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June 22, 2025

Well, we’re completely riddled with arthritis, but here they are. You’re welcome.

Ya know, sometimes we feel like you don’t appreciate what we go through to get your these facts. It’s not enough for us to scour the universe for random tidbits, but we also come up with fun, exciting ways to present them. It’s like an expertly wrapped gift that you toddlers just rip through the paper for.

Here, we’ll clean up the mess while you play with these — per usual…

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Lord of the Rings Online

35 Random Bits of Trivia We Spelled Out in a Particularly Rousing Game of Cat’s Cradle

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Civil War

A Civil War battle stopped so the soldiers could watch a fistfight. In the Battle of the Wilderness, a Confederate and a Union soldier hiding in the same gully began to duke it out after trying, and failing, to capture each other. Soon, both sides stopped firing and got closer so they could cheer on their dude. (The Union guy lost, and got captured.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Godfather

Government agents mistook James Caan as an aspiring mobster during the production of The Godfather. During production, James Caan used to hang out with Carmine Persico, a.k.a. The Snake, who was a notorious Mafioso and later head of the Co- lombo crime family. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Virginia

Wheeler, Virginia is closer to the capital of 9 other states than it is to its own state capital. SE est VII - Herlb Cardie GRACKED.COM It is the southwestern- most populated place in Virginia, at the very tip of Virginia's west stretching arm, 411 miles away from Rich- mond. — Source

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Face/Off

CRACKED.COM FACE/OFF IT WAS PRODUCED BY MICHAEL DOUGLAS. The actor is also a prolific producer, having worked behind the cameras in such films as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Flatliners, and The Rainmaker.

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Gwyneth Paltrow

NO TIME TO WORK OUT? GWYNETH PALTROW THINKS YOU'RE JUST LAZY. Paltrow thinks you have no excuse not to exercise two hours a day, even if you're a mom. Every woman can make time for it, she has said. Every woman. Yes, every woman who has a trainer, a nanny, a chef, and a housekeeper on staff certainly can. CRACKED COM

29

Street Fighter

STREET FIGHTER II WAS GOING TO BE SET ON A DESERTED ISLAND. 727-3 ning 627-= 577-3 427-5 that STREET FRENTER An early idea was that the player had to make his way to the top of the island, fighting characters in order along the way. (If you ever played the game, you know this never happened.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rome

A Roman goldsmith may have discovered aluminum 1800 years before modern chemists. CRACKED.COM Emperor Tiberius had the discoverer killed in order to ensure the metal would not di- minish the value of his own gold and silver as- sets. — Source

27

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

35 Random Bits of Trivia We Spelled Out in a Particularly Rousing Game of Cat’s Cradle

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Get Out

GET OUT The name Armitage connects the movie to H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror, a novella about race mixing. CRACKED.COM

25

Phil Collins

Phil Collins disdains dress codes. CRACKED.COM Phil Collins named his 1985 solo album No Jacket Re- quired after an incident in Chicago. Collins was de- nied service at a restaurant because he did not meet the dress code require- ments. — Source

24

SNL

SNL around the world Saturday Night Live bil Arabi entertained audiences in the Middle East and North Africa It was canceled by Egyptian officials during its fourth season over sexual expressions that are inappropriate for viewers. CRACKED.COM — Source

23

A $33 Billion Financial Loss

CRACKED TUTE MILK $33 BILLION IN 18 MONTHS Eike Batista, a Brazilian oil tycoon, went from an estimated wealth of $34 billion to less than $1 billion in just 18 months. Until Elon came along, that made him a contender for the person who has lost the most money in the history of the world. — Source

22

Papa John’s

Papa John's was sued for $250 million for spam texting customers. PIZZA PAPA JOHNS SETA LARGE NOW UNIVERSITY PEPPERON BAKINGS PIZZA Some customers com- plained they were get- ting 15 or 16 texts in a row, even during the middle of the night, to- talling 500,000 unwant- ed messages in early 2010. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

21

Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal is one of the seven wonders of the world, a representation of Paradise and a symbol of love. However, the nearby banks of the Yamuna River are covered in garbage which creates a perfect ground for insects to thrive. Slime and air pollution are slowly damaging the mosaics and marble surface of the monument. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

Marie Antoinette

CRACKED MARIE ANTOINETTE SAYING LET THEM EAT CAKE Marie Antoinette supposedly said this when she heard peasants were very hungry. But it's likely that something like this phrase was actually said by Maria Theresa, the Spanish princess who married Louis XIV a century before Marie Antoinette's time. — Source

19

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

GRACKED THE O.G. HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ENDS IN COMPLETE TRAGEDY. In the end, Esmeralda is hanged, and when Quasimodo visits her grave, he refuses to leave, so he starves to death. — The Sun / The List

18

William Hayes

GRACKED DINOSAURS AREN'T REAL WILLIAM HAYES 95 95 The Rams defensive end thinks it's crazy to think that dinosaurs ever existed. Не believes that archaeologists planted bones underground like Easter eggs. — Bleacher Report

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17

Alaskan Natives

CRACKED THE US GOVERNMENT IS FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE. In September 2023, a typhoon damaged houses in Alaska. The US government offered help, but the paperwork contained weird translations into Native languages. For example: Tomorrow he will go hunting very early, and will (bring) nothing. — AP News / Yes Magazine

16

Diet Coke

Light Drinks Diet Diet Diet Diet Diet Coke Coke Coke Coke! Coke - CRACKED.COM The success of Diet Coke in 1982 per- haps led the company to fly too close to the sun. It kicked off a whole slew of light drinks, like Crystal Light and Bud Light, in response to the burgeoning health craze. Sure, they're not actually much better for you than their non-diet counter- parts, but you can't blame people for being desperate. Those leotards were not forgiving. — Source: 15 Weirdest Food Trends of the ‘80s

15

A U.K. Terror Hotline

A terror hotline in the UK TERRORISTS WON'T SUCCEED IF SOMEONE REPORTS SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY FLAT 2 CRACKED.COM In 2010, a whole multimedia ad campaign encouraged Brits to report people who looked suspicious. According to one radio spot, suspicious behavior included paying with cash, and not chitchatting (aka, minding one's own f*ing business). — Source: 14 Accidentally Offensive Modern Advertisements

14

Minnesota

A dog was the mayor of Cormorant, Minnesota for four terms. CRACKED.COM Before retiring at 13 (91 in dog years), the Great Pyrenees, Duke, was the mayor for four consecutive terms. Не was first elected as a write-in candidate in 2014, and became one of their most popular politicians. — Huffington Post

13

The BBC

The camera crew for BBC's Planet Earth had to shoot a flare gun at a polar bear. CRACKED.COM While the crew was cooking up some food in their arctic cabin, they caught the unfortunate attention of the world's largest land predator: a polar bear. One crew member found a gun with blanks and flares to scare it away. — BBC

12

Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields Shields a public figure since she was 11 months old. She went to Princeton University. The paparazzi tried to sneak onto campus, dressed like what they thought college students looked like, and follow me around, she said. CRACKED.COM — Source: Princeton Alumni News

11

Physics

TWO PHYSICISTS DISCOVERED THE SAME THING WITHOUT KNOWING IT. CRACKED COM Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita and Canadian astrophysicist Arthur В. McDonald shared a Nobel prize in 2015 after both independently proving neutrinos have mass. The press release stated, The discovery has changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter and can prove crucial to our view of the universe. — More: 12 Uncanny Instances Of Simultaneous Invention

10

Avicii

Avicii came up with his name because his real name was taken on Myspace. Avici is the the lowest level of Buddhist hell, according to Tim Bergling. CRACKED.COM — 20 Surprising Reasons Behind Musicians' Stage Names

9

Chicken Wings

WEIRD WORLD A 67-year-old man stopped in the middle of traffic to eat some chicken wings. Specifically, he stopped in an intersection - and he was somehow unaware that he'd been involved in a collision earlier. CRACKED.COM — Source

8

Roger Tichborne

When Frenchman Roger Tichborne was lost at sea, his mother searched the world for her son. Arthur Orton showed up, and Tichborne's mother believed she'd found him. Tichborne had been thin and dark-haired, where Orton was fat and light-haired. Even 'more puzzlingly, Orton was Australian and didn't speak any French. Orton inherited the family fortune. CRACKED.COM htto ://www. sl au/discover_collections/history_nation/justice/felons/tichborne/index.html — Source: The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed

7

The Sun

The Sun's atmosphere 3 extends past Earth. CRACKED.COM Past Pluto, even. It's called the heliosphere, and while it doesn't contain air, scientists consider it an atmosphere, and it has its own weather. — NASA

6

Organ Transplants

1962/ Lung 1 963 Liver First human organ Kidney transplant from deceased donor. 2018 First successful penis and scrotum transplant. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Ways Technology Has Changed In A Short Time

5

Celebrities

Wilmer Valderrama & Demi Lovato 11 YEARS Lovato and Valderrama met when she was 17 but supposedly didn't start dating until she was 18. Valderrama also supposedly started dating Lindsay Lohan when she was 18 as well. CRACKED.COM — Source: Demi Lovato: It's Complicated and ET

4

The Hobbit

The Hobbit filmmakers kind of duped Evangeline Lilly. After having been in a long-running love triangle on Lost, she wanted them to promise they would — Source: Yahoo!

3

Mantis Shrimp

Mantis shrimp will attack you with a tiny thunderstorm. Their strike is SO fast, it produces pockets of heat, light, and sound. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED C

2

Dead Bugs

Dead bugs ruined the perfect crime. 2B U In 2003, human garbage Vincent Brothers flew to Ohio to visit his brother, then immediately rented a car

1

Falcons

Professional Falconer This job involves handling, training and deploying falcons in airports to ward off birds that could potentially cause plane acci

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