36 Random Bits of Trivia We Gave to a Mouse, and We Fear Things May Escalate From Here

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Super Mario Bros.

John Leguizamo sadly sacrificed a lot to play Luigi in Super Mario Bros. Не had gotten the chance to play Tom Hanks' character's love interest in Philadelphia, but he refused the offer and decided to play Luigi instead. CRACKED.COM

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Instead of spending money on music for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the director made it himself. THE IMPROVISATION: With a sound recordist, he did things like screaming into a cardboard tube, torturing an upright bass, and playing broken instruments. THE RESULT: One of the scariest movie soundtracks of all time. It's the equivalent of pouring terror straight into your ears. CRACKED.COM

Restaurants

WEIRD WORLD A Canadian restaurant was accepting dog photos instead of vaccine proof. It turns out that staff, who should have been accepting either proof of vaccination or a negative test, were accepting dog photos -- so the restaurant got shut down. CRACKED.COM

Animal House

Illegal filmmaking Piano thievery on Be National Lampoon's Animal House. The production brought the Delta Tau brothers up to the University of Oregon five days before shooting to bond. They hit up a real frat party that involved hard drugs and a massive brawl, and they stole a piano. CRACKED

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation was only made because Paramount couldn't afford the original stars. The sky-high salaries of William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy by the fifth Star Trek movie served as the trigger for Paramount to greenlight a brand new 'Star Trek' TV series featuring a fresh crop of far more affordable actors. CRACKED.COM

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The Most Densely Populated Island on Earth

The most densely populated island on Earth is the size of two soccer fields. Santa Cruz del Islote in the Archipelago of San Bernardo off the coast of Colombia is only two acres, but 500 people are packed into 155 houses on the island. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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The Dark Knight

The Joker's mask is a callback THE DARK KNIGHT This mask is very similar to the one worn in the Joker's introduction during the 1966 tv show Batman. CRACKED.COM

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The Lungwort Plant

Soldiers-and-sailors is the nickname of the lungwort plant. With a name like lungwort... it was needed. The name comes from the flowers turning from red to blue, like the (old) uniforms of british soldiers & the navy. CRACKED.COM

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Blake Lively

Blake Lively CO CRACKED COM Lively tried to start up a Goop-esque wellness brand, Preserve, in 2014. She called it quits a year later, without even

Shake It Off

During the shooting of the music video of Taylor Swift's Shake It Off, heavy-metal music was played around the perimeter of the studio SO no-one cou

Richard Nixon

RICHARD NIXON INFORMED FUTURE FIRST LADY PAT RY OF HIS INTENT TO MARRY HER BEFORE SHE HAD AGREED TO THEIR FIRST DATE. DURING THE TWO YEARS BEFORE SHE

The Ethiopian Calendar

THE ETHIOPIAN CALENDAR IS SEVEN YEARS BEHIND THE REST OF THE WORLD. It wAs developed by Orthodox and Coptic churches, based on their own calculations

Cars in the U.S.

There are almost as many cars in the U.S. as there are people. The average for all 50 states is 910 cars per 1,000 citizens. The numbers for the Europ

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