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30 Tufts Of Trivia To Cover Up Knowledge Bald Spots

By:: Cracked Writers; Brian C. Miller

October 01, 2021

30 Tufts Of Trivia To Cover Up Knowledge Bald Spots

Random and entertaining facts catch us off guard all the time. They're tidbits of information from areas of science, culture, and popular entertainment that amuse and fascinate us and everyone else with whom we share them. The fact is that these intriguing facts are more than just humorous nuggets that will help you know stuff: they're incredibly interesting, and then once you start to read, you'll want to keep going until your fascination is fulfilled. Addictive? Perhaps.

You'll discover plenty of fresh knowledge here unless you're interested in strange facts that almost don't seem true (but are), miscellaneous trivia, scientific trivia, interesting pet facts, cartoonist trivia, movie tidbits, and/or literature trivia. We also have plenty of pop quizzes for youngsters to keep them entertained during a family lunch or a long car ride!

Your brows appear to be suspiciously unraised, friend. Well then, let's cram some data into our gray matter and see if we can change things up a bit. Scroll on down pals for some truly wild information…

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In Victorian England, drunk homeless people would sleep on a rope. It was called a two-penny hangover, because you'd pay two pennies to spend the night hanging over a rope. At around 5 or 6 AM, you'd be woken up by falling onto the ground, as the rope would get cut (and you'd then get kicked out onto the street). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **13 Surprising Facts About Movies And A Ton Of Other Things**

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When President McKinley got shot, a gynecological surgeon operated on him. Dr. Matthew Mann was the first doctor who responded, so he did the surgery. They did try to call experienced abdominal surgeon Dr. Roswell Park, but he was with another patient and said he couldn't leave even for the president of the United States. They told him that's who it was for, but it didn't change Park's mind. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **13 Surprising Facts About Movies And A Ton Of Other Things**

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A deleted scene from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer explains why Cornelius licks his ax. After Rudolph guides Santa to the Island of Misfit Toys, Cornelius picks up his ax after throwing it in the air, then licks it and says Peppermint! What I've been searching for all my life! I've struck it rich. So he was just licking his ах to see if he'd finally found peppermint. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **13 Surprising Facts About Movies And A Ton Of Other Things**

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They had to push Jimmy Fallon's jeep in his Band of Brothers cameo. It was a real WWII jeep, and he was a pretty bad driver, so he couldn't make it move. Two guys ended up having to push the jeep forward at the right moment while Fallon pretended to drive. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **13 Surprising Facts About Movies And A Ton Of Other Things**

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In Malaysia, suicide attempts are punishable by a fine or up to one year in jail. This is because the Malaysian penal code was based on British law back when it still included holdover laws from the Middle Ages (in medieval times, suicide was a criminal offence because St. Augustine had declared it a sin). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **13 Surprising Facts About Movies And A Ton Of Other Things**

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In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Ralph Fiennes' nephew Hero Fiennes Tiffin played young Tom Riddle. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **13 Surprising Facts About Movies And A Ton Of Other Things**

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Researchers use vibrators to sex turtles. They sex them literally- that is, they use the toys to Turns out, a nice determine the turtles' sex. vibe massage will Males and females are get males very hard to tell apart in some happy, and it will show. And by it, species, but an Australian student has found a cheap we mean their vibrator will do the job. turtley boner. GRAGKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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People keep mistaking a porn star for the British Prime Minister. Prime Minister Theresa May and glamour model Teresa May should be easy to tell apart. Yet, the latter keeps getting tweets congratulating her for her policy making or complaining about Brexit. The porn star's Twitter bio clarifies that she's not the Prime Minister. Guess what good it does. Go on, guess. GRAGKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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Tinder is helping NBA players perform better. .... u It's a Match! LITE han No, not that kind of perform. (Well, perhaps it does-we have no data on that.) But since players can now arrange their private away games directly from their smartphones, they spend less time partying and are better rested to hit the court. The drop in the home team's advantage over the last few years has been attributed to this Tinderization of the NBA. GRAGKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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Sleeve tattoos already existed in the 19th century. Even back in Victorian times, ladies would sometimes ink themselves copiously. While a popular circus attraction, not only the poor decorated their bodies. Even the aristocratic mom of Winston Churchill was rumored to sport a tattoo. Also, medical journals of the time describe what sound a lot like nipple piercings. GRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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A racist doctor made up a mental disorder to explain runaway slaves. Dude, slaveowners would say, why do our slaves keep trying to escape? Because slavery sucks wouldn't cut it for them, so in 1851, Dr. Samuel Cartwright came up with a scientific answer: Such slaves were ill with drapetomania. Cartwright declared the disorder curable everywhere, except on the border of an abolitionist state. GRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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Sufferers of sexsomnia initiate sex while sleeping. Sexsomnia is kind of like sleepwalking, except that you get unconsciously freaky with whoever is near. It might sound hot to you (you perv), but being vigilant of where you fall asleep is very life-limiting. Dating or living with a roommate can be difficult, while a worst-case scenario may involve lawyers and courthouses. GRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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$Today's fracking's got nothing on Nuclear Project Plowshare. Back in the fracking '60s and '70s, this U.S. government was once operation detonated over 30 a thing. nuclear bombs underground to beat the earth into surrendering its profitable natural gas. It was eventually discontinued because this particular brand of real-life supervillainy turned out to not be cost-effective. GRACKED.COM$

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Gene Simmons owns the money bag symbol. Simmons is worth $300 million, and part of that comes from royalties paid to him by cartoon bank robbers. Не long ago trademarked the money bag with the dollar sign on it, and stamps it on apparel he sells. $ His rationale for it is: I can do anything I want to do, b!tch. GRACKED.coin — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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There's child slavery on Mars! No less an authority than Alex Jones has covered this. According to this conspiracy theory, NASA has been kidnapping children for decades and shipping them off secretly to Mars in a trip that, because of reasons, lasts a full 20 years. Once there, the children are used as slave labor. Yes, they're still children after 20 years. Shut up. GRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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Part of a Nazi encryption machine turned up on eBay. The Lorenz machine that the British National Museum of Computing had on loan was missing a few parts. One day, while casually browing the web, they found the teleprinter (the thing's keyboard) listed on eBay as a telegram machine. For just £10 (about $14), they rescued an invaluable piece of engineering history from a trash-filled garden shed. GRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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The East German secret police, the Stasi, took odor samples from interview subjects. GK Vornane Name Datum: 1/86 PKZ: Zeit: 100 Delikt: Reg.Nr.: Dienstateller They used special chairs that had a sterile cloth - the cloth would hold the odor, and they'd keep it in a glass jar. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **13 Surprising Facts About Movies And A Ton Of Other Things**

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Pulp Fiction wouldn't have gotten made without Danny DeVito. His production company Jersey Films bought the Pulp Fiction script from Tarantino. DeVito was the person who then shopped the script around, and eventually brought it to Miramax, which made the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **13 Surprising Facts About Movies And A Ton Of Other Things**

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Dolphins can tell the difference between predators and (nearly identical) playmates. Bigg's killer whales snack on dolphins, while southern resident killer whales avoid red meat (including dolphins). They're so similar that they're considered the same species, but dolphins only play with the safe kind. Science isn't sure how they do it, but it might be down to the whales' calls. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **13 Surprising Facts About Movies And A Ton Of Other Things**

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Halle Berry spent 3-4 hours a day training dogs for John Wick: Chapter 3. It came after three hours of martial arts training and two hours of gun training. She didn't have to train dogs, but she did it just to be able to say she could. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **13 Surprising Facts About Movies And A Ton Of Other Things**

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Henry David Thoreau was a significant pencil innovator. After graduating from Harvard, he got a job at his dad's pencil factory, and eventually started trying to make better pencils. Не came up with a really good pencil production method, allowing the factory to make some of the best pencils in the U.S. at that time. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **13 Surprising Facts About Movies And A Ton Of Other Things**

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In October 1958, MIT students measured the Massachusetts Avenue bridge using another student. His name was Oliver Smoot, and the bridge turned out to be 364.4 Smoots long (+/-1 ear). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **13 Surprising Facts About Movies And A Ton Of Other Things**

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Horseshoe crabs are vital to human health. Horseshoe crab blood is used to test people for bacterial contamination, which is why we capture 250,000 horseshoe crabs a year and drain their blood (when we're done, we put them back into the sea). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **13 Surprising Facts About Movies And A Ton Of Other Things**

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Jon Snow's cloak is an IKEA rug. According to Michele Clapton, costume designer for Game of Thrones, the Night's Watch cloaks are made from rugs bought at IKEA. Of course, her job isn't just throwing the things on the crows' shoulders. They cut the rugs, shave them, add leather straps to them, and generally rough them up to give them that worn- down, smelly look. GRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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H.R. Giger was repeatedly screwed over by the Alien franchise. Giger is credited for that walking toothy nightmare known as the Xenomorph. And... that's it. His work on Alien3 went uncredited, and James Cameron didn't even ask him to contribute to Aliens. When Alien: Resurrection rolled out, Fox just left his name out entirely, not even crediting him for the original design. GRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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Professional farters used to be highly appreciated artists. Flatulists, or fartists (yes, that's what they were called), turned their intestines into the tools of their trade. They'd often perform for the rich and the powerful, and were handsomely rewarded. Le Pétomane was the highest-paid French entertainer a century ago. Не could blow out candles and play La Marseillaise with his butt. GRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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DNA testing companies aren't very reliable. Maybe you've sent a spit sample to one of those companies that tell you exactly how much Irish or Navajo you are. Guess what: They can't actually do that. At most, they can give you a range based on certain genetic markers. Different companies yield very differing results, and no test at all can give you total certainty. GRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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Chewbacca was given bodyguards against hunters. While filming Return of the Jedi in Northern California's redwood forests, Peter Mayhew (in full Wookiee regalia) was constantly accompanied by crewmembers in brightly-colored vests. The reason: It was feared that local hunters might mistake him for Bigfoot and shoot at him. Sounds like a bullsh!t urban legend, but Mayhew himself has confirmed it. GRAGKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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An amusement park is being built where Osama bin Laden was killed. Abbottabad's most famous resident hasn't done the town's touristic reputation any favors. So now Pakistani authorities are pretty much going: Hey, folks, look at this kick-@$$, totally not Osama- related amusement park we're building here. The park will feature ski ramps, rock climbing, a boating lake, and a zoo. GRAGKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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Black children are seen as older than they are, which sucks for them. Studies have found that from an early age, black boys and girls are thought of as older and less innocent than their Black children are likelier to get white peers. That means that their transgressions are school suspension judged more severely and and face police get a harsher punishment. violence. GRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know**

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