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Open your brain and plug your nose, cus these are a little pungent

40 Biodegradable Bits of Trivia to Let Seep Into Your Brainsoil

April 08, 2025

Composting can be pretty smelly and annoying, but if it helps the planet then we guess we’ll do our part. Same goes for your brain, really. Instead of tossing these old facts at the end of the day, we just cartoonishly plug our noses with a clothes pin, open that skull of yours and shovel them in.

Your brain folds can feel their factual nutrients seep in. It’s really quite satisfying — if you can get over the smell of course.

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Wolves

A man named Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja grew up in the wild amongst the wolves. CRACKED.COM Marco didn't rejoin hu- man kind until he was 19-years-old. In 2018, he expressed he was disap- pointed with humanity and wished to return to the wild. — Source

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Silly Putty

Product SILLY PUTTY Original RUBBER SUBSTITUTE Purpose During WW2, the U.S. asked manufacturers to develop a new form of rubber since their supply was cut-off. As a result, Silly Putty was developed, but it was useless aside as a fun party toy. CRACKED.COM — Source

38

Grapefruit

Eating grapefruit while taking medication can lead to an overdose. CRACKED.COM One whole grapefruit, or a small glass of grapefruit juice, can cause drug over- dose toxicity. Even fruit consumed three days be- fore the medicine can still have an effect. — NCBI

37

Gollum

Before the Lord of the Rings movies, Gollum was usually drawn as a giant, deformed creature. In the books, Tolkien doesn't mention Gollum's size, so artists apparently assumed he was massive. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Super-Weird Early Versions Of Famous Characters

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Mental Illness

Schizophrenia and split personality are different things. Even though the word schizophrenia means split mind, it does not mean that your personality is divided. That is a different condition, named dissociative personality disorder. CRACKED.COM — Penn State University

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Ancient Egypt

The horny horse distraction CRACKED.COM Pharaoh Thutmose III was a brilliant military mind, but he was once thwarted when the king of Kadesh unleashed a single mare in heat, which sent all the Pharaoh's stallions into a horny frenzy. — Source: 6 Insane Uses of Animals in Wartime (That Actually Worked)

34

Princess Bride

Princess Bride never even had a trailer. pv The studio didn't know how to market the movie. It was not a big success when it was first released. — Source: EW

33

Brain Damage

A test used to determine brain damage involves pouring water into the ear. CRACKED.COM If you pour cold water into a per- son's ear, their eyes will move in the direction of the opposite ear. If you pour warm water into their ear, their eyes will move towards that ear. This is used to test for brain damage and is called 'ca- loric stimulation.' — Source

32

Rock 'n' Roll

CRACKED.COM Rock 'n' roll is, actually, the devil's music. Rock makes heavy use of the Devil's Interval - a chord so dissonant that the Church banned it in the Middle Ages. (On the other hand, it's not very likely that pearl clutchers are actually talking about chords and the history of music, is it?) — Source

31

Michael Jackson

CRACKED A BUNCH OF MICHAEL JACKSON SONGS ARE ABOUT REAL LIFE CRIMES. Both Bad and Smooth Criminal (duh) are about real, violent crime stories. — Source

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Plastic

Put together, all the plastic on Earth has more mass than all the animals (on both land and sea). AND H NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Raised by Wolves

In 1872, hunters in India observed and 'rescued' a boy trailing a pack of wolves. Не only ate meat, hated clothes, and sharpened his teeth on bones. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

28

30 Rock

Jenna and Pete were almost a couple. The storyline didn't make it past a table read. People didn't like how Pete would be cheating on his wife. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — Source

27

Forrest Gump

The original author of the Forrest Gump novel wrote a sequel to the book. The Rollicking Sequel to the #1 New York Times Bestseller Forrest Gump GRACKED.COM It was titled Gump and Co, and in it Gump crashes the Exx- on Valdez, helps de- stroy the Berlin Wall, and fights in Opera- tion Desert Storm. — Source

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Steve Harvey

Steve Harvey elaborately trolled a 6th grade teacher who told him he'd fail. The teacher told him that he couldn't be on TV, because he stuttered so much - so, as an adult, he sent her a TV for Christmas every year. CRACKED.COM — Source

25

Porcupines

Apparently, porcupine quills have powerful antibiotic properties. Porcupines benefit from that because they fall often, and antibiotics on quills reduce the risk of infection if porcupines cut themselves in a fall. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Cards

Normal playing cards are older than tarot cards. A A Tarot cards were originally designed for a card game similar to modern-day bridge. People only started using them for fortune-telling about 250 years ago, a good 400 years after they were imported from the Middle East. In fact, normal playing cards have a longer history in Europe than tarot cards, preceding them by about 50 years. Photo Getty Creative CRACKED.COM hittp://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/extrasensory-perceptions/tarot-card6.htm — Source

23

Hedy Lamarr

CRACKED.COM HEDY LAMARR made WiFi possible. Lamarr was a big-name actress in Golden Age Hollywood. She was also an amateur inventor. She came up with an idea for radio communication that eventually led to cellphones, WiFi, etc. — Source

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22

Robert De Niro

GRACKED DE NIRO'S HONORARY CITIZENSHIP REQUEST DENIED. The Order of the Sons of Italy in America asked Italy to call off its plan to give Robert De Niro honorary citizenship. They hold him responsible for considerably damaging the collective reputations of both Italians and Italian-Americans. — The Guardian / Fox

21

Bone Zone

CRACKED 25% PERCENT OF BONES ARE IN THE FEET. 52 out of your (likely) 206 bones are rattling around down there. Tarsals Metatarsals Phalanges — Arthritis / Anatomy

20

‘The Last Tycoon’

CRACKED Unfinished works The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald never completed his book based on the life of Irving Thalberg, the famous head of MGM. The book has been said to have some of Fitzgerald's best prose. — Nickolas Muray/Wiki Commons
New York Post

19

Turkey

CRACKED SWEET AND BITTER FOODS In Turkey, if you're a pregnant woman, it's said that if you eat something bitter, you'll have a daughter, and if you eat something sweet, you'll have a son. — KTB / Pexels

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LSD-fueled Nobel Prize

CRACKED THE DOUBLE HELIX WAS DISCOVERED BY USING LSD. Francis Crick, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, used LSD to help him deduce the double helix structure of DNA, and was an inspiration for a multimillion pound drug factory in Wales. — Maps / Banyan Treatment Center

17

Marine Snails

Marine snails' teeth are the strongest natural material on the Earth. Using a tooth-studded tongue called a radula, limpets grind down rock as they feed. They can withstand pressures high enough to turn carbon into diamond. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Smithsonian Magazine

16

The Matrix and Will Smith

VIRTUAL REALITY MOVIES THE MATRIX 1999 WILL SMITH TURNED DOWN PLAYING NEO. Apparently, the Wachowskis just rambled about bullet-time, Smith wasn't crazy about the heavy wire work, and he didn't want to be typecast as a sci-fi guy. The entire pitch meeting just tanked, and Smith just went on to do Wild Wild West. CRACKED.COM — More: Will Smith Reveals Why He Didn't Play Neo In 'The Matrix'

15

Lavender Brown

Remember Lavender Brown, Ron Weasley's ex-girlfriend? They were together in his sixth year (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) for months and she died in the Battle of Hogwarts, the following year. Neither Ron or any of his friends so much as acknowledged her death. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Dead Characters That Nobody Mourned

14

The Super Soaker

A former NASA scientist who helped develop stealth bombers invented the Super Soaker. NERF Super Soaker TMP CRACKED.COM Lonnie G.Johnson eventu- ally licensed his design to Larami Corporation, later acquired by Hasbro. Не made so much money that he was able to fund his own research and develop- ment company. — Biography

13

Slow Lorises

Slow Lorises CRACKED COM These Beanie-Babies-made-real are actually the only venomous primate. By rubbing their poison armpit secretions onto their teeth, they deliver a bite that rots flesh, if it doesn't send you into anaphylactic shock first. — Source: 20 'Harmless' Looking Animals (That Are Actually Monsters)

12

Norman Lloyd

Hollywood's oldest actor worked with Charlie Chaplin and Amy Schumer. CRACKED.COM Norman Lloyd started his career with Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre troupe in 1937, working with the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Buster Keaton, and Robin Williams until his death in 2021 at 106-years-old. — Deadline

11

Anna Gunn

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM ANNA GUNN Before she was married to a cancerous meth dealer she was dating Jerry in the episode The Glasses in Season 5. The relationship didn't last long because Jerry accuses her of cheating...its fair, I don't think he's her type. — Source: IMDB

10

Dogma

Kevin Smith attended a protest for his own movie, Dogma. When an unwitting reporter asked for a comment, Smith said, I don't know, but I've been told, 'not good.''' NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Know More

9

Sinbad

SINBAD In 2007, the comedian's Wikipedia page was edited to say that he died. Days after the first hoax quieted down, someone did it again, this time prompting Sinbad to start receiving hundreds of grieving phone calls and messages. Saturday l rose from the dead and then died again, he — People

8

Home Alone

Odd, Fascinating Trivia About Home Alone - The airport and Paris scenes feel cooler on purpose. — Source: Chicago Magazine

7

Karate Kid

40 Biodegradable Bits of Trivia to Let Seep Into Your Brainsoil — Source: Yahoo Movies

6

The Beatles

Rock Band: The Beatles was produced under a code name to deflect curiosity about it. ROCKBAND The code name: Rock Band: Nickelback NOW YOU KNOW — Source: The New York Times

5

Doctors

COMT If you are a big fuss about your situation, your status doctor might diagnose you as dramaticus (Not to your face, of course.)

4

Macquarie Island

Macquarie Island is the only place where rocks from the Earth's mantle (between the outer core and crust) actually emerge above sea level.

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LeVar Burton

Before developing an interest in acting, LeVar Burton dreamt of becoming a Catholic priest. He got as far as enrolling at St. Pius X, a theological se

2

Breaking Bad

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Dexter

Michael C. Hall Stalked Random Strangers For Dexter. Hall Hall wanted to get into the mindset of a serial killer - minus the blood - so he randomly fo

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