15 Trivia Tidbits For Even The Most Discerning Trivia Nerds
![15 Trivia Tidbits For Even The Most Discerning Trivia Nerds](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/0/832650_320x180.jpg)
“Variety is the spice of life.” -Everybody You Ever Met
Sure, it's a cliche, but who among us likes things the same all the time? Ok, there are always a few outliers, like that one guy in Appleton, WI who eats a Big Mac every day. Oh boy, that guy. For the rest of us, though, it's refreshing to have things change up on the regular. You know, have a Filet of Fish from time to time.
So that’s what we’ve try to do with our grab bag sets = give you that rotating roster of rad information that you can file away for those conversations where you really need to sound smart or interesting.
The Harry Potter movies ruined three lives: those of owls, the actress that played Cho Chang, and every nerdy kid that ended up waiting for a 9-foot-tall man to tell them magic is real and that they can move out of their house.
Prima Nocta probably wasn't a real thing.
![There is no evidence Prima Nocta was ever an actual thing. Prima nocta is the supposed practice by which a feudal lord would have sex with any bride on her wedding night, famously seen in the movie Braveheart and bewilderingly uttered by Tony Stark in Avengers: Age of Ultron. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/5/832665.jpg)
Source: 5 Ridiculous Sex Myths From History (You Probably Believe)
American's thought the moon expedition was a waste of money.
![Americans didn't really get the moon landing at first. The majority of Americans at the time, both before and after the moon landing, said they thought it wasn't worth the cost. Of course, now 100% of Americans know that it really happened and it was hella tight. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/0/832660.jpg)
Source: 5 Ridiculous Cold War Myths You Learned in History Class
Scientists agree, everyone in Star Wars is mentally ill.
![A psychologist/ psychiatrist duo wrote a series of papers analyzing the characters of Star Wars. According to multiple professionals over the years, Anakin Skywalker displays clear signs of PTSD and/or borderline personality disorder. In fact, every Star Wars character has some mental illness. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/1/832661.jpg)
Source: Every 'Star Wars' Character Has A Mental Illness, According to Scientists
Buddha wasn't fat.
![The tubby monk immortalized in Buddhist artwork is not Buddha. Buddhism was founded by the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, and you'll see statues of this skinny man worldwide. That fat guy is Budai, a monk who lived 1,500 years after Buddha. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/3/832663.jpg)
Source: 5 Historical Figures You're Picturing Almost Exactly Wrong
Harry Potter's 'Cho Chang' had to ignore racist attacks.
![Harry Potter's 'Cho Chang actress' was told to deny the racist abuse she endured. When Katie Leung broached the hate-fueled racist attacks to her publicist, she says they seemingly shrugged it off, instructing her to deny the abuse. I remember them saying to me, ، If you get asked that, just say it's not true, CRACKED.COM say it's not happening.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/8/832658.jpg)
Japan changed almost everything about Spider-Man's backstory.
![The Japanese Spider-Man show from the late '70s changed most of the character's story. NJURNIN® - NURA 3 م Kra-sa ج / 2 S.P 2 10 1 50/m cap e N ,STI ويلو H) In the show, Takuya Yamashiro becomes Spider-Man after losing his father, a scientist killed by a robo-dinosaur monster with knife/axe hands after he discovers a spaceship belonging to the alien Professor Monster and CRACKED.COM his Iron Cross Army.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/4/832664.jpg)
Gladiators were fat.
![Gladiators were fat, for defense purposes. The spectacle of the arena was all about the fighters getting wounded, and trainers quickly learned fatter fighters stood a better shot of getting sliced without dying, so they fattened their fighters up. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/9/832659.jpg)
SSource: 5 Scenes From History That Everyone Pictures Incorrectly
China removed Freddie Mercury's homosexuality in Bohemian Rhapsody.
![The Chinese version of Bohemian Rhapsody cut all references to Freddie's homosexuality. His discussion of his sexuality with his fiancee and scenes of Freddie wearing women's clothing were cut completely, and the part where Freddie tells his bandmates he has AIDS has all dialogue removed. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/2/832662.jpg)
The water system in a Florida town was hacked.
![The town of Oldsmar, Florida got hacked through its water system. Too much sodium hydroxide (lye) was almost added to their water supply when a supervisor saw the concentration increase by a factor of more than a 100. The FBI and Secret Service were called in to investigate, because it was CRACKED.COM regarded as a terrorist attack.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/7/832657.jpg)
SSource: 5 Stories People Should Be Paying More Attention To
The first Tweet was sold as an NFT.
![Jack Dorsey sold his/Twitter's first tweet as an NFT for over $2.9 million. The tweet, which says, just setting up my twttr, was first posted by Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, on March 21, 2006. The tweet itself will continue to live on Twitter, but the winning bidder would own the NFT, CRACKED.COM whatever that means.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/6/832656.jpg)
SSource: CNBC
Clooney tricked his friend into thinking he painted a hideous portrait.
![George Clooney tricked Richard Kind into hanging on to a painting he found in the trash. George Clooney found a hideous painting of a nude woman in a dumpster, pretending to have painted it, then he gifted it to friend Richard Kind. Kind had to pretend to like it, and hung it in his home. Clooney didn't tell him the truth CRACKED.COM till five years later.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/5/832655.jpg)
Marvel made Falcon a jive-talkin' drug dealer.
![Marvel retconned Falcon's backstory in 1975 to make him a drug dealer. Captain America and the Falcon #186 reveals that Falcon was a mob-connected drug dealer called Snap Wilson who dressed like a pimp and talked like he was in a Blaxploitation film. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/4/832654.jpg)
Source: 4 Falcon And Winter Soldier Stories Marvel Wants To Forget About
The Beatles couldn't hear themselves play live.
![No one could hear The Beatles perform over their screaming audience, not even The Beatles. The Beatles gave up on caring about their performances. They'd stop properly tuning their instruments and even slipped in swear words and gobbledygook, knowing not a single person could hear them. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/3/832653.jpg)
Harry Potter lead to more owls being trafficked.
![The Harry Potter series' popularity led to an increase in owl trafficking. According to one owl sanctuary, the demand for pet owls basically doubled or tripled overnight. This has prompted concerns that a so-called Harry Potter effect could deplete wild owl populations in Indonesia. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/2/832652.jpg)
Source: Harry Potter' Has Been a Nightmare For Real-Life Owls
Bob Gale wrote an interactive movie in 1995.
![Back to the Future writer Bob Gale made a largely-forgotten interactive movie back in 1995. Billed as the world's first interactive movie, Mr. Payback found the titular character punishing jerks in a myriad of ways based on what movie theater audiences voted on using custom joysticks. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/1/832651.jpg)