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CRACKED.COM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT WAS INTENDED TO BE HUMANE. Quakers conceived solitary confinement as a humanitarian alternative to brutal 18th-century prison conditions. In theory, inmates kept in isolation would read the Bible, pray, and do penance. But when it was tried for real, the idea turned out to seriously screw up the prisoners' brains. — Source

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BANK OF AMERICA TRICKED A CUSTOMER INTO COMMITING A CRIME. San Francisco resident Matthew Shinnick asked a teller about a suspicious check he had been given. The teller told him everything was fine and he could cash it. Then they had him arrested for trying to cash a phony check. The bank denied any wrongdoing afterwards. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Millaine AN OREGON RESORT EMPLOYS GOAT CADDIES. The newest golf course at Silvies Valley Ranch is steep in places, so you can hire the services of one of their professionally trained goats. The four- legged, notoriously nonjudgmental caddies carry your clubs in a custom- designed bag, along with balls and beverages. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM MOUNT EVEREST IS COVERED IN POOP. Basic fact: Humans poop. And thousands of humans attempting to climb Mount Everest over several decades means a lot of poop has been dropped on its slopes. It's so bad that some climbers refuse to boil snow for water, and the mountain has been called a fecal time bomb. — Source

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison recorded the first cute cat video Made in 1894, it features two cats boxing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Communicate with your cat by slow blinking Narrowing the eyes helps to form a bond between human and cat. Cats are more likely to let you pet them after you perform this action. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Most cats sleep between 10 to 13 hours a day Cats have evolved to preserve their energy to be most active at dawn and dusk when, pre-domestication, they would hunt their prey. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cats can sense storms before they happen A cat's inner ears can detect the fall in atmospheric pressure before a storm, as well as hear distant thunder if a storm is approaching. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Most Americans support eliminating the penny, which costs more to produce than it is worth. ONE CENT the 2007 VIUUM booz TRUST BENO Jarden Zinc Products is the sole provider of zinc penny blanks and has lobbyists to preserve the penny. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Louis Armstrong wore a Star of David. Не did so as a tribute to the Jewish family who were a second home & loaned him the money to buy his first instrument. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Pentagon has twice as many bathrooms as it needs. This is because it was built during segregation, with separate facilities for black and white employees. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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It is possible to know in 2020 what Napoleon smelled like. A truly prodigious user of cologne, his preferred formula is available today and unchanged from 1819. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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North Korea is the only necrocracy in the world. The country is technically still ruled by Kim II-sung, who died in 1994 and remains president by decree. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2006, The Seminole Tribe of Florida purchased the Hard Rock Café hotel and casino business. HardRece CAFE The deal, valued at $965 million, now includes 180 Restaurants, 24 Hotels, and 11 Casinos in 74 different countries. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's father descended from Black Loyalists. Escaping Southern plantations following The Revolutionary War, they immigrated to Nova Scotia. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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EXIT There were 5 years where you could take the London Underground to see a public hanging. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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You're closer in time to the T-rex than the T-rex was to the Stegosaurus. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Interracial marriage was banned in South Africa for 36 years. It was illegal in the US for 5 times longer. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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=? (2) a R V E I (a كم 14)-Dx 2 e zx TAS (5) Dx (2X+1)C85X-? 16) (7) If xes-yex then HARVARD yex-er 27% Harvard University is older than calculus. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Battles and Bridges

The Battle of Little Bighorn was raging while the Brooklyn Bridge was being built. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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27 Anne Frank and Martin Luther King, Jr. were born in the same year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The last Civil War widow died the year Barack Obama won his first presidential election. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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2 CRACKED 4 Automated phone exchanges were born from competition between undertakers. An undertaker from Kansas City in the late 1800s came up with the first automated telephone exchange system because his competitor's wife kept stealing his customers by working at the local exchange. — Source

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The Sims

Will Wright created The Sims after losing his home in a firestorm. The game allows players to build a house and get stuff, just like in real life, and was created from Wright's own experience of figuring out what he needed after the fire. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED Sweeteners came from a dude not washing his hands. A researcher accidentally discovered saccharin, the first artificial sweetener, while working with coal tar derivatives in 1897. Не noticed a sweet taste when he put his fingers in his mouth after not washing his hands before lunch. — Source

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Tea bags were originally a misunderstanding. Back in the early 1900s, American tea merchant Thomas Sullivan accidentally invented the tea bag when he sent out samples of tea in small silk bags, and people thought they were meant to be put in hot water. CRACKED — Source

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We owe Wi-Fi to black holes. In 1992, to create Wi-Fi, a physicist used some math he had come up with while looking for signals from tiny black holes. This math was able to pick up faint signals hidden in a lot of noise, which was key to Wi-Fi. CRACKED — Source

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TV was inspired by a potato field. Plowing a field at 14, Philo Farnsworth imagined a system that could break down an image into horizontal lines (like the furrows on the field) and then put it back together at the other end, creating the first electronic TV system. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED World War I started because someone took a wrong turn. On June 28, 1914, a wrong turn taken by Archduke Franz Ferdinand's driver put him within mere feet of a guy who had just tried (and failed) to assassinate him. The assassin got a second chance, and he killed the Archduke and his wife, ultimately kicking off World War I. — Source

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