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31 Facts for A Fact-Starved Brain

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31 Facts for A Fact-Starved Brain

October 14, 2023

Thanks to shows like the Walking Dead, everyone is a modern-day zombie expert. It’s common knowledge that zombies get ravenously hungry for brains. But here’s something we bet you didn’t know: Brains get hungry too, papa.

Yessir, those old gray cells need their daily dose of nourishment in the form of facts, intel, tidbits, tips and trivia. So don’t discount how important keeping the old noggin fed is. If anything, your brain is starving for facts. Thankfully, you’ve stumbled on an all-you-can-eat fact buffet.

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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. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts To Win At Trivia Night

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CRACKED.COM 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. — Source: 15 Random Facts To Win At Trivia Night

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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). CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts To Win At Trivia Night

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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. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts To Win At Trivia Night

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King Edward I refused Scotland's surrender to fire his trebuchet. In 1306, Edward Longshanks ordered the building of a huge- ass trebuchet, in order to break the defenses of Stirling Castle and end the Scottish rebellion. The Scots tried to surrender when they saw this medieval Death Star - but Eddie just wouldn't let them. Not before he fired his sweet trebuchet, damn it. CRACKED COM — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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Tom Holland learned on social media that he was Spider-Man. After a grueling seven months of auditioning, Holland finally learned that he landed the part - not through a call from his agent, but while scrolling on Marvel's Instagram account, just like any random person. Only later did the studio reach out to him. our ENGLISH Instagram 2 Continue CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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SNL put Leia in a gold bikini years before George Lucas did. In 1978, Fisher hosted SNL dressed as Princess Leia. During a beach skit, Leia beams down (yeah, let's ignore that part) and takes off her robes, revealing her bathing suit t-a gold bikini. This was five years before Return of the Jedi. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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The Ninja Turtles caused Hitler's death. Archie Comics' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures was supposed to be closer to the cartoon than to the bloody source material. And yet, it featured plotlines like the turtles going back in time, kicking Hitler's ass, and spooking him into shooting himself. CHOK 12 CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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x Being a hardcore fan can be bad for your self-esteem. There's nothing wrong about being a fan of something, and it can be for you - in moderation. If fandom becomes too large a part of your identity, your sense of self-worth will take a hit when your heroes release a bad album, make a sucky movie, or lose a big game. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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For a hot second, the Flash was called Flush Man in Argentina. N In the '90s, Argentinian publisher Perfil scored the rights to print DC's comics - except that, as there was a magazine titled Flash, they called the hero Flush Man, accidentally making him poop-related. Everyone hated the stupid name change, and the comic bombed. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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The test run for D-Day was as deadly as the actual D-Day. Exercise Tiger was a full-scale practice landing, performed on a British beach - and through a combination of live ammunition, bureaucratic screwups, and German boats showing up uninvited, hundreds died. The entire operation was covered up and forgotten about for a long time. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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HBO's first original programming was polka. Back when it was a regional TV provider that only broadcast movies nine hours a day, HBO first flexed their production muscles by broadcasting the Pennsylvania Polka Festival in 1973. It was a really long way to robot cowboys and dragon boobs. HBO GRACKED COM — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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EXPOSING KENNEDY IS A NOW YOU GREAT FEATHER IN MY CAP! DON'T! BUT OF EVEN GREATER IM- PORTANCE IS CAPTURING NOW YOU and YOU HAVE ME.. 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. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts To Win At Trivia Night

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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. Не was bitterly disappointed when Michael Keaton was cast instead of him for the 1989 movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts To Win At Trivia Night

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Safety glass was born from an accident. One day in 1903, French polymath Édouard Bénédictus accidentally knocked over a glass flask in his lab - but the flask didn't break into pieces. Bénédictus remembered that there was plastic cellulose nitrate earlier in the flask, which had created this bonding effect after drying. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts To Win At Trivia Night

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CRACKED.COM 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. — Source: 15 Random Facts To Win At Trivia Night

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CLOSED SUNDAYS NCDL UNWANTED ANIMALS Clinic HUMANELY DESTROYED more open SUPPORTED ever VO The Blitz resulted CO in a pet massacre. In 1939, with the war looming, the British government created a committee to advise pet owners - and their 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. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts To Win At Trivia Night

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CRACKED.COM 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. — Source: 15 Random Facts To Win At Trivia Night

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The NYPD employs beekeepers. Bees can't break the law (we hope), but as many New Yorkers keep bees on their rooftops, the lil' buzzers often swarm and cause trouble. When that happens, the police will send one in of their beekeeper cops - not to shoot at the bees (again, we hope), but to help remove the swarm. CRACKED.COM® — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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The NRA used to be pro-gun control (albeit for racist reasons). Only in the '70s did the NRA become the advocate for gun rights we know today. For much of their history, they held the opposite view and pushed for stricter gun regulation Except that this was in part to keep guns off the hands of black activists, like the Black Panthers in the '60s. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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Back in the 18th century, Fraternities college societies were less were born about keg, togas, and as literary hazing, and more about societies. debating topics like politics, literature, and religion. The first fraternal organization as we know them today, Phi Beta Карра Society, was established in 1776, and more soon followed. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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30 Rock's gay bomb was real. It isn't just some absurdist joke - it really happened. In 1994, the U.S. Air Force commissioned a laboratory to experiment with pheromones and aphrodisiacs as a weapon, to cause homosexual of F - I I J - I I 1 I I I Y I . de I I A i I I في . 3 2 في ! I E I . the 2 de I 1 I : I I 1 a behavior among the enemy. PENTAGON REJECTS SO-CALLED GAY BOMB - - - - - - Number - Mojos Times - — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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The Crips began as a neighborhood watch. According to Stanley Tookie Williams, he started recruiting other boys to form a watch against the street gangs that troubled South Central Los Angeles. Eventually, Tookie's group gained strength and became the Crips, one of the largest gangs in the world themselves. Oops. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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Morrissey won an award for how awful he is at writing sex. You know Morrissey for his music, and if you're lucky, you don't know him as a writer. His 2015 novel List of the Lost won the Literary Review's Bad Sex Award, for its hypothetically sexy run-on sentences. The book contains baffling word assortments like, the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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Con Air was written as an indy drama. In script form, the movie was a little character- driven piece. Then it landed on the desk of Jerry Bruckheimer, Hollywood's biggest let's just blow s#!t up producer in the '90s. The movie was tweaked accordingly, becoming an explosion-packed blockbuster starring Nicolas Cage's mullet. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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CRACKED.COM 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. — Source: 15 Random Facts To Win At Trivia Night

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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. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts To Win At Trivia Night

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