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38 Random Bits of Trivia That Must Be Exhausted From Running Through Our Minds All Day

May 04, 2025

We’ve had these stunning facts in our heads for weeks now, and we finally got the courage to tell them. It might be inappropriate because we work with them here in the Cracked offices, so maybe we need to bring it up with HR first. Or maybe we see if they’re interested, and then approach HR if it becomes anything.

We don’t really know how it works, so we’ll peruse the office policy handbook while you check them out.

Not “check them out” in a creepy, ogling sort of way. That’s clearly frowned upon.

38

South Park

CRACKED.COM AD SOUTH PARK lost Chef when Isaac Hayes quit over an episode lambasting Scientology - or so was reported at the time. Hayes' son revealed years later that his father was incapacitated due to health issues, and someone in his Scientology circle quit South Park for him.

37

Babies

Babies grow a temporary mustache in utero. The fine hair eventually spreads to their entire body, and usualy disappears - ie, is ingested - before birth. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

36

Stan Lee

DAREDEVIL AND BLACK WIDOW CRACKED.COM In 1974, Stan Lee gave Jipp Jones (David Bowie's ex) the TV rights for a year. Even Ziggy Stardust thought the freaky devil horns were a little over the top. — Source

35

Royal Underwear

There's a market for royal underwear. People exist willing to pay top dollar for underwear worn by famous people - not just celebrities, but also queens. Pairs of Queen Victoria's bloomers have sold for over $15,000, and a pair of Elizabeth Il's (dirty) undies fetched $18,000 on eBay. CRACKED.COM — Source

34

T.I.

T.I. PRETENDED TO BE AN OWNER OF A CRYPTOCURRENCY COMPANY. EXCHANGE AND COMMISSION SECURITIES In 2020, the SEC charged T.I for promoting FLiK, an unregistered and fraudulent ICO, to his followers and claiming to be its co-owner. Не was forced to pay $75,000 and got barred from participating in the cryptocurrency market for five years. CRACKED.COM — Source

33

Selling Weed

Samuel Caldwell was the first person in America to be arrested for selling marijuana. Не was arrested in 1937 for selling two joints and was sentenced to a $1000 fine and four years of hard la- bor. This happened in Den- ver, Colorado, one of the first US states to legalize marijuana. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

32

Angels ‘88

Angels '88 CHARLIE'S ANGELS 4 A revival of 300- Charlie's Angels that, due to a Writers Guild strike, would have just reused old scripts. It was postponed, renamed Angels '89, and eventually canned. CRACKED.COM — Source

31

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

JTT won the first-ever Kids Choice Lifetime Achievement Award Jonathan Taylor Thomas won the award at age 18, which maaay have been premature. CRACKED.COM — Source

30

Wendy’s

The lady who claimed to find a finger in her Wendy's chili was sentenced to 9 years in prison Anna Aayala was released after four years on good behavior. She apologized to the food chain for the attempted scam. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

29

Morton Downey Jr.

CRACKED Talk show host Morton Downey Jr. faked an attack for publicity. In 1989, Downey said three skinheads attacked him in an airport restroom, but authorities thought he made up the story. Downey was reportedly found with a pair of scissors and a felt-tip marker pen in a toilet bowl, but there was no other evidence of the attack. — Source

28

CGI

The first CGI. 1973 CRACKED.COM We get to see through the eyes of an evil robot in a scene in Westworld, and it's... boring. The motif was inspired by the first images of the surface of Mars. — Source

27

Ancient Greece

Pythagoras was murdered after refusing to run through a bean field. The Greek philosopher was being chased by political enemies. Instead of escaping through a bean field (as by his own teachings they were considered ritually unclean), he stopped running and was murdered. CRACKED.COM — Source

26

Us

Us came from a persistent fear that Jordan Peele had been having. He'd imagine seeing his own doppelganger on the subway, across the platform, and he would smile at Peele. That was the seed for the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

25

The Eiffel Tower

A luxury apartment sits at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Gustave Eiffel had it built for himself when the tower went up, and kept it secret for a long time. He'd get offered crazy sums for a night in it, but always said no. It didn't open to the public until 2015, 90 years after he died. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

The Hobbit

A sinkhole killed several horses. THE HOBBIT CRACKED.COM The come-from-behind winner for biggest bummer about The Hobbit is that 27 animals died during filming. Several of them fell to their death when a sinkhole opened up under their pens. — Source

23

Reading

Reading makes you better at... math? SOCM 1,3,5,7,9,11,13.15,17 + A 3 Aa 6 6+0=6 2 I В EST + 2- 7 a2+b2=C2 OH 15-2=13 RCM 10x3=30 Ff 09 LIM b 10+13=23 SCM A 12 cm O O &h on 7x2=14 OH 5x3=15 C ccoo ZI ov!! 32 CRACKED.COM 6cm _ALVBL 12 cm AC2 The part of your brain that is responsible for being able to read is also used during previously considered unrelated activities, like multiplication. — Source

22

The Holocaust

The US government turned away thousands of Jewish refugees Government officials accused the Jewish asylum seekers, fleeing from the Nazi regime, of being Nazi spies. For example, in June 1939, the US sent away all 937 passengers of the German ship St. Louis. 254 of those passengers died in the Holocaust. CRACKED.COM — Source

21

A Boy Scout’s Revenge

CRACKED BOY SCOUT'S REVENGE Shigeta Miura, who used to be a Boy Scout, sent more than 500 packages of gross stuff to his old bullies over the course of a year and a bit. The packages contained things like rotten tea leaves, dirt, and old underwear. — Atlas Obscura

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20

Bloody Temple Ceilings

CRACKED KYOTO TEMPLES WITH BLOOD ON THE CEILINGS The ceilings of these temples are stained with the blood of people who defended Fushimi Castle in 1592. They took their own lives in the end, and the castle's floorboards were later used for temple ceilings. You can still see footprints. — Japan Experience

19

The First Fast

Jesus told Julian of Norwich to stop eating. 15TH CENTURY CRACKED.COM She was her day's most famous anchorite, which is a person who lived in complete isolation for God reasons, who claimed she received visions that told her (among other things) that Jesus was the precious food of all true life and thereafter stopped eating. — Slate

18

Bad Tourists

CRACKED EGYPT Internet sleuths caught a 15-year-old vandal who left his mark on a 3,500 year old artifact. Ding Jinhao, a 15-year-old Chinese boy, defaced an Egyptian artifact at the 3,500 year old Luxor Temple by writing Ding Jinhao was here in chalk. When another Chinese tour group saw the markings and uploaded it to social media, internet sleuths were able to quickly trace it back to Ding. — NPR / China Daily

17

Buried Alive

CRACKED HEY, WANT TO OVERCOME YOUR FEARS? WHY NOT BURY YOURSELF ALIVE? A company in Russia is offering people the chance to be buried alive as part of a therapy to overcome their fears. For just over €58,000, you can have the full immersion funeral experience where you'll be buried in a coffin for up to an hour. Sounds intense (and pricey). — Inked Pixels/Shutterstock
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16

The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid's Tale The dresses' colors have meanings. The handmaids' dresses are a deep red because that makes them easy to spot if they escape. It also represents the blood of giving birth, and it's a reference to Mary Magdalene. The wives wear blue to symbolize their purity, like the Virgin Mary. CRACKED.COM — Source: Showbiz CheatSheet

15

Psycho

Scream Queens Janet Leigh swore off showers. Leigh would only ever take baths after being in Psycho. Wherever a shower was the only option, she'd always make sure all the doors and windows were locked, and leave the shower curtain wide open. CRACKED.COM — Source: The New York Times

14

Wasps

If you hide in a lake, a swarm of wasps will wait for you to re-emerge. If you're attacked by wasps, don't try to take shelter in a lake. They also are not fooled by playing dead. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 True Facts That Don't Seem Real

13

Armie Hammer

Armie Hammer Hammer got the part of Bruce Wayne in Justice League: Mortal...until it was scrapped after the writer's strike of 2008. CRACKED.COM — Source: ScreenRant

12

Monopoly

SECRET ORIGINS MONOPOLY MONOPOLY WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED THE LANDLORD'S GAME. COLL 200.00 SA IT WAS CREATED TO PROMOTE THE SINGLE TAX MOVEMENT- A CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH ALL TAXES EXCEPT FOR ONE TAX ON LAND OWNERSHIP. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Yolk Color

CRACKED.COM Yolk color is serious business... ... and the egg industry has it down to a science. The DSM YolkFan measures yolk color within a range of 15 shades of orange and yellow. Hens are fed to produce yolks of a DSM shade that suits the regional preference, which can vary. Ultimately, while consumers do factor in yolk color when judging an egg's quality, it has little if any effect on how the egg actually tastes. — 19 Facts About Food We'd Bet Anything You Didn't Know

10

Dredd

CRACKED.COM PEACH In Dredd, Mega-City One has a population of 800 million (compared to 300 million in today's U.S.A.), and 17,000 crimes reported daily (as opposed to 28,000 in the U.S.A.) That means that the crime rate in America is FOUR TIMES HIGHER than in the dystopian Mega-City One. — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

9

Russia

The Russian Railway is long enough to wrap around the world twice. The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest train journey in the world, with a length of over 5,772 miles. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Russian Rail

8

Spain

Spain CRACKED Spain subsidizes up to 70% of monthly salaries, capped at roughly 1,400 per month (~$1550). Muchas gracias, functional government! — Source

7

The USSR

13 Cool Things You Didn’t Know About Movies (And Other Stuff) - In 1966, the USSR put out a gas fire with a nuclear bomb. — Source: Energy Global News

6

Game of Thrones

The Tritonia khaleesi, a boneless little sea slug with a pale, slender body, was named after Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea. According to the scienti

5

Spies

Yep, cigarette pack cameras were a real thing. In 1950, the U.S. Signal Corps developed a camera that perfectly fit in a pack of Lucky Strike cigarett

4

Sharks

CRACKEDG COM $2 magnets are saving sharks in Australia. Nets outfitted with small magnets, which confuse the sharks' senses, were shown to decrease sh

3

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson's parrot had to be expelled from his owner's funeral... Because it wouldn't stop swearing. cRac

2

LL Cool J

LL Cool J came up with his rapper name when he was sixteen, but it was e 'completely wishful (thinking.' Wanting a cool moniker (and to attract girl

1

Hal Turner

Hal Turner is an ultra right-wing radio personality. M And he was also a government spy. Turner is an outspoken white supremacist and Holocaust denier

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