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As you can probably guess, our Ford F-150s are littered with AK-47 and Monster energy drink bumper stickers. But these facts are so good, we’re contemplating stickering over those bad boys with gems like, “Danny DeVito wrote a pandemic-related comic starring the Penguin.” Heck, now we’re hoping our trucks have room for all of these!

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Long before the Capitol building in D.C. became a place synonymous with political chaos, it was a 19th Century marvel of architecture. GRACKED COM One detail, among the domes and the sculptures, is the number of steps from the basement to the top of the outer dome: 365. This was made intentionally to represent a step for each day of the year. — Source

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The Beatles

The Beatles had huge successes with their films Help! and A Hard Day's Night. CRACKED.COM Thankfully they did not ever make Up Against It, a screenplay commissioned by the Beatles and written by play- wright Joe OrtonThe script was horribly offensive, there were scenes with sexu- al assaults written in for laughs, men and women fighting in a civil war against each other, and the band mem- bers dressing in drag and assassinating the Prime Minister. — Source

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The Pyramids

The Great Pyramid of Giza built in the 26th Century B.C.is the only Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that's still standing. CRACKED.COM While there are still many questions concerning how it has held up, and how Egyp- tians managed to build the pyramid, archaeologists be- lieve that ramp systems may have helped put the millions of blocks into their positions. — Source

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In 2014, the satirical Ig Nobel Prize was given to inventors of the comb-over. CRACKED.COM The prize honors research that makes you laugh, then makes you think. The late Frank Smith and his son Donald developed the comb-over in response to Frank's baldness in the 1970s. Не even submitted a patent to mar- ket and sell a spray to keep the comb-over style in place. — Source

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Scottish Islands

A small uninhabited island called Ailsa Craig off the coast of Scotland provides granite for Olympic curling stones. CRACKED.COM The island was said to have been created through vol- canic eruptions over tens of millions of years. A spe- cial granite making up the surface of the island cre- ates ideal curling stones. — Source

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The desert plants that can be made into frankincense and myrrh protect themselves with antibacterial chemicals. Frankincense and myrrh are derived from the hard- ened resin of desert dwell- ing plants. The resin gets its aroma from antibacteri- al chemicals meant to pro- tect the plant from infec- tion. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The term EGOT was coined by a man who claimed he would achieve the feat in five years. Actor Philip Michael Thom- as claimed in late 1984 that he would accumulate the respective EGOT awards - an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Thomas has yet to be nominated for any. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Some suspension bridges will have a service to drive your car across for you if you have gephyrophobia. The Mackinac Bridge Au- thority, which oversees the Mackinac Bridge connect- ing Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas, will drive your car across the bridge for free if you have a fear of bridges and tunnels. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Portuguese Man O'Wars can be left or right-handed. The float at the top of the man o' war can be oriented towards the left or the right, and the left-hand- ed ones sail to the right of the wind, while the right-handed ones sail to the left. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Some crystals contain sealed pockets of water from millions of years ago. Microscopic pits develop in the crystal faces when they form, allowing water to per- meate through the hard sur- face. As the crystal grows larger, the next layers of crystal growth can cover these pits, trapping the liq- uid. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A South Korean boxer refused to leave the ring after he lost at the Olympics. Byun Jung-il lost his ban- tam weight match at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 and refused to leave the ring for over an hour. Offi- cials eventually turned out the lights in the auditorium until he left. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The 'Squid Game' doll was a real ornament used by a museum. The doll is named Young-Hee after a char- acter in Korean text- books. It is also a real or- nament used by a car- riage museum and was only borrowed for filming the series. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In an Omaha bakery, a customer left a tip of $2,000 (on a $5 purchase). I was like, 'That's wrong, you put too much of a tip in there.' And he goes, 'If you don't hit OK, I'm going to reach around and hit OK, bakery employee Preston Rath said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Dollar Tree isn't going to price everything at just one dollar any longer. DOLLAR TREE Everything's $1.00 Instead, most things are now going to be $1.25. Perhaps disappointingly, it's not changing its name to Dollar-and-a-quarter Tree. CRACKED.GOM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In India, a thief went on a three-month diet just so he could commit a burglary. Не knew he couldn't get into his old employer's house unless he slimmed down enough to fit through a ventilator, so he did that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Courthouse Sillies

WEIRD WORLD In a Pittsburgh courthouse, a lawyer suddenly dropped his pants. It wasn't exhibitionism or anything: his suspenders were setting off the metal detector, so he took off his pants so he could go through. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Kansas City, one guy robbed a store and took nothing but $100 of toilet paper. After his card was declined, he tried to leave with a cart full of toilet paper anyway and pulled a gun on an employee who tried to stop him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Minnesota, police were called to break up an eagle fight on the street. Two bald eagles were somehow stuck together on a road, probably fighting over territory, and a cop was called in to separate them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One Chinese couple had gotten trapped on a lockdown date, but it worked out. They had a date in mid-December that was supposed to last one day - but then a sudden lockdown was announced, so they stayed together. Eventually, they got engaged. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One Chinese couple had gotten trapped on a lockdown date, but it worked out. They had a date in mid-December that was supposed to last one day - but then a sudden lockdown was announced, so they stayed together. Eventually, they got engaged. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A Japanese firefighter took a pay cut because of his YouTube channel. It was a gaming channel, and he'd made thousands of dollars in profit from ads -- so the authorities docked his pay by 10%, because he'd profited from ads, some of which could be inappropriate in nature, CRACKED.COM said a city official. — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The Taliban are cracking down hard on members committing abuses. 3,000 members of the Taliban got kicked out - - they were accused of committing abuses in Afghanistan and, according to a Taliban official, They were giving a bad name to the Islamic Emirate. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scrooge McDuck's first cartoon was capitalist propaganda. In the original comics, Scrooge was pretty much, well, a scrooge - but in his 1967 animated debut in Scrooge McDuck and Money, his villainish side disappears as he becomes a wise advisor, giving Huey, Dewey, and Louie valuable lessons about how capitalism works. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stan Lee

CRACKED.COM Stan Lee created the infamous Marvel Method by accident. In the late 1940s, Lee would often commission art he didn't need, in part to keep his artist friends employed. It ended up backfiring - when his publisher found out, he promptly fired the artists, and had Lee turn all that surplus art into stories that could be published. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Nobody knows what Roman dodecahedrons are. Over 100 of these hollow, metallic thingies have been found all over Europe since the 18th century. They date back to Roman times, but they aren't mentioned in Roman writings or depicted in their art. No one has any clue what they were used for. — Source

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Oklahoma has a panhandle because of Texas' racism. Liberal Loktahoma City Clinton Z Oklah Amarillo Lawton Wichita Falls When Texas joined the U.S. in 1845, a lil' bit part of it was in territory where slavery was illegal - so they just chopped it off, because being able to remain a slave state was more important. That land strip was a chaotic outlaw paradise for decades, until Oklahoma took it in in 1890. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Redd Foxx

Malcolm x and Redd Foxx were close friends. The rights activist and the raunchy comedian met long before any of them even picked the names they went on to become famous as. As they were both redheads, they were known as Detroit Red and Chicago Red, respectively. CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Titor was the Q of 2000. 11 P 8 10 OT 12 1 11 5 12 endre10 11 12 2 10 e O 9 Someone using the name John Titor played the دي Q game two decades before Q, by posting wild 999 4 7 8 6 claims about future events on internet forums - 5 C 7 and having people believe them. A big difference 6 4 was that Titor didn't claim to be a government insider, but a time traveler from 2036. 8 5 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Legend of Zelda

A Zelda game is haunted. It was a legend for a long time that there was a ghost in a swamp-like level in Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. It was eventually discovered that this ghost was an enemy accidentally placed where it shouldn't be - not knowing what to do with it, the game made it invisible. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Danny DeVito wrote a pandemic-related comic (starring the Penguin). DeVito didn't just play the character - in 2021, he wrote a comic for DC where the Penguin (along with Catwoman, who is his lover here) commits the villainous act of, uh, stealing vaccines and inoculating the entire world against the pandemic. CRACKED.COM — Source

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