18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts
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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...
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/0/7/756907.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/2/0/756920.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/2/2/756922.jpg?v=2)
![Kodak learned about secret nuclear tests by accident. In July 1945, Kodak started noticing that a sensitive film they made was fogged (cove](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/2/3/756923.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/5/756915.jpg?v=2)
![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,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/9/756919.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/2/1/756921.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/7/756917.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/2/756912.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/6/756916.jpg?v=2)
![People used to get poisoning from potatoes. Before modern screening processes, it wasn't uncommon for people to get solanine poisoning from potatoes.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/0/8/756908.jpg?v=2)
![Riverdale's Marisol Nichols fights sex criminals in real life. In the lulls of her acting job, Nichols moonlights as an undercover agent, he](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/3/756913.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/1/756911.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/4/756914.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/0/9/756909.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/0/4/756904.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/0/756910.jpg?v=2)
![Romans had porn coins. Coins with sexy imagery have been found for centuries, going back to the early times of the Roman Empire. Regular](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/8/756918.jpg?v=2)