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32 Fun Trivia Nuggets Wrapped Up In A Fun Little Box

By:: Cracked Writers; Brian C. Miller

October 01, 2021

32 Fun Trivia Nuggets Wrapped Up In A Fun Little Box

Here's the nice thing about facts: technically they don't occupy and space at all. You can keep them wherever you want. A balloon. A small hand bag. In the pouch of a marsupial. In this article, we thought we'd wrap em up in a fun little box for ya. You can never have too many delightful factoids, interesting anecdotes or amazing bits of knowledge.

So we'd figure we'd share some of this knowledge for your general amusement. It's not like it's taking up any room! We have a present for you! You may have already guessed what it is-- It's a bunch of facts! Sorry that we forgot to wrap it.

For example, we had no idea that the most liked post on instagram is simply an image of an egg. Did you know that the most rat infested city in the United States is actually Chicago? Take that NYC!

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The most liked post on Instagram is an image of an egg. CRACKED.COM The account world_record_egg was created by advertising creative Chris Godfrey to raise awareness for mental health. The first post, a stock image of a brown egg on a plain white backdrop, raked in 55.5 million likes, more than doubling that of the second most liked post from Ariana Grande's wedding. — **Source:** **14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You**

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Chicago, Illinois is the most rat infested city in the US. CRACKED COM Based on data from pest control company Orkin, Chicago has topped the list of most rodent saturated cities in America for several years in a row. A combination of climate change, increasing urbanization, and even the COVID pandemic has helped the rat population surge. — **Source:** **14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You**

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One man has garnered millions of views on Youtube by sitting motionless on camera for hours at a time. CRACKED.COM As a form of endurance art, performer Benjamin Bennett released a series of odd videos where he sits and smiles in front of a camera in four hour chunks, at a rate of one video a week. In 2019, after 300 of these videos, Bennett started a new series where he walks and talks continuously until his camera battery dies. — **Source:** **14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You**

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CRACKED.COM Alien eggs were made to look less genital to avoid Catholic backlash. H.R. Giger had designed the top of the eggs in Alien to look like a vulva. But the producers thought that that wouldn't fly in Catholic countries, so Giger modified the opening (so now it looked like a cross instead). — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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CRACKED.COM Dracula's Castle is just some random keep. Vlad the Impaler lived in the currently ruined Poenari Castle, in Wallachia, Romania. As Bran Castle is better looking and easier to reach (not to mention that it's actually in Transylvania), it's peddled to tourists as the real Dracula Castle. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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CRACKED.COM Being a camera operator is deadlier than being a stunt performer. Movie stunts are quite risky - especially for the people getting them on camera. When stunts go wrong, four camera operators die on average for every dead stunt performer. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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CRACKED.COM China publicly shames people in debt. when 2002 and If you're Chinese, you'd better not fall behind in paying your debts. If you do, you'll see your name and face on giant screens-like in the theater, right before a movie. Millions of deadbeats are tracked and shamed by the government. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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CRACKED.COM Shops used X-rays to check the fitting of shoes. Sure, just trying on the shoe is often enough, but using a shoe-fitting fluoroscope was undeniably cooler. Too bad that people in the '30s didn't understand how stupidly irresponsible and dangerous this was. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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CRACKED.COM She-Hulk was created for copyright reasons. With The Incredible Hulk being successful on TV, Marvel feared a spin-off would be made featuring a female version of the character. So they tasked Stan Lee with creating her himself, just to make sure they would own the rights. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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CRACKED.COM Third-world country doesn't mean poor country. RUSSIA CANADA BONKOLIA UNITED STATES CHIWA KOREA LibH SAND - - - - BRAZIL AUSTI During the Cold War, the countries allied with the U.S. were the First World, while those in the Second World were with the USSR. If your country was neutral, rich or poor, that made it Third World. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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CRACKED.COM A fan colorizes I Love Lucy better than CBS. When CBS started colorizing / Love Lucy, Lucille Ball's hair ended up looking like some radioactive carrot. Zach Smothers of Pop-colorture.com doesn't have CBS' budget, but he managed to get much better results. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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CRACKED.COM A pandemic in the 19th century was blamed on the telegraph. Just like conspiracy theorists today think 5G is the cause for COVID-19, the Russian Flu of 1889 was blamed on telegraph wires. Since affected towns were linked together by the telegraph, some people just jumped to the obvious conclusion. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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CRACKED.COM DC let a harasser edit their comics for years. Eddie Berganza was Superman executive editor, and in 2010 he was promoted to executive editor. At least five people had reported him to HR by then. DC Comics let him keep this position for seven more years before doing something about his continuing harassment. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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CRACKED.COM China is building a new Great Wall made of trees. China is trying to stop desertification in the traditional Chinese way-by building a huge-ass wall. This Green Great Wall (made by planting trees, not piling stones) was started in 1987, and it will be several decades before it's finished. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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An unintentional pandemic spread across the online game World Of Warcraft. CRACKED.COM The debuff spell Corrupted Blood, cast by newly added end boss, Hakkar the Soulflayer, was only supposed to last a few seconds, but an oversight allowed in-game pets to catch the corruption and spread it across the game. Programmers imposed quarantines and players fled densely populated areas, until a series of patches got rid of the infection. Epidemiologists studied the event for real world prevention. — **Source:** **14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You**

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Video game publisher Firebird released 5 of the worst games that were submitted to them, under the name Don't Buy This. 48KSPECTRUM COMPILATION DON'T BUY THIS FIVE OF THE WORST GAMES EVER CRACKED.COM HI-SCORE=150 LIVES Instead of simply disregarding them, Firebird decided to publicly mock the worst submissions they received in the 1985 release Don't Buy This: Five Of The Worst Games Ever. Upon release, Firebird disowned the game, claimed it escaped instead of being released, and encouraged people to pirate it. — **Source:** **14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You**

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We found a planet that rains glass over 5 times the speed of sound. GRACKED.COM The deep blue color of HD 189773B, a gas giant exoplanet 64.5 light-years away, was observed in 2005. Scientists theorize the color comes from shards of glass that are whipping around the planet's surface at 4,349 mph. — **Source:** **14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You**

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Dolph Lundgren sent Sylvester Stallone to the hospital while filming Rocky IV. CRACKED.COM In order to capture the most realistic boxing possible, Stallone, who directed the film, asked the hulking Lundgren to really go for hard hits to the body. After wrapping, Lundgren got word that production had to be halted after Stallone was hospitalized for swelling of his heart. — **Source:** **14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You**

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There are indeed different types of hangovers from different drinks. CRACKED.COM The severity of your hangover is determined not only with how much you drink, but what you drink. This is caused by a byproduct of fermentation, congeners, and the greater concentration of them, the worse the effects. Dark liquors like brandy, red wine, and whiskey have higher concentrations than clear ones, like vodka. — **Source:** **14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You**

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Shopping carts are getting bigger SO that you'll unintentionally spend more money. ERMAND ERALD CRACKED.COM The shopping cart, invented in 1936, was basically two regular shopping baskets on a rolling frame, made so that you could fill up more baskets with goods. The next step for tricking you into spending more lies in the ever growing size of the carts themselves; research shows that when shopping cart sizes double, people buy 40% more at the checkout counter. — **Source:** **14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You**

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Bea Arthur wasn't too fond of Betty White on Golden Girls. CRACKED.COM The two characters that Bea Arthur and Betty White played on Golden Girls were closer to their real life personalities than you think. Betty White said that Bea found her to be a pain in the neck, and her positive attitude got under Bea's skin. Sometimes, Betty said, if I was happy, she'd be furious! — **Source:** **14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You**

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CRACKED.COM Cats were accused of killing babies. Not too long ago, when a baby died with no explanation, the cat was often pointed to as the culprit. Some believed that cats would suffocate babies for a variety of reasons-including sheer jealousy. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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CRACKED.COM Black Lightning was almost a white bigot. Black Lightning was DC Comics' first black superhero with his own title. At first he was going to be Black Bomber, a racist white guy who became a black man under stress. Then writer Tony Isabella had a better idea: not doing that. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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CRACKED.COM Alt-Right furries exist, somehow. You'd expect the animal dress-up people to be tolerant of difference, wouldn't you? And yet, a Fur Right community exists. Its members proudly wear pawstika armbands and engage in the same tactics as their furless counterparts. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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CRACKED.COM Blockbuster Video almost had its own city. BLOCKBUSTER® Back in the '90s, Blockbuster wanted to build a 2,500-acre theme park near Miami-and they somehow convinced the Florida legislature to give them powers restricted to governments. This Blockbuster Town was entitled to collect taxes and seize private land. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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CRACKED.COM A (fake) queen lived for years in a train station. In 1974, the queen of the lost kingdom of Oudh set residence in New Delhi's central train station with her entire entourage. After 10 years, the Indian government ended up giving her the palace she demanded. It came out long after her death that she wasn't a real queen. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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CRACKED.COM Martin Luther King Jr. had an advice column. In the '50s, Reverend King had a column in Ebony magazine titled Advice for Living. He'd often talk about black issues, but he also gave personal advice (which sometimes, um, wasn't very good). — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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GRACKED.COM A flying head was cut out of the Bible. According to The Life of John the Baptist, after John was beheaded, his head flew around the world for 15 years, calling King Herod out the entire time. Yes, we also wonder why such an awesome thing was left out of the final cut. — **Source:** **18 Random Facts To Spice Up Your Brain Diet With Some Variety**

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William Shatner intentionally ruined takes on Star Trek when they tried to censor his kiss with co-star Nichelle Nichols. CRACKED.COM The interracial kiss between Kirk and Uhura in 1968 was a first for TV, and the network was nervous about the potential backlash. To appease certain affiliates, producers attempted to shoot an alternate scene for southern audiences where the two did not kiss. Shatner deliberately sabotaged his takes during these scenes by making faces and looking right into the camera, so that the network was forced to show the kiss. — **Source:** **14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You**

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Jim Henson dreamed of opening a nightclub in the 1960's. CRACKED.COM The experimental nightclub Cyclia would have featured images and videos projected onto walls, synced up to music to create a holistic experience. The nightclub never came to be, but Henson did record a lot of the visuals that would have been used, some of which were posthumously released by his company. — **Source:** **14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You**

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Deep Sea Sponges live up to 18,000 years. CRACKED COM Giant tube sponges can live past 2,000 years, in part due to the cells that make up their bodies. Unlike typical animal cells, the sponge cells can transform into whatever the sponge needs at the time. Deep sea glass sponges, which sway in deep waters atop 10 foot poles of silicone, can live up to 18,000 years. — **Source:** **14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You**

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