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November 17, 2023

You know those really cool people who can hear any statement and swoop in with a “Well, actually?” After this crash course in random facts about everything from eye color to poop emojis, that could be you! Heck, after they drop their truth bomb, you might even be able to out “Well, actually” their “Well, actually!”

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Alligators weren't the first mythical sewer dwellers. Urban legends about sewer gators have their roots in Victorian London. Underground workers known as toshers had tales of wild pigs and supernatural rats. Similar myths go back even to ancient Rome. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The voice of Bambi became a Marine. Donnie Dunagan voiced young Bambi when he was 6-and for decades, he didn't tell anyone. Не went on to join the Marines Corps, and became the youngest drill instructor ever- a career path where being a baby fawn would have only brought him endless mockery. CRACKED.COM — Source

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If you were born on venus you'd celebrate your first birthday before you were even a day old. venus is the slowest rotating planet in the solar System. It can make a complete orbit around the sun in less time than it takes to rotate just once on its axis. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Particles can flow UP streams of water. The effect is called vertical contamination. — Source

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GRAGKED.COM A breeding pair of mice can produce over 100,000 descendants in just one year — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE ACTUALLY LOOKS BACK IN TIME. WHEN IT TAKES A PICTURE OF A GALAXY 100 MILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY, WE ARE SEEING THE GALAXY AS IT LOOKED 100 MILLION YEARS AGO. — Source

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If you add up the weight of the electrons that are used to power up the entire internet, it would add up to approximately 50 grams or 1.76 ounces! IN OTHER WORDS, THE INTERNET WEIGHS ABOUT AS MUCH AS A LARGE EGG! GRACKED.COM — Source

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McDonalds' stopped serving Heinz ketchup suddenly after 40 years. HEINZ -1869 TOMATO KETCHUP AUX TOMATES 375 mL The reasoning was pretty simple - a Burger King exec became the head of Heinz, which ended Heinz' 40-year relationship with McDonalds'. CRACKED.COM — Source

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According to science, people definitely walk around in circles when lost. The proposed explanation is that that's the result of the brain trying to create a meandering path, but making lots of small errors that happen to favor one particular direction - which turns the path into a circle. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baggers who work in grocery stores on US military installations don't get paid. Their only income is from tips - they don't get an hourly wage at all. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Water balloons can stop a bullet! Water slows down the speed of a bullet so much, 5 water balloons in a row can totally stop a bullet (even one from a rifle) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Alaska is the most northern, eastern, and western state in the U.S. EASTERN HEMISPHERE 75° N RUSSIA Alaska 60° N 180° CANADA 165° E Alaska's Aleutian Islands 45° N 165°W USA 150°W 135°W 30° N 30° N WESTERN Florida MEXICO 120°W HEMISPHERE CUBA 20° N Hawaii M While it's obviously the most northern and western state, how is it possible that it's also the most eastern? Well that's thanks to Alaska's Aleutian Islands that stretch across the 180° line of Longitude, into the Eastern Hemisphere. I on CRACKED.COM — Source

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Plain hot coffee cools down faster than hot coffee which has had cold cream added to it! CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED.COM The Sun may be older than Earth, but the water we drink is older than the Sun. — Source

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As metal expands on heating, the Eiffel Tower is actually 15-17cm taller in the summer CRACKED.COM — Source

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Louisa May Alcott hated Little Women. Alcott wrote her best known work in record time just for the money. She called it moral pap for the young, much preferring to pen lurid, bloody thrillers. She was shocked when the novel turned out to be successful. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kurt Cobain, really really was not a fan of Smells Like Teen Spirit. Не said, I can barely, especially on a bad night, get through 'Teen Spirit.' I literally want to throw my guitar down and walk away. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The oldest known Elvis autograph is in an old book, from 1948. Elvis, then 13, signed his name on a library card in that book in 1948 (it's English Fairy Tales). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jonah Hill only got paid $60,000 to star in The Wolf of Wall Street. He'd really wanted to work with Martin Scorsese, so he accepted the ridiculously low pay. On the other hand, Leonardo DiCaprio, who was also a producer, was paid about $10 million. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Back in the day, Pamela Anderson got Hepatitis С by sharing tattoo needles. EX She shared them with Tommy Lee, her husband at the time, and they told her she had 10 years to live - which ended up being completely wrong, and she announced in 2015 that she was officially cured. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Instagram posts were already a thing in the 1700s. Social media didn't exist back then-but braggy vacation pictures did. Wealthy young men would visit far-away cities and commission vedute, which were highly detailed paintings of the place (sometimes including the visitor himself) to show his friends at home. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bernie Sanders and Larry David are cousins. Is David's killer impression of Sanders related to the fact that the two share DNA? In 2017, a PBS show about ancestry found that they have three identical chromosomes, making them third or fourth cousins. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Drugged livestock is causing rabid dogs. One day, vultures started dying in India and Pakistan. The culprit was found to be diclofenac, an anti-inflamatory drug given to livestock that was lethal to vultures that ate the carcasses. With vultures gone, feral dogs took their place as scavengers-and with more dogs, rabies skyrocketed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The sinking of the Sultana was horrific, but no one paid attention to it. The steamboat Sultana was carrying over 2,000 recently-released POWs of the Civil War-most of whom died when the boilers exploded. It was a tragedy worse than the Titanic-and it was totally upstaged by the Lincoln assassination, which happened around those same days. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Charles Darwin was on a quest to eat every animal species. Darwin's interest in animals was twofold- both scientific and gastronomical. Не sampled pumas, iguanas, birds, and tortoises during his five-year trip around the world. Не discovered that all living creatures shared common ancestors and also tasted delicious. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Batman has a second secret identity. In the comics, Matches Malone was a gangster who died while trying to kill Batman-and who happened to look exactly like Bruce Wayne. So sometimes Wayne glues on a fake mustache and passes himself off as Malone to infiltrate the criminal underworld. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Pixelon was the (fake) Netflix of the '90s. Pixelon was the hottest startup in Silicon Valley. There were just a couple wrinkles: The whole show was run like a cult by a fugitive con man, and their video streaming tech was fake. Their only accomplishment was to reunite The Who for the site's stupidly lavish launch party. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Cruise ships keep finding ways to get away with polluting. Given a deadline to get their act together re: pollution, the cruise industry got to work-to find loopholes. Rather than switch to cleaner fuels, now they use scrubbers to remove pollutants from the exhaust gases (and then dump those pollutants into the ocean.) — Source

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The poop emoji comes from comics. Everyone's favorite emoji was already big in Japan before emoji were even a thing. A popular 1980s manga called Dr. Slump (later adapted to anime) regularly featured sentient piles of poo. Its author eventually left friendly feces behind and went on to create Dragon Ball. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Blue-eyed people are likelier to become alcoholics. Genetics is a mess. If you have genes for blue eyes, it's likely that you also have genes for a higher alcohol tolerance, which can lead to drinking too much. The effect is small, but study after study keeps showing the same thing. — Source

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