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January 20, 2024

How long did Israel ban a guy from traveling? What did robbers in Minnesota hold up a bank with? What animal charted higher than Taylor Swift in Australia? Wow, you’ve got a lot of questions this morning. It’s 6 a.m., man. Calm down. Let us put some coffee on, and we’ll get those answers to you right away!

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Floyd Money Mayweather spent $50K on a diamond-encrusted iPod. 75240029D el F ! I 92400 00 GRAGKED COM OFF — Source

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Former Dancing with the Stars and NSYNC member Joey Fatone bought one of the original KITT cars from KNIGHT RIDER CRACKED.COM — Source

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MIKE TYSON bought Bengal tigers. At one time Mike Tyson owned Bengal tigers, which require five acres of fenced roaming space, lots of fresh meat, and special veterinary care. CRACKED.COM — Source

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LIL WAYNE'S DIAMOND TEETH COST HIM $150,000. IN AN INTERVIEW WITH JIMMY KIMMEL, НЕ SAID НЕ BRUSHES THEM DAILY WITH COLGATE. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nicole Richie paid a good amount of cash to have an elephant attend her wedding as a symbol of good luck. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nicolas Cage bought a dinosaur skull for $276,000. Не purchased it at an auction in 2007. A few years later it was discovered that the fossil had been smuggled into the USA, so in 2015 he agreed to return it to the Mongolian government. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1985, Michael Jackson bought the publishing rights to the Beatles Catalog for $47.5 million. CRACKED.COM — Source

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E FIFTY-TH AO CELEBS& Pis NICOLE KIDMAN Allegedly, Kidman hired a PI to make sure Keith Urban wasn't cheating on her. (Не was. Allegedly.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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CELEBS & Pls JENNIFER LOPEZ After finding out about her boyfriend Alex Rodriguez' one time affair, J-Lo hired a PI to stalk him. That's love, right? CRACKED.COM — Source

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CELEBS & Pls TOM CRUISE Cruise was accused of wiretapping Nicole Kidman following their divorce. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CELEBS & Pls 50 CENT After Love & Hip Hop star Teairra Mari disappeared while owing 50 Cent money, he reportedly hired a PI to find her. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A judge in Singapore had to issue an arrest warrant for a sleeping teenager. Не faced charges including trespassing in the Singapore Zoo, but his parents couldn't wake him up for the trial, so the law had to get involved. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A guy in India ordered a passport cover from Amazon, and got a passport with it. HRP REPUBLIC OF INDIA Amazingly, customer support just told him that it will not be repeated and we will instruct the seller to be very careful next time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The UK's gambling regulation authority was criticized for trying to fight addiction. 9 6 A group of British Members of Parliament came out with a report that claimed the authority tough new stance risks the destruction of one of the world's best gambling industry's . CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A dog's life was successfully saved by attaching a sausage to a drone. Police, firefighters and coast guard tried everything they could to rescue the jack russell-whippet cross from mud flats. Finally, they attached a sausage to a drone, and its delicious scent lured the dog back CRACKED.COM to safety. — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The Mexican government seized 380,000 boxes of Kellogg's cereal. The reason? According to the government, cartoons on the boxes violate laws aimed at improving childrens' diets. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A Louisiana Senate candidate has an ad in which he smokes marijuana. I hope this ad works to not only destigmatize the use of marijuana, but also forces a new conversation that creates the pathway to legalize this beneficial drug, and forgive those who were arrested due to outdated ideology, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD We've learned that medieval warhorses were way less awesome than we thought. Apparently, scientists say that, it turns out, warhorses at the time were no bigger than ponies today. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Taylor Swift got beat out by a bunch of birds on a Top 50 list. Apparently, an album of the sounds of endangered birds, called Songs of Disappearance, was #3 on Australia's chart of top 50 albums, beating out Taylor Swift. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Minneapolis, robbers tried to hold up a bank with a vial of HIV. It's not really clear if there was HIV in the vial, and the FBI is investigating everything. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Israel banned a guy from traveling until the year 9999 (not a typo). Noam Huppert, an Australian living in Israel, got that ban because he has to pay his wife roughly $2 million in child support paments. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Home Alone's movie-within-a-movie was shot in one day, in an abandoned high school gym. They filmed Angels with Filthy Souls on a sound stage in the New Trier West High School gymnasium (which was used for a lot of Home Alone's interior shots, too). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Steve Jobs is buried in an unmarked grave, and people are trying to find it. ALTA MESA MEMORIAL **** 695 ALTA MESA CEMETERY and FUNERAL HOME His family requested an unmarked grave (in Alta Mesa Memorial Park) for privacy, but fans apparently don't care - they're looking for the grave anyway. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Billy Madison, Adam Sandler really hit kids with dodgeballs. When one of them started crying during the filming of the dodgeball scene, his parents came up to Sandler and complained. Sandler asked Didn't they read the script? and the parents told him They're six, they don't read yet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A U.S. Navy underwater living experiment relied on a trained dolphin. SEALAB II, a 45-day mission that investigated how humans would react to living underwater, involved Tuffy the bottlenose dolphin. Tuffy was trained to take mail to people living in the underwater station, and to carry tools from the station to the divers working outside. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mark Hamill burst a blood vessel while filming the trash compactor scene in Star Wars. Не made his face red on purpose so he'd look like he's really really straining, but he overdid it and burst a blood vessel in his eye. It was so obvious, they had to make sure the camera wouldn't catch it until it healed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kazakhstan waged a media campaign against Sacha Baron Cohen over Borat. adidas PABLO ESCOLATA To fight the portrayal of their country in Borat, the Kazakhs ran TV ads and a New York Times insert. Cohen responded in-character as Borat, saying that claims that women are treated equally, and that all religions are tolerated are disgusting fabrications. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2003, a metal detector at the Athens airport was set off by a chastity belt. The British woman (who was flying to London) wearing the belt explained that her husband made her wear it to ensure she'd be faithful while she visited Greece. They let her board the plane. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Matt Damon wrote the first act of Good Will Hunting for a playwriting class. CRACKED.COM After being assigned to create the first act of a play, Matt Damon turned in the 40 page script and said, Look, I might have failed your class, but it is the first act of something longer. — Source

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Charles Darwin and Joseph Hooker started the world's first terraforming project in 1850. CRACKED.COM The project has turned the arid volcanic wasteland of Ascension Island into a self-sustaining and self-re- producing ecosystem made completely of for- eign plants from all over the world. — Source

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The Powerball drawing on March 30, 2005, produced 110 2nd-prize winners. CRACKED.COM All 110 winners had played numbers found inside for- tune cookies. The total pay- out was $19.4 million, 89 of them receiving $100,000 each, while the other 21 re- ceived $500,000 each. — Source

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Bubble baths keep warm longer than a bubble-less bath. CRACKED.COM Bubbles from a bubble bath thermally insulate the sur- face of the water, keeping the bath warm for a longer period of time. Plus you can give yourself a Santa beard and a bubble bra. — Source

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Speed reader and megasavant Kim Peek read books two pages at a time. GRACKED.COM Не could scan the left page of a book with his left eye, then the right page with his right eye. Не was able to accurately recall the contents of over 12,000 books, and was the inspira- tion for Rain Man. — Source

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Sinéad O'Connor refused to give a concert because organizers insisted on playing the American National Anthem. CRACKED.COM Frank Sinatra threat- ened to kick her in the ass and New Jer- sey prohibited the Irish singer from ever singing in that concert hall again. — Source

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