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Quick! How many descendants can one pair of mice produce in a year?

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December 26, 2023

The journey from “did you know?” to “now you know” is actually quite short. So short that we don’t know why you’d even call it a journey. Heck, it’s only one short step. What do you even call a journey that small? You could call it a fact, because the “journey” from the beginning of the fact to the end will lead you to “now you know!” And the best part is that you won’t even have to get up!

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AUSTRALIA'S DIAMETER FROM EAST TO WEST SPANS ALMOST 4000 KM... CRACKED Making it wider than the moon's 3400 km diameter. — Source

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UNLIKE OTHER BODY TISSUES, TEETH CANNOT HEAL THEMSELVES. CRACKED This is because they are covered in non-living enamel. — Source

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AMY POEHLER PORTRAYED THE COOL MOM IN MEAN GIRLS AT THE AGE OF 32... CRACKED Making her just seven years older than Rachel McAdams, who played Regina George at 25. — Source

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AMONG THE PLANETS, VENUS IS THE ONLY ONE THAT SPINS CLOCKWISE. CRACKED Meanwhile, Uranus kind of rolls on its side. — Source

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PIGEONS WERE FOUND TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN ARTWORKS BY PICASSO AND MONET. CRACKED This was proven in a real scientific study. — Source

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THE LONGEST CONTINUOUS WALKING DISTANCE ON EARTH SPANS 14,000 MILES. . Magadan 4,364 b 22.088 km CRACKED L'Agulhas One can journey from Magadan in Russia to Cape Town in South Africa without any flying or sailing involved, only relying on bridges and open roads. — Source

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NEW YORK CITY IS HOME TO A UNIQUE ANT SPECIES KNOWN AS MANHATTANTS. CRACKED Biologists discovered them within a specific 14-block area of the city. — Source

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SUDAN BOASTS MORE PYRAMIDS THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY... GRACKED Including Egypt. — Source

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THE PHILIPPINES CONSISTS OF A STAGGERING 7,641 ISLANDS. CRACKED That's excluding numerous sandbars and other landforms that emerge during low tide. — Source

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A cloud may look fluffy and lighter-than-air but an average cumulus cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds or 500,000 kilograms. That's more than twice the weight of the Statue of Liberty. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Grand Central Station is more radioactive than a nuclear power plant. This is because of all the granite, which is slightly radioactive. While harmless, the radiation levels CRACKED.COM in the station are still more than allowed for nuclear power plants. — Source

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A HUMAN MALE WILL PRODUCE ABOUT 525 BILLION SPERM IN HIS LIFETIME. THAT'S AROUND FIVE TIMES THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE EVER LIVED. CRACKED.COM — 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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REMOVE ALL THE EMPTY SPACE FROM ALL THE ATOMS IN ALL OF THE PEOPLE ON PLANET EARTH... ...AND ALL OF US COMBINED WOULD EQUAL THE VOLUME OF A SUGAR CUBE. 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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CRACKED.COM Particles can flow UP streams of water. The effect is called vertical contamination. — Source

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THE LARGEST DESERT ON EARTH ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK. ANTARCTICA CONTAINS 90% OF EARTH'S FRESH WATER, BUT KEEPS IT INACCESSIBLY FROZEN. WITH LESS THAN 2 INCHES ON AVERAGE OF PRECIPITATION A YEAR, IT'S ALSO THE PLANET'S LARGEST DESERT. CRACKED.COM — 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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In 1936, a sneaky violinist named Julian Altman stole a rare 1713 Stradivarius violin. GRACKED.COM A touring musician named Broni- slaw Huberman had left the instru- ment in his dressing room, and Alt- man gave a gullible doorman a ci- gar to slip by and steal it. Altman then played the stolen Stradivarius his entire life, only admitting on his deathbed that the violin was stolen. — Source

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In 1998, UC Berkeley scientists discovered that the western fence lizard could thwart Lyme disease if bitten by infected ticks. CRACKED COM These lizards have a specific protein in their systems that kills the infection. Western U.S. may also have fewer cases of Lyme due to the lyme-fighting lizard as opposed to the East- ern U.S. where Lyme disease runs rampant. — Source

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Long before the Capitol building in D.C. became a place synonymous with political chaos, it was a 19th Century marvel of architecture. GRACKED COM One detail, among the domes and the sculptures, is the number of steps from the basement to the top of the outer dome: 365. This was made intentionally to represent a step for each day of the year. — Source

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The Beatles had huge successes with their films Help! and A Hard Day's Night. CRACKED.COM Thankfully they did not ever make Up Against It, a screenplay commissioned by the Beatles and written by play- wright Joe OrtonThe script was horribly offensive, there were scenes with sexu- al assaults written in for laughs, men and women fighting in a civil war against each other, and the band mem- bers dressing in drag and assassinating the Prime Minister. — Source

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A small uninhabited island called Ailsa Craig off the coast of Scotland provides granite for Olympic curling stones. CRACKED.COM The island was said to have been created through vol- canic eruptions over tens of millions of years. A spe- cial granite making up the surface of the island cre- ates ideal curling stones. — Source

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Historical Pranks PRANK-CALLING FIDEL CASTRO In 2004, Miami radio station WXDJ-FM edited tapes of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to get a prank call through to Castro, and then called him a killer. This resulted in Castro going on an unhinged rant. CRACKED — Source

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Historical Pranks PERSOR BEV LIBERTE the DY PHILADA BY ORDER ORI PASS AND STOW TACO BELL BUYING THE LIBERTY BELL On April 1, 1996, Taco Bell put out an ad in seven big newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, saying they had bought the Liberty Bell and changed its name to The Taco Liberty Bell. CRACKED — Source

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Historical Pranks PUBLICIZING A FAKE SCIENTIFIC STUDY A science journalist made up a study in 2015 that said eating chocolate could help you lose weight faster, and sent it to an open access academic journal. Then he sent out a press release to get media attention, and the media swallowed the bait. CRACKED — Source

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Historical Pranks CREATING THE POKÉMON MEW Developers on Pókemon Red and Green secretly added Mew to the cartridge a few weeks before release. It was kind of a prank that they did just because they could - and then, because of a bug, Mew suddenly started appearing in-game. CRACKED — Source

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Historical Pranks DELIVERING MILK AND A NEWSPAPER TO A MOUNTAINTOP In 1947, Ross Petrie, a forestry student, secretly made his way to the top of Mount Hood in the middle of the night and left a surprise for his friends who were camping there - a quart of milk and a Sunday Oregonian newspaper. CRACKED — Source

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Historical Pranks PUTTING A FAKE CAR ON THE GREAT DOME AT MIT In 1994, a group of hackers put a fake Campus Police car on the Great Dome at MIT. It had flashing lights, a dummy dressed as a police officer, and a license plate that said IHTFP. The story was reported in newspapers all around the world. CRACKED — Source

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Historical Pranks PAINTING DOGS WHITE On April Fool's Day in 1965, Politiken, a newspaper in Copenhagen, joked that the Danish parliament had proposed a law that would make it so all black dogs had to be painted white in order to make roads safer. CRACKED — Source

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