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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Are the Mortar Holding Our Entire Mind Palace Together

April 03, 2025

Some of those other random facts sites might want you to use their facts sparingly, but ‘round here, we want you to generously splash these all over your brain.

How else does a brain build its knowledge reserves? One fact brick and one fact mortar sloppin’ at a time. Forty of these will help build one brain wall, then be sure to track down some more building materials laying around the site.

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Dunes

Mysterious, 100-feet deep sand dune holes baffled Indiana for years. Scientists discovered that trees, long since covered by sand, were eaten away by fungi under the dunes. The fungi created a cement-like shell that held its shape even after the trees rotted, but those eventually caved in. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Jason Statham

EMBARRASSING EARLY APPEARANCES JASON STATHAM was an oily backup dancer In the early '90s, Statham did what is truly his finest work to date. Не was a backup dancer in a few music videos in which he would appear all oiled up, like in that oil fight scene from The Transporter, but less homoerotic. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jules Verne

Jules Verne nailed several things about Moon missions. In From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, both written 100 years before actual Moon missions, three brave men are launched in a capsule from Florida, and parachute to the Pacific Ocean upon their return. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Main Characters Written With Specific Actors in Mind

The Main Characters Were Written With The Actors In Mind DEEP GRACKED.COM Writer/ Director Rawson Mar- shall Thurber wrote Dodgeball with Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn in mind for the leads. Не also wrote Justin Long's character with the actor in mind, because he was a big fan of Long's work on Galaxy Quest, just like the rest of us. — FilmSchoolRejects

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Environmental Activism

Activists chained themselves to a port lock to prevent Russian oil tankers from entering Antwerp harbor. ZELEK STAD Greenpeace started the action against a tanker by climbing on a lock that the ship had to pass through and chaining themselves to it, saying the transports fuel the war and the climate crisis. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Feel-Good News Stories That Make Us Feel Lighter Than Air

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The Beatles

The Beatles had huge successes with their films Help! and A Hard Day's Night. CRACKED.COM Thankfully they did not ever make Up Against It, a screenplay commissioned by the Beatles and written by play- wright Joe OrtonThe script was horribly offensive, there were scenes with sexu- al assaults written in for laughs, men and women fighting in a civil war against each other, and the band mem- bers dressing in drag and assassinating the Prime Minister. — The National Post

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Tarzan

Tarzan originally had superpowers. Edgar Rice Burroughs believed British aristocrats were racially superior to everyone else. So when this English scion was left in the wild to fend for himself, he naturally grew up to lord over this harsh environment - even developing superhuman strength and agility. — More: 5 Classic Characters Nearly Every Adaptation Gets Wrong

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Eye Color

Eye color genetics are more complicated than we thought CRACKED.COM Move over, Punnett Squares. Scientists have discovered over 50 new genes for eye color.

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Bread

You should not feed bread to birds. Bread is not a natural source of food for birds and provides little to no nutritional value. Malnutri- tion can cause diseases and deformities such as Angel Wings, which pre- vent the bird from flying. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Burger King

CRACKED BURGER KING SOLD HORSE MEAT IN EUROPE. In 2013, after meat suppliers were caught mixing horse meat with beef, trace amounts of horse meat was found in European Burger King burgers. — Source

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Australia

CRACKED 26 SPECIES SAVED FROM EXTINCTION IN AUSTRALIA. Thanks to the hard work of government agencies, conservation groups, and Indigenous land managers, 26 species of Australian wildlife have been saved from the brink of extinction. These include mammals, birds, frogs, reptiles, and fish. — Source

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Alicia Keys

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Pyramids

Sudan has over 200 pyramids, and the oldest are from about 2500 ВС. There are also burial chambers, tombs, and temples - - a all those buildings are concentrated at three sites: Meroe, Jebel Barkal, and El Kurru. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Boeing 747

The Wright Brothers' celebrated first flight was only 120 feet in length, shorter than the 196 ft wingspan of a Boeing 747. 196 ft 120 ft CRACKED COM — Source

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Kevin Spacey

CRACKED KEVIN SPACEY'S INTERNATIONAL EMMY FOUNDER AWARD. It was announced that Kevin Spacey would receive this global award in November of 2017, but it was revoked in October after Anthony Rapp's accusations were made public. — EW / Vox

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China

Several kingdoms in China during the Zhou dynasty used knives as a currency rather than coins. The large, bronze knives circulated in China be- tween 600 and 200 В.С. They even cast larger knives with exquisite Chi- nese calligraphy as com- memorative coins. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Primal Trek

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Mars

Human trash has been found on Mars. CRACKED.COM NASA's Perseverance Mars rover discovered part of a foil thermal blanket tucked into the rocks, probably blown there by the wind after the rover's landing. This technically makes it robot trash, so we humans don't have to take all the blame. — IGN

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Disney World

Disney World was actually just a small part of Walt Disney's Florida plans. His priority was building Epcot as a utopian living blueprint where solutions to city problems worldwide could be continually developed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Business Insider

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Will Ferrell

Will Ferrell was supposed to play Ronald Reagan in a comedy movie. It was supposed to be about Reagan dealing with his dementia getting worse in office, but complaints from the Reagan family (among others) killed the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: Variety

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Ernie Hudson

Ghostbusters movie fact - Ernie Hudson auditioned to play Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters cartoon, but didn't get cast. — Source: AV Club

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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

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Samuel Colt

Samuel Colt gave a custom gold inlaid revolver to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. GRAGKED.COM The inventor informed him that the Russians were buying his pistols. The Turkish ordered 5,000 pis- tols. Colt neglected to tell the Sultan that he had used the same tactic with the Russians. — Source

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Japan

If you bought property in Japan, chances are you might want to resell quickly. 3F ADI the ARADISE ON CE IKARADA 23 ts كم 4 2 # Рахиашш IG APPL (до) P PACHIN LA e mas Houses there depreciate in value very fast - after 25 years, a house's value goes down almost to О. CRACKED.COM — Source

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King Charles II

CRACKED.COM King Charles II drank human skulls King Charles II paid a lot of money to drink a tincture called The King's Drops. Made from human skulls from Ireland, the cannibalistic alcohol mixture was thought to be medicinal. — Source

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McDonald’s

McDonald's delivery trucks in the UK run on grease from McDonald's fryers. through traffic MART follow the freshness, M That's been the case for more than a decade, and it's thanks to grease recovery units (GRUs) installed at every UK McDonald's restaurant. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fernando Tatis

CRACKED NEW YO In 1999, FERNANDO TATÍS made history when he hit TWO GRAND SLAMS IN ONE INNING while playing for the St. Louis Cardinals. Не is the only player in Major League Baseball to ever do this. — Source

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Wristwatches

Wristwatches were exclusively worn by women until the early 20th century. - IIX Men used only pocketwatches, but wristwatches for men came into style during WWI, when soldiers needed precise timekeeping to coordinate military tactics. They were originally marketed as women's bracelets. GRACKED COM — Source

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Nicki Minaj

NICKI MINAJ refused the COVID vaccine because ofswollen balls. She said her cousin's friend's testicles became swollen after getting it, and he became impotent. Many experts were forced to address this rampant misinformation. CRACKED — Andrea Raffin/Shutterstock
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The X-Files

CRACKED 91w enphalys My absolutly Dreamteam 1w Reply maria_victoria_coquibus 1w Reply white_shewolf_ Вы такие классные 5w Reply See translation nitz.gonzales.9081 My all time 3 392,727 likes APRIL 18 2021 Add a comment... Post THE X-FILES David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson from X-Files reunited over a weekend in 2021 with Anderson's dog, Stella. Fans got a blast of nostalgia, but Anderson wouldn't be back for more stories. — EW

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The Pauli Effect

There is a term for when technical equipment encounters critical failure in the presence of certain people. The Pauli effect was coined after Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing instances in which equipment suffered technical problems only when he was present. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — PsychoVision / Wikipedia

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Diamonds in the Crown Jewels

CRACKED.COM Diamonds in the Crown Jewels were probably stolen The 1.37-pound Cullinan Diamond was the largest diamond ever found, discovered in South Africa and now split into several diamonds that are a part of the crown jewels. Buckingham Palace says they were a gift from the British colony of the Transvaal Republic, but Black township leaders in South Africa claim they were stolen and demand their return. — Source: Snopes

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French Justice

The French justice ministry is in hot water after people found out prisoners are go-karting. 63x 1-18 Benik PROIUM PoDiun PODEUM KARTING GRACKED.COM The race was part of a day of activities based on an adventure-based reality TV show called 'Koh-Lan- ta.' Other events on the day included swimming, a tug-of-war and an obstacle course. — Independent

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Biblical Beliefs

CREATIONISM CRACKED.COM In Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, God created the universe and all living things (with many believing he did so in 6 days). Fundamentalists or Young-Earth creationists hold that the sacred text provides a flawless account of how all life came into existence roughly 6-10,000 years ago. — Source: humanorigins

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Star Wars

Han Solo was frozen because Harrison Ford didn't want to come back. Unlike his costars, Ford did not sign up for two sequels after Star Wars was a hit. The actor famously told George Lucas he thought Han Solo should just die. With no promise of his return, Lucas had to change his original plans, literally putting the character on ice at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Behind-The-Scenes Star Wars Facts

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Stephen King

Stephen King has a visceral aversion to… laundry? King had a job washing industrial laundry, which was often revoltingly filthy. Have you noticed how often clotheslines and the washing of linens are featured in his work, often in an ominous way? — Source: The Take on YouTube

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Joanne Woodward

JOANNE WOODWARD got the first Hollywood Walk of Fame star. OTOWARD The Academy Award-winning actress for The Three Faces of Eve (1957) was the first to receive this dedication in 1960. CRACKED.COM — History

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Vienna

Adolf Hitler lived in Vienna in 1913. So did Joseph Stalin. They might have come across future Yugoslavian president Josip Tito.

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Prince Harry

On a Las Vegas bender, Prince Harry met Ryan Lochte and asked to swim race him. Lochte said yes, so they jumped into a pool with their clothes on and

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Yams

Have you tasted yam? Chances are, you probably haven't. Yams in America aren't actually yams. They're sweet potatoes. The confusion dates back to th

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Autism

Wondering how autism survived evolution? Easy. Autists were badass hunter-gatherers. While most of our ancestors were busy hunting and foraging in gro

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