15 Riveting Items of Trivia That Fell Into Our Laps This Week

Plus: 12 High-Brow Jokes from Low-Brow Places Welcome to the Cracked newsletter! This issue is about 'The Big Lebowski,' Michael Shannon, trivia tidbits, dark humor jokes, and more. [I Was the Bowling Consultant on ‘The Big Lebowski’]( “Fuck it, Dude, let’s go bowling.” Of the thousand or so quotable lines from [The Big Lebowski]( this one — “Fuck it, Dude, let’s go bowling” — could stand as a mantra for the entire film. The movie begins with bowling, ends with bowling, and no matter how many twists and turns the Dude’s saga takes, he always returns back to his local bowling alley. In other words, bowling is central to [The Big Lebowski]( which meant the Coen Brothers needed to turn to an expert in the sport when making the film. Their man? [Barry Asher]( who the Professional Bowlers Association has named as one of the 50 greatest bowlers of all time and a member of the United States Bowling Congress Hall of Fame. He got to make an appearance in the film’s final scene, too — when the camera pans up from Sam Elliott’s closing words, Asher rolls a strike that then cuts to black. [READ MORE]( [15 Riveting Items of Trivia That Fell Into Our Laps This Week]( Comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu (nickname: Nasubi, meaning eggplant) accepted a challenge in 1998. He’d move in to an apartment, starting out with nothing, not even any clothes. He would spend the next year entering mail-in contests, first to win a pair of pants and then to get food. He succeeded, despite some brushes with severe hunger and severe loneliness. The challenge, however, turned out not to be exactly he’d been led to believe. We’ll tell you the truth about it below, plus what it means if your belly button starts bleeding. [READ MORE]( More Popular Reads: - [15 Bits Of Trivia So Powerful, They Would Have Instantly Vaporized Our Ancestors]( - [12 High-Brow Jokes from Low-Brow Places]( - [5 Elaborate Mysterious Projects Carried Out Literally Underground]( - [12 Behind-the-Scenes Photos That Ruin Iconic Scenes (And Actually Improve The Bad Ones)]( - [15 Incredible Inventions That Were, Technically, Gigantic Failures]( [The ‘King of the Hill’ Pitch Trailer Is A Perfect Time Capsule]( [Five Times Michael Shannon Showed Up and Made Everything Better]( [15 Trivia Tidbits About ‘Trailer Park Boys’]( [Every Purposefully Corny Joke from Norm Macdonald’s Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget, Ranked]( [5 Employees Who Spectacularly Told Their Bosses to Take This Job and Shove It]( [Best Retired South Park Characters — And If They Should Return]( [The Five Worst ‘Friends’ Episodes That Aren’t ‘The One With Chandler’s Dad’]( [15 Trivia Tidbits About The Lonely Island]( [Songs That Got Their Magic from Being Sped Up]( [15 Times TV Shows Actually Saved (or Ruined) Lives]( [The Best Dark Humor Jokes from Michael Che and Colin Jost on ‘Weekend Update’]( [15 Unforgivable Plot Holes In Classic Films]( [5 Boring Things That Movies and TV Have Managed to Make Scary as Hell]( [12 Healthcare Innovations That The US Needs To Adopt ASAP]( [5 Things People Put Way Too Much Thought Into]( TWEET OF THE DAY [fb]( [tw]( [yt]( [Logomark_DIGITAL_Red_50X50-px]( [insta png]( [tiktok png]( [ARTICLES]( | [PICTOFACTS]( | [Videos]( Literally media Ltd. 190 West St, Suite 17B, Brooklyn NY 11222 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2022 Cracked is published by Literally Media Ltd. This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( Literally Media · 190 West St Ste 17B · Brooklyn, NY 11222-3855 · USA