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March 10, 2024

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WEIRD WORLD Eric Clapton sued a 55-year-old German widow-and, yes, he actually won. What was the suit over? Selling a bootleg CD for $11 on eBay. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Usain Bolt said he can thank Mario Kart for all his extraordinary success. - 20% Mario Kart and Mortal Kombat, to be specific - he says his love of gaming really helped him in becoming an Olympic Champion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A top British official who investigated lockdown parties held one of his own. Specifically, he was supposed to investigate lockdown parties being held in government ... ... and then it turned out they held one in his office. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD North and South Korea have finally agreed in principle to end their war. It had been dragging on for 70 years without ever being formally ended, and now they've agreed to do just that - again, in principle. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Gwyneth Paltrow backed a crypto miner, and it crashed right off the bat. Not long after TeraWulf Inc., a crypto mining company, went public, its shares dropped 40% on Nasdaq. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A superintendent of the New York's MTA drives around with a blow-up doll. Specifically, he keeps it in the front seat -he says it's just to keep him company, but apparently it's a way to get around a specific law. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A guy stole $23,500 from his girlfriend by pulling up her eyelid when she was asleep. Не did that to activate facial recognition on her phone, and it definitely worked - but he eventually got sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Twitch, owned by Amazon, banned an Amazon Prime Video channel over a breast. twitch Japanese Commentary English Commentary - ---- A presenter's breast was accidentally revealed during a live airing, and Twitch brought out the banhammer right away. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Streaming Despacito used up more power than some countries produce in a year. It was streamed 4.6 billion times from January 2017 to early 2020, which consumed as much electricity as Sierra Leone, Chad, Somalia, the Central African Republic, and Guinea-Bissau make in a year, combined. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A real buffalo was killed in Apocalypse Now. To get permission from locals to film on their land, the movie crew gave them animals to slaughter for food, including two water buffalo. Francis Ford Coppola decided to film one buffalo's slaughter for the movie. I did not direct it or anything, that was the way they do it, he said in 2019. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Little Richard became a preacher after seeing a sign in the sky. C On a 1957 Australian tour, he saw a fireball in the sky (which was the satellite Sputnik 1) and interpreted as God telling him he should change his ways. Не became a preacher a year later, and went back to making regular music after four years of preaching. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The inventor of the USB says his team blew it. by not making the plug work both ways. Ajay Bhatt said that would need more wires and circuits, so it would have been more expensive - they thought about it, but it would have cost too much. Still, 20 years after inventing it, he says that was a mistake and the USB plug was good, but not good enough. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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When Baby Groot throws up in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, that's James Gunn's nod to his roots. It's his way of acknowledging that he started out in B-movies and isn't afraid to resort to the lowest common denominator which is a baby tree vomiting. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sharks have been around longer than trees have. Sharks started popping up about 450 million years ago, while trees showed up 100 million years later. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Peter Stormare just kind of stumbled into a role in John Wick: Chapter 2. Не was hanging out with Keanu Reeves and, since he was a fan of the first movie, he asked Reeves What can I do? The rest is movie history. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Black olives are just ripe green olives. Freshly picked olives are inedible, so both green and black olives are cured. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Electric toasters predate sliced bread. The first electric toaster was invented in 1893. Pre-sliced bread wasn't available commercially unti 1928. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A MAN WITH PANCREATITIS DEVELOPED PERSISTENT HICCUPS THAT CAN ONLY BE CURED WITH A RECTAL MASSAGE. Different medications were administered to him to no avail. After a few hours, his hiccups came back, and the doctor got rid of it by performing another rectal massage. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A MONTH AFTER A BANGLADESHI WOMAN DELIVERED A BABY, SHE WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL FOR STOMACH PAINS. It turned out she has two wombs and that she was in labor again, giving birth to twins. Arifa Sultana has a condition called uterus didelphys, where a woman develops two uteruses instead of one. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRAGKED COM If a woman's heart tissue is damaged during pregnancy, her fetus will send stem cells to repair it. — Source

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GRACKED.COM The highest number of sweat glands are found on the soles of your feet. With 250,000 glands, it's no surprise that your feet stink! — Source

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2000 people a year are treated for BRIs or bagelrelated-injuries. CRACKED.COM People going to the emergency room from hurting themselves while cutting a bagel is so common it has its own name. — Source

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Humans are genetically closer to cats than dogs. We share 90 % of our DNA with cats, but only 84 % with dogs. Considering that most people would rather sleep all day than socialize and play outdoors, this really doesn't come as a big surprise. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Most of us know that an adult skeleton has 206 bones, but did you know... that we are born with over 300 bones? As we grow, some bones fuse together, many in the skull and pelvis. CRACKED COM — Source

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Your liver has a superhuman ability to regrow. Donor Recipient ©2016 The liver can grow back its full size even after 75% of it is removed. When you donate your liver, the donated part will grow back to full size in the host's body; yours will too. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Prince Andrew's ex-wife says that nobody ever got persecuted as bad as her. adidas Specifically, Sarah Ferguson said she was maybe the most persecuted woman in the history of the royal family. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Someone in Maryland tried to fight snakes in their house... ... and burned it down. The homeowner destroyed their house in an attempt to control a snake infestation, officials said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Apparently, we've created tiny Pac-Man robots that will destroy the Earth. The little Pac-Man replicas are autonomous living robots that, it turns out, have learned how to reproduce. Anyway, here's hoping there's no lab leak. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD There's a new world record for a soul train line, and it's a total of 536 people. Black Entertainment Network organized the line in question, in New York City. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD There's a corona monument in Belgium, but you can't go to the unveiling. Nobody can, and it's purely because of corona restrictions. We'll have to wait until the pandemic is over to see a monument to the pandemic, we guess. CRACKED.GOM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Syracuse, a deer smashed through the window of a business called iSmash. It's a place where you can, well, smash things for fun, and the deer got in on the action. Nobody, human or animal, was harmed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A guy in Indiana got strange powers thanks to a horrible, freakish incident. X-X 1 Y-Y x2 -X 12-% After a head injury from a violent attack, he became kind of a math genius - and even found a home thanks to his gift. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Maryland, a lawmaker who's also a surgeon tried to combine those jobs. Terri Hill showed up in virtual legislative meetings while literally in the middle of surgery - and got fined a total of $15,000 for it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In New Jersey, a very honest patron returned a book after 42 long years. The book was Paddington Abroad by Michael Bond, and the library said in a Facebook post that it's a Good thing we're fine free. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In California, they're trying to fight crows with actual laser beams. Crows have been plaguing Sunnyvale, CA, for a while, so the city plans to try and scare them off with green lasers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A pro-LGBTQ politician in the Philippines said he was against gay marriage. IF'S just rate LE ty LOVE ers His exact words, translated into English, were I will support same-sex marriage once men can get pregnant and give birth. CRACKED.COM — Source

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