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May 03, 2024

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Okay, okay, they haven’t recently confirmed this. Our apologies. We had a gut feeling that facts cause little brain sparks that we were very much hoping neurology would explain. Either way, help us prove our gut’s theory by feeling each one of these!

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Arnold Schwarzenegger has said I'll be back in other movies besides the Terminator franchise. Eleven other movies, to be exact. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Casting director Janet Hirshenson saw Wallace Shawn's performance in My Dinner With Andre and cast him in The Princess Bride. Her fondness for how Shawn said the word inconceivable played no small part in the decision. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Flintstones was groundbreaking for its time. HOME It was the first show to depict a couple sleeping in the same bed, and also dealt with heavy issues like suicide and infertility. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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At $5,000 a pound, saffron is easily the world's most expensive spice. It's because each pound takes approximately 75,000 flowers, which must each be hand-picked. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The phrase pull out all the stops comes from the pipe organ. Each set of pipes has a knob called a stop. Pulling them all out makes the biggest sound. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Composer Alex North didn't know his music was cut from 2001: A Space Odyssey until he saw the premiere. Stanley Kubrick used classical music (which was originally just a placeholder), and never bothered telling North that he dropped his soundtrack. North was shocked, and always believed Kubrick had totally undervalued him. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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David Lynch's 2006 Oscar campaign involved sitting by the road with a cow. DER LAURA Не was convinced Laura Dern should be nominated for an Oscar for her role in his movie Inland Empire - and he sat at a roadside corner in Hollywood, next to a cow and a big picture of her, where he'd talk to people who stopped by and explain what he was doing. It didn't work. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A man punched a hole through a $10 million Monet painting Не was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Не is banned from art galleries until 15 months after his release. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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James Earl Jones didn't speak for eight years. After moving across the country as a child, he began stuttering due to the trauma of being separated from his mother (she didn't come along) and of almost being left behind by his family. Не stopped speaking, because other kids made fun of him - - until, in high school, an English teacher had him read poetry out loud. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Greek and Roman sculptures were painted in bright colors The pigments have faded over time. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lions are actually surprisingly fast. 27% Their top speed is just over 50 miles per hour. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ken Allen the orangutan escaped from his ZOO enclosure multiple times The Hairy Houdini would stroll around looking at other animals in the zoo. Не taught other orangutans how to escape. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Very soon, quantum computing might be able to totally break Bitcoin's security. Bitcoin only works because, to crack its security, you'd need insane computing power - and quantum computers could easily provide that by 2027 or so. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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There are 30 to 60 ships buried under San Francisco. The ships remain from the Gold Rush, during the time the city decided to move the shoreline. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nicki Minaj worked at multiple Red Lobsters before she was famous She was fired from multiple locations. She once followed a customer who hadn't tipped and taken her pen out to their car. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A pet cemetery in England offered burial ground for dead Tamagotchi chi People shipped their toys from all over the world to their final resting place. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Arby's bought Dunkin for $11.3 billion ROAST BEEF Sandwich IS DELICIOUS. Arby's Several years prior, Arby's bought Buffalo Wild Wings for $2.9 billion. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The hand of the Statue of Liberty sat in an NYC park for six years. They sent the hand (with the torch) to be displayed in the US to raise the funds needed for finishing the statue - it took years, but it worked. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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If you eat too much meat that only has protein, you'll eventually die. Apparently, the liver can only process so much protein at once-so you need to add lots of fat, or you'll undergo protein poisoning AKA rabbit starvation. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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It turns out that dinosaurs could get arthritis, too, the same way we do. That's what multiple studies say - and, for example, a T-Rex found in 1990 (nicknamed Sue) might have been suffering from gout. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A surprisingly high number of 18th-century pirates were actually from Africa. The reason for that is pretty simple - a pirate ship was one of the few places at that time where a slave could actually free themselves. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Here Be Dragons wasn't actually a regularly used phrase on medieval maps. It's only been recorded one single time, on a 16th-century globe (Hic sunt dracones, in Latin) - that's it. It doesn't seem any other map ever used it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ancient Egyptians mummified cats SO they could follow people in death. Plus, cats represented gods, and gods were happy to get, uh, offerings of cats. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Centuries ago, they believed that witches literally kissed the Devil's ass. It was called the Kiss of Shame, and the belief was that it was how witches said hello to Satan. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kevin Smith attended a protest for his own movie, Dogma. When an unwitting reporter asked for a comment, Smith said, I don't know, but I've been told, 'not good.''' NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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James Bond first appeared in 1953 and through all the books & movies... On HER MAJESTYS SECRET SERVICE There has been one monarch of Britain: Queen Elizabeth II. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A fan drove three hours 15,000, to bring rapper Boosie OVER 0743,000,000 IN CASH PR OVER 1175.004.000 FB PRIZES FROM $500 UP Badazz some much-needed WINNING NOMBERS DC 7 insulin to his home. YOUR WUNDERS S S $ $ PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE $ 99 $ 99 PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE 99 3 99 55 $ PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE $ PRIZE 69 S PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE 65 the IG $ PRIZE PRIZE STUD She refused payment but stopped to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket after leaving the house and won $14,000. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Consumers did not buy tater tots at first because they were too cheap. CRACKED.COM When Tater Tots first hit store shelves in 1956, they were so inexpensive that there was no perceived value. When the price was raised by stores, people began buying the product. — Source

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It became Jewish law that any woman could divoce her husband if he became a dyer. CRACKED.COM Making a purple pigment used to dye clothes for royal- ty in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome involved harvest- ing the pigment from rotting snails, which smelled so bad that the divorce law was spe- cifically written. — Source

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A sausage being called a banger comes from WWI food shortages. GRACKED.COM Meat shortages forced sausages to be made with high water content, causing them to burst when being cooked, hence the name. — Source

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Moscow only had six minutes of sunlight in December of 2017. CRACKED.COM They usually get a whop- ping 18 hours of sun for the month, but a wall of cloud that never moved sat over the city thanks to cyclone anomalies over the Atlantic and warmer tem- peratures. — Source

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The rules of chess were changed in the 15th-century to reflect the accomplishments of Queen Isabella. CRACKED.COM The Queen's arrival at the siege of Baza, in 1489, boosted morale and led to the Crusader's victory. In response, the unofficial Queen chess piece was given a stronger standing and more mobility. — Source

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The original author of the Forrest Gump novel wrote a sequel to the book. The Rollicking Sequel to the #1 New York Times Bestseller Forrest Gump GRACKED.COM It was titled Gump and Co, and in it Gump crashes the Exx- on Valdez, helps de- stroy the Berlin Wall, and fights in Opera- tion Desert Storm. — Source

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Napping after learning leads to a significantly better recall rate one week later. GRAGKED.COM When tested 30 minutes after learning, cramming and napping led to signifi- cantly better memory than taking a break. After a week, napping maintained this significant advantage, but cramming did not. — Source

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A teenager survived a plane crash still strapped to his seat after being ejected from the plane. TOP CRACKED.COM In 1985, a 17-year old named George Lamson Jr. was ejected from Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 upon the crash, and landed up- right in his seat in the mid- dle of a street. Не was the only survivor. — Source

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