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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Have Been Living Under a Rock

March 08, 2025

Sorry if you’re a little busy right now, but could you do us a quick solid and fill these facts in on everything that’s been going on the past few years?

They’ve been out of the loop, and since they’re about to fill you in on all kinds of sweet random trivia, we thought you guys could have a little knowledge share.

You don’t have to sugarcoat all the insanity either. They can handle it.

40

Figs

When you bite into a fig, you run the risk of eating a dead wasp. Wasps lay eggs in inedible male figs, but they sometimes get stuck and die in the female figs you see in the grocery store. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — How Stuff Works

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The Hunt Bros.

CRACKED OVER $5 BILLION IN 2 MONTHS In 1980, Nelson Bunker Hunt and his brothers Herbert and Lamar tried to control the global silver market. This gamble failed, and it caused the value of their investments to crash from $7 billion in January to $1.7 billion in March. — Source

38

Ethiopia

THE ETHIOPIAN CALENDAR IS SEVEN YEARS BEHIND THE REST OF THE WORLD. It was developed by Orthodox and Coptic churches, based on their own calculations for the date of Jesus's birth. It has 12 months of 30 days and one of five days (six on leap years.) In this system, the year begins on September 11 or 12 of the Gregorian calendar. CRACKED.COM — Source

37

Local Streets

The residents of Rue Crémieux in Paris have urged the local council to close their street on evenings and weekends due to all the visitors looking for perfect Instagram shots that ended up disrupting their daily lives. CRACKED COM A local even set up Instagram and Twitter accounts to document visitors doing cringey poses and dance videos. — Source: 19 Things The Internet Ruined

36

Sewage

It turns out that sewage water is actually an important tool for law enforcement. Studying sewage water shows researchers trends in the consumption of illicit drugs, which might be helpful for law enforcement - according to one European official, it's an important new drug monitoring tool. CRACKED.COM — Source

35

Peter Fleming

Peter Fleming, brother of lan, was a travel writer who also wrote popular history. Не wrote travelogues about journeys in Brazil, Central Asia, India, and Russia. Later, he wrote about historical events in those regions. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities With Little-Known Relatives (Who Are Amazing In Their Own Right)

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Sideways

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Urine

19 THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH PEE GRACKED. COM PROTECT SOLDIERS During WWI, Allied troops were supplied with face- masks of cotton pads that had been soaked in urine. Piss Protection Your deadly gasses are no match for my pee pad! It was hoped that ammonia in the pad would neutralize deadly chlorine gas attacks. — Source

32

World War II Reindeer

A WWII submarine had a reindeer onboard for six weeks. The British sub HMS Trident carried Pollyanna the reindeer, a personal gift from a Soviet admiral, back to England. She ate so much food (plus some navigation charts) that she got too big to walk out, and had to be lifted out with a winch (a sailor with a broom helped). CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Historical Facts That Don't Get Mentioned

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Peter the Great

13 Scintillating Now-You-Know Movie Facts and General Trivia - Peter the Great punished state officials with vodka. — Source: Russia Beyond

30

Die Hard

A Roundup Of Surprising, Little-Known Die Hard Facts - They somehow had to keep the set quiet until 5 PM. The building where Die — Source: Entertainment Weekly

29

Saddam Hussein

CRACKED.COM Saddam Hussein was once a recipient of the Key to Detroit. This was after making a $250,000 donation towards the Chaldean Sacred Heart Church. — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

28

Patrick Dempsey

Besides acting, Patrick Dempsey also has a career as a race-car driver. P. Dempsey TINI 911 Mot MARTINI M MARTIND MICHELIN CRACKED COM backer — Source

27

Yahoo!

CRACKED Tumblr - Home t of Fandom Mones tumblr. Search OPEN 17 0.4 №75 ..... What's New Verson History 10.0 Made Thanks for choising Tumblr a pixce & connect North others over shared interests Preview YAHOO! In 2013, Yahoo acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion, but the platform struggled to become profitable and was eventually sold to Automattic for $3 million in 2019.

26

FDR

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was terrified he'd die in a fire. Не regularly carried out one-man fire drills in the White House, even when confined to a wheelchair. CRACKED — Source / History

25

Dirty Politics

@ GORDON BROWN EMAILS Dirty political schemes Damian McBride, who was close to former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, suggested making a website to spread nasty rumors about their political opponents, even if they weren't true, like saying certain opposition MPs were having affairs. CRACKED — 360b/Shutterstock
The Guardian

24

Pakistanis

People in Pakistan were told to help the economy by drinking less tea. GRACKED.COM The planning minister asked chai drinkers to cut down on their consumption because import costs were draining the country's foreign curren- су reserves. The plan of ac- tion was met with ridicule by many in Pakistan. — Sky

23

Daniel David Palmer

CRACKED.COM Chiropractic was dreamed up by a 19th-century quack. Daniel David Palmer disbelieved germs and strongly opposed vaccinations. His idea of treating disease by manipulating bones was revealed to him, he said, by the spirit of a dead doctor. Oh, and he totally expected chiropractic to become a new religion. — Source

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22

Chimps

In 1999, Raven the chimpanzee chose random stocks using darts. She became the 22nd most successful money manager on Wall Street. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

21

Rome

40 Random Bits of Trivia That Have Been Living Under a Rock — AtlasObscura

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Friedrich Schiller

15 Bizarre Habits Of Incredibly Successful People - This German poet, who wrote “William Tell,” kept rotten apples in his desk and couldn’t work witho — Source: The Guardian

19

Knives Out

Harlan Thrombey's name in Knives Out was based on a Choose Your Own Adventure book. It came from Who Killed Harlow Thrombey, one of Rian Johnson's favorite childhood books. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

18

Octopus

6 people die every year eating live octopus by choking on the suction cups.. Sannakji is a Korean dish that features a young live octopus cut into small pieces and served immedi- ately. It must be eaten very carefully as the octopus' legs are still moving when consumed. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

17

Fanta

Fanta® Fanta® KLASSIK KLASSIK Fanta, the world's favorite orange soda, was developed in Nazi Germany by the Соса-Соӏа Company as a way of getting around trade embargos that prohibited exporting coke syrup from the US to Germany after Pearl Harbor. It turned out DELICIOUS. CRACKED — Source

16

Beer

IN RUSSIA, BEER WASN'T CLASSIFIED AS AN ALCOHOLIC DRINK UNTIL 2011. Before that year, it was the only country where beer was sold and distributed just like soda and other soft drinks. A 1 БАЛТИК That means it could be bought and consumed by anyone, even in street kiosks and public transit stops. GRACKED.COM — Source

15

NBA Jam

The NBA Jam arcade game outgrossed 'Jurassic Park' in 1993. CRACKED COM SHOT NBA Jam was America's highest-grossing arcade game of 1993. Individual ma- chines at the time were earn- ing up to $2400 per week, and the game grossed over $1 billion the first year. — Source

14

John Denver

When John Denver wrote Country Roads, he'd never even been to WV. Neither had either of his co-writers on the song. CRACKED.COM — Source

13

Water in Space

There's a floating reservoir of water in space that holds 140 trillion times all the water on Earth. CRACKED.COM NASA scientist Matt Brad- ford says that water is pervasive throughout the universe, and the reser- voir surrounding a black hole 12 billion light years away surely proves that. — NASA

12

Rwanda

Drones are being used to deliver pig semen in Rwanda. CRACKED.COM The pig slop is collected from pure European pig breeds, like the Large White, Landrace, Pietrain, and Duroc. Pig raisers be- lieve that using these breeds will improve the genetic line of local swine. — Manila Bulletin

11

The Netherlands

College students can stay for free in a long-term care facility if they volunteer 30 hours a month. CRACKED.COM When students come home from a class, concert, or party, they share those experienc- es with their elderly neighbors, some of whom are over 90. — Citylab

10

Jim Caviezel

JIM CAVIEZEL BELLEVUE BED.EVDE CRACKED COM Caviezel's dad played hoops for John Wooden and UCLA, but Jim never got that far. His Bellevue team occasionally scrimmaged against John Stockton's Gonzaga squad. After playing him, says Caviezel, I thought I better find something else to do. — SI Now on YouTube

9

Spiders

A jumping spider learned to adapt to conditions in space. CRACKED.COM Nefertiti, the spider, was launched to the ISS to ob- serve if it could catch prey in microgravity. It succeed- ed in catching prey by learning to walk slowly, rather than jumping. — Source

8

LA to NYC

The record for the fastest run from LA to NYC is 25 hours and 39 minutes. That was the Cannonball run record set in 2020 (by a team who beat their own 2019 record of 27 hours, 25 minutes). Their average speed? 112 mph. CRACKED.COM — Source

7

Jeopardy!

In Jeopardy!, all the contestants are standing on adjustable platforms. $3,000 $29,600 $3,400 ML Y Kocrin. That makes sure they're all roughly the same height on TV. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Baltimore Sun

6

KFC’s Fashion Line

CRACKED KFC'S FASHION LINE. During British Fashion Week, designer Katie Eary and her team of 100 designers completed KFC's challenge to create a number of original garments in 1 hour. It was aimed at promoting their new KFC Ricebox. — Source

5

The Eagles and Steely Dan

The Eagles and Steely Dan both paid homage to each other in their songs. In Everything You Did by Steely Dan, there is this lyric: turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening. The Eagles repaid the band in Hotel California with the lyric: they stab it with their steely knives. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

4

The Office

That Crocs joke in The Office's Season 5 was ad-libbed by Steve Carell. When he says I have eggs in my Crocs, that was all Carell - and the camera operators even panned down to show his Crocs covered with eggs. CRACKED.COM — Source

3

The Rescuers

Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now T RDINES The Rescuers In 1999, just three days after the second video release, someone noticed a picture of a naked woman on a window as Bernard, Bianca, and Orville fly by. Three million VHS copies were recalled, even thought the woman appears in just two frames. CRACKED.COM — Disney
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WatchMojo.com/YouTube

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Moths

The Macrocilix maia moth confuses predators with design patterns on its wings that mimic two flies eating bird poop. It even releases a pungent odor to drive home the deception. The poop design and smell just about completes our knowledge of this species. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

1

Shocking Dark

Awful Knock-Offs Shocking Dark (1989) This absolute Italian classic goes by several, ever- awesomer names which save us from having to explain its hodgepodge plot: Terminator 2, Aliens 2, Aliennators, and Contaminator. And yup, it was sold in some countries as an actual sequel to The Termina... Wait, Aliennators? CRACKED.COM — Trailer on YouTube

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