12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Friday, April 11, 2025

12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Friday, April 11, 2025

The Epic Prank ‘SNL’ Writers Played on Jon Hamm When He First Hosted

The Epic Prank ‘SNL’ Writers Played on Jon Hamm When He First Hosted

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Will Flash Through Your Brain Instead of a Montage of Your Beautiful Wife and Family As You Sacrifice Yourself to Save the Universe

40 Shadowy Bits of Trivia That’ll Sneak in Through the Back Door

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40 Shadowy Bits of Trivia That’ll Sneak in Through the Back Door

April 06, 2025

If a list of 40 facts seems a little daunting, don’t worry. You’ll only have to read a few of them, because while those few distract you, the others will be sneaking into the back of your brain.

We don’t exactly know how they do it. It seems like going through the ears would be much easier, but they know you’d be expecting that obvious choice. The how isn’t the important part here. Forty facts are about to get into your brain, and any way they do it is a good thing in our books.

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Rich People

Rich people requests A GLOBAL YACHT MEASURING CONTEST An Australian billionaire ordered his yacht to be driven from Sydney to NYC, and have lunch for 50 people ready. None of the food was eaten, he was just having a rich dude party in a building overlooking the harbor, and just wanted to say, That's my boat. CRACKED — Source

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The Olympics

The Olympic games used to include gold medals in categories such as sculpturing and statistics. GRAGKED.COM The founder of mod- ern Olympics himself, Pierre de Coubertin, won the gold medal in literature at the 1912 summer Olympics. — Source

38

Che Guevara

Ernesto Che Guevara was also nicknamed El Chancho (The Pig)... Because he seldom bathed. CRACKED.COM — Source

37

Nintendo

Nintendo lied to us about Donkey Kong 64. When Donkey Kong 64 was released, you needed an Expansion Pack to play it. The official explanation was that the game was too DM big for the N64's regular memory setup - but this was a filthy lie. The real reason was that the game shipped with a bug that caused random crashes without the extra memory. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep heavily focused on playing the guitar for six months for a movie. It was Ricki and the Flash, where she plays a rock star-and, while filming the movie's finale, she shredded so hard that she drew blood. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Actors Who Went Way, Way Beyond The Call Of Duty For A Movie

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Tron

Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - Programs fighting other programs in the Disc Arena was Tron's way of paying homage to Spartacus. — Source: Film School Rejects

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Charlie Parker

15 Epic Feats of Partying by Famous People - When the sax player cranked out “Embraceable You” at his party, one guest started stripping. Parker then — Source: Phoenix New Times

33

Star Trek

The engine room scenes in 2009's Star Trek were shot in a brewery. J.J. Abrams wanted a big, open space that was totally unlike the soundstage sets seen in every Trek before that, so they used the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Van Nuys, California - which has 1.7 million square feet of floor area. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ed Helms

STU'S MISSING TOOTH FROM THE HANGOVER How did they make Ed Helm's mouth-hole seem so realistic? Turns out he really is missing a tooth. It never grew in as a teen and he's been wearing a dental implant ever since, waiting for the chance to turn tooth tragedy into comedy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The First Homicide Detectives

It was believed that murdered corpses bled in the presence of their killers. This belief that victims oozed cries of revenge didn't fully die out until the early 1800s. Cruentation, as the phenomenon was called, was even weighted more heavily than actual evidence of murder. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Michelle Pfeiffer

CRACKED SHADY TIES MICHELLE PFEIFFER AND THE BREATHARIANS The group claims to get all their nourishment from the sun. They were very controlling, Pfeiffer said. I had to pay for all the time I was there, so it was financially draining. When researching cults for a film, she realized she was in one, and left. — Matteo Chinellato/Shutterstock
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Palau

Palau, in Oceania, is the first country to require tourists to take an eco-pledge. CRACKED.COM The government of Palau requires all tourists enter- ing to sign a pledge stamped on their passport promising to be environ- mentally conscious and tread lightly, act kindly, and explore mindfully. — NatGeo / Pixabay

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Edward Kelley

EDWARD KELLEY Kelley came to John Dee (see previous entry) as a young man who could speak to angels, and Dee ate up his every word. Kelley was also considered a master of alchemy, even being knighted in Prague for it. CRACKED — Source: London Review of Books

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Blade Runner

CRACKED.COM The title of Blade Runner came from an unrelated novel. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was certainly an ungainly title for a movie. After considering Android and Mechanismo, the filmmakers took the title of Alan Е. Nourse's The Bladerunner, a novel about smugglers of surgical equipment (people who run blades). — Source: 15 Random Facts to Flex Your Knowledge Muscles

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Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld can't cook for himself or make his own bed. When the Chanel fashion designer was younger, he never learned basic daily tasks, because his mother taught him to depend on people, giving him more time to be successful. Now Lagerfeld has an entire staff to do the boring stuff for him. CRACKED.COM — These 16 Celebs Are Just Not In Touch With Everyday Life

25

That ’80s Show

That '70s Show THAT '80S SHOW CRACKED COM Ever wonder what That '70s Show would be like if it took place in a Hot Topic and starred a pre-fame Glenn H

24

Geordi LaForge

Geordi LaForge was based on a disabled Star Trek superfan. His name was George LaForge, he'd suffered from muscular dystrophy, and he showed up all the time at fan conventions. Не made friends with Gene Roddenberry, and Roddenberry remembered him when he was creating characters for The Next Generation. CRACKED.COM

23

Barack Obama

Barack Obama earned the nickname O'bomber in high school. CRACKED.COM Obama played on his high school basketball team with a group of friends who gave him the nickname Barry O'bomber because of the long-range jump shots he loved taking. — Source

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AT&T

AT&T was forwarding global internet traffic to the government from secret rooms inside its offices. 641A CRACKED.COM 'Room 641A' houses beam- splitters capable of moni- toring all the internet traf- fic in the US. It was largely thought to be a myth until an NSA surveillance pro- gram revealed its existence in 2007. — Source

21

Nepal

In 2013, Nepal introduced a third gender option for IDs of individuals not identifying as male or female. GRACKED.COM — Source

20

Paul McCartney

In 1984, Paul McCartney wrote the screenplay for and played himself in Give My Regards to Broad Street. Somehow, he has zero charisma, and manages to make being a rock star look dull and plodding. Also, there's a rehashed plot, flat characters, and many pointless dream sequences. It bombed hard, critically and financially. Why did McCartney make it? Because being the star of his own movie was his childhood dream. CRACKED.COM — Source

19

Printers

Airports use dot matrix printers. In an airport you won't just hear the PA system and the hubbub of people - but also the whiiiir- whiiiiir of these ancient, clunky devices. Reasons given are cost, reliability, and compatibility with legacy computer systems. rend i I E - PRODUCE COOP NEW JAME - - DEL CHOLP eno - 11 PARA E 8: In 11 CRACKED.COM — Source

18

King Kong

Easter Eggs for Polyglots King Kong show me the monkey. The ship Carl Denham is traveling on receives a message ordering Denham's arrest - but what the Morse code beeps actually spell is, SHOW ME THE MONKEY. CRACKED.COM — Source

17

Hollywood Feuds

Hollywood feuds VAL KILMER & TOMMY LEE JONES VS JOEL SCHUMACHER Schumacher said, I'm tired of defending overpaid, overprivileged actors. I pray I don't work with them again. Не called Jones an asshole and Kilmer psychotic, and said, The two weeks where Kilmer didn't speak to me was bliss. CRACKED — Source

16

The Washington Monument

The Washington Monument has a tiny, hidden twin. A 12-foot replica of the Monument is buried right next to it. It was built in the 1880s as a surveyor's tool-they'd use its scale to verify readings. The ground level rose over time, and the Mini Monument was encased in a tube, buried, and forgotten. CRACKED.COM — Source

15

Communion

The Vatican forbids gluten-free wafers from use in communion. CRACKED.COM Bread and wafers used in the sacrament must be unleavened, purely of wheat, and recently made so that there is no danger of decomposition. — Source

14

Bobby Farrell

CRACKED DECEMBER 30: BOBBY FARRELL'S AND RASPUTIN'S DEATHS On December 30, 2010, Bobby Farrell, the lead singer of Boney M, died in St. Petersburg, Russia - the same place where Grigori Rasputin, who Boney M wrote a song about, had been killed in 1916 on the same date. — Telegraph

13

Scent

Why are you supposed to spray perfume on your wrists and neck? They're some of the places on your body where your blood vessels are closest to the skin, meaning they give off heat, which helps the scent of your perfume or cologne last all day. CRACKED — marinafrost/Shutterstock
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12

Ancient Persia

ANCIENT ENGINEERING WINDMILLS IN NASHTIFAN The windmills in the small Iranian village of Nashtifan have been around for 1,000 years, making them some of the oldest in the world. They were built in ancient Persia, and have been used to grind flour ever since. CRACKED — Hamed Yeganeh/Shutterstock
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Jessica Alba

Celebrity Superstitions Jessica Alba's spiritual handcuffs. At her baby shower, she gave friends (including Kim Kardashian and Rashida Jones) leather prayer bracelets, and said they weren't allowed to take them off until her daughter was born, because their energy would protect her from harm. CRACKED — Tinseltown/Shutterstock
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10

Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis THE RETURN OF BRUNO CRACKED.COM Bruce Willis had a short-lived music career in the late 1980s, during which he released an album and starred in a mockumentary. The Return of Bruno reached number 14 on the Billboard 200 and its lead single, Respect Yourself, reached number five. — Smooth Radio

9

Halle Berry

Actors Who Weren't Always In On The Joke Halle Berry was honored to win a Razzie. For her role in Catwoman, Berry earned a Razzie Award for Worst Actor, and she actually showed up to accept it. She gave a hilariously ironic speech as if it were an Oscar, and received a standing ovation for being such a good sport. CRACKED — Warner Bros. Pictures, DFree/Shutterstock
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8

Firefly

'Firefly' has been permanently added to the International Space Station. Astronaut Steven Ray Swanson was a big fan of the show, and the 2005 movie 'Serenity,' so he brought both DVDs with him aboard the ISS in 2007. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Cheatsheet

7

Billy Joel

Billy Joel received his high school diploma at age 43. CRACKED.COM In 1967, he was playing at a piano bar to help his moth- er make ends meet which interfered with his atten- dance, causing him to miss a crucial English exam. De- cades later he completed his diploma. — Charlie Rose

6

Lord of the Rings

CRACKED.COM The Ents in THE LORD OF THE RINGS were inspired by Shakespeare. No, there aren't talking, walking trees in Macbeth - and that pissed off a young J. R. R. Tolkien, who expected that the prophecy about the woods coming against Macbeth's castle became literally true. So years later, he wrote that into his own book. — Tolkien Gateway

5

Escape From New York

Snake's wardrobe in Escape From New York was pretty carefully planned. According to Kurt Russell, he wears a slightly different version of black and white fatigues to reflect the fact that the character had been in Siberia. CRACKED COM — Source

4

Garbage Disposals

CRACKED.COM Only the U.S. has widely adopted in-sink garbage disposals. insinkerabord food waste disposer Because of how much water they use and the burden they put on sewage systems, in-sink garbage disposals are really unpopular outside the U.S. For example, nearly half of U.S. households have in-sink garbage disposals, but only 5% of U.K. ones do. They used to be banned in Japan and Australia, and still are in Austria, Portugal, and the Netherlands. — Source: 29 Ways America Is Super Weird, Compared To Other Countries

3

Debbie Downer

DEBBIE DOWNER RACHEL DRATCH I was on vacation in Costa Rica, and when I told someone that I was from New York, they asked, 'Were you there for 9/11?' — Dictionary.com

2

Star Wars

20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - Sydney Greenstreet was a film noir actor famous for playing greedy gangsters. George Lucas — Read More: 5 Characters Amazingly Based on Real People

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The Dead Pool

In The Dead Pool, Molly Fisher is brutally killed. She's a shoutout to a filr critic. Critic Pauline Kael called Dirty Harry fascist, pro-violence, p

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