21 Feats for Which People Were Briefly Famous

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40 Infectious Bits of Trivia That Include Nuggets About Taylor Swift From Music, Leo DiCaprio From Movies, And The Royal Family From History

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40 Infectious Bits of Trivia That Include Nuggets About Taylor Swift From Music, Leo DiCaprio From Movies, And The Royal Family From History

April 01, 2025

We get that they were just trying to be polite, but we were pretty upset that these facts sneezed into their elbow. Like, our faces were right there! We were desperately hoping to be showered in warm, gooey knowledge, but we get it.

Next time, these health-conscious facts need to drop the courtesy and just let loose on us. If not, we might have to tie their hands behind their backs.

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The Erie Canal

CRACKED JESSE HAWLEY PLOTTED THE ERIE CANAL. DELPHA Hawley was a shipping merchant whose business failed largely because of the lack of water routes across New York. So in debtors' prison, he wrote to lawmakers about developing one, and even mapped out its route. — Source

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Shelters

A motorway tunnel in Lucerne, Switzerland is actually one of the world's biggest fallout shelters. The Sonnenberg Bunker was designed so that the motorway tunnels could be closed to traffic, sealed off, and converted into fallout shelter dorms for 20,000 people. The bunker was downsized in 2006 so the motorway can't be converted into dorms anymore. But its still-operational underground logistics center can shelter 2,000 people. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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Bonnie and Clyde

By the time Bonnie and Clyde were at the height of their notorious crime spree they both walked with a limp. Clyde had chopped off two of his OWn toes

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci KING OF FRANCE CRACKED COM YEARLY STIPEND 400 ducats Da Vinci received a generous yearly payment from the King. For reference, 1 ducat was 10 days pay for one of da Vinci's students.

36

Mount Rushmore

Mt. Rushmore was designed by a white supremacist. Gutzon Borglum, the man that sculpted Mount Rushmore, was a racist who had ties to the Ku Klux Klan and was deeply involved in their politics. Не said things like, I would not trust an Indian, and referred to African Americans as a mongrel horde. CRACKED.COM — Source

35

European Magpies

European magpies passed a scientific test that proves when animals are able to recognize themselves in a mirror. CRACKED.COM The magpie ex- periment proves the birds have high cognitive abilities. — Source

34

Blondie

One Way or Another by Blondie The obsessive love song is more obsessive than it seems on the surface. Debbie Harry penned the song after being stalked by a nutjob. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tyler, the Creator

Rapper Tyler, the Creator trashed a Los Angeles club in December 2011. Apparently, he destroyed some sound equipment at L.A.'s Roxbury Theater and got his fans to start rioting - he ended up having to pay $8,000 in damages. CRACKED.COM — Source

32

Popsicles

CRACKED FRANK EPPERSON When he was 11 years old, Frank Epperson invented the popsicle, and applied for a patent. His kids called it Pop's 'sicles instead of Eppsicles, which is what he had originally named it. — Source

31

Pot

U.S. farmers were encouraged (even required) to grow pot. Hemp used to be big in colonial times. In 1619, the Virginia legislature passed a law requiring every farmer to grow hemp. Everything was fine until the early 20th century, when the plant was demonized because poor, non-white people smoked it. CRACKED.COM — Source

30

Joan of Arc

When people think of Joan of Arc being burned at the stake it's usually for the crime of being a witch. In actuality she was burned alive for wearing men's clothing, the only thing she was ever formally charged with. CRACKED.COM — Source

29

Better Call Saul

CRACKED.COM Kim Wexler was more or less disposable. Kim was created as a broadly defined tempering influence for Jimmy McGill, with the creators open to the possibility that she might become less important with time. She became an increasingly complex character instead, with her own arc being BETTER CALL SAUL one of the show's driving forces. — Source

28

COVID

Lucha libre wrestlers enforced mask wearing in Mexico. unites Baseball father son They went into the Central de Abasto market in Mexico City, the biggest wholesale food market in Latin America, and shouted Put on a mask! and Be responsible! People who didn't comply were sprayed with disinfectant. CRACKED.COM — Source

27

First Aid Kid

First Aid Kit was inspired by the dictionary. Klara Söderberg said, I was 13...and looking through a dictionary, looking for a name...I think music should be like a consolation to help you get through everyday life... CRACKED.COM — Source

26

Taylor Swift

Pop culture inspirations Taylor Swift's Death By A Thousand Cuts Swift's song from her album Lover is about A MOVIE INSPIRED BY ONE OF HER OWN SONGS. The film, Someone Great, was written by director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson after being inspired by Swift's song Clean, from her album 1989. CRACKED — Source

25

Vandalism

CRACKED THE COLOSSEUM Sir, this is not a giant, ancient Etch-a-Sketch. An Irish tourist was caught carving his initials into a pillar of Rome's Colosseum by security staff. The man's two initials, about 6 centimeters (2 inches) high, were carved with a metal point on a pillar of the first floor of the 2,000-year-old monument. — CNN

24

Mad Max: Fury Road

CLIMATE CHANGE MOVIES MAD MAX: FURY ROAD THE MOVIE WAS PRE- PRODUCTION HELL. First, filming was ready to go in Namibia, but 9/11's economic effect slashed the budget and the customized cars already built had to be destroyed. Later, in 2010, filming in Australia was ruined by a surprise rainstorm that turned the dystopian landscape into a lovely prairie, so back to Namibia it was. CRACKED.COM — 4 Ways ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Seemed Destined To Fail

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He Believed He Was His Own Brother

Не Believed Не Was His Own Brother GRACKED.COM Dali believed he was the reincar- nation of his brother, also named Salvador, who was born and died nine months before his own birth, mostly because his parents told him so, explaining the whole thing when Dali was five at his brother's grave. If you want your child to grow up to be a weird artist, that's certainly one way to do it. — Biography

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Markelle Morrow

WEIRD WORLD A rapper's corpse was propped up and on display at a nightclub for the performer's last show. Rap artist Markelle Morrow, known as Goonew, was reportedly shot to death in March. His funeral was held at a nightclub where patrons could view his body propped up, wearing a crown and standing next to fireworks. CRACKED.COM — Fox 59

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Swift Runner

There is a form of psychosis named after an indigenous cryptid. Swift Runner was a Cree trapper suffering from Wendigo Psychosis, described as an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Runner went to the gallows in 1879 after claiming to be possessed by a Wendigo spirit which caused him to murder and consume his wife and children.com — The Flesh-Eating Monster With A Mental Illness Named After It

20

NASA

WEIRD WORLD NASA experts have been hired to try and recover hundreds of millions in Bitcoin. @ R ВП F ZO METALS One Welshman threw away a hard drive that has Bitcoin that's now worth £340 million, so he got data experts from NASA to try and find it. CRACKED.GOM — Source

19

Eternals

The tension between Kro and Thena in Eternals hints at the comics. CRACKED.COM SECONO AA In the comics the two are soulmates AND with an on-off relationship. They even had twins at one point. — Vulture

18

H.G. Wells

H.G. WELLS FIRST WROTE ABOUT THE ATOM BOMB IN A 1914 NOVEL CALLED THE WORLD SET FREE. IT WOULD BE DECADES BEFORE SCIENTISTS MADE THE BOMB REAL. wells didn't even know the bomb was possible. Не just knew a little bit about radioactive decay, and thought if we ever split an atom, it would probably make a really big boom. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment That Made Crazy-Specific, Crazy-Accurate Predictions

17

Jackie Brown

РАМ GRIER BE JACKIE BROWN CRACKED.COM 70s blaxploitation films like Coffy and Foxy Brown made her cinema's first female action star. In the 90s, career peaks were a Snoop Dogg video and an episode of The Fresh Prince until Tarantino gave her the title role in the now-classic Jackie Brown. — Source: Screenrant

16

Nicolas Cage

Nic Cage has a pet crow, and a 16-foot geodesic dome for him to fly in. His name is Huginn, and he apparently understands some language - he says Hi when Cage enters the room and Bye when he leaves. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

15

Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio actually collects, uh, dinosaur fossils... ... and more. Не also has comic, rare books, and contemporary art - because of all that, ARTnews magazine put him on a 200 list of collectors. CRACKED.COM — Source

14

George Washington

Remember the story of George Washington chopping the cherry tree? It's completely made up. According to the story, when Washington was six years old he chopped down his father's prize cherry tree. When confronted, he said, I cannot tell a lie and confessed. Ironically, this story the Th iconic about value of honesty was invented by one of Washington's first biographers, an itinerant minister and bookseller named Mason Locke Weems. Weems just figured he'd make up some stories he thought would make Washington look virtuous. And people bought them so hard that Weems' pack of lies were taught as fact — Source: 21 Historical Figures Everybody Gets Wrong

13

Harry Potter

Harry Potter 7 filmed in a German town Rothenburg ob der Tauber retains the look of a fairy tale because many of its buildings date back to medieval times. In 1945, the Nazis agreed to surrender it to ensure the town wouldn't be attacked, because they valued its beauty that much. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Famous Movie Locations With Killer Back Stories

12

Doctor Who

We only got Doctor Who's Daleks because Ridley Scott wasn't around. He was supposed to be the set designer (whose responsibility was designing the Daleks) on the episode that introduced them, but he suddenly left the BBC. CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

11

When Harry Met Sally

Sally's fake orgasm I should have an orgasm! That would be hilarious, Meg Ryan suggested when the topic came out in a production — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

10

Roger Moore

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9

New Girl

40 Infectious Bits of Trivia That Include Nuggets About Taylor Swift From Music, Leo DiCaprio From Movies, And The Royal Family From History

8

Hitchcock

AIfred Hitchcock loved Smokey And The Bandit. It was the last movie he saw before he died. According to his daughter Patricia, the father of modern su — Source: 6 Celebrities Who Are Fanboys Of The Last Thing You Expect

7

Michelin Stars

CRACKED COM A three-Michelin-star restaurant will fill up its space with mannequins. Virginia's restaurants can only be filled to 50% capacity so, to — Source: Washingtonian

6

The Royal Family

When traveling, the Royal Family must pack an all-black outfit. They must be prepared and have something to wear in case something tragic happens. CRA

5

Goals

WRITE DOWN YOUR GOALS TO GET MOTIVATED. Research has shown that if you write a specific goal down, you are much more likely to achieve it.

4

Havelock Ellis

Psychologist Havelock Ellis documented in his book Psychology of Sex that Catherine The Great employed royal foot ticklers who would sing her dirty

3

Brain Fluid

THE GOOEY STUFF COMING OUT OF YOUR NOSE MIGHT BE YOUR BRAIN'S CEREBROSPINAL FLUID (CSF). CSF surrounds the brain, contained within a lining called the

2

The Crow

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Safety Tips

CRACKED.COM fonaras If during the apocalypse-by-tornado you happen TO be in a vehicle, drive to the nearest fast food restaurant. -O They usually have

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