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January 07, 2024

Only neurologists and zombies would know for sure, but we have a hunch that you have a phenomenal brain. We just want to make sure these facts are going to a nice home. But just to be sure, we better order a CAT scan. Hey, it’s better than the other option.

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Shaq

Shaq only made one three-pointer in his entire career. An important lesson in playing to your strengths. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hans Münch was known as the humane Nazi. Не secretly helped inmates escape from Auschwitz and was acquitted of war crimes. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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After being refused by the War Office, Mary Seacole used her own money to serve as a nurse during the Crimean War. Due to racism, she almost forgotten to history, compared to her contemporary Nightingale. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Florence Nightingale was a pioneering medical statistician. Her work in statistics saved lives, and her data visualization was ground-breaking. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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George Cowan

George Cowan was shot three times (once in the head), crawled to make coffee, crawled across Yellowstone, crossed a river... ...was burnt in a forest fire, thrown from a carriage, and his bed broke while receiving care. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Vidal Sassoon

Vidal Sassoon (yes, the hairstylist) was the youngest member of an anti-fascist group. Sassoon was only 17 when he joined Group 43, which physically broke up fascist meetings. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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С. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien both went to a party dressed as polar bears. It wasn't a costume party. They were just eccentric. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Beyonce

Beyoncé's lyric mentioning Red Lobster caused their sales to increase by 33% 27% NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Matthew McConaughey

CRACKED.COM Matthew McConaughey got his big break because he wanted free booze. In the early '90s, McConaughey took a date to a Hyatt hotel in Austin, as the bartender was his friend and could score him free drinks. There he met casting director Don Philips, who later introduced him to Dazed and Confused director Richard Linklater. — Source

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Hunter S. Thompson nearly killed Bill Murray. X ANIZZU NADY LING While Murray was staying at Thompson's home, the two got into a drunken argument about who'd make a better Houdini (as these guys would). Thompson tried to settle the argument by tying Murray to a cast iron chair and throwing him into his pool, for him to escape. Luckily, someone else pulled Murray out. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Peter the Great shaved people against their will. The late 17th-century Tsar wanted Russia to be more like Europe-and that included the lack of beards. Not only did he tax bushy facial hair, but would forcibly shave his guests, and eventually anyone he came across. (Making things worse, he wasn't exactly a good barber.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apollo 12 was struck by lightning. Twice. When Apollo 12 took off in November 1969, the rocket was struck by lightning twice in a span of 20 seconds. Mission Control thought the damage would make it impossible for the astronauts to return to Earth after their mission. (Luckily, they were wrong.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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The American Medical Association torpedoed universal health care. The National Physicians' INSERT CON Committee (often described as a lobbying front for the PUSH BUTTON AMA) opposed public health care since the late '30s-and FLU in 1945, they ramped up their MEASLES campaigning with BROKEN LEG scaremongering cartoons OPERATION about the dangers of ETC socialized medicine, to sink Truman's health care bill. LLS CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM George Patton thought he had fought for ages. General Patton believed in reincarnation, and thought he had lived through many lives- always as a soldier. Не claimed to have served under Julius Caesar and Napoleon, among many others. It's not clear how he reconciled this with his devout Christian beliefs. — Source

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Australia

CRACKED.COM Australia still had isolated Aborigines in 1984. A family of nine Puntupi Aborigines lived until 1984 unaware of the rest of the world, only occasionally seeing an airplane. Eventually they Derb came across other people (also Pintupi), and most of them AUSTRALIA SOUTH WESTE integrated into a nearby town. DEENSLAN AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA NEW SOUTH WALES Albany Adelaide VICTORI Sv — Source

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John Murray Spear

A 19th-century preacher built a mecha-Jesus. John Murray Spear was ahead of his time in his ideas about slavery and gender equality - and also about technology, as he tried to build a mechanical Messiah (as commanded to him by the spirits of the Founding Fathers). But Spear's New Motor failed to even start, let alone save humanity. CRACKED.COM — Source

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chinese judges wore sunglasses to appear impartial. In 12th-century China, judges wore smoky quartz glasses for the same reason you wear your Ray-Bans - to look aloof and above it all. Masking their facial expressions gave them the appearance of being impartial and detached. CRACKED.COM — Source

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You learned to play the recorder because it's dirt cheap. The recorder is an extremely simple instrument, which is why German composer Carl Orff adopted it as a way to teach music to children in the 1920s. Its simplicity also makes it very cheap to mass produce, allowing schools to buy in bulk for next to nothing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Gimp in Pulp Fiction is a kidnapped hitchhiker. According to Quentin Tarantino, the Gimp is a hitchhiker or somebody that picked up seven years ago, and then trained until they broke him. Maybe the reason why that's not mentioned is because it's dark AF, even for this movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dramamine

Dramamine wasn't intended as a pill for motion sickness. In the 1940s, Compound 1694 was being looked into as an allergy medicine - but then a volunteer for the experimental treatment reported that she didn't feel sick as usual on the streetcar. This steered research into a new direction, resulting in the yellow pill. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Iced tea was invented to cater to Americans' masculinity. Tea is not considered manly in the US, English social critic William Hogarth wrote as early as 1757. Lipton started marketing iced tea in the 19th century to be able to sell their stuff to Americans without making them feel emasculated. — Source

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spider-Man originally had a magic ring. The first draft of the character, developed by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, was a teenager who became a jacked up hero with a magic ring. It was version 2.0 (by Steve Ditko instead of Kirby) that originated the iconic web-slinger. CRACKED.COM — Source

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cliffhangers as we know them became a thing in victorian England. While the cliffhanger as a narrative device has existed for centuries, it really took off when magazines started publishing serialized fiction in the 19th century. Charles Dickens was a prominent master in the art of keeping readers hooked week to week. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rich people literally don't understand what others feel. Studies have shown that the higher in the socio-economic ladder you are, the more you struggle to read others' expressions and emotional cues. Researchers theorize that the reason might be that those of a lower background rely more on other people's help. CRACKED.COM — Source

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M Mario Kart wasn't supposed to be a Mario game. Nintendo was simply trying to create a two-player racing game. A few months into development, they decided to put Mario's face on one of the racers to see what it would look like from the other car, and they liked it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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TOXIC PATIENT 1994 CRACKED.COM Cancer patient Gloria Ramirez went to the hospital. Nurses smelled something strange when they drew her blood. Gloria died, and fumes that sprang from her injured 23 people nearby. — Source

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Goosebumps used to help us fight predators. Goosebumps occur in an adrenaline fueled scenario because it makes hair on our bodies stand up, which once made us look larger and more threatening to our predators. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chronic gamers make excellent surgeons. GRACKED.COM According to a 2007 study of students training to become surgeons, long time gamers performed up to 47% better on screen assisted surgeries than non-gamers. Remember this when it is time for a colonoscopy. — Source

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Jason Padgett

A JOCK GOT MUGGED, SUFFERED FROM A CONCUSSION, AND SUDDENLY BECAME A GENIUS. After recovery, Jason Padgett started seeing geometrical shapes everywhere. Не didn't know what it was, but after a few math classes, he realized it was math fractals he was seeing. Padgett's condition is called acquired savant syndrome. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Human fingers and feet get pruny so we can grip things underwater. This allowed us to evolve and survive in wet climates. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A HICKEY GAVE A WOMAN A STROKE. 20 2010 31 mm CRACKED.COM Days after a make-out session, a 44-year-old Maori woman found her arm getting weaker. Turned out a love bite had created a blood clot, which traveled to her head and led to a stroke. — Source

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HICCUPS LASTED THREE YEARS 2010 CRACKED.COM Chris Sands starred in a documentary about the hiccups, and they diagnosed him with ... a brain tumor. Не was lucky; without the hiccups, the tumor might have grown undetected and killed him. — Source

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Every year in the US at least 4,000 items are left inside patients after surgery. In the medical world it is known as retained surgical items. GRACKED.COM — Source

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