32 Random Bits of Trivia Waiting in the Bushes, Ready to Ambush Your Brain

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32 Random Bits of Trivia Waiting in the Bushes, Ready to Ambush Your Brain
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It’s a good thing we were here to warn you, because your brain was in for a serious tackling. We’d normally never narc on a random batch of facts, but when we heard that their attack would most likely bruise that brain of yours in the process, we just couldn’t sit idly by.

Here, we’ll even point them out to you so you can read them from a safe distance. Don’t tell them we told you.

Shirley Temple's Hair

Shirley Temple's hair routine involved setting the curls nightly and weekly vinegar rinses that burned her eyes. CRACKED.COM A rumor spread sug- gesting the child ac- tor wore a wig. This led to fans on multi- ple occasions yank- ing at her hair to test the rumor.

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Michaelangelo’s David

Michelangelo's David is over 17 feet tall. And weighs over 12,000 pounds. CRACKED.COM

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King Alaric’s Gold

CRACKED KING ALARIC I'S GOLD It's said that 4th-century Visigoth King Alaric I hid a huge amount of gold somewhere near the city of Cosenza in Southern Italy, but nobody has been able to find it yet - not even the Nazis, who tried really hard.

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CeeLo Green

CeeLo had Rapper Green everyone worried when a leaked promotional video showed him getting injured by an exploding cell phone. In late 2016, a CCTV-st

Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis once held a patent FIG.1 for a baby diaper. FIG.2 FIG3 The actress invented and patented a multifunctional infant garmentin the lat

Kirsten Dunst

Kirsten Dunst was a toddler model Her first paid gig was as the baby on a Baby-Sitter's Club cover CRACKED.COM

Classic Superheroes

Patriotic Superheroes US 7 HITLER CIAL Fascists fear the Fighting Yank! Grandson of a superhero who helped America's Founding Fathers, Bruce Carter dons a cloak that gives him the strength to bend steel and punch really, really hard. Не uses this power to punch out Nazi spies, because Fighting Yank wasn't a term for violent masturbation back in 1941. CRACKED CON

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Women and Credit Cards

Unwed women couldn't get a credit card up until 1974. po BNL CLASSIC GRUPPO BNP PARIBAS 1922 ١٩٩٩ 5000 icoPo 60 VALID THRU MasterCard ٥٤/١ ДЕДА B VISA CRACKED.COM Banks could refuse to issue a credit card to a woman unless her husband co-signed for the card. A di- vorced woman was consid- ered too much of a risk be- cause she couldn't keep a marriage under control.

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The Phantom Menace

The Phantom Menace even CGI'd Natalie Portman. She limped in some scenes because she had hurt her ankle, so the VFX team had to give her CGI legs in them. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Audible and Robin Williams

Turns out, Audible wouldn't anything like what it is without Robin Williams. Williams created Audible's very first original program - a talk show that he'd come up with along with Audible CEO Don Katz in his, Williams' house. CRACKED.COM

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Scheele’s Green

Scheele's Green was extremely popular in Victorian England...an extremely deadly. The dye included arsenic and was commonly used in wallpapers, clothing, and carpeting. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM

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Largest-Ever Legal Denomination

SMTT SXZMELEEO ISZAZMELEII ITXMI SZLAZEMLEIG B:PENGO BUDADEST 1916 EVI JUNIUS HO 3AN MAGYAR NEMZETI BANK Gwve NOK FOLANACSCS IZERAZGatO ANANINEVHAMINI

Fall Out Boy

Falll Out Boy harnessed the memes by releasing their own branded fidget spinner in 2017. ORF The spinner lights up, has a bluetooth speaker, and came

Rapunzel vs. Tangled

In Rapunzel, the fairytale version of gled, Mother Gothel blinds the hero. She finds out he's been using Rapunzel's hair to climb up into the tower, s

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