15 Tasty Random Facts to Spice Up Online Scrolling
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Well, hey, there! If you're feeling a little bored and are looking for something to spice up your online scrolling experience, look no further! We have got some random facts for you that will keep you entertained for hours on end. So without further ado, let's get started!
If you've been feeling a little bored lately, or if you're just looking for something new to scroll through on your social media feeds, then look no further! We've got some random facts that will spice up your online experience. From interesting tidbits about history and science to fun trivia about popular culture, we've got you covered. So go ahead and get started – your friends are waiting to be amazed by your new knowledge!
It's that time of year again when we feed you a ton of meaningless nonsense! Were you under the impression that we were all gone? Ha! We never run out of interesting facts to share with you. It’s almost like our job or something... Break out your “fact spoon” (Ed note: check back on our merch shop) and eat some of these. You know you want to.
![The more Brad Pitt eats on screen, the better the movie does. Mark Hofmeyer, notorious movie math guy on the internet, has calculated that movies where Pitt eats more than 200 calories have a better box office and a higher Rotten Tomatoes score. Has Hofmeyer cracked the code to Pitt success? Further nourishing research is needed.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/7/788157.jpg)
![Steven Spielberg refused for years to release E.T. on home video. In the mid '80s, home video was booming but the decade's highest-grossing movie wasn't available. It took the industry six years to convince Spielberg to release his ugly alien on cassette. His more recent beef with streaming platforms isn't exactly unprecedented.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/4/788164.jpg)
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![Lady Gaga slipped swear words past radio censors. Eight times in the recorded version of Poker Face, Gaga sneakily changes the line poker face to f_ her face, just to mess with US all -meaning that radio stations everywhere broadcast the uncensored f-word thousands of times without ever realizing it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/6/788166.jpg)
![There are dolphins aboard the Enterprise. According to The Next Generation Technical Manual, the crew of Captain Picard's ship includes twelve bottlenose dolphins and two orcas in a section called Cetacean Ops. These wet crewmembers were too expensive for TV but they were mentioned in passing on a couple episodes.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/2/788162.jpg)
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![Fortunate Son' is in way fewer Vietnam movies than you think. Movies about 'Nam are so unoriginal - they all play Creedence Clearwater Revival's Fortunate Son, right fellas? Except that no, they don't The only major movie to use the song in a Vietnam setting is Forrest Gump, which came long after Apocalypse Now, Platoon, or Full Metal Jacket.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/6/788156.jpg)
![Sam Neill is a farmer. Everyone's favorite grumpy paleontogist runs Two Paddocks, a vineyard and farm where he doesn't raise dinosaurs, but the next best thing: animals named after his celebrity friends (so he won't be tempted to eat them). Appropriately, Jeff Goldblum is a horny ram.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/5/788165.jpg)
![A Spider-Man musical was the most expensive Broadway production ever. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark was hugely ambitious- and that was its downfall. With the convoluted story being rewritten all the time, and performers constantly getting injured from the elaborate stunts, it didn't last long before it had to be seriously scaled down.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/0/788160.jpg)
![A jazz prodigy was kidnapped to play for AI Capone. In 1926, Thomas Fats Waller was forced into a car at gunpoint, only to have him perform at Capone's birthday for three days straight while trying not to pass out from exhaustion. It's a story more Chicago than the musical Chicago.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/3/788163.jpg)
![Eels have the weirdest sex life. European eels spend most of their lives without any reproductive organs - and when they finally develop them, their stomachs dissolve so they can no longer eat. Then they swim all the way to the Sargasso Sea, in the Atlantic Ocean, to bone (no one is sure how) and die.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/9/789299.jpg)
![Maya The Bee was created to suck up to the Kaiser. Published in Germany in 1912, Waldemar Bonsels' book was pretty much a cautionary tale against unconformity and rebellion, which explicitly kissed up to Kaiser Wilhelm 11. When the Nazis came ose-stepping years later, Bonsels started pandering to them in his writing.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/8/788168.jpg)
![Lord Byron drank wine from a skull. Byron's gardener unearthed an old, intact skull, which the British poet and proto-Goth had converted into a goblet. Then he founded the Order of the Skull, which was mostly about drinking claret from the thing with his friends while cracking dark jokes.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/7/788167.jpg)
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![The HD remaster of Grim Fandango required stolen hard drives. The gaming industry already sucks at preserving old data, which was compounded by the fact that LucasArts was as dead as the game's characters. So remastering Grim Fandango required some underhanded methods, such as using old hard drives obtained through, ahem, unofficial channels.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/0/788170.jpg)
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![Captive octopuses need puzzles to keep their minds busy. Being the smartest invertebrates, octopuses need mental challenges in addition to food and a clean environment. Some aquariums keep their eight-legged guests happy and healthy by giving them puzzle boxes they have to solve to get to a treat.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/1/788161.jpg)
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![Sears was ruined by Ayn Rand's ideas. In 2008, Sears' CEO (and Rand fan) Eddie Lampert split the company into divisions ordered to selfishly compete against each other. The result was a steady death spiral that eventually led the century-old company to bankruptcy.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/8/788158.jpg)
![A Nazi spy failed because he couldn't stop partying. In 1944, Germany sent Erich Gimpel and American-born William Colepaugh to the U.S. as spies. But Colepaugh wasted no time to start spending the funds for the mission on food, wine, and women. He ended up leaving Gimpel behind and turning himself in to the FBI.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/9/788159.jpg)