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February 21, 2024

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Big Bird is a different color in different countries. Pino They're called his cousins on the show, and they include Abelardo (green, from Mexico), Pino (blue, from the Netherlands) and Minik Ku (orange, from Turkey). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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2012's Skyfall revived the straight razor industry. The movie's straight razor scene led to a spike in demand that didn't totally fade away even years later. One company went from making 8,000 straight razors per year in the mid-2000s to having orders for 110,000 a decade later. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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That was Jim Carrey's real chipped tooth in Dumb and Dumber. 27% It got chipped in grade school, and he had a cap put on it t - - he just took it off for the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Penguins can drink saltwater like it's regular water. A gland above their eye filters the salt from their blood, and that salt then gets sneezed out or it comes out through their bill. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 17th-century London, you'd have to pay one of several fire brigades to save your building. A fire mark You'd insure it against fire, and the company would place its fire mark on the building. That way, when it caught fire, the company's firemen would know they were supposed to put out the fire (otherwise, they'd just leave). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apparently, teeth come from our fish ancestors. Ancient fish had dermal denticles -- small, spiky scales that some fish, like sharks or mantas, still have. Scientists think that, as those fish evolved into land animals, the denticles moved from the skin and into the mouth, where they became teeth. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Thomas Jefferson gave his library to Congress after the British burned the Capitol in 1814. That doubled the size of the Library of Congress -- there were 3,000 volumes before the fire (all of which burned down), and Jefferson sent about 6,500 volumes. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2011, a Japanese hospital admin gave his life to help his co-workers survive a tsunami. OR has ЖОВ puss MIYAKO When the tsunami hit, Shigeru Yokosawa ran back into the building and got a satellite phone, then threw it to a co-worker with seconds to spare. That gave the survivors a way to reach the outside world. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wondering who the first person to make cheese was? Unfortunately, you'll likely never get an answer. Cheese exists before recorded history, and its specific origin is still unknown, though estimated around 8000 ВС. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Crop-eating elephants are a massive problem for farmers. Literally. The solution? Chili peppers. Super hot peppers are grown or hung around crops, and the fumes are none too friendly to an elephant schnoz. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Color-changing is usually attributed to chameleons, but another, more common animal does the same. Flounder, in addition to burying themselves in sand, can also change their coloration to better blend in. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The ancient Egyptians considered the flowers of the iris to represent wisdom, faith, and valor. In fact, iris flowers often made an appearance attached to the scepters of the pharaohs. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali empire, is the richest man to have ever existed. During a visit to Egypt, hē gave away so much gold that it destroyed the Egyptian economy for 12 years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia is the largest blackwater swamp in North America. Blackwater refers to dark water, close to black coffee in color, stained by decaying vegetation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ulysses S. Grant was famously modest. During the Civil War, he would shower inside his tent. НЕ MANAGED TO HAVE CHILDREN WITHOUT TAKING OFF HIS CLOTHES. Late into his 60s, Grant bragged that no one had seen him naked since he was a child, not even the nurses and aides who were assigned to help him in the war. Yet Grant had a wife. And four children. CRACKED COM Daniel O'Brien 2014 How to Fight Presidents Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country — Source

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FAST FOOD SALADS ARE WORSE FOR YOU THAN BURGERS. 680 calories 36 grams of fat 780 calories 51 grams of fat For example, a Wendy's Spicy Chicken Caesar Salad has more calories and more fat than a Pretzel Bacon Cheeseburger. GRACKED.COM https://www. wendys com/en-us/salads/spicy-chicken-caesar-salad https://www.wendys com/en-us/hamburgers/pretzel-bacon-cheeseburger — Source

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THE BULLET ANT GOT ITS NAME FROM THE FACT THAT ITS STING HURTS LIKE A GUNSHOT. ON THE SCHMIDT STING INDEX, BULLET ANTS RATE AS THE NUMBER ONE MOST PAINFUL IN THE ENTIRETY OF THE KINGDOM ARTHROPODA. THEY ALSO SHRIEK. CRACKED.COM Hogue, 1993 Latin American Insects and Entomology. — Source

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Sergei S. Bryukhonenko reanimated a dog head. Не was a Soviet scientist during the Stalin era, and was working on the first heart-lung machine. So he beheaded a dog and kept the head alive by hooking it up to his machine. The head responded to stimuli and even accepted a treat. CRACKED.COM http://www. damninteresting com/serge%E2%80%99s-litter/ — Source

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The word Fornication refers to having sex in a bread oven. In Roman times, Fornax was the goddess of baking and ovens. The name comes from the word for the arched furnaces used to bake bread. Apparently prostitutes used to hang out at the entrance to the ovens, signaling to prospective Johns by waving dick-shaped bread. When a prostitute found a client, first they'd eat the bread together, then they'd jump into the oven and fornicate. CRACKED.COM Bunny Crumpacker, 2006. The Sex Life of Food When Body and Soul Meet to Eat — Source

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John Q. Adams thought the Earth was hollow. Не greenlighted an expedition to prove it, at taxpayer expense. CRACKED.COM Adams, 2010. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams. — Source

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The Ouija Board is about as ancient and mystical as Monopoly. CRACKED.COME BAC Photo: Getty Creative AVE http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1798/ how-does-a-ouija-board-work M3 NORTH CAROLINA AVENUE were invented by COMMUNITY CHEST businessmen in 1890, M300 several Baltimore Ouija boards and today the word registered trademark PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE INCOME Ouija is still a SHORT LINE TAX of Parker Brothers. M320 CHANCE BALTIC ? AW200 AVENUE COMMUNITY M60 CHEST PARK PLACE LUXURY TAX M350 MEDITER- RANEAN AVENUE PAY M100 BOARDWALK M60 COLLECT M200 SALARY ASYOU PASS M400 GO — Source

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+ax =x Henri Poincaré was the foremost expert on relativity in the late 19th century and was a most likely the first person to formally present the 2 theory of 12001/11+ 120 relativity. Го,ад Despite having read his work, Albert Einstein does not cite Poincaré at all. CRACKED.COM adx Vely 1200 — Source

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WWI Allied Commanders forbade troops from using parachutes. The commanders feared that parachutes would turn pilots into cowards, arguing that they'd be more likely to abandon a damaged plane rather than heroically save it. CRACKED.COM http://www.usaww1 com/World_War_1_Fighter_Pilots php4 — Source

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If we don't need an appendix, why is it there? Because early man ate more roughage. The widely-held explanation is that the appendix is an extension of the cecum, an organ common in herbivores. The cecum is used to break down cellulose, the roughage in plants. CRACKED.COM http://sci. waikato ac nz/farm/content/animalstructure.html — Source

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MYTH: BeeR GIVES YOU A BIG BeLLY. FACT: SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND no LINK BeTween BeeR DRINKING AND THE BeeR BeLLY. Abdominal obesity has everything to do with genetics and caloric intake, and its only connection to beer is that beer contains calories. CRACKED.COM http:/www.nature.com/ejon/journal/57/n10/full/1601678a.html — Source

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Hans Lippershey is the inventor of the telescope. Lippershey, a Dutchman, applied for a patent in 1608. The Dutch government refused his patent, and instead issued a report sharing his work. Galileo read the report and recreated Lippershey's telescope, but with stronger magnification. A year later he received the patent, and credit for inventing the telescope. CRACKED.COM http://www.history-of-the-microscope.org/hans-lippershey-invented-the-telescope.php — Source

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The most humane way to anesthetize octopuses is by dunking them in ethanol. CRACKED.COM Because of their complex brains, cephalopods became the first invertebrates to be protected by laboratory ani- mal laws. Researchers have to get ethical approval for their studies, and must use anesthesia for procedures. — Source

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Of over 8,000 satellites orbiting the Earth, only one has ever been destroyed by a meteorite. CRACKED.COM Satellites are programmed to avoid meteorites so they don't get destroyed. The European Space Agency's communications satellite, Olympus, is the only one to have been hit, in 1993. — Source

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Manute Bol could only bench 45 pounds when he was first drafted into the NBA. 10 GRAGKED.COM Bol's ethnic group, the Din- ka, and the Nilotic people of which they are a part, are among the tallest pop- ulations in the world. His great-grandfather was even taller than him, at 7'10. — Source

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All of New York City's water comes in through 2 large tunnels underground. CRACKED.COM A 3rd tunnel is being built under NYC. Construction on the 3rd tunnel began in 1970 and is one of the most complex and intri- cate engineering projects in the world. — Source

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The contestants of Big Brother weren't told about the 9/11 attacks when they happened. BIG BROTHER DINNIN CRACKED.COM The show had a policy of keeping the contestants in total information isolation. They had to change the policy after one of the cast's family members was lost at Ground Zero. — Source

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The current sea otter population in Washington was evacuated from Alaska. CRACKED.COM Sea otters were extinct in Washington State between 1910 and 1965, but a popula- tion from Alaska was evacuat- ed from areas where the US was testing nuclear bombs between 1965 and 1972. — Source

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Feral chickens began terrorizing an island in the UK in 2019. CRACKED COM Escaped chickens multiplied exponentially due to lack of predators, and 100-bird gangs began attacking jog- gers, destroying yards, blocking traffic, and waking residents at 4 AM with deaf- ening crowing. — Source

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