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40 Random Bits of Trivia Read to Us From a Scroll by a Herald From a Neighboring Kingdom

March 18, 2025

When it comes to random facts, there are surely going to be a few that you might not be that into. It kind of comes with the “random” territory. Like, sorry if you’re a dog person and there happens to be a fact about cats. It’ll take like 10 seconds to read, and you can move on with your life. All you can do is hope that a dog fact is on its way.

It is, by the way. Well, it’s about dingoes, but they’re a type of wild dog, so it counts!

Either way, why don’t you just focus on what you do like rather than what you don’t like? Geez!

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Sandra Bullock

Careers built on a lie BUNE Sandra Bullock: Age-fibbing gone wrong. Bullock lied about her age to get a job, and was later outed for pretending to be younger. She admitted that she had lied so many times she had lost track of her own age. CRACKED

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Mammoths

The last mammoths are more recent than the Egyptian pyramids. Wooly mammoths died out about 4,000 years ago. By then, the furry mega-phants could only be found on Wrangel Island, in the Arctic Ocean. It wasn't a dignified ending for the giants - their population got so small that it was extreme inbreeding that finally did them in. CRACKED.COM — Source

38

Snooki

Purse makers sent Snooki their competitor's products. Various fashion houses engaged in preemptive product placement or unbranding, by sending the Jersey Shore star new purses from their competitors' collection. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

37

The Wizard of Oz

There are four known pairs of Dorothy's red slippers, worth up to $3 million Leonardo DiCaprio helped the Academy Museum purchase the most expensive pair of Wizard of Oz artifact. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cats

Whiskey distilleries sometimes keep cats around just to catch mice. Distilleries have been using cats for that for centuries and, despite the many alternatives that exist today, they still do. CRACKED.COM — Source

35

Parties

TWO PARTIES There are ten political parties represented in Israel's parliament, the Knesset. The Bundestag in Germany has six. Eleven in the Oireachtas in Ireland. Brazil's Chamber of Deputies has 28. New Zealand? Seven parties. South Africa's Parliament? Thirteen. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Spies

CRACKED.COM Great Britain got rid of their Soviet spies because one of them got drunk. You cannot beat me, Oleg Lyalin rebuked the cop who arrested him for drunk driving in 1971. I am a KGB КГБ C officer. MI5 eventually took him into custody, and got him to defect and rat out over 100 of his comrades. — Source

33

CEOs

CRACKED.COM The average CEO has made more money by lunchtime on January 2 than the average worker will make all year. — Source

32

Art

A curator replaced exhibits at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with fakes. Не then sold over a hundred of the exhibits, for millions of dollars. Не was arrested, and in his defense claimed that somebody had already been replacing paintings with fakes when he started work at the Academy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Utah Teapot

The first object ever created using computer graphics was the Utah Teapot, in 1974. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Logos

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Prison Breaks

CRACKED In 1951, Joseph Holmes managed to break out of the Maryland Penitentiary after 19 months of DIGGING A iD. PENITENTIARY 32565 70-FOOT-LONG TUNNEL. The escape route went under the prison's walls and up through more than a foot of concrete and slate. — The Baltimore Sun,
Filip Kraul/Shutterstock
Baltimore City Paper (via archive.org)

28

Dr. Dre

CRACKED DR. DRE: 1, MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: О. 2 2 At the start of 2023, Dr. Dre stopped Marjorie Taylor Greene from using his song Still D.R.E. in a video to promote her political ambitions. A small yet notable good deed. — Dr. Dre/YouTube,
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The Guardian

27

Lenny Bruce

CRACKED VULGARITY HISTORY Lenny Bruce becomes a martyr for future comedians Bruce was arrested several times for obscenity and blacklisted by night clubs across America. Не fought obscenity laws until his death in 1966, and is regarded as the patron saint of stand up comedy and a comedian's right to free speech. — Wiki Commons
Libertarianism.org

26

Three Flavours Cornetto

Movie Trilogies The Cornetto trilogy Edgar Wright's Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy is simply a wonder. Shaun of the Dead is the zombie comedy, and Hot Fuzz is a perfect send up of dual- wielding, buddy cop action movies. The World's End, while the weakest of the three, is a bonkers sci-fi action comedy with plenty of entertaining twists. POLICE CRACKED.COM POL TOTAL — More: Wikipedia
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25

Titanic

CRACKED.COM TITANIC I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD! WAS MADE UP ON THE SPOT They couldn't crack the scene and were losing daylight, so Cameron told DiCaprio to spread his arms and shout, I'm the king of the world! DiCaprio was, Huh? but managed to pull it off. — TheThings.

24

The First Word Spoken on the Internet

The first word spoken on the internet was lo. username OK The message was sent over the ARPANET in 1969. It was supposed to be login but the computer crashed af- ter the first two let- ters. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — University of California

23

Robert Todd Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln's son was present at or nearby during the assassinations of three U.S presidents. CRACKED.COM After the third assassi- nation, President Wil- liam McKinley's, Rob- ert Todd Lincoln vowed to never accept another presidential invite. — History Net

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22

Lipstick

Most brands of lipstick contain fish scales. Pearl essence or pearlescence found in lipstick is a byproduct of fish scales, mostly from commercially fished herring. Skin creams also contain cerebrosides, the brain tissue of livestock. CRACKED.COM — Huffington Post

21

Dingoes

Dingoes aren't native to Australia, they were brought there 4,000 years ago. Dingoes are an ancient breed of domestic dog that was introduced to Australia, probably by Asian seafarers, about 4,000 years ago. CRACKED.COM — Australian Museum

20

Roman Dodecahedrons

Nobody knows what Roman dodecahedrons are. Over 100 of these hollow, metallic thingies have been found all over Europe since the 18th century. They date back to Roman times, but they aren't mentioned in Roman writings or depicted in their art. No one has any clue what they were used for. — More: We've Found Hundreds Of These Weird Artifacts, And No One Knows What They Are

19

Brussels Sprouts

Brussels sprouts grow on stalks Brussels sprout plants grow two to three feet tall. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 True Facts That Don't Seem Real

18

Ed Sullivan

Ed Sullivan censored the Rolling Stones (and they hated it). When they appeared on the show in 1967, they were told that Let's spend the night together is a bit too much and they should change it to Let's spend some time together. So they did, but Mick Jagger rolled his eyes every time he said the line (and managed to slip in the original version at one point). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 13 Facts That’ll Exert The Old Cerebellum

17

Clubs

Adult entertainment clubs actually decrease sex crimes CRACKED.COM Researchers found that opening an escort service or strip club in an area may decrease sex crimes by up to 13%. — EurekAlert!

16

Microprocessors

It takes a total of two weeks to make a single silicon-based microprocessor. 06600 QUAD CORE2 INTEL INTEL MALAY 066/85A SLACR 48GHZ/8M/1 2. L738B526 And the plant in which they're made costs $2 billion to build, so making a microchip is equally ridiculously time-consuming and expensive. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: How Stuff Works

15

Britney Spears

The British navy used Britney Spears' songs to scare off Somali pirates The navy chose Spears' hit songs Oops! ...I Did It Again and ...Baby One More Time to ward off the pirates because of the pirates' dislike of western culture. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

14

Lorde

Lorde used to review onion rings on the Instagram account @onionringsworldwide. onionringsworldwide From the service stop Burger King near Hatfield didn't actually know Burger King did onion rings. and good thing didn't because they are not good. Characteristics were a mulched onion filling with a distinct bitterness 1/5. Here's one example: eom Bareburger in New York Cty Actually pretty good- thick sweet whte onion Gond flavour onthe crumh 4/$ CRACKED.COM — Source: 5 Famous People Who Are Pure Madness On Social Media

13

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov loathed Lolita. olita 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION VLADIMIR NABOKOV As soon as he was done writing it, he gathered the index cards it was written on and set them on fire. His wife Vera saw that and rescued the cards, then nagged him to polish the manuscript and make — Source: Great Artists Who Passionately Hated Their Most Famous Work

12

BTS

BTS stands for Bulletproof Boy Scouts. rd S fllbc JSIC A RD: The Korean expression is Bangtan Sonyeondan. CRACKED.COM

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Meteorologists

40 Random Bits of Trivia Read to Us From a Scroll by a Herald From a Neighboring Kingdom — Source: Mental Floss

10

The Fonz

Fonzie rode a motorcycle because that was the only way he could wear a leather jacket. Network executives thought a leather jacket made the wearer loo — Source: 4 WTF True Stories Behind the Traits of Famous Characters

9

Thomas Blood

40 Random Bits of Trivia Read to Us From a Scroll by a Herald From a Neighboring Kingdom — Source: History

8

White Whine

40 Random Bits of Trivia Read to Us From a Scroll by a Herald From a Neighboring Kingdom — Source: Her Website

7

DeShawn Stevenson

DeShawn Stevenson installed an ATM in his kitchen. TURINITED The former NBA star dished out $3, 500 for his money machine, and he fills it up with $20

6

Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus (born Destiny Hope Cyrus) was called ''Smiley as a child because she smiled all the time. Eventually, Smiley became Miley, which she lega

5

The FBI

HDAOT WALT Disney 7'o had a very cooperative relationship with the F.B.I. during Hoover's administration. S'8 FBI INFORMANT 5's 5'2 4'8 He accused se

4

Paper Sizes

Most Of the world uses theA series Of paper sizes; doubling in size but maintaining the same aspect ratio throughout. Neat. A1 594 x 841 AOcomdime.

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Pierce Brosnan

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2

The Stepford Wives

CRACKED.com Matthew Broderick hugely regretted being in The Stepford Wives. He says that there was nothing fun about making it, his role wasn't int

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Depression

Depression is not only tough on your mind but also your body A study suggests that severe depression CRACKED.COM actually ages cells making sufferer

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