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CRACKED.COM THE NATION OF NIUE PUTS POP CULTURE ICONS ON THEIR MONEY. Niue, an island nation in the Pacific, is so tiny MICKEY that it doesn't have MOUSE much of an economy. A sizable portion of its revenue comes from the pop , oz 999 Fine Silver Disney culture coins they mint. While the coins are certainly legal tender, their true value comes from selling them as collector items. DOCTOR Streeth Doctor WHO - — Source

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CRACKED.COM ARE YOU A BAD DRIVER? IT MIGHT BE GENETIC. About 30 percent of Americans have a gene variant that limits the production of a certain brain protein. The University of California found that people with this variant perform worse on a driving test. It was a very small study, but don't let that stop you from using it as an excuse. — Source

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CRACKED.COM SEX DOLLS WERE USED AS ESPIONAGE TOOLS. The JIB, or jack-in-a-box, was regularly used by CIA operatives in Moscow in the '80s. Like in some raunchy comedy, the device would quickly inflate a regular blow-up doll as the agents left their cars, tricking their relentless KGB tails into thinking they were still in the passenger seat. — Source

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GRACKED.COM BREAST IMPLANTS OFFER SLIGHT PROTECTION AGAINST BULLETS. Now, no one is suggesting you should rely on your boob job to save your life. You definitely shouldn't. We're just pointing out that researchers at the University of Utah found that saline implants can slow down bullets and reduce their penetration by 20 percent. — Source

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CRACKED.COM SOLDIERS KEEP LEAKING SENSITIVE INFORMATION VIA THEIR PHONES. Nowadays, you don't need spies to know the location of secret military bases. All you need is soldiers recklessly using their smartphones like normal people. Fitness apps and GPS-tagged photos often result in service members sharing F-150 information that isn't supposed to be shared. — Source

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Cats understand when their owner points at something Previously thought to be limited to dogs, cats can follow a human's point. Also, 70% of cats will follow their owner's gaze, even when its very fast. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cats spend 30 to 50% of the day grooming themselves Over-grooming is hard to diagnose since healthy cats already spend so much of their day grooming, but it may be a sign of medical problems or stress. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cats' tongues are covered in hollow, flexible spines The spines allow saliva to get deep into fur while grooming, while allowing hair to be easily removed from the tongue. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cats and humans have coexisted together since the start of agriculture Agriculture brought about rodents in everyday human life, which attracted cats who domesticated themselves as an evolutionary strategy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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All three of Tom Cruise's wives were 33 when they divorced from him. And each was 11 years younger than the last. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton burns all unsold bags and products at the end of each year. This is done to ensure product exclusivity and eliminate the sale of discounted merchandise. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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During college, Steve Wozniak used an illegal 'blue box' device to call the Vatican. Не pretended to be Henry Kissenger. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The term 'military grade' doesn't mean what you think it does. To the actual military, it means meeting bare-minimum requirements & doesn't signify quality or durability. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Fox

CRACKED.COM We almost had a Star Fox claymation show. Back in 2014, CollegeHumor was working on an official Star Fox project, made in the style of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Nintendo pulled the plug (along with all of their other adaptations) when rumors spread about a Legend of Zelda live-action show by Netflix. — Source

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Policing

More policing doesn't actually reduce crime. Ramping up arrests doesn't result in less crime, only in more (disproportionately black) people arrested for non-criminal behavior. Overpolicing is actually OLICE detrimental, as it leads to distrust, which worsens the relationship between communities and law enforcement. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rich people don't create as many jobs as credited for. An awful amount of the jobs created go to pre-existing high-income earners. The jobs that do go to working-class people tend to be very precarious, unsustainable after initial funding runs out-and even in the case of success, job creation is offset by job destruction in the competition. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tijuana Bibles were your grandad's Rule 34. There wasn't an internet in the 1930s, but that doesn't mean no one was drawing Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck going at it with each other. Tijuana Bibles were small, crudely- printed NSFW comics, featuring cartoon characters, celebrities, politicians, and the like. MICKEY MOUSE AND DONALD CRACKED.COM RIVIL — Source

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There's no such thing as human alpha males. Alpha and beta terminology was used for decades in primate studies, until unqualified people decided to apply a dumbed-down version of it to people. Shockingly, humans are more complicated than monkeys, and the idea that you can be alpha or beta is unsupported by science. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sean Connery socked a gangster. While shooting a movie in the 1950s, Connery got very friendly with co-star Lana Turner, which annoyed Turner's boyfriend, a mobster called Johnny Stompanato. Stompanato showed up in the set to threaten Connery with a gun- which the future James Bond swatted out of his hand, before leveling the gangster with a right hook. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Batman Slapping Robin meme comes from a bonkers comic. The panel comes from a 1965 imaginary story where Bruce Wayne thinks his father was killed by Superman, and becomes Batman specifically to hunt him down. And he doesn't just slap Robin- he also wipes his memory. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Star Wars puppeteer was almost fired for pissing off Harrison Ford. According to puppeteer Tim Rose, he cracked a joke in the set of Return of the Jedi about Harrison Ford's demands-and Ford, overhearing the quip, demanded the insolent jokester to be fired. Luckily, Ford didn't know what Rose looked like, so he was allowed to stay. CRACKED.COM — Source

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George Washington died in 1799 - over 20 years before anyone knew about dinosaurs. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Titanic sank in 1912 - PoR KISS You the same year that ecstacy was invented. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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ATOGRAPHE LUMIÈRE The first erotic film was screened less than a year after the first non-erotic motion picture screening. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Decaf came from dropping coffee beans in seawater. In 1906, one Ludwig Roselius made a surprising discovery after a shipment of coffee beans ended up being immersed in seawater. When he brewed the beans, he found that the water had taken away most of the caffeine. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED The Lascaux Cave was discovered by a hapless dog. In 1940, four boys were out exploring in southwestern France when their dog fell into a fox hole. That's how they stumbled upon the Lascaux Cave, home to some of the oldest cave paintings in the world. — Source

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CRACKED - 10° 25 20 The microwave 15 oven resulted from mixing radar and snacks. In 1946, while working on a magnetron for military-grade radar, a Raytheon engineer noticed that his snack had melted. This sparked his curiosity and he decided to experiment further, which eventually led to the invention of the microwave oven. — Source

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QR Codes were inspired by the game of go. In go, the players know where the pieces are even if they're slightly off-position, and the same idea was applied to QR codes to make it more error-proof. CRACKED — Source

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White road centerlines were inspired by spilled milk. Edward Hines came up with the idea for the first modern centerline for a road in the early 1900s. Не was inspired by a spilled milk he saw on a newly paved road, so he decided to make the centerline white. MAG CRACKED — Source

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