40 Scheming Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Sure Have An Attitude

Your brain doesn’t even know what it’s getting itself into
40 Scheming Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Sure Have An Attitude

You better hope your brain isn’t a follower, because if it’s easily influenced, then these devious, no-good little demons will lead it astray for sure. We’re talkin’ rough stuff like riding bikes in a construction zone, staying out after the streetlights come on, and teaching it how Vikings used to sell narwhal tusks to Europeans as “unicorn horns.”

Real bait-and-switch bad boy stuff like that.

The Constitution

THE U.S. CONSTITUTION IS RIDDLED WITH MISTAKES. People vnde vnen e eing 1 2riic! We're not talking here about stuff such as not giving everyone the ri

American Sniper

CRACKED THE UNMISTAKABLY FAKE BABY. AMERICAN SNIPER It's painfully obvious that Chris' newborn is a doll. There are shots of Bradley Cooper jiggling the arm to make it seem like it's moving, which turns a would-be emotional scene into a comedy. Apparently the real baby had a fever that day.

Plan 9 From Outer Space

Plan 9 From Outer Space was actually financed by a Baptist church. The legendarily schlocky 50s sci-fi movie was an attempt by the Baptist Church of Beverly Hills to make money to fund religious movies. It failed. CRACKED.COM

The Horse War

40 years of war over a horse race FFF CRACKED.COM In the year 568, two Arabian tribes went to war after an unbeatable horse named Dahis was scared off the track, mid-race, by opposing warriors. Dahis was, unfortunately, owned by a King, who declared war after his bet was ruined.

The Lost Glass Tumbler

WEIRD WORLD A glass tumbler was found in a woman after it was inserted, and lost, 4 years prior. A woman suffered from UTIs for a year before going to the emergency room, where an x-ray revealed something in her bladder the shape of a glass. Years prior, the woman lost the glass during an erotic encounter, which then migrated and became encased in calcified material. .ED.COM

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The First Tweet Ever

Jack Dorsey sold his/Twitter's first tweet as an NFT for over $2.9 million. The tweet, which says, just setting up my twttr, was first posted by Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, on March 21, 2006. The tweet itself will continue to live on Twitter, but the winning bidder would own the NFT, CRACKED.COM whatever that means.

SSource: CNBC

Giant LEGO Man

GIANT LEGO MAN CRACKEDO COM In 2007, drink stall workers at a Dutch resort noticed something drifting in the waters. When they fished it out of the sea they realized it was an 8' tall Lego Man, and promptly plopped it down in the front of their business. Two more giant Lego people washed up in Florida and England. The origin of the figurines is still a mystery.

Source: Reuters 

Maurice LaMarche

Mayor Quimby: horror icon. Before he voiced Mayor Quimby, Brain, Mr. Freeze, and a ton more of your favorite characters, Maurice LaMarche got his start as an impression comedian. That helped him land the role of a Vincent Price knockoff on a Halloween episode of The Facts of Life.

Boxer Crabs

Boxer crabs grab a fistfull of poison. They hold poisonous anemone in their claws, like a boxer sneaking razors into his gloves. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED

Christmas

Christmas caused the Second English Civil War. The Puritans thought people got too drunk and promiscuous on Christmas, so they banned it in England fo

Tipping

CRACKEDCO COM Tipped workers are nearly twice as likely to live in poverty as untipped workers. This could be because the base pay for tipped workers

The Fingertip Microscope

Here's the iMicro C, a phone-compatible fingertip microscope. 200um An insect leg seen through the microscope It works with any phone, and lets the re

Segregation

JO Dr. Charles Drew was a surgeon who pioneered the storage of blood for transfusions. He resigned from his post as a director of blood plasma program

Heather Langenkamp

Heather Langenkamp starred as Nancy Thompson in the cult-classic A Nightmare on EIm Street'. Heather is now CO-owner of the award-winning make-up FI

Bumble Bee Foods

CRACKEDC COM DD BEE BUMBLE LLC FOODS, In 2012, a Bumble Bee Foods employee was cooked in an industrial oven with 12, 000 pounds of canned tuna. Fortun

The Eiffel Tower

As metal expands on heating, the Eiffel Tower is actually 15-17cm taller in the summer CRACKED.COM

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