40 Random Bits of A Top Secret Pop-Culture Trivia Chat We Accidentally Added Jeffrey Goldberg To, But It’s Fine

40 Random Bits of A Top Secret Pop-Culture Trivia Chat We Accidentally Added Jeffrey Goldberg To, But It’s Fine

40 Times Hollywood Didn't Care Who Got Injured Or Killed to Get the Shot

40 Times Hollywood Didn't Care Who Got Injured Or Killed to Get the Shot

12 Trivia Tidbits That Sing Like A Choir About Pop-Culture, News, And History

12 Trivia Tidbits That Sing Like A Choir About Pop-Culture, News, And History

12 Hit Songs You Might Not Know Were Written for Movies

12 Hit Songs You Might Not Know Were Written for Movies

36 Shocking Times People Accidentally Saw Way Too Much

36 Shocking Times People Accidentally Saw Way Too Much

40 Random Bits of Trivia Wrapped in Cheese So You Don’t Know They’re Good for You

Get these brain nutrients up in there!

40 Random Bits of Trivia Wrapped in Cheese So You Don’t Know They’re Good for You

March 27, 2025

We know what it’s like to have a picky brain. It wants what it wants and is terrified to venture out of its comfort zone. There are some facts that it’ll love as is, but for the healthier ones that you know it’ll scoff at, you might have to douse them in cheese sauce or promise dessert facts if it reads a few nutritious ones.

Your call. We won’t tell you how to parent your brain.

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Shrek

The guy who wrote the Shrek picture book started his writing career at age 61. After working for decades as an illustrator and cartoonist, William Steig wrote 31 children's books, and kept writing into his 90s-- he wrote Shrek in his 80s. CRACKED.COM — Source: USAToday

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Chickens

Chickens were initially bred for cockfighting before food. CRACKED COMP Cockfighting began in Southeast Asia with the Red Junglefowl, which was interbred with India's Gray Junglefowl for the specta- cle of their fighting prow- ess back in 4000 ВС. — Source

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Stone Tools

An archaeological site with enormous stone tools was found, predating the genus Homo by 500k years. CRACKED.COM The site, Lomekwi 3, was dated to be 3.3 million years old, which is 700,000 years older than previous stone tools discovered. The hominins likely responsible were Australopithecus, an early human species. — Source

37

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Buffy episode Hush had almost no dialogue. How do S get my JOSS WHEDON LEFT IT OUT TO SPITE HIS CRITICS. Whedon's detractors felt that dialogue was his only redeeming skill, so Whedon decided to prove them wrong. Hush is almost completely silent from beginning to end, which Whedon accomplished by having demons take away people's voices. The episode wound up earning an Emmy and a huge cult following. GRACKED.COM https:/www businessinsider.com aw/buffy-episode-hush-was-a-masterpiece-2014-7 — Source

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Jeff Dunham

Jeff Dunham, who voices Achmed the Dead Terrorist, is huge among Arabs.. For example, he draws Muslim crowds at sold-out Abu Dhabi gigs.

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Alcohol

MYTH: ALCOHOL KILLS BRAIN CELLS! FACT8 IT JUsT IMPAIRS THEM FOR A WHILE. According to scientific studies, the dopiness associated with being drunk has

34

South Park

The South Park pilot was accidentally included on the Tiger Woods PGA Tour '99 game. Ition The game had to be re- called because the entire South Park pilot was used as dummy data on the disc and players could watch the episode by simply put- ting the game disc into a PC. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Orange Is the New Black

THE CIGARETTE-SMUGGLING ROACHES IN ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK WERE REAL TRAINED COCKROACHES. Prop master Rachael Weinzimer said she CRACKED.COM couldn't just attach a cigarette to a cockroach and send it on its way, SO insect handlers had to teach the bugs to navigate a prototype maze they designed. — Source

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MM-DD-YY Construction

dd-mm-yyyy dd-mm-yyyy and yyyy-mm-dd dd-mm-yyyy. mm-dd-yyyy. and yyyy-mm-dd yyyy-mm-dd mm-dd-yyyy mm-dd-yyyy and dd-mm-yyyy America is the only country in the world that relies solely on the MM-DD-YY date format, and only a few others consider it to be an option. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mike Rowe

Mike Rowe was an opera singer with the Baltimore Opera. The Dirty Jobs host learned the simplest aria he could find, auditioned, and got a job. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cyprus

Nicosia, Cyprus is the only capital city that has two time zones. GRAGKED.COM Owing to the Turkish inva- sion and occupation of Northern Cyprus in 1974, the city has been split in half for over 40 years, and is one of the few capitals without an airport. — Source

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Taxi Driver

CRACKED.COM DO Taxi Driver was written in two weeks. Screenwriter Paul Schrader was going through marriage problems, lost his job, was broke, and suffered a bleeding ulcer. His depression from all this at the same time drove him to write about Travis Bickle, or I was going to start to become him. — Source

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Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

STAR WARS: ROGUE SQUADRON SHOWS OFF PHANTOM MENACE SHIPS BEFORE THE MOVIE RELEASE. SELECT YOUR CRAFT NABOO STARFIGHTER SECONDARY WEAPON SEEKER TORPEDOES CRACKED.COM By entering a cheat code, players could select a Naboo Starfighter to pilot in the Nintendo 64's Rogue Squadron. It would be six months until this class of ship was revealed in The Phantom Menace. — Source

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McDonald’s

McDonald's Onion Nuggets Onion Nuggets Before the Chicken McNugget, there was the Onion Nugget. Introduced in the 1970s, they were clumps of onions deep-breaded and fried. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chris Rock

IN 1999, CHRIS ROCK OPENED HIS HBO SHOW BY JOKINGLY SAYING O.J. SIMPSON VISITED TO PROMOTE A VIDEO. DIANT KIII MY Wife! But If I DID, Here's How I'd Do It ITS TITLE: I DIDN'T KILL MY WIFE... BUT IF I DID, HERE'S HOW I'D DO IT. in 2007, simpson really did release I DID IT D.J. SIMPSO a book called If I Did It, about the murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. Не even planned a TV special called O.J. simpson: If I Did It, Here's HOW it Happened. IFE DID IT CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment That Made Crazy-Specific, Crazy-Accurate Predictions

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Nobel Prize Winners

Takaaki Kajita in Japan and Arthur В. McDonald in Canada independently proved that neutrinos have mass. CRACKED COM They shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. — 12 Uncanny Instances Of Simultaneous Invention

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Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg made the world's largest... cocktail. CRACKED COM While booze isn't his vice of choice, he mixed the massive paradise cocktail in 2018, and donated it to... VIPs at a Nappa Valley music fest. Cool. — Source: Guinness

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Frasier

Lisa Kudrow was too funny. FRASIER Writers were taken aback by her delivery, and would have to rewrite her dialogue after read-throughs. The new lines

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Moths

The lunar moth has no mouth or stomach. They have only vestigial mouthparts and no diges- tive system. Their sole purpose in life is to repro- duce. They have only about a week to do so be- fore they die. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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New Coke

CRACKED.COM NEW CC Conservatism played a big part in the failure of New Coke. de-mark The backlash against the new recipe was particularly strong amongst Southern conservatives, who saw it as a new aggression from those damn Yankees. A University of Mississippi professor called it an intrusion on tradition that Southerners won't like, regardless of how it tastes. — Source

20

Star Wars

PALPATINE WAS A WOMAN WITH A CHIMP'S EYES. lan McDiarmid has become so iconic as Palpatine that it's easy to forget the part was originally played by someone else. In the theatrical version of The Empire Strikes Back, the Emperor was actress Marjorie Eaton in heavy makeup, with chimpanzee eyes composited on top of her face. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Americans

FOR TRIPS OF LESS THAN ONE MILE... 70% OF AMERICANS WILL DRIVE. 70% OF EUROPEANS WILL WALK, BIKE, OR USE PUBLIC TRANSPORT. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kenya

70% of elite distance running races have been won by Kenyans. MOROCCO ©TDK Selmoun I - 1 15 и ФТРК it KONY FOR Kipsin FOR Scinsk Chepko ETNORIA 16 STOK Bekele 4 F GRACKED.COM Specifically, Ken- yans from the Kalenjin communi- ty, who make up just 0.06% of the world's population. — Source

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The Rock

When he was 15, The Rock saved his mom from committing suicide. She left her car on Interstate 65 and just started walking into traffic. The Rock followed her and pulled her back - - and today, he says, she doesn't remember any of that (Probably best she doesn't, he says). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Content Consumption in Asia

47% -amount of viewers who watch content on their PCs in Asia. Additionally, 37% watch content on their phones, and TVs only get 3% of overall watch time. CRACKED.COM — Source

15

Felicity Huffman

Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now FELICITY HUFFMAN can boast an Emmy and a Golden Globe. SHE CAN ALSO BOAST 14 DAYS IN PRISON for a college admission bribery scandal. Lori Loughlin was also involved, but Huffman is, you know, a much better actress- so her downfall actually darkens the movie industry, and not just Full House reboots. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hypothermia

People instinctively start to burrow in the final stages of hypothermia. CRACKED COM Humans exhibit two strange behaviors at this time; para- doxical undressing, despite being dangerously close to death, and a completely au- tonomous, instinctual bur- rowing behavior. — Source

13

Wealth in 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

12

The Founding Fathers

CRACKED.COM MYTH: The Founding Fathers were Christians. No matter who you include as a Founding Father, not all of them were Christian. Deism (which prioritizes human experience and rationality over religious dogma and texts) had a huge influence during their time. — Source

11

Back to the Future Reunion

CRACKED COMIC CON CO POPK RE NK Esdpap a DANC BACK TO THE FUTURE Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd reunited at New York Comic-Con, 37 years after 'Back to the Future'. They talked about their first meeting and their friendship, with Fox honoring his mom who passed away two weeks before. — People

10

Furio from ‘The Sopranos’

CRACKED FURIO FOUND A $10 MILLION PAINTING. Federico Castelluccio, who played Furio in The Sopranos, discovered a painting that turned out to be worth $10 million. Even two experts who normally disagree came together on this one and confirmed it as the real deal. — HBO, Guercino
Artnet News

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Independence Day

Fourth of July Movies Independence Day The president's speech was written in five minutes. The speech was supposed to be a placeholder, but they forgot about it until Bill Pullman was already practicing it. Then Pullman kicked it out of the park by delivering it in front of actually tired extras. Those friggin' aliens didn't stand a chance. CRACKED.COM — Source: Complex

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Ostrich Eggs

Equal to roughly 24 hen's eggs, an ostrich egg can take between one to two hours to boil. CRACKED COM An egg from an ostrich is similar to a hen's egg in taste, according to some, though oth- ers find the large nov- elty egg more gam- ey. — BBC

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Slow Lorises

Slow Lorises CRACKED COM These Beanie-Babies-made-real are actually the only venomous primate. By rubbing their poison armpit secretions onto their teeth, they deliver a bite that rots flesh, if it doesn't send you into anaphylactic shock first. — Source: 20 'Harmless' Looking Animals (That Are Actually Monsters)

6

Canada

Canada eats more Kraft macaroni & cheese than any other nation in the world. Canadians eat 55% more Kraft Dinner (their term) than people in the U.S. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Food Network

5

Logos

Source: 27 Real-World Easter Eggs Under Our Noses

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Flavor Flav

Flavor Flav CRACKED.cO COM Home decor fashion icon Flavor Flav was considered a musical prodigy as a child. He taught himself how to play multiple ins — Source: Cracked

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Jim Belushi

Jim Belushi is now an Oregon pot farmer. He still performs, but he's trying to devote more time to his 93-acre property, saying I've been getting tot — Source: PDX Monthly

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Mines

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Daylight Saving Time

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