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A sunflower is a cluster of hundreds of flowers. CRACKED.COM What appear to be pet- als of an individual flower, are actually each individu- al complete ray flowers, and at the center is a dense pack of individual tiny disc flowers. — Source

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The 'clean plate' mentality drives us to overeat. CRACKED.COM Many of us were raised with a 'clean your plate' mentality, stem- ming from a desire to not be wasteful, but this can also lead to overconsumption. — Source

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French soldier Jean Bernadotte became king of Sweden before he ever set foot in the country. CRACKED.COM When Bernadotte showed kindness to a few Swedish soldiers, he became so popular in Sweden that they decided to make him their king when a vacancy came up, which he served until his death. — Source

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Winnipeg is the Slurpee capital of the world. SLUR PM 28az.us Warning FXW - Beafn - ONLY AT did BIO ..... 1089 qan ELEVEN Chill So الد disabled permit. LURPEE 28oz.US adidas Warning: CRACKED.COM Brain Despite being one of the coldest cities in Canada, Winnipeg has been named the Slurpee Capital by 7-Eleven for two de- cades straight. — Source

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The Post-It note was created by employees at 3M during their own permitted bootlegging time. GRACKED.COM This was company-sanc- tioned time where em- ployees are encouraged to spend 10-15% of their work hours pursuing new and personally in- teresting products. — Source

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The Norwegian prime minister received a death sentence 2 years after he introduced it to the country. CRACKED.COM Vidkun Quisling was the prime minister during the Nazi occupation and turned himself in to police in 1945, after civil leader- ship of the resistance de- manded he be treated like any other murderer. — Source

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A local boy secured the first line for the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, and was paid $5. CRACKED COM In 1848, to begin construc- tion on the bridge, engi- neers needed to secure a line across the 800-foot chasm. The lead engineer held a kite-flying contest, and the boy won. — Source

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Great white sharks can assess what food has more caloric value. CRACKED.COM Great White Sharks some- times regurgitate a bite to make room for a more ca- lorically-rich morsel, evi- dence that white sharks are adept at assessing the caloric value of their food. — Source

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The Pixar film Cars earned 22 times its total box office gross in merchandise. 95 CRACKED.COM By 2011, the sales fig- ures made Cars mer- chandise the biggest seller in history, earn- ing the company $10 billion. — Source

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Having an aversion to food after it makes you throw up just once is called the Garcia Effect. CRAGKED.COM This happens even if you know getting sick had nothing to do with the food you ate and instead was due to a virus. — Source

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A German Shepherd saved a ZOO employee by fighting an escaped jaguar in a Belgrade Zoo. CRACKED COM The security dog Gabi fought the jaguar through- out the zoo, giving police enough time to try and cap- ture it, and in failing that, to shoot it. Gabi was nursed back to health and contin- ued working at the zoo. — Source

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Water cremation takes 1/4 of the energy of heat cremation with less resulting pollutants. CRACKED COM Alkaline hydrolysis is the process of heating a body in a mix of water and po- tassium hydroxide down to its chemical components, which are then disposed of through the sewer, or as a fertilizer. — Source

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The Malaysian Exploding Ant attacks predators by... exploding. CRACKED COM When the ant's head ex- plodes during its suicide attack, it spreads a poi- sonous and corrosive glue like liquid that en- tangles and immobilizes any nearby victims. — Source

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The London Beer Flood of 1814 spilled 323,000 imperial gallons of beer into the streets. GRACKED.COM It killed eight people and destroyed two homes. The 1500 cubic meter flood was ruled as an Act of God and nobody was held re- sponsible. — Source

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Every year, the Dutch city of Breda hosts the International Redhead Day festival. CRACKED.COM Redheads from more than 80 countries gather for the festival every year. It all started in 2005 when Dutch artist Bart Rouwen- horst put out an ad to find 15 redheads to paint, and received 150 replies. — Source

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Pandora Radio didn't pay its employees for 2 years. 10 CRACKED.COM Pandora co-founder Tim Westergren claimed he didn't know he was break- ing the law. It took ven- ture capital money in 2004, and two lawsuits, to pay the 50 employees the $2 million owed. — Source

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The term Boycott comes from a landlord everyone hated. s VIVA BOYCOTT A bp CRACKED.COM During the Irish Land War in 1880, absentee land- lord Captain Charles Boy- cott was subject to social ostracism when he at- tempted to evict eleven tenants from the land. — Source

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The largest movement of physical wealth in human history was Operation Fish during WWII. R.A.B.R WENT. GOLD 6505 BASE GOLD GRACKED.COM 186,332 gold bars and more than 8 million ounces of gold coins were sent to Canada from the UK with not even one crate or trea- sury bill going missing. — Source

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A newborn's first poop can be used to determine if the parents keep or lose their baby. CRACKED.COM Meconium, the first bowel movement of an infant, can be tested to determine if the mother smoked, drank or engaged in drug use during pregnancy. — Source

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Prussian King Frederick William I had a regiment of very tall men, known as the Potsdam Giants. CRACKED COM The taller they were, the more they were paid - and they were paired with tall women, to breed giant sol- diers. However, they were never sent on active ser- vice, as they were too valu- able. — Source

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In 1985, Disney released Return to OZ, a sequel to 'The Wizard of OZ'. GRACKED COM While being more true to the original novels, it was considered not friendly for children. At the begin- ning of the movie, Doro- thy is receiving electro- shock therapy. — Source

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People who play video games are more likely to be lucid dreamers than those who don't. NDTIT GEN CRACKED.COM Psychologist Jayne Gacken- bach says gaming can be viewed as practice for lu- cid dreaming. Gamers are used to controlling their game environments, so that can translate into dreams. — Source

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Shirley Temple's hair routine involved setting the curls nightly and weekly vinegar rinses that burned her eyes. CRACKED.COM A rumor spread sug- gesting the child ac- tor wore a wig. This led to fans on multi- ple occasions yank- ing at her hair to test the rumor. — Source

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The 1974 book ban by fundamentalist Christians in Kanawha County became extremely violent. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X CRACKED.COM They were so upset over im- moral books like Autobiog- raphy of Malcolm X being in- troduced they dynamited a school, attacked school buses with shotguns, and planted a bomb at a school board member's home. — Source

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The equipment to measure a nuclear bomb was vaporized during the blast in 1954. CRACKED.COM The Castle Bravo test ended up accidentally being three times stron- ger than expected due to a miscalculation, making it the largest in US history. — Source

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Marvel had a villain called Asbestos Lady that fought with the Human Torch. CRACKED.COM Victoria Murdock died of idiopathic mesothelioma at age 45 (presum- ably from asbestos exposure). — Source

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Niels Bohr was gifted a house with free beer for life on winning the Nobel. CRACKED COM A beer pipeline was connected from the Carlsberg brewery next door to this house. Bohr stayed there from 1932 until his death in 1962. — Source

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Pieces of the first airplane made it to the moon. CRACKED.COM When Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he carried with him the fabric and wood pieces from the Wright brothers' first airplane. — Source

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Borneo pitcher plants get nitrogen from tree shrew poop. GRACKED COM The tree shrews feed on the nectar on the leaves and deposit their feces into the pitcher plants, using them like nature's toi- let. — Source

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A man jumped into the tiger enclosure at the Bronx Zoo in 2012. GRACKED COM David Villalobos intention- ally jumped off of the monorail to be 'one with the tiger.' Не survived, and when the police asked him why he did it he replied: everyone in life makes choices. — Source

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A Scottish folk singer named Shelagh McDonald abruptly and mysteriously vanished in 1972. CRACKED.COM After an article about her disap- pearance was published in 2005, Shelagh turned up at the Scottish Daily Mail office and explained that a disastrous LSD trip had ru- ined her voice and her mental health. She had been living a no- madic life off the grid, in a tent. — Source

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The Inland Taipan kills you by overloading your kidney with dissolving muscle. CRACKED.COM Your muscles start to dis- solve into your blood after a bite from Inland Taipan. The victim typically dies due to kidney failure as kidneys cannot handle pro- cessing all the dissolved muscle tissue. — Source

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It only takes one single snowflake to make a white Christmas in the UK. CRACKED.COM In the UK, a White Christmas is defined as one snowflake to be observed falling in the 24 hours of 25 De- cember somewhere in the UK. — Source

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A British farmer exploited a legal loophole while building a faux castle. CRACKED.COM Robert Fidler in Surrey built the castle and hid it behind a towering wall of haystacks and tarps for 4 years, since a legal loophole said a building was legal if no one com- plained about its presence for 4 years. — Source

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A streamer ship named SS Warrimoo positioned itself so it skipped the date of December 31st. CRACKED.COM At midnight on December 30th, 1899, the ship sat at the intersection of the dateline and equator, such that the bow and stern ос- cupied different seasons, hemispheres, days, years, and centuries. — Source

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Astronauts often see random flashes of light in space, even through their closed eyes. CRACKED.COM This is caused by cosmic rays passing through their eyes or optical nerves. Scientists think the light is either gen- erated by Cherenkov radia- tion or by the ray being pow- erful enough to activate the optical nerve. — Source

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J. R. R. Tolkien began work on The Hobbit one day early in the 1930s. CRACKED.COM While he was marking school papers, he found a blank page. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit. — Source

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Alien hand syndrome is a rare neurological disorder in which one hand functions involuntarily. GRAGKED.COM AHS differs from other conditions of involuntary limb movement in that the actions of the affected limb have purpose and are goal-oriented. The affect- ed hand will pick up an ob- ject and attempt to use it. — Source

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