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38 Random Bits of Trivia We’ve Benevolently Called a 90-Day Pause on After We Found Out They Were Doing Irreversible Harm to the Economy

April 26, 2025

Hey there! You’re catching us on a pretty easygoing day, so we’re feeling a little lax on some fact-to-brain import laws. Well, we can’t really tell if we’re easygoing or terrified, but either way, your brain better take these things in now before we get a little cranky (or brave).

We never really know how we’re going to feel moment to moment.

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Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds ruined superheroes for everyone CRACKED.COM Before making a remarkable comeback as Deadpool, Reynolds says his 2011 flop Green Lantern made studios skeptical of superhero movies: I represented the death of the superhero for a while.

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The Patriot Act

The USA Patriot in USA PATRIOT Act is an acronym. PROTECTIN CRACKED.COM It stands for Uniting & Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Re- quired to Intercept & Obstruct Terrorism. — Source

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White Castle

White Castle is the oldest fast-food burger chain, originating in 1921 White Castle WhiteChoile.com e Castle Save Uron The company's assembly line style food preparation helped to lead the the entire fast food industry. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Popeye

GRACKED.COM POPEYE® Suffers from edema. a swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in THE the body's tissues SAiLOR MAN Nutrition %D Amount Per Serving o Facts Total Fat 0g o Serv Size 1/2 cup (115g) Sat Fat 0g Servings Per Container Trans Fat 0g about 2 0 Chotesterol 0mg Calories 30 13 Sodium 310mg Calories from Fat 0 Percent Daily Values (DV) Vitan Vitamin 140% are based on a 2,000 Iron 15% calorie diet INGREDIENTS: SPINACH, WATER, SALT. UONTE FOODS DISTRIBUTED BY DEL VI SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111 PACKED IN U.S.A. Edema is usually caused by the body's Pleas retention — Source

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Kathy Griffin

Kathy Griffin is fiercely unapologetic for her Trump stunt. Griffin is no longer sorry for holding up a fake decapitated head of Donald Trump. She says the whole outrage was blown out of proportion and she lost so much because of it, including her job on CNN's New Year's Eve special. CRACKED — Source

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VCRs

VCRs were made until 2016. The last VCR manufacturer was Japan's Funai Electric, which stopped producing them in 2016. 750,000 units were sold in their last year, but finding the parts to make them was becoming increasingly difficult. LACKE CRACKED.COM — Source

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Geysers

The US has more geysers than any place on Earth! CRACKED.COM Made in America Yellowstone National Park alone accounts for a whopping 60% of the world's known geysers. — Source

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Step Brothers

CRACKED 1.5 MILLION FEET OF FILM WAS USED FOR STEP BROTHERS. It was so much that Kodak sent over champagne as a thank you. — Source

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James Bond

CRACKED.COM JAMES BOND MAY BE NAMED AFTER A CHURCH IN CANADA. Officially, lan Fleming named his spy after the author of a book on birds. But maybe it isn't a coincidence that Fleming spent a couple weeks in Toronto in 1942, just down the street from St. James Bond United Church (an amalgamation of two other churches, St. James and Bond Street). — Source

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Russell Crowe

When Russell Crowe divorced, he auctioned off props he'd accumulated over the years. This included a breastplate from Gladiator (which went for $117,000) and, less wall-friendly, a leather jockstrap from Cinderella Man ($6,500), purchased by John Oliver. CRACKED — Source / GQ

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Uranus

URANUS IS THE COLDEST PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. CRACKED ...even though Neptune is farther from the sun by about a billion miles. — Hull / New Scientist

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Suzanne Somers

CRACKED THREE'S COMPANY REPLACED SUZANNE SOMERS. She was only being paid $30,000 per episode to John Ritter's reported $150,000. They only gave her $5,000 more, so she missed tapings in protest, and was replaced with her character's cousin Cindy Snow for 3 seasons. — Insider / Fox News

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Billy Madison

Billy Madison TIM HERLIHY CRACKED COM Like Evan Goldberg is to Seth Rogen, Tim Herlihy is the man behind Adam Sandler. They were college roommates, and Herlihy co-wrote Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and almost every Sandler movie since. — Hamlet Hub / IMDB

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P. Diddy

P. Diddy bragged about his private jet. Then said gas cost so much, he had to ditch it. Turned out though that there was no jet registered under his name ... under any of his many names. Diddy clarified that he meant part of a plane-a wing-and, technically, someone else owned it. CRACKED.COM — Source: Bizarre Lies 19 Famous People Thought They'd Get Away With

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Chile

No one noticed Chile misspelled their own name on their 50 peso coins. CRACKED.COM Chile printed a number of 50 peso coins in 2008 that misspelled the name of their country as Chiie. No one noticed until 2009, at which point the director of the Mint lost his job. — Coin Week

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Ants

Even ants need work-life balance The bigger the colony of ants, the less active ants become. Lazy ants use fewer resources and make the colony collectively more productive. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source: ScienceDaily

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World War I

The Titanic's sister ship sank an enemy warship during WWI. CRACKED.COM The RMS Olympic became the only civilian ship to sink an enemy warship during World War 1 when it turned around and rammed a Ger- man submarine attempting to attack it. — War History Online

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In-N-Out Burger

In-N-Out stopped accommodating burger orders of any size after someone ordered a 100x100. IN-N-OUT BURGER CRACKED.COM A group of friends in Las Vegas in 2004 ordered a 100 beef patty x 100 cheese slice burger from the fast food restaurant, as they always allowed orders of any size for additional cost. Now the cap is a 4x4. — Huffington Post

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Explorers

An explorer in 500 В.С. thought gorillas were a race of humans. CRACKED.COM When Carthaginian explorer Hanno reached the Ivory Coast, he thought Gorillas were a race of hairy and savage people, and tried to capture some. Не ended up killing them for being too violent and took their skins back to Carthage to put on display. — Periplus, or, Circumnavigation of Africa

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Cocker Spaniels

Cocker Spaniels got their name from hunting woodcocks. CRACKED.COM English hunters prized the dogs' particularly skilled tracking of woodcocks, so the dogs became known as cockers. — Dogtime

18

Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation was a surprisingly personal project for Sofia Coppola. She had spent a lot of time in Tokyo when she was younger - she ran a clothing company with her friend called Milk Fed that often took her there. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mortal Kombat

James occupied the a will The Jenes There enture do fates the 1%dication desitival Missouri the every A the Lakota Night the group The Matokan Warrior in MORTAL KOMBAT swakening communities The Matoka Warrior is spiritual member of the manifestbows and Early Masolan history not live past believ tribe tribe their hims with pictorials and 17th century amongst Nightwolf appears labeled as a Matoka Warrior on Sonya Blade's research wall. Nightwolf makes his first appearance in the third game, and Matokan Warrior is one of his variations in Mortal Kombat 11. that in the Matokan tribe past. Early history — Source

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Spaceballs

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Goalies

Any jerk at the game could become the goalie HOCKEY CRACKED.COM Every NHL team has a spare goalie waiting in the wings, though they're rarely called upon. Rarer still, if they blow through two goalies in one game, they can sign any ol' schmoe for a one-game contract. In 2020, zamboni driver David Ayres got to play a game for the Carolina Hurricanes. He won! — Source: NHL

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NASA

NASA's 1960s Apollo missions had to use the metric system to save on computing power. Using imperial units would entail extra calculations, which would have been too much for the processors and memory storage of the time. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: UK Metric Association

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson gave his library to Congress after the British burned the Capitol in 1814. That doubled the size of the Library of Congress- there were 3,000 volumes before the fire (all of which burned down), and Jefferson sent about 6,500 volumes. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Library of Congress

12

Cold Hands

TEMPERATURE CRACKED COM Women have colder hands and feet than men by a couple degrees but higher core temperatures. Women have less blood than men, and this blood more quickly shifts inwards toward vital organs. — Source: The Lancet

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Pulp Fiction

CRACKED.COM VINCENT VEGA'S CAR FROM PULP FICTION WAS MISSING FOR 19 YEARS. 2X0J538 The 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu was stolen during the film's pro

10

The Wizard of Oz

Toxic makeup decimated the cast of The Wizard of Oz. Copper oxide almost took out the Wicked Witch, and aluminum powder put two separate Tin Men out o

9

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson's daughter was So surrounded by the scientific mindset that she used the scientific method to test iF the tooth Fairy was real. Sh

8

Rugrats

A Rugrats Chanukah snuck in an adult joke for anyone who knows Hebrew. RE OUT RATE The sign on this storefront says mohel. A mohel is a Jewish circu

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Space Shuttles

THE SPACE SHUTTLE WAS DESIGNED TO GRAB SATELLITES. Specifically, to collect Russian satellites and bring them to Earth. One of the original plans for

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The Lord of the Rings

The scary guy under heavy makeup is oftentimes LAWRENCE MAKOARE. CRACKED.COM

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Divers

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Flirting

You might be annoyed when a woman's voice gets higher-pitched. But... Don't be. It might mean she's into you. AIthough you might think guys prefer wom

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Grey’s Anatomy

DR. ERICA HAHN WASA BREAKOUT CHARAGTER on REY'SANATOMY BUT In seAson 6, SHE WALKED OUT TO HER CAR AND WAS never seen AGAIN. She was an open lesbian wh

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Game of Thrones

In Game of Thrones, THE DOtHRAKI ARAKH is a bizarre hybrid of a sickle and a SWorD. The ancient Egyptians used a similar weapon called a khopesh. The

1

Fargo

THE OSCAR WINNER At the beginning of Fargo, the characters state that it's a true story. REALITY THE There's not one shred of evidence to support that

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