14 Random Facts to go to Bed With a Full Brain
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Did you know that John Cena was a collegiate Sumo wrestler? Or that he likes anime? Did you know that some movies have additional versions called Director's Cuts that include extra footage and scenes that didn't make the final cut?
Were you hoping to learn something new today? Unfortunately, you've arrived, and you can no longer avoid knowledge. What's another piece of trivia to shove into your head? It's excellent trivia, mind you, the type we've chosen for you with care. Allow us to convey this info directly to your cerebral cortex by opening your skull. You may also continue reading, which you will undoubtedly enjoy.
Anyway, cracked thought it'd be fun to share some of his favorite random facts with all of you today.
So, without further ado, here are some intriguing facts that you may or may not be aware of! These are just a few of the topics we shall cover in this post. Watch this space!
Angelic Dolly
![Dolly Parton saved a child's life while shooting a movie. While on the set of Christmas on the Square, where she plays an angel, Parton was one in real life too, by preventing nine-year-old actor Talia Hill from being run over by an oncoming vehicle. Hill said she was in shock, as anyone would be after having their life saved by Dolly Parton.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/4/814834.jpg)
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Deceitfulness & Disinformation
![Tom Hanks' first movie was a hatchet job against Dungeons & Dragons. Hanks' first lead role was in Mazes and Monsters, a movie very loosely based on real events, and firmly entrenched in the anti-D&D moral panic of the early '80s. That's right-one of the most successful careers in Hollywood history was launched by a sensationalistic, cringeworthy movie.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/9/814839.jpg)
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Mutiny on the Enterprise
![Everyone hated Star Trek:TNG's episode about swapped gender roles. Angel One isn't one of those Trek stories that haven't aged well - the cast knew right away the episode was a sexist train wreck. Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, and Marina Sirtis all tried to get the script changed - but in the end, their resistance was futile.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/2/9/814829.jpg)
Rejected Best-Seller
![No one wanted to publish Dune. Sci-fi publishers in the '60s wanted nothing with Frank Herbert's 200,000- word brick full of sand and worms. The manuscript was eventually accepted by the Chilton Company, which mostly published car repair manuals.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/8/814838.jpg)
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A Good Businessman Gone Bad
![A DC villain was originally the Justice League's manager. Maxwell Lord (played by Pedro Pascal in Wonder Woman 1984) was at first just a charismatic guy who ran the Justice League's business operations. Later writers couldn't conceive of a businessman who wasn't evil, and revealed that Lord had secretly been a supervillain all along.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/6/814836.jpg)
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Boar Backfire
![Georgia's bounty on wild boars resulted in even more boars. Fort Benning, Georgia started offering a $40 reward for each killed boar in 2007. It turned out, by using bait to catch the pest pigs, hunters were effectively feeding them and helping them reproduce faster. Fort Benning ended up paying $57,000 to make their problem bigger.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/2/814842.jpg)
No Babies Were Harmed
![Jurassic Park prudently left out the baby-eating. Steven Spielberg movies are usually quite safe for child characters-but Michael Crichton novels, not necessarily so. The original Jurassic Park book features a scene where a baby is found surrounded by small dinosaurs-and they're not just gushing over how cute the baby is.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/0/814830.jpg)
Dumb Dracula
![Comics turned Dracula into a goofy-looking superhero. In the mid-'60s, vampires were a no-no in American comics, while superheroes were all the rage. So when Dell Comics dared to publish an ongoing Dracula title, the Transylvanian count looked like... well, he looked like this.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/1/814841.jpg)
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An Errol of Science
![Errol Flynn made a duck centipede. Nine-year-old Flynn noticed that ducks would pass out a piece of pork in a couple minutes-so he tied one to a piece of string, and stringed half a dozen ducks bill-to-cloaca. His career as a mad scientist was cut short, though, and he went on to be a movie star.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/0/814840.jpg)
The Grim Reaper Doesn't Wait
![Troy Leon Gregg lived a real-life Final Destination movie. Gregg, a sentenced murderer, broke out of a Georgia prison on July 29, 1980-the night before his execution was scheduled. Не was killed in a bar fight a few hours later. Не literally would have lived longer if he had waited to be executed.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/2/814832.jpg)
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Old-Timey Con Man
![Gregor MacGregor's life was a 19th-century version of Catch Me If You Can. MacGregor started off by pretending to be a knight, and ended up styling himself Prince of Poyais, a lush (and completely fictitious) country in Central America. Не made big bucks by selling settling rights and getting big loans against his non-existent Poyaisian gold.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/7/814837.jpg)
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Pioneering Pun
![Comic writers started getting credit because of censorship. A 1969 DC comic included a story told by a wandering wolfman - even though monsters of any kind were verboten under the Comic Code Authority. DC got away with it by crediting the story's writer, Marv Wolfman-which opened the door to all comic creators getting credit.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/3/814833.jpg)
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Liquor Loophole
![A Russian businessman created a bank just to push vodka. The Russian government banning the advertisement of vodka in the late '90s was quite an inconvenience for Roustam Tariko, who manufactured the successful Russian Standard vodka. Undeterred, Tariko opened a bank and gave it the same brand as his booze, so ads for the bank doubled as vodka ads.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/5/814835.jpg)
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Non-Political Play
![Mattel released a nonpartisan version of Uno. How many families have been torn apart by political disagreements while playing Uno? A lot, we're forced to guess, since Mattel made a point of releasing an ideologically neutral version of the game. No red or blue cards means no taking sides! the box proudly proclaims.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/3/1/814831.jpg)
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