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The not-so interesting facts out there can easily slip your mind. You try to pull a number or a date out of the ol’ memory bank, but it’s just a little off. It’s not your fault. It was never important enough to brand itself onto your brain folds. Well, you won’t have that problem with these red hot pokers. Brace yourselves.

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In 2013, nine lost Doctor Who episodes turned up in Nigeria. ИННОМТ.М ЕГЕСТ The BBC destroyed its own Doctor Who tapes back in the '60s and '70s, but those episodes have occasionally turned up in foreign markets, which had been sent their own copies. The Nigerian find was x apparently the largest in 30 years. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A real buffalo was killed in Apocalypse Now. To get permission from locals to film on their land, the movie crew gave them animals to slaughter for food, including two water buffalo. Francis Ford Coppola decided to film one buffalo's slaughter for the movie. I did not direct it or anything, that was the way they do it, he said in 2019. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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When Baby Groot throws up in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, that's James Gunn's nod to his roots. It's his way of acknowledging that he started out in B-movies and isn't afraid to resort to the lowest common denominator which is a baby tree vomiting. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Streaming Despacito used up more power than some countries produce in a year. It was streamed 4.6 billion times from January 2017 to early 2020, which consumed as much electricity as Sierra Leone, Chad, Somalia, the Central African Republic, and Guinea-Bissau make in a year, combined. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sharks have been around longer than trees have. Sharks started popping up about 450 million years ago, while trees showed up 100 million years later. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a company that turns dead bodies into an ocean reef. GRACKED COM Eternal Reefs mixes the cremated remains of a person with con- crete, which is then encased in a reef ball that is dropped into the sea. — Source

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McDonald's introduced drive-through service due to the military. McDonald's GRAGKED.COM Military rules forbade the sol- diers from wearing their mili- tary uniforms in public, so the Sierra Vista, Arizona restaurant cut a hole into a wall to allow members of the military to pick up their or- ders from their car. — Source

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The fuller the fridge, the more energy-efficient it is. CRACKED COM The more empty space in the fridge, the more cold air is displaced by warm air when you open the door, requiring the appli- ance to generate cool air to replace it. — Source

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In ancient Greece and Rome, doctors used spider webs to make bandages. CRACKED.COM Spider webs suppos- edly have natural anti- septic and anti-fungal properties, which can help keep wounds clean and prevent in- fection. — Source

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You're more likely to get a computer virus from visiting religious sites than porn sites. CRACKED.COM Security firm Symantec found that the average number of security threats on religious sites was around 115, compared to adult content sites which carried around 25. — Source

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Children of identical twins are genetically siblings, not cousins. GRACKED.COM Cousins whose parents are identical twins share 25 percent of their DNA, instead of the usual 12.5 percent, making them ge- netically the equivalent of half-siblings. — Source

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It would only take one hour to drive to space. CRACKED.COM If we had the vehicle to do so, driving straight up from the Earth's surface at a leisurely 60 MPH would end with us float- ing in outer space just an hour later. — Source

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An Irish woman was accused of being a changeling and murdered by her husband. Bridget Cleary was mur- dered by her husband in 1895 after he stated that she had been abducted by fairies with a changeling left in her place. Не claimed to have slain only the changeling. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The mayor of Chicago bulldozed the runway of a downtown airport in the middle of the night in 2003. Richard Daley illegally made the space to create a park. This stranded 16 planes on the ground and required an inbound flight to be divert- ed. The FAA fined the city $33,000, the maximum al- lowed at that time. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The world pours more steel every hour than gold since the beginning of recorded history. 6666 SZO 92 20114 SOCE Gold is so rare that every ounce that has ever been mined can fit into three Olympic swimming pools. However, there is enough gold in Earth's core to coat its entire surface to a depth of 1.5 feet. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Grover Cleveland's youngest sister was the acting US First Lady from 1885-1886. Rose Cleveland was a lesbian and had a rela- tionship with a wealthy widow named Evange- line Marrs Simpson, with explicitly erotic correspondence. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Taco John's owns the term Taco Tuesday. They have issued hun- dreds of cease and desist letters demanding com- panies stop holding Taco Tuesdays, which we feel goes against the spirit of the event. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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There was one man that served in both the US and Soviet armies during World War 2. Joseph Beyrle took part in the D-Day landings, was cap- tured, escaped, and joined a Soviet tank battalion soon after. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The U.S. Interstate system exists partly thanks to Eisenhower's WWII experiences. During and after WWII, Germany's four-lane highways were probably the best in the world, and Eisenhower used them to move troops and travel across the country. So he thought four-lane highways were a great transport system, and fought hard for the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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All freshwater fish kind of come from duck poop. The first fish in a new pond or pool come from eggs eaten by ducks. 0.2% of the eggs come out of the duck's other end intact -- a really low percentage, but ducks are very abundant, so a swarm of ducks moving to a new pond will leave enough eggs to populate it with fish. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The rain in Singin' in the Rain wasn't milk. It was just really good lighting and filming -- they lit it from behind, making sure you couldn't see all the lighting equipment in the shopfronts' windows. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Someone pranked Bobby Flay while he was getting his star on the Walk of Fame. BOBBY FLAY Della 3OBBY FLAY During the ceremony, a plane with a banner that said cheater flew overhead. His wife, who he was divorcing at the time, absolutely denied being behind that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Keira Knightley had a small role in The Phantom Menace (that she mostly can't remember). She was 12, and played Padmé's body double / decoy. All she remembers from that is the headache she got from one of the headdresses they gave her, and falling asleep while sitting on a chair in the background. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Some of the wolves that show up in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping were direwolves in Game of Thrones. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Billy Madison, Adam Sandler really hit kids with dodgeballs. When one of them started crying during the filming of the dodgeball scene, his parents came up to Sandler and complained. Sandler asked Didn't they read the script? and the parents told him They're six, they don't read yet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A U.S. Navy underwater living experiment relied on a trained dolphin. SEALAB II, a 45-day mission that investigated how humans would react to living underwater, involved Tuffy the bottlenose dolphin. Tuffy was trained to take mail to people living in the underwater station, and to carry tools from the station to the divers working outside. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mark Hamill burst a blood vessel while filming the trash compactor scene in Star Wars. Не made his face red on purpose so he'd look like he's really really straining, but he overdid it and burst a blood vessel in his eye. It was so obvious, they had to make sure the camera wouldn't catch it until it healed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kazakhstan waged a media campaign against Sacha Baron Cohen over Borat. adidas PABLO ESCOLATA To fight the portrayal of their country in Borat, the Kazakhs ran TV ads and a New York Times insert. Cohen responded in-character as Borat, saying that claims that women are treated equally, and that all religions are tolerated are disgusting fabrications. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2003, a metal detector at the Athens airport was set off by a chastity belt. The British woman (who was flying to London) wearing the belt explained that her husband made her wear it to ensure she'd be faithful while she visited Greece. They let her board the plane. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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REFRESHING SERVING OF SODA TRIVIA... CRACKED.COM DIET COKE HAS MORE CAFFEINE THAN REGULAR COKE. In a 12 ounce can, regular Coke has 34mg while Diet Coke has 46mg. — Source

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REFRESHING SERVING OF SODA TRIVIA... CRACKED.COM 7-UP ORIGINALLY CONTAINED LITHIUM. In 1929, the soda was named Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda for its mood-altering substance. — Source

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REFRESHING SERVING OF SODA TRIVIA... CRACKED.COM MOUNTAIN DEW WAS A NICKNAME FOR MOONSHINE. The soda was originally created as a drink mixer. — Source

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REFRESHING SERVING OF SODA TRIVIA... CRACKED.COM PEPSI RELEASED PEPSI WHITE, A YOGURT- FLAVORED COLA. Launched in 2008, the clear soda was available for a limited time, only in Japan. — Source

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