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December 07, 2023

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The Teletubbies' hill was located in a field Teletubbies DI in Wimpstone, Warwickshire, England. Was. The landowner turned the place into a pond after she got sick of trespassing fans. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Seinfeld

RESTAURA TOM'S RESTAURANT CIBIOSA Tom's Restaurant in Manhattan provides all the exterior shots for Monk's Café. It's also the same eatery that Suzanne Vega sings about in Tom's Diner. 4 Seinfeld CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM CL RKS Quick STOP GROCERIES I ASSURE YOURWERE OPEN! Clerks was shot in a grocery store where Kevin Smith was working at the time. The joke about the jammed locks was written in because they could only film at night. — Source

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CRACKED.COM STAR WARS You can stay at Luke Skywalker's home in Tatooine! The Lars Homestead is actually the Hotel Sidi Driss in Matmata, Tunisia. — Source

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Evil Dead 2

EVIL DEAD 2 The cabin is only a shell for exterior shots- the interior set was built in a high school gymnasium rented by the production. CRACKED.COM — Source

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STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION Many stray cats lived on the Paramount Studios lot-so whenever the crew of the Enterprise visited an alien planet, the actors had to walk and crawl on dirt mixed with cat poop. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE SSAHW The Abyss wasn't filmed on the ocean's bottom, but in an unfinished nuclear reactor near Gaffney, South Carolina, filled with 7.5 million gallons of water. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kellogg’s

WEIRD WORLD The Mexican government seized 380,000 boxes of Kellogg's cereal. The reason? According to the government, cartoons on the boxes violate laws aimed at improving childrens' diets. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A Louisiana Senate candidate has an ad in which he smokes marijuana. I hope this ad works to not only destigmatize the use of marijuana, but also forces a new conversation that creates the pathway to legalize this beneficial drug, and forgive those who were arrested due to outdated ideology, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Warhorses

WEIRD WORLD We've learned that medieval warhorses were way less awesome than we thought. Apparently, scientists say that, it turns out, warhorses at the time were no bigger than ponies today. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Taylor Swift got beat out by a bunch of birds on a Top 50 list. Apparently, an album of the sounds of endangered birds, called Songs of Disappearance, was #3 on Australia's chart of top 50 albums, beating out Taylor Swift. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Minneapolis, robbers tried to hold up a bank with a vial of HIV. It's not really clear if there was HIV in the vial, and the FBI is investigating everything. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Israel banned a guy from traveling until the year 9999 (not a typo). Noam Huppert, an Australian living in Israel, got that ban because he has to pay his wife roughly $2 million in child support paments. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A guy found a frog in a box of lettuce and decided to keep it as a pet. Не named the frog Tony - Tony somehow turned up in a lettuce box from Whole Foods and, mercifully, his life was spared. CRACKED.COM — Source

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JAMES DOOHAN SERVED IN WORLD WAR II. Не was shot six times on D-Day: four in the leg, one in the chest (stopped by a metal cigarette case), and one blew off his middle finger. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAS A BIG STAR TREK FAN. Не encouraged Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura, to stay on the show when she was considering quitting. CRACKED.COM — Source

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62 ELVIS WAS A NATURAL BLONDE. Не dyed his hair darker since high school. One time he dyed it himself using black shoe polish. CRACKED.COM — Source

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STEVE BUSCEMI WORKED ALONGSIDE FIREFIGHTERS AFTER 9/11. Не joined the FDNY in 1980 until 1984, leaving to pursue acting. When the September 11th attacks happened, he returned to FDNY Engine 55. Не tried to keep his service a secret. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nicolas Cage

NIC CAGE HAS OWNED SEVERAL OCTOPUSES. Не supposedly spent $150,000 on an octopus to help him with acting. CRACKED.COM — Source

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'9 BEA ARTHUR SERVED IN THE US MARINES DURING WWII. When she was 20, the Golden Girl enlisted. Women's enlistment was so new that the Marines didn't have proper paperwork so she had to sign up using US Navy paperwork. CRACKED.COM — Source

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LL COOL J BROKE THE NOSE, JAW, AND RIBS OF SOMEONE WHO TRIED TO ROB HIS HOUSE. The rapper and actor physically detained the home invader until police arrived. CRACKED.COM — Source

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An American pepper trading ship was attacked off the Island of Sumatra in 1831. The village locals killed 3 and plundered the ship (named 'Friendship'). In re- taliation, Andrew Jackson sent a warship all the way back to Sumatra to destroy the village the attackers were from. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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James Caan

Government agents mistook James Caan as an aspiring mobster during the production of The Godfather. During production, James Caan used to hang out with Carmine Persico, a.k.a. The Snake, who was a notorious Mafioso and later head of the Co- lombo crime family. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Some baboons make birth control, with plums. Female baboons in the Nigerian rainforest make seasonal use of the Afri- can black plum to in- crease progesterone lev- els, which halts their re- productive cycles. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Andy Kaufman demanded that his alter ego, Tony Clifton, have guest appearances on 'Taxi! After showing up to set with 2 prostitutes, Clifton was fired. A week later, Andy showed up as if noth- ing had happened. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Potato sprout,s can be dangerous. Sprouts that come out of old potatoes are poisonous and can cause an array of symptoms ranging from vomiting to ра- ralysis. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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In the late 19th Century US it was fashionable for peoplè to form 13 Clubs. 3 They would demonstrate their lack of superstition by dining in groups of 13, walking under ladders, spilling salt at the table, etc. Several future US Pres- idents participated. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Every year, hundreds of fireballs erupt from the surface of the Mekong River in Thailand. Nobody knows what causes them. Locals believe a mythical ser- pent called Naga spits fire from the water. The event is known as 'Naga Fireballs.' CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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