38 Random Bits of Trivia We Pillaged From the Lost-and-Found

Well, if other brains are just gonna leave these here...
38 Random Bits of Trivia We Pillaged From the Lost-and-Found
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Don’t look down on us for bring home lost-and-found facts. We’ve waited long enough for their original owners to come claim them, but they clearly aren’t coming back. We’ve strolled by the box every morning on our way to work and gotten a little thrill seeing that they’re still here day after day.

After we got the green light from the manager, we snatched them up and put them on this list. Here, check out the gold that some thoughtless brains just left lying around…

Steve Martin

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM STEVE MARTIN'S PLAY PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILEWAS SUPPOSED TO BECOME A MOVIE. GIE HALL America Martin started working on the adaptation in 2000 (he probably wouldn't have starred in it, though), but the movie never got off the ground.

The Loveparade Disaster

Celebrations that ended in disaster Liebe hört niemals auf L'amore non viene mai meno El amor no acaba nunca Liefde houdt nooit op L'amor no acaba mai Love never ends DIE FALKEN U.S. the Germany Loveparade In 2010, 21 people died and 652 were injured at the Loveparade tragedy in Duisburg, Germany. A trial to find out who was responsible started in 2017, but ended without a verdict in 2020. CRACKED

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Rosa Parks

CRACKED ROSA PARKS' PEANUT BUTTER PANCAKE RECIPE Parks' brunch of choice might not seem historically significant, but the document actually tells us a lot about the Civil Rights hero's life. It also sounds tasty A.F. sugar wt Six C egg peanut 14c butter milk line T melted with stroithy dry ingredie or oil

NPR

The Croatian Word ‘Picajzla’

15 Croatian Words The English Language Needs To Adopt ASAP Picajzla Pronunciation: Peat-size-lah. Meaning: An impossibly annoying pedant. The kind of person who's going to notice a small, inconsequential mistake and get all up in arms until it's fixed. CRACKED.COM

Rubber Duckies

It's been reported that the Queen of England bathes with a rubber ducky. Buckingham Palace didn't deny the report, they only said We never comment on personal items in royal apartments. CRACKED.COM

Plane Theft

A man stole a small plane on a bet, and then again to prove he wasn't lying. Dyeracão Era N88 CRAGKED.COM Tommy Fitzpatrick stole a small plane in 1956 from New Jersey on a bet and then landed it on the narrow street in front of the bar where he had been drinking in Manhattan. Two years later, he did it again after someone didn't believe he had done it the first time.

The Clash

Terry Chimes gets his kicks cracking backs THE CLASH CRACKED.COM The sometimes Clash drummer became a chiropractor in 1993, and runs 5 clinics around London: People say 'how can you prefer treating patients to being on stage in front of 100,000 people?' But if you can get someone healthy, there's a satisfaction in that which is much more profound.

The Chance of Being Born

CRACKED CHANCE OF BEING BORN It's incredibly unlikely that you were born - the odds that all 150,000 generations of your lineage would remain unbroken are about one in 400 trillion. So ... go and make the most of it.

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Survivor Dog

A dog survived an avalanche and days in the wilderness. Two skiers walked out of Monarch Pass in Colorado after being hit and buried by an avalanche, thinking they lost their dog who accompanied them. Days later, the dog was found on the trailhead, alive. CRACKED.COM

KDTV 

Marisa Tomei

MARISA TOMEI legit won that oscar CRACKED.co The rumor: Addled Jack Palance read the wrong name off a teleprompter, giving Tomei an undeserved Academy Award. The story was persistent enough that the Academy and Price Waterhouse have gone on the record that the right gal got the oscar.

 EW

The Dollywood Foundation

AT A GLANCE DOLLY PARTON Dolly Parton created the My People Fund. ACM AWARDS SACM The Dollywood Foundation administered more than $8 million in monthly. checks to 875 families who lost their homes during the Gaitlinburg wildfires.

Source: Knox News

Platypuses

ONLY THE LEFT OVARY WORKS IN THE FEMALE PLATYPUS. Maybe you already knew the platypus is a mammal that lays eggs, but I bet you didn't know this fun f

Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone is So scared of heights... M CI ...he literally had to be tricked into shooting Cliffhanger. After declaring he'd go no higher than

Lana Del Rey

CRACKEDCO COM Lana Del Rey has a younger sister named Chuck Grant who's an accomplished photographers Her clients include New York Magazine, Vibe, Pla

The Marlboro Man

Clarence H. Long was the original Marlboro Man. A ranch foreman, his picture in Life magazine inspired Marlboro execs to use him in a campaign to bran

Anglerfish

THE WOLF TRAP ANGLERFISH HAS A BUILT-IN FISHING POLE. They're called wolf traps because their massive jaws open horizontally, not vertically. https:ll

Antioxidants

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Time Travel

Time travel is a tried and true fictional premise. But the concept is banned in China. According to China's General Bureau of Radio, Film aNd Televisi

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