40 Blunders Brought to You By Corporate Clowns, Coworkers and Those Tech Bros Everybody Loves to Hate

40 Blunders Brought to You By Corporate Clowns, Coworkers and Those Tech Bros Everybody Loves to Hate

40 Loose-Lipped Bits of Trivia That Each One of Their Topics Told to Keep Secret

40 Loose-Lipped Bits of Trivia That Each One of Their Topics Told to Keep Secret

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia ‘The Simpsons’ Probably Already Published So Why Bother

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40 Fresh-Faced Bits of Trivia That Dream of Getting Their Big Break on ‘Jeopardy!’

March 24, 2025

Get to know these facts now, so that one day you’ll be able to say you knew them before they were famous. Any day now, they’re about to be topics on Jeopardy! and their lives will change forever.

Heck, maybe even try to snag an autograph. You never know if you’ll need to sell it to make rent one day.

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M&M’s

Kevin Bacon can't play talking food. m CRACKED.COM Не turned down a lucrative role as an M&M because his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, is terrified of any kind of anthropomorphic food. — Source: 20 Bizarre Fears, Phobias, and Superstitions Of The Rich And The Famous

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Macy’s

Macy's decided to sell some plates by fat shaming moms. mam jeans favorite jeans mam jeans load cama odie favorite jeans skinny jeans The plates featured portion sizes described as jeans sizes, with the biggest portion size being called mom jeans. This didn't go over well, and Macy's removed the plates just hours after a picture of the plates went viral. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Coca-Cola

GRACKED THE COCA COLA FORMULA HAS NEVER BEEN PATENTED. - Nutrition Facts Serv Soe better Par Serving Calories 100 Total 30mg (1% DV). Total Carb 25g (9% DV) - Cola (incl 26g Added Sugars, 52% DV) Pretein to TASTE significant source of other nutrients. - CARBONATED HIGH FRECTOSE COMMSTEUP CARANI WATER NATIOAL FLAVORS CocaCola CocaCola Coca-Cola Coca-Cola de In order to patent a formula, you have to reveal what it is - and Coca Cola refuses to do so. — Source

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Coffee

COFFEE ISN'T ACTUALLY A BEAN. It's the seed of the fruit that grows on coffee trees. CRACKED — Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock
Cameron’s Coffee

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The U.S. Open

Two men were removed from the US Open stands after one gave the other a haircut. GRACKED.COM Complete with a set of trimmers and a bar- ber's smock, the fans were escorted from their seats and thrown out for disruption of play. — CBS News

35

Andy Samberg

ANDY SAMBERG ABSOLUTELY HATES LATE NIGHT HOSTING GIGS. JIMMY KIMMEL HAS COVID AGAIN CRACKED On a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel, Andy Samberg talked about his stint guest hosting the show. Не claimed it was super stressful and he'd never do it again. — Source

34

James Bond

15 Bizarre Things Actors Had To Do For Auditions - George Lazenby had to prove his heterosexuality to play James Bond. — Source: NY Post

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The River Thames

CRACKED.COM The River Thames is full of bodies. The most famous river in England has been nicknamed by The Guardian The Watery Grave. It has some 60 dead bodies pulled out of it every year, averaging at one body a week. — Source

32

Rudy

Charles S. Dutton, the sage groundskeeper who helps inspire Rudy in Rudy, went to prison for manslaughter at 17. It wouldn't be his last conviction. CRACKED.COM — Source

31

Full House

Full House JOHN POSEY Вов SACET CRACKED.COM THE PILOT THE SHOW Before Bob Saget smirked his way into our hearts, Danny Tanner was played by comedian John Posey. Producers decided Posey didn't have the right vibe, so they reshot just the Tanner scenes with Saget. — Source

30

Narcissism

WHAT'S UP WITH SCIENCE? CRACKED.COM Narcissism is bad for business Narcissism is found to be common among high-ranking executives, but a new study shows that this trait can prevent the sharing of knowledge. Business knowledge transfer improves performance and helps companies gain a competitive edge. — Source

29

12 Monkeys

CRACKED COM Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys was inspired by a bizarre 1962 French film, La Jetée. La Jetée tells the story of a prisoner LA JETÉE forced to travel through time to try - and save the human race after a White CRATELAIN Essay HANILA devastating war, told through a series of still images, narration, music, and sound effects. — Source

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World War II Codebreakers

In the US, 70% of codebreakers were women . DAZOR 11,000 women were in the Army and Navy as codebreakers. In 1944, they intercepted 30,000 water-transport messages a month, enabling the Navy to sink almost every transport ship to the South Pacific. CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Candy

JOHN CANDY feared a heart attack like his dad's. WAGONS EAST CRACKED.COM According to Candy's kids, Wagons was his least enjoyable experience making a movie. Fellow actors said he looked so tired. Не died in his sleep of a heart attack after a day of filming. — Source

26

Star Trek

IN STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, SCOTTY LOOKS VERY UPSET BY A BOY'S DEATH. AND NO WONDER. IT WAS HIS NEPHEW. Scenes establishing they were related were cut from the theatrical release, making it look like Scotty was all weepy over some random crewmember. CRACKED.COM — Source

25

Twix

Celebrities' Favorite Foods Kendall Jenner TWIX hars II Twix Bar While she watches her diet due to her modeling jobs, Jenner is known to keep a Twix around her purse or cookie person to indulge in quick bite. CRACKED COM — Source

24

Anesthesia

Anesthesia was criticized as a needless luxury when it was introduced in the 1840s. CRACKED.COM Before dentist William Morton insisted that he had found a gas that could render patients insensible to the pain of surgery, even a minor tooth extraction was excruciating. — Source

23

Heidi Montag

CRACKED COM ie TV ds Heidi Montag spent nearly $2 million of her own money on her first album, titled Superficial. The album, which she and her husband produced themselves, took three years to make. Despite boasts that it was comparable to Michael HETDI Jackson's Thriller in terms MONTAS of sound and quality, SUPERACIAL Superficial was met with poor sales and bad reviews. Au — Source

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TayTweets

CRACKED Humans trained AI to be racist. In 2016, Microsoft told users that the more they tweet to Tay, the more she'd learn. Within 24 hours, she was tweeting racial slurs, Hitler quotes, incestuous sexual acts, and was immediately canceled. TWEETS FOLL 96.1K 48 Tweets Tw TayTweets — Source

21

AIDS

A GENETIC DEFECT MADE STEPHEN CROHN IMMUNE TO AIDS. Crohn had a mutation in his white blood cells that kept most strains of HIV from penetrating and affecting them. Не helped advance research towards combating the disease. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

Landmarks

Under the Lincoln Memorial, there's a cavern with dirty graffiti. The Memorial is kept up by support beams, which are in a Moria-esque underground hall. And the construction workers must have been really bored, because they left it full of graffiti that's a mix of porn doodles and dirty words. One just says boobies. CRACKED.COM — Source

19

Birds

There's a species of bird in Africa that can sort of understand human communication. Hunters use the Greater Honeyguide to find bee hives, and they tell the bird to start hunting with a brrr-hm sound. CRACKED.COM — Source

18

Chris Hemsworth

CHRIS HEMSWORTH CRACKED.COM His very first credit was the 2002 Australian TV series Guinevere Jones. Guinevere has flashbacks of her past life as the Queen of Camelot, and although he never speaks, Hemsworth plays her valiant husband, the King. — Source

17

Treaty of Versailles

CRACKED COM When the Treaty of Versailles was signed, officially ending the First World War in 1919, French Marshal Ferdinand Foch responded... THIS IS NOT PEACE. IT IS AN ARMISTICE FOR TWENTY YEARS. The Second World War started in 1939. — Source

16

POWs

CRACKED MISSING JAPANESE POWS HAVE TURNED UP IN THE FORMER USSR. The Japanese government estimates that around 400 unaccounted-for released prisoners of war just started new lives in the former Soviet Union. One of these veterans, Ishinosuke Uwano, was declared dead by his family in 2000 - however he wasn't dead, he was living with a new family in Ukraine. — Wiki Commons
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Kisses

NOT UNIVERSAL BUSINESS INTRODUCTIONS In places like Brazil, France, and Morocco, it's common to shake hands and give a light kiss on the cheek when meeting someone, even in a professional setting. CRACKED — iggsy25/Shutterstock
South Africa

14

Kleenex

CRACKED KLEENEX WAS A WORLD WAR I GAS MASK FILTER. It was then marketed as a menstrual product and then a cold cream remover until the company realized everybody was using it to mop up a different sort of leak. — Kleenex / Grunge

13

Nicolas Cage

NICHOLAS CAGE IS A SUPERMAN FANBOY. Cage loves the character so much that he named his son Kal-El (Superman's Kryptonian name). Не also used to own Superman's first comic book appearance, before selling it for $2.1 million in 2011. In the '90s, Cage almost played Superman in Tim Burton's Superman Lives, however, the project fell through. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Hollywood Stars Who Happen To Be Huge Nerds

12

Chuck E. Cheese

Chuck E. Cheese's was supposed to be called Rick Rat's Pizza. The mascot was supposed to be a coyote, and founder Nolan Bushnell ordered a coyote costume, but he got a rat costume instead. So he said he'd just call his company Rick Rat's Pizza, but his marketing department was really against that idea - so they ended up giving the mascot a name. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Bizarre Facts About Famous, Giant Companies

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Ziggy Stardust

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10

Nintendo

First-person shooters exist because Nintendo didn't want Mario on the PC. In 1990, id Software created a Super Mario 3 demo and sent it to Nintendo, hoping to get a deal to port games to the PC. But Nintendo didn't want that, so id was left to do other stuff leading to Doom and a new kind of game. — More: That Time Nintendo (Unintentionally) Gave Life To 3d Games

9

Thor: Ragnarok

Korg from Thor: Ragnarok is based on Polynesian bouncers in New Zealand. Director Taika Waititi met lots of nightclub bouncers who were big and burly, but had super-soft voices that was the inspiration for Korg. CRACKED.COM — Source: ScreenRant

8

Halloween

Community based trick-or-treating was a response to Halloween becoming too violent. During the Great Depression, Halloween mischief stopped being good natured pranks and often devolved into vandalism, physical assaults and sporadic acts of violence. CRACKED.COM — Source: History

7

DC Comics

Krypton was racially segregated. In the early '70s, DC Comics decided to address the fact that their comics were blindingly white so they introduced Vathlo Island, where all black Kryptonians lived. Condescendingly describing them as a highly developed black race didn't help matters. — More: 5 Stupid Times DC Managed To Suck At Black Superheroes

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Captain Phillips

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Metallica

40 Fresh-Faced Bits of Trivia That Dream of Getting Their Big Break on ‘Jeopardy!’ — Source: LoudWire

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Wisdom Teeth

Our brains pushed our wisdom teeth aside. The brain takes up space that the mouth used to occupY. Your teeth just never got the memo. NOW YOU KNOW CRA

3

Antarctica

A A five-story-high, blood red waterfall leaks out of a glacier in Antarctica. This outflow is called Blood Falls, for obvious reasons. CRACKED COM — Source: Atlas Obscura

2

Bob’s Burgers

LINDA BELCHER OF BOB'S BURGERS IS BASED on youtube VIDEOS BY HER voice ACTOR, JOHn ROBERTS. John made several videos parodying his mother that went

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Bounce Castles

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