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Anton syndrome is a type of blindness where individuals deny being blind. CRACKED.COM The blindness occurs in the brain's vision area rather than the eyes. Doctors theorize sufferers deny being blind because their eyes still work. — Source

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The first female state senator to be elected in the United States ran against her own husband. GRACKED.COM Martha Hughes Cannon was a Mormon polygamous wife, earned four degrees by age 25, opened a private prac- tice, was a suffragist, and beat her husband to be a Utah State Senator in 1896. — Source

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Jet Li hasn't been a Chinese citizen since 2003. CRACKED.COM Li became a United States citizen from 2003 to 2009, and has been a naturalized Singaporean citizen since 2009. Не said he chose Singapore for its education system for his two younger daughters. — Source

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A man named Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja grew up in the wild amongst the wolves. CRACKED.COM Marco didn't rejoin hu- man kind until he was 19-years-old. In 2018, he expressed he was disap- pointed with humanity and wished to return to the wild. — Source

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In 1978, Australian pilot Frederick Valentich and his plane disappeared during a supposed UFO encounter. GRACKED COM His last communication was Melbourne, that strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again... (two seconds open micro- phone)... it is hovering and it's not an aircraft... — Source

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Space Jam was created after a successful Super Bowl commercial. CRACKED.COM In 1992, Nike made a com- mercial where an animated Bugs Bunny played basket- ball with a real-live Michael Jordan. Warner Brothers decided to turn it into a whole movie since it was so well received. — Source

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In one scene in Swingers, sirens can be heard from the state troopers arriving to shut down filming. GRAGKED.COM Avram Ludwig pretended to have a phone call with the producer who had a permit in front of one trooper, with the producer on the other end of the call not knowing what he was talking about. — Source

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A Fitbit played a role in solving a murder. CRACKED.COM Using the Wife's Fitbit and analyzing her movements, analysts were able to create a timeline that proved the husband had cre- ated a false story. — Source

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The Peel P50 car was designed for a single driver and one shopping bag. - TRIDENT CRACKED.COM Because it had no re- verse gear, drivers had to walk out of the car and physically drag it around, which was do- able because it weighed only 130lbs. — Source

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A Canadian hitchhiking robot relied on the kindness of strangers to travel from place to place. CRACKED COM It had its arms and head ripped off after one day in Philadel- phia, having traveled peacefully around Canada for 26 days. — Source

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The Chinese Army has 10,000 trained pigeons in the event that war renders its modern technology unusable. CRACKED.COM The pigeons, flying at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour, are being trained to car- ry loads of up to 3.5 oz. — Source

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In 1992, Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori initiated a self-coup. CRACKED.COM Despite already being the democratic ruler of the country, he overthrew the Congress and Judiciary with military force and assumed full autocratic power. — Source

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Starsky & Hutch was based on two real-life NYC cops. CRACKED.COM Lou Telano and John Sepe went undercov- er as Hasidic Jews, gay lovers, and fe- male nurses in the 1960s and 1970s. — Source

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A flying pig caused Heathrow Airport to cancel all their flights. CRACKED COM When Pink Floyd was de- signing the iconic 'Animals' album cover, the inflatable pig tied to Battersea Pow- er Station broke free. It fi- nally landed on a farm in Kent, where it frightened a herd of cows. — Source

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Wendy's chocolate Frosty is actually half chocolate and half vanilla. CRACKED.COM Owner Dave Thomas thought full chocolate would be too over- powering a flavor paired with their burger and fries meal. — Source

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A Triad boss named Du Yuesheng was granted the rank of general in the Nationalist Chinese army. CRACKED.COM Не became head of the Opium Suppres- sion Bureau, which he used to seize opium to be sold by his own criminal organization. — Source

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In 1861, Japan had an illustrated history of America. CRACKED.COM It depicted, among other things, John Adams stabbing a giant snake, and George Washington punching a Ti- ger. It's no more fantastical than what they teach us in school, to be fair. — Source

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As many as 20 networks rejected the Duffer Brothers' Stranger Things series. CRACKED.COM One executive said they need to make it a kids show or have an adult character (Jim Hopper) be the main protagonist instead. — Source

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Japanese high school curriculum usually leaves out the early 1900s to WWII. CRACKED.COM Only 19 of the book's 357 pages dealt with events be- tween 1931 and 1945, said Mariko Oi, who attended high school in Tokyo. There was also just one sentence on the atomic bombings of Hiroshi- ma and Nagasaki. — Source

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There is a rare mental disease called the Rapunzel Syndrome. The disorder causes a patient to develop an irresistible urge to pull out their own hair, and sometimes eat it. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Honey badgers get honey by making a stink so powerful that a hive full of bees will flee. Honey badgers emit smelly, suffocating se- cretions from its anal glands to fumigate hives, causing bees to flee and leave their hon- ey for easy pickings. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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British politician John Stonehouse faked his death in November 1974, leaving a pile of clothes on a beach in Miami. It was presumed he had gone swimming and drowned. But Stonehouse was actually en route to Australia to set up a new life with his mistress and secretary, Sheila Buckley. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Keira Knightley's name is an accidental misspelling. Keira was meant to be named Kira, after the Russian ice skater, Kira Ivanova, but her mother misspelled the name when she went to register her. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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NASA planned to have a manned mission to Mars in 1981 or 1983. NASA If funding had remained at 1969 Apollo mission levels, NASA planned to develop such elements as a lunar orbit station in 1978, and a lunar surface base in 1980. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Only one to two fatal stingray attacks are reported each year worldwide. When Steve Irwin was killed in a stingray at- tack in 2006, he was only the second re- ported fatality in Aus- tralia since 1945. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The Poison Squad helped spur the creation of the FDA. From 1902-1907, a group of 12 scientists regularly ate dangerous, common food additives that had previ- ously been untested, such as formaldehyde, and doc- umented how they reacted to them. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Babies in Spain get their original sin removed by having people jump over them. The annual holiday El Cola- cho (Baby Jumping) in Spain features men dressed as dev- ils jumping over babies lying on mattresses. Pope Bene- dict XVI asked Spanish priests to distance them- selves from the holiday. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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In January 2018, Belgium and the Netherlands swapped land to change their national borders. Grote Polder via Zoeterwoude-Rijndijk KMWS Belgium's foreign minister noted that the agreement shows that borders can also be ex- changed peacefully. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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People with Misophonia are triggered by common sounds such as chewing and loud breathing Reactions range from dis- comfort to sharp anger to physical violence. There's no cure, but if one is diag- nosed there are coping mechanisms that can im- prove one's quality of life. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Duolingo users help the service make money by translating real documents. Duolingo has contracts with websites like CNN's to translate stories and is earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with this business model. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A US baseball team in the 1910s was made up of death row prisoners. The Wyoming State Peni- tentiary's All Stars had an agreement with their pris- on's baseball-obsessed warden that if they kept winning, their executions would be delayed. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Henry Winkler's parents escaped Nazi Germany on the last day Jews were allowed to leave. Since they were given only a six-week visa, Henry's fa- ther hid his mother's jewel- ry inside pieces of choco- late to covertly take as much wealth with them as they could without being detected by the Nazis. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Tetrachromatic Super Vision may help some women see 100 million colors. Some women can have a genetic mutation that causes them to gain a 4th color-vision cone in their eyes, allowing them to see millions of more colors. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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In 1906, a man named Joe Munch in Seattle was sentenced to one minute in jail for drunkenness and disorder. The original sentence was 30 days, but after an appeal and 6 months of litigation, it was shortened to one minute. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Actor Clark Gable fought in World War 2 and was almost killed. When word of this reached MGM, studio executives began to badger the Army Air Forces to reassign him to non combat duty. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Gene Roddenberry was once in a plane crash in the desert in Syria. With two broken ribs, he repeatedly went back into the burning plane to evacuate passengers, then organized search teams to look for civili- zation. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Victor Hugo wrote the Hunchback of Notre-Dame to inform people of the value of Gothic architecture. Much of it was being ne- glected and destroyed at the time. This explains the large descriptive sec- tions of the book, which far exceed the require- ments of the story. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Kevin Feige was hired on to the first X-Men film as an assistant. Feige was eventually given an associate producer credit when another producer dis- covered he was a walking encyclopedia of Marvel. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Submarine Escape Immersion Equipment acts as a one-man life raft. If a submarine is downed and there is no submarine rescue vehi- cle nearby, the crew put on special pressur- ized suits which float them to the top. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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