16 Random Trivia Tidbits For The Ole' Noggin
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Have you ever heard our slogan, "Cracked: It comes fact-packed"? No, of course, you haven't -- we just made it up. What we didn't make up, though, is the high-quality info in this fact-pack (yes, we're determined to make that a thing). Browse them at your leisure, feel the knowledge soak your brain, and if you're still curious, just click the links for more detail. (We'll be around meanwhile, just pitching our new slogan to the site's higher-ups.)
There's something about random facts that just makes you feel smarter, isn't there? Like, even if you don't remember the fact itself, you can at least tell people that you know it and then sound really clever. Plus, they're a great way to keep your brain busy - especially when it feels like it's getting a little overloaded. So if you're looking for some interesting tidbits to store away for later or to distract yourself with for a few minutes, read on!
![Deadpool got so popular because he bombed at first. The irreverent zaniness that made the Merc with a Mouth successful was made possible by the higher-ups not giving a damn about the comic. We could do anything we wanted, writer Joe Kelly said. because everybody just expected the book](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/6/768596.jpg)
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![Camel barbers are a thing in Pakistan. Every year, the Pakistani city of Karachi hosts a huge cattle market. Some traders, trying to have their camels stand out from the crowd, hire amateur stylists to cut intricate patterns in the hair of their humped beasts. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/7/768607.jpg)
![Cops was literal police propaganda. Cops always purported to show the rough, gritty reality of police work- but behind the scenes, cops themselves ran the show for their own PR. Police departments had to okay everything that was aired, and had a say on the final cut of each episode.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/6/768606.jpg)
![Dead Space is based on a golf game. Killing alien monsters is as different from hitting a ball with a club as anything can be-and yet, the video game Dead Space is a branch off of EA'S Tiger Woods PGA Tour. Rather than making the game from scratch, the developers](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/1/768601.jpg)
![Movies keep lying to you about defibrillators. No matter how many movies you see where flatlining patients are shocked back to life- defibrillators just don't work that way. What they do is restore normal function to a heart during certain types of cardiac arrest they can't start a stopped](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/4/768594.jpg)
![All frogs can glow in the dark. Researchers at the St. Cloud State University were quite shocked to find that every amphibian species they studied showed biofluorescence (the ability to absorb and re-emit light). According to their report, the results of their first test were met with a collective](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/3/768603.jpg)
![Old Faithful (yes, the geyser) was used as a Laundromat. In the late 1800s, wary travelers who made it to the land which would become Yellowstone didn't need to carry on with dirty clothes - they'd just drop them in Old Faithful's bubbling pool. The clothes would come out clean, and](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/0/768600.jpg)
![Mammoths were hopelessly inbred. Research has shown that in their final days, woolly mammoths got SO desperate for sexual mates that they started inbreeding. The sad reality is that the last woolly mammoths basically cousin-banged their genetic code into oblivion.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/2/768602.jpg)
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![A Mandalorian episode pays homage to a movie which bombed because of Star Wars. Season 2's The Believer is partly about transporting explosive stuff through the jungle - just like William Friedkin's The Sorcerer. Friedkin's film, which came out in 1977, wasn't the expected success, as everyone chose to see Luke](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/2/768592.jpg)
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![Royal nipples were a big deal in Ireland. Old-timey Irish people showed subservience to the king not by kneeling or bowing, but by kissing his nipple. The symbolism was SO strong, failed kings risked having their nipples cut off, illustrating the loss of their right to rule.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/9/768599.jpg)
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![Octopuses punch fish just because they can. Scientists have found that octopuses like to knock the lights out of fish. Often they do it for practical, hunting-relat reasons- but sometimes they have no apparent motive, other than being eight-legged douchebags.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/3/768593.jpg)
![The Office made Scranton thrive. The show wasn't actually shot in ORL Scranton, but it still BEST brought windfall to OSs a the sleepy Pennsylvania town. Fans can book Office-themed tours in the place where Dunder Mifflin never existed, or eat sandwiches named after the characters in theme restaurants.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/5/768605.jpg)
![Pinball used to be considered a seedy thing. In the 1930s, New York City declared pinball a game of chance, and therefore illegal gambling. For the next four decades, the city waged war against the vice machines, with thousands seized, destroyed, and dumped into the ocean.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/4/768604.jpg)
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![Scotty's ashes were smuggled aboard the International Space Station. Richard Garriott, a civilian who visited the ISS in 2008, managed to hide a laminated card containing James Doohan's ashes in the station. For 12 years, only Garriott and Doohan's family knew about this.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/8/768598.jpg)
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![It's a Wonderful Life could have been about politics. In an early script, penned by acclaimed scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo, the main character is a politician- -and his guardian angel shows him what a hellhole his town would be, had he gone into business instead of public service.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/7/768597.jpg)
![A man threatened to sue the NFL for making him sinfully horny. In 2020, right-wing activist Dave Daubenmire threatened to take the NFL to court over the Super Bowl halftime show, featuring Shakira and Jennifer Lopez. Daubenmire said the league was peddling porn, which was keeping him from getting into](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/5/768595.jpg)
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