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Charles Vance Millar, a rich Canadian financier, made his will one giant practical joke. CRACKED.COM In it, he left three men who hated one another a joint lifetime tenancy in a villa, some protestant ministers $700,000 in Catholic beer stock, and anti-horse rac- ing advocates $25,000 in a Jockey club. — Source

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A German man was cured of HIV after a bone marrow transplant. CRACKED.COM Timothy Ray Brown received the transplant from a donor whose gene mutation made him immune to HIV, which is speculated to be the result of natural selection during diseases similar to smallpox or Black Death. — Source

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A kidnapped girl received the reward money for rescuing herself. CRACKED.COM 13-year-old Jayme Lynn Closs was abducted and held captive for 88 days un- til she escaped in 2019. Hor- mel, the parent company of the store where her parents worked, issued Hayme the $25,000 reward money. — Source

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Helena Bonham Carter accidentally ruptured Neville Longbottom's eardrum. CRACKED.COM While filming Harry Pot- ter and the Order of the Phoenix, she accidental- ly perforated Matthew Lewis' eardrum when she stuck her wand into his ear canal. — Source

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Marilyn Monroe would have been the first mainstream star to go topless in a Hollywood picture if her last movie was finished. GRAGKED.COM Something's Got to Give was shot in 1962. It was Monroe's last work, but from the beginning its production was disrupted by her personal troubles, and after her death the film was abandoned. — Source

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Uranus and Neptune belong to a separate category of giant planets called Ice Giants. CRACKED.COM This is because less than 20% of their mass is made up of hydrogen and helium. True gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are over 90% hydrogen and helium. — Source

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The horse's head in The Godfather was real. Francis Ford Coppola didn't like the mockup of the fake head the studio wanted him to use, so his scouts went to a dog food plant and found a horse that was going to be slaughtered. They asked for its head when the time came, and the plant dutifully shipped it to them in a crate full of dry ice. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Aquariums usually can't buy animals, so they barter for them. Putting a price tag on animals leads to poaching, so aquariums mostly barter with other aquariums to get the specimens they want (sometimes in very elaborate deals that take weeks or months of planning). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A computer can tell a real Jackson Pollock from a fake It has 93% accuracy. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Cleese considers having a lemur named after him a greater honor than being knighted. They named a lemur species Avahi cleesei after him because of his work for lemur conservation, and he says he'd rather have that than a knighthood or peerage (he turned down a knighthood in 1996). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Enterprise in The Next Generation had dolphin and whale crewmembers. CETACEAN NAVIGATION LAB CETACEAN LIFEBOAT (1 OF 4) WET/DRY ACCESS LOCK CETACEAN OPS According to a 1991 technical manual, there's a Cetacean Navigation Lab with 12 bottlenose dolphins and two whales who act as supervisors. This is never shown on-screen, but it's occasionally alluded to in dialogue and set design. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scheele's Green was extremely popular in Victorian England...and extremely deadly. The dye included arsenic and was commonly used in wallpapers, clothing, and carpeting. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A monkey killed Alexander, the King of Greece Не died at 27, only three years after being crowned, from a disease contracted by the bite of a pet monkey. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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You can get male cicadas to follow you by fooling them into thinking you're a female cicada. If you snap your fingers so that it sounds like a female's wing flip, male cicadas will be drawn to you and will follow you just about anywhere. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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We don't know what Neil Armstrong took to the moon. His record for his personal property kit has never been made public. During his moon trip, he took an unscheduled visit to Little West crater, off-camera. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Roombas were already a thing in the '50s. A self-operating floor cleaner was one of the gadgets introduced in Whirlpool's Miracle Kitchen of the Future display, during 1959's American National Exhibition in Moscow. It'd be decades before it became a common thing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The NC-17 rating exists because of porn. The MPAA introduced the X rating in 1968 for movies not suitable for children, but neglected to trademark it - so porn started using it. By the '80s, no respectable theater would touch any X- rated movie. So in 1990, the MPAA introduced (and trademark) the NC-17 rating to replace X. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Geena Davis used to be a live mannequin. One day while working at a clothing store, Davis decided to pose as a mannequin in the store's window display. Since she managed to attract a crowd, and was really good at staying still, the store hired her to work as a live mannequin over the weekends. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Paul Rudd glazed hams. To save up money for a move to Los Angeles, Rudd got a job at Holiday Ham Company. There he would sift sugar onto a heated ham and then using a propane torch he would melt the sugar. CRACKED.COM — Source

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