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These facts are great and all, but they’re not the only facts out there

40 Manipulative Bits of Trivia That’ll Gaslight Your Brain Into Thinking It Can’t Live Without Them

March 25, 2025

These facts are going to give you this whole spiel about them being the only facts you’ll ever need, but don’t fall for it. Yes, they’re great. They provide a ton of information about a wide variety of topics, but they don’t cover everything. How could they? There’s a lot to know out there.

You wouldn’t think that such a highly intelligent list of facts would be so insecure, but here we are. Hopefully one day they’ll know their worth and be happy with who they are.

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Christmas

For hundreds of years, December 25th was not the birthdate of Jesus Christ. CRACKED COM The 25th of December wasn't the official cele- bration date for the birth of Jesus Christ until Pope Julius I, bishop of Rome, proclaimed it so in 350 AD. — Source

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Babies

Babies in Spain get their original sin removed by having people jump over them. The annual holiday El Cola- cho (Baby Jumping) in Spain features men dressed as dev- ils jumping over babies lying on mattresses. Pope Bene- dict XVI asked Spanish priests to distance them- selves from the holiday. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The Chance of Being Born

CRACKED CHANCE OF BEING BORN It's incredibly unlikely that you were born - the odds that all 150,000 generations of your lineage would remain unbroken are about one in 400 trillion. So ... go and make the most of it. — Source

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Bangers

A sausage being called a banger comes from WWI food shortages. CRACKED.COM Meat shortages forced sausages to be made with high water content, causing them to burst when being cooked, hence the name. — Source

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Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman

Celebrities who were high school buddies Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman Both Aussies met at North Sydney Girls' High School, back in their home country. Watts dated Kidman's brother for a short while. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pitbull

CRACKED.COM Pitbull has trademarked his yell. You know that EEEYOOO! that is Pitbull's trademark? It turns out it's his actual trademark-you are not allowed to use it. The rapper managed to get legal protection for his signature yell in 2019. — Source

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The MTA

WEIRD WORLD A superintendent of the New York's MTA drives around with a blow-up doll. Specifically, he keeps it in the front seat -he says it's just to keep him company, but apparently it's a way to get around a specific law. CRACKED.COM — Source

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1990

The Human Genome Project was 1990 1991 1998 1999 1990 launched in 1990. 1998 1909 So was the Hubble Space Telescope. 1992 1990 1995 1996 NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s CRACKED.COM — Source

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Margot Robbie

CRACKED COM days Consto Margot Robbie has given 100 tattoos to different people in her free time. — Source

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The FDA

The FDA is not authorized to review dietary supplements for safety and effectiveness before they are marketed. CELLUCOR ALPHA CELLUCOR AME AMINO C4 I C4 PERFORMANCE BCAAs DRATION RECOVERY 10g CASA Os FRUIT PUNCH SPORT ECAPOR SUPFLE MENT - 30 SUGAR G4 SERVINGS REEWORKOUT METERMELONE - ANA 30 THE ORIGINAL CRACKED.COM DIET. ABY SUPPLEMENT PRE-WORKOUT The vast majority of the people that you see in ads selling workout sup- plements don't actually take them and are high dosing on anabolic ste- roids. — Source

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Plants

Soldiers-and-sailors is the nickname of the lungwort plant. With a name like lungwort... it was needed. The name comes from the flowers turning from red to blue, like the (old) uniforms of british soldiers & the navy. CRACKED.COM — Source

29

Tom Kenny

CRACKED THE VOICE OF SPONGBOB HAD SOME SPICY SKETCHES ON MR. SHOW. Tom Kenny is now famous for voicing SpongeBob SquarePants, but between his many other kids show voices, he played some really dark characters in TV, and was in 20 episodes of Mr. Show. In You're Fired, he says f*** you to Bob Odenkirk, so yeah. — IMDB / The Laugh Button

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Diss Tracks

CRACKED 0000 WESTSIBE WARLORD ICE CUBE DISSED N.W.A WITH NO VASELINE. After splitting from N.W.A, they said they were better off without him, so he clapped back with a vicious verbal assault. The entire song is one big burn, and the group never recovered. — Beats Rhymes List / Entrepreneur

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Hillary Clinton

HILLARY CLINTON Hillary once tried to drum up the youth vote by suggesting young folks should Pokémon Go to the polls. Yeah, big Hello, fellow kids energy. adidas PRACE CRACKED — Trevor Collens/Shutterstock,
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Police Interrogations

CRACKED KEEPING A SUSPECT IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE CHAIR Interrogation rooms are set up to make suspects feel really uncomfortable and powerless. They're usually tiny, soundproof rooms with only three chairs - one for the suspect that's really uncomfortable - and a one-way mirror. — How Stuff Works / North Jersey

25

Nanotechnology

CRACKED ain JAJ NANOTECHNOLOGY WAS FOUNDED ON A BET. In 1959, physicist Richard Feyman bet $1000 that nobody could build a working motor the size of a grain of salt. Bill McLellan took that bet, built one with 2,000 rpm, and inspired the field of nanotechnology. — BBC / YouTube

24

Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’

Protestors doused a Van Gogh painting with tomato soup. CRACKED.COM Van Gogh's Sunflowers was ok, as it was under protective glass the entire time. The protestors aim to show how destroying a painting gains more atten- tion than destroying the planet. — CNN / Wikimedia

23

Gilead

A pharmaceutical company developed a cure for Hepatitis C, and their stock plummeted. SL NDd GRAGKED.COM ps gnes Gilead's shares sank 9.7% in one day in 2017 since they were effectively eliminating their persistent customer base. The money is in the treatment, not the cure. — Market Watch / Unsplash

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22

30 Rock

Rachel Dratch was originally cast as Jenna. Dratch ended up playing various smaller characters on the show. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About '30 Rock'

21

Jackie Chan

CRACKED.COM Jackie Chan He's a philanthropist. Chan is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and has championed several worthy causes like nature conservation, animal protection, and disaster relief. Something we don't love as much, though? His sketchy offshore accounts unveiled by the Panama Papers. — Sources: Wikipedia, Screen Rant, UNICEF

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Game of Thrones

Game Of Thrones' hardest special effect was animating Daenerys's legs. So we had the dragon flying and the muscles moving - but Dany's legs didn't react to any of it, said VFX supervisor Derek Spears. Some of the shots, we replaced her legs completely ... Literally we had to deform the lower half of her body to make it fit. CRACKED.COM — Game Of Thrones' Hardest Special Effect Was Animating Daenerys's Legs

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Lego Bricks

A Lego brick can support a brick tower 12,000 feet tall before being destroyed. The average maximum force the bricks can withstand is 4,240N, that's equivalent to a mass of 950 lbs. It would take 375,000 Lego bricks stacked one on top of another to destroy the bottom brick. CRACKED.COM — BBC

18

The NFL

How much do NFL players actually play? One study showed 11 minutes of actual game play per every hour game. The NFL requires 20 commercial breaks per play. 35% of the time involves players just standing around. CRACKED.COM — Source: NESN

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Korea

WEIRD WORLD A South Korean actually defected to North Korea. That's extremely rare, of course, and the South Korean military carried out a search - but they weren't successful. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scent

Women are calmed by their boyfriend's or husband's scent. Researchers gave 96 women either a shirt with their partner's scent, a shirt with a stranger's scent, or an unworn shirt, without telling them which they got. Smelling the shirt with a stranger's scent elevated women's levels of cortisol (the stress hormone) during a stress test. Smelling the shirt with their partner's scent, and recognizing the scent, lowered their cortisol levels. CRACKED.COM — 25 Bizarre Statistics About Relationships And Sex

15

Penelope Cruz

Penélope Cruz collects coat hangers CRACKED.COM She has a collection of 500 coat hangers from around the world, made of all different materials - but no wire hangers. — Source: 15 Bonkers Collections That Only The Rich And Famous Can Afford

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Sex

Only 1 in 6 people aged 80 and over felt they had ENOUGH SEX in their lifetime. For those who are over 65, the only reason they would stop having sex is lack of opportunity. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Bizarre Statistics About Relationships And Sex

13

Shopping

CRACKED.COM In America shoppers generally hand the cashier money. In Japan it is customary to put the money in a small tray. 1000 1000 1000 4000 SM70000 1000 SCTUBE HOMOSE GOODIES 10-15 adidas 155kg RE 100007X ID — Source: 15 Things About Life In The U.S. That Are Super Not-Normal

12

Superman

Richard Donner was never told what the budget for Superman was. It's a miracle Donner managed to make such a beloved movie, as the producers for some reason wouldn't let him know how much money he had to work with. They'd just tell him, You can't do that, without further guidance. Не didn't even get to see the final cut until the premiere. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Random Facts For Your General Edification

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R2-D2

R2-D2 was named after something a film crew member blurted out. George Lucas and his crew were looking for 'Reel 2, Dialogue 2' of his movie THX 1138, and he heard someone ask for 'R2D2.' Не liked that, and wrote it down in his notebook. CRACKED.COM — 26 Origins Of Characters' Signature Traits

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Population

GLOBAL POPULATION HAS SLOWED. For the first time in history, humanity's billion-reaching speed has slowed down - and even the most pessimistic projections of the United Nations predict that the rate will keep dropping. Meanwhile, our ability to sustain more people keeps improving. DAY LABEL HERE YASMIN® 28 E ETHINYL ESTRADIOL TABLETS) CRACKED.COM http://www.prb.org/Publications/Lesson-Plans/HumanPopulation/PopulationGrowth.aspx — 12 Pieces Of Good News The Media Just Skipped

9

Matt LeBlanc

MATT. LEBLANC dislocated his shoulder doing a dive for a chair while filming the episode The one where no one's ready. Instead of trying to hide it, the FRIENDS writers added a storyline where Joey hurt his arm jumping on a bed. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

8

Genes

There is no gay gene However, in a study of almost half a million people, scientists have discovered genetics explain up to 25% of same-sex behavior (or at least explain why some people are more open to same-sex experiences). CRACKED.COM — Source: Science

7

The Sun

CARRINGTON SOLAR FLARE CRACKED.co COM In 1895 a solar flare with the energy of 10 billion atomic bombs hit the Earth and caused telegraph communications to fail around the globe. Colorful auroras lit up the nighttime sky like it was day, and telegraph machine circuits dripped with liquid fire due to the increased electrical current. — Source: History

6

Stephen King

Stephen King really regrets directing Maximum Overdrive, which he calls a moron movie. hn F. Kenned Maximum Overdrive star Emilio Estevez says, The few times that I've connected with him over the years, he's like, Can you forgive me for that? CRACKED.COM — Source: ScreenRant

5

Frank Sinatra

The Manchurian Candidate messed up Frank Sinatra's wrist. An on-set accident permanently damaged his wrist, and it was so bad he couldn't hold a pistol comfortably anymore. Which was why he passed on playing Dirty Harry. CRACKED.COM — Source: Yahoo

4

The Shining

THE MAZE SCENES WERE HELL. The set was hot, the fake snow was difficult to run on, and the smoke pumped in to make the environment misty made it hard to breathe. At one point, the crew resorted to wearing gas masks. — Source: American Cinematographer Magazine (via visual-memory.co.uk)

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9/11

40 Manipulative Bits of Trivia That’ll Gaslight Your Brain Into Thinking It Can’t Live Without Them — Source: Science Daily

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Charity Concerts

Charity concerts for third-world countries are super-helpful. NOW Except when they aren't. Wyclef Jean collected $15 million for Haiti, then spent ove

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Water

The Sun may be older than Earth, but the water we drink is older than the Sun.

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