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January 15, 2024

Learning new facts is a lot like dating. The not-so memorable ones come and go, but the really fun, compatible ones stick around for a while. When you come across a really special fact, you might know it for life. You never know, maybe one of these could be “the one.”

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Astronauts Mark Lee & Jan Davis are the only married couple to fly in space. They wed in secret & didn't tell NASA until it was too late to train replacements. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM MINECRAFT PLAYERS ARE HELPING PRESERVE A DYING LANGUAGE. Elfdalian is a rare language with about 3,000 speakers in Sweden. To help keep it alive, a group of Swedish and American enthusiasts are recreating the town where it is spoken in Minecraft, complete with quests to immerse players in the language. — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE FIRST RUN OF X-MEN WAS A FLOP. X-Men changed the superhero game, but only after it came back from crashing and burning. Sales kept declining from the title's beginning, until it was cancelled in 1970. Five years later, it was relaunched with a more diverse roster of characters, and it GK DEC eventually took off. — Source

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ROMANIA HAS AN UNDERGROUND AMUSEMENT PARK. Salina Turda is a centuries-old salt mine that was also used to store cheese and as a bomb shelter. Today you can find such things as boat rides, a mini golf course, a bowling alley, and a Ferris wheel. It's good to know mini golf will survive a nuclear apocalypse. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM CARLOS KAISER FAKED A WHOLE SPORTS CAREER. For over 20 years, Brazilian Carlos Kaiser Raposo was hailed as a soccer star-without ever playing. Не managed this by being charismatic while constantly faking injuries and feeding stories about his feats to the media. His real talent was hoodwinking everyone-even a dangerous gangster who hired him to play for his team. — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE CITY OF FLORENCE BANNED ARABIC NUMERALS. The Indo-Arabic numeric system we use today was resisted for centuries in Europe. Professional abacus users lobbied intensely against this newfangled Eastern invention, fearing their profession would become obsolete. Florence and other cities outright banned Arabic numerals, citing concerns that they would be used for fraud. B 2 RAS 9 & O BOETIVS 8 РУ 6 — Source

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GRACKED.COM A flying head was cut out of the Bible. According to The Life of John the Baptist, after John was beheaded, his head flew around the world for 15 years, calling King Herod out the entire time. Yes, we also wonder why such an awesome thing was left out of the final cut. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Martin Luther King Jr. had an advice column. In the '50s, Reverend King had a column in Ebony magazine titled Advice for Living. He'd often talk about black issues, but he also gave personal advice (which sometimes, um, wasn't very good). — Source

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CRACKED.COM A (fake) queen lived for years in a train station. In 1974, the queen of the lost kingdom of Oudh set residence in New Delhi's central train station with her entire entourage. After 10 years, the Indian government ended up giving her the palace she demanded. It came out long after her death that she wasn't a real queen. — Source

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Blockbuster

CRACKED.COM Blockbuster Video almost had its own city. BLOCKBUSTER® Back in the '90s, Blockbuster wanted to build a 2,500-acre theme park near Miami-and they somehow convinced the Florida legislature to give them powers restricted to governments. This Blockbuster Town was entitled to collect taxes and seize private land. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Alt-Right furries exist, somehow. You'd expect the animal dress-up people to be tolerant of difference, wouldn't you? And yet, a Fur Right community exists. Its members proudly wear pawstika armbands and engage in the same tactics as their furless counterparts. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Black Lightning was almost a white bigot. Black Lightning was DC Comics' first black superhero with his own title. At first he was going to be Black Bomber, a racist white guy who became a black man under stress. Then writer Tony Isabella had a better idea: not doing that. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Cats were accused of killing babies. Not too long ago, when a baby died with no explanation, the cat was often pointed to as the culprit. Some believed that cats would suffocate babies for a variety of reasons-including sheer jealousy. — Source

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CRACKED.COM China is building a new Great Wall made of trees. China is trying to stop desertification in the traditional Chinese way-by building a huge-ass wall. This Green Great Wall (made by planting trees, not piling stones) was started in 1987, and it will be several decades before it's finished. — Source

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Emilia Clarke has suffered two brain aneurysms. Her charity, SameYou, provides treatment for stroke & brain injury patients. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The term 'caucasian' originally described skull traits, not exclusively white skin color. Skin colors ranged from white-skinned to dark brown. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Florida man cut open his truck when he heard purring inside. Не found a kitten. The kitten was adopted & people offered to help pay for his truck repairs. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A True Story, the first sci-fi novel, was written in Greek during the 2nd century CE. A OTKIANOT ARANTA LVCIANI SAMOSATENSIS Opera, que quidem extant omnia. Grace مركم It featured robots, space travel, aliens, artificial atmospheres, and more. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The fax machine was invented in 1843 - when wagons were first rolling along the Oregon Trail. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Auschwitz became operational in May 1940 - McDonald's FAMOUS BARBECUE NARBEIT MACHT FREI RS McDonald's the same month that McDonalds was founded. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Warner Bros. Entertainment was established in 1923 - WD ST XIXIXIXIX less than one year before the fall of the Ottoman Empire. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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AND A DE GUARDE SH Nintendo existed while Jack the Ripper was terrorizing London. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cru ec Will Smith is older than Uncle Phil was at the beginning of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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France's last execution by guillotine happened the same year Star Wars came out. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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KEANU REEVES LAUREN TRON The Matrix is older now than Tron was when The Matrix was released. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe were born in the same year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The oldest living tree was almost five thousand years old when it was cut down. It was already 1,000 years old when the last woolly mammoth died. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD An ocean cleanup crew got accused of faking it because the plastic looked fake. The plastic looked too clean, actually - so the crew were accused that they'd just staged removing it from the ocean. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A new Tennessee bill would turn some gun owners into law enforcement agents. And it's pretty open about it - it expands the definition of law enforcement officer, apparently. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD If you're a worker at Meta, you are now officially a Metamate. That's Zuck's new word for Meta employees, and it's part of the rebranding initiative at the company. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In a sitcom-style plot, 3 Nigerian men tried to pass as Arab women at an airport. C9-C23 C9-C2 Sen Cole UAE police busted them, and posted photos of them with and without their disguises. CRACKED.COM — Source

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So Many Arrests, So Little Time

WEIRD WORLD In California, one guy got arrested 3 times in a span of sixteen hours. Apparently, the last arrest happened at 3 AM, after police had to pursue him-they tried to cite him for jaywalking, but he fled. CRACKED.COM — Source

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