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Everyone’s brain needs to get in on these

40 Inclusive Bits of Trivia That Would Love to Get Your Brain in on the Action

April 08, 2025

Open the circle, facts, it’s time to let the brains in. Because what good is a sweet batch of facts if there are no brains to house them? Wow, this has become a real “tree falling in the woods” scenario here, huh?

We’ll ponder that philosophical thought experiment while your brain joins in on the fun.

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Minions

The Minions were originally going to be robots, not whatever-they-ares. It'd be more fun to watch robots than actual humans get knocked around, the thinking went - plus, it'd be more believable for robots to be totally naive. CRACKED.COM

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Spider-Man

2002's Spider-Man was supposed to have a scene with the WTC. It was even featured in an early teaser trailer but, for highly obvious reasons, was cut from the final movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Curb Your Enthusiasm

Curb Your Enthusiasm saved a man from going to jail for life. Juan Catalan was arrested for a girl's murder, but he claimed to have been at Dodger Stadium watching the game, which just so happened to be when Curb Your Enthusiasm was shooting there. Since Larry David brushed right against Catalan in footage time- coded that night, that proved his innocence. CRACKED — Source

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Smoking

Smoking's probably fine. NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE CRACKED.COM W.C. Heuper, director of the institute's Environmental Cancer Section, was pretty darn sure that, if smoking played a part in lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. — Source

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Hoki

MEET HOKI. YOU MAY HAVE EATEN IT WITHOUT KNOWING IT. This ugly fish, also known as blue grenadier, is used by McDonald's in their Filet-O-Fish sandwich. CRACKED.COM — Source: 26 Foods You Wouldn't Eat If You Knew How They're Made

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Mother’s Day

CRACKED.COM THE FOUNDER OF MOTHER'S DAY WENT DOOR-TO-DOOR WITH PETITIONS TO RESCIND IT. Anna Jarvis was disgusted by how commercialized the holiday had become. She had created the holiday to memorialize her late mother. — Inventors Who Can't Stand Their Own Creations

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The Transistor

The most frequently manufactured item, ever, is the humble transistor. circuit words CAUTION Do not CLASS CARMIUM OZIK : adidas MOMOCCO THD200Fi asic SAL N735 Specifically, it's a metal-oxide semiconductor transistor, which are what silicon computer chips are made out of. Over 13 sextillion have been made. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — ComputerHistory.org

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Chuck E. Cheese

CHUCK e. CHeese IS THE mouse MASCOT FOR KIDS, GAmes, & PIZZA. не STARTeD OUT A CIGAR- CHOMPING, PANTSLESS RAT. WHEW, IT TOOK YOU LONG ENOUGH... / WAS RUNNING OUT OF INSULTS LET'S FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET HOME. WHERE ARE WE? DON'T BE SO-0-0 MEAN TO.O.O BABY... CHUCK! SHUT UP ALREADY!! In Rat Tales, the comic book about Chuck E.'s adventures, he's snarky and sleazy, and his singing is so terrible that it actually destroys the restaurant. CRACKED.COM http://www.showbizpizza.com/info/promo/ptt/ptt_rattales.pdf — 21 Horrifying Origin Stories Of Famous Characters

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Galileo

GALILEO WAS A PRACTICING ASTROLOGER We think of Galileo brilliant as a scientific mind, but in his time, he was also a well-regarded astrol- oger famous for his horoscopes and predictions. — Source: 22 Bizarre, Unexpected Facts About Historical Figures

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The Jerk

Steve Martin improvised the entire farewell speech in The Jerk (And that's all I need ... . Co-writer Michael Elias says it's the scene he's proudes — Source: Reddit, Reddit

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Being John Malkovich

Meta Movies Being John Malkovich It just had to be John Malkovich. Charlie Kaufman didn't personally know Malkovich or anything, he just liked how the name sounded. And yet he wouldn't budge on his choice, even shooting down the studio's idea of turning the movie into Being Tom Cruise. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor had a mutation that gave her double eyelashes. The rare disorder is known medically as distichiasis, and eye specialists refer to it as an accessory row of eyelashes. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The Goonies

The Goonies' Jake Fratelli wearing a fedora is the filmmakers' way of paying homage to Indiana Jones. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Knives Out

In Knives Out, the photo of Richard, Linda and Ransom was added digitally. It was added after filming was done so viewers could put a face to Ransom's name, and they did it by shooting the photo and then putting it in one of the wide shots of the room. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Yawning

CRACKED SIDE EFFECTS YAWNGASM Sometimes people taking Anafranil, a medicine used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder, can have a strange reaction when they yawn - they can actually have an orgasm. — Alex SG/Shutterstock
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Prioritizing Growth

Process Over IQ Kids who were taught to value growth over intelligence or talent were higher achievers in school CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Fast Facts About Child Development (To Explain Why We're The Way We Are)

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The Death Star

CRACKED.COM The Death Star is the size of a small moon, but its habitable space isn't limited to its surface. You'd have to cover THE ENTIRE EARTH (oceans and all) with a building 14 feet tall to get as much living room. — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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Ticks

TICKS CAN SECRETE SMALL AMOUNTS OF ANESTHETIC SALIVA TO PREVENT YOU FROM FEELING THEM ON YOU. CRACKED COM

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The Last Jedi

In The Last Jedi, when Poe asks Finn if he found the hacker and Finn says he found a hacker, that's a nod to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In that movie, when Prince Herbert announces that Lancelot got his note, Lancelot says he got a note. CRACKED.COM

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Statue of Liberty

The hand of the Statue of Liberty sat in an NYC park for six years. They sent the hand (with the torch) to be displayed in the US to raise the funds needed for finishing the statue - it took years, but it worked. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Wars

Star Wars rips off French comics. If you're familiar with Moebius, or with Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières' Valérian and Laureline, you might have noticed that Star Wars borrows heavily from them. Mézières in particular claimed to be dazzled, jealous and angry about the whole thing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Born in the USA

Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen The song has a long history of being used in a patriotic fashion, despite it being about the difficult experiences of a Vietnam veteran returning home. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Bone Wars

Two paleontologists fought the so-called Bone Wars in the late 19th century. It was just two very angry nerds going at each other, and it included stuff like fossils being destroyed so the other guy wouldn't find them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ancient Egypt

The ancient Egyptians considered the flowers of the iris to represent wisdom, faith, and valor. In fact, iris flowers often made an appearance attached to the scepters of the pharaohs. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

MOVIES SAVED BY RESHOOTS NEL CHAN ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY SOME SNL GREATS GOT THE АХ. Anchorman underwent reshoots after jokes fell flat in screenings, and a subplot involving hippie robbers was scrapped-which cut Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph out completely. CRACKED — Source

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Lincoln Memorial

Under the Lincoln Memorial, there's a cavern with dirty graffiti. The Memorial is kept up by support beams, which are in a Moria-esque underground hall. And the construction workers must have been really bored, because they left it full of graffiti that's a mix of porn doodles and dirty words. One just says boobies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Biggest Pig Ever

CRACKED Other than your mom, history's biggest pig was Big Bill, a 2,500-pound Poland-China hog who was five feet tall at the shoulder and nine feet long. Born in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1930, he died at three after breaking a leg. — Source / ISSUU

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Puppy Love

John F. Kennedy's dog had puppies with the offspring of a Soviet space dog. Strelka, who had spent a day aboard Sputnik 2, had a puppy that was present- ed to JFK in 1961. The dog, Pushinka, and Charlie, the White House dog, had four puppies that JFK referred to as pupniks. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — ThoughtCo

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Jack Kirby’s Sandman

Neil Gaiman wanted to use Jack Kirby's Sandman. The character, however, was off-limits due to being in another comic. But the editor told Gaiman to create a new character and just keep the name and go have fun. SANOMAN CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss

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Cats

Ccats are not nocturnal or diurnal, they are crepuscular: most active during dusk/dawn. CRACKED.COM They tend to lay low in the darker night-time and day-time hours, when other predators may be hanging about. — PetMD

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Iceberg Mansions

Billionaires in London are building Iceberg Mansions where most of the home is below ground. CRACKED.COM Excavation work under the mansion of a Goldman Sachs director resulted in his neighbor getting trapped inside her home, unable to open her front door since it had shifted so much. — Curbed

9

Homeland

Easter Eggs for Polyglots Homeland Homeland is watermelon. The show hired people who knew Arabic to decorate a set with graffiti. The artists decided to write what they really thought of Homeland, like, This show does not represent the views of the artists, or Homeland is watermelon (which in Arabic is meaner than in English). — More: 6 Iconic Works Of Art With Brutal Insults Hidden In Them

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Luca Brasi

AUTHENTIC CRACKED.COM In 'The Godfather' Don Corleone's hitman Luca Brasi was played by a real-life hitman. Born Leonardo Passafaro, Lenny Montana had a successful pro wrestling career before becoming an enforcer in the Colombo crime family. — Source: godfather.fandom

7

Cicadas

A parasite fungus disintegrates cicadas butts and then makes them super-horny. The fungus replaces their butt with a blob-like mass of, well, fungus, and makes males seek out other males for sex (to spread the virus). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — NPR

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The Ice King

THE ICE INDUSTRY ENDED UP BECOMING HUGE. Frederic Tudor's gamble paid off big time- he became very rich, and was dubbed the Ice King. Many other companies sprung to rake in the cold bucks. Just before the Civil War, ice was second only to cotton as the most commonly traded commodity in the U.S. — Source: New England Historical Society

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Telling the Truth

Telling the truth is good for our physical and mental health According to one study, telling less lies resulted in closer relationships and better health, even over the duration of a few weeks. CRACKED.COM — Source: APA

4

The Labyrinth

In an alternate universe, Freddie Mercury starred in Labyrinth. And in other alternate universes, lots of others rock stars did - the filmmakers considered Mercury, Rod Stewart, Ted Nugent, Roger Daltrey and David Lee Roth for the role of the Goblin King. CRACKED.COM — Source: UltimateClassicRock

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Bra Burning

Bra Burning CRACKEDo COM The story goes that at late '60s protests, feminists defiantly removed and set fire to their bras. But this never happened. W — For details, read 6 Ridiculous History Myths (You Probably Think Are True)

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Bulldozers

40 Inclusive Bits of Trivia That Would Love to Get Your Brain in on the Action — Source: 5 Innocent Phrases With Surprisingly Dark Origins

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Pringles

MR. PRINGLES' FIRST NAME IS JULIUS. Pringles

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