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Garlic

Nearly all the garlic consumed in the U.S. comes from Gilroy, California. GRACKED.COM The area grows around 90 percent of the garlic Americans eat, which is around 150 million pounds per year. — Source

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All blue-eyed people are related to a mutant named The Founder. GRACKED.COM Danish researchers believe the identical gene sequence displayed in blue eyed indi- viduals comes from a single person called the found- er, whose genes mutated between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. — Source

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There's a company that turns dead bodies into an ocean reef. GRACKED COM Eternal Reefs mixes the cremated remains of a person with con- crete, which is then encased in a reef ball that is dropped into the sea. — Source

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The name bonobo resulted from a misspelling. CRACKED © COM Researchers reputedly first found the animals in the town of Bolobo, Zaire, in the '20s, but the name of the place was mis- spelled Bonobo on the shipping crate. — Source

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The fuller the fridge, the more energy-efficient it is. CRACKED COM The more empty space in the fridge, the more cold air is displaced by warm air when you open the door, requiring the appli- ance to generate cool air to replace it. — Source

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Spiders

In ancient Greece and Rome, doctors used spider webs to make bandages. CRACKED.COM Spider webs suppos- edly have natural anti- septic and anti-fungal properties, which can help keep wounds clean and prevent in- fection. — 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 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 CRACKED.COM Sunglasses were originally made out of smoky quartz in 12th century China, where they were used by judges to mask their emo- tions when they were ques- tioning witnesses.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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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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CRACKED.COM In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the cloud that surrounds V'ger is stated to be 82 AU across. That is more than the distance FROM THE SUN TO PLUTO AND BACK. It was scaled back to only 2 AU (twice the Earth's distance to the Sun) in the special edition DVD. — Source

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A World of Warcraft player can run the whole length of Azeroth in one hour and ten minutes. At marathon speeds, this suggests that Azeroth is about 14 MILES LONG. Roughly the size of Manhattan. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Seinfeld

The main cast of Seinfeld dated a grand total of 212 GIRLFRIENDS AND BOYFRIENDS over the course of the series. 27 73 50 62 CRACKED.COM — Source

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The website Obsessed with Film calculated that in order to master piano, ice sculpture, and on, Phil Connors to DAYS spend in Day. so had 12,403 10 stuck Groundhog 2 10 3 9 4 That's just under 34 years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Trek: Voyager

In Star Trek: Voyager, the titular spaceship needs 70 years to make the 70,000-light-year trip back home. Today's spacecraft would take 300 MILLION years to travel the same distance. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Minecraft's total surface area is over 9 MILLION EARTHS. Or if you prefer big, unwieldy numbers, 4,722,366,482,869,645 square kilometers. — Source

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God of War

The titan Cronos, from the God of War series, stands 1,600 FEET TALL. By way of comparison, the Empire State Building is 1,450 feet high. CRACKED.COM — Source

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We don't see stars in the night sky where they are actually located. Since even light is affected by gravity, the light from distant stars actually bends around our sun as they pass through the solar system. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Queen Elizabeth I established a mile should be 5,280 feet, exactly 8 furlongs, in 1575. When the millia passuum, from ancient Rome meaning 1,000 paces, was adopted in Britain, it was used alongside furlongs, which equal 660 feet. The decision was made that the mile should be a whole number of furlongs. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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6th Century Pope

A 6th century Pope suggested people say God bless you when someone sneezes. Two of the world's deadliest plagues wiped out half of Europe's population (100 million) during the 6th century. SInce sneezing was an early sign of the plague, the idea was that a prayer would protect the sneezer. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Male mantises who are eaten after sex are actually more likely to have their sex result in viable young. Females who eat their partners produce far more eggs than those who let their partners hit it and quit it. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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400,000 people in America suffered injuries involving beds, mattresses, or pillows in one year. This includes unintentional suffocation of infants under one year-old due to soft bedding, and smothering by sharing a bed with an adult. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The American cave lion roamed North America 11,000 years ago. At 925 pounds, it was one of the largest known cats, almost 25 percent bigger than the lions we see in Africa today. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer. Ožujsko Pivo The compounds in beer have been shown to possess various anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidative, anti-angiogenic, anti-melanogenic, anti-osteoporotic and anti-carcinogenic effects. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. Researchers have used frogs for understanding the effects of weightlessness on the body and the vomit response, because their inner ears turn out to be quite a useful model for the human inner ear. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — 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

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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Sinead O’Connor

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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