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March 02, 2024

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Emilia Clarke has suffered two brain aneurysms. Her charity, SameYou, provides treatment for stroke & brain injury patients. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The term 'caucasian' originally described skull traits, not exclusively white skin color. Skin colors ranged from white-skinned to dark brown. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Florida man cut open his truck when he heard purring inside. Не found a kitten. The kitten was adopted & people offered to help pay for his truck repairs. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A True Story, the first sci-fi novel, was written in Greek during the 2nd century CE. A OTKIANOT ARANTA LVCIANI SAMOSATENSIS Opera, que quidem extant omnia. Grace مركم It featured robots, space travel, aliens, artificial atmospheres, and more. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ernie Hudson auditioned for the same part in The REAL Ghostbusters animated series that he played in the movie. Producers felt he didn't sound enough like Winston Zeddemore. Arsenio Hall got the job. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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During the Flint, MI water crisis, General Motors stopped using city water at their plant. FLINT WATER PLANT High levels of chlorine were corroding engine components. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wasps use complex chemical signals called alarm pheromones to defend their colonies. Intruders are sprayed and thus 'marked,' rousing the colony & coordinating its attack. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A skeleton found in a Cheddar, U.K. cave has a relative living half a mile away. The person teaches history & & is nearly 300 generations removed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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McDonald's did away with their miniature spoon coffee stirrers because they were used to do cocaine. PURE SUGAR McDonald's sugar = : Dompa TUTTAL - 1185 - In fact, a 'McSpoon' became a quantified amount of cocaine sold. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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From 1948-58 a Florida man secretly stomped around a Florida beach at night in 30 pound, three-toed lead shoes to give the impression a 15-ft penguin was on the loose. The hoax wasn't revealed until 40 years later. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1985, a man rigged his computer to call Jerry Falwell's toll-free prayer line every 30 seconds for eight months. It clogged the line and cost it over $750k in reverse charges. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the 1960s Batman series, Batman and Robin buckled their seatbelts before taking off in the Batmobile. This occurred after a complaint by the National Safety Council & the Dynamic Duo set a good example thereafter. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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People who move to the Villas Las Estrellas settlement in Antarctica must first have their appendix removed. This is because the nearest hospital is 600 miles away. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The United States has the world's most violent weather. It receives more high-impact weather events than anywhere else on Earth. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ryan Reynolds has launched his own streaming service, Mint Mobile +. The platform's only offering is Foolproof, the 2003 movie he starred in with Kristin Booth. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In lieu of a tip, Albert Einstein gave a Japanese courier a handwritten note. It sold in 2017 for $1.56 million. Hiller bescheidenes Leben gift mehr glick als erfolyriches straben verbunden unit Unrella Albert LT 7922. Tokyo. The note read, A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1896, the train carrying Georgia Tech's football team to play Auburn skidded all the way through town and didn't stop until it was five miles away. GT players walked back and lost 45-0. SHELL AKLE GREASE SHELL AXLE GREASE Auburn fans had greased the tracks. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Facts That Stand The Test Of Time!

A person can be banished from every county in the state of Georgia except one. 1776 ECHOLS COUNTY This County, created by Act of the Legislature Dec. 13, 1858, is named for Col. Robert M. Echols, for 24 years a member of the General Assembly Не was a President of the Georgia Senate and a Bridadier General in the Mexican WAF And that is Echols County, which is a mostly unpopulated, uninhabitable swamp. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Animators who had fallen out of favor working on the Dreamworks project The Prince of Egypt were punished by being banished to work on Shrek. Shreked was the term used. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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After six weeks of broken appointments by Comcast, Diana and Jason Airoldi finally got their internet and cable hooked up. 10/100/1000 PCHE ethz ethl eth0 A 6-U/4 ATA However, that only happened because a journalist knew how to contact the 92 year-old mother of Comcast's CEO. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1979, programmers working for Atari met with the CEO and demanded the company treat them more like musicians, with access to royalties & c credit on packaging. - - DIG DUG IMUNTED HOUSE The CEO refused, stating that anyone can do a cartridge. The programmers left and started Activision. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Casting director Janet Hirshenson saw Wallace Shawn's performance in My Dinner With Andre and cast him in The Princess Bride. Her fondness for how Shawn said the word inconceivable played no small part in the decision. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the 1850s, American fire departments started outfitting their stations with spiral staircases. Seems the horses who pulled the engines kept climbing the stairs when they smelled food. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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61% of Americans dread the holidays, because of the cost. And 75% of parents worry about disappointing their kids. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tater tots were invented to use up leftover potato chunks in the Ore-Ida factory. They get their shape by being extruded Play-Doh- style and sliced. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Endgame, Cap catches Mjolnir in a fluid motion, while Thor extends his hand and catches it in a dead stop. That's because Cap is used to adjusting for recoil as he catches his shield. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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As many as three U.S. presidents may have died because of contaminated water at the White House. Before 1850, there was a night soil depository (read: a field of human poop) upstream from the White House's water supply. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Troy, Brad Pitt and Eric Bana didn't use stunt doubles, and agreed to pay each other cash if they accidentally hit each other: $100 for a hard hit; $50 for a light tap. Pitt had to pay Bana $750. Bana didn't have to pay Pitt anything. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Butt plugs were sold as a cure for insanity. CRACKED.COM Dr. Young, of Dr. Young's Ide- al Rectal Dilators, wrote claiming that at least three-fourths of all the howling maniacs of the world were curable in a few weeks' time by the applica- tion of orificial methods. — Source

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America's First Bank Robbery was nearly the perfect crime. DAY GRACKED COM $162,821 ($3.8 million to- day) had been taken from vaults of the Bank of Penn- sylvania in 1798. The cul- prit Isaac Davis was caught because he deposited the money back into the same bank. — Source

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Russia bombed their Sukhona River in winter to break up the ice. CRACKED COM The ice dams that form in the harsh winters can cause the river to overflow, endangering 4,500 people living nearby. Two Su-34 Fullback tactical bomb- ers were ordered to bomb the dam every hour. — Source

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Fireworks are totally illegal in Florida but are sold to ordinary people in huge quantities. CRACKED.COM Hundreds of stores across the state sell to anyone who signs a waiver saying they are for agricultural use to scare birds away from crops. — Source

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Birds living in cities perform a type of avian rap that their rural counterparts don't. GRACKED.COM City birds also sing at a higher pitch and will try out different song types. Experts say city birds have adapted to counter back- ground noise and increase their chances of finding a mate. — Source

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Roly Polies help decompose metal in the soil. GRACKED COM They are capable of taking in heavy metals such as copper, zinc, lead, and cadmium and crystallize these into spherical deposits in the midgut. — Source

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