32 Random Bits of Trivia to Bounce Around Your Brain Like Gumball-Machine Bouncy Balls

Your brain won’t even know where to look
32 Random Bits of Trivia to Bounce Around Your Brain Like Gumball-Machine Bouncy Balls
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If you’ve ever seen Robin Williams in Flubber, you’ll know what your brain is about to experience. Well, actually, there was only one flubber, so Robin Williams only got a small taste of the visual acrobatics your brain will have to pull off. 

Better watch the movie for reference and have it do some stretches, if it hopes to even catch a glimpse of these. 

 

Biz Markie

Biz Markie never planned to sing the chorus on Just A Friend. He'd invited singers to the studio, but none of them showed up. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

IKEA

IKEA uses nearly 1% of the entire world's commercial supply of wood. IKEA IKEA 17.8 million cubic yards of wood go into making IKEA furniture. CRACKED

Batman

Sean Young broke her arm in pre-production. BATMAN WW.J CRACKED.COM Remember the Vicki Vale horse riding scene in Batman? Yeah, that's because they wrote it out after Young fell off a horse, breaking her arm, and had to be replaced by Kim Basinger.

A Method-Acting Grinch

WEIRD WORLD One mom in the UK hired the Grinch to come and mess up her house, but it backfired. The actor didn't just mess the kids' beds, have a pillow fight and put toilet roll around your Christmas tree, as advertised - he basically trashed her home. CRACKED.COM

Charles Schulz

Charles Schulz created Franklin because of a fan letter. In 1968, former teacher Harriet Glickman, wrote to Schulz and suggested he add a Black character to Peanuts as a small of way of helping change those conditions in our society which led to the assassination of MLK and which contribute to the vast sea of misunderstanding, fear, hate, and violence. After more correspondence, Schulz agreed, and came up with Franklin. CRACKED.COM

Conspiracies

Even if you don't believe conspiracy theories, they influence you CRACKED.COM Just being confronted with conspiracies is enough to affect our behavior, regardless of our actual belief.

Ectopic Pregnancies

An ectopic pregnancy in a Chinese woman from 1948 wasn't removed until 2009. CRACKED.COM Huang Yijun didn't have money for an operation to terminate the unviable pregnancy, so calcium de- posits eventually devel- oped around the dead tis- sue until she could have it removed at age 92.

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Reading the Fine Print

It's not possible to actually read all the privacy policies we agree to. I ne fine print au .. - I print Read the fine print Read - 1 t...fine print...fine print...fi prove - the the fine print Read the fin table dos fine print Read the fine p would the follow by inform fine print Read the S Masts of the ad the fine prin HE will the GRAGKED.COM It would take 76 workdays to read every online priva- су policy we agree to in an average year. While not physically impossible, we don't think HR is going to

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The Federal Register

THE FOR FEDERAL - a TEXT KB462 NOTE en 60 I REGISTER KB will B2 TOSHER - THE con I098 VES YOU منفذا - LITTER SCRIPTA MANET THE REGISTER FEDERAL VOLUME 1 OF THE UNITED 1934 STATES NUMBER I D 46 Washington, Saturday, March 14, 1936 8 22'28 g. 19.26 the to corner No. 2 K point on the por RESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES seesbore of mull Island, facing easterly end of the this corner & U. B 21 IL standard Atlantic Ocien: from e EXECUTIVE ORDER 2 WC COR 2 BULLA ISLAND 1935 crete poet marked 18 m by

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Tommy Chong

Leo disappeared from THAT '70s SHOW because Tommy Chong went to jail (over pot). Just like Leo Chingkwake, Chong is a huge stoner - which landed him in the big house. Не admitted to selling a whole lot of bongs and served nine months, which prevented him from appearing in Season 5 and 6 of the show.

Source: CBR

Mass Effect

Fox News spread mass misinformation about Mass Effect. A Fox News show claimed in 2008 that the game featured full digital nudity and graphic sex. The claims were sure to enrage viewers- particularly those who grabbed the game to, ahem, do their own research.

Source: Wired

Chris Coulfer

CHRIS COULFER IS OLDER THAN DAKOTA JOHNSON. Born in the same year, the baby-faced Glee star is somehow older than the 50 Shades of Grey leading lady.

Clownfish

Clownfish are sequential hermaphrodites. When the dominant female dies, two things happen: The dominant male turns female, and the #2 male steps up to

Ray Park

RAY PARK IS THAT ONE GUY WHO'S USUALLY DOING MORE FIGHTING THAN TALKING. PARTICULARLY IN HIS ROLE AS THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN'S TORSO.

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