13 Cool Facts To Bring To The Watercooler
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In the best way possible, these random, cool and entertaining facts took us by surprise. They're tidbits of information from the branches of research, art, and pop culture that amuse and fascinate us and everyone else that we talk about them with. These fascinating facts are not just amusing tidbits–they can also help you nail trivia questions with ease: They're quite amazing, so once you keep reading, you'll like to keep going until you've fulfilled your curiosities.
You'll discover plenty of fresh knowledge here unless you're interested in strange facts that just don't seem true (but somehow are), strange trivia, physics trivia, wildlife trivia, animation trivia, film trivia, and/or literature trivia. We also have lots of cool facts and riddles for youngsters to keep them entertained throughout a dinner party or a lengthy car trip!
When Arnold Schwarzenegger first appeared on TV, they simply dubbed his unique Austrian accent to give him an unmistakably American voice. Here's the whole thing, plus 12 more:
![Christian Bale decided to do That Voice for Batman very, very early on. Even before his screen test, apparently, he decided that you can't do a normal performance in the Batsuit, or the whole thing would feel ridiculous. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/6/792756.jpg)
Source: Polygon
![Wes Anderson's hands make a cameo appearance in The Royal Tenenbaums. JUN R At the beginning of the movies, there's a shot of hands stamping the card that's in a library book. Those are Anderson's own hands. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/5/792755.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![Arnold Schwarzenegger's first movie appearance came with a dubbed voice. He And it sounded ridiculous - in Hercules in New York, he had the voice of a middle-aged American who was mildly annoyed. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/8/792748.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![A major character got cut entirely from Thomas and the Magic Railroad. His name was PT Boomer, and he was a villain - all his scenes were shot, but they ultimately got rid of him because kids found him too scary. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/9/792749.jpg)
Source: Archive
![When Adam Devine auditioned for Pitch Perfect, he thought it was about baseball. He was like Wow, there's a lot of singing in this baseball movie, and didn't have a song for his audition at all, so he had to improvise. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/5/792745.jpg)
Source: Popsugar
![When Apple launched Maps in 2007, it was so bad, it was basically unusable. For example, they moved London from England to Ontario, Canada, and they showed a 35-acre field in Ireland called Airfield as an airport. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/7/792747.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![Between 1949 and 1963, most British men had to serve in the National Service. are with you us IN NATIONAL SERVICE ? The requirement applied to able-bodied men between 18 and 30, and they served in either the Army, Navy, or Royal Air Force - it was basically peacetime conscription. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/4/792754.jpg)
Source: nam.ac.uk
![It's possible to get pregnant during pregnancy, but that's very rare in humans. Medicine only has a few recorded cases of that (it's called superfetation) but it's common among some animal species, like hares, badgers, and fish. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/2/792752.jpg)
Source: Healthline
![osama bin Laden had a total of 53 siblings, from a total of over 20 mothers. His father Mohammed bin Laden died in a private plane crash in 1967, when he was about 60 - his oldest son was twenty-one at the time. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/1/792751.jpg)
Source: New Yorker
![On their deathbed, doctors don't want to be treated like their patients do. For example, one study showed that 90% of them didn't want to be revived from a chronic coma (while only about 25% of regular people said that). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/6/792746.jpg)
Source: Zocalo Public Square
![There's a caterpillar that wears its old, molted heads as a very bizarre hat. It's the caterpillar of the Uraba lugens moth, and it doesn't discard the heads it molts out of after the fourth molt - it just stacks them on its head. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/0/792750.jpg)
Source: ScienceFocus
![In 2013, Walt Disney tried to trademark the Dia de los Muertos holiday. It was for Pixar, of course, and it was an attempt to fully secure rights to Dia de los Muertos-themed merchandise, toys, games, and so on. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/3/792753.jpg)
Source: CNN
![Nikolai Vavilov tried to avert hunger in the USSR, but got himself killed. The USSR tasked him with creating seeds resistant to drought, disease, and frost, but Stalin eventually denounced and imprisoned him (he died in prison). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/4/4/792744.jpg)
Source: Kew.org