15 Random Trivia Nuggets To Win Monday
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There are some random facts that you may or may not know. For example, did you know that the average person has around 60,000 thoughts a day? Or that the lifespan of a human hair is around five years? Most of us go through our lives without ever knowing these things, but they're nonetheless interesting to learn.
While attending a trivia night is always a fun way to spend an evening, there's no guarantee you'll leave as the champion. That's why arming yourself with some random facts is essential, so you can dominate the competition. Whether you're looking to win big or just take home bragging rights, here are some interesting tidbits that will help you out. (Don't forget to share them with your friends, too - they could use the help!)
Trivia nights can be a lot of fun, but they can also be pretty competitive. If you want to make sure that you come out on top, then it's important to arm yourself with some random facts. After all, who knows more about random things than Google? Here are some.
![The studio forced movie theaters to screen Star Wars. Fox had no faith at all in that silly movie about space puppets, so they told theaters that they had to screen it if they wanted The Other Side of Midnight, which was expected to be a big success. Star Wars immediately went on to outgross the other movie by a bajillion dollars.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/1/782321.jpg)
![Astronauts keep losing their fingernails. The fingertips of the astronauts' pressurized gloves are hard as thimbles, and the contact can cause pain and a condition called fingernail delamination essentially, your nails detach from their nail beds.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/1/8/782318.jpg)
![Jerry Maguire basically charged Reebok for insulting them. Reebok paid $1.5 million for Jerry Maguire to include an ad featuring Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Rod Tidwell. But the ad was cut for some reason, with the only reference to the brand being now Tidwell's -k Reebok.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/6/782326.jpg)
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![Early Superman often went against the police. Supes was always against crime, but that don't make him no bootlicker. Superman's respect for the law was rather loose in his early days, often calling authorities out on their abuses. A recurring character was Sergeant Casey, who repeatedly tried to catch him.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/9/782329.jpg)
![A bear almost got an Oscar nomination. Bart the Bear was in several high- profile movies, including 1988's The Bear. This French movie was such a worldwide hit, there was a campaign to nominate Bart for an Oscar. Unfortunately the Academy put the kibosh on it, stating that animals weren't eligible.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/8/782328.jpg)
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![Adam West tried for years to keep on playing Batman. West didn't quietly hang the batboots when his show ended in the '60s. Until the late '80s, he kept pitching increasingly deranged projects where he got to play the Caped Crusader. He was bitterly disappointed when Michael Keaton was cast instead of him for the 1989 movie.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/5/782325.jpg)
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![Safety glass was born from an accident. One day in 1903, French polymath Edouard Benedictus accidentally knocked over a glass flask in his lab - but the flask didn't break into pieces. Benedictus remembered that there was plastic cellulose nitrate earlier in the flask, which had created this bonding effect after drying.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/4/782324.jpg)
![High-concept movie doesn't mean what you think it means. A movie isn't called high-concept because it's supposed to be deep or artsy (or because you have to be high to watch it). It just means that the premise is easily summarized, making for a concise, quick pitch. Jaws, for example, is shark terrorizes town.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/1/7/782317.jpg)
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![The Blitz resulted in a pet massacre. In 1939, with the war looming, the British government created a committee to advise pet owners -- and their main recommendation was, “it really is the kindest to have them destroyed.” With the threat of bombings and starvation, over 750,000 pets were put down.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/1/9/782319.jpg)
![Pitbull has trademarked his yell. You know that EEEYOOO! that is Pitbull's trademark? It turns out it's his actual trademark you are not allowed to use it. The rapper managed to get legal protection for his signature yell in 2019.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/0/782330.jpg)
![DC created their own Robin rip-off (because of cookies). An anti-drug issue of Teen Titans sponsored by Keebler (yes, it was the '80s) was already fully drawn, when they realized that Robin was licensed to rival cookie company Nabisco. So they drew a new costume on Robin and turned him into a different character, the Protector.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/0/782320.jpg)
![Blackface is still a thing in the movie stunt industry. It would be unthinkable today for a male actor to put on a wig to portray a woman, or for a white person to play a black person in blackface - but it happens among stunt performers. Both wigging and 'painting down have been fought for decades, but are still common.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/3/782323.jpg)
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![Weed boomed during lockdown. It isn't surprising that the marijuana business reached a record high (ahem) during a stressful time. States where pot is legal saw sales skyrocket in 2020. More people started growing their own weed as well, seeing as how they were home now (and had no money to buy any).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/1/782331.jpg)
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![All the Tabasco sauce is made in one factory. About 700,000 bottles of the hot stuff are sold every single day -- and all of them come from this one factory in Avery Island, Louisiana. Seeds are shipped to other countries to grow the peppers, which are then hauled all the way back to Louisiana and turned into sauce.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/7/782327.jpg)
![Jesus is buried in Japan (or SO some Japanese believe). According to local legend in the village of Shingo, Jesus (or Daitenky Taro Jurai) didn't die on the cross - he schlepped over to Japan instead, where he got married, had a bunch of kids, and died at the ripe age of 106. If you are ever in Shingo, you can visit his burial site.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/2/782322.jpg)
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