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35 Hypnotic Bits of Trivia That’ll Have Your Brain Clucking Like a Chicken

May 29, 2025

Like with any hypnotist, not everyone is going to want to volunteer for this list. We had one at last year’s company party and boy did we end up looking silly. We didn’t know at the time, but the video that a fellow fact-finder showed us after the fact was mortifying.

So word to the wise, even though you’ll need a friend to help snap you out of this list’s hypnosis, you might want to take away their phone first. You don’t want a video of you flirting with the fridge going viral on TikTok.

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Rosacea’s Origins

Rosacea is an adaptation by the Celts to fend off bacteria. The skin disease is found mainly in those of Northern European descent and it is also known as The Curse of the Celts. Ancestral Celtic people developed it during seasonal periods of low ul- traviolet levels. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Tom Hanks

METHOD MADNESS CASTAWAY TOM HANKS On top of losing 50 pounds, he didn't shower for the role and was hospitalized for three days with a Staph infection. His doctor said, I have to put you in the hospital because we have to get this infection out of you before it poisons your blood and you die. CRACKED

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Colgate

When Colgate decided to sell toothpaste in , they gave it a name that should've come with a parental advisory. Colgate Their Cue toothpaste shared its name-which means ass- with a magazine that possibly documented other, um, oral-related matters. It was a porno mag. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Breaking Bad Mezcal

Celebrity-Owned Booze and Weed DOS HOMBRES MEZCAL by Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul The two Breaking Bad stars teamed up and selected a blend of mezcal from Оахаса, Mexico to endorse and sell. No word on whether they'll tackle regional fried chicken chain restaurants next. HOMBRES CRACKED.COM — Source

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Community

THE 6TH SEASON OF COMMUNITY WAS FILMED IN A BASEMENT. CRACKED It was filmed under the set of Parks and Rec!

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Tater Tots

Consumers did not buy tater tots at first because they were too cheap. CRACKED.COM When Tater Tots first hit store shelves in 1956, they were so inexpensive that there was no perceived value. When the price was raised by stores, people began buying the product. — Source

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Life of Brian

There was a Beatle in Monty Python's Life of Brian. George Harrison not only donated $3 million to get this movie made, but also founded a company to produce it. And what did he get in return? 15 seconds of screen time as a random dude who breaks the fourth wall with a Liverpudlian allo, then disappears. If only they had given him a bigger role; just imagine how famous he might have been. CRACKED COM — Source

28

NASA

NASA kept using the space suits from the first spacewalk for over 30 years. They were intended to be used for 15 years, but they were still in use in 2019, over 36 years after the 1983 spacenwalk in which they wore worn in space for the first time. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bears

Bears kind of act like big cats - they purr when they're happy or content. That purr-like sound is something they produce when they're say, eating a delicious snack, feeling comfortable, or nursing (if they're a cub). CRACKED.COM — Source

26

Rich Kids

The 1% don't show off on Instagram - they use the app Rich Kids. Rich Kids is an Instagram clone with a twist: you can post photos only if you pay the monthly hip fee of €1,000 (about $1,160), but anyone can see them. No food porn, haul videos, or other Instagram staples get posted. It's just wall-to-wall ridiculously expensive products and experiences. CRACKED.COM — Source

25

Poveglia Island

Venice, Italy THE HAUNTED ISLAND Poveglia Island is technically off limits to visitors, and the site was once a home to those quarantined and dying from the bubonic plague. Some believe that the soil is made up of 50% human remains. In 1922, a mental hospital was opened there, and horrible tales of a doctor brutally torturing his patients before jumping out of a bell tower are all part of its legend today. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Jupiter

CRACKED Jupiter's Great Red Spot The massive anticyclonic storm is bigger than Earth. But it's recently gotten the smallest it's ever been-only 10,250 miles across. It used to be 25,500 miles long in the late 1800s (so, over two Earths) and 14,500 miles across in 1979. — Source

23

The Great Gatsby

CRACKED.COM THE GREAT GATSBY BRADLEY COOPER WANTED TO PLAY TOM BUCHANAN. Cooper said in a New York Times interview that he wanted to play the character, and hoped director Baz Luhrmann was reading the interview. Luhrman apparently wasn't, and cast Joel Edgerton. — Source

22

Polar Bears

Polar bears are nearly invisible to infrared cameras. The bear's fur is so good at keeping the bear warm, that almost no heat escapes that can be picked up by infrared sensors. Invisibility cloaks are being researched that copy how the bear's hairs work. GRACKED COM — Source: Science Facts That Sound Like Nonsense

21

Vegan Honey

There is a vegan friendly honey made from dandelions. CRACKED.COM Since honey is technically an animal byproduct, it is not something vegans can nor- mally eat. By soaking dande- lions in lemon and adding sugar, you can make a bee-friendly alternative that tastes like the real thing. — Vegan On Board

20

Paul Rudd

'90s Teen Rom-Coms This was Paul Rudd's film debut. Clueless Connoisseurs of Mr. Rudd's oeuvre might think his first movie is Halloween 6: At Least It's Not Rob Zombie, but while Clueless was filmed after Halloween 6, it was actually released first. With that settled, we're never making that mistake again. CRACKED.COM

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Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin got his name from his older sister mispronouncing 'brother.' CRACKED.COM When Edwin Aldrin was born, his one-and-a-half-year-old sis- ter called him 'buzzer,' trying to say 'brother.' This was shortened to 'Buzz' and be- came his chosen moniker. — Space

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The Truman Show

There is a delusion named after The Truman Show. CRACKED.COM The Truman Show Delusion is a belief that a person is living inside of a reality TV show where they are the star and everyone around them are backup actors. Another name for them could be influencer. — Psychology Today

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Cop Shows

CRACKED.COM Long before COPS, there was a 1954 radio program called NIGHT WATCH, which was a ride-along with the L.A. police. POLICE not NIGHT WATCH was gritty, even by today's standards, with suicides, child abandonment, and, in one episode, the reporter getting stabbed. — Source: 23 'Modern' Things That Are JUST. SO. OLD.

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Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene wasn't a prostitute. Not one of the four gospels mentions this about Mary Magdalene - the idea came about when people started confusing her with other women in the biblical narrative. The early Church, apparently thinking that the Bible had too many female characters, made this conflating official. — More: Bible 'Stories' Everyone Gets Wrong
Image: Mary Magdalene, by Andrea Ferrario (ca. 1524)

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Exploding Head Syndrome

A disorder called exploding head syndrome makes it hard to fall asleep. After falling asleep, people with EHS sometimes wake up, feeling as if a loud bang went off. Nothing else happens, and the cause is unknown. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — NIH

14

Wine Fraud

In 1985, Hardy Rodenstock sold Bill Koch four bottles of Thomas Jefferson's wine. The price: Half a million bucks. Not only was the wine fake, so was Rodenstock. Hardy had been posing as a music manager and professor. Turns out he was a former train engineer named Meinhard Goerke who had never been a professor and had managed only a single shitty German band. CRACKED.COM http://www.newvorker.com/magazine/2007/09/03/the-jefferson-bottles — Source: The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed

13

Friends

PEOPLE TEND TO BE HAPPIER AROUND FRIENDS THAN FAMILY. Social bonds are necessary for happiness. People are often happies around friends, family, and spouses, in that order. CRACKED.COM — Mental Floss

12

Prison Tours

GRACKED.COM EVER BEEN INSIDE A PRISON'S DEATH CHAMBER, AND WALKED OUT ALIVE? YOU CAN, ON A GUIDED TOUR OF FREMANTLE PRISON, IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

11

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

JOE LO TRULIGO was in comedy troupe The State CRACKED.COM Brooklyn 99 producers told Jones: Just bring in funny people. So she brought in Joe Lo Truglio, who she had loved for a long time, says producer Mike Schur. Lo Truglio had auditioned for Jones dozens of times over two decades. — New Yorker

10

The Black Sox

The Black Sox LIFETIME BAN ALL EDDIE CICOTTE FRED CLAUDE WILLIAMS MCMULLIN PISBERG BUCK'WEAVER EIGHT MEN CHARGED WITH SELLING OUT BASER CRACKEDo Eight players on the 1919 Chicago White Sox were cleverly dubbed The Black Sox after it was alleged they were paid to take a dive in the World Series.

9

J.M. Barrie

J.M. Barrie PETER AND WENDY m JM-BARRIE ILLNSTRATYD 40 yD BEDYORD The Peter Pan author straight-up kidnapped the Lost Boys. He based the Boys on the five children of his friend Sylvia. When she ed, she requested, in writing, that her friend Jenny take care of the kids. Barrie — Source: Telegraph

8

The Shining

JACK NICHOLSON ATE ONLY CHEESE SANDWICHES FOR TWO WEEKS. Nicholson hates cheese sandwiches-So Kubrick had him eat nothing but that, to push him into Jack Torrance's murderous rage. — Source: Far Out Magazine

7

Fred Astaire

In his 70s, Fred Astaire took up skateboarding. He stopped skateboarding only when he fell from his board and broke his wrist, at the age of almost 80 — Source: Sunday Post, The Telegraph

6

Shawshank Redemption

21 Details That Movies And TV Shows Got Exactly Wrong - Andy escapes in the spring of 1966, and that Raquel Welch film wasn't released in the U.S. un — Source: TCM

5

Goats

A WELSH TOWIN WAs TAKEN OVER BY A GOAT HERD. SACRED kNOT EWE FELTY THNG ewtwms SoneNdd Phillip J Watters Solkcicors Ioa With no people around, a herd — Source: BBC News, CNN

4

The Graduate

The Graduate ended the way it did because the editor slipped up. The day the final scene was being shot, the movie's editor was standing in for the di

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Brain-Training Games

MYTH8 CERTAIn GAmES CAN improve YOUR BRAIN. Memory Attention Speed Focus FAGT8 THEY JUST Make YoU BETTER AT THE GAmE. Most studies that say brain-trai

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Independence Day

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Bruce Lee

This dorky guy can really cha-cha. He won the Hong Kong Cha-Cha Championship in 1958. It's Bruce Lee. CRACKED COM

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