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15 Random Facts for the Discerning Trivia Dork

November 11, 2021

The world is filled to the brim with interesting facts, trivia, intel, and general knowledge and inspiration. When we consider the areas of science and history alone, well, it's enough to fill several lifetimes of study. Since most of us are unfortunately constrained to this one life, well, we best get cracking.

So buckle up because we've assembled more than thirty now you know facts about science, history, and other fascinating subjects that are sure to delight and surprise you. For example, you might find it surprising to hear that the first-ever food consumed on the surface of the moon was a wafer and wine, as part of the Christian communion.

We bet you didn't know that even the talented Hillary Duff required an acting coach on the set of Lizzie McGuire. Our beloved readers are looking excited, right. Want to learn more? Get to scrolling! Here's more about that and other interesting tidbits about space, art, movies, and more:

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Marlon Brando wanted Jor-El to be a bagel. When Brando was cast for Richard Donner's Superman, he suggested that the Kryptonian patriarch should look a bagel. Donner had to convince him that the audience would much rather see a Marlon Brando-shaped Jor-El. — More: 6 Actors Who Had No Clue What Their Movie Was About

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Rotten Tomatoes was inspired by Jackie Chan. Senh Duong, a huge Chan fan, set up the website specifically to track reviews for Rush Hour. When the film's release was pushed back, Duong launched the site with different movies instead. — More: 3 Ways 90s Internet Changed Everything

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Eddie Murphy

Eddie murphy got sick of his most popular character and killed it. Murphy hit it out of the park with an adult version of Little Rascals' Buckwheat on SNL. But he eventually came to resent being known just for one character, and shot a sketch when Buckwheat was murdered. — More: How Eddie Murphy Saved SNL From Extinction

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Autotune became a thing because Cher hated Believe. Cher stormed out of the studio, refusing to keep recording that song her producer insisted on. So the producer used his new pitch correction software to smooth out the only vocals he was going to get, and accidentally discovered the right (or wrong) settings created a cool effect. — More: 4 Pop Culture Staples (And The Goofy Reasons They Exist)

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A Batman and Captain America had weirdly similar plots. In the mid-2000s, they both faced villains who turned out to be their dead sidekicks, and then both got lost in time while their revived sidekicks took their places. Both storylines happened at about the same time, so an intentional rip-off is out of the question. — More: 5 Times Marvel And DC Ripped Each Other Off (By Accident)

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Zootopia is a sequel to Disney's Robin Hood. While Zootopia wasn't intended as Robin Hood 2, the directors loved the idea so much when they came across it that they declared it canon. So, does this mean that Nick Wilde comes from British royalty? — More: 4 Classic Childhood Movies That Got Suprising Stealth Sequels

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Spartans would despise the gun nuts who keep quoting them. Second amendment enthusiasts are fond of the Spartan challenge molon labe (come and take them), unaware that Spartans of that time disdained weapons that could kill at a distance. According to Plutarch, those fighting at the Thermopylae found arrows womanish and cowardly. — More: 4 Ways America Fails Hard At Understanding History

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Capcom keeps, uh, borrowing game assets. Artist Judy Juracek sued Capcom in 2021 for lifting dozens of textures from an art book she published in '96. The images were used in games such as Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry without licensing them. — More: 5 Video Games That Seemingly Stole Pieces From Other Games

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A 2018 comic is Die Hard's zaniest sequel. In A Million Ways to Die Hard, John McClane returns to Nakatomi Plaza 30 years later - and it's a very 2018 story that keeps referencing popular films from the past. The jury is still out on whether the comic is any good, but it's certainly gory. — More: The Craziest 'Die Hard' Sequel is a Forgotten Comic Book

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Dirt in baseball fields comes from Pennsylvania. As different kinds of ground can lead to different gameplay, playing fields use soil made by mixing just the right amount of clay, sand, silt, and other stuff. Most MLB stadiums buy their dirt from one location in the town of Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. — More: 5 Weird Secret Projects That Keep The World Running

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Dogs can laugh (sort of). The specific panting dogs do while playing (with either humans or other dogs) is different from the I'm exhausted kind of panting. It certainly doesn't sound like human laugh, but it serves pretty much the same function of social bonding. — More: Dogs Laugh -- And Do For The Same Reasons We Do

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Julia Child created a shark repellent for the military. Long before cooking meals on TV, a young Julia McWilliams cooked up a shark repellent during World War II, commissioned by the U.S. Navy. A member of the OSS (proto-CIA) with top security clearance, she was stationed in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and China as the war went on. — More: 5 Random Weird Facts About Random Famous People

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A doll caused an uproar for (allegedly) trying to convert children to Islam. Mattel's Cuddle & Coo doll played nonsense baby sounds, but some parents thought they heard the toy praising Islam or Satan (which are probably the same thing in such people's heads). Mattel didn't recall the doll, but did reprogram unshipped units. — More: 7 Products That Got Recalled For The Weirdest Reasons

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A thief was caught because he was a hopeless romantic. Stephfon Bennet and a couple partners fled after robbing an apartment in 2009. A couple hours later, he came back to ask the victim out on a date. This was a big miscalculation, as А, the victim wasn't single, and B, WTF were you thinking, dude. — More: 5 Absurd Heists That Were Bound To Fail From The Start

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Victor Hugo was a huge horndog. Hugo wasn't just famous for writing Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre- Dame, but also for sticking his little Jean Valjean in everything that moved. When he died, France mourned the loss of its greatest writer while French sex workers mourned the loss of their greatest patron. — More: The Author Of 'Les Miserables' and 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame' Was Thirsty As Hell

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