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The secret ingredients for, well, anything really

34 Random Bits of Trivia You Can Crush Up Into a Spicy Fact Guac

June 25, 2025

When cooking, it’s always good to have at least some salt, pepper and garlic on hand. You can obviously go above and beyond with a plethora of other flavor boosters, but you can definitely fight blandness with the basics as well.

These facts are like the salt, pepper and garlic for any cooking in your brain. With a little something on every topic, they’re the flavorful base to build upon.

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Weed

Weed smokers in the 1930s were called muggle-heads. CRACKED.COM Its leaves can be dried, ground and rolled into cig- arets , which are boot- legged under the name of 'muggles,' 'reefers,' or 'Mary Warners, according to a Time article from the period. — Source

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Lions

Lionesses can actually get birth control implants that work. And they receive those implants in ZOOS sometimes - that way, all the lions can hang out without new cubs being born all the time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Childish Gambino

Childish Gambino came from a random name generator. To Donald Glover's credit, it was a Wu-Tang name generator so ... nice. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Guns

Generally, guns were more strictly regulated in the Old West than they are today. For example, you usually couldn't openly carry guns in towns - you could only do that if you were outside town limits or inside your home. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Carpenter

John Carpenter CRACKED.COM Once a legendary horror filmmaker, Carpenter has since released 2 albums and gone on tour with his 80's synth-pop project. — Source

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Obedience

CRACKED SHOCKINGLY OBEDIENT: 65% SUBMIT TO AUTHORITY Stanley Milgram's experiment demonstrated the power of authority, with 65% of participants willing to administer high-voltage electric shocks, despite feeling negative emotions. Participants who challenged the authority were in the minority, showing that obedience can override personal codes of conduct. — Source

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Muslims

If you think of Muslims as living عبد يا أبت لا in the Middle نَتِ الّي East, you're mistaken. 61.9 قان و كُو ن percent don't. ته And not all Arabs are Muslim. يم ليز As much as 10 percent of the عفر لك world's Arab population is 2. Christian, which means there are 1 million more Arab ونَ مِن دُونِ Christians than the world's م entire Jewish population: سفيا وهباله اله GRACKED.COM — Source

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Speaking Other Languages

AMERICANS ARE MOSTLY MONOLINGUAL. Only 20% of students in the USA study a foreign language as compared to 90% of European students. Geroun Langen- scheidt German Spa scheidt Langen- CRACKED.COM TRA ITALIAN — Source

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Dunkin’ Donuts

Rachael Ray was in a Dunkin' Donuts ad in 2008. It was pulled because of her terrorist scarf. The ad seemed as uncontroversial as you can get. But many conservative commentators claimed that Ray's scarf was a keffiyeh, an Arab garment. Which, they said, promoted terrorism. Dunkin' Donuts tried to dismiss the issue as nonsense, but in the end, they pulled the ad. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Eiffel Tower

As metal expands on heating, the Eiffel Tower is actually 15-17cm taller in the summer CRACKED.COM — Source

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Germany

CRACKED SAMSED DAVID'B9 TWA cleur LECER MARiPEES 400 NOVEMBER 9: PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING IMPORTANT IN GERMANY This has been a major date for Germany. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Jewish Pogrom of 1938 occurred, Hitler's attempted coup in 1923 failed, the German Republic was declared in 1918, and Robert Blum was executed in 1848. — Source

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Roger Clemens

Roger Clemens Toronto Blue Jays oaston 22 CRACKED.COM In 1996, the Blue Jays agreed to let Clemens' kids practice in the Skydome, and gave them lockers in the clubhouse right next to their dad's. — Source: 15 Suspiciously Specific Clauses In Pro Athletes' Contracts

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Sunny Delight

A child once turned orange from drinking too much Sunny Delight. The girl was drinking 1.5 liters a day. The company used Beta-Carotene (found in carrots) to color the drink which can make you orange at extremely high doses. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — BBC / Wikimedia

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Ashley Revell

Ashley Revell sold all his possessions, including his clothes, single rout and roulette put $136,000 spin. on a 32 O CRACKED.COM Не won, and doubled his money. Revell used his winnings to set up an on- line poker company called Poker UTD, which later went out of business in 2012 due to controversy over US frozen accounts. — Prove It before You Promote It

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Billie Jean

CRACKED.COM Billie Jean almost got Michael Jackson killed. Jackson was so absorbed in the song, working on it in his head while driving, that he didn't notice his car was on fire. Someone on a bike had to point it out to him. — Source: 15 Of Our Favorite Songs (Have Surprising Backstories)

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White Shark Cafe

There is an area in the Pacific Ocean where hundreds of Great Whites come to mingle. Every year, the sharks end up in this random area (called the White Shark Cafe) to loiter with one an- other, and no one knows why. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — LA Times

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The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid's Tale The novel was not intended as a feminist work. As Margaret Atwood said in 1986, Novels are not slogans. a study of power, and how it operates and how it deforms or shapes the people who are living within that kind of regime. CRACKED.COM — Source: The New York Times

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Street Fighter

April Fools's jokes that became real USO street Fighter sheng Long Electronic Gaming Monthly published an April Fools joke about how to fight Sheng Long - a character that didn't exist. This led to the creation of Ryu's master Gouken, with a suspiciously similar design. US CRACKED.COM — Source: Street Fighter Wiki

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TikTok

WEIRD WORLD A TikTok trend made it sound like there'd be school shootings ... but поре. Tik Tok It was called National Shoot Up Your School Day - seriously - and school officials were afraid there'd be actual shootings. There weren't. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Napoleon

To the left is what most of us recognize as a portrait of Napoleon, leading his troops across the Alps on horseback. This was painted by Jacques-Louis David in the early 1800s. BONAPARTE In reality, Napoleon crossed the Alps on a mule with the help of a guide. This was depicted on a painting to the right by Hippolyte (Paul) Delaroche in 1848. GRACKED.COM — 26 Side By Side Comparisons That Fix Your Image Of History

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Old English

Ye wasn't really used to mean the in Old English Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese The 'th' sound used to be written with a 'p.' Early printers didn't have a 'p' so they used 'y' because it looked similar. Ye was revived in the 19th century to make things sound quaintly old timey. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Online Etymology Dictionary

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The Black Card

The coveted American Express Centurian black card costs a minumum of $10,000 a year. AMERICAN EXPRESS® AMERICAN EXPRESS AMERICAN EXPRESS EXPRESS EXPRESS AMERICAN AMERICAN EXPRESS MERICAN 3749 800TL AMERICAN BY MEMBER SINCE 85 AMERICAN EXPRESS AMERICAN EXPRESS AMERICAN EXPRESS RICHY MCJERKFACE THE RICA AMEX You also have to spend a minimum of $100, 000 and make $1 million a year to even be qualified to carry one. The card has some members only secret perks, but is otherwise not that different from the Amex platinum card. CRACKED.COM — 24 Eyebrow-Arching Ways One Percenters Live

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Cars

Cars will lead to teen sex! GRACKED COM So feared parents in the 1920s, along with thinking cars would make teens disobedient and turn them less religious. To be fair, these parents were 100-percent correct. — American Quarterly

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Tanks

The longest distance at which one tank destroyed another is about 3 miles. The record was made by a British Challenger tank in the Gulf War, in 1991 - kind of amazingly, it hasn't been beaten since. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rick and Morty

COMEDY DG NERD CRACKED.COM RICK AND MORTY WAS AN X-RATED BACK TO THE FUTURE Co-creator Justin Roiland invented The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, a perverse animated parody of Back to the Future, for a short film festival. Dan Harmon loved it and enlisted Roiland to help create Rick and Morty. — Mental Floss

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Australia

There's a sovereign state inside of Australia CRACKED.COM 5 farms on the Hutt River attempted to secede from Australia in the 1960's, a request that the state obviously denied. Except that, in their denial, they referred to the Administrator of Hutt River Province, which actually granted them statehood. To this day, the Province doesn't pay taxes. — Source: The 6 Most Creative Abuses of Loopholes

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Robin Williams

AT A GLANCE ROBIN WILLIAMS In order to convince Williams to voice Genie, Disney did a test animation of Genie to part of his stand-up routine. Robins quickly signed on, seeing the potential of voice acting and starting a celebrity voice acting craze. CRACKED.COM — Source: LA Times

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The Super Bowl

The Super Bowl's National Anthem has been pre-recorded since Garth Brooks' 1993 performance. Garth Brooks almost walked out after the network refused — Source: Taste of Country

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Child’s Play

11 people were needed to operate Chucky in Child's Play. And the puppeteers under the set had reversed monitors for some reason, so they'd make Chucky — Source: Mental Floss

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Inmates

Inmate makes his own electric chair. 1989 South Carolina very bad dude Michael Anderson Godwin managed to get his sentence reduced from the death pena

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LeVar Burton

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Full House

JOHN STAMOS ALMOST GOT THE OLSEN TWINS FIRED FROM FUEL HOUSE. Stamos said he initially struggled to work with the twins because they were crying a lot

2

John Adams and Benjamin Franklin

John Adams and Benjamin Franklin once shared a bed (and spent the night arguing like an old married couple). While traveling to a peace conference in

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Tree DNA

(Tree) DNA caught a murderer. Yep. Trees. When a woman turned up strangled in Arizona with literally zero traces of anything useful to investigators o

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