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Prescribing your daily dosage of facts!

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March 06, 2024

Since facts are the only thing we’ll ever legally be allowed to prescribe, we’re feeling pretty cocky. This must be what a doctor feels every time he prescribes a magic mix for a magic fix. Maybe that cockiness is what has them needing to be addressed as “Doctor.” You never hear “Janitor Phil,” or “Fact Finder Phil.”

Hey, maybe we should all start adding the “Fact Finder” label to our names! After this fact batch, we deserve it.

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MTV's 'Clone High' was canceled after it sparked controversy in India. CRACKED.COM Due to its portrayal of Gandhi as a loose party an- imal, 100 people in India began a hunger strike and even a national protest where members of parlia- ment got involved. — Source

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Leonardo da Vinci's full name is Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci. CRACKED.COM Leonardo's last name isn't da Vinci. It just means from Vinci as in Vinci, Florence in Italy (where he's from). — Source

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Some people have a tiny, extra spleen. CRACKED COM Not only do 1 in every 10 people have a tiny second spleen called an accessory spleen, but also that if the main spleen is removed, the tiny second spleen can grow to function as a new spleen. — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A theatre accidentally ordered hundreds of sausages instead of wigs. The London theatre wanted Frank-n-Furter wigs for a Rocky Horror Show performance, but they got 416 sausages (in 52 cans) instead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A dead body in Tulsa, OK, turned out to be alive and apparently just resting. (illustration) Firefighters and cops went to recover a body that had washed up on a sandbar, but the body soon just got up and walked away. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A Miami Beach couple faked their kids' vaccination cards for a Hawaii trip. And they only got found out because their kids were too young to get vaccinated, so the cards immediately looked suspicious. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A giant rubber duck appeared in a Maine city, and nobody knows why. (illustration) The duck is 25 feet tall, has the word Joy in large letters, and showed up in Belfast, Maine. It's not clear at all who put it there, or why. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A cat's meowing saved the life of her 83-year-old owner in Cornwall, England. (illustration) The woman fell into a ravine, and people went searching for her - and they found her because someone heard a cat loudly meowing near where she fell. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Police in a UK town are on the lookout for people committing bean-related crimes. In Wonersh, somebody has been pouring beans (and other food) onto people's front doors and cars overnight, and cops are trying to get to the bottom of it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A massive snake showed up in a supermarket in Sydney, Australia. (illustration) Luckily, one of the people around was a former snake catcher, and she took the gigantic python to the bushland near the store. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A jazz prodigy was kidnapped to play for Al Capone. In 1926, Thomas Fats Waller was forced into a car at gunpoint, only to have him perform at Capone's birthday for three days straight while trying not to pass out from exhaustion. It's a story more Chicago than the musical Chicago. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM A Spider-Man musical was the most expensive Broadway production ever. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark was hugely ambitious - and that was its downfall. With the convoluted story being rewritten all the time, and performers constantly getting injured from the elaborate stunts, it didn't last long before it had to be seriously scaled down. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Sam Neill is a farmer. Everyone's favorite grumpy paleontogist runs Two Paddocks, a vineyard and farm where he doesn't raise dinosaurs, but the next best thing: animals named after his celebrity friends (so he won't be tempted to eat them). Appropriately, Jeff Goldblum is a horny ram. — Source

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Star Trek

There are dolphins aboard the Enterprise. According to The Next Generation Technical Manual, the crew of Captain Picard's ship includes twelve bottlenose dolphins and two orcas in a section called Cetacean Ops. These wet crewmembers were too expensive for TV, but they were mentioned in passing on a couple episodes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lady Gaga slipped swear words past radio censors. Eight times in the recorded version of Poker Face, Gaga sneakily changes the line poker face to f- her face, just to mess with us all - meaning that radio stations everywhere broadcast the uncensored f-word thousands of times without ever realizing it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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E.T.

CRACKED.COM Steven Spielberg refused for years to release E.T. on home video. In the mid '80s, home video was booming - but the decade's highest-grossing movie wasn't available. It took the industry six years to convince Spielberg to release his ugly alien on cassette. His more recent beef with streaming platforms isn't exactly unprecedented. — Source

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The more Brad Pitt eats on screen, the better the movie does. Mark Hofmeyer, notorious movie math guy on the internet, has calculated that movies where Pitt eats more than 200 calories have a better box office and a higher Rotten Tomatoes score. Has Hofmeyer cracked the code to Pitt success? Further nourishing research is needed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A UK man set up his own 0871 line so that he would earn money from spam calls. O Y O MADE de Incoming Call Unknown Decline In 2011, every time a bank, gas or electricity supplier asked Lee Beaumont for his details, he submitted the toll number as his con- tact number, which cost money to the caller. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Memento is a surprisingly accurate portrayal of amnesia. The film is lauded by medi- cal experts for its accurate portrayal of anterograde amnesia and is considered close to a perfect explora- tion of the neurobiology of memory. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The largest population of tigers in the world is in the USA. With an estimated 5,000 tigers, the U.S. captive tiger popula- tion exceeds the ар- proximately 3,200 ti- gers in the wild. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Coal-fired power plants release more uranium than nuclear power plants. 2068 More uranium is released by coal plants in one week than what has been re- leased by all nuclear power plants combined (includ- ing Chernobyl/other acci- dents) over the past 50 years. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Over 50% of the human population has bone spurs. Bone spurs are permanent deposits and do not heal or go away. You would nev- er know you had them un- less you had an x-ray spe- cifically to look for them, as they have zero impact on your life. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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People will rate a wine higher if they think it's from France. A Texas A&M study invited people to taste wines la- beled France, Califor- nia, and Texas, and while nearly all ranked the French as best, in fact, all three were the same Texan wine. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Big Ben's bell was cracked barely two months after its inauguration. After the crack in 1859, the bell has rung with a unique resonance. The bell has since been ori- ented in such a way that the hammer doesn't strike the 'crack.' CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The common head louse has a cousin that only infects gorillas. CRACKED.COM It is speculated that mod- ern human lice are de- scended from gorilla lice that parasitized early hu- mans that slept in gorilla nests or butchered gorilla corpses. — Source

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America used to have 100 feet tall chestnut trees from Maine to Florida. CRACKED COM There used to be 4 bil- lion American chest- nut trees, but they all disappeared because of a fungus that kills them as saplings. — Source

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Cities in Europe offer 'Sanisettes': private, self-contained, self-cleaning, public bathrooms. TOILETTES BOSERI ... DITION VISA NEW CRACKED.COM After the user has exited, a wash cycle begins and the entire floor and toilet fixture are automatically sprayed, scrubbed and disinfected. Sometimes, people become trapped in them. — Source

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The planet Uranus was discovered before the continent of Antarctica. GRACKED.COM In 1781, Uranus was the first planet to be discov- ered with a telescope. In 1820, 39 years later after Uranus was discovered, the first expedition in Antarcti- ca was led and proved its existence. — Source

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It was a custom to debate while drunk in ancient Persia. CRACKED.COM In the ancient Persian Em- pire, men used to debate ideas twice, once when so- ber and once when drunk, because an idea had to sound good in both states in order to be considered a good idea. — Source

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Many of the Nazi uniforms in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' were authentic. CRACKED.COM Most of the uniforms worn by the Nazis in the Berlin book burning scene are not costumes. A cache of old uniforms was found in Ger- many and obtained by Cos- tume Designer Anthony Powell to be used in the film. — Source

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There are almost no mosquitoes in Disney World. GRACKED.COM Even though it is in a swampy territory abun- dant with bugs, they have a sophisticated mosquito surveillance program to try and elim- inate them quickly. — Source

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