Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 05/08/2026"MEAN MAN" JERKS TEETH OF WIFE TO SAVE FOOD EXPENSE 020
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The first AC extracted moisture from a Brooklyn printing company, to stop dampness from warping the paper. Reducing humidity was the goal, while the reduction in temperature was just a cool side effect. The development of ACs is one of many ways print media has benefited society 110
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Chuck Palahniuk, on how people eventually stop needing characters in fiction to be like them: 010
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Someone (not me) could get 24k likes here typing out "the hell are these dots for?" 100
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Season 1 of House, this guy shows up. He sees House's department has a staff of four and a budget of millions but treats just one patient each week. He says the same resources, reallocated, would save more lives. He donates $100 million. He's the villain and is quickly defeated. 000
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Trilogies whose final shot is the hero saying, "Enough questing. I've discovered the joys of getting laid." 251
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 06/06/2026If you thought the word "crypto-fascist" had something to do with cryptocurrency, Wikipedia has some history for you 001
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 10/05/2026You may be cool But are you san-diego-private-eye-who-operates-from-a-boat cool? 030
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Brown University expelled Ted Turner when he was a student there, after discovering he and his girlfriend were living together. In 1989, Brown went on to make him a trustee, as by this point, he was Ted Turner. www.cracked.com/article_4637... 020
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Why can't kids today learn the word "silhouettes" the same way we did: by listening to Herman's Hermits sing about two silhouettes on the shade This is also how we learned about kissing 110
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Big fan of this bit in Avatar 3, where the guy says, "No, I did not sign up for THIS." Unlike the usual way of saying the line, which is, "I didn't sign UP for this shit." Because, see, he did sign up for some things. But he did not sign up for THIS. 100
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 28/04/2026In 1957, James Vicary said he'd flashed subliminal shots of popcorn during a film, and this boosted sales. People were amazed, and the concept of subliminal projection was born. Then someone suspicious checked the theater and learned Vicary never ran any experiment there at all. 101
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Article slyly making sure to comment on how many doctors were golfing that day 010
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 12/04/2026It's been so many years since Euphoria aired that in the last episode, the kids were telling each other they could get on Twitter "to connect with people who have similar interests" 021
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Below is the first cloned cat, "CC," along with her progenitor. You'll notice the two look different. You might conclude that proves cat coats aren't genetic. Crazy thing, though: Cat coats are genetic and aren't caused by environment at all, and yet the clone looks different. 110
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Notice how much brighter Earth is compared to the Moon. The Moon is one of the least reflective ("dullest") objects in the solar system. We call it white, but it reflects just 12% of sunlight, while Earth reflects 31%. One of Neptune's moons, Triton, reflects 76%. 031
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 06/04/2026After Apollo 14, astronaut Stu Roosa visited a school in Nepal, where a child asked him what he'd seen on the Moon. 120
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Oh look, it's little miss Goody Two-Shoes. With your two shoes. What a comical number of shoes for you to be wearing. I'm going to make fun of you, for wearing two shoes. 010
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 30/03/2026C.S. Lewis, on the difference between gender and sex: (Context - The character's looking at a naked Martian and a naked Venusian, both without sex organs but one masculine and one feminine) 120
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 25/03/2026The year before Hamnet, there was another movie about a couple, grieving for their dead son, who heal when Dad does a Shakespeare play Ghostlight wasn't inspired by the story of Hamnet Shakespeare but by a trailer for 2021's Romeo and Juliet. Juliet was played by Jessie Buckley. 002
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 17/03/2026We used to have a procedure called internal mammary artery ligation. Feeling heart pain? Surgeons would put you under, cut you open, tie knots in a few arteries, then stitch you back up. One-third of patients experienced relief, which wasn’t perfect, but it was something. Then: 110
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Sinners is not the first time Michael B. Jordan played two characters and made each feel unique. In 2021, for example, he played John Kelly and Charles King. True, he played them in two separate movies, but why's that any less impressive. Doing two movies is arguably *more* impressive 020
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 09/03/2026In Amazon's Chris Pratt movie "Mercy," A.I. can wrongly sentence you to death. Also, a character does a web search, and there's no A.I. overview, just a bunch of news sources. Overall, it's an optimistic future. 100
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Figure skating is called figure skating because your skates are supposed to etch figures into the ice. For example, you might etch a figure 8. Jumping is a recent addition to the sport. Below, a 1775 guide on how to draw the figure of a circle. 010
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 18/02/2026"World Wide Web" in the below Wikipedia article might sound archaic. You might think it was written in 2006 itself The phrase was inserted in 2017. Earlier, the article just called it the web, then someone changed it, and no one noticed or had any reason to change it back. 010
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Dawson's Creek series finale, they throw on a home movie Dawson shot years earlier. It's the show's own title sequence from season 1 Except, instead of the theme song, the song that plays over it is "Hand in My Pocket," which the show originally wanted as a theme song but couldn't get the rights to 100
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 03/02/2026The two flagship Doritos flavors are "Milk (salty)" and "Milk (salty)" 100
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Imagine you went back 30 years and told everyone that a star from a video website would make his own hit movie. They'd be like, "Sure. Sounds like a normal next step for someone like that." 010
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 22/01/2026New York got the nickname "The Big Apple" thanks to a 1909 book, which was talking about how rural states resent New York for leeching off them. 111
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 19/01/2026The law says schools must offer milk, which is weird. It doesn't say schools must offer chicken (just protein in general) or must offer apples (just fruit in general) but it does say it must offer milk. This began as a 1954 USDA subsidy to the dairy industry. 111
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 17/01/2026This 1993 photo attracted outrage from people angry that, instead of helping, the photographer just stood around and snapped photos. But see that white thing on the boy's arm? It's an aid agency wristband. He was receiving help. The boy went on to outlive the photographer by 13 years. 110
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Even if someone is trying to kill you with their car, you're not supposed to shoot them. Shooting them won't save you (so is not self-defense) and endangers people besides the driver, including fellow agents. For guidance, see this report from Customs and Border Patrol. 000
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 03/01/2026During the Mesopotamian new year festival of Akitu, the priest would strip the king to humiliate him and then would slap him. This was considered necessary for the king to continue being an effective leader. 121
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Winston Churchill spent Christmas of 1941 at the White House. No one invited him. After a private screening of The Maltese Falcon with FDR, his doctor noted that Churchill had had a heart attack that day. The doctor told no one at the time, not even Churchill. 122
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Let's remember the Muppet Christmas crossover, in which the Swedish Chef saw Big Bird and immediately decided to kill and cook him 020
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 24/12/2025The famous Folgers incest ad was based on this earlier ad of theirs, shot in 1986. You can see how the new one made some changes, including aging up the sister. 010
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Have you set up your Tió de Nadal yet? The Tió de Nadal ("the poop log") is a log with a face painted on it. It represents a Catalan character who will poop out treats come Christmas day. 101
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 21/12/2025In 1995, the Rolling Stones put out a cover of Like a Rolling Stone. It was the 30th anniversary of the song as well as of the Stones' own Satisfaction No one guessed that in *another* 30 years Dylan or even one Stone would still be alive, much less still be touring www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRYo...youtube.comThe Rolling Stones - Like A Rolling Stone - OFFICIAL PROMOYouTube video by The Rolling Stones 110
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 15/12/2025"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" was originally created by Saks Fifth Avenue, to promote their annual Christmas card. Writer Tommie Connor took inspiration from the below cover of The New Yorker. Here, unlike in the song, the parents know the child is present. 120
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Popping in Home Alone 2. "That's right, kids. Food delivered to the door used to be a crazy luxury. Room service was the stuff of wish fulfilment fantasies. "Book the finest suite in Manhattan's top hotel? Rich family won't mind. But the room service bill would leave dad screaming." 130
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Never forget that the first Kingdom Come Deliverance offered this option 020
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 10/12/2025In 2004, Manchester cops arrested a woman for prostitution. Magistrates issued her an "anti-social behaviour order," which said she'd be in violation of the law if they ever caught her in possession of condoms. They later did find condoms on her and so found her guilty. 110
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 07/12/2025I hope there's an outtake where he does this scene as Conan O'Brien. "I know what you're doing!" he'd say, then he quickly turns to look at the camera, before looking back at her. "I can't have it! This isn't working!" 000
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 21/11/2025The banana has a phallic reputation. Odd, since it's curved, unlike most phallic objects. The reputation goes back at least as far as the 1800s, back when the variant we eat today, the Cavendish banana, did not yet exist. They ate Gros Michel bananas, which curved less. 120
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 16/11/2025If Tetris pieces fell randomly, you'd soon hit a long stretch of zigzag tiles you couldn't possibly eliminate, no matter how well you play. Modern versions of Tetris avoid this with nonrandom drops. One A.I. playing the NES version decided the optimal strategy was to give up. 151
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 15/11/2025When confronted in October 2016 about saying "grab 'em by the pussy," Trump issued a statement, saying, "Bill Clinton has said far worse to me." Call it deflection, but it really did come off as an oddly honest response, and quite believable. 010
Ryan Menezes @menezescracked.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Messages between a husband and wife, two undertakers caught piling 190 bodies in their funeral home instead of cremating them. 100
