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May 13, 2024

Good facts are a lot like hotel housekeepers. They knock first, make sure your brain is ready for them and then yell “coming in” before actually entering. Forgettable facts are like those pre-teen kids playing in the hotel hallways after a travel hockey game. They’ll knock on your brain, but run away before you can open the door.

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CRACKED HUMAN GERMS LAST FOR CENTURIES ON MOUNT EVEREST. This is due to the frigid, germ-preserving temperatures. — Source

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CRACKED A TEMPLE IN INDIA COLLECTS OVER A TON OF HAIR A DAY FROM PEOPLE WHO CUT IT OFF AS AN OFFERING. The temple then sells the hair, making it one of the richest temples in the world. — Source

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GRACKED COLD FEET ACTUALLY DO HELP YOU RUN AWAY. Stress hormones pull blood away from your feet and to your heart and lungs so that you can more easily run away. — Source

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CRACKED ONLY 6 PEOPLE ARE KNOWN TO HAVE SURVIVED RABIES. Still, the rabies virus is considered the only virus on earth to have a 100% fatality rate. — Source

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GRACKED KLAUS, THE FAMOUSLY GERMAN FISH FROM AMERICAN DAD, WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO BE FRENCH. They changed him to German after hearing the voice actor's great German accent. — Source

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CRACKED THE LAST SOLDIER TO DIE IN WORLD WAR 2 WAS SHOT 9 MINUTES AFTER A CEASEFIRE WAS CALLED. The person who shot him did not know a ceasefire had been announced and later apologized. — Source

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CRACKED IN THE WEEKS FOLLOWING STEVE IRWIN'S DEATH, PEOPLE KILLED A BUNCH OF STINGRAYS. These stingrays, obviously, had nothing to do with Steve's death - people are just dumb. — Source

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GRACKED A GUY ON THE PRICE IS RIGHT ONCE GUESSED A HAMMOCK COST $7,000. 9 O 2 23 To be fair, it was $880, which is also insane. — Source

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GRACKED WILLIAM SHATNER ONCE PERFORMED STAND-UP COMEDY AS CAPTAIN KIRK. Shatner reports it went terribly. — Source

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CRACKED JOHN HURT'S CHEST-BURSTING SCENE: REAL REACTIONS, REAL BLOOD, REAL SCREAMS. The actors in the first Alien movie had no idea what would happen during the famous chest-bursting scene with John Hurt. Their reactions were real, including Veronica Cartwright's scream when she got sprayed with blood. — Source

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CRACKED SUBMARINES HAVE XBOX CONTROLLERS - BECAUSE WHY NOT? In 2017, the US Navy announced they'd be swapping out the expensive and complicated helicopter-style control sticks for Xbox 360 controllers to more easily navigate periscopes on submarines. — Source

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CRACKED WHALES: OCEANIC TRENDSETTERS. In 1987, a female killer whale in the Puget Sound was seen with a dead salmon on her nose. This unusual behavior quickly spread to the other whales in the area, and within six weeks all three pods were doing it. — Source

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CRACKED IDA WOOD: FROM SOUTHERN BELLE TO RECLUSE. In 1907, socialite Ida Wood sold off her valuable items and took out almost a million dollars from her bank. She then vanished and moved into a hotel, where she stayed for 24 years until her sister passed away in 1931. — Source

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When a cat pees on your stuff, you might think he hates you. But the truth is, he's into you. An insecure cat wants to establish a bond with you, so he might pee on your things in order to mingle his scent with yours. He's saying, you and me, right? That cat needs confidence, and to feel secure. CRACKED GOM https://youtu.be/KEbbxxd2XF4 — Source

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You might think your cat brings you prey to please you. It's actually trying to teach you to hunt. Cats are natural hunters, and yours has noticed that you're absolutely terrible at killing your own food. So like a mother raising its kitten, your cat brings you prey (often still alive) to help you learn to hunt. CRACKED COM http://nicolaas. articlealley com/why-cats-bring-in-dead-animals-460709 html — Source

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DOGS POOP IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELDS. They also prefer to poop with their bodies aligned with a North-South axis. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kitten Belly Rubs

Your cat showing you his belly might seem like a trap. It's really a sign of trust. Most cat owners have experienced it-seeing their cat splayed on his back, belly to the air, then reaching in to pet the cat and getting scratched. So they assume it's a form of play. It isn't. It's comparable to a human hug, where you press your body against another person. He's exposing his belly to say, I trust you. CRACKED COM — Source

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Hypoallergenic dog breeds don't exist. 27% Allergic reactions are usually caused by proteins in the urine and saliva of dogs and cats, not their fur. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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When your cat leaves his poop unburied, you might think he's just being careless. The truth is, he's leaving a message. Normally cats are quite tidy with their turds, leaving them in litter boxes and carefully covering them up. But when your cat drops a log in the box-or worse, outside the box-exposed and uncovered, he's saying, Attention other cats: this is my territory. So, there's another cat making him feel threatened. http ://www petplace. .om/article/cats/behavior-training/ CRACKED COM understanding-your-cat/why-do-cats-cover-their-waste — Source

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While swallowing, a frog's eyes retract down towards its esophagus. GRAGKED.COM Eye retraction may aid swallowing by helping to push food back to- ward the esophagus, but this hypothesis has never been tested. — Source

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Immaculate Innings

There were more 'immaculate innings' in 2017 than from 1929-1952. NEW YORK 34 CRACKED.COM An immaculate inning is when a baseball pitcher strikes out three batters with only nine pitches. 1929 to 1952 saw zero such innings, while there were 8 in 2017 alone. — Source

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Pirates wore earrings because they thought it improved their eyesight. CRACKED.COM Some pirates were convinced that wearing an earring would improve or even cure bad eyesight, as they be- lieved that the precious met- als in an earring possessed magical healing powers. — Source

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The official color of the Golden Gate Bridge is International Orange. CRACKED.COM Architect Irving F. Morrow undertook color studies, which resulted in the unique color because it blended well with the near- by hills and contrasted with the ocean and sky. — Source

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Tea bricks were used as currency in some places until World War II. CRACKED.COM In Tibet, tea bricks were in such demand that swords, horses and other property were sometimes priced in a given num- ber of tea bricks. — Source

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Jimmy Carter filed a report in 1973 for a UFO sighting four years prior. CRACKED.COM Carter, as well as 10 to 12 other people who wit- nessed the same event, described the object as 'very bright chang- ing colors and about the size of the moon.' — Source

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Nearly all the garlic consumed in the U.S. comes from Gilroy, California. GRACKED.COM The area grows around 90 percent of the garlic Americans eat, which is around 150 million pounds per year. — Source

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All blue-eyed people are related to a mutant named The Founder. GRACKED.COM Danish researchers believe the identical gene sequence displayed in blue eyed indi- viduals comes from a single person called the found- er, whose genes mutated between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. — Source

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There's a company that turns dead bodies into an ocean reef. GRACKED COM Eternal Reefs mixes the cremated remains of a person with con- crete, which is then encased in a reef ball that is dropped into the sea. — Source

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The name bonobo resulted from a misspelling. CRACKED © COM Researchers reputedly first found the animals in the town of Bolobo, Zaire, in the '20s, but the name of the place was mis- spelled Bonobo on the shipping crate. — Source

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