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CRACKED ACCORDING TO SCIENCE, SMELLS CAN FALL INTO TEN CATEGORIES. Fragrant, woody/resinous, fruity (non-citrus), chemical, minty/peppermint, sweet, popcorn, lemon, pungent and decayed. — Source

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Disneyland

CRACKED DISNEYLAND IS FULL OF LEAD. Disneyland's earliest rides, including The Haunted Mansion and Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, were found to contain unsafe levels of lead to this day. Disney has dismissed the concern and it is unknown if they ever fixed the issue. — Source

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Amsterdam

CRACKED AMSTERDAM IS FAMOUS FOR ITS CANALS, BICYCLES, AND RELAXED CULTURE. However, it is also home to the Museum of Torture Instruments, which features over 40 different instruments used for torture throughout history. MUSEUM of medieval TORTURE instruments Museum DISTURE 1 RÁMEST mar MÉSTO POLICE = 194 TURACE adidas - - - WC EI SALAMOUNA AKI CHANGE CHANGE MECHBEL no — Source

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CRACKED YOU CANNOT SMELL IN YOUR SLEEP. Though many people say they can, science says the sensation comes from your brain, not an outside source. — Source

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CRACKED CHOCOLATE WAS FIRST CONSUMED AS A BITTER DRINK BY THE MAYANS AND AZTECS OVER 3,000 YEARS AGO. It wasn't until the 16th century that it was sweetened and became popular in Europe. — Source

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CRACKED BABIES CANNOT SEE COLOR WHEN THEY ARE BORN. The first color they can see is red. — Source

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CRACKED IN ENGLAND, ROYAL BOYS CANNOT WEAR PANTS. It is considered middle class for them to wear pants before the age of 8. — Source

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CRACKED DURING THE SOVIET ERA, THE USSR HAD ITS OWN ARCADE GAMES. These games have been preserved in St. Petersburg's Museum of Soviet Arcade Games. БОЙ and 1 СНАЙПЕР- CHILE VALAR MUSEUM the че — Source

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CRACKED HIGH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES IN NEW ZEALAND CAN POSSESS UP TO ONE POUND OF URANIUM. The Atomic Energy Act of 1945 allows them to do this for educational purposes. 2068 — Source

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CRACKED PATRICIA HIGHSMITH, THE AMERICAN NOVELIST BEST KNOWN FOR HER PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS, WAS AN AVID COLLECTOR OF SNAILS AND KEPT AROUND 300 OF THEM AS PETS IN HER HOME IN SWITZERLAND. She even carried a few snails in her handbag to social events, and some of her friends would gift her new snails to add to her collection. — Source

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CRACKED THE FIRST RECORDED USE OF THE WORD COMPUTER WAS IN 1613. The word was used to describe a person who performed calculations or computations. — Source

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CRACKED COWS PRODUCE MORE MILK WHEN LISTENING TO MUSIC. 0517 One study found that cows produced 3% more milk when listening to slow- tempo music, such as Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. — Source

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Flamingos

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CRACKED THE SHORTEST COMMERCIAL FLIGHT IN THE WORLD IS ONLY 1.7 MILES LONG. The flight between the islands of Westray and Papa Westray in Scotland, operated by Loganair, takes only 1-2 minutes. TO OF Anire Loganain — Source

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CRACKED CHEWING GUM IS ONE OF THE OLDEST TYPES OF CANDY. 9000-year-old chewing gum, made from birch bark tar, was discovered by archaeologists in Sweden in 1993. — Source

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The biggest desert has most of the 3 world's water. A 4 2+8 GRACKED GOM It's Antarctica, which, though cold, has so little precipitation that it's a desert. 70 percent of Earth's fresh S04 water 3 is frozen as Antarctic ice. — Source

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The Number of Trees

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A HUMAN MALE WILL PRODUCE ABOUT 525 BILLION SPERM IN HIS LIFETIME. THAT'S AROUND FIVE TIMES THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE EVER LIVED. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tomato Genes

A tomato has 7,000 more genes than a 4 human does. A 2+8 IN CRACKED.COM Turns out that there's a lot more to what makes an organism complex than just the number of genes mg S04 in its genome. — Source

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GRAGKED.COM A breeding pair of mice can produce over 100,000 descendants in just one year — Source

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A flea accelerates harder 4 than a 3 4 space shuttle. A + 8 CRACKED.COM It doesn't cover a lot of distance in terms of meters, but a flea faces forces of 100 g's when it accelerates, while a shuttle gets 4 g's max. — Source

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Italy

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When not exposed to insects, human corpses can remain relatively intact due to fatty tissue cells going through a process that turns them into hydroxystearic, hydroxypalmitic acids and other stearic compounds... this is known as saponification. In other words, you turn into soap CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mercury

CRACKED.COM Mercury has a fickle sun Because of Mercury's eccentric orbit and slow rotation, sometimes the sun reverses direction in the sky. If you were standing on the planet's surface, you could see the sun rise, then set on the same spot, then rise again. — Source

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Andrew Jackson's wife was slandered to death. CRACKED.COM Due to an oversight, Rachel Donelson was technically still married when she hooked up with Jackson. His political enemies latched onto that, with one newspaper asking Ought a convicted adulteress and her paramour husband to be placed in the highest offices of this free and Christian land? She grew depressed and died of a heart attack. — Source

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An eccentric millionaire tricked people into thinking he towed an iceberg into Sydney Harbor. RD In 1978, Dick Smith offered to cut the iceberg into ice cubes, or Dicksickles, but the iceberg was really made of shaving cream- an elaborate April Fools' Day prank. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Snoop Dogg once tried to rent the entire country of Liechtenstein for a music video shoot. A property manager, Karl Schwaerzler, said that Snoop indeed wanted to rent all 61 square miles of Liechtenstein for a video shoot, despite the govern- ment saying there is no for rent sign on the country. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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12 men stopped Nazi attempts at developing an atomic bomb during WWII. The small commando unit of Norwegian soldiers sabo- taged the German-held Ve- mork hydroelectric plant. They didn't know it at the time, but the mission played a big part in hindering Ger- many's atomic bomb pro- gram. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Osmosis Jones

The chicken wing festival in Buffalo started because of the movie Osmosis Jones. The National Chicken Wing Festival in Buffalo, New York that Bill Murray's character mentions wasn't a thing at the time, but this idea caused organizers to actually create the festival - which has been active for 16 years. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The first director of the CIA warned Congress about UFOs. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter stat- ed in a letter that high-rank- ing Air Force officers are so- berly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the un- known flying objects are nonsense. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Cats

A sailor stranded on a deserted island used cats as protection. Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk survived for over 4 years stranded on a de- serted island, partly by us- ing feral cats to protect him from ravenous rats that attacked during the night. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Papa John’s

Papa John's was sued for $250 million for spam texting customers. PIZZA PAPA JOHNS SETA LARGE NOW UNIVERSITY PEPPERON BAKINGS PIZZA Some customers com- plained they were get- ting 15 or 16 texts in a row, even during the middle of the night, to- talling 500,000 unwant- ed messages in early 2010. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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