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Time to wake up that beautiful brain of yours

40 Courageous Bits of Trivia That Just Slayed A Dragon and Are Bending Over to Kiss Your Sleeping Brain

May 31, 2025

Your brain is a lot like Sleeping Beauty. It’s laying there dormant, waiting for a brave, chiseled-jawed set of facts to come save it. We don’t know if the facts who put it to sleep did it for nefarious reasons or if they were really just that boring, but none of that matters now.

The facts are here, and your brain is about to embark on a lifelong journey of intellectual romance.

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Solitary Bees

Bees are known as hive animals, but there are also species of solitary bees. These bees sting only rarely, and male solitary bees can't sting you at all. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Victoria Woodhull

40 Courageous Bits of Trivia That Just Slayed A Dragon and Are Bending Over to Kiss Your Sleeping Brain — Source: NPS

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Failed Sitcoms

Disastrous Comedy 1993 George Thinking he was a draw, ABC gave former heavyweight champion George Foreman a TV comedy about a retired boxer running a youth center, forgetting that he's not an actor or comedian. The show bombed and was canceled in two months (leaving one episode unaired). CRACKED — Source

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Christmas

For hundreds of years, December 25th was not the birthdate of Jesus Christ. CRACKED COM The 25th of December wasn't the official cele- bration date for the birth of Jesus Christ until Pope Julius I, bishop of Rome, proclaimed it so in 350 AD. — Source

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Michael Jackson (Again)

Michael Jackson once cancelled a concert due to dehydration.

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The Great Barrier Reef

CRACKED THE GREAT BARRIER REEF IS THE ONLY LIVING THING THAT CAN BE SEEN FROM SPACE. It is home to over 1,500 species of fish and 600 types of coral. — marcobrivio.photography/Shutterstock

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S.Thompson author of Hell's Angeli Fear AND LOATHING in LAS VEGAS A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Latators by Rob Sean CRACKED.COM Hunter S. Thompson plays his natural street freak self: Johnny Depp as Thompson sees himself in a crowd during an acid trip.

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Gossip Girl

At one point gossip girl was the most illegally streamed show in China. The number of Chinese viewers watching online was greater than the number of U

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Community

Chevy Chase got SO mad at Dan Harmon, he left him a long, ranty voicemail. He went into detail about why Community doesn't work, according to him, and said It's just a mediocre f-king sitcom. I want people to laugh, and this isn't funny. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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The Golden Girls

WHITE ARTHUR THE GOLDEN GIRLS SHE WAS NOT THAT FOND OF ME, WHITE SAYS. SHE FOUND ME A PAIN IN THE NECK SOMETIMES. IT WAS MY POSITIVE ATTITUDE AND T — Country Living

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Nintendo

TLOZ's iconic title music was a last-minute patch. THE LEGEND OF ZELDA™ TM ©1986 NINTENDO CRACKED.COM They had planned to use Ravel's Boléro, but found out at the last minute that it wasn't yet in the public domain. Nintendo composer Koji Kondo had a day to whip up the iconic theme. — Source

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The FBI

CRACKED.COM THE FBI KEPT FILES ON... ARETHA FRANKLIN The FBI spent years surveilling Franklin's involvement in the civil rights movement. The Queen of Soul performed and attended events organized by the NAA and SCLC. Her father C.L. Franklin, a close friend of Martin Luther King, Jr., was also closely monitored. — Source

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Genghis Khan

CRACKED DISCOVERING MANY OF US ARE DESCENDED FROM A MURDEROUS CONQUEROR A group of geneticists did a study in 2015 and discovered that 10 men other than Genghis Khan had descendants that are still around today. One of them was a ruler from the 16th century Qinq Dynasty called Giocangga. — Smithsonian Mag / AZ Vision

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Closet Squatter

A Japanese man caught a woman on camera living in his closet. When he noticed food disappearing, the man set up a security camera and found out that a homeless woman took up residence in the top compartment of his closet for more than a year. CRACKED.COM — NBC News

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Botswana

A cave in Botswana has a key role in the founding of Christianity there. (illustration) Kebokwe's cave was supposedly haunted, but missionary David Livingstone convinced a local ruler to sleep there - he did, and converted to Christianity. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Starbucks

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Korean TV

There's a Korean TV show about a 400-year-old alien who falls in love with a human woman. CRACKED.COM The show, 'My Love From Another Star,' is a huge hit in Korea and elsewhere; Chi- nese fans were hospitalized for binging on the woman character's favorite food: fried chicken and beer. — NY Times / YouTube

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Obesity

A 550 lb woman got stuck in a chair in her home when her skin began to attach to it. GRAGKED.COM The 75-year-old couldn't be moved because she was attached to the fabric of the chair, and when police tried to remove her, her bones started breaking. She died after a month in the hospital. — KTLA

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The NYPD

The NYPD employs beekeepers. Bees can't break the law (we hope), but as many New Yorkers keep bees on their rooftops, the lil' buzzers often swarm and cause trouble. When that happens, the police will send one in of their beekeeper cops - not to shoot at the bees (again, we hope), but to help remove the swarm. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Video Games

A developer on Batman: Arkham Asylum spent two years on nothing but the titular character's cape. YOU ARE UNDSR CLOSE SRYERLAN They had to create 700

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Whales

It looks like humpback whales are coming back to the Salish Sea after a while. 21 humpback whale calves were seen in the Salish Sea, which is huge considering that's a species that was endangered until recently. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The National Canine Defense League

In the 1930s, a dog named Swansea Jack from Wales saved a total of 27 people from drowning in the River Tawe. CRACKED.COM Не was awarded a silver cup by the Mayor of Lon- don and to this day is the only dog to have been awarded two bronze medals by the National Canine Defense League. — Wales Online / Wikipedia

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The Congo

Goma is a city in the Congo It has 500, 000 residents, and is located on the northern shore of picturesque Lake Kivu. It's directly in the path of an

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Run DMC

Celebrity Crowdfunding WC DMC's $100K Kickstarter. DMC attempted to launch a Kickstarter in 2013 to fund a 64-page graphic novel set in 1985 and focused on hip-hop culture, but it failed to reach its $100,000 goal, only raising $5,537. Despite this, the comic was eventually made, and was met with positive reviews. CRACKED — Darryl Makes Comics,
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Clark Kent

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 running joke. Не has had over 20 copyright-bending cameos between the '70s and the 2000s. Не isn't Superman here, though-he's just a particularly buff reporter. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Justin Theroux

Justin Theroux is a big fan of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, it turns out. But his wife, Jennifer Aniston, doesn't share his love of that game - - Wifey does not play, says Theroux. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Corpse Discoveries

Baffling Corpse Discoveries TRAPPED IN A DINOSAUR LEG In 2021. a man was found upside down inside the leg of a Stegosaurus sculpture in Spain. Apparently, he lost his cellphone and dived headfirst in order to find it, but couldn't get out. Не is said to have spent a few days there, and was only found when the stench caught the attention of a nearby family. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Guinea Pigs

Guinea pigs were once sacrificed wearing earrings and necklaces. CRACKED.COM Archaeologist Lidio Valdez discovered 100 of the sacrificial ro- dents in Peru, put there by the Incan people during the 16th century. — Source

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Stonehenge

1,300 stone circles CRACKED.COM Stonehenge is only one of 1,300 surviving stone circles found in the British Isles and Ireland. — Source

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Older Women

Older women's health may be tied to their partner's health Because caregiving responsibilities often fall on women, a woman is more likely to also be in poor health if her partner is. — Source: EurekAlert!

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Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson prank-called Russell Crowe for years (and they never met). A R D MJ found out the name Crowe would stay in hotels under, and for years he'd call hotels and ask if he was around. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Amazingly Over-The-Top Celebrity Pranks

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Riverdale

CRACKED.COM Riverdale's showrunner was almost sued once for making Archie gay. An early work by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa was a play titled Archie's Weird Fantasy, a loving pastiche where Archie comes out of the closet and pals around with 1920s murderers Leopold and Loeb. Archie Comics sent him a cease-and- desist letter, arguing that a gay Archie would somehow dilute and tarnish the character. — Source

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Olive Oil

Cooking with extra virgin olive oil on high-heat as you would with any kind of oil is a mistake. Extra virgin olive oil has a lower smoke point than other types of oil. When cooking with high-heat, a high smoke point oil should be used. CRACKED.COM — 26 Food And Cooking Common Misconceptions

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Halloween

CRACKED THE POISONED CANDY SCARE CAN BE TRACED BACK TO AN OP-ED PUBLISHED IN 1970. The article raised the idea that strangers could use Halloween's trick-or-treat tradition to poison children. This frightened readers who accepted the questions as fact, setting off a chain reaction of panic that would last for years. — Source

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Bumblebee

Bumblebee has a shout-out to John Carpenter. DRAGON OF THE BLACK DRAGON OF THE TOOL BLACK POOL CANTONESE CANTONESE CUISINE CUISINE They snuck the facade of Wang Chi's eatery in Big Trouble in Little China, into the background of the town in Bumblebee. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chanel

CC Chanel's 2017 pre-spring collection included a $1,384 boomerang. CRACKED.COM

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Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf got arrested in the middle of a performance art project once. While standing outside NYC's Museum of the Moving Image as part of his project,, he apparently pushed a guy and pulled his scarf, scratching his face. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Black Herons

Black Herons CRACKEDcO A black heron expands its wings to block sunlight entering the water. The shadow tricks fish into thinking night and safety have arrived. The bird picks them out one by one. — Source: Audubon

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Liver Swap

Percy Bysshe Shelley's liver... ...got swapped back and forth by his buddies. The poet's body was cremated in a pyre, but his friends noticed that one

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50 Cent

50 Cent filed for bankraptcy... and then posifed photos of himself with wads of cash. In 2015, the rapper was court ordered to pay for leaking a sex t

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