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In It, when Pennywise's eyes look in opposite directions, that's not an effect. Bill Skarsgård can really do that with his eyes, so he did it in the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Eric Bana made $550 off Brad Pitt in Troy. They had an agreement that they'd pay each other for hits during training for their fight scene - - 550 for minor ones, and $100 for major ones. Eric Bana apparently got a whacking, because Pitt had to pay him $750 while he had to pay Pitt $200. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The San Diego ZOO has the world's first frozen zoo. FROZEN ZOO SK DORA-GYL NITROGEN It stores the living tissues and stem cells of over a thousand animal species in freezers (like the facility in Jurassic Park, just not for dinosaurs). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In First Man, they recorded the sound of Ryan Gosling's breathing with a real lunar helmet. Gosling breathed through the helmet worn by Apollo 16 astronaut John Young. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A giant paperclip-like creature roamed the seas 68 million years ago. Diplomoceras maximum was about five feet long, similar to a squid, and had a shell shaped like a paperclip. D. maximum's lifespan might have been 200 years, and it grew a new rib on its shell each year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Australia, there's a fire that started burning before the pyramids were built. A coal seam under the surface of Mount Wingen began smoldering 6,000 years ago, and hasn't stopped since. It's the world's oldest continuous coal fire. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In a Pittsburgh courthouse, a lawyer suddenly dropped his pants. It wasn't exhibitionism or anything: his suspenders were setting off the metal detector, so he took off his pants so he could go through. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Kansas City, one guy robbed a store and took nothing but $100 of toilet paper. After his card was declined, he tried to leave with a cart full of toilet paper anyway and pulled a gun on an employee who tried to stop him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Minnesota, police were called to break up an eagle fight on the street. Two bald eagles were somehow stuck together on a road, probably fighting over territory, and a cop was called in to separate them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Apparently, Prince Andrew was very particular about his teddy bears. That's what former royal cop Paul Page says - the maids had to put all 50-60 of his bears back in just the right way, or he'd scream, says Page. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One Chinese couple had gotten trapped on a lockdown date, but it worked out. They had a date in mid-December that was supposed to last one day - but then a sudden lockdown was announced, so they stayed together. Eventually, they got engaged. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A Japanese firefighter took a pay cut because of his YouTube channel. It was a gaming channel, and he'd made thousands of dollars in profit from ads -- so the authorities docked his pay by 10%, because he'd profited from ads, some of which could be inappropriate in nature, CRACKED.COM said a city official. — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The Taliban are cracking down hard on members committing abuses. 3,000 members of the Taliban got kicked out - - they were accused of committing abuses in Afghanistan and, according to a Taliban official, They were giving a bad name to the Islamic Emirate. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A Philly woman who's 106 years old credits her life to an all-American diet. Specifically, she says that it was faith and Big Macs that allowed her to live this long. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A British store made its sausages only available to people over 18. It was a truly dumb mix-up - they mistakenly listed saucisson sec as secateurs, which was a bladed item, and people who wanted to buy it had to prove they were of age. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD An entire Spanish town has come together to hunt Galician Rambo. They think an infamous convicted murderer, who's a skilled survivalist, is living in the nearby woods, so they've gotten together to track him down. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pumpkin Spice

PUMPKIN SPICE IS SEASONAL ONLY BECAUSE OF MARKETING. The spice is unrelated to the pumpkin harvest, as it isn't made with pumpkins. There's no reason why you shouldn't be able to enjoy it all year long. It's artificially limited to fall to drive demand up. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRAGKED.COM AMERICAN EXPRESS (THE CARD) IS MUCH NEWER THAN AMERICAN EXPRESS (THE COMPANY). American Express was founded as a AM, EX.CO shipping business in 1850, over 100 years EXPRESS er AMERICAN before it issued its first credit card. AMERICAN EXPRESS WORLD SERVICE AMERICAN EXPRE RICAN EXPRESS AMERICA PRESS MER RESSI WORLD SERV WORLD SERVICE SS AMERICAN EXPRESS — Source

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FANTA WAS THROWN TOGETHER BECAUSE OF 100% NATURAL FLAVORS CAFFEINE FREE HITLER. The German branch of Coca-Cola created the Fant fruity beverage to get ORANGE SODA around trade NATURALLY FLAVORED embargoes during World War II. The name comes from the German word for imagination - as they were told to use their imaginations to come up with a name. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Twinkies contain beef fat. It makes them less unhealthy - beef fat is used partly because it has no trans fats, which are bad for your heart. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Most of 2018's biggest skincare products used snail slime. CRACKED.COM — Source

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DO YOU LIKE YOUR CANDY RED? OR YOUR LIPSTICK? THATS CARMINE FOR YOU... ... A RED DYE MADE BY HARVESTING, DEHYDRATING AND CRUSHING THOUSANDS OF FEMALE COCHINEAL INSECTS. CRACKED COM — Source

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Blood Glue

Blood glue is an adhesive used in manufacturing plywood and other wood products. It is also commonly used in food packaging, due to its odorless and nontoxic properties. As the name implies, it is made from fresh animal blood, or dried soluble beef blood. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED.COM Among the ingredients found in toothpaste: diatoms -microscopic, single-celled algae. = Diatoms have glass-like outer cell walls that scrape food from teeth. — Source

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Kate Winslet keeps her Oscar in the bathroom. CRACKED.COM Winslet won the Best Ac- tress Oscar in 2009 for The Reader, and keeps it so that her guests can hold it and make acceptance speeches in the mirror without feeling self-conscious. — Source

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Bill Cosby gave back a custom AC Cobra Supersnake because he couldn't control it. CRACKED.COM American automotive de- signer Carroll Shelby gave Cosby the car in 1966, but it was too fast for him. The next owner lost control and drove it off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean. — Source

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An early version of the Game of Thrones theme can be found on the soundtrack to the first 'Iron Man! CRACKED.COM 18 seconds into 'Mark Il' you can hear composer Ramin Djawadi wrestling with the notes that will three years later become part of the Game of Thrones tune. — Source

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A doctor in a rubber mask was vital to getting homosexuality off the list of mental disorders. CRACKED.COM Dr. John Fryer of Philadel- phia appeared at the 1972 APA convention wearing a (somewhat terrifying) rub- ber mask to deliver a speech about the hard- ships of being a psychia- trist and gay. — Source

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Chloe Grace Moretz faked a British accent when she auditioned for her role in 'Hugo.' CRACKED.COM Moretz heard that Martin Scorsese was looking to cast a Brit- ish actress. When she got the part, she had to come clean. — Source

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'Looney Tunes' started off as a way for Warner Bros. to promote their music catalog. LOONEY REG TUNES PAT.OFF. U.S. CRACKED.COM The title of the first Looney Tunes short, 'Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930)', is a pun on 'Singin' in the Bathtub,' a song written in 1929 for the film The Show of Shows. — Source

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Angelina Jolie had to wear bra padding in the first Tomb Raider movie to match the video game character. CRACKED CON Jolie wore considerably less or no padding in the sequel, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, as the decision was made to give Lara more realistic dimensions. — Source

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No one knows where the missing Russian bioweapon missiles are. CRACKED.COM Even after signing a treaty banning bio-weapons, the Soviet Union built ICBMs that could be loaded with weaponized smallpox, an- thrax, typhus, and rabies. After the fall of the USSR, most of them were lost. — Source

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In 1896, Auburn students greased the train tracks leading in and out of the local station. GRACKED COM When Georgia Tech's train came into town, it skidded through town and didn't stop for five more miles. The GT football team had to make the trek back to town, then went on to lose, 45-0. — Source

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Workers in a Peru gold mine are paid in whatever they can carry out. CRACKED.COM Employees work for 30 days without payment, and on the 31st day they are al- lowed to take as much ore as they can carry. Whatev- er the miners are able to extract from that ore is theirs. — Source

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