26 High Amp Trivia Surges That Tripped Our Breakers
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Dear Readers, we've compiled a list of all the most intriguing historical and scientific strange facts we’ve ever posted on this dang website for you to appreciate. So, if you’d be so kind, scroll to the bottom of this article and prepare to be as shocked as we were.
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For example, did you know Sandra Bullock had a role in inspiring online pizza delivery? We knew she was one of our faves for a reason.
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![Online pizza delivery was inspired by the 1995 Sandra Bullock movie The Net. The inspiration for the very first online delivery service, CyberSlice, came from the scene were Bullock's character orders a pizza online. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/8/811268.jpg)
![In the mid-90s, Quentin Tarantino rewrote what turned out to be one of SNL's worst movies. Hers His It's Pat was a comedy based on an SNL sketch about a character whose gender was uncertain - and they got Tarantino, of all people, to rewrite the script. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/9/811269.jpg)
![There's a US state highway that doesn't allow any motor vehicles at all. Mackinac Island It's an 8-mile stretch on Mackinac Island - when they shot the Christopher Reeve film Somewhere in Time there, they had to get permission for vehicles. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/6/811266.jpg)
![They got a double for Willem Dafoe's penis in Antichrist, because it was too big. Director Lars von Trier said Dafoe's junk was so big that people got confused when they saw it, so they got another guy to stand in for Dafoe. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/7/811267.jpg)
![Around 1,000 people were saved thanks to a wounded man aboard a ship in WWII. After Major Francis Harvey on the HMS Lion got wounded in battle, he kept a fire from detonating nearby explosives, which saved the whole ship from blowing up. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/5/811265.jpg)
![South Florida's building code requires that exterior doors swing outward. That type of door allows people inside to leave a building more quickly, and the new code was adopted after Hurricane Andrew in 1992. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/4/811264.jpg)
![By tradition, if you're baptised on a navy ship, that's done in the ship's bell. AUSTRIA ROR 1836 The tradition started in the British Navy (though it's not clear when), and it kept going in the American and Australian navies. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/3/811263.jpg)
![NASA astronaut Alan Shepard golfed on the moon half a century ago. Не did that on live TV, during the Apollo 14 landing in 1971. Не took two shots - one travelled 2 yards, and the other about 40 yards. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/2/811262.jpg)
![In a strangely meta twist, KitKats are actually made up of other KitKats. KitKat Nestle DARK 70% SCHIDE AICI . TEAR HERE 22 kcal Cu ciocolata neagrá have PARK The KitKats' filling is actually just ground-up older KitKats. Apparently, taking broken-up KitKats and turning them into fillings is called re-work. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/1/811261.jpg)
![Sea cucumbers have a weird defense mechanism - they eject their organs. Somehow, that's supposed to deter any predators --and it happens in response to, say, being prodded. They just regrow the organs later. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/9/811259.jpg)
![Disney made the Lion King video game almost impossibly hard on purpose. Renting video games was super popular at the time, so Disney asked the developers to make the game too hard to beat in a rental period. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/8/811258.jpg)
![There's a Lorax parody called Truax (from the National Wood Flooring Association). In Truax, the title character is a tree logger (and a good guy) who's harassed by Guardbark, a kind of environmental activist (and definitely a bad guy). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/7/811257.jpg)
![The Star Wars film set provoked official concern from the Libyan government. The sandcrawler set looked like it might be a military vehicle, so Libyan authorities had to inspect it to make sure it was really just for a movie. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/0/811260.jpg)
![Aaron Sorkin once hurt his hand by practicing a scene for The Newsroom. Не got up in the middle of the night to practice an idea he had, and that involved lunging at his bathroom mirror - he broke it, and went to the ER. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/5/811255.jpg)
![A classic Simpsons Olympics episode is based on something that really happened. MILKS In Lisa's First Word, Krusty Burger offers free burgers if the US team wins, and that comes back to bite him. This really happened to McD's in 1984. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/6/811256.jpg)
![Jerry Seinfeld never unironically said What's the deal with ... ? on Seinfeld. No, not even in the pre-intro stand-up sets. It's apparently associated with him just because he said it in a 1992 SNL skit where he played a game show host. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/4/811254.jpg)
![John Leguizamo sadly sacrificed a lot to play Luigi in Super Mario Bros. Не had gotten the chance to play Tom Hanks' character's love interest in Philadelphia, but he refused the offer and decided to play Luigi instead. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/4/4/811244.jpg)
![In 1968, the Beatles signed a petition to get Mick Jagger in A Clockwork Orange. They sent it to Terry Southern, who was writing the movie adaptation's script, demanding to have Jagger in the lead role. Alas, it was clearly unsuccessful. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/0/811250.jpg)
![Isaac Newton was a member of Parliament, but he was very ineffective. During his 21-year stint there, he apparently only spoke once, and it was to the usher - he asked him to close the window one time when it was chilly. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/2/811252.jpg)
![Scallions and green onions are the same vegetable, with different names. But spring onions are different - their bulbs are much bigger than those of green onions, and those bulbs in fact kind of look like small onions. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/3/811253.jpg)
![Rick James once got a custom drawing by Salvador Dali, but he ruined it. Dali sketched him at a party on a napkin, and gave it to James. James left it in his shorts, forgot about it, and went swimming in them the next day. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/4/9/811249.jpg)
![Being a Michelin Guide Inspector means eating 275 inspection meals a year. IC And that's just the minimum. Luckily, to compensate for the effects of that, Michelin has a plan - they reimburse fitness membership fees. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/1/811251.jpg)
![One crane at the Smithsonian National Zoo has a human mate (kind of). They mate for life, and the crane Walnut has chosen zookeeper Chris Crowe - in 2004. She hasn't changed her mind since, apparently. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/4/6/811246.jpg)
![There was a futuristic floating McDonald's on a barge in Canada way back in 1986. It was set up for the 1986 World Expo in Vancouver, and orders were brought out on a conveyor belt. But after the Expo, it was left to rot for years. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/4/5/811245.jpg)
![A British aircraft carrier produces 540 tons of fresh water per day at sea. The HMS Queen Elizabeth uses a reverse osmosis system that filters salt molecules, creating enough fresh water each day to fill 12,000 bathtubs. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/4/7/811247.jpg)
![In 1957, a nuclear bomb in the desert exploded directly over six guys' heads. They were five Air Force officers and a cameraman, and apparently they all reached old age. One of them might even still be alive. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/4/8/811248.jpg)