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January 11, 2024

If you guys happen to have a report on something due soon, let us know and we’ll track down some facts about it. Until you get specific, though, we’ll just have to keep guessing. Spielberg movies? Pangolins? Baby axolotls cannibalizing each other when times get tough? Help us help you!

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Ariana Grande accidentally tattooed small charcoal grill on her hand. That's not exactly what she was going for with her Japanese tattoo, but fans pointed out that's what it meant - to her credit, she acknowledged it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The all-American icon Harley Davidson actually ... isn't made in the USA. That is, many of its parts are from abroad - suspension components come from Japan, brake parts from Italy, wheels from Australia, and so on. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Alligators

An alligator's brain is absolutely tiny - it would fit in half of one tablespoon. It weighs a total of 8 or 9 grams, i.e. not much more than the usual contents of a tablespoon - which kind of explains a lot about gators. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Texas, you can learn all about Texas barbecue in an actual college class. The class is offered by Texas A&M, and it's called ANSC 117, Texas Barbecue. It covers everything from food safety to cooking whole pigs. CRACKED.COM — Source

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If honey has always seemed incredibly indestructible to you, you were basically right. HONEY Raspberry 16 oz. 98232 575 Radyard laz. R from Edison Rees Wa 98232 If it's preserved right, it almost can't spoil - pots of honey found in ancient Egyptian tombs are still A-OK to eat after thousands of years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's only one mammal that's completely covered by scales: the pangolin. They use those scales to instantly go into what's basically fortress mode - if a threat appears, they curl up into a tight, scaly, well-armored ball. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Japan, there are actual companies that can help you set up a new life. Yeah, kinda similar to the one in Breaking Bad, apparently - it's a thing, and there's even a word for people who want to escape: jouhatsu. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baby axolotls chew off each other's arms when there's not enough food around. Which sounds awful, but it's not really that bad-they can fully regrow their arm in a few months, so it's a mild inconvenience to help a bro or sis. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Japan nearly dropped plague-infested fleas on Southern California in WWII. It was going to be revenge for the US firebombing their cities, and was supposed to involve planes launching from submarines to drop the fleas. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Shining and The Empire Strikes Back were shot in the same studio. They were shot at the same time, too - and when The Shining had to stop using a stage after a fire, it borrowed a new one from Empire. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a subtle Cars Easter egg that references Ferrari's factory in Italy. CHE 44.5-10.8 - Luigi's license plate isn't a random string of the numbers - it says 445-108, and those are the geographic coordinates of that factory. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Crispin Glover sued the studio for using his face mold in Back to the Future II. They used the mold (from the first movie) to make the replacement actor look like Glover, and that was a step too far for him, so he sued. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Platypus milk has a strange protein that has unique antibacterial properties. The protein has a three-dimensional fold that's totally unique, and that fold apparently gives it its unusual antibacterial properties. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The French Navy used Cleopatra's daughter's mausoleum for target practice. Luckily, the mausoleum was mostly unharmed - and when Emperor Napoleon III visited, much later, he demanded that it be preserved. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lightning can actually be much hotter than the surface of the sun, somehow. A bolt of lightning coming up from the ground (a return stroke) can get as hot as 50,000 degrees F, and the surface of the sun is about 11,000 degrees F. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hitler had a plan to raze Berlin when he won WWII, and rebuild it as a new city: Germania. Germania would be the capital of the 1,000-year-Reich, and it would be comparable only to ancient Egypt, Babylon or Rome. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sudan has over 200 pyramids, and the oldest are from about 2500 ВС. There are also burial chambers, tombs, and temples - - a all those buildings are concentrated at three sites: Meroe, Jebel Barkal, and El Kurru. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jurassic Park Dennis Nedry is watching Jaws. Instead of working, Nedry is playing a movie about toothy animals eating people. Really, he should have seen it coming. CRACKED.COM — Source

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When John Williams shared his idea for the Jaws score, Spielberg laughed. AFI ES It was just two notes, so Spielberg thought it was a joke. Не played it until I stopped laughing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hook Captain Hook's hat is rimmed with crocodile teeth. Apparently, the pirate's greatest fear is always on his head. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Steven Spielberg had super-strict conditions for Tom Sizemore on Saving Private Ryan. If he had a positive drug test, even on the very last day, he'd be fired on the spot and his part would be re-shot. Sizemore stayed clean all 58 days of shooting. CRACKED.COM — Source

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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial The flying bikes reference an old Italian movie. 1951's Miracle in Milan (one of Spielberg's favorites) ends with the characters escaping the authorities on flying broomsticks. Just substitute bicycles, and you have E.T.'s iconic scene. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Some of the unsubbed German dialogue in Saving Private Ryan is actually Czech. When two German soldiers surrender at Omaha beach and apparently speak German, they're actually saying in Czech Please don't shoot me! I am not German, I am Czech, I didn't kill anyone! I am Czech! CRACKED.COM — Source

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence Professor Hobby's name is a tribute to Stanley Kubrick. When Spielberg took over after Kubrick's death, he renamed the character as a nod to Kubrick's production company, Hobby Films. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESPACTS This was the Disney icon's FIRST FEATURE CRACKED COM While Goofy has starred in more than 30 Disney short films and in TV series like Goof Troop, this was his first feature-length movie. — Source

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King of the Hill

King of the Hill's ratings were higher than The Simpsons' (for a year). CRACKED.COM The show hit its stride quickly, already outperforming its lead-in, The Simpsons, in its 2nd season. — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA SPACE The Schlesinger CBM Gym where the Tune Squad practice is a reference to a cartoon producer. ERAL TRYDE SCHLESINGER GYM Leon Schlesinger, whose production company later became Warner Bros. Cartoons studios, brought the Looney Tunes series to life. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Toy Story, each frame took between 45 minutes to 30 hours to render. There were a total of 114,240 frames. They invented a new software to handle it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESPACTS SQUANCHY ALMOST HAD A STANDALONE EPISODE. Rick w Morty The creators revealed that the original idea for season two's episode The Wedding Squanchers was to set the story on Squanchy's home planet and focus it on exploring the character. CRACKED.COM — Source

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