39 Shipwrecked Bits of Trivia We Flew Down to Rescue After Spotting A Huge HELP Sign on the Beach

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39 Shipwrecked Bits of Trivia We Flew Down to Rescue After Spotting A Huge HELP Sign on the Beach

They might be a little malnourished right now, so please give us a few minutes to get some food and water in these poor little guys before you hear what they have to say. Trust us, we’re itching to hear their harrowing tales, too. 

We just know that their recollection and info-sharing abilities will be a whole lot better after some much needed num-nums.

Tia and Tamara Mowrys

CRACKED TIA AND TAMARA MOWRY'S ANCESTOR WAS AT THE FIRST THANKSGIVING. Their 13th great-grandparents William and Mary Bruster were on the Mayflower. William was the ruling elder, who led the prayer at the first Thanksgiving with the indigenous people. IMAGE AWA S НЕ 43RD NAACP MAGE AWARDS THE 43° MA VA

Slime

The famous Nickelodeon slime is actually made up of delicious ingredients. It's a mix of oatmeal, applesauce, vanilla pudding, and green food coloring - so, although it looks vile, it'd be totally safe to eat. CRACKED.COM

50 First Dates

There's a woman who pretty much lived the story of 50 First Dates in real life. Michelle Philpots, from the UK, is stuck in 1994 and can't form new memories, so she has to relearn everything every day (and sometimes, even more often). CRACKED.COM

Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan really did wear UNC practice shorts under his jersey during games. It's not just a random bit from Space Jam - apparently, concealing those shorts was why he started wearing baggy shorts in the Chicago Bulls. CRACKED.COM

Matt Lucas

CRACKED MATT LUCAS' CONNECTION TO ANNE FRANK. His grandmother's cousin Werner Goldschmidt lived with Anne Frank's family, and is even mentioned in her famous diary. Lucas read the diary years earlier, never realizing this Mr. Goldschmidt was his relative.

M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H actor Wayne Rogers just waltzed off the show, because he could. When he decided to leave, the studio tried to sue him for breach of contract - but then found out he'd never signed a contract anyway. CRACKED.COM

Books

Textbooks are now about 1,000% more expensive than they were in the '70s. As a result, The College Board now tells students they should budget a total of $1,200 per year for course materials including books. CRACKED.COM

Apollo 11

The International Latex Corporation's seamstresses made the Apollo 11 spacesuits. NICE That company, AKA Playtex, had specialized in latex girdles and bras, but decided to branch out into pressurized space suits, thinking it'd be profitable. CRACKED.COM

Rob Lowe

CRACKED ROB LOWE'S ANCESTOR WAS HIRED TO KILL GEORGE WASHINGTON. His 5th great-grandfather Christoph Oste was a German soldier hired by the British, and in a direct battle with Washington, his regiment was captured. Не survived and later became a tax-paying American.

Bicycles

The bicycle was invented because of a famine that killed many horses. In 1816, climate abnormalities led to food shortages, and horses died or were slaughtered for meat-which created demand for a new way to get around. CRACKED.COM

Honesty

AT LEAST НЕ TOOK TO HEART THE LESSON THAT HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. Marek Hecko, a 26-year-old British man, was given a life sentence after he went back to the place where he had committed a murder and told the police what had happened while he was really drunk. CRACKED

BritGPT

SOUNDS LIKE IT MIGHT BE A LOT OF MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN. The UK government has put aside £900 million to build a super-powerful computer that can do more than a billion billion calculations every second, so they can get their own AI system called BritGPT. CRACKED

Opioids

LÓPEZ OBRADOR'S SOLUTION TO THE OPIOID CRISIS: MORE HUGS AND CUDDLES. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador thinks that the opioid crisis in the U.S. is due to people not getting enough hugs and cuddles from their families. CRACKED

Barack Obama

CRACKED SEINFELD WAS BRIEFED ON WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST OBAMA. For Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Seinfeld was only allowed to drive with the president on the White House grounds. To actually get the coffee, they had to be driven in Obama's bulletproof motorcade.

Traffic

CRACKED TRAFFIC IS LITERALLY ROTTING YOUR BRAIN. New studies show a direct link between air pollution and general cognition.

9/11

CRACKED 9/11 CAUSED 164 SONGS TO BE BANNED FROM THE RADIO. Including Walk Like An Egyptian by the Bangles, because it vaguely references the Middle East.

Snails

CRACKED THE FRESHWATER SNAIL IS ONE OF THE DEADLIEST ANIMALS ON EARTH. Snaill carry a parasite that can give humans bilharzia, a deadly pee-blood disease that kills 200,000 people each year.

Musicians

CRACKED SCIENCE SAYS MUSICIANS ACTUALLY ARE MORE ATTRACTIVE TO WOMEN. A new study finds women were far more sexually attracted to musical talent, while men were only a little bit.

Dark Matter

CRACKED NO ONE HAS EVER ACTUALLY DISCOVERED DARK MATTER. But we know it has to be there for the gravitational pull of the galaxies to exist.

Napoleon Dynamite

BEHINO-THE-SCENES SFACTS That was a helluva throw from UNCLE RICO CRACKED.COM Не actually nailed bike-riding Napoleon in the face with Kip's steak. The impact gave Heder two black eyes that you can see in multiple scenes. The steak fling is especially impressive considering actor Jon Gries is a vegan.

Office Space

The studio wanted Ron Livingston to be skinny as hell. CRACKED.COM Fox execs assigned him a 90's version of the Chris Pratt workout regimen leading up to his screen test. Не spent a weekend jumping rope, and got about halfway through the fast they recommended.

Ozzy Osbourne

This Is Spinal Tap Ozzy Osbourne thought Spinal Tap was a real band. CRACKED GOM One of the many people who didn't catch that the whole thing was a joke was The Prince of Darkness himself. When he figured out what was going on, he said They seemed quite tame compared to what we got up to.

Marc Maron

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM MARC MARON WROTE A MEMOIR CALLED ATTEMPTING NORMAL. According to the publisher, the book is Marc Maron's journey through the wilderness of his own mind, a collection of explosively, painfully, addictively funny stories.

A Lack of Peace

CRACKED.COM It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

The Mississippi River

IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, A DROP OF WATER TAKES APPROXIMATELY 90 DAYS TO TRAVEL ITS ENTIRE LENGTH. GRACKED At 2,340 miles, it stands as the fourth-largest watershed globally.

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Philadelphia, The Capital of Jordan

The capital of Jordan used to be... Philadelphia. Macedonian ruler Ptolemy Philadelphus named it after himself, some time in the 200s BC. Today, it's

Lord of the Rings

Andy Serkis found Gollum's voice after seeing his cat cough up a hairball. While Serkis was preparing for the audition, one of his cats came into the

Charlotte Brontë

A WOMAN FOUND A LOCK OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S HAIR HIDDEN IN A RING. CRAUN Mupil 14:4 The woman says she found the ring in an attic in Wales, and that it

Charles Whitman

In mass shooter Charles Whitman's suicide note, he wished for an autopsy to be performed on him to check for any visible physical disorder spurring hi

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