $4.5 million

32

James Bond

The last film John F. Kennedy ever saw was an early print of From Russia, With Love. JFK was a huge James Bond fan, so he got an early look at the film at the White House on No- vember 21st, 1963. Не was killed the next day in Dallas. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Inside 'from Russia with Love'

31

Viruses

You're more likely to get a computer virus from visiting religious sites than porn sites. CRACKED.COM Security firm Symantec found that the average number of security threats on religious sites was around 115, compared to adult content sites which carried around 25. — Source

30

Osmosis Jones

The chicken wing festival in Buffalo started because of the movie Osmosis Jones. The National Chicken Wing Festival in Buffalo, New York that Bill Murray's character mentions wasn't a thing at the time, but this idea caused organizers to actually create the festival - which has been active for 16 years. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

29

The Universe

The death of the universe will be very, very dark and lonely. The last stars to explode will be so far apart, it'll be physically impossible for light to travel from one to the other, so none will see the others explode. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

28

Audrey Munson

Source: 10 Horizon-Broadening Facts

27

Little Shop of Horrors

Amazing effects made without CGI Little Shop of Horrors The carnivorous plant Audrey II is animatronic, which makes her fluid, smooth lip motions amazing. To achieve that, the animatronic was shot at 12 to 16 frames per second, then sped up to the regular 24. CRACKED.COM — Source

26

Piplantri, India

The Indian village Piplantri celebrates the birth of each girl by planting 111 trees. GRACKED.COM The parents must nurture the saplings until they're mature and also sign an affidavit saying they would not marry off their daughters before 18 years of age and that no one in their family will indulge in foeticide. — Source

25

Coffee

GRACKED COFFEE: THE LIVER'S BEST FRIEND? Drinking coffee can help lower your chances of getting liver disease. Turns out, a regular cup of joe isn't such a bad habit after all. — NCBI / Insider

24

The Nanny

The Nanny isn't Jewish in Italy. If you ever saw The Nanny (and you most likely did if you lived through the '90s), then you know that being Jewish was a huge part of Fran Drescher's character. Which makes it particularly odd that the Italian dub turns her into a Roman Catholic hailing from Italy, for some reason. — More: 5 Wildly Wacked-Out Foreign Takes On Pop Culture

23

Adele

America Ferrera made the world safe for ADELE UGLY BETTY CRACKED.COM We made Adele famous, joked Ferrera after the singer's appearance on Ugly Betty. Adele had already won the Grammy for Best New Artist by the time she made her cameo, so check yourself, America.

22

Tom Cruise

НЕ HAS A ROOM JUST FOR FENCING IN HIS MANSION CRACKED.COM According to Glamour, Cruise enjoys spearing other men in his home so much that he has an entire room of his mansion dedicated to the sport. Even Will Smith and David Beckham couldn't escape Cruise's sword, We don't get enough time for hanging out, just us three guys, so this is his way of getting together and bonding, says Smith. — Source: Glamour Magazine

21

The First TV Commercial

The first TV commercial cost $9 Academy Award oz 21 JEWELS 10 , 8 11121 7 VLEY 65 3 4 $5750 In 1941, Bulova watch company aired the first TV ad between baseball games. The commercial was 10-seconds long. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

Donnie Darko

CRACKED.COM Donnie Darko Mary McDonnell was so excited about playing Donnie's mom, she got a speeding ticket. McDonnell loved the project, and agreed to be in it pretty much for free. She got her first speeding ticket ever for being in a hurry to get to the set. — Source: The A.V. Club

19

Erin Esurance

Esurance had to drop their mascot because too much porn was made of her. CRACKED.COM The insurance compa- ny had to stop using their cartoon mascot Erin Esurance because when searching Esur- ance online, porn would come up first. — CBS / YouTube

18

Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore had a society dedicated to how totally boring he was. Не was one of the most forgettable US presidents, and in 1963, a society formed to celebrate his being so very boring. CRACKED.COM — Source

17

The Cartels

The repeal of the prohibition of alcohol in 1933 led to the CRACKED.COM emergence of the modern drug cartels. Crime syndicates needed a replacement for their source of income, and drug trafficking was the best alternative available. — Source

16

Joan Crawford and Steven Spielberg

Scream Queens Joan Crawford worked with a young Steven Spielberg. After the success of 1962's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Crawford found herself typecast in mediocre horror films. She also did an episode of the Night Gallery TV series, directed by an up-and-coming Steven Spielberg. CRACKED.COM — Source: WhatCulture

15

UFOs

Shirley Maclaine claims she saw a UFO back in 1952, in Arlington, VA. It sounds pretty epic, too. These are her words: I was there in Arlington, Virginia in 1952 when a whole UFO squadron buzzed the White House and the Capitol. CRACKED.COM — Source

14

Mount Everest

CRACKED.COM MOUNT EVEREST IS COVERED IN POOP. Basic fact: Humans poop. And thousands of humans attempting to climb Mount Everest over several decades means a lot of poop has been dropped on its slopes. It's so bad that some climbers refuse to boil snow for water, and the mountain has been called a fecal time bomb. — Source

13

Costa Rica

A Costa Rica town made bees bats, hummingbirds, and butterflies its citizens. Even trees and native plants got citizenship in Curridabat-all intended to make the city greener and turn it into a haven for urban wildlife. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

12

Ratatouille

Remy's recipe in Ratatouille is real. It was created by a chef and takes 31/2 hours to prepare. NOW YOU KNOW — Source: Berkshire Eagle

11

Bon Jovi

JON BON JOVI JOINED A KINDERGARTEN ZOOM CLASS. The teacher reached out and asked him to do it, and Bon Jovi said yes. So he sang the words kids wrote

10

Unicorns

Hunters in Michigan can get unicorn permits. GRAGKED.COM Lake Superior State University has issued permits to unicorn hunters since 1971. Hunters may not pursue the beasts when the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus is around. — Source: LSSU

9

Excel

Microsoft Excel can reach down to 1,048,576 rows. Kryiga1 - Microsoft Excel Datoteka Polazno Umetanje tagled stranice Formula Podaci Pregled Prikaz Dodac Optenito Uvjetno oblikovanje Umetni E Calibri 11 A A AZ % 000 Oblikuj kao tablicu Izbriti Zalijepi в I U Sortira 5 Stillovi celija Oblikuj 2. fitriral Meduspremnik Font Stilovi Celije Poravnanje Bro Uredi & A1 A в с D E F G H I J K L M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 GRACKED.COM YouTuber Hunter Hobbs spent nine and a half hours straight holding the down arrow down to scroll all the — Source

8

Villisca Axe Murder House

CRACKED VILLISCA AXE MURDER HOUSE This house, in Villisca, lowa, was the site of a gruesome, unsolved murder case from the early 1900s. People can take a tour of the house and even spend the night for $400. The graves of the victims are located at the nearby Villisca Cemetery. THE Villycca Ax Murder House JUNE 192 — Source

7

Steve King

STEVE KING Congressman King said in a speech to the House of Representatives that transgender troops were similar to slaves who had been castrated. That guy's made plenty of bizarre quotes, but WRONG this one is up there. WRONG WRONG CRACKED — U.S. Congress/Wiki Commons,
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Des Moines Register

6

Desegregation

In Arkansas, they closed public high schools for a year over desegregation. LLLIEU LEE EEEEED 108883 The governor closed them in 1958 so integration couldn't continue but teachers (and administrators) still had to show up for work in empty classrooms. CRACKED.COM — Source: zinnedproject.org

5

Strange Collections

Amanda Seyfried collects taxidermied animals Among may other carcasses, she owns a miniature zebra a gift from Seth MacFarlane and a stuffed raccoon -. 'who doesn't? She says she's drawn to the hobby because animals are very easy to look after when they're dead.

4

Space Force Base

Myths with real-life consequences Aliens (the patriotic kind) One man was arrested at Patrick Space Force Base for trying to get in, saying the president told him to warn the government about U.S. aliens fighting Chinese dragons. Не was charged with stealing a Ford F-150. CRACKED — Source

3

Cats

CRACKED.COM Belgium attempted to use cats to deliver mail. In 1879, in the city of Liège, the Belgian Society for the Elevation of the Domestic Cat had the idea of using cats in the same way as carrier pigeons, giving them small waterproof postbags. The results were disappointing, and the experiment was cancelled. — Source

2

Dadar Gulung

The dadar gulung is not your average American flapjack. These delicious snacks found in Indonesia are folded pancakes made from rice flourand filled w

1

The Warlock

67274 CHARLIE 67294 SHEEN BRAGGED ABOUT DRUG USE ON 20/20. After drinking tiger blood while waving a machete, he sat down with Andrea Canning on ABC's 20/20. Clearly on drugs, he bragged about smoking seven-gram rocks and said, I'm tired of pretending I'm not a bitchin' rock star from Mars. CRACKED — s_bukley/Shutterstock
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