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March 08, 2024

The truth can hurt, but you don’t have to worry about these truths. We promise. They’re not biting, hard truths that will cut to your core. Well, unless you’re a rural show on CBS in the early 1970s. Then yeah, getting canceled in the great “rural purge” might be a hard pill to swallow. Sorry ‘bout that. The rest of these are fun though!

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Most Canadians live south of the 49th parallel. 40 N Ceded to CANADA Britain, 1818 Ceded to Oregon United States, 1818 Territory 49th Parallel Stony Mts 42° N Louisiana Purchase 1803 Atlantic UNITED STATES Ocean 500 MILES 72% of them live south of it, including the population of the two largest Canadian cities, Montreal and Toronto. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Australia, half of a banknote is worth half its face value. 1 Nature - Pholip Come - 6 ac down - 10 or USTRALIA TEN DOLLARS So you could cut, say, an AUD 100 bill in half, and each half would be worth AUD 50. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Most of the sets for Independence Day were built in the same hangar where Howard Hughes built the Spruce Goose. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1969, Pat Sajak cut off Nixon to play Christmas music. Nixon made a very long pause in a Christmas speech to the troops in Vietnam, so Sajak cut off the broadcast and put on some music. When Nixon resumed talking, Sajak just left the music on, thinking soldiers would rather listen to that than the President. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2013, nine lost Doctor Who episodes turned up in Nigeria. ИННОМТ.М ЕГЕСТ The BBC destroyed its own Doctor Who tapes back in the '60s and '70s, but those episodes have occasionally turned up in foreign markets, which had been sent their own copies. The Nigerian find was apparently the largest in 30 years. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Nepal, there are honey hunters who climb granite cliffs to get hallucinogenic mad honey. It's produced by Himalayan giant honeybees, who make nests at high altitudes under the overhangs of vertical cliffs, and sells for $60 to $80 a pound on the black market. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Soldiers in an elite German unit are growing left breasts. au In their drill, they're hitting that side of their chests with rifles over and over, and that seems to be making breast tissue grow. Scientists just aren't sure how. — Source

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Think all poop stinks? Not to your mother. Scientists found that when mothers sniffed and rated various samples of baby poop, they reported that poop from their own babies smelled less nasty. It actually makes sense. If mothers are less disgusted by their own children, they'll take better care of them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Every year in the US at least 4,000 items are left inside patients after surgery. In the medical world it is known as retained surgical items. GRACKED.COM — Source

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A middle-aged man was thought to have a tumor in his lung. IT TURNED OUT TO BE A TOY TRAFFIC CONE НЕ INHALED WHEN НЕ WAS SEVEN. 0.5 Не suffered no complications for 40 years, until recently when he suffered from pneumonia. The man's condition has improved since the removal of the 1-cm cone. CRACKED.COM — Source

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AN AUSTRALIAN WOMAN DEVELOPED A FRENCH ACCENT AFTER A CAR ACCIDENT. Leanne Rowe is not happy with having an accent that isn't her native Australian one, and often avoids talking to people. Her condition is called Foreign Accent Syndrome. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A GENETIC DEFECT MADE STEPHEN CROHN IMMUNE TO AIDS. Crohn had a mutation in his white blood cells that kept most strains of HIV from penetrating and affecting them. Не helped advance research towards combating the disease. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A WOMAN LIVES A NORMAL LIFE WITH ONLY HALF A BRAIN. When she was 8, Christina Santhouse had to get the right hemisphere of her brain removed due to a condition called Rasmussen's Syndrome. Besides her paralysis in her left arm and visual impairments, she is pretty much fine. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A PATIENT GETS SICK WHEN НЕ TELLS A LIE. The man, 51, experiences a loss of consciousness, convulsions, hallucinations, and anxiety for more than a third of the time when he lies. His condition is called Pinocchio Syndrome. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There is a copy of the Mona Lisa painted by one of Da Vinci's students. Prado Mona Lisa was a copy painted simultane- ously as Da Vinci's origi- nal. It has come to be un- derstood as the earliest known studio copy of Leonardo's masterpiece. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The deep-ocean submersible Alvin has been in service so long that none of its components are original. Like the Ship of Theseus, every part of the DSV Alvin has been replaced over the last 58 years of service, in which it explored hydro- thermal vents, the Titanic, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Fishermen uncovered a lost 14th century city when golden artifacts were caught in their nets. Srivijaya ruled Indonesia and much of Southeast Asia for over 600 years but disappeared without a trace, until its location was revealed on the River Musi. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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1 in 2,000 people in the UK carries the mad cow disease. Relatively few people who catch the infectious agent develop symptoms and it's unknown if they can trans- mit it to others. They should still refrain from biting other people, how- ever. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Volkswagen made a dashboard-mounted coffee maker in the late 1950s. The Hertella-Auto Kaf- feemaschine could be mounted straight onto the dash of a '59 Beetle, with porcelain cups which could stick to the ma- chine magnetically. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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CRACKED.COM Clark Stanley was the original snake oil salesman. Stanley, a.k.a. The Rattlesnake King, presented himself as a cowboy who had learned the healing powers of rattlesnake oil from the Hopi. There was no reason to believe his snake oil liniment actually cured anything - but that didn't prevent Stanley from building a commercial empire on it. — Source

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CRACKED COM In the early 1970s, CBS cancelled all its shows set in the country. Rural shows like Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies made up the bulk of CBS's programming - but their audience skewed old, and execs wanted their network to be young and hip. So they cancelled the lot of them-a move that went down in history as the Rural Purge. — Source

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Cashew farming is hellish. To get to the cashew nuts, you have to go through a hard shell containing caustic oil that burns the skin - and poorly paid workers in developed countries aren't often provided with protective gear. That's not even the worse part, as the cashew industry is often powered by people locked in forced labor camps. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM DC OLSEN AMNY 15c JIMMY SUPPORT - HERE: OLSEN EX-PASS NO Emay LAMMA! GUN HK posts HIM DOWNI ATRIDUCING - علام ERSBOY WICON - POTTA SEX LEGION P BELIEVE The New Gods first appeared in Jimmy Olsen's comic. Darkseid, Mister Miracle... The Fourth World cosmic beings that Jack Kirby created for DC Comics needed to be introduced to readers - and for some reason, that introduction happened on the pages of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Japanese ghost dogs are cute (also, horrifying). In the Onmyodo tradition, inugami are spirit dogs that serve sorcerers, and are often depicted as pups wearing hats and kimonos. Awww, you want one? No you don't - creating an inugami requires performing appalling acts of animal cruelty we won't describe here. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Faye Dunaway soaked Roman Polanski with pee (or so they say). Polanski being an abusive director and Dunaway being not exactly a pushover, sparks flew on the set of Chinatown. According to cinematographer John Alonzo, Polanski refused to let Dunaway take bathroom breaks - so she just peeds on a cup and throwed it on Polanski's face. — Source

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Sugar plums aren't, and never were, related to plums in any way. It's only natural to think that sugar plums are made with that fruit - but the truth is, when they first appeared in the 1600s, they were made by coating a nut or seed in several layers of hardened sugar. They were only called plums because they kinda looked like one. CRACKED.COM — Source

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