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Before cars, boots were a must. CRACKED.COM Global warming is objectively worse, but pollution in the olden days was a lot more visible. When horses ruled the roads, those roads were slathered in manure. Boots were more than a fashion statement or rainy day gear; they were essential for not mashing horse dookie into your feet. — Source

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Just stay out of Gu Gu's cage. CRACKED.COM Gu Gu the panda had three mauling incidents thanks to encroaching visitors: In 2006, a drunk guy jumped into his pen to cuddle him and had his legs gnawed. In 2007, a 15-year-old somehow got in there during feeding time and had his legs chomped. And in 2009, a guy once again jumped in there (this time, to retrieve a toy his kid had dropped). His legs? Chewed up real bad. — Source

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The weirdest reason to be a Nazi sympathizer. CRACKED.COM King Edward VIII of England stayed friends with a bunch of Nazi commanders, imploring them to look after his homes in France after the country fell to Germany. Не also sent the U.S. ambassador to Portugal on a mission to rescue his wife's nice bathing suit from their French villa. — Source

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Fort Peck

The Hoover Dam isn't stuffed with bodies (but another dam is). CRACKED.COM Fort Peck Dam in Montana broke in 1938, and the debris swept away eight people who had been sent to inspect it. Two of their bodies were recovered, but when the debris was recycled to make a replacement dam, the other six were almost definitely in there. — Source

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Wanderlust may be genetic. CRACKED.COM The DRD4-7R variation in the dopamine receptor gene may be associated with a desire to travel. The 20 percent of people who exhibit the variation tend to live somewhere other than their place of birth and are also found more frequently the further you get from Africa, where human life is thought to have originated. — Source

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Politic Colors

American political party colors weren't locked in until 2000. CRACKED COM NBC first started color-coding political maps during the 1976 election, but had the colors inverted from what we're familiar with. The color assignments continued to jump around on different networks and during different elections, but the long wait for the 2000 election results allowed networks to agree on the color assignments we know today. — Source

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Old Games

Honey-Pots: the old victorian era game that ...doesn't sound very fun. CRACKED COM One player would curl up into the fetal position, and try to hold their body as tight as possible, while the other player picked them up and carried them around (as if they were carrying a big pot of honey home from the market). Children crave manual labor. — Source

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These Dudes Are So Much Better Than Santa

Greek Christmas goblins GRACKED.COM Kallikantzaroi are hairy little subterranean human-ish creatures with horns and tails, who burrow to the surface world to cause mischief during the 12 days of Christmas. Luckily, you can ward them off by burning smelly old shoes in your fireplace.

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The crooked librarian who still haunts his place of employment. CRACKED.COM Bertrand Dyer was the first librarian at the Kimberley Public Library in South Africa, and was caught running a pricing scam to make a little extra cash. Не died several days after swallowing arsenic in the aftermath of the scandal, and such a harrowing death is thought to be the reason he still haunts the halls of his library. No mention of whether he met and canoodled with Dan Aykroyd. — Source

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Hidden Discoveries

The oldest known turtle shell was discovered in a Polish landfill. CRACKED.COM A paleobiologist rooting around in some old garbage discovered a 215-million-year-old turtle shell fossil, among a ton of other extremely well-preserved marine life fossils. — Source

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The sea slug who camouflages with bright pink ink. CRACKED.COM The sea hare is a goopy little weirdo with very few natural defenses. The one thing it has going for it is the bright pink cloud it excretes when threatened. It took a while for scientists to figure out that it causes any nearby predators to temporarily lose the ability to detect it via scent. — Source

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Squid

The skeletal squid that confused humans for centuries. GRAGKED.COM Belemnites were ancient squid-like creatures with 10 tentacles and a skeleton. Obviously, their weird little skeleton is the only part that became fossilized, and now look like rocky little bullets. For a long time, some European cultures thought they were thunderbolts, thrown down by angry gods from heaven. Others thought they were the fingers of elves, or candles used by fairies. — Source

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