40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Accidentally Built on Top of an Ancient Cemetery

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Know-it-alls and goody two-shoes?! Pfft, these facts are lame!

40 Righteous, Noble and Upstanding Bits of Trivia That You Still Kinda Wanna Smack for Some Reason

March 31, 2025

We never want to see ourselves as the villain of the story, but sometimes lame do-gooders and know-it-all teacher’s pets just irk the hell out of us! Like, “Ooh, you know everything about everything! Good for you!” You can catch us in the back of the class, chewing gum and rolling our eyes all the way back.

These facts all want that little pat on the head from the teacher, and sure, they deserve it, but they’ll get theres come recess, don’t you worry!

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Survival

Iñupiat woman Ada Blackjack spent TWO YEARS ON WRANGEL ISLAND after a failed expedition. She had to figure out how to survive in the Arctic, hunting and trapping, and she was the only one from the expedition who made it out alive. CRACKED — Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada/Wiki Commons,
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Lightning

A Virginian park ranger was struck by lightning seven times. CRACKED.COM Between 1942 and 1977, Roy Cleveland Sullivan was struck by lightning on 7 different occasions, earn- ing him an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records and the nickname Human Lighting Rod. — Source: 20 Facts That Are Like A Road Trip To Knowledge Town

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Bob the Builder

In Japan, a few foreign cartoons including Bob The Builder had to have their four finger hands edited. CRACKED.COM Having only four fingers implies membership of the Japanese Mafia, so it was suggested to add a fifth finger to these characters. — BBC

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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

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Audrey Munson

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Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is messing up the science of genetics. By default, Excel converts gene names into dates and floating-point numbers. As a result, about 20% of scientific papers that feature lists of genes in Excel format have screwed-up gene names. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — BioMed Central

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The Fastest Road Trip from L.A. to NYC

The record for the fastest run from LA to NYC is 25 hours and 39 minutes. That was the Cannonball run record set in 2020 (by a team who beat their own 2019 record of 27 hours, 25 minutes). Their average speed? 112 mph. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Interesting Facts To Fill Awkward Silences With

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Wizard of Oz

There are four known pairs of Dorothy's red slippers, worth up to $3 million Leonardo DiCaprio helped the Academy Museum purchase the most expensive pair of Wizard of Oz artifact. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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The Oldest Porn Image in the World

A ROCK CARVING IN CHINA IS THE WORLD'S OLDEST PORN. The Kangjiashimenji Petroglyphs, carved into ancient volcanic rock in the second millennium BCE, represent a huge orgy, er, fertility ritual. The scene depicts about 100 ithyphallic persons (ithyphallic being a technical term meaning sporting a boner). — More: 5 Ways Love And Dating In The Past Were Weird, Man

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The Omen

THE CAST AND CREW OF THE OMENNARROWLY ESCAPED MULTIPLE PLANE DISASTERS. YOUARE ONE DAYCLOSER TOTHE END OF THE WORLD. MEN Actor Gregory Peck, writer David Seltzer, and producer Mace Neufeld all flew in separate planes struck by lightning throughout production. Peck would later elude plane death once more when a flight he had just cancelled crashed, killing all those aboard. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Horror Movies (Even Scarier Behind The Scenes)

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Chernobyl

The guy who wrote Chernobyl also wrote Scary Movie and Hangover movies. Craig Mazin wrote jokes in the last two Hangover movies, in Scary Movie 3, and also in the Melissa McCarthy movie Identity Thief. CRACKED.COM — Source: IndieWire, Men's Health

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Mine-Sniffing Rat

WEIRD WORLD A mine-sniffing rat won a medal that's one of the highest animal honors in Britain. Magawa sniffed out 71 unexploded land mines in Cambodia, so he was the first rat that got the charity PDSA's gold medal in PDSA's 77 years. CRACKED.COM — Source: NPR

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Ben Ramsey

The writer of Dragonball Evolution regrets writing the movie. Ben Ramsey said, I spent so many years trying to deflect the blame, but at the end of the day it all comes down to the written word on page and I take full responsibility for what was such a disappointment to so many fans. I did the best I could, but at the end of the day, I 'dropped the dragon ball. CRACKED.COM — Source: IndieWire

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Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain published a graphic novel about a sushi chef who's also a murderer. HLiO! BSE ros Le The blurb for Get Jiro! starts with In a not-too-distant future L.A. where master chefs rule the town like crime lords and people literally kill for a seat at the best restaurants, — Source: Food Beast

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James Gunn

13 Fascinating Nuggets Of Movie And General Trivia - James Gunn's story treatment for Guardians of the Galaxy 2 included a song mix on a CD. — Source: Film School Rejects

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Monsters, Inc.

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Big Hero 6

A Big Hero 6 scene has a picture of Hiro's cat Mochi wearing a costume of Stitch (from Lilo & Stitch).

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Metroid

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Kwanzaa

Maulana Karenga, the man who invented Kwanzaa, went to prison for torturing two black women whom he thought were conspiring against him. The women wer

21

Insects

7,000 new insect species are discovered every year. CRACKED.COM There are more than 1,000,000 different kinds of insects known in the world. Entomologists es- timate there may be as many as 10 million undis- covered insect species. — Source

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Quentin Tarantino

celebrity Hobbies MB i I Dream Quentin Tarantino NEW im of Jeannie GAME collects board games MILTON based on old TV shows. MARATHON GRADLEY DAGANA The gritty film director has a niche hobby of collecting vintage board games licensed by classic television shows, such as I Dream of Jeannie, The A-Team, and The Dukes of Hazzard. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Walking Dead

There was absolutely no narrative reason for The Walking Dead to spend a season on a farm. THE IMPROVISATION: The network axed the Season 2 budget before even airing the pilot. So, to save money, the show was stuck with using Hershel's farm as much as possible. THE RESULT: A critically acclaimed season with a finale that was the network's most-watched episode ever at the time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Oysters

At one point, the amount of bay oysters in the Chesapeake bay could filter the entire bay in three days. However, thanks to them being overfished for horny gourmands, it would now take over a year. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Universal Basic Income

A BIG STUDY FOUND UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME DOESN'T MAKE PEOPLE WORK LESS. A Finnish study gave 2,000 unemployed people €560 a month for two years (even if they got a job), and compared how they did with how people on unemployment did. The people on UBI had better mental health, confidence, and finances, and weren't less likely to look for work. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Telephone

The telephone has no legs. WESTERN UNION CRACKED COM In an internal memo, employees were told that the telephone shouldn't be seriously considered as a means of communication. — Source

15

Kanye

Good sports about parodies Kim Kardashain and Kanye West thought Seth Rogen and James Franco's spoof of Bound 2 was hilarious, and Kanye was in stitches. There's something you don't expect with an ego the size of a black hole. CRACKED — Kanye West/YouTube
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John Wayne

CRACKED JOHN WAYNE: FROM BODYSURFING INJURY TO HOLLYWOOD STARDOM. John Wayne's football career was cut short due to a bodysurfing injury, which led him to Hollywood and his eventual success as an actor. — Outsider / Variety

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Graphic Novels

CRACKED.COM SANOMAN The Sandman popularized the graphic novel format. While not the first graphic novel, the story arcs edited as book-sized volumes sold so well that they became an industry-wide standard. — Source: JSTOR, CNET

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Howard Stern

Howard Stern THE TONIGHT SHOW GRAGKED.COM Stern was banned after his tension with Leno, a mutual dislike, came to a head with a Tonight Show appearance where he brought out adult performers and interrupted other interviews, resulting in a ban. Try hitching a ride in one of his funny little cars now, Stern! — Source: 19 Celebs Who Got Themselves Banned From TV Shows

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Vikings

Viking men wore makeup. CRACKED.COM A Spanish Arab who vis- ited Hedeby around the year 1000 described how both men and women in the town wore make-up to look young- er and more attractive. — Natmus

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Diabetes

Diabetes was successfully treated using ultrasound in a preclinical study. FOCUS: 1234 в DISTANCE +:01. 6cm CRU 0600 GS : 02. 7on toBord :07wan DORE 12d 22. 99 06. 09.99 РОБ. 03. 99 F 5 0 Across three different animal models researchers have demonstrated how short bursts of ultrasound targeted at specific clusters of nerves in the liver can effectively lower insulin and glucose levels. CRACKED.COM — News Atlas

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Alfred Hitchcock

CRACKED.COM The distrust of the police in ALFRED HITCHCOCK 's films isn't some political point - Hitchcock literally had a phobia of cops. When he was a child, his father had him locked up in a police cell to punish him. Не was afraid of the police ever since. — Talk Film Society & Newsweek

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Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Celebrated escapologist Harry Houdini and famed Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were best friends turned to bitter rivals. Doyle turned to spiritualism in his later life and was publicly ridiculed by Houdini in his live shows and newspaper. After Houdini died in a freak accident Doyle tried to contact him in the spirit world; after his failure Doyle claimed Houdini was just being stubborn. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Celebrities Who Hate Each Other For Insane Reasons

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The CIA

The Insectothopter looks like a dragonfly. During the primitive times of the '70s, the CIA designed a dragonfly drone that carried a listening device. It was propelled by a tiny gas engine in its thorax and had a frickin' laser attached to its head. BEAM SWITCHING CIRCUITRY FIG. 1 Sadly, it only had a INTAKE VALVE 200-meter range and 60 FIG. Z seconds' worth of juice. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Ridiculous Gadgets Used By IRL James Bonds

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Prussian Blue

A dye-maker added animal blood to a red dye to accidentally create Prussian Blue Prussian Blue is used in a pill to cure metal poisoning. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — My Modern Net

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Microchips

In the late '70s, the microchip industry was crippled by one guy getting sick. JOU KK/08 010 The entire industry bought diamond-tipped saws from a single dude who was making them in his garage. His getting sick halted chip supplies globally. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: The Register

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The Shining

KUBRICK ALMOST LEFT THE HERE'S JOHNNY! PART OUT. The line was thrown in by Jack Nicholson - and Kubrick, being British, didn't get that it was a reference to The Tonight Show. He came close to cutting out the film's most iconic shot. — Source: The Independent

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The Sopranos

Sopranos TKe Tony Soprano is Boss of the DIMEO crime family. There is no Soprano crime family. CRACKEDCO COM

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The Paparazzi

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