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March 07, 2024

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Gary Busey once complained on a movie set because Heaven didn't look real. egr Fou Children Не died and came back, apparently, and said he'd seen Heaven - and the movie's portrayal of it was totally inaccurate, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Birds of Prey has a subtle homage to Harley Quinn's first appearance. She wears the number 92 on her derby outfit - that's a nod to the episode of Batman: The Animated Series, broadcast in '92, where she first appeared. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tom Cruise broke his ankle on a take in Mission: Impossible 6 and kept filming. During a stunt, he accidentally hit a wall with his foot and immediately knew he broke it, but he really didn't want to do it again so he carried on. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Fox is wearing material from Wes Anderson's suit. It wasn't a symbolic gesture or anything -- Anderson just thought the fabric would work really well for the character, so he donated it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Roosters crow depending on their order in the local hierarchy. Among chickens, the lower a bird's rank, the longer it has to wait to eat - - andto crow. The top-ranked rooster crows in the morning first, and others then follow him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Catholic Church is actually pretty cool with evolution and the Big Bang. Bras OVIA DILIGO TE O PETRE DIXIST NC VNA FIDES MYNDO REFVIG It also says that Young Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design are essentially just pretending to be science, and it rejects them outright. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The last major cavalry charge happened in 1942, and it was made by Italians. 600 of them charged 2,000 Soviet soldiers in August 1942 and, amazingly, they helped drive off the Soviet troops (but they took heavy losses). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Seagrass spreads thanks to turtles eating seagrass seeds and then pooping them. Sea turtles (and dugongs, cousins of the manatee) gobble up seeds, then pass it elsewhere --sometimes spreading over 500,000 seeds daily. CRACKED.COM — Source

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France gets about four fifths of all its electricity from nuclear reactors. In the U.S., where there are 104 reactors, that figure is about 20% - but France has 58 reactors. This also means France emits the least carbon in the OECD. CRACKED.COM — Source

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11 novels written by pioneering journalist Nellie Bly were just recently discovered. She wrote them in serialized form for a weekly newspaper, and they were thought to be lost - - but a writer discovered copies in archives in 2020. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The COCO de mer plant has a seed that looks a lot like, well, a human butt. Fittingly, its old botanical name was Lodoicea callipyge (callipyge is Greek for beautiful buttocks), and it was considered a strong aphrodisiac. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Neil Armstrong once threatened to sue his barber for selling his hair. CRACKED.COM The barber earned an es- timated $3,000 from the famous hair, and in 2016, both the hair and the bar- ber's comb and scissors went on sale on Amazon for $38,611. — Source

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A jockey once won a race after he had died. CRACKED COM Frank Hayes suffered a heart attack in the middle of the race in 1923, but still managed to cross first at Belmont Park in New York. It's almost as if the horse does all the work. — Source

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Viking men wore makeup. CRACKED.COM A Spanish Arab who vis- ited Hedeby around the year 1000 described how both men and women in the town wore make-up to look young- er and more attractive. — Source

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Stop signs used to be yellow. STOP CRACKED.COM The American Association of State Highway Officials picked the color in 1922 because they thought it would grab drivers' atten- tion, and there wasn't a long-lasting red dye to use until 1954. — Source

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New York was briefly named New Orange. WINNER BEST adidas - - M Helped inju MUSICAL opponent W KITM RS BILLY! SPORTSMANSH Com BC WHERE MAXIMUM ЕЦИЛЬ adidas FI - PERFORMANCE LIVES of adidas odait maxell NAMMO MILK CRACKED.COM a - saar M When the Dutch cap- tured New York from the English in 1673, they renamed it New Orange in honor of William III of Orange. — Source

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There was a successful Tinder match in Antarctica in 2014. GRACKED.COM A man working at Antarctica's McMur- do Station matched with a woman camp- ing a 45-minute heli- copter ride away. — Source

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There is a fruit that tastes like chocolate pudding. CRACKED.COM Native to Central and South America, black sapote tastes like sweet custard with a hint of chocolate. When it's ripe, it's de- scribed as tasting exactly like chocolate pudding. — Source

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The water we drink may be older than the solar system. GRACKED.COM Water on our planet may have originated from ice specks floating in a cosmic cloud 4.6 billion years ago, making the same water we drink millions of years old- er than the solar system it- self. — Source

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Moonshiners used cow shoes during prohibition. CRACKED COM The distillers wore shoes with wooden blocks at- tached to the bottom that made their footprints re- semble a cow's, so that no one would think to follow the trail to their illegal ор- eration. — Source

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The highest recorded temperature on Earth was 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit. °C °F 50 120 40 100 30 80 20 60 10 CRACKED.COM 40 0 Researchers at Sandia Na- tional Laboratories pro- duced the record-break- ing temperature in their lab using a superheated gas, reaching 15 million degrees kelvin. — Source

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Testicle implants exist for dogs. GRAGKED.COM Inventor Gregg А. Miller won the Ig Nobel Prize for medicine for Neuticles - ar- tificial replacement testi- cles for dogs, which are available in three sizes, and three degrees of firm- ness. — Source

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The Church of Scientology has a compound in California called Gold Base. CRACKED.COM It is guarded by snip- ers and armed gate guards and houses a prison that practices torture and a paramili- tary training school. — Source

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Sunburn happens when skin cells put a hit out on themselves. CRACKED.COM Your skin gets sunburned because your skin cells put up a protein flag on their surface that tells your white blood cells to come kill them so that they don't become cancerous. — Source

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In 1985, a volcano in Colombia that was covered in glaciers erupted, instantly melting the glaciers. CRACKED.COM Two hours later, a 100 feet deep flood of rock and wa- ter traveling 39 feet per second leveled an entire nearby village named Armero, killing 20,000 out of its 29,000 residents. — Source

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Doritos were originally Disneyland trash. GRACKED.COM A restaurant named Casa de Fritos invented Doritos by re- purposing stale tortillas they bought from a local vendor. The chips proved to be so popular they were eventually rolled out nationally by Fri- to-Lay in 1966. — Source

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The two sides of WWI had a truce on Christmas Day. CRACKED.COM During World War 1, Ger- man and Allied forces came out of their trenches on Christmas day in 1914, to sing carols, trade equip- ment and even play foot- ball between their lines. — Source

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Los Angeles once had the largest electric rail system in the world. CRACKED COM Automobile, tire, and oil companies bought and dis- mantled it, along with mass transit systems in 44 other US cities. The mass transit systems were replaced with freeways and buses. — Source

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