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40 Respectful Bits of Trivia That Will Wipe Their Feet Before Entering Your Brain

These facts are lovely, but they might overstay their welcome

40 Respectful Bits of Trivia That Will Wipe Their Feet Before Entering Your Brain

March 14, 2025

You know those people who are so nice that they end up annoying the hell out of you? Well, if that’s a dealbreaker for you then you might want to skip this list. These facts are incredibly pleasant, polite and positive, but they tend to keep it going for a little too long.

You better just get what you can out of their sweet knowledgeable conversation here, then tell them you have to hit the hay because of an early flight in the morning. If you don’t, they’ll never leave.

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Tokyo’s Imperial Palace

Tokyo's Imperial Palace was valued to be more than all of the real estate in California in the 1980s. CRACKED.COM The value of the 0.44 square mile grounds ex- ploded during the height of Japan's property bubble, and the country's property was worth five times that of the much larger US. — Source

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Terrible Predictions

TV won't last 6 months. 20TH CENTURY FOX CRACKED.COM Studio exec Darryl Zanuck predicted that people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. Staring at that box is the only thing that gets us through the day! — Source

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Horse Milk

CRACKED 29199 THE THE MONGOLS USED TO DRINK FERMENTED HORSE MILK. The drink was an effective laxative, and is reported to taste like champagne with sour cream. — Sammy33/Shutterstock
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Where’s Waldo?

CRACKED WHERE'S WALDO? One mom was really mad when she saw that a woman's breast was showing in a Where's Waldo? book. She complained and a school had to take the book off the shelves. — NY Times / Paperlife

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Architecture

Building architecture completely changed when daylight wasn't the primary source of light. By the 1930s, a windowless building was an actual design op — Source: National Museum of American History

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Completely Useless Free Throws

Most Fruitless Freethrow Shooting St-Louis BOMBERS GRACKED.COM Before the NBA, the Basketball Association of America was the premier league for US ballers. At one point in the 1940's, Griff Roux set a record that stands to this day: he took 20 free throws in a single game, and missed every last one. — Source: 15 Embarrassing Sports Records No One Wants To Break

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The Zeigarnik Effect

The Zeigarnik Effect Named after psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik and inspired by waiters who can remember orders until the meals are served, this effect refers to how people remember unfinished tasks better than completed ones. CRACKED.COM — Source: PsyBlog

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Frasier

COMEDY NERD Kelsey Grammer wasn't actually the first choice to sing the Frasier theme song. That honor was supposed to go to jazz legend Mel Tormé, but the producers demanded that Grammer sing it, and that's what ended up happening. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mafia II

In Mafia ll, the NPCS are SO realistic that they pee. And they won't stop, no matter what. In this game, characters just let it fly, and they will not

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Pamela Anderson and Jon Peters

Jon Peters dumped Pamela Anderson 11 days after they got married. And it was after they'd gotten married in secret. And it was over text message, just to make it extra worse. CRACKED.COM

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Donating Your Body to Science

Donating your body to science? Prepare to be sold to, well, anyone. The brokerage companies handling body donations can't technically sell your stiff remains-but they do collect huge fees, for a massive profit. And pretty much anyone who pays these fees can get hold of you (or a part of you) with barely any hassle. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Illegal Filmmaking

Illegal filmmaking Extras died in 1928's Noah's Ark. For the flood, cameraman Hal Mohr quit when director Michael Curtiz rolled his eyes at his safety concerns. Three extras died, another lost a limb, and a dozen suffered serious injuries, but Curtiz somehow escaped any legal repercussions. CRACKED — Source

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Snakes

CRACKED SNAKES CAN PREDICT EARTHQUAKES. If it's a big one, they can start behaving extremely erratically and smash their heads against walls. — Source

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EDM

The first-ever EDM record to go platinum was the Mortal Kombat soundtrack. 27% The filmmakers absolutely insisted on EDM, and got booted from two record companies for it -- but it paid off. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fruit Flies

Some of the biggest sperm cells in the animal kingdom are from fruit flies. And the biggest sperm among fruit flies is from drosophilia bifurca - they have sperm that's over two inches long (that's 1,000 times longer than ours). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Blockbuster

CRACKED.COM Blockbuster Video almost had its own city. BLOCKBUSTER® Back in the '90s, Blockbuster wanted to build a 2,500-acre theme park near Miami-and they somehow convinced the Florida legislature to give them powers restricted to governments. This Blockbuster Town was entitled to collect taxes and seize private land. — Source

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Nazi Rat Tanks

CRACKED THE NAZIS' RAT TANK The Nazis wanted to build a super tank called The Rat that was five times heavier than even their insane Panzer VIII Maus. It would have weighed an incredible 1,000 metric tons. — Source

23

iEarn Bot

Crypto Scams PURE THE IEARN SCAM At the end of 2020, iEarn Bot stopped people in Romania from taking out their money and asked them to switch it into a new type of currency called iBot, worth the same amount. But users are still waiting to get their hands on actual currency. CRACKED

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The Scientific Method

THE OH IT CAME FROM A DREAM SCIENTIFIC METHOD MG You dream of your teeth falling out. Descartes dreamed the scientific method. During a period of isolation in a strange land, René Descartes had a series of dreams that basically laid out the whole philosophy by which we understand truth in the modern world, proving that holding up with nothing but pizza rolls and Netflix is good, actually. CRACKED — Frans Hals/Wiki Commons, PopTika/Shutterstock
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Chevy Chase versus Dan Harmon

Behind-the-scenes Drama Community Make Your chevy chase and Dan Harmon the kept fighting. behind That Pierce's disappearance reportedly from the show. was reason CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Cases of Behind-the-Scenes Drama that Showed Up On-Screen

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Hitler

Hitler learned of the allied D-day landings only when he woke up at noon the next day. CRACKED.COM His staff did not dare wake him up because he had been up till 3 am chatting with friends at his residence. — CS Monitor / Wikipedia

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The Nitrous Mafia

There is a violent Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) Mafia that travels to music festivals. GRACKED.COM The Mafia carries nitrous tanks through concert sites, selling balloons for $5 to $10, which are then huffed. They can bank more than $300,000 per festival, minus expenses. — Village Voice

18

Bilbo Baggins

Tolkien Movies James McAvoy, Shia LaBeouf, and Daniel Radcliffe were up for Bilbo. In the end, Martin Freeman was cast. CRACKED.COM — Yahoo Entertainment

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Mustard Gas

AMERICA TESTED MUSTARD GAS ON ITS OWN TROOPS. R2BM Ra HD G HD GAS HD GAS GO 155H 155H 155H 5 LOT PUD LOT POD LOT FOO RSD г SHELL 16 SHELL ME LND SHELL 1 SH 1 DOS RAB R 60,000 WWII TROOPS, MOSTLY PEOPLE OF COLOR. Participants kept their mouths shut well into 1980s. It took until 1991 for the Department of Veterans Affairs to create guidelines to take care of them. This coincided neatly with the tests becoming declassified in 1993. CRACKED.COM — Source: Disturbing Experiments Done By Real Scientists

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George Clooney

George Clooney keeps a photo of himself as Batman. CRACKED.COM The actor looks at the photo of his time in the rubber suit 'As a cau- tionary reminder of what happens when you make movies for com- mercial reasons'. — Business Insider

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Injuries

In 2011, a woman fooled around with a male friend near a relative's grave. A tombstone fell on her leg, and she ended up in the hospital. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Ways Sex Can (And Did) Go Horrifyingly Wrong

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Dairy Queen

Dairy Queen 1940 DAIRY QUEEN CRACKED.COM In 1938, to test a new soft serve technology, Sherb Noble of Sherb's ran a deal of all-you-can-eat ice cream for 10 cents. In 1940, Noble opened a Dairy Queen, that specialized in soft-serve. — Source: 13 Fast-Food Restaurants Fascinating Origin Stories

13

Smells

According to science, smells can fall into ten categories. POP COM POP pop CORD CORN Fragrant, woody/resinous, fruity (non-citrus), chemical, minty/peppermint, sweet, popcorn, lemon, pungent and decayed. CRACKED.COM — Source: Live Science

12

The Olympics

CANCELLED GRACKED OLYMPIC EVENTS Until 1948 the Olympics included a competition for music inspired by sport Entries were submitted on paper, not performed, making it very hard for judges. — Valley Advocate

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Humans

Humans are naturally much more altruistic than other animals. A study shows that although most primates have the tendency to collaborate, they mostly do SO in order to gain something. Humans, however, have a natural tendency to help others even without the prospect of gaining anything. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Scientific Reasons Humans Are The Weirdest of All Animals

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Machine Guns

Machine guns run out of bullets real quick. In movies, machine gun is short for unending hail of bullets -but if you keep firing any fully automatic weapon, you'll run dry in seconds, as there's no cheat for infinite ammo in real life. — More: 5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)

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SNL

EMMA STONE + DAVE MCCARY CRACKED COM SNL writer/ director Dave Mccary proposed to Emma Stone in the most romantic place he could think of: the 30 Rock — Elle

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Jennifer Lawrence

40 Respectful Bits of Trivia That Will Wipe Their Feet Before Entering Your Brain — Source: YouTube

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The Greater Bilby

40 Respectful Bits of Trivia That Will Wipe Their Feet Before Entering Your Brain — Sources: Australian Wildlife Conservancy, Queensland Department of Environment and Science

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Online Drinking

IN JAPAN, DRINKING ONLINE WITH STRANGERS WHEN YOU'RE STUCK AT HOME IS NOW A THING. kaw MENU CETEE RIN You just start a chat on teleconferencing app Zo — Source: VICE

5

Russia’s Population

CRACKEDOO Russia Population 144 million Russia is 119 times bigger, but has 19 million people fewer than Bangladesh. Bangladesh Population 163 million

4

Captain America

CRACKEDC COM A Captain America's Avengers costume lost the chinstrap because Joss Whedon wanted to show off Chris Evans' jawline.

3

CPR

Dr. Grant's CPR in Jurassic Park couldn't do anything. Tim's cheeks are puffed out, so air isn't leaving his mouth. Since he's not tilting back Tim's

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Heidi Klum

HEIDI KLUM TAO FEDN DIVT TAO TAU KUMT VENETIAN throws an extravagant annual Halloween party, TAO the centerpiece being HEIN KIIMT VeNCTian her elabora

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Tickling

What is the point of being ticklish? It teaches you to protect your most vulnerable spots. The most ticklish parts of our bodies (our ribs and neck) a

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