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27 Random Bits of Trivia We Disseminated From Our Noggins Like So Many Dandruff Flakes

May 30, 2025

This list of random facts quite literally fell into our laps today. We couldn’t be happier, because it was due this morning and we had nothing! As we sat there, completely factless, we held our face in our hands and just started shaking our heads in disappointment.

To our pleasant surprise, the facts started raining down from our scalps. Turns out, we’re so chock-full of them that our heads can barely hold them all.

You get to readin’, and we’ll get to shakin’.

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Sigourney Weaver

Sigorney Weaver came up with the idea to sing You Are My Lucky Star. Ridley Scott said it was a nightmare getting the rights to use the song in the movie. CRACKED.COM

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Underground Utilities

CRACKED COLOR MARKINGS FOR UNDERGROUND UTILITIES There's a COLOR CODE to mark underground utilities. Red stands for electric power lines, orange for phone, alarm, or signal lines, yellow for natural gas, purple for reclaimed water, pink for survey markings, and white for excavation limits or routes. — Source

25

Poachers

In an Indian park, rangers are legally allowed to shoot people hunting rhinos. Which led to rangers killing 20 people in Kaziranga park in 2015 - fewer rhinos got killed by poachers that year. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Presidential Races

An American socialist ran for president while in prison in 1920. CRACKED.COM In 1918, Eugene Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for criticizing the government's p,articipation in World War 1. Не managed to get 3.4% of the popular vote while behind bars.

23

The Stanley Cup

The last time a Canadian team won the NHL Stanley Cup finals was in 1993. And the first ever winner, exactly a century before in 1893, was the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (ААА). CRACKED.COM — Source

22

Bedbugs

Bedbugs evolved more than 100 million years ago The worst bedmates were around during the time of dinosaurs. Forget about respecting your elders. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

21

South Park

There's a fruit fly gene that's named after Kenny from South Park. TRASH Fruit flies that have a bad version of it die two days after they've gotten a specific bacteria. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

Disney World

Disney World is hiding an abandoned island. Disney used it as a wildlife observatory, but shut it down in 1999 when they opened Animal Kingdom and moved all the animals there. Today, it's an overgrown jungle of empty animal cages, ruled by vultures (the actual kind, not the cartoon Disney kind). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Freshwater Fish

All freshwater fish kind of come from duck poop. The first fish in a new pond or pool come from eggs eaten by ducks. 0.2% of the eggs come out of the duck's other end intact -- a really low percentage, but ducks are very abundant, so a swarm of ducks moving to a new pond will leave enough eggs to populate it with fish. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

18

PainStation

This game actually hurt people who sucked at it. CRACKED.COM The PainStation, a German creation, is a two-player Pong-like game. Players can get shocked, whipped, or burned by the console. — Source

17

Snowmobiles

YOUNG INVENTORS A 15-YEAR-OLD INVENTED THE SNOWMOBILE. Quebec-born Joseph Bombardier took an old Model T and added a sleigh frame and a hand-whittled propeller to it. By 1937, at age 30, he was already selling Bombardier snowmobiles that sat seven people, but it all started at an age at which some of us were just discovering late-night Cinemax movies. CRACKED.COM — Denis Moskvinov/Shutterstock

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The U.K. Town That Mocks Its Mayors for Gaining Weight

A town in the UK publicly mocks their mayors if they gain weight. CRACKED.COM High Wycombe in the United Kingdom publicly weighs their Mayor before and after their term to ensure they ha- ven't gained weight at the taxpayers' expense. If they have gained weight they are publicly booed. — Bucks Free Press

15

Bayard Rustin

Civil Rights Leader CRACKED.COM Bayard Rustin The organizer behind the 1963 March on Washington, Rustin was a master strategist behind the scenes of the civil rights movement and a mentor to Martin Luther King. — Source: Making Gay History

14

Big Bertha

How old was the oldest cow? Big Bertha lived to be over 48 years old. She lived in Ireland. CRACKED.COM — Source: Guinness World Records

13

Pound Cake

The recipe for pound cake was created to accommodate the mostly illiterate cooks of the 1700s. For simplicity, it called for one pound of each of the ingredients. GRACKED.COM — 29 Backstories To The Food We Love

12

Oysters

In 1910, the United Kingdom called oysters the world's most important industry. Everyone ate them - and street sellers would, say, hawk two dozen at a time to groups of servants who were having a night off. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Standard.co.uk

11

The Hatfields vs. The McCoys

A rare genetic condition probably stoked the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Several descendants of the McCoys were found to have von Hippel-Lindau disease, which causes adrenal tumors that make you short-tempered and violent. So, at least on the McCoy side, the feud was probably fuelled by tumors pressing on the adrenal glands of those involved. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Historical Facts That Don't Get Mentioned

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Hitler

Hitler's reputation was tarnished by a GIF. CRACKED.COM A photographer snapped a series of pics of Hitler looking very goofy on a very serious occasion. A Scottish filmmaker cut them together to make him look like the Chancellor of the Department of Silly Walks. This went as viral as a GIF could in 1940, uniting many of the Allies in mocking this monumental doofus. — Source: 6 Historical Hoaxes That Are Too Stupid Even For 2017

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Leonardo DiCaprio

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8

The Bee Gees

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7

Beauty and the Beast

ThE iconic song Beauty and the Beast was originally a rock ballad. When the songwriters sent the demo to Angela Lansbury asking her to sing it, she

6

The Crown Jewels

Thomas Blood is the only person to ever steal and destroy the Crown Jewels. In 1671, Blood and his team pulled an elaborate long con to gain access to

5

Tyler, The Creator

Tyler Okonma used to have three MySpace s- the first two s were named Tyler , and he couldn't think of a name for the most

4

The Golden Globes

In early 2019, Keegan-Michael Key and Sarah Hyland were duped into giving their tickets for an exclusive Golden Globes GRHUI party to a tall white ma

3

The Hobbit

HOBBIT THE MOVIES weren't bombs. Each of them made more money worldwide than The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers each

2

Hamburg

Hamburg's party district had a big problem with public urination. Therefore, the city invested in hydrophobic paint that sprinkles the pee back onto t

1

Actual Fake News

SEVERAL NEWS SITES INCLUDING CNBC, FOX NEWS, AND TIME, PUBLISHED A STORY ABOUT A MAN WHO, WHEN ORDERED BY THE COURT TO SPLIT HIS ASSETS WITH HIS DIVOR

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