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No, a 13-year-old didn't beat Tetris. ПРОБЕЛ - СБРОСИТЬ CRACKED.COM Technically, there is no beating the game. What Blue Scuti did was play so well for so long, it caused the game to freak out and trigger its kill screen. That's still extremely impressive, as it had only ever been achieved by A.I. before that. Nintendo, not being weird about it all, said they have nothing to announce on this topic. — Source

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Indigenous people terraformed Florida centuries ago. CRACKED.COM You'd think fake islands are only for Manhattan billionaires and oil-rich governments. But scientists have discovered that hundreds of years ago the Calusa tribe piled many millions of shells in Estero Bay with the express purpose of creating an artificial island. — Source

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The Indonesian government tried to un-haunt a haunted house. CRACKED.COM Lawang Sewu is a huge complex that was built as a headquarters for the Dutch East Indies Railway Company in 1904. During World War II, it was occupied by the Japanese army and used to confine and execute prisoners, which is a great way to build a small city of ghosts. It's a really cool building, and the government has tried to spruce it up and show it off, but the majority of tourists that come through are there for the scores of headless ghosts reportedly hanging out in the — Source

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Three countries have extremely metal Christmas/Halloween hybrid decorations. CRACKED.COM Poland, Germany and Ukraine celebrate Christmas by putting spiderweb decorations on their trees. Poland does it because of an old legend that a spider wove a blanket for baby Jesus in the manger. Germany and Ukraine have more hardcore lore: a poor family woke up to find their Christmas tree freaking covered in spiderwebs, and lost their collective minds-until the webs turned into silver and gold. — Source

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High-stakes bobbing for apples. CRACKED.COM The Victorian-era game Apple and Candle was very simple (and very dangerous): attach an apple to one end of a stick, a lit candle to the other, spin it around like a ceiling fan, then jump up and try to bite the apple. — Source

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Royal mucus. CRACKED.COM Purple became associated with royalty because for a long time, there was only one way to produce it: harvest the mucus of the Bolinus brandaris sea snail. It took 250,000 snails to make one ounce of purple dye. But in 1856, an 18-year-old chemist trying to cure malaria accidentally created a synthetic purple compound, and elites lost their stranglehold on the color. — Source

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30 percent of Americans are genetically inferior drivers. CRACKED.COM A protein in the brain, called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), is responsible for neuron and glial cell health, and has an impact on learning new skills. A study found that people with a genetic variant causing a paucity of BDNF were, scientifically, horrible drivers. — Source

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London lost track of where they buried their plague victims. CRACKED.COM City officials had to think fast when 15 percent of their population pretty quickly turned into contagious corpses, and they started haphazardly digging mass graves. Over the years, they quit keeping meticulous records of where they'd stashed the bodies, and a recent survey has found that there are a whole bunch of these plague pits just beneath the surface of the city's idyllic parks. — Source

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King Edward VII's libido killed his father. CRACKED.COM Edward's father, Prince Albert, was a gigantic prude who was dead set on ending the lascivious extracurriculars within his royal family. Edward, however, was a notorious horndog. Albert took Edward on a long, rainy walk to scold him for being such a slut, and ended up coming down with a fever that ultimately killed him. Queen Victoria blamed Albert's death on Edward and his insatiable sexual appetite. — Source

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High heels were originally for warriors. CRACKED.COM Persian cavalrymen figured out that they could fire off their arrows more easily if they had extra-long heels that could lock into their stirrups. They wouldn't become women's fashion for another few hundred years in the 17th century. — Source

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The Number of Haunted Houses in Operation

There are more haunted houses in the U.S. than Targets. ©TARGET CRACKED.COM The Haunted House Association estimates that there are more than 2,700 haunted houses in operation in the United States, compared to 1,956 Targets. — Source

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The Amazon Rainforest's boiling river. CRACKED.COM It sounds like some kind of ancient legend, but there are four miles of the Shanay-Timpishka River that are geothermally heated, and can get up to 210 degrees Fahrenheit. Like Yellowstone's treacherous hot springs, any animal that falls in gets cooked alive. — Source

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