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January 18, 2024

When it came to this list, time and space were no match for us. We scoured every corner of the globe, and once we covered every inch, we got in our time machine and snagged some historical goods too! Sir Isaac Newton used to be a waiter. Oops, looks like our time machine sprung a leak!

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Jack Kirby

GRACKED COM Jack Kirby almost punched a Nazi. When Captain America decked Hitler in 1941, American Nazis were so mad that they bombarded his creators, Kirby and Joe Simon, with death threats. When a Nazi showed up at their office to threaten them in person, Kirby headed out with every intention of reenacting the comic cover-but by the time he got to the lobby, the Nazi was gone. — Source

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Millipedes cause train crashes in Australia. The invading Portuguese millipedes like the moisture on train tracks, and there are so many of them that train companies face mass cancellations and loss of revenue. When crushed under the wheels, they explode into a viscous goo that makes tracks dangerously slippery. The disgusting critters even caused a train crash in 2013. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Venom was based on a fan's idea. In the '80s, Marvel ran a competition for aspiring writers, and Randy Schueller submitted an idea about a black suit that would enhance Spider-Man's powers and stealth. Writers ran with the basic idea and came up with the alien symbiote angle. For changing Spider-Man forever, Schueller got a cool, uh, $220. GRACKED.COM — Source

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It costs $22,000 to $31,000 to own a cat 98% of pet owners underestimate how much it costs to own a pet over its lifetime. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cats pay attention to our emotions In one study, 79% of cats changed their behavior with an unfamiliar object based on their owner's emotional response to it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cats' social intelligence is equal to dogs' However, scientists' frustrations with cats as test subjects has resulted in less research. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Virginia couple with the last name Null has a tough time filling out online forms. ! Error try again click here for more information Often, they're flagged for being null. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Iconic Captain America #1, with Cap punching Hitler, came out a year before the U.S. entered WWII. Jewish creators Joe Simon & Jack Kirby received death threats, but the mayor of New York pledged protection. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Biologists don't fully understand how eels reproduce. No one has ever seen how they spawn. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Two donkeys together for 10 years at a Polish ZOO were separated because of complaints they were mating in front of children. A petition with 7,000 signatures reunited them. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes 24 hours apart. Presumed dead after the second, he emerged from the jungle with a bottle of gin & some bananas. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Two people have fallen from the Empire State Building and lived. They both fell from the 86th floor and landed on the 85th. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1986, Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of tiny Carmel, California. One of his first official acts was to repeal a city ban on selling ice cream cones. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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1846: A snail from Egypt was thought dead so it was glued to an index card and put on display in a British museum. 1850: The snail starts moving and is found to be alive. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1971, Sylvester Stallone sold his dog, Butkus, for $40 to buy food. After selling the script for Rocky, he bought him back for $15,000. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tokyo Drift couldn't secure certain permits but filmed scenes anyway. RECARD Universal Studios hired a fall guy to go to jail instead of the director. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Spotify's payout model screws over small artists. Your subscription fee isn't divvied up among the Spotify artists you listen to-it all goes to a common pot, and then is shared based on each artist's total streams. So even if you never listen to Drake or Taylor Swift, they get a lot more of your money than the independent bands you keep streaming. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Nigerian Prince has been around for 200 years. Rich people randomly offering you big bucks if you help them out of trouble was already a scam genre in the early 19th century. Later, in the 1890s, scammers got to claiming in their letters that they were prisoners of the Spanish- American war, earning the scheme the name the Spanish prisoner. - - as VIS DE - - - CRACKED.COM — Source

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Richard III wasn't as evil as Shakespeare made him out to be. There's no indication that Richard III killed any of the people Shakespeare wrote he did (and he wasn't a hunchback, either). It's possible that Shakespeare intended the king to be a stand-in for Robert Cecil, a member of a powerful family the Bard wasn't a fan of. CRACKED.COM — Source

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to 1922 20 20 20 20 20 20 Your pay always feels too small, no matter how big it is. Of course, your pay is too small if you can't meet your needs-but once you can, more money sends you along the hedonic treadmill, where you always need even more to feel happy. Even if you're super-rich, a point never comes where you feel that you have enough. NO 200 11 - 20 E UHE 0.0 TAXI APEX 20 2 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mice have facial expressions. Scientists have known for years that mice can grimace in pain, but more recent research has shown that their tiny mousey mugs can also convey other emotions, like fear, nausea, disgust, or pleasure. While still lacking Mickey Mouse's range, this makes mice valuable subjects to study the neurology of emotions. CRACKED.COM — Source

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George R. R. Martin keeps referencing Gone with the Wind. Martin is a fan of Gone with the Wind, and works countless references into his work. It's not just Easter eggs, but complete characters and storylines-like the way that Sansa Stark's journey, beginning as a naive aristocrat hardened by war, mirrors Scarlett O'Hara's. CRACKED COM — Source

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Our hair is mutilating pigeons. As pigeons often live where people live, strands of human hair float around on the ground where the birds gather. The hairs sometimes get tangled around the pigeons' toes, where they keep wrapping tighter and tighter, until the toe in question succumbs to necrosis. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Elle Woods is much less likable in the book. If you loved Elle in Legally Blonde, that's because she's pretty much the polar opposite of her version in the original novel. Literary Elle Woods is manipulative, lazy, entitled, and is constantly mocking and bullying everyone-not exactly someone you would ever root for. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ernesto Che Guevara was also nicknamed El Chancho (The Pig)... Because he seldom bathed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM Ernest Hemingway, author of literary classics such as For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea, had also published recipes for apple pie and hamburger (to name a few). - - - - - - - - - - - 1 the Institute - University the HEMINGWAY COOKBOOK CRAIO BORETH — Source

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Cleopatra is known for being the last pharaoh of Egypt, but she was not actually Egyptian. She was Macedonian. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Marilyn Monroe struggled with stuttering throughout her life. — Source

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Ray Charles believed that the inability to hear music was more of a handicap than the inability to see, despite being blind himself. Because of this belief, he funded several people's cochlear implants anonymously through a charity he founded, which continues doing so to this day. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Abraham Lincoln was a trash-talking wrestler in the army. As a president, Lincoln was a patient leader, but as a young adult, he'd kick your ass. During one of his matches, Lincoln defeated his opponent, then turned to the crowd and said: I'm the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns. Which is basically 19th century speak for Come at me, bro. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Isaac Newton was a waiter. Until he got an undergraduate scholarship, he waited tables at Cambridge. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM SADDAM HUSSEIN WROTE ROMANCE NOVELS Не consulted with professional writers on his works before releasing them under a pen name that translates to Written by Не Who Wrote It. — Source

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