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We were a little upset when we realized that these facts have been in other people’s heads before they got to ours. We get it. Some of them are centuries older than us, so yeah, they’ve been around. We’ve swallowed our pride and moved past it. Can you?

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The first and only cat to successfully be sent to space survived Félicette was launched into space in 1963 as part of the French space program. Her mission lasted 13 minutes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cats can't taste sweetness Cats, from house cats to lions, are the only mammals that don't have sweetness receptors. CRACKED.COM — Source

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People who go to college are more likely to have a cat than a dog One study showed that 47.2% of households with a cat had at least one person with a degree, as compared to 38.4% of homes with dogs. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM DC let a harasser edit their comics for years. Eddie Berganza was Superman executive editor, and in 2010 he was promoted to executive editor. At least five people had reported him to HR by then. DC Comics let him keep this position for seven more years before doing something about his continuing harassment. — Source

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CRACKED.COM A pandemic in the 19th century was blamed on the telegraph. Just like conspiracy theorists today think 5G is the cause for COVID-19, the Russian Flu of 1889 was blamed on telegraph wires. Since affected towns were linked together by the telegraph, some people just jumped to the obvious conclusion. — Source

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CRACKED.COM A fan colorizes I Love Lucy better than CBS. When CBS started colorizing / Love Lucy, Lucille Ball's hair ended up looking like some radioactive carrot. Zach Smothers of Pop-colorture.com doesn't have CBS' budget, but he managed to get much better results. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Third-world country doesn't mean poor country. RUSSIA CANADA BONKOLIA UNITED STATES CHIWA KOREA LibH SAND - - - - BRAZIL AUSTI During the Cold War, the countries allied with the U.S. were the First World, while those in the Second World were with the USSR. If your country was neutral, rich or poor, that made it Third World. — Source

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CRACKED.COM She-Hulk was created for copyright reasons. With The Incredible Hulk being successful on TV, Marvel feared a spin-off would be made featuring a female version of the character. So they tasked Stan Lee with creating her himself, just to make sure they would own the rights. — Source

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Shoes

CRACKED.COM Shops used X-rays to check the fitting of shoes. Sure, just trying on the shoe is often enough, but using a shoe-fitting fluoroscope was undeniably cooler. Too bad that people in the '30s didn't understand how stupidly irresponsible and dangerous this was. — Source

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CRACKED.COM China publicly shames people in debt. when 2002 and If you're Chinese, you'd better not fall behind in paying your debts. If you do, you'll see your name and face on giant screens-like in the theater, right before a movie. Millions of deadbeats are tracked and shamed by the government. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Being a camera operator is deadlier than being a stunt performer. Movie stunts are quite risky - especially for the people getting them on camera. When stunts go wrong, four camera operators die on average for every dead stunt performer. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Dracula's Castle is just some random keep. Vlad the Impaler lived in the currently ruined Poenari Castle, in Wallachia, Romania. As Bran Castle is better looking and easier to reach (not to mention that it's actually in Transylvania), it's peddled to tourists as the real Dracula Castle. — Source

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Ernie Hudson auditioned for the same part in The REAL Ghostbusters animated series that he played in the movie. Producers felt he didn't sound enough like Winston Zeddemore. Arsenio Hall got the job. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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During the Flint, MI water crisis, General Motors stopped using city water at their plant. FLINT WATER PLANT High levels of chlorine were corroding engine components. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A skeleton found in a Cheddar, U.K. cave has a relative living half a mile away. The person teaches history & & is nearly 300 generations removed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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McDonald's did away with their miniature spoon coffee stirrers because they were used to do cocaine. PURE SUGAR McDonald's sugar = : Dompa TUTTAL - 1185 - In fact, a 'McSpoon' became a quantified amount of cocaine sold. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The New York Post

The New York Post was founded by Alexander Hamilton & was a respected publication. YORKPOST KACHE 1 TT - ... - $60.000 HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR Gunman forces woman to decapitate favern owner - - SENATE OKAYS PREZ'S PICK FOR ARMS CONTROL - - Koch plans to hire 1,000 more cops ... - Taken kickin' TAXING DAY FOR It didn't become a tabloid until the 1970s. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Yale students pranked Harvard by handing out 1,800 placards at a football game. Instead of spelling Go Harvard they said We Suck. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Friends continues to generate massive revenue. The show earns $1 billion/year for Warner Bros., which translates into $20 million annually for cast members. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Nazis had concentration camps in Great Britain. During World War II, Germany occupied the island of Alderney, in the English Channel, and built concentration camps there. For a long time, the British government was very sketchy about what went down in Alderney - we needed archaeologists to investigate the place and tell us it was very bad. — Source

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The first sci-fi convention happened in Victorian England. Edward Bulwer-Lytton's book Vril: The Power of The Coming Race garnered such a following that a five day long Vril-Ya Bazaar and Fête was held in London in 1891. This is considered the very first sci-fi convention, complete with merch booths and cosplayers. GRACKED COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM flickr 1,000GB for free Save all your photos and videos in one place with Auto-Uploadr. Flickr started as a video game. In 2002, husband and wife Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake founded a software company to create an MMO titled Game Neverending. The game failed, but a feature for sharing images stood out - so it was spun into its own product, called Flickr. — Source

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Oscar winners can't legally sell their awards. Since the Academy doesn't want their statuettes in the marketplace, there's a rule that if you want to sell your Oscar, you have to first offer to sell it back to the Academy itself, for just $10. Sounds like a weird rule, but a judge upheld it as legal in 2015. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Spiders can go paragliding. The little critters can knit themselves a sort of kite, and go flying (or ballooning, as this is called). They can travel 2.5 miles up and 1,000 miles out. Not freaky enough? Then try this: Spider flight is driven by the Earth's electric field. — Source

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American Libertarians funded a violent cult. In one of the countless harebrained Libertarian attempts at a micronation, a group called the Phoenix Foundation provided guns and funds to a cult leader named Jimmy Stevens, who wanted to secede from Vanuatu. The foundation faded away after Stevens' attempt failed in 1980. CRACKED COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM A random taxi driver turned out to be the former governor of West Virginia. William С. Marland's forward-thinking policies couldn't overcome his failings as a politician or his alcoholism, and by 1960 he disappeared from public view. A couple years later, a Chicago journalist thought of fact-checking this cabbie's joke about being a former governor - and it turned out, it was Marland. — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Because of Google Maps, an Indonesian guy nearly married a stranger. RA. 3 MIFTAHUL TPA-TPQ JANNAH CIMANGOU КЕГА RT.OI/W 2018.11 13 09:2 The app took him to the wrong wedding venue - apparently, there was both a wedding and an engagement taking place at the same village. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The Ukrainian Ambassador to Japan posed as a Samurai warrior. It was for a message to Russia that he tweeted - and he was in full Samurai get-up, with a katana and everything. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wait ‘Til They Hear About Divorce

WEIRD WORLD A married couple in NYC live in separate apartments, and it's worked great. They say that it's done wonders for their marriage, and they started living apart in October. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD There's such a thing as uncombable hair syndrome, it turns out. A toddler in Georgia was diagnosed with it, and it's kind of exactly what it says on the tin - but it's extremely, extremely rare. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A 14-year-old tried to hire a hitman to kill her ex-boyfriend. And it didn't work, luckily, because she tried to do it via rentahitman.com, which is a fake website and which reported the case to the police. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The Tinder Swindler is now setting his sights higher- on a government job. Apparently, he'd like to be the foreign minister of Israel, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A British man revealed on TV that he has 50,000 balloons at home. Не also revealed a sexual obsession with balloons - on a show called, appropriately, My Strange Addiction. CRACKED.COM — Source

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