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13 Brain-Scrambling Bits Of Trivia Every Bit As Confounding As Gazing Upon The Horrible Visage Of The Dark Lord Cthulhu

Nicolas Cage declared he doesn't need the MCU.

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Patton Oswalt Gives Invaluable Advice in His ‘Dear Prudence’ Column

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Catholic League Notices No One Canceling Comedians Over Priest Jokes

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Adam Carolla Is No Longer Bothering to Write Jokes

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18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts

By:: Andres Diplotti; Cracked Writers

November 20, 2020

You crave to learn. That’s why you come to Cracked, don’t you? Your brain is like a sponge -- because, let’s face it, it’s full of all the holes in your education. Hey, college ain’t cheap. But don’t fret! Holes exist to be filled, and that’s why we have laid out all these facts for you to plug there. It’s mostly random trivia, sure -- but college ain’t cheap for us either, is it?

And speaking of college-related cheap stuff, how about we start with...

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Ramen was controlled by the Yakuza. Japan was a mess when World War II ended. In the face of food shortages and restrictions, the black market rushed — More: 4 Everyday Foods With WTF Dark Histories

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A lot of the Scots-language Wikipedia is just English with a “Scottish accent.”
A teen from North Carolina has been a major contributor to the Scots W — More: An American Teen (That Doesn’t Speak Scots) Wrote Half Of Scots Wikipedia

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Jordan Peele quit acting because of The Emoji Movie. Being offered the role of the Poop Emoji gave Peele serious pause - -and it got worse — Source: What Made These 4 Famous Comedians Walk Away From Comedy?

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Kodak learned about secret nuclear tests by accident. In July 1945, Kodak started noticing that a sensitive film they made was fogged (cove — More: 5 Random People Who Stumbled Across Huge, Terrifying Secrets

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Wonder Woman had two secret identities in an unproduced series. In a pilot made in 2011, Wonder Woman was Diana Themyscira, CEO of a company that mana — More: Wonder Woman Undercover Boss: 5 Crazy DC Projects That Went Nowhere

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Teddy Roosevelt loved boxing with random people. Roosevelt liked fisticuffs SO much that he had a boxing gym installed in the White House's basement, — More: 5 'Huh?' White House Facts History Class Never Mentioned

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Doctor Manhattan's body model died trying to outrun a train. Greg Plitt was an actor, fitness model, and all-around badass. Dr. Manhattan's CGI body f — More: 6 Catastrophic Punishments The Universe Unleashed On Arrogant People

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Clark Kent exists in the Marvel Universe. In 1976, Clark Kent and Lois Lane were included in an X-Men comic as a sight gag - -and that became a runnin — More: 5 Weird Details Of Fictional Universes Nobody Told You

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The Professional could have been much creepier. The gross Lolita angle is mostly subtext, and easily overlooked - -but it was intended to be right the — More: 5 Celebrities Who Foreshadowed Their Own Bad Behavior

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Bugs Bunny was a reskinned Daffy DucK. The first cartoon featuring Daffy Duck was very well received - so people over at Warner Bros. just went and ri — More: Bugs Bunny Was Created Because Animators Got Lazy

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People used to get poisoning from potatoes. Before modern screening processes, it wasn't uncommon for people to get solanine poisoning from potatoes. — More: 4 Everyday Foods With WTF Dark Histories

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Riverdale's Marisol Nichols fights sex criminals in real life. In the lulls of her acting job, Nichols moonlights as an undercover agent, he — More: 'Riverdale' Star Was An Undercover Agent Against Sex Trafficking

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Paper airplanes have existed for thousands of years. The Chinese have been folding paper into flying shapes for the last 2,000 years. Of course, they — More: Paper Airplanes Existed Long Before Real Ones

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Boneless wings aren't wings at all. We're sorry to break it to you, but those boneless wings you just had were never used by any chicken to pathetic — More: Boneless Wings Aren't Wings, But Why Stop The Food Complaints There?

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Using Excel cost JPMorgan billions.
You’d think that a huge financial company would use something fancier than Excel. JPMorgan didn’t -- to assess ris — More: 6 Itty-Bitty Screw-Ups That Cost Millions To Fix

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The original settlers of Madagascar really went out of their way to get there. You'd think that Madagascar was first settled by people coming from Afr — More: 5 Weird AF Facts History Class Left Out

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The FBI spent two years investigating a fake anti-Goth group.
Among the many online groups the FBI keeps tabs on was an extremist church which ran a w — More: 5 FBI Screw-Ups (They'd Really Like Everybody To Forget)

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Romans had porn coins. Coins with sexy imagery have been found for centuries, going back to the early times of the Roman Empire. Regular — More: No One Knows Why Romans Had X-Rated Coins

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