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These facts pack a serious punch

40 Random Bits of Trivia That Are Gonna Leave a Mark

March 05, 2025

Your brain is really cruisin’ for a bruisin’, huh? It must be, since it’s here and ready to read these punch-packing facts. Let’s just hope the punch they pack isn’t hard enough to concuss your brain to the point of forgetting the info they just put in there.

If this becomes an issue, we should really start toning them down from now on.

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Ben Hardy

In order to get a role in Bohemian Rhapsody, Ben Hardy said he was a drummer. Не was not. Hardy knew nothing about the instrument before he signed on to play Queen's drummer, Roger Taylor. The actor began practicing for two weeks, ten hours a day so he could master just one song. CRACKED.COM

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Ancient Rome

This is a 2000 year old Swiss Army Knife. Made by the Romans, it has a knife, spoon and fork, a toothpick, spatula, and a Spike. CRACKEIDOON

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Biggie and Tupac

Biggie was only 24 years old when he was killed. Tupac was only 25 years old when he was killed. Really makes you feel lazy for being the most well-known person in your field by now. CRACKED.COM — 14 Hard-To-Believe Numbers

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McDonald’s

McDonald's changed its French fry recipe because of a customer with a grudge. Businessman Phil Sokolof spent $3 million on ads scolding fast food restaurants for their unhealthy food. When he targeted McD specifically, they folded. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — News.com.au

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The Oscar Streaker

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Prince

Prince was (probably) one of the very first Oregon Trail players. In 1971, Prince Rogers Nelson was an 8th-grader at Bryant Junior High, in Minneapolis - meaning he was in the class of Don Rawitsch, the teacher who came up with Oregon Trail to keep his students engaged. Sadly, there's no record of how many times (if any) he died of dysentery. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Polar Bears

WEIRD WORLD A polar bear cub in a Berlin ZOO turned out to be a product of incest. His parents are siblings, so they never should have had any offspring. The only reason they did was because of human error at the Russian breeding program they came from. CRACKED.COM — Source: Deutsche Welle

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Repurposed Oysters

Oyster shells were repurposed in 1700s New York to build buildings. CRACKED.COM Oysters in the 1700s were so overly abundant and popular in New York City that the discarded shells were repurposed into mortar paste to aid NY's building boom. — Source: 15 Facts That Really Put Everything In Perspective For Us

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Phone Usage

CRACKED.COM one in THRee MILLENIALS SAID THE FIRST THING THEY DO POST-COITAL IS GRAB THeIR PHones. But 28% admitted they really want to check their phones during sex, with 12% saying they usually do. — 25 Bizarre Statistics About Relationships And Sex

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Malachi Love

Malachi Love opened his own medical practice New Birth New Life Medical Ce Dr. Malachi A. ole-Robinson Owner, Phy ND. PhD. HHP-C. AMP-C 1700 N Congres

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Aerosmith

DUDE LOOKS LIKE A LADY IS ABOUT VINCE NEIL, FROM MÖTLEY CRÜE. According to Steven Tyler, the boys from Aerosmith spotted Neil from the back, in a bar, and assumed he was a woman. When he turned around, they realized their mistake and started riffing with the phrase, dude looks like a lady. CRACKED.COM http://wwwchuffingtonpost.com/sue-kerr/aerosmith-dude-looks-like-a-lady_b_3848538.html — Source

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Lord Lucan

Where is Lord Lucan? ls he Even alive? Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, was a British playboy- - also, a convicted murderer. He was declared g — Source: Business Insider

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Cat Statues

The city of York in England has a long and distinguished tradition of cat statues. The first pair of cat statues was built around a century ago, and there are now a total of 22 - there's even a York Cat Walk, with maps and everything. CRACKED.COM — Source: Atlas Obscura

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Ed Lauter

Actor ED LAUTER died of mesothelioma In 2014, his widow Mia Lauter sued CBS and NBC, claiming that her late husband was exposed to asbestos in their studios. Because he worked in so many movies and shows, his exposure to asbestos was off-the-charts high. CRACKED — Source

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The Battle of Stalingrad

In one day of heavy fighting during the Battle of Stalingrad, a local railway station changed hands from Soviet to German control and back again fourteen times in six hours. CRACKED.COM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle of Stalingrad

25

No Doubt

Gwen Stefani's brother Eric left No Doubt to become an animator for The Simpsons. The pair actually wrote Don't Speak together. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Batwoman

CRACKED BATWOMAN NEEDED A COMPLETE REDO. Batwoman star Ruby Rose quit days after the Season 1 finale, and instead of hiring a new actor to play Kate Kane, they introduced an entirely new Batwoman. Javicia Leslie played Ryan Wilder as Batwoman in Season 2 and 3. — What Culture

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Snakes

Venomous snakes B MILD DANGER NOODLES CRACKED.COM Snakes aren't that deadly, even ignoring all the truly harmless ones. Some 8,000 people are bitten by venomous snakes in the US annually. Just five die. — Source

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22

The Queen

When the Romanian dictator visited Queen Elizabeth in 1978, she hid things. PCR RUMANIA VINYMON Specifically, she was afraid he'd nick whatever she had lying around - so she had the guest rooms stripped of all valuables. On his state visit to France, everything down to the bathroom fittings got stolen. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Janitor from Scrubs

Scrubs The janitor knew Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. The janitor correctly predicted in 2007 that the U.S. should be looking for bin Laden in Pakistan, and a clip of this prediction went viral. CRACKED — Source

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Emma Watson

40 Random Bits of Trivia That Are Gonna Leave a Mark — Source: Rookie Mag

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Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics in the early 1990' so that he could play Spider-Man in his own produced movie. When Stan Lee told Michael that he'd need to go to Marvel for the Spider-Man rights, Michael planned on just buying up the whole thing. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Cinema Blend

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Star Wars

Ben Schwartz took a piece of the Millennium Falcon home after filming. He pulled on a piece of insulation hanging from the ceiling and ended up pulling a lot of it out, so he took it home with him and put it in a jar (with a hand-made label, of course). CRACKED.COM — Source: Comicbook.com

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The Statue of Liberty

The hand of the Statue of Liberty sat in an NYC park for six years. They sent the hand (with the torch) to be displayed in the US to raise the funds needed for finishing the statue - it took years, but it worked. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Patriot Act

The USA Patriot in USA PATRIOT Act is an acronym. PROTECTIN CRACKED.COM It stands for Uniting & Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Re- quired to Intercept & Obstruct Terrorism. — DNI

15

Dali

Salvador Dali avoided paying restaurant tabs by drawing on the back of checks. CRACKED CON These drawings made the checks too valuable to actually cash, and many of the restaurants sold the drawings for much more than Dali actually owed them. — Source

14

Edibles

STRANGER THINGS INSPIRATIONS STAND BY ME According to Kiefer Sutherland, production had to be shut down for two days after Jerry O'Connell snuck into a hippy fair and unknowingly bought some funny cookies. They found him lost and crying in a park. CRACKED.COM — Source: Jimmy Kimmel Live! (via Dailymotion)

13

Redheads

Redheads are more sensitive to the cold Researchers believe their temperalover-active. gene is CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

12

Goodfellas

Ray Liotta met Henry Hill after the movie came out. Thank you for not making me look like a scumbag, Hill said to an incredulous Liotta. Liotta replied: Did you see GoodFellas the movie? — Source: Complex

11

Bowie Knives

The world's largest Bowie knife is over 14 feet long. PLEASE NORTH adidas adidas An attraction in Bowie, Texas, the monster knife has no practical use, but you can take your picture with it before moving on to the next tourist trap on the American highway. REMO CRACKED.COM — Source: Roadside America, Atlas Obscura

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Taxi Driver

CRACKED.COM DO Taxi Driver was written in two weeks. Screenwriter Paul Schrader was going through marriage problems, lost his job, was broke, and suffered a bleeding ulcer. His depression from all this at the same time drove him to write about Travis Bickle, or I was going to start to become him. — Source

9

Teen Fads

WEIRD WORLD The latest teenage fad in Denmark is stuffing nicotine pouches up your butt. Under your foreskin works, too. The pouches are called snus, and kids do it just to see if they can get a buzz, apparently. CRACKED.COM — Source: Insider

8

Vietnam War

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. decided to relocate South Vietnamese villagers. It was called the Strategic Hamlet Program, and the idea was to move the villagers away from the soldiers, so they wouldn't get hurt. They'd be grateful, and support our side. But we grossly underestimated the number of villagers. It turned out there were 8 million of them, and the government had no way of providing for them. The resulting discontent made them easy recruits for the communists. CRACKED.COM http://www.britannica com/event/Vietnam-War#ref809122 — Source

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Dee Wallace

Scream Queens Dee Wallace is a self-help author. Elliot's mom from E.T. has an impressive horror resume, with movies like The Hills Have Eyes, The Howling, Cujo, The Frighteners, and The House of the Devil. But she has also built a career on the message of struggling with hardship through determination and love. CRACKED.COM — Sources: WhatCulture, TEDx Talks/YouTube

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Henry Winkler

Henry Winkler's parents escaped Nazi Germany on the last day Jews were allowed to leave. Since they were given only a six-week visa, Henry's fa- ther hid his mother's jewel- ry inside pieces of choco- late to covertly take as much wealth with them as they could without being detected by the Nazis. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Better Late Than Never / Wikipedia

5

A Butt

CRACKED BUTT IS TECHNICALLY A UNIT OF MEASURE FOR WINE THAT STARTED IN MEDIEVAL TIMES. A buttload of wine is about 475 liters or 126 gallons. — Source

4

Match.com

Match.com partnered with Amazon's Alexa, but they didn't quite think the programming through. People asked the device for dating advice, and it respon

3

Jaws

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The French Connection

Gene Hackman THE FRENCH CONNECTION From the start, the director was pretty clear that he didn't particularly want to work with Hackman. He hit his bre

1

Robin Williams

TREKKER CELEBRITIES ROBIN WILLIAMS KNOWN FOR Being the only Robin Williams. TREK CLAIM TO FAME Talked about Star Trek all the time. Almost was in a TNG episode, but couldn't fit it into his schedule. CRACKED.COM — Source: /Film

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