15 Facts About Video Games, Fast Food, And Financial Crimes
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My family were farmers and our farm sat on a hill just south of town, which made it easy to keep watch over the town below. We had a nice big field that we used as pasture for all our animals—cows, pigs, chickens, and goats—and my father always told me not to leave any grass unharvested.
"We can always use the food," my father would say. "There are some folks in town that might go hungry if it weren't for us."
But there's only so much work that one boy could do alone and even more than my chores I wanted to play with the other boys in town or go down to the stream near our house, but no matter how long I waited my parents always came and dragged me back to work. Whenever they did this, they'd make me write a list of fifteen facts on a piece of paper, over and over. The list went:
The real School of Rock almost sued the movie.
![There was a real School of Rock, that precedes the movie. E MC HAVE ?x! MBC L un - 1 ING STARS The real School of Rock, started by Paul Green in Philadelphia, shared a lot of similarities to the movie - even down to Jack Black's look. Green considered suing, but thought the movie was ultimately good for business. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/7/842277.jpg)
There Was A Real-Life 'School Of Rock' (That Almost Sued The Movie)
“The Office” director Paul Feig says YouTube changed the way they saw things.
![The Office made a calculated decision to lean into internet culture. I always credit YouTube for changing the way we look at things, says director Paul Feig. YouTube was real life captured and you have The Office, where the humor is all behavioral. It's about how people are reacting to each other. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/5/842275.jpg)
The Office: How The Show Made A Calculated Decision To Lean Into Internet Culture
“Space Invaders Wrist” was a big problem back in the day.
![Space Invaders had its own term for repetitive strain injuries in the '80s. Snacks WIN . UP TO Space Invaders Wrist was coined by one writer to the New England Medical Journal in 1981. By the following year, BBC was reporting that each family doctor typically now saw one new case of Space Invaders Wrist every month. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/4/842274.jpg)
How 'Space Invaders' And Retro Games Caused Actual Medical Problems
Kevin Smith is selling a movie as an NFT for some reason.
![Kevin Smith is selling a horror movie he made half a decade ago as an NFT. The movie, KillRoy Was Here, was filmed between 2017 and 2018 with Ringling college students and the release kept getting pushed back. In 2021 Smith announced the movie would be sold as an NFT for up to 5,555 people, including BTS material and other goodies. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/6/842276.jpg)
Kevin Smith's Making The First NFT Movie (And The Baffling Backstory Behind It)
“Star Trek TNG” owes everything to Shatner demanding more money.
![Star Trek: The Next Generation was only made because Paramount couldn't afford the original stars. The sky-high salaries of William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy by the fifth Star Trek movie served as the trigger for Paramount to greenlight a brand new 'Star Trek' TV series featuring a fresh crop of far more affordable actors. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/1/842271.jpg)
'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Only Got Made Because William Shatner Is A Jerk
Goodwill treats its employees like the discarded clothing they sell.
![Goodwill executives make mid six figures while workers get $12.55 an hour. GOODWILL Regional Goodwill officials in California announced that they would have to cut 100 job training positions if a local measure to raise the minimum wage passed. The CEO of one branch told disabled workers they were getting fired after a minimum wage hike. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/2/842272.jpg)
The Navy wants to scrap some billion dollar ships they got a decade ago.
![The Navy wants to decommission 9 ships, none of them over 10 years old, that cost $4.5 billion: They're small, fast ships that were developed to chase down pirates, and are now described by the Navy as unsuitable for current needs. They want to decommission them to save on operating and maintenance costs, which they want to use to buy new, bigger ships. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/3/842273.jpg)
The Navy Decided $4.5 Billion Worth Of Ships Suck And They Need New Ones
One “Superman” demo got more people talking than anything else at the Unreal Engine 5 launch.
![One indie dev's Superman demo was the highlight of the Unreal Engine 5 launch. THIS ١/ OUR WORLD YOURS The demo, by indie dev volodXYZ, shows a promising look of what-could-be, with the detailed city landscape from the Matrix Unreal demo, that wipes all memory of Superman 64 from our collective memories. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/9/842269.jpg)
Sonic is sitting in a Japanese forest.
![There is a mysterious, human-sized statue of Sonic The Hedgehog sitting in the woods. The Sega World Kadoma theme park in Takao, Japan closed in 2005, and the park auctioned off whatever people could carry away. A homeowner named Mr. Kadeo bought the statue to serve as a landmark guiding visitors to his house from the road. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/0/842270.jpg)
Hefner might not have been such a staunch supporter of women’s rights after all.
![Hugh Hefner's girlfriends had to be home by nine p.m. Otherwise, according to one woman, they were told they would have to sleep on the lawn. Breaking any rule, even once, also meant getting kicked out. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/8/842268.jpg)
Someone warned us about Madoff, but we didn’t listen.
![Harry Markopolos warned people about Bernie Madoff, but no one would listen. The Boston financial analyst knew Madoff's results weren't possible, but between a petty rivalry between the SEC's New York and Boston offices and a staff consisting of lawyers who don't actually understand the financial industry, nothing happened. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/6/842266.jpg)
15 Enormous Historical Scandals (That Went Ignored For Years)
A man once made a claim so false he decided to go after Trivial Pursuit.
![A man sued Trivial Pursuit for using his (wrong) facts. When Trivial Pursuit had a card asking What's Columbo's first name?, with the answer being Phillip, Fred L. Worth knew he had them. This is because that fact is from Fred's book Super Trivia, and it's also not true. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/7/842267.jpg)
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The confusing menus at fast food joints are on purpose.
![Fast food restaurants keep their menu confusing to get you to spend more. SEE 100% HUNGRY adidas REPLACE 17 JACK'S HUNGRY JACKS GOLDEN FRIES Expresso! Wraps HOLY to go Egg Ye BIACOES Wraps $5.45 2 Wraps 2 Sausage, The jumbled mess of menu items that stare back at you are designed to not give you enough time to make a careful decision, forcing you to pick an item that catches your eye first - usually one of the more expensive ones. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/5/842265.jpg)
The voices of all our favorite video game heroes belong to one woman.
![One woman is the voice of tons of your favorite video game heroes. TUITO Ashly Burch got her start all the way back in 2008 with a show she and her brother made called Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'? Since then, she's lent her voice to huge games like Life is Strange, Valorant, and Horizon Zero Dawn. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/4/842264.jpg)
There are children in “Elden RIng,” if you look hard enough.
![Hackers discovered where all the children are in Elden Ring. Parry Grafted Scion One of the first tough enemies players encounter, the disgusting homunculus Grafted Scion, is a terrible assemblement of body parts under a cloak. Upon closer inspection, players discovered that it's the result of stitching a bunch of kids together. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/3/842263.jpg)