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SOS actually isn't an acronym - and it's not really a word as such, either. TELEGRAPE SWYORK It was just chosen because it stands out easily in Morse code, which was needed back when Morse code was heavily used for ship communication. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Racing

Two legendary race car drivers fueled their exploits with drug money. / P 2 2 NUMERO MANDAZINE RESERVE Don *All Whittington Kas EXPORTED philippe 22 41 - salvet lt Turbolader Shell INC NUMERO RESEA The Whittington brothers bought a historical racetrack, and used it to land planes that smuggled drugs in the middle of the night from Latin America. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Booger's winning belch in Revenge of the Nerds came from an animal - specifically, a camel. They took the sound of a camel having an orgasm and mixed it with a human belch to get the truly amazing seven-second sound in the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Fast and the Furious

The first seven Fast and Furious movies wrecked over a thousand cars -- the number is 1,487. If you included the cars from the 8th and 9th movie, plus the ones from Hobbs & Shaw, the total number might cross the 2,000 figure. CRACKED.COM — Source

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One New York City alley usually stands in for the rest of them in Hollywood movies. R د. - D NYC only has about 5 alleys, and you can usually only film in Cortlandt Alley, so that's the one that ends up playing a NYC alley in most movies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Tiananmen Square protests could have delayed The Little Mermaid. # The studio that drew the bubbles in the movie was based a few blocks away from the Square, and their work was trapped there until the protests were over. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In It, when Pennywise's eyes look in opposite directions, that's not an effect. Bill Skarsgård can really do that with his eyes, so he did it in the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In First Man, they recorded the sound of Ryan Gosling's breathing with a real lunar helmet. Gosling breathed through the helmet worn by Apollo 16 astronaut John Young. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The San Diego ZOO has the world's first frozen zoo. FROZEN ZOO EN DURA-GYL NITROGEN It stores the living tissues and stem cells of over a thousand animal species in freezers (like the facility in Jurassic Park, just not for dinosaurs). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Viagra is used for saving premature babies' lives. VGR 100 01 897 DC azija dazija ool fixer VGR zer 1100 ze p PE The drug makes it easier for the heart to pump blood through the lungs, which can literally save the life of a baby who has developed pulmonary hypertension. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rod Stewart took cocaine by putting it up his butt. Не was worried that snorting it could ruin his voice by damaging his nasal passages, so bought pills for the common cold, emptied them, and put coke inside - then he'd stick them up his butt, where they quickly dissolved. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Australia, there's a fire that started burning before the pyramids were built. A coal seam under the surface of Mount Wingen began smoldering 6,000 years ago, and hasn't stopped since. It's the world's oldest continuous coal fire. X NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2020, a New Zealand town banded together to save a cat. Rodney had been a fixture at a local store in Marton, New Zealand, until a staff member apparently drove him about 9 miles out of town and left him there. Locals were outraged and spent a month looking for Rodney, eventually finding him on a nearby farm. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A giant paperclip-like creature roamed the seas 68 million years ago. Diplomoceras maximum was about five feet long, similar to a squid, and had a shell shaped like a paperclip. D. maximum's lifespan might have been 200 years, and it grew a new rib on its shell each year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The user agreement for a Japanese robot specifically prohibits sex. Softbank's Pepper, which can hold conversations and perceive human emotions, can't be the object of lewd acts, according to the user agreement. Also, a Softbank spokesperson warned that giving your Pepper a sexier voice would be frowned upon by the company. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the early 19th century, West Point's 1st year curriculum was just math and French. The best math textbooks at the time were in French, so students had to learn the language first. And they needed math because they were all military engineers -- West Point was the first engineering school in the U.S. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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World War I

The first doughnut machine was made in 1920 to meet the demand following WW1. Adolph Levitt, a Jewish refugee who came to America fleeing czarist Russia, designed the ma- chine and began selling fried doughnuts from his Harlem bakery in New York City. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Ford had a concept nuclear-powered car called the Nucleon in the 1950's. The vehicle was to be powered by a small nu- clear reactor in the rear of the vehicle, based on the assumption that this would one day be possi- ble by reducing sizes. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Sex toys are illegal in India, and their sale punishable by 2 years in prison. When a Canadian compa- ny tried to patent a vibra- tor, the patent office said the obscenity law has never engaged positively with the notion of sexual pleasure. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Earth’s Portrait

The Blue Marble is the only whole-earth photo taken by human hands. It was taken on December 7, 1972, from a distance of about 18,000 miles from the planet's surface. No one has since been far enough from earth to take a similar picture. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Saving Private Ryan led directly to the Medal of Honor games. MEDAL OF HONOR The movie was R-rated and unsuitable for kids, so Spielberg wanted to make a video game that would give kids a sense of what being in the European theater of WWII was like -- that became the first Medal of Honor game. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hook

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E.T. started out as a horror film about aliens who kill. It was called Night Skies, and featured aliens who killed people by touching them with long fingers. Before shooting, Spielberg decided that was too dark and totally changed the tone. CRACKED.COM — Source

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E.T. has a deleted Harrison Ford cameo. Ford played the high school's principal, scolding Elliot about the frog incident -- but Spielberg decided the scene was out of place and Ford's cameo felt like a distraction, so he cut it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Catch Me If You Can

Catch Me If You Can Frank catches himself. The French cop escorting Frank Abagnale Jr. after his arrest is the real Frank Abagnale Jr. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jaws

They had a surprisingly hard time shooting the crowd scenes in Jaws. Unless the directions were just right, half of the crowd would start laughing like crazy and fall into the water (instead of panicking like they were supposed to). CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Grinch

If Chuck Jones had pitched a TV special later, Grinch might never have been made. Dr. Seuss' How The GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! They picked Grinch as the book to adapt only because they had enough time have a special out by Christmas. CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Ritter's final performance was on King of the Hill. GRACKED.COM Не recorded his final turn as music teacher Eugene Grandy shortly before his death in 2003. — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA SPACE Shawn Bradley CCM references his missionary work. During his college basketball years, Bradley took two years off to do missionary work for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the movie, after the NBA players lose their skills, they talk about what's next for them and Bradley says: I've got other skills. I could go back and work on the farm. Or maybe I could go back to the jungle and be a missionary again. CRACKED.COM — Source

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DREW INSPIRATION FROM WAR OF THE WORLDS CRACKED.COM The large-scale destruction of Neo-Tokyo in Akira is reminiscent of older tales featuring unstoppable forces of otherworldly design. Taking this into consideration, it's not surprising director Katsuhiro Ôtomo calls out H. G. Wells' War Of The Worlds as the book having the biggest impact on him. — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESPACTS JUSTIN ROILAND ALMOST DIDN'T VOICE BOTH RICK AND MORTY. Rick w Monty Adult Swim didn't think Morty's character was working with Roiland, so an audition process was started to get a new voice actor. Eventually, the team realized Morty's character was the problem and not the voice. After rewriting the part, Adult Swim gave Roiland a green light to voice Morty. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Grinch

Grinch was ridiculously expensive for its time. It cost $315,000 - and A Charlie Brown Christmas, made the year before, cost $76,000. It was around 10 times more expensive than most other half-hours of animation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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