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We don’t know about you, but whenever we stumble upon a real doozy of a fact, we feel a warm little flicker in our brain. We’re no neuroscientist, but we suspect that this flicker is the new fact tucking itself in. It pulls a brain fold over itself like a warm blanket and nestles in for a lifelong hibernation. Sleep tight, little fact.

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The Four Corners Monument was placed on the wrong spot. - KT UKIN The monument marks where Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah meet-but due to the limitations of 19th-century surveying, it is 1,800 feet from where it should be. A 1925 Supreme Court ruling basically says, hey, let's just chill and pretend that it's in the right place. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Your glasses are expensive because one company owns the market. Italian conglomerate Luxottica owns or licenses pretty much all eyewear brands you can think of-Ray-Ban, Oliver Peoples, Oakley, Alain Mikli, Armani, Polo Ralph Laurent. And they also control retailers. That's how they get away with a markup of 1,000%. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Arthur John Priest survived the Titanic-and several TITANIC more sinkings. LIVERPOOL The Titanic was only the beginning of Priest's career as the world's most accursed seaman. Не later stoked furnaces aboard the Alcantara, the Britannic, and the Donegal-and they all went to the bottom. Не called it quits after a few more close calls. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Wars

A creature in The Mandalorian was born from a dinosaur. That huge skeleton in the desert in A New Hope? That's a diplodocus left over from a different movie. No one could know it would eventually become a monster in the Baby Yoda show. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mel Brooks

CRACKED.COM WHEAD A sci-fi movie about roller skating nearly ruined Mel Brooks. 1986's Solarbabies is (inexplicably) about a roller-skating lacrosse championship in the post-apocalyptic future, somehow involving an alien-and it almost bankrupted Mel Brooks, who bankrolled it with his own money. Luckily, he managed to pawn off the damn thing to MGM. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Sudoku isn't an old Japanese invention. 1 8 3 5 The first sudoku was printed in 1979 in an American Magazine. Called Number Place, the puzzle was invented by Indianapolis-based architect Howard Garns. A Japanese publisher rebranded it as sudoku (one digit) during the '80s. — Source

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The Wizard of Oz

The first 1975 OHE MARVEL and DC present... a TRIGO Marvel/DC SPECIAL MGM's MARVELOUS ISSUE!! COLLECTOR'S crossover $150 LL 02944 HENRY WiZARD 4 UNCE OF was The AUNTIE M OF OZ Wizard BUT TOY CAT EVE of Oz. NOW LOOKIT, THY KATSU SEX YOURRE NO WE BUSY? IMM SOUR HEAD ABOUT THAT MISS GULCH! YOU SON'T By a coincidence, both publishers were SAUCE NO TROUBL E! working on comic book adaptations of The CKORY.. JUST GOT TOO HEART 10 MAD NT ANY Wizard of Oz at the same time. When Stan BODY! Lee learned of this, he approached DC to — Source

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BRAIN HACKS ULTRASOUND Researchers found that using ultrasound waves on certain areas of the brain can improve a person's mood. The waves vibrate at the same rate as the microtubules in the brain, and those who had the treatment reported feeling better. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED BRAIN HACKS WEARING GLASSES Glasses can give politicians an edge in elections, because people perceive them as smarter and more trustworthy. Studies show this is true worldwide, making glasses a great asset for politicians. TV NEWS NEWS LIV — Source

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CRACKED BRAIN HACKS THE COLOR RED (in soccer) A study at the University of Chichester found that goalkeepers wearing red had an advantage, with fewer penalty kicks being scored against them than those wearing blue or green. — Source

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BRAIN HACKS THE COLOR RED If you wear red, you might have better luck in a fight or even when you're working as a waitress or hitchhiking. It can make you look more attractive and powerful, and you might even get a bigger tip. CRACKED — Source

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BRAIN HACKS SPICY FOODS Eating something spicy can make you feel great and give you a high like when you're running. This is because the hot peppers trigger your brain to release feel-good hormones. CRACKED — Source

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Good Looks and Crime

BRAIN HACKS GOOD LOOKS Good-looking people are less likely to be convicted of a crime and less likely to get a harsh sentence. In one study, the less attractive defendant was given an average sentence of 24.71 years, while the attractive defendant only received 15.11 years. CRACKED — Source

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BABIES USED TO HAVE SURGERY DONE WITHOUT ANESTHESIA. Well into the 1980s, doctors believed babies' nervous systems weren't developed enough to feel pain-so the poor little things would have procedures done (even major surgery) without any kind of pain relief. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Plagues

CRACKED.COM THE BIBLICAL PLAGUE OF FROGS MIGHT HAVE BEEN JUST ONE HUGE FROG. We imagine the plague as a whole lot of frogs getting everywhere-but according to some medieval rabbis, it was just one big-ass frog that covered the entire land of Egypt with its gigantic body (and spawned normal-sized frogs every time it was hit). — Source

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THE V2 BOMB WAS A HORNY THING. Wernher von Braun was known as a ladies' man- and that carried over to the flying death contraptions he designed. The V2 bomb wasn't just inspired by the rocket in the film Woman on the Moon, but it had naked women painted on its tail. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM JAMES BOND MAY BE NAMED AFTER A CHURCH IN CANADA. Officially, lan Fleming named his spy after the author of a book on birds. But maybe it isn't a coincidence that Fleming spent a couple weeks in Toronto in 1942, just down the street from St. James Bond United Church (an amalgamation of two other churches, St. James and Bond Street). — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE NEW DOOM WAS ALMOST A CALL OF DUTY CLONE. Before the DOOM reboot brought new life to the FPS genre in 2016, the developers spent years working on DOOM 4, which was essentially Call of Duty with demons. Luckily, the company saw the light on time and pulled a 180, bringing the game back to its roots. HR — Source

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COINS WERE FIRST RIDGED TO STOP CRIME. Back when coins were made of precious metals, enterprising felons would file a bit of gold or silver off each coin-a practice known as clipping. It was the Romans who first carved ridges into coins, to know if someone had clipped them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Saturday Night Fever

CRACKED.COM SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER WAS BASED ON A BIG LIE. The New York Magazine article Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night made disco mainstream overnight, and the movie was based on it-too bad that it was all lies. Reporter Nik Cohn made up Tony Manero (and everything else) after he failed to get any good interviews. — Source

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CRACKED.COM SLAPPING CHOKING PEOPLE IN THE BACK MIGHT KILL THEM. By all means, slap that choking person in the back, like you see in movies-if you really hate them. The slapping can dislodge the object and send it further down, making the person choke harder. You're supposed to lean the person forward beforehand. — Source

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Archie and the Cross

WELL. LET'S том, IF THE YOU US PAGANS PRAY, PRAY TO THE DOIT... REAL GOD! ARCHIE WAS RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA AT ONE POINT. Back in the '70s and '80s, long before Riverdale made Archie and Jughead cool again, Archie Comics licensed their characters to a Christian publisher. That's how we got plots like the Riverdale crew acting as missionaries to ethnic stereotypes around the world. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Canadians

Most Canadians live south of the 49th parallel. 40 N Ceded to CANADA Britain, 1818 Ceded to Oregon United States, 1818 Territory 49th Parallel Stony Mts. 42° N Louisiana Purchase 1803 Atlantic UNITED STATES Ocean 500 MILES 72% of them live south of it, including the population of the two largest Canadian cities, Montreal and Toronto. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1969, Pat Sajak cut off Nixon to play Christmas music. Nixon made a very long pause in a Christmas speech to the troops in Vietnam, so Sajak cut off the broadcast and put on some music. When Nixon resumed talking, Sajak just left the music on, thinking soldiers would rather listen to that than the President. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mad Honey

In Nepal, there are honey hunters who climb granite cliffs to get hallucinogenic mad honey. It's produced by Himalayan giant honeybees, who make nests at high altitudes under the overhangs of vertical cliffs, and sells for $60 to $80 a pound on the black market. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Doctor Who

In 2013, nine lost Doctor Who episodes turned up in Nigeria. ИННОМТ.М ЕГЕСТ The BBC destroyed its own Doctor Who tapes back in the '60s and '70s, but those episodes have occasionally turned up in foreign markets, which had been sent their own copies. The Nigerian find was x apparently the largest in 30 years. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Little Richard became a preacher after seeing a sign in the sky. VS On a 1957 Australian tour, he saw a fireball in the sky (which was the satellite Sputnik 1) and interpreted as God telling him he should change his ways. Не became a preacher a year later, and went back to making regular music after four years of preaching. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A real buffalo was killed in Apocalypse Now. To get permission from locals to film on their land, the movie crew gave them animals to slaughter for food, including two water buffalo. Francis Ford Coppola decided to film one buffalo's slaughter for the movie. I did not direct it or anything, that was the way they do it, he said in 2019. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Viruses

You're more likely to get a computer virus from visiting religious sites than porn sites. CRACKED.COM Security firm Symantec found that the average number of security threats on religious sites was around 115, compared to adult content sites which carried around 25. — Source

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Sunglasses

Sunglasses were originally designed for Chinese judges to hide their facial expressions in court. CRACKED.COM Sunglasses were originally made out of smoky quartz in 12th century China, where they were used by judges to mask their emo- tions when they were ques- tioning witnesses. — Source

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The Roosevelt hotel gave away a 7-night stay and spa treatment services to someone who stole a coffee pot. CRACKED.COM The hotel was running a contest to see who could steal the most outrageous item from the premises. Leigh Guglielmo, thanks to the historic coffee pot she nicked, won the hotel package worth $15,000. — Source

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DNA

Children of identical twins are genetically siblings, not cousins. GRACKED.COM Cousins whose parents are identical twins share 25 percent of their DNA, instead of the usual 12.5 percent, making them ge- netically the equivalent of half-siblings. — Source

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Driving to Space

It would only take one hour to drive to space. CRACKED.COM If we had the vehicle to do so, driving straight up from the Earth's surface at a leisurely 60 MPH would end with us float- ing in outer space just an hour later. — Source

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Corn Flakes

Two Virginia sisters sold a cornflake that was shaped like the state of Illinois for $1,350. GRACKED COM Monty Kerr, the owner of a trivia website from Austin, Texas, bought the cereal flake from eBay, explaining that he was starting a col- lection of pop culture and Americana items for a traveling museum. — Source

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In 2005, one Powerball drawing had 110 second-place winners, instead of the usual 4 or 5. CRACKED.COM All of the winners attribut- ed their luck to a fortune cookie which just so hap- pened to correctly foretell five of the six winning numbers. Each winner took home between $100,000 and $500,000. — Source

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