30 Bits of Secret Knowledge to Smuggle Into Your Brain

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30 Bits of Secret Knowledge to Smuggle Into Your Brain

There are some people who really don’t want you to know these facts. But doesn’t that make knowing them way more fun? We’re bursting with exhilaration right now! That probably reveals how little we touch grass, but secretive facts amp us right up, and we don’t care who knows it. Here, get some kicks out of them too before we have to delete them for security reasons.

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CRACKED SHADY TIES MICHELLE PFEIFFER AND THE BREATHARIANS The group claims to get all their nourishment from the sun. They were very controlling, Pfeiffer said. I had to pay for all the time I was there, so it was financially draining. When researching cults for a film, she realized she was in one, and left.

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CRACKED GIOVANNI DI STEFANO WAS THE (FAKE) LAWYER TO THE (EVIL) STARS. Не presented himself as a lawyer to the likes of Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milošević, earning himself the nickname the Devil's Advocate before it was revealed that he had zero legal credentials in addition to scruples.

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A luxury apartment sits at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Gustave Eiffel had it built for himself when the tower went up, and kept it secret for a long time. He'd get offered crazy sums for a night in it, but always said no. It didn't open to the public until 2015, 90 years after he died. CRACKED.COM

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Under the Lincoln Memorial, there's a cavern with dirty graffiti. The Memorial is kept up by support beams, which are in a Moria-esque underground hall. And the construction workers must have been really bored, because they left it full of graffiti that's a mix of porn doodles and dirty words. One just says boobies. CRACKED.COM

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GRACKED.COM and but Gir adidas BY Pass AND STOP have BOGLAH The wide crack on the Liberty Bell was actually the repair job. In the early 1840s, a narrow crack appeared on the bell, so the workers decided to widen it in order to prevent it from spreading. It didn't work, though, as the crack spread even further, permanently damaging the bell in the process.

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White slaves helped end slavery. The American North wasn't much less racist than the South, and many weren't sold on the whole emancipation thing. To win them over, abolitionists started highlighting white slaves on popular magazines (who were enslaved because they had some black ancestor). Suddenly, owning people seemed inhumane. CRACKED.COM

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overeager investors bought shares for the wrong Twitter. Some time before Twitter went public in 2013, investors spotted some very cheap shares with the code TWTRQ, and snapped them up thinking they were out early. As it turned out, those were for a company called Tweeter Audio and Video - and were dirt cheap because the outfit had just gone bankrupt. CRACKED.COM

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