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THE WHITE GOD OF KILIMANJARO! Kyluujity DC's response to Black Panther was... yet another white superhero. After Marvel launched Black Panther, DC followed suit with their own Africa-based hero: B'wana Beast, the Jungle Master - a white dude who saved black villagers with his animal powers. The comic was soon cancelled, as no artist wanted to touch this racist crap with a 10-foot pencil. CRACKED COM — Source

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Superman used Spider- Man's catchphrase long before Spider-Man. Because of these great powers ... you have a great responsibility. Uncle Ben? Nope - Pa Kent to Clark in Superman Comes to Earth, the first-ever live-action version of the hero. The serial came out in 1948, a full 14 years before the webslinger was created. GRACKED.COM — Source

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The Democratic Republic of Congo had an imaginary minister for some time. To better his chances to be named trade minister, Honorius Kisimba Ngoy proposed himself for the position, along with a hilariously unqualified dude he made up to make himself look better. As it turned out, the prime minister disliked Kisimba so much that he picked the fake guy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gladiators were unionized. Being mostly slaves, gladiators didn't have an awful lot of rights - but they did join in collegia, sort-of unions that made sure they got some basic respect. Among other things, collegia made sure that fallen gladiators had a proper burial. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A secret Soviet weapon turned out to be bee poop. When a yellow substance began raining down on Vietnam after the war, making locals sick, the U.S. accused the Soviet Union of using chemical weapons. Then a Harvard analysis discovered it was feces dropped by airborne bees. (The sickness was actually caused by all the malnutrition and other nasty stuff in the aftermath of a long war). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Prince was (probably) one of the very first Oregon Trail players. In 1971, Prince Rogers Nelson was an 8th-grader at Bryant Junior High, in Minneapolis - meaning he was in the class of Don Rawitsch, the teacher who came up with Oregon Trail to keep his students engaged. Sadly, there's no record of how many times (if any) he died of dysentery. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There are more, not less, slaves in the world today. CRACKED COM There are more slaves in the world today (around 27 million) than were in America just before the Civil War, and possibly more than any other time in known human history. — Source

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One punishment for adultery in 4th century BC Athens was shoving a radish up the offender's butt. GRACKED COM Called rhaphanidosis, it is also allegedly a punishment for other sex-related crimes, such as promiscuity and homosexuality. — Source

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Oprah Winfrey's real name is Orpah. CRACKED.COM Orpah is a woman mentioned in the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible. Winfrey changed it simply be- cause most people mispronounced it as — Source

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Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers got their name from a packing company sponsorship. a 12 INFLI L CRACKED.COM Thanks to just $500 in sponsorship from the Indi- an Packing Company in 1919, the Packers came to be. The future NFL team's co-founder, Earl Lambeau, worked for the packing company at the time. — Source

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Prison and jail are technically not the same thing. M CRACKED COM In the U.S., jail is run by county sheriff's of- fices, while prison is run by the Prisons and Corrections office of each state. — Source

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Sitting Bull

Native American chief Sitting Bull was born Jumping Badger. GRACKED.COM His father's name was Jumping Bull and his mother's was Her-Ho- ly-Door. Не was renamed at age 14 by his father for his bravery after a raid of a Crow camp. — Source

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JFK made sure to get his hands on Cuban cigars before he placed an embargo on them. CRACKED.COM John F. Kennedy had his press secretary, Pierre Salinger, purchase 1200 of the cigars and before signing the documents that made the embargo against Cuba official. — Source

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Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name is Moon. CRACKED.COM Marion Moon was the daughter of an Army chaplain and married Buzz's father, Edwin Eugene Aldrin, a colo- nel in the U.S. Air Force. — Source

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Toronto Blue Jays catcher Reese McGuire was caught masturbating in his car. After the incident, the or- ganist at an away game against the Braves played the opening riff to Beat It by Michael Jackson as McGuire walked up to the plate. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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President Harding literally saved the US Constitution. The Constitution was deteriorating as it was improperly stored at the State Department. President Harding had it preserved in a glass case. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Brendan Fraser was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. Fraser, born to Canadian parents, was the first American-born actor to receive the honor, and still doesn't have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Churchill, Canada residents keep their car doors unlocked. Locals keep their cars accessible in order to provide other resi- dents a quick escape, should they encounter a polar bear. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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One of the most credentialed perpetual students in human history has dyslexia. Benjamin Bolger dropped out of Yale Law School when he was unable to compensate for his dyslex- ia, but enrolled in Oxford after receiving additional training. Не has since ac- quired 14 degrees. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Nearly all French wine grapes are grown on vines grafted to rootstock from Missouri. In the 1860s, phylloxera bugs threatened to destroy the vineyards, but roots from the US were resistant. Hundreds of thousands were shipped in and used to save the French vines. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A Skrillex song was found to be an effective mosquito mood killer. Wilk THE BEST GLOBAL CLUB THE BEST GLOBAL CLUB esia amne esia amne IBIZI BAL CLUB IBIZA LOBAL CLUB amnesia a amnesia HE BEST GLOBAL CLUB THE BEST GLOBAL CLUB esia amn на amne IBIZA LOBAL CLUB IBI The low-frequency vibra- tions of the song Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites were observed as a mosqui- to repellent, and mosqui- toes exposed to the song had sex far less often than those without music. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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An Olympic swimmer had never seen an olympic sized pool before competing. MYUNI SU IDMANI SARAYI Eric Moussambani record- ed the slowest time in 100m freestyle history, but won his heat as all other competitors false started. Не is now the head swim- ming coach of Equatorial Guinea. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A Belgian aristocrat flew to Brussels and machine gunned the Gestapo headquarters in WWII. Jean de Selys Longchamps gunned the Gestapo head- quarters after learning that his father had been mur- dered by the Nazis. Не was demoted for insubordina- tion but also awarded a medal for heroism. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Colombian drug smugglers built submarines in the jungle. Capable of transporting $400 million+ worth of drugs, they were nearly undetectable. Prior to 2006 the coastguard called these Bigfoot thinking their existence was only a rumor. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Five water balloons can stop a 3 speeding bullet. A 4 : CRACKED.COM Water is dense and offers a lot of resistance. The military are now researching special So4 1324 water-penetrating m ammunition. — Source

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A car dealership tried to buy Lenin's corpse. CRACKED.COM In 1991, Moscow had to issue a press release stating that, no, they weren't trying to raise money by selling Lenin's body. Forbes had run a satyrical piece making the claim, then ABC News reported it as fact, causing tons of serious inquiries to flood in from the US -- including one from a car dealership looking for a gimmick. — Source

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To know the Eiffel Tower's height, you 3 have to know the date. 2+ A 2N CRACKED.COM Thanks to summer heat, the steel expands so much halfway through the year that the tower gains more than mg So4 half a foot in height. — Source

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Jeff Bezos probably isn't richer than Augustus Caesar. CRACKED.COM It's often said that billionaire Bezos is the richest human ever to walk the planet. However, adjusted for inflation, several historical hoarders were probably trillionaires. Explains why Caesar could afford to get plugs. — Source

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A cloud 2 may P float, but it weighs a 3 million pounds. 4 +8 140 160 40 40 30 20 50 10 60 %0 70 130 80 120 180 90 110 100 120 200 100 220 80 240 60 260 0 310 O 280 CRACKED COM. A cloud might contain half a million liters of water, spread over a cubic kilometer. It floats because J the 4 air So4 below na weighs even more than that. — Source

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Not all infinities are the same size. Georg Cantor demonstrated that there are more real numbers than natural numbers, even though there's an infinite amount of each. CRACKED.COM — Source

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REMOVE ALL THE EMPTY SPACE FROM ALL THE ATOMS IN ALL OF THE PEOPLE ON PLANET EARTH... ...AND ALL OF US COMBINED WOULD EQUAL THE VOLUME OF A SUGAR CUBE. CRACKED.COM — Source

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If you were born on venus you'd celebrate your first birthday before you were even a day old. venus is the slowest rotating planet in the solar System. It can make a complete orbit around the sun in less time than it takes to rotate just once on its axis. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hitler's reputation was tarnished by a GIF. CRACKED.COM A photographer snapped a series of pics of Hitler looking very goofy on a very serious occasion. A Scottish filmmaker cut them together to make him look like the Chancellor of the Department of Silly Walks. This went as viral as a GIF could in 1940, uniting many of the Allies in mocking this monumental doofus. — Source

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THE CLOSEST U.S. STATE TO AFRICA IS MAINE. Quoddy Head Light, Maine, is about 3,154 miles from El Beddouza, compared to Florida's Singer Island which is 4,085 miles from Guerguerat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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