40 Pieces Of Pop-Culture Trivia That Missed Out On A Chair In That Stunty 'Avengers Doomsday' Trailer

40 Pieces Of Pop-Culture Trivia That Missed Out On A Chair In That Stunty 'Avengers Doomsday' Trailer

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15 Trivia Tidbits That Cover Movies, Pop Culture and History They Didn’t Teach

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40 Emotionally Unavailable Bits of Trivia That Will Share Absolutely Everything But Their Innermost Thoughts and Feelings

Knowledge is all they have. What more could you want?

40 Emotionally Unavailable Bits of Trivia That Will Share Absolutely Everything But Their Innermost Thoughts and Feelings

March 26, 2025

We don’t want to pry, but as these facts’ best friends, we think you’re asking a bit too much from them lately. They’re feeling stretched thin, and although they didn’t ask us to tell you this, we feel like you should just be happy with the knowledge they provide and not dig for more.

We’ve known them since the first grade, and if you’re going to be in our lives (sorry, their lives), we need to make sure they’re being appreciated for the amazing facts they are.

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Channing Tatum

CRACKED CHANNING TATUM WROTE THE ONE AND ONLY SPARKELLA. After the Magic Mike star wore a tutu several times for his 9-year-old daughter Evie, she became the inspiration for his line of kids books. They're about Ella, whose dad helps her learn how to be herself and not dull her light for anyone. — EW / Risen Magazine

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Bob Dylan

BOB DYLAN DAY Every year on May 24th, the town of Shillong, India throws a party and holds a concert to celebrate Bob Dylan's birthday. CRACKED — Alberto Cabello/Wiki Commons
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Superheroes

Superheroes used to be the bottom of the comics barrel. Back in the '40s, comics boasted a much greater variety than today. Crime and horror were the top-sellers, while those lunatics in tights were seen as a passing fad. Then moral panics crippled the industry in the '50s, leaving supers as pretty much the sole survivors. CRACKED.COM — Source: Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On

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Tesla

Nikola Tesla was able to do integral calculus in his head, leading his teachers to believe he was cheating. Passionate about mathematics and sciences, Tesla had his heart set on becoming an engineer but was constantly oppressed by his father's insistence that he enter the priesthood. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — PBS

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Mulan

Yoson An went through some pretty hardcore training for Mulan. We trained for four months prior to production, eight hours a day for five days a week. Our trainer, Bojan Mladenovic, had a military background, so it did feel like a boot camp, he says. CRACKED.COM — Source

35

Coffee

CRACKED.COM For a more flavorful cup of coffee, don't use a coarse grind. The finer, the better. A finer grind means an overall greater surface area, which slows the water as it flows through the grounds. This gives it more time to bring out the flavor of the beans, resulting in richer tasting coffee. — 26 Food And Cooking Common Misconceptions

34

Girl Scouts

Girl Scout cookies are almost as old as the Girl Scouts. The organization was founded in 1912, and in 1917 the girls started selling cookies to finance their activities. By the 1930s, the cookies were so popular that Girl Scouts began licensing commercial bakers to make them. — Source: Girl Scouts

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Thanksgiving

CRACKED THANKSGIVING IN THE U.S. IS WEIRD! Canada has an even older Thanksgiving than the U.S., and most countries who celebrate Thanksgiving do so in early October, to give thanks for the last harvests. The U.S. holds it way after the harvest, and is the only one that involves Pilgrims. — Source

32

India

CRACKED COLLECTIVELY, INDIAN WOMEN CONTROL AN ESTIMATED $600 TO $800 BILLION WORTH OF GOLD. That's four times as much gold as the U.S. reserves in Fort Knox. — Source

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Jessica Alba

Gaming Celebrities Jessica Alba is Da Bomb(erman) Alba is an old-school gamer, growing up with Bomberman and Mario Bros. She also likes physical games with motion controls on the Nintendo Wii and Switch. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp has a room full of fancy Barbie dolls. Не reportedly uses them to test new voices. Не originally collected them for his daughter, and when she lost interest, he couldn't bring himself to get rid of them. Не has a number of limited-edition Babies, like Beyonce, Paris Hilton, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn. CRACKED.COM — Source

29

Insects

Roly Polies help decompose metal in the soil. GRACKED COM They are capable of taking in heavy metals such as copper, zinc, lead, and cadmium and crystallize these into spherical deposits in the midgut. — Source

28

Leprechauns

Myths with real-life consequences Leprechaun in a tree In 2006, crowds gathered in Alabama, claiming they saw a leprechaun in a tree. News stations showed up, and an amateur sketch of the leprechaun was auctioned off on eBay with proceeds going to the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. CRACKED — Source

27

Domino’s

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Top Gun

TOM CRUISE IN TOP GUN 7 MAVERICK Producer Jerry Bruckheimer said it wasn't easy convincing Cruise to take the role of fighter-p Pete Maverick Mitchell in the 1986 movie, so they arranged a flight with him and actual Navy pilots to give him a taste of the movie and also scare him a little. It didn't, he loved it, and the rest is history. CRACKED.COM — Variety

25

Mussolini

17 Surprising (True) Facts About Awful People - Mussolini left a 1,200-word document hidden inside a metal box under a Roman obelisk. The idea was tha — Source: BBC

24

Star Wars

The Star Wars galaxy isn't that far, far away. E.T.'s species: Asogian Appeared in The Phantom Menace 3 million light-years away (E.T. tagline) Distan

23

Bruno Mars

BRUNO MARS was arrested in 2010 in Vegas for FELONY COCAINE POSSESSION. The charges were only dismissed after the singer paid a $2,000 fine, went thro

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22

Fungi

CRACKED THE LARGEST ORGANISM IN THE WORLD IS A FUNGUS THAT COVERS OVER 2,200 ACRES. It is located in Oregon, and is anywhere from 2,400 to 8,650 years old. — Source

21

MIT and Quaker

MIT intentionally irradiated children (with Quaker's help). In the 1940s, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology decided to study how the body absorbs nutrients by feeding disabled and abandoned children radioactive oatmeal. The experiment was government-sanctioned and sponsored by Quaker Oats, who even supplied the tainted cereal. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

Archives of Terror

The Archives of Terror were found by accident by a lawyer and a judge in 1992. They were looking for files on a former prisoner in a police station near Paraguay and stumbled upon archives doc- umenting an international conspiracy involving the tor- ture, murder, and imprison- ment of 480,000 people. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

19

NASA

NASA kept using the space suits from the first spacewalk for over 30 years. They were intended to be used for 15 years, but they were still in use in 2019, over 36 years after the 1983 spacenwalk in which they wore worn in space for the first time. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

18

Hong Kong

A Hong Kong serial killer was caught when he went to develop photos of his victims in a Kodak shop. One of only two known se- rial killers in HK, Lam Kor-wan was a taxi driver that would pick up female passengers, strangle them, then take them to his fami- ly home to dismember. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

17

French Cars

WEIRD WORLD France basically just gave car companies the middle finger. From now on, French car ads have to tell people that, instead of buying a car, they could just walk or bike to where they want to go. CRACKED.COM — Source

16

Taken

William Hillar 2011 CRACKED.COM Hillar claimed that Taken was based on his life. Не spent the next decade giving seminars and counter-terrorism workshops, till people realized it was a lie, and the daughter he said he'd saved never existed. — Source

15

Cadbury

CRACKED CADBURY: CHILD LABOR Mondelez International, the company behind Cadbury, was accused of using child labor in its cocoa supply chain in Ghana. It was said that kids as young as 10 were using machetes to harvest cocoa pods. Callary Dairy Milk MILK CHOCOLATE — The Guardian / Daily Motion

14

Roald Dahl

CRACKED JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl has been banned a lot because of its magic and scary stuff, plus drug and alcohol references (like the centipede's song). — Fondulac Library

13

Napoleon’s Orangutan

Extreme Celebrity Pets NAPOLEON'S ORANGUTAN TO BE FAIR, ROSE WAS MORE HIS WIFE'S PET. Joséphine Bonaparte dressed her simian bestie in fancy gowns, served her turnips at the dinner table with the rest of her guests, and even let her sleep in bed with her and her husband, which probably threatened his masculinity a lot more than his height. CRACKED — Jacques-Louis David/Wiki Commons, Anoine-Jean Gros/Wiki Commons, yebemoto/Shutterstock
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12

LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton, AKA Geordi LaForge on Star Trek: The Next Generation, voiced Captain Planet's Kwame. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

11

Art Theft

Rembrandt's Portrait of Jacob de Gheyn III has been stolen 4 times The 9x12 inch painting has been nicknamed the takeaway Rembrandt as its small size has led to its numerous thefts. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Now-You-Know Facts From Art History

10

Steven Van Zandt

Steven Van Zandt, who played Silvio on The Sopranos, is a fan of a 1931 movie. It's The Public Enemy, and he considers it one of his favorite mob movies - - Along with Little Caesar and Scarface, Enemy was one of the first gangster movies ever made, and it has that classic James Cagney scene where he squashes a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face. CRACKED.COM — Source

9

Home Appliances

HOME 50 5 APPLIANCES 1955 CRACKED.COM Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years. -Alex Lewyt, vacuum company president. We have nuclear power today, but it makes a lot more sense to produce it centrally than to stick a reactor in every appliance. — Source: 15 Really Inaccurate Predictions About The Future

8

Star Wars

RIAN JOHNSON'S HAND IS IN THE TRIC LAST JEDI. CRACKED.COM The gloved hand grabbing Han Solo's dice at the end of the movie doesn't actually belong to Mark Hamill-it's the hand of the director, Rian Johnson. — Film School Rejects

7

Ghostbusters

A Ghostbusters deleted scene has a love interest for Dan Aykroyd's character. She's a ghost that's been dead for over a hundred years - but they cut the scene for pacing reasons. CRACKED.COM — Source

6

Drew Barrymore

DREW BARRYMORE REALLY PHONED 9!1 DURING THAT SCENE IN SCREAM The line was supposed to be disconnected, but wasn't Barrymore ended up dialling 911 for real without knowing it, screaming into the phone before hanging up. An operator eventually phoned back to find out why they were getting constant calls from a screaming woman. CRACKED.COM — Source: Looper

5

Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John's dad was a WWII spy who helped defeat the Nazis. He translated the Nazi battle plans for El Alamein, a key battle, and his work also helped Britain capture high-ranking Nazi officer Rudolf Hess. CRACKED.COM — Source: 5 Famous Celebrities With Insane Family Backgrounds

4

Attack of the Clones

Queen Jamillia's headdress in Attack of the Clones was made from lunch leftovers. Designer Trisha Biggar was so taken by the shells from the abalone s

3

The Shining

Stanley Kubrick had to change the room number in The Shining because the hotel was afraid nobody would want to stay in a murder room. The hotel where the movie was filmed asked that he change it from #217- which is in the book- to #237- which doesn't exist. Ironically,

2

Male Emotions

CRACKED.COM CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, MEN ARE MORE EMOTIONALLY' SENSITIVE THAN WOMEN. In one experiment, when presented with blissful, funny, exciti

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