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January 21, 2024

In the immortal words of Inspectah Deck, “It’s only natural, actual facts are thrown at you. The impact will blow trees back and crack statues.” We may not be throwing these facts with statue-cracking force, but if that’s how he’s getting his facts out there, game on! We’d ask him to distribute facts with us daily, but he seems busy with his world-famous rap group.

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WEIRD WORLD A guy found a frog in a box of lettuce and decided to keep it as a pet. Не named the frog Tony - Tony somehow turned up in a lettuce box from Whole Foods and, mercifully, his life was spared. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A Vietnam war vet in his 70s found out he's a pop superstar's dad. US After a DNA search, it was confirmed that William Johnson is the father of Danish superstar Zindy Laursen. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Rome's garbage workers will get a bonus for not taking any sick days. Between 22 November and 9 January, that is - the mayor wants the city to be totally clean, and this is intended to help. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The city of Vancouver renamed a beach in honor of a barge that's been stuck there. The barge in question had stayed for over a month, so the city put up sign saying Barge Chilling Beach. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD North and South Korea have finally agreed in principle to end their war. It had been dragging on for 70 years without ever being formally ended, and now they've agreed to do just that - again, in principle. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A 48-year-old woman lived as her 22-year-old daughter, a university student. She did that for two years, and held a job at a library and had boyfriends who seriously thought she was 22 years old. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A German court ruled that you can actually get into a workplace accident at home. One man walked from his bed to his desk, fell, and broke his back - and the court ruled that, indeed, this was a workplace accident. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Google is being sued for failing to live up to its classic Don't be evil motto. Specifically, two ex-Googlers are suing the company for breaching the Don't be evil clause in its contract. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The US is now officially against imposing any kind of ban on, uh, killer robots. adidas A US official asked the United Nations to adopt a non-binding code of conduct regarding the (apparently) burning question of banning literal killer robots. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The moon has a memorial to fallen astronauts. It's a commemorative plaque placed at the Hadley-Apennine landing site in 1971, honoring 14 deceased NASA astronauts and USSR cosmonauts. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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I Love Lucy, which ended its run in 1957, still makes $20 million a year. Reruns still air on CBS online and the Hallmark Channel, with apparently very devoted audiences. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stuart Little isn't actually a mouse. not на He's actually just a kid who happens to look like one. In the original book, he's described as a two-inch-tall baby that looks very much like a mouse in every way. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mad Max: Fury Road started out as 3,500 drawings. George Miller and comic book artist Brendan McCarthy worked out the whole movie as a series of 3,500 images. Miller says that that's a fantastic document with which to produce a film that has very little dialogue, where everything is spatial. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Botulinum toxin (AKA Botox) is the most toxic compound on Earth. One pound of it is enough to kill the majority of the world's population. It doesn't kill people undergoing Botox procedures because the dose is a thousand times less than the lethal one. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Russia is importing COWS from the European Union en masse. 139 297 SKIN 138 541 139 250 Putin's regime wants to modernize the Russian dairy industry and end its dependence on foreign milk - - and, eventually, to export to China. In 2019, Russia spent over $110 million on 45,000 European heifers (in 2016, it spent half that). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1958, Cambridge students parked a car on the university's Senate House. It was part of an elaborate prank by engineering students, who had to build scaffolding and make a kind of drawbridge to pull it off. The authorities tried to take down the car over five days, but eventually gave up and cut it into pieces with a blowtorch. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Abraham Lincoln had a surprisingly high voice. It wasn't exactly squeaky, but it was a bit more shrill than you'd expect. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The death of the universe will be very, very dark and lonely. The last stars to explode will be so far apart, it'll be physically impossible for light to travel from one to the other, so none will see the others explode. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dragonflies used to be much more dragon than fly. 300 million years ago, they had a wingspan of 2.5 feet, and they ruled the skies - - there were no birds back then. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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After filming Guardians of the Galaxy, they had to melt down the Kyln set and sell off the steel. That was the only way to make the budget for the Kyln scenes work. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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People with sexsomnia perform sexual acts while asleep. It's like sleepwalking but, well, horny. People who suffer from it might, say, masturbate or thrust their hips during sleep - and in the morning, they'll have no idea they did that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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James Stewart's despair in It's A Wonderful Life was real. When his character, George Bailey, ends up in a restaurant and, full of despair, calls to God, Stewart felt the loneliness, the hopelessness of people who had nowhere to turn, and started sobbing. Director Frank Capra, a big fan of spontaneous performances, was thrilled. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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King Abdullah II of Jordan appeared in Star Trek. CRACKED.COM King Abdullah is a fan of Star Trek and had a small non-speaking role on Investiga- tions, a 1995 episode of the TV series Star Trek: Voyager. — Source

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The Vatican forbids gluten-free wafers from use in communion. CRACKED.COM Bread and wafers used in the sacrament must be unleavened, purely of wheat, and recently made so that there is no danger of decomposition. — Source

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Some North Korean Christian believers celebrate Christmas in secret. CRACKED.COM Christmas is banned in North Korea and instead of Christmas, the birthday of Kim Jong-suk (grandmother of the current supreme lead- er of North Korea) is cele- brated on Christmas Eve. — Source

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The final decision to vomit comes from the brain, not the stomach. CRACKED.COM The bilateral vomitation center is not a specific place in the brain, but rather an area consisting of many nu- clei, axons, and receptors that together cause the physical changes necessary to induce vomiting. — Source

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The most dangerous road on Earth is the Road of Death that connects the Amazon Rainforest to La Paz, Bolivia. CRACKED.COM There is not a single guardrail, and in many places the road isn't any wider than 10 feet. Be- tween 200 and 300 people fall to their deaths every year. — Source

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The religious group known as the Shakers are completely celibate and cannot have children. CRACKED.COM They can only gain new members by converting outsiders. As a result, there were only two people in the last existing Shaker com- munity as of 2020, al- though they gained a single new member in 2021. — Source

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Saab in 1992 made a prototype vehicle dubbed Prométheus that had no steering wheel. Microsoft CRACKED.COM Instead, to steer it, the driver had a joystick like an aircraft. It greatly in- creased safety, space, and aesthetics. The production model would have had two Joysticks, one for each arm/hand. — Source

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