13 Bits Of Awesome Trivia (About Movies And More) To Brighten Your Day
If you ask the people of Shingo, Japan, the Bible needs some updating.
![13 Bits Of Awesome Trivia (About Movies And More) To Brighten Your Day](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/7/764207_320x180.jpg)
Christianity would have been very, very different if it turned out that Our Lord and Savior pulled a switcharoo at the last minute and ran off to Japan where he became a garlic farmer. Well, tens of thousands of people apparently believe that version of the story. Anyway, here are the full details on that story and more:
![Mussolini did not actually make the trains run on time. The misperception grew out of a 1936 comment by an American journalist, and the Fascist propag](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/3/5/764235.jpg)
Source: The Independent
![Marilyn Monroe married for the first time at 16, and she basically did it just to stay out of the orphanage. Her mother was schizophrenic and often ho](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/3/3/764233.jpg)
Source: Vanity Fair
![In 1992, Russian president Boris Yeltsin drummed on the Kyrgyzstan president's head with spoons. There was no particular reason for it, he just did cr](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/3/4/764234.jpg)
Source: Reuters
![Implanting a tooth in an eye can restore someone's vision. They take out one of your teeth, put a plastic lens on it, then implant it into your cheek](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/9/764229.jpg)
Source: HowStuffWorks
![The Aral Sea dried up because of a massive Soviet engineering project. For decades, the Soviets dug thousands of miles of irrigation canals away from](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/3/1/764231.jpg)
Source: National Geographic
![In the early 20th century, a Russian doctor thought monkey testicle grafts could make you live forever. He thought sexual glands were the source of en](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/8/764228.jpg)
Source: Atlas Obscura
![Every year, 000 people visit a Japanese village where, locals claim, Jesus Christ died. The locals in Shingo say Jesus switched places with his brothe](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/7/764227.jpg)
Source: 6 Normal Places People Claimed Were The Sites Of Ancient Legends
![In 1992, U.S. Navy ships almost killed 400 journalists. The journalists took pictures of Navy SEALS landing on the Somali coast for an invasion, and a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/5/764225.jpg)
Source: SOFREP
![Joseph Gordon-Levitt personally picked the porn in his movie Don Jon. It was a pretty tedious and time-consuming task, he said, and he only did it S](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/3/764223.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![David Harbour lost out on playing The Blob in X-Men Origins: Wolverine because of a dumb joke. At the end of his audition, he pulled up his shirt, Squ](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/4/764224.jpg)
Source: ScreenRant
![The Hobbit filmmakers changed Smaug when they saw Benedict Cumberbatch's mo-cap. He slithered on the ground like a big worm, just like Tolkien describ](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/3/2/764232.jpg)
Source: MTV
![AIfred Hitchcock could have directed the first James Bond movie. Bond creator lan Fleming suggested Hitchcock, and they sent him the idea for a movie](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/6/764226.jpg)
Source: Variety
![James Cameron originally didn't want Titanic to end with My Heart Will Go On. He thought the film was too serious for a pop song, and apparently sai](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/3/0/764230.jpg)
Source: Billboard