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40 Random Bits of Trivia to Sploosh Into Your Cranium Like an Over-Pumped Super Soaker

March 28, 2025

Normally, we wait for you to come to us, but today we’re tracking you down. We sprayed facts all over one guy this morning, and it was awesome. We crouched behind some bushes outside of his office and blasted him right when he got out of his car.

And don’t think that you’re safe just because we gave you this warning. You’re already in our crosshairs, kiddo. Just turn around and see for yourself.

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Pretty Woman

Movie Goofs Pretty Woman In the breakfast scene, watch out for Julia Roberts' pastry. It quickly switches from croissant to pancake, and then to an even different pancake. It's truly a movie about a call girl with a heart of gold and matter-transforming quantum powers. CRACKED.COM

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Remote Diagnoses

65 50 REMOTE 5 DIAGNOSES 1905 CRACKED.COM The Popular Mechanics version of medical video conferencing included an electric handshake that touches you from afar. That didn't come to pass. And if it did, you know we'd have it shaking body parts for decidedly non-medical purposes. — Source

38

Halo

HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED CRACKED.COM Halo: Combat Evolved was almost a top-down, real time strategy game, a la StarCraft. It wasn't until Microsoft bought the developing studio, Bungie, and launched Halo as their flagship XBox title that it became the first person shooter we know. — Source

37

Punk to Pop

CRACKED THE OFFSPRING Many people saw The Offspring's 1994 album Smash as a bit scary and edgy. But over time, the band's success has made them more of a fun, lighthearted act. In Smash and their two albums before that, they were really kinda punk rock. — Treblezine / YouTube

36

The MCU

We almost got to see Cap's severed head in Avengers: Endgame. One idea had Thanos toss the head, with the mask still on, to a living Captain America. — Source: Empire Online

35

Jason Hervey

The big brother from The Wonder Years used to be a PR shill. Jason Hervey (whom you might remember bullying Fred Savage) was in 2003 the head of PR at healthcare giant HealthSound. But when HealthSound got involved in a billion-dollar accounting scandal, Hervey sucked at his job of making the company look as good as possible. Не was eventually fired, so he sued them for $400,000. CRACKED.COM — Source

34

Weddings

Throwing rice isn't bad for birds. There's no proof that the wedding tradition results in poor health of birds. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

33

Phosphorus

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Exodus from Egypt

Moses didn't demand freedom for the Israelites. Не did say to the Pharaoh, Let my people go - but then he added, so they may hold a festival to in the wilderness. It was less a plea for freedom, and more like asking your parents if you can go to Coachella. — More: Thou Shalt Maybe Kill: 5 Bible Facts Everyone Gets Wrong
Image: The Crossing of the Red Sea, by Nicolas Poussin (ca. 1634)

31

Ancient Greek Battles

Ceramic Fragments ANCIENT GREECE Ancient Greeks used to sometimes write the names of their enemies on the shards. BRB writing some choice Congress mem — Source: Scientific American

30

Vanilla

13 Cool Things You Didn’t Know About Movies (And Other Stuff) - A 12-year-old slave invented modern vanilla pollination. — Source: National Geographic, Lapham's Quarterly

29

Back to the Future

CRACKED.COM Marty MCFLY just wasn't funny. Back to the Future started production with Eric Stoltz as Marty. But Stoltz' comedic energy was just not th

28

Gone With the Wind

LUCILLE BALL TRIED OUT FOR SCARLETT IN GONE WITH THE WIND. Before her groundbreaking years in I Love Lucy, a relatively unknown Ball auditioned for Sc

27

The Ghost

MATT L. URBAN IS THE MOST DECORATED SOLDIER IN us HISTORY HIS ENEMIES CALLED HIM 'THE GHOST. Captain Urban earned the nickname from his German enemi

26

Bumble Bee Foods

CRACKED.COM BUMBLE FOODS, BEE ® LLC ® In 2012, a Bumble Bee Foods employee was cooked in an industrial oven with 12,000 pounds of canned tuna. Fortunately, the contaminated fish never went to market.

25

Math

WEIRD WORLD A guy in Indiana got strange powers thanks to a horrible, freakish incident. X-X I Y-Y x2 2-X After a head injury from a violent attack, he became kind of a math genius - and even found a home thanks to his gift. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Her

Her В SAMANTHA I DI VAL s N CO CRACKED.COM Spike Jonze realized in post-production that having Samantha Morton perform her lines completely isolated from Joaquin Phoenix created exactly о chemistry. So he had Scarlett Johansson come in and re-record the lines for four months. — Source

23

Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando walked around pantsless. THE SCORE CRACKED.COM Brando had it out for director Frank Oz. Не would only take direction from him via a third party, called him Miss Piggy, and showed up to set Donald Duck-style, so Oz couldn't film his whole body. — Source

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22

Australia

In Australia, there's a fire that started burning before the pyramids were built. A coal seam under the surface of Mount Wingen began smoldering 6,000 years ago, and hasn't stopped since. It's the world's oldest continuous coal fire. x NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

21

Spike Lee

Made DO THE RIGHT THING SPIKE LEE WROTE THE SCREENPLAY IN TWO WEEKS. I'd wake up in the morning and write for three or four hours, then I'd quit, carry on with the rest of the day, and come back the next morning. The movie was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

Slavery

CRACKED One of the last known children of an enslaved person died in 2022. Daniel Smith died in October 2022 at 90 years old. His father, Abram Smith, was born into bondage during the American Civil War in Virginia. — Source

19

Boosie Badazz

A fan drove three hours + 15,000, to bring rapper Boosie OVER 0743,000,000 IN CASH PR OVER 1175,000,000 m PRIZES FROM $500 UP 100130 Badazz some much-needed SINNING NUMBERS Z insulin to his home. YOUR RUMBERS $ $ $ $ PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE $ S PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE $ $ $ PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE S S $ L PRIZE PRIZE 99 PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE VAL $ $ PRIZE PRIZE STON EN She refused payment but stopped to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket after leaving the house and won $14,000. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

18

Rocky

Rocky and Adrian's lovely first date owes its magic to the movie running out of money. EL VISITOR THE IMPROVISATION: Rocky's ice rink date scene was supposed to have 300 extras. But the movie burned through cash too fast, so Rocky and Adrian had to be in an empty ice rink. THE RESULT: A surprisingly intimate atmosphere that made for one of the best ever movie first dates. CRACKED.COM — Source

17

Heinz

McDonalds' stopped serving Heinz ketchup suddenly after 40 years. HEINZ -1869 TOMATO KETCHUP AUX TOMATES 375 mL The reasoning was pretty simple - a Burger King exec became the head of Heinz, which ended Heinz' 40-year relationship with McDonalds'. CRACKED.COM — Source

16

Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman CRACKED.COM She pulled the movie star equivalent of calling dibs on top bunk: a contract clause that said no other cast member may receive more favorable dressing rooms. — Source

15

Adam Scott

CRACKED.COM STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT ADAM SCOTT GOT TO DRIVE THE DEFIANT. No wonder Parks and Recreation's Ben Wyatt is such a Trek-loving nerd-he was a helmsman under Worf. He's barely on screen, but has the awesome job of announcing the Enterprise has arrived. — Source: 17 Stars We Forgot Were on 'Star Trek'

14

The CIA

CIA satellites in the 1960s would jettison heat-shielded film canisters with parachutes back to Earth. CRACKED.COM The fifth generation of satellites had about 3 miles of film per camera, which was to be retrieved in mid-air by plane. — Vice

13

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

writers on screen Fleabag Phoebe waller-Bridge Waller-Bridge wrote and starred in this series based on her play of the same name. CRACKED.COM — Source: NME

12

Tasmania

4-year-old Shayla Phillips was found safe after two days lost in Tasmania. Shayla disappeared on Wednesday afternoon from the backyard of her family home on Stormlea Road, Stormlea. After a search involving 100 personnel, sniffer dogs, horses, helicopters and drones, she was found on Friday having spent two nights in the open.rom — ABC

11

Atari

Atari to Jobs and Wozniak: 1976 ATARI® CRACKED.COM When Jobs offered to sell him the rights to his personal computer, Atari president Joe Keenan said get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product. — Source: 14 Smart People Who Said And Did Utterly Dumb Things

10

Coffee

Adding cold cream to hot coffee keeps 4 it warm longer. 8 RN CRACKED.COM Partly because the slightly cooler coffee now loses heat less quickly and partly because the denser liquid hag So4 resists evaporation better. — Source: 14 True Facts That Sound Like Total Nonsense

9

Christmas

CRACKED.COM The Christmas song Do You Hear What I Hear tells the story of the Star of Bethlehem leading the magi to Christ. Produced in 1962, the song's writers intended for the lyrics to also serve as a commentary on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Co-writer Noel Regney once said: In the studio, the producer was listening to the radio to see if we had been obliterated. — Familiar Holidays That Have Dirty Little Secrets

8

Adam Driver

BEFORE ADAM DRIVER COMMANDED THE FIRST ORDER AS KYLO REN... HE WAS JUST A GOOFY KID IN THE MARINES. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celeb Early Photos That Don't Look Like The Same Person

7

Rifles

The Crowd- blinding rifle CRACKED.COM The Personal Halting and Stimulation Response rifle (PHASR) ((UGH.)) can blind multiple targets from far away, and almost definitely violates the 1995 Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons.

6

FDR

15 Of The Most Shameful Cases Of False Reporting From The Media - The prestigious Literary Digest confidently predicted Alf Landon would beat FDR to t — Source: Social Science History

5

Frozen

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4

E-books

E-books The Fiske Reading Machine was the unholy lovechild of a monocole and a horse blinder. Entire books could be shrunk down to miniscule cheat she — Source: Engadget

3

Get Out

In Get Out, Walter wears an actual pair of running shoes from 1936... because Rose's grandfather never got over losing to Jesse Owens in that year's O

2

Weird Al

eWeird Al Yankovic he says took several first dates to The Naked see Gun. He wouldn't mention his cameo. He'd just wear the same shirt and wait for h

1

Jerry Orbach

Jerry Orbach wasn't having any of your Dirty Dancing. Unless it was as a singing candleabra. Orbach played Baby's father - the one who wanted to keep

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