16 Random Facts To Bulk Up Your Brain Muscles

Is your brain feeling a little sluggish lately? Perhaps a tad flabby? Don't worry; you're not alone. It seems like everyone's brain is a little out of shape these days. Don't fear, because today we're going to help you get your brain into tip-top shape with some random facts! That's right, by the end of this post, you'll be able to answer any question that comes your way, and you'll know more about the world than ever before! So what are you waiting for? Let's get started!

You might be interested in some of the random facts we are about to share with you. By boosting your brainpower with some useless information, you can bulk up your mental muscles and feel more confident in yourself. Yes, we know. You're ravenous and can't get enough information about completely unrelated topics. You can't function without trivia. That's why we here at Cracked work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to satiate your intellectual desires. You greedy beast, here's your daily serving. Bon appetite you fact hungry maniacs.

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A Star Wars puppeteer was almost fired for pissing off Harrison Ford. According to puppeteer Tim Rose, he cracked a joke in the set of Return of the Jedi about Harrison Ford's demands - -and Ford, overhearing the quip, demanded the insolent jokester to be fired. Luckily, Ford didn't know what — More: Movie Beef: The Other 'Star Wars' Firing We Never Heard About

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The Batman Slapping Robin meme comes from a bonkers comic. The panel comes from a 1965 imaginary story where Bruce Wayne thinks his father was killed by Superman, and becomes Batman specifically to hunt him down. And he doesn't just slap Robin - he also wipes his memory. — More: 8 Famous Superhero Memes (That Are Even Dumber In Context)

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Sean Connery socked a gangster. While shooting a movie in the 1950s, Connery got very friendly with co-star Lana Turner, which annoyed Turner's boyfriend, a mobster called Johnny Stompanato. Stompanato showed up in the set to threaten Connery with a gun- which the future James Bond swatted out of his — More: 5 Weird Crimes That Happened On Movie Productions

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There's no such thing as human alpha males. Alpha and beta terminology was used for decades in primate studies, until unqualified people decided to apply a dumbed-down version of it to people. Shockingly, humans are more complicated than monkeys, and the idea that you can be alpha or beta is — More: Stereotype Shredder: 4 Things To Remind You That 'Alpha Males' Are BS

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Tijuana Bibles were your grandad's Rule 34. There wasn't an internet in the 1930s, but that doesn't mean no one was drawing Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck going at it with each other. Tijuana Bibles were small, crudely- printed NSFW comics, featuring cartoon characters, celebrities, politicians, and the like. — More: 5 Historical Texts Filthier Than Anything In Modern Times

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Rich people don't create as many jobs as credited for. An awful amount of the jobs created go to pre-existing high-income earners. The jobs that do go to working-class people tend to be very precarious, unsustainable after initial funding runs out-and even in the case of success, job creation is — More: 5 Myths About The Mega-Rich That Need To Go Away

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More policing doesn't actually reduce crime. Ramping up arrests doesn't result in less crime, only in more (disproportionately black) people arrested for non-criminal behavior. Overpolicing is actually detrimental, as it leads to distrust, which worsens the relationship between communities and law enforcement. — More: 4 Lies That Need To Stop Being Spread About 'Bad Neighborhoods'

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We almost had a Star Fox claymation show. Back in 2014, CollegeHumor was working on an official Star Fox project, made in the style of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Nintendo pulled the plug (along with all of their other adaptations) when rumors spread about a Legend of Zelda live-action show — More: 6 Bonkers TV Shows That We Missed Out On

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Elle Woods is much less likable in the book. If you loved Elle in Legally Blonde, that's because she's pretty much the polar opposite of her version in the original novel. Literary Elle Woods is manipulative, lazy, entitled, and is constantly mocking and bullying everyone- not exactly someone you would — More: Movie Differences: Elle Woods In The 'Legally Blonde' Book Is A Monster

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Our hair is mutilating pigeons. As pigeons often live where people live, strands of human hair float around on the ground where the birds gather. The hairs sometimes get tangled around the pigeons' toes, where they keep wrapping tighter and tighter, until the toe in question succumbs to necrosis. — More: Stupid Ways Humanity Is Screwing Up The Planet

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George R. R. Martin keeps referencing Gone with the Wind. Martin is a fan of Gone with the Wind, and works countless references into his work. It's not just Easter eggs, but complete characters and storylines-I like the way that Sansa Stark's journey, beginning as a naive aristocrat hardened by — More: Uh ... Is 'Game of Thrones' is Just Feudal 'Gone With the Wind?'

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Mice have facial expressions. Scientists have known for years that mice can grimace in pain, but more recent research has shown that their tiny mousey mugs CAN also convey other emotions, like fear, nausea, disgust, or pleasure. While still lacking Mickey Mouse's range, this makes mice valuable subjects to study — More: Science Confirms About Mice What Disney's Known Forever

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Your pay always feels too small, no matter how big it is. Of course, your pay is too small if you can't meet your needs - but once you can, more money sends you along the hedonic treadmill, where you always need even more — More: 4 Ultra-Rich Problems Ordinary People Don't Experience

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Richard Ill wasn't as evil as Shakespeare made him out to be. There's no indication that Richard II killed any of the people Shakespeare wrote he did (and he wasn't a hunchback, either). It's possible that Shakespeare intended the king to be a stand-in for Robert Cecil, a member of — More: 4 Historical Figures With Undeserved Reputations

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The Nigerian Prince has been around for 200 years. Rich people randomly offering you big bucks if you help them out of trouble was already a scam genre in the early 19th century. Later, in the 1890s, scammers got to claiming in their letters that they were prisoners of the — More: 4 'Internet Things' That Are Older Than You Thought

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Spotify's payout model screws over small artists. Your subscription fee isn't divvied up among the Spotify artists you listen to it all goes to a common pot, and then is shared based on each artist's total streams. So even if you never listen to Drake or Taylor Swift, they get — More: 5 'Cool' Brands That Have Big Problems

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