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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Taught a Gorilla to Say in Sign Language

March 04, 2025

These facts are so good that everything on the planet should understand them. That’s not going to be an easy feat, but we’re sure as hell going to try. Teaching another human being a new language seems pretty tough as it is, so we’ll probably enlist the help of Amy Adams’ character in Arrival. If she can crack an alien language, then of course she can crack a few million Earthly languages too, right?

While we get that fictional character on board, check out the gems that you’re lucky enough to understand!

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Volcanoes

CRACKED IN GUATEMALA, THERE IS A VOLCANO THAT ERUPTS EVERY HOUR. It started doing this 100 years ago and has yet to stop. — Source

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Vulgarity

CRACKED VULGARITY HISTORY The first TV show with a warning label In 1975, because of controversial characters like prostitutes, illegal immigrants, and one of the first gay couples on TV, the Norman Lear show Hot I Baltimore was the first TV show to be slapped with a warning label before each episode. — Source

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Atolla Jellyfish

The Atolla Jellyfish CRACKED.COM The atolla jellyfish lights up like a cop car when it's under attack. Scientists call this type of bioluminescence a burglar alarm display. — Source: 19 Terrifying Real-World Monsters Straight Out Of A Horror Movie

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Eyes

People with an extra cone cell in their eyes can see more colors. Tetrachromats, who are mostly women, have a 4th type of cone cell in addition to the regular RGB cells. This cell enables them to distinguish up to 100 million colors. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Phones

The first push-button phone JKL MNO PRO AT&T took its first wobbly step away from the rotary dial in 1963. Can you imagine a world in which the pound

35

Street Fighter

In the first Street Fighter game, Ryu IA had red hair and wore red shoes. The sequel changed his hair to brown and removed his shoes forever.

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SpongeBob SquarePants

Apparently, SpongeBob Squarepants is messing with kids' brains. That's according to a 2011 University of Virginia study, which found that the show impairs kids' readiness for learning (the issue is that the frequent camera cuts disrupts their attention span). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Monks

Tibetan monks can raise their body temperature with their minds. CRACKED.COM A 1982 Harvard study con- firmed practitioners of g-tummo yoga demon- strated the ability to raise the temperature of differ- ent parts of their bodies through meditation alone. — Source

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Ellen

Ellen's long, drawn out cancellation. CRACKED.COM After 19 years and over 3000 episodes, allegations of racism, sexual harassment and bullying brought the show to an end. Employees and former guests began speaking out in July 2020, but her show finally came to an end in May 2022. — Source

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The Lord of the Rings

Viggo Mortensen loved the LOTR horses so much, he bought three of them. LORD OF THE RINGS Не said, It's like talking to a real actor. You always get a couple of actors who think too much of themselves. But these were all kind, gentle, loving people and I had the best time. CRACKED.COM — Horsey Hooves

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World War II

300 men died at their stations when the battleship Yamato was intentionally flooded by their captain. CRACKED.COM The Japanese ship was list- ing severely in the water during a suicide mission, being bombarded by Al- lied bombers, and the cap- tain made the difficult de- cision to flood the engine room to try and correct it. — National Interest

29

Mario Punches Yoshi

Mario really is punching Yoshi to get him to stick his tongue out. M Despite Nintendo trying to erase history, one of Super Mario World's devs revealed that Mario was originally meant to be punching poor Yoshi in the head in order to get him to shoot his tongue out. CRACKED.COM — Mario And Yoshi Have A Dark Backstory Behind Their Relationship

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Madame Tussaud

Madame Tussaud made death masks of the heads of her guillotined friends The wax figure modeler and royalist was assigned the morbid task. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Facts About Historical People (History Left Out)

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Gazelles

It looks like we're successfully saving the Saharan gazelle from extinction. A bunch of the gazelles was placed in a breeding program in Spain, which eventually produced thousands of new gazelles. CRACKED.COM — Source

26

The Shining

KUBRICK TURNED DOWN CASTING JESSICA LANGE. Lange was suggested for the role of Wendy Torrance, but she didn't fit Kubrick's idea of Wendy as a fragile, codependent woman. (Stephen King hated that Kubrick turned the character into that.) — Sources: Screen Rant, The Vintage News

25

Solo

Christian Bale was almost in Solo: A Star Wars Story. Bale was in talks to play Han's mentor Tobias Beckett, an offer he called very tempting. The role wasn't the actor's only close call with Star Wars casting. Не was also Lucas (rumored) first choice to play Anakin in Attack of the Clones. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Behind-The-Scenes Star Wars Facts

24

Divorce Cases

WEIRD WORLD One judge defended his act of burying $100,000 in cash to hide it from creditors. It may seem strange, but I'm from Alabama, is how Nashville Judge Kelvin Jones defended himself in his divorce case. CRACKED.COM — Source

23

Bagels

2000 people a yeare are treated POP BRIso OP CRAON People going to the emergency room from hurting themselves while cutting a bagel is so common it has its own name. — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

22

Star Trek

Leonard Nimoy came up with the Vulcan neck pinch because he was tired of fight scenes. CRACKED.COM In the first episode this pinch showed up, Spock was originally supposed to club evil Kirk over the head, knocking him out. Nimoy thought this was in- consistent with Spock's personality. — Source

21

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston refuses to use dating apps, she says. I'm going to just stick to the normal ways of dating. Having someone ask you out. That's the way I would prefer it, is how she explained it. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

The Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Leaning Tower of Pisa contains an empty tube. The Tower of Pisa is actually a bell tower for the nearby cathedral, and there's literally nothing inside it. Aside from the ginormous bell, of course. CRACKED.COM — Source

19

The French Connection

CRACKED A CAR CRASH. Filming without permits, the epic car chase has stunt driver Bill Hickman dodging and weaving (at high speeds) in actual NYC traffic. Не accidentally smashed into the car of a man on his morning commute. THE FRENCH CONNECTION — Youtube

18

Kong: Skull Island

Athena in Kong: Skull Island has an homage to Alien. ٨ I I С V ATHENA Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts deliberately made the lettering on the ship reminiscent of Alien, to make the ship his dumb, unnecessary nod to that movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies With Cool Hidden Shout-Outs To Other Movies

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Pixar

The collegiate cameo: 2013 2015 CRACKED.COM The star of The Good Dinosaur briefly appears as a distinctly Pixar-ian toy, inside a Monsters University scare emulator. — Source: 14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched

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Lewis and Clark

CRACKED.co WE KNOW EXACTLY WHERE LEWIS AND CLARK CRAPPED. The Lewis and Clark expedition carried mercury pills that were used to treat pretty much everything (including, ahem, syphilis). The location of the latrines in their Lolo, Montana campsite is known because of the mercury in the soil. — Source: 25 Facts That Get In Accepted History's Face

15

Pi

CRACKED.COM Mathematicians have found 12.1 trillion digits of pi as of present. When written in a straight line on a to the Sun and back. piece of paper, that paper PINOM stretch E8864979 3 — Source

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Atoms

REMOVE ALL THE EMPTY SPACE FROM ALL THE ATOMS IN ALL OF THE PEOPLE ON PLANET EARTH... ...AND ALL OF US COMBINED WOULD EQUAL THE VOLUME OF A SUGAR CUBE. CRACKED.COM — 22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)

13

iPads

A 1-year-old Michigan boy used an ipad to stop vandals. When Ryan McKillop spotted vandals in action, he downloaded a siren app to his iPad and blaste — Source: Alpena News

12

El Mariachi

When making El Mariachi, Robert Rodriguez was too cheap to buy a can of black paint. His budget was so tight, he didn't paint the guitar case that had the weapons black (the color it was supposed to be). For shots of its exterior, he just used the Mariachi's case, which was black. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lego

Lego is the world's largest tire manufacturer. The company produces over 318 million tires every year- or about 870,000 tires a day. CRACKED.COM — Source

10

Dick Costolo

CRACKED TWITTER'S FORMER CEO MAKES HONEY. Dick Costolo is fascinated by bees, so after running Twitter, he now tweets about his beekeeping and honey making hobby. — Bloomberg / NY Times

9

The Departed

JACK NICHOLSON'S DILDO-WAVING DEPARTED VILLAIN IS BASED on A REAL MOBSTER. Nicholson played Frank Costello, a character directly based on James White — Source: 5 Badass Movie Characters You Didn't Know Were Real People

8

Pyramid Schemes

GRAGKED.COM If you're planning to invest in multi-level marketing schemes, don't bother. More than 99 percent of those who participate lose money and only a few actually gain profit. — Source

7

Key & Peele

Key & Peele never got to film their surreal 'Sebastianasia' sketch. CRACKED.COM The sketch involved Keegan sitting in a hospital with his dying wife when a man wearing a cheap lobster suit (Jordan) appears and urges him to kiss the girl, a la 'The Little Mermaid.' When he does, she immediately flatlines. — 5 Rejected Comedy Sketch Ideas We Wish Would Have Happened

6

Chloroform

CRACKED.COM MYTH: Chloroform can knock you out in seconds. REALITY: Nope, try five minutes. While chloroform has been used in murder cases, it doesn't have an immediate effect on a damp cloth over one's face. It will take around five minutes to kick in, and there will be a lot of kicking from the victim. In real murder cases, victims were usually tricked into taking the anaesthetic, or giving drugs prior to getting chloroformed. — Source

5

Church

Sitting in church is a modern innovation. For most of Christianity's history, churches had no seats-people would just stand and mill about during ceremonies. Sitting only became a thing during the Protestant Reformation, with its greater focus on long sermons. CRACKED.COM — Source

4

Portia de Rossi

Portia de Rossi CRACKED COMI She explained on Ellen in 2018 that she tried to duck out of Arrested Development season 5, and successfully quit Scandal, to focus on her 3D-printed art publishing company. Ellen then raked her over the coals, calling her smart as can be and easy on the — Source: Yahoo

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Movie Inspirations

A Scanner Darkly was basically inspired by Philip K Dick's strange life. For a year or so, he had pretty much the same life as the lead, Bob Arctor, including the hallucinations, weird paranoias, and wandering conversations. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Robert Duvall

I LOVE THE SMELL OF NAPALM IN THE MORNING ROBERT DUVALL CRACKED COM One of the most quoted lines in movie history, it's referenced in countless other movies and TV shows. Duvall's speech in 1979's Apocalypse Now influenced the action movies to come by Needing that one badass line, and he said in an interview that a day rarely goes by when someone doesn't yell, I love the smell of napalm in the morning. — Source: groovyhistory

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The Pandemic

15 Feel Good Stories Of 2020 To End This Wretched Year - Two students started a non-profit delivery service for the elderly during the pandemic. The — Sources: AP News, Invisible Hands

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