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November 28, 2023

They gave us two options for dispensing these facts. We could either put them in a nice orderly line like Pez, or put them in bouncy balls and dump them down a huge set of stairs. The bouncy-ball option was tempting, but we wanted to save you from all that running. And give you some yummy knowledge candy.

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WEIRD WORLD In a supervillain-like stunt, a large globe was stolen from a Filipino mall. And it really was like something from a Bond movie - the unidentified thief stole it using a helicopter. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In the UK, a hairdresser created a Boris Johnson mural out of surplus hair. She gathered a bunch of the hair she's cut off, and used it to construct a 5ft x 3ft mural of the Prime Minister on the floor of her salon. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One woman bought a house that turned out to be a charred former double garage. Tiffany Elton bought a bungalow in Canada that, well, turned out not to be a bungalow at all, but a garage that got a makeover to look like a home. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD China changed the ending of Fight Club ... and, uh, the system wins. In the recently released edited version, the final scene doesn't have any exploding buildings - just a black screen with the text The police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding. CKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Russia, they arrested an artist for a big poop snow sculpture. Specifically, he'd made a sculpture out of snow in the shape of a giant turd not too far from a burial site in St. Petersburg, and the police nabbed him for that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bitcoin's rise from $150 to $1000 was probably due to just one person. ON B NTAR IZED That's the conclusion of a study that looked at trades happening when the price jumped - t they were done by two bots that didn't even own the BTC they traded. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A helium balloon on the moon would plunge to the ground Without air to rise above, the helium might as well be lead. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scientists didn't know the the length of a day on Saturn until 2019 It's 10 hours, 33 minutes and 38 seconds. It was difficult to figure out because the gas planet has no solid surface to follow its rotation and an unusual magnetic field. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ships full of weapons exist in international waters to defend against pirates. Private security firms offer armed guards for merchant ships in high risk areas. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The British navy used Britney Spears' songs to scare off Somali pirates The navy chose Spears' hit songs Oops! ...I Did It Again and ...Baby One More Time to ward off the pirates because of the pirates' dislike of western culture. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini had a fling while filming From Justin to Kelly Clarkson admitted she briefly dated her American Idol runner-up. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Astronauts are really into watching space disaster movies on the ISS. They have movie nights on the ISS, and they watch movies on a screen and projector - they love sci-fi and disaster movies set in space, like Apollo 13. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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There are more U.S. museums than there are Starbucks and McDonalds- combined LICENSE McDonald's SPEEDEE SERVICE YYSTEM HAMBURGERS We have Sold OVER 1 MILLION McDonald's There are around 11,000 Starbucks and 14,000 McDonald's locations in the U.S., compared to 35,000 museums. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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If WALL-E worked around the clock, without ever stopping to recharge, make repairs, or 95 mess around, YEARS it would him roughly take to build one trash U'AL skyscraper. E Enough to watch Hello, Dolly! over 300,000 times. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Taking care of 101 Dalmatians? You'd better be ready to clean up 76 POUNDS OF POOP EVERY OR SINGLE DAY. Skip one day, and the next you'll have the weight of a grown- up human in dog poop. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The damage to Manhattan in 50 The Avengers BILLION. than been calculated Hurricane as has $160 That's more 9/11, Katrina, or the 2011 tsunami in Japan. — Source

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The earliest animals didn't have heads or skeletons CRACKED.COM All modern animals, including humans, share genes with the 555-million-year-old oceanic creatures. — Source

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Squids can change their skin's color and brightness CRACKED.COM Scientists discovered light-reflecting cells that allow squids to shimmer, mimicking the ocean's dappled light. — Source

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