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14 Random Pieces of Trivia We Didn't Know We Wanted to Know

By:: Andres Diplotti; Cracked Writers

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14 Random Pieces of Trivia We Didn't Know We Wanted to Know

Ok, we didn’t know that. And we didn’t know that either! And we… Yes, you’re right, we’re bullsh*tting you -- we had to know about these to prepare this set. But we didn’t know about them before! Honest! We hope you enjoy learning about these, too.

14 The Green Goblin's Origins

The Green Goblin was originally a demon. Stan Lee envisioned Spider-Man's foe as an ancient demon found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. Steve Ditko just ignored Lee's idea, and drew the Goblin as a guy in a costume. — More: Spidey's Bonkers '60s Cartoon All The Spider-Man Memes Came From

13 Full House's Couch

John Stamos kept the couch from Full House. The blue plaid couch at the center of the Tanner family's living room is property of Uncle Jesse himself. In 2020, Stamos shared a snap on Instagram of his toddler standing next to the iconic sitcom prop. — More: 'That 70's Show' Car And 3 Other Classic TV Props Owned By Stars

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12 Moon Heart Trouble

NASA covered up a heart attack on the Moon. During Apollo 15, Mission Control detected that astronaut James Irwin had an arrhythmia serious enough to carry him to an ICU. Luckily, Irwin's spacesuit doubled as a mobile ICU, supplying him with oxygen and monitoring his vitals. No one in the crew was told about the incident. — More: The Heart Attack On The Moon, That NASA Covered Up

11 Real-Life 'Zootopia' Pawpsicles

Zootopia's popsicle fraud happened for real. An ice cream company in Istanbul, Turkey ran a promotion where you could get a free popsicle by turning in a popsicle stick with the word FREE printed on it. Then a couple of crooks started counterfeiting their own winning sticks, and trading them for popsicles (which they then sold). — More: Zootopia's Popsicle Fraud Has A Weird Real-Life Counterpart

10 Video Game Crash

The video game crash wasn't caused just by E.T. HIRO When Atari failed to legally stop Activision from making games for their console, the floodgates opened - and within months, everyone and their dog was releasing crappy games by the ton. By Christmas, the entire industry was bankrupt. — More: The (Unintentional) Hand Activision Played In The '80s Video Game Crash

9 Woman Yelling at a Cat Meme

The Woman Yelling at a Cat meme has a dark backstory. The woman is Taylor Armstrong in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills - and she's yelling at fellow cast member Camille Grammer, for spreading rumors about the suicide of Armstrong's former abusive husband. The cat's indifference doesn't look as hilarious in context, does it? — More: 5 Hilarious Memes With Messed-Up Origins

8 Danny DeVito's Penguin Comic

Danny DeVito wrote a pandemic-related comic (starring the Penguin). DeVito didn't just play the character - in 2021, he wrote a comic for DC where the Penguin (along with Catwoman, who is his lover here) commits the villainous act of, uh, stealing vaccines and inoculating the entire world against the pandemic. — More: Danny DeVito Wrote A Bonkers Penguin Comic

7 Legend of Zelda's Ghost

A Zelda game is haunted. It was a legend for a long time that there was a ghost in a swamp-like level in Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. It was eventually discovered that this ghost was an enemy accidentally placed where it shouldn't be - not knowing what to do with it, the game made it invisible. — More: 4 Spooky Glitches That Turn Games Into Horror Shows

6 John Titor

John Titor was the Q of 2000. Someone using the name John Titor played the Q game two decades before Q, by posting wild claims about future events on internet forums - and having people believe them. A big difference was that Titor didn't claim to be a government insider, but a time traveler from 2036. — More: The Eyebrow-Arching Tale Of The 'Q' Of 2000, John Titor

5 Malcolm X and Redd Foxx

Malcolm X and Redd Foxx were close friends. The rights activist and the raunchy comedian met long before any of them even picked the names they went on to become famous as. As they were both redheads, they were known as Detroit Red and Chicago Red, respectively. — More: 5 Times Celebs Were Linked By Surreal Connections

4 Oklahoma's Panhandle

Oklahoma has a panhandle because of Texas' racism. When Texas joined the U.S. in 1845, a lil' bit part of it was in territory where slavery was illegal - so they just chopped it off, because being able to remain a slave state was more important. That land strip was a chaotic outlaw paradise for decades, until Oklahoma took it in in 1890. — More: Can't Make It Up: The Reason Oklahoma's Shaped Like That

3 Roman Dodecahedrons

Nobody knows what Roman dodecahedrons are. Over 100 of these hollow, metallic thingies have been found all over Europe since the 18th century. They date back to Roman times, but they aren't mentioned in Roman writings or depicted in their art. No one has any clue what they were used for. — More: We've Found Hundreds Of These Weird Artifacts, And No One Knows What They Are

2 Stan Lee and the Marvel Method

Stan Lee created the infamous Marvel Method by accident. In the late 1940s, Lee would often commission art he didn't need, in part to keep his artist friends employed. It ended up backfiring - when his publisher found out, he promptly fired the artists, and had Lee turn all that surplus art into stories that could be published. — More: The Most Amazing Thing About Spider-Man (Is That He Even Exists)

1 McDuck's First Cartoon

Scrooge McDuck's first cartoon was capitalist propaganda. In the original comics, Scrooge was pretty much, well, a scrooge - but in his 1967 animated debut in Scrooge McDuck and Money, his villainish side disappears as he becomes a wise advisor, giving Huey, Dewey, and Louie valuable lessons about how capitalism works. — More: Scrooge McDuck's First Cartoon Was Hardcore (Capitalist) Propaganda

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