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Cut for time?!?! There’s always time for the facts!

40 Random Bits of Trivia Egregiously Left Out of the ‘In Memoriam’ Segment

March 14, 2025

Who do those dweebs at the fact awards think they are? They must be some Gen-Z nepo hires who don’t remember the massive impact that these facts had on the industry. These facts were the cream of the crop in their day. So if no one else is going to give them a proper send-off, we’ll just have to do it ourselves.

Do your research next time, Bryler or Hudson or whatever your name is!

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Laos

Laos is the most heavily bombed nation in history. GRACKED.COM The US secretly dropped an average of 8 bombs a min- ute for 9 years during the Vietnam war. Almost $200 million was spent over the last 25 years to remove un- exploded ordnance. — Source

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Al Franken

Al Franken was touring as a comic with the USO when he posed for an ill- TWE advised funny picture with conservative talk show host Leeann Tweeden. While others also accused Franken of inappropriate behavior, the prank pic was the smoking gun that led to his Senate resignation. CRACKED.COM — Source: 11 Comedians Whose Risky Humor Got Them in Big-Time Trouble

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Sausages

WEIRD WORLD A British store made its sausages only available to people over 18. It was a truly dumb mix-up - they mistakenly listed saucisson sec as secateurs, which was a bladed item, and people who wanted to buy it had to prove they were of age. CRACKED.COM — Source

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World War II

A German Panzer unit surrendered to a single US Army Captain during WWII. CRACKED.COM US Army Captain Moffatt Burriss, along with just two others, came across a Pan- zer Corps of 15,000 men. Burriss went straight to the unit's leader and informed him that they were there to accept his surrender. — Source

36

Tigger

A lawyer dressed up as Tigger in court to prove a point. In 2004, a Walt Disney World guest accused a performer of groping her and her daughter. The guy's attorney said that the Tigger costume was too unwieldy for that, and put it on himself to prove it. The courtroom shenanigans worked, and the performer was acquitted. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Carl’s Jr.

CARL'S JR. Carl's Jr. Not Just a Burger... But a Carls Hamburger Carl's Jr. 1956 GRACKED.COM Giving the star shoes has weird implications that somehow just the face didn't. Не has hands and feet? Is he Carl Jr.? Was Carl Sr. a real man that made love to a celestial body? I don't want answers, I want never to have asked the questions. — Source

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Terrible Predictions

There's simply no demand for YouTube. YOUTUBE COFOUNDER CRACKED COM Cofounder and СТО Steve Chen once said there's just not that many videos I want to watch. Strange that a man with zero foresight could accidentally invent a perpetual motion propaganda machine! — Source

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Space Junk

CRACKED ELON MUSK GETS AWAY WITH LITTERING. In July 2022, space debris from a SpaceX rocket landed on a sheep paddock in Australia. The farmer found the 10-foot charred object, which would later be identified as the largest piece of space junk to land in Australia since 1979. — Source

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U.S. Special Forces Scam

CRACKED LAWN DAVID DENG Deng tricked over 100 Chinese nationals into believing they were part of an elite U.S. special forces unit. Не charged people who wanted to join his army a fee of between $300 and $450, and gave himself the rank of supreme commander. — LA Times / NY Times

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London

In London, they built a clear glass pool as a bridge between two buildings. The pool is 115 above the street, is 82 feet long and 10 feet deep, and it bridges the space between two residential apartment buildings. CRACKED.COM — Source: CNN

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The Terminator

40 Random Bits of Trivia Egregiously Left Out of the ‘In Memoriam’ Segment — Source: YouTube

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I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy 1953 CRACKED.COM The first televised birth (well, not graphic birth) goes to Lucille Ball, who wasn't even allowed to say the word 'pregnant' because it was too taboo. — Source

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Hong Kong

An AI controls Hong Kong's subway system. CRACKED.COM Hong Kong has one of the world's most effi- cient subway systems with a 99.9% on-time rate and the entire sys- tem is managed via Arti- ficial Intelligence. — Source

27

The Grinch

Jim Carrey met with an expert who trained CIA operatives to deal with torture on The Grinch. The makeup process was so grueling that after the first 8 hour application process, Carrey nearly quit the mov- ie. The advice he was given was to punch himself in the leg, eat everything in sight, and smoke. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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McDonald’s

Mashed Potato Beef Burger MCDONALD'S 100% Manly Man CRACKED.COM For a while, McDonald's China was on a big masculinity kick. Lots of their commercials highlighted the manliness of meat eaters - none moreso than this burger that dared to include a layer of potato salad. — Source

25

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 — Source

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The First Copyrighted Motion Picture

The first copyrighted motion picture. 1894 CRACKED.COM W.K. Dickson copyrighted Fred Ott's Sneeze, a 5-second film of Thomas Edison's assistant snorting some sketchy 1800's stimulant and then, spoiler alert, sneezing. — Source

23

Sleepwalking

The sleepwalking defense lets you to get away with crimes you commit in your sleep. People who do unexpected things in their sleep have a sometimes successful defense called the sleepwalking defense, where they say they weren't conscious or didn't mean to commit a crime. A man in Texas killed his mistress while sleepwalking and was successfully defended with this method. CRACKED — Source

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Buried Bombs

As city workers were digging a trench for a fiber optic cable at the Hollister Airport dog park, they found an active WWII practice bomb. DISARMED 9/10/18 MCSO CH The Jerry Gabe Municipal Dog Park located in California was once a former Navy base in the 1940s, so it is believed to host more bombs and fuel tanks underground. CRACKED.COM — Source

21

Tom Jones

Tom Jones' chest hair $7 MILLION CRACKED.COM The Las Vegas staple (and king of the deep V) thought his empire would come crashing down, should anything happen to his luxuriant pelt of chest hair. — Source

20

Predator

Unclean water on PREDATOR They shot the 1987 movie in the jungles of Palenque, Mexico, and many of the cast and crew got sick with travelers' diarrhea because of the unpurified water. Kevin Peter Hall said, Predator wasn't a movie, it was a survival story for all of us. CRACKED — Source

19

Full House

John Stamos kept the couch from Full House. The blue plaid couch at the center of the Tanner family's living room is property of Uncle Jesse himself. In 2020, Stamos shared a snap on Instagram of his toddler standing next to the iconic sitcom prop. CRACKED.COM — Source

18

Gladiators

Gladiator fights weren't a gory free-for-all, but had strict rules and referees. One gladiator's tombstone inscription complains that a bad referee call killed him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Pig Butchering Scam

Crypto Scams THE PIG BUTCHERING SCAM British people have lost a lot of money to cryptocurrency scams featuring famous people, with the most expensive one involving a photo of Jeff Bezos costing almost two $200,000 dollars. CRACKED — Maridav/Shutterstock
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Soccer

ER D KSERO GAME-RUINING INNOVATIONS VAR IN SOCCER In 2019, the Premier League started using video replays to help referees make decisions. But this technology has caused a lot of debate because it's not always accurate (though that didn't stop it being used in the 2022 World Cup). CRACKED — Dziurek/Shutterstock,
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Meg White and Jack White

Meg and Jack White said they were siblings. Then the news found their marriage certificate. And no, they weren't siblings AND married. Jack later explained he thought when band members are relatives instead of lovers, fans care more about the music, not the relationship. CRACKED.COM — Source: Bizarre Lies 19 Famous People Thought They'd Get Away With

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Nuclear Bombs

The equipment to measure a nuclear bomb was vaporized during the blast in 1954. CRACKED.COM The Castle Bravo test ended up accidentally being three times stron- ger than expected due to a miscalculation, making it the largest in US history. — Nuclear Weapon Archive / Wikipedia

13

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie once tried to hire a hitman to kill her. She felt that a murder would be easier on her family than her commit- ting suicide. The would-be-hitman talked her out of it by asking her to wait a month. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Herald Scotland

12

Astronaut Ice Cream

CRACKED.GOM Astronaut ice cream has never been to space Although created with NASA funding, the freeze-dried ice cream has never made it on a spaceship ... it's too crumbly to be practical. — Source: Particle

11

KFC

When KFC first moved to China, it must have curbed appetites by accidentally promoting self-cannibalism. KFC the adidas REAL In an attempt to translate their signature catchphrase Finger- lickin' good, some misused Chinese characters had them saying, Eat your fingers off. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Bizarre Brand Name Blunders

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Disney Myths

MYTH: A family sued Disney when their kids saw characters out of costume. FACT: They'd been falsely accused of theft. The Boozer family was accused of stealing a $2.50 souvenir. Despite the fact that they had a receipt, they were taken backstage and questioned for two and a half hours as their children, aged 2 and 5, looked on. When they were finally released, a group of costumed characters without the heads entered the backstage area. It freaked the kids out so hard that they needed therapy, so the family sued. CRACKED.COM http://articles .latimes.com/1990-07-14/news/mn-323_1_mickey-mouse — 23 Widely-Circulated 'Facts' About The Law That Are Myths

9

Nuclear Fusion

We're now that much closer to being able to use nuclear fusion as energy. We've recently reached a critical milestone: we've managed to pull off a fusion reaction that has generated more energy than it has used as fuel. CRACKED.COM — Source

8

Orcas

Since sharks become paralyzed when turned belly-side up, orcas ram them in the side to flip them over when they hunt them. This suggests that orcas know a little something about shark biology. CRACKED.COM — 29 Animals That Are (Secretly) Evil Geniuses

7

Lake Erie

Lake Erie lies above a massive salt mine. The mine is a three-mile-long complex that's so deep underground, fresh air has to be pumped in and miners have to carry an hour's worth of backup oxygen. Many of its sprawling tunnels are unexplored (and might BE home to horrors that should not BE awakened). CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Unknown Secrets In Well-Known Landmarks

6

Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage made $2,161,000 selling the first-ever Superman comic book. His copy of Action Comics No.1, which features Superman's first appearance, was the first comic to break the $2 million mark in an auction. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

5

World War I Steam Submarine

A WWI steam sub had SO many holes, it would sink if they weren't closed right away when it dived. The K-Class submarine had vents and two funnels (they were crucial for the steam engine), which let in seawater that would sink the sub unless they were firmly closed just — Source: The Guardian

4

Breaking Bad

Bill Clinton inspired Gus from Breaking Bad. When Giancarlo Esposito met Clinton, he says Clinton would make everyone feel like they were the only pe — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

3

The Incredibles 2

CRACKEDC We almost got to see Frozone's wife in THE INCREDIBLES2. TIME Brzer Instead of just having her as a voice in the franchise, we almost met Hon

2

Vaseline

Vaseline originated as a byproduct of the oil drilling Veseloe process. In 1859, British chemist Robert Augustus Chesebrough visited a small town in P

1

Eggplants

VEGANS WONDERING WHY EGGPLANTS HAVE EGG IN THEIR NAME? WELL, FOR THE LEAST OBVIOUS REASONS, DURING THE 1600s EGGPLANTS WERE SMALL AND RESEMBLED EGGS.

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