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March 17, 2024

Each little knowledge seedling needs a place to take root. By reading them here today, you’re basically volunteering your brain as their garden. Their forever home, maybe? Don’t be afraid. Reading is a lot less work than digging into your brain soil to physically implant them. A lot less messy, too.

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CRACKED JACK DANIEL DIED IN THE DUMBEST WAY POSSIBLE. Не kicked a safe, injuring his big toe. Then it became gangrenous and he died. — Source

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CRACKED IN THE '90S, PEOPLE RELENTLESSLY MOCKED A WOMAN WHO CLAIMED A DINGO ATE HER BABY. ... ... including Seinfeld. However, the woman was proven right in 2012, when a court ruled that a dingo did in fact eat her baby. — Source

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CRACKED THE INVENTOR OF THE MACHINE GUN WENT DEAF FROM IT. His son would go on to invent its silencer. — Source

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Kyle Mooney

CRACKED BEFORE SNL, KYLE MOONEY WAS A WRITER ON NATHAN FOR YOU. It was his first writers room of any kind. — Source

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CRACKED SCIENTISTS GOT A BUNCH OF BIRDS DRUNK. FOR SCIENCE. It was to see if that made them worse at singing. (It did! Duh.) — Source

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CRACKED SHERI THE CITY OF RENO IS RENO 911'S BIGGEST FAN. They even petitioned that the show be brought back after it was canceled by Comedy Central. — Source

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CRACKED IN 1894, A GERMAN MAN HEROICALLY SAVED A SMALL BOY FROM DROWNING IN A RIVER. Only for that little boy to turn out to be Hitler. — Source

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CRACKED BASE J JOHN STAMOS HAD THE OLSEN TWINS FIRED. Не claims they cried too much during the pilot - however, they were brought back when Stamos determined their replacements were not attractive — Source

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The NYPD employs beekeepers. Bees can't break the law (we hope), but as many New Yorkers keep bees on their rooftops, the lil' buzzers often swarm and cause trouble. When that happens, the police will send one in of their beekeeper cops - not to shoot at the bees (again, we hope), but to help remove the swarm. CRACKED.COM® — Source

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HBO's first original programming was polka. Back when it was a regional TV provider that only broadcast movies nine hours a day, HBO first flexed their production muscles by broadcasting the Pennsylvania Polka Festival in 1973. It was a really long way to robot cowboys and dragon boobs. HBO GRACKED COM — Source

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The test run for D-Day was as deadly as the actual D-Day. Exercise Tiger was a full-scale practice landing, performed on a British beach - and through a combination of live ammunition, bureaucratic screwups, and German boats showing up uninvited, hundreds died. The entire operation was covered up and forgotten about for a long time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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SNL put Leia in a gold bikini years before George Lucas did. In 1978, Fisher hosted SNL dressed as Princess Leia. During a beach skit, Leia beams down (yeah, let's ignore that part) and takes off her robes, revealing her bathing suit t-a gold bikini. This was five years before Return of the Jedi. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tom Holland learned on social media that he was Spider-Man. After a grueling seven months of auditioning, Holland finally learned that he landed the part - not through a call from his agent, but while scrolling on Marvel's Instagram account, just like any random person. Only later did the studio reach out to him. our ENGLISH Instagram 2 Continue CRACKED.COM — Source

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King Edward I refused Scotland's surrender to fire his trebuchet. In 1306, Edward Longshanks ordered the building of a huge- ass trebuchet, in order to break the defenses of Stirling Castle and end the Scottish rebellion. The Scots tried to surrender when they saw this medieval Death Star - but Eddie just wouldn't let them. Not before he fired his sweet trebuchet, damn it. CRACKED COM — Source

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In France, one dad took out WEIRD WORLD his whole town's internet with a signal jammer. Social Netwo f Facebook Instagram Twitter G+ P t Googles Pinterest Tumble in N Не was just trying to get his kids off social media at night, but he killed the whole town's Linkedin WhatsApp Messenger internet connection every night he used the jammer. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD After the NYC mayor's new safety plan, there were 6 subway stabbings. This happened within only a few days of the new safety plan being unveiled. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Colorado, lawmakers want to make it crystal clear kids can play outside. There's a bipartisan bill making its way through the state legislature that'll say that it's not child abuse for kids to go to school alone, stay at home without parents, and to play outside. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Turns out, thousands of MA drivers got their licenses without going on the road. - delle FM BAND FM - WITH The number was over 2,100, and four workers at the state's Registry of Motor Vehicles lost their jobs over it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In early Radiohead rehearsals, Jonny Greenwood had his keyboard off. The first thing I did was make sure my keyboard was turned off. I must have done months of rehearsals, and they didn't know that I'd already turned it off, he revealed in a new interview. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Mississauga, people are saying a bike lane project is a violation of their rights. They're claiming that it creates risks of injury and death, and as such violates their charter rights. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In the US, new headlights that won't blind other drivers are getting approved. The new headlights will be able to focus on dark stretches of road, and won't create glare for drivers coming from the opposite direction. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Texas, golfers apparently shut down a home daycare. That's what the woman who ran it alleges - the golfers complained about the noise, she says, so city officials shut it down. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell will give 10,000 MyPillows to Canada protesters. His plan is to airdrop them to protesters with little parachutes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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