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35 Resilient Bits of Trivia That Will Not Go Quietly Into the Night

May 05, 2025

You never want to forget amazing random facts, but new information has a way of pushing out old information all the time. Once these facts get into your head, though, they aren’t going anywhere.

Like a prisoner with a life sentence, new cellmates will come and go, but these lifers are here till the bitter end.

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Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown's dinky little tree comes from a fairy tale. Producer Lee Mendelson suggested the idea of decorating a scrawny, ugly tree because he'd read Hans Christian Andersen's The Pine Tree, and that was on his mind. CRACKED.COM

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Lego Batman

A real Lego Gotham would be 650 yards long. The animators went into overload to give the city buildings, alleys, businesses, and other features the comic book Gotham had. If built with real Lego bricks, the set would be six and a half football fields long. BANG The Lego Batman Movie CRACKED.COM — Source

33

U.S. Presidents

CRACKED THERE HAVE BEEN NO U.S. PRESIDENTS WHO WERE ONLY CHILDREN. And more have been second born than any other birth order placement. — Source

32

Solar Flares

A massive solar flare in 2012 barely missed earth, by mere days. CRACKED.COM Had it hit, the power grid would likely have failed, causing unprecedented devastation. Scientists re- cently determined that it was of similar magnitude as the 1859 Carrington Event. — Source

31

Father’s Day

Father's Day DAD CRACKED.COM By the time Father's Day became a national holiday in 1972, Sonora Smart Dodd had been campaigning for it for some time, because why should moms get all the fun? She didn't succeed, however, until she appealed to the Associated Men's Wear Retailers, who established a whole council to promote the holi- day. That's right: Father's Day was established to sell ties. — Source

30

Turtles

The last surviving witness to the Crimean war was a turtle. Timothy the tortoise served as a mascot on HMS Queen during the bombardment of Sevas- topol in 1854. She (yes, Timothy was a girl) died in 2004, at age 160. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

29

Larry David

WEIRD WORLD Larry David and Alan Dershowitz fought in a Martha's Vineyard grocery store. It was about Dershowitz' work with the Trump admin, and he said We can still talk, Larry, but David said No. No. We really can't. CRACKED.COM — Source

28

The Beatles

HELTER SKELTER IS THE BEATLES' ATTEMPT TO OUT-WHO THE WHO. Paul McCartney wrote it after hearing The Who's eardrum-shattering style, and figuring he could do better. CRACKED.COM wwww.thecurrent.org/feature/2013/07/16/today-in-music-history-the-beatles-record-helter-skelter — Source

27

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Will Smith starred in The FROSH PriNCP of Bel-Air because he owed the IRS $2.8 million. Smith became a Hip Hop star at a young age, which led to some reckless spending habits. Luckily, Quincy Jones threw him a life-preserver in the form of a TV show. For the first three seasons, Smith gave the IRS 70% of his paycheck. CRACKED.COM — Source

26

Pets

New Zealanders have more pets per household than any other country. GRACKED COM 68% of households in the country have a pet, which is more than any other nation in the world. The US still beats out every country with the total number of dogs and cats, at 69,929,000 and 74,059,000 respectively. — Source

25

Dementia

One way of keeping people with dementia in care facilities is to use dark doormats. They tend to see such doormats as holes, and won't step on them to avoid falling into the hole. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Guardians of the Galaxy

JAMES GUNN'S PARENTS HAVE CAMEOS IN GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXYVOL.2 They can be spotted in a crowd taking photos/videos, and they're credited in the cast as Weird Old Man and Weird Old Man's Mistress. CRACKED.COM — Source

23

Frisbees

The information discs that programs wear on their backs in Tron are really Frisbees. Frisbee coach Sam Schatz was hired to train the actors how to use them. CRACKED.COM — Source

22

Buddy Holly

CRACKED BUDDY HOLLY LEFT HIS WIDOW WITH THE KEYS TO HIS KINGDOM. Buddy Holly passed away in 1959 at the age of 22 without leaving a will. His widow Maria inherited the rights to his name, image, trademarks, and other intellectual properties, including the royalties from his music. She gave 50% to his parents. — Heirs and Successes / Wikipedia

21

Egyptian Mummies

Health fads of the past EATING MUMMY DUST Egyptian mummies were believed to have magical health properties, so Europeans became walking political cartoons and literally cannibalized other cultures. 17TH CENTURY CRACKED — Lyashko_ph/Shutterstock
Smithsonian Magazine

20

Jack-o-Lantern Origins

In the US, the pumpkin jack-o'-lantern evolved from a prank. Kids in the US carved crude and evil faces into their pumpkins (used for their abundance) and scared people by making their lanterns look like disembodied heads. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Historical Halloween Facts To Hex Your Brain

19

The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid's Tale It's not sci-fi, according to its author. Margaret Atwood insists on calling it speculative fiction, in the sense that it speculates around the possibility of forms of persecution, surveillance, and punishment. Also, just look around. CRACKED.COM — Sources: CBC, Harper's Bazaar

18

Beyoncé

celebrity Hobbies Beyoncé has actual beehives. The Queen В herself has two beehives with 80,000 bees, collecting hundreds of jars of honey each year. GRACKED COM — Source: Vogue

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17

A Totally Different Kind of Nigerian Scam

WEIRD WORLD In a sitcom-style plot, 3 Nigerian men tried to pass as Arab women at an airport. C9-C23 C9-C2 Gru Kids UAE police busted them, and posted photos of them with and without their disguises. CRACKED.COM — Source

16

Top Gun

Top Gun caused U.S. Navy recruitment figures to spike.Perhaps expecting to replicate in real life the movie's sexy, high-energy thrills, many people enlisted as soon as they walked out of the theater. And we mean literally as soon as they walked out - the Navy set up handy recruiting stations to catch psyched up moviegoers. — Source: Screen Rant

15

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

GUNNAR HANSEN HAD TO WEAR A RANCID SHIRT EVERY DAY IN THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Filmmakers only made ONE Who will survive costume for Leatherface, and what and it couldn't be cleaned will be for fear of its color fading. left of them? His shirt became SO stiff and putrid after wearing it 16 hours a day, Hansen THE said after a month you TEXAS could lean my suit up CHAINSAW MASSACRE against the wall. - CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Horror Movies (Even Scarier Behind The Scenes)

14

Baghdad

Baghdad was built as a perfectly circular city (over a thousand years ago). It was done as an homage to Euclid's teachings, but the structure got destroyed over the centuries (the last part was gone in the 1870s). CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

13

Ice Cream

In Russia in the winters they like to eat ice cream and they do it 00 to keep warm. It's not because ice cream is necessarily warm in comparison but because, according to Russian folklore, eating cold food warms you up. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Edmonton Journal

12

Opossums

Newborn opossums are SO small, you could literally scoop up a fistful of them. They're about the size of honeybees, and they crawl into their mother's pouch right after birth, so they continue to grow and develop. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: National Geographic

11

The Muppets

ONE MAN, MANY MUPPETS Working on the show means you're going to multitask. Jim Henson, for example, was responsible for Kermit the Frog, Waldorf, Swedish Chef, Rowlf, Dr. Teeth, the Newsman, and Link Hogthrob. Among others. — Behind the Voice Actors

10

Freaks and Geeks

SHIA LABEOUF AUDITIONED FOR NEIL SCHWEIBER Before he was on Even Stevens, LaBeouf auditioned for Freaks and Geeks. — Source: Vulture

9

Weird Crimes

A 43-year-old in Japan was arrested for making counterfeit popsicle sticks. R77 19 46 s One person sent in 25 rare popsicle sticks you could redeem fo — Source: Sora News 24

8

Tommy Flanagan

Tommy Fianagan CRACKEDCON Tommy Flanagan, from Gladiatorand Sons of Anarchy, has some visible scars around his mouth. That's because back in 1992, he — Source: Vulture

7

Elf

23 Son Of A Nutcracker Facts About The Christmas Classic Elf - A lot of the songs were added only after the director found out Zooey Deschanel could s — Sources: Film School Rejects, EW

6

The O.C.

Seth & Summer THE O.C. Rachel Bilson and Adam Brody dated for three years during the filming of The O.C., making us really root for Seth and Summer. B

5

The Exorcist

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4

Singles

MYTH: younG SINGLES ARe COnSTANTLY GETTING LAID. FACT: HALF OF young SINGLES HAD no sexin THE PAST YeAr. Meanwhile, 50 percent of young maried couples

3

Ed Wood

The relationship between Ed Wood and Bela Lugosi CRAUI in Tim Burton's ENTNOD was a reflection of Burton's own relationship with Vincent Price.

2

Fidget Spinners

THE FIDGET SPINNER FIRST DEBUTED BACK IN 1993, O E AND THE PATENT FOR IT WAS APPROVED IN 1997.

1

Caduceus

The medical symbol Caduceus is actually the staff of Mercury, the Roman god of (among other things) merchants and thieves. It's possible that the Cadu

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