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May 22, 2024

If you were on a hike, we’d never condone taking little chunks of wood off of the trees. But the tree of knowledge is a whole different story. Because what is a fact if it isn’t a little knowledge tree chunk? Not to mention, it’d be impossible to take all that knowledge in at once, so the tree is completely okay with our pocket knife and basket combo. Here’s what we picked off today!

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Ransom's costumes in Knives Out are a deliberate, subtle clue to his character. His sweaters have holes and rips because he doesn't care of them .. a sign of his disrespect to his family, his fortune, and his clothes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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They set up a support hotline for veterans when Saving Private Ryan came out. The Department of Veterans Affairs thought the movie might traumatize veterans, so they got mental health workers to staff a hotline for them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Robert De Niro was actually throwing out real dollar bills in Casino, not props. In the casino scene, he's tossing actual $50 and $20 bills, which made things complicated - they had to go Everybody freeze! the moment filming stopped. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2015, a New Zealand rugby player gave his winners' medal to a 14-year-old. ELL BLACKS The kid tried to get on the pitch after New Zealand won the 2015 World Cup, but security tackled him--Sonny Bill Williams intervened and gave him his medal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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American and European football share a name because they share roots. CUP N 5 In a 1823 game at the Rugby School, a player picked up the ball and took it across the goal line. That's how Rugby football -- eventually just rugby - started. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Some pacemaker batteries contain literal radioactive material -- plutonium. ARCO MEDICAL PRODUCTS CO Pacemaker NU-5F Serial No. 001 Caution: Radioactive Material PLUTONIUM 238 < 8 Curies Notify Civil Authórities if found, Plutonium-238 was once used in the batteries, and there are still people in the U.S. with those pacemakers (marked Nuclear, Curies, or Pu-238). CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Liechtenstein, there's a stadium more than big enough for its whole town. COUNTDOWN 18:22 LOPPE 9135 Adlorkurst STADTALLENDORF HADIXAGI UTS M P Liechtenstein zufesbank www.llb.ti UNIFINANZ CHI SCHNEIDER AG FC Vaduz plays in a stadium that can seat 7,000, and Vaduz has under 5,500 people. The stadium can hold about a fifth of Liechtenstein's total population. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Steve Jobs had the chef at Apple's cafeteria study at Japan's Tsukiji Soba Academy. Jobs loved Japanese food, and he wanted the cafeteria chef to be able to make sashimi soba, a dish Jobs had created himself. CRACKED.COM — Source

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French wines actually grow from roots that were imported from the United States. In the 1870s, a horde of bugs had ravaged French vineyards. The salvation? Missouri rootstock, which was resistant to those bugs, and is still widely used. CRACKED.COM — Source

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An Australian plant has a seed that's the size of a human fist and can kill COWS. It's the seed of the plant Idiospermum australiense, and cows that eat it (swallowing it whole) suffer spasms, then endure nerve paralysis, and then keel over. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In WWI, the United Kingdom had a special regiment for men shorter than 5'3. RECRUITING OFFICE WESTOFE ENGLAND BANTAMS HEIGHT 5 ٠٣٣ CHEST EXPANDED 341 Apply NEAREST RECRUITING OFFICE. They were called bantams, after the small, aggressive bird. It was such a success, more such battalions got formed soon, and Canada copied the idea. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The names for a whole genus of spiders and 17 species in it came from Predator. Species in the goblin spider genus Predatoroonops have names like P. schwarzeneggeri, P. blain, P. rickhawkins, P. mctiernani, P. vallarta, and so on. CRACKED.COM — Source

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They came up with the gopher in Caddyshack pretty much at the last minute. There was pretty much nothing tying together the scenes in the finished movie, so a producer suggested the gopher, who'd showed up very rarely up to that point. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED FIRST MURDER BY ROBOT. In 1979, a robot arm at a Ford plant in Michigan hit a man in the head and killed him, making it the first recorded instance of a robot causing a death. — Source

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CRACKED ERIC ANDRÉ WON'T DISCUSS HIS SITUATIONSHIP. André doesn't like to talk about his relationship with Emily Ratajkowski, as he made clear when he was asked about it in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. He'd rather focus on his comedy. — Source

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CRACKED THERE ARE CHINESE REPLICAS OF FAMOUS CITIES. Five Chinese towns have been constructed to look like some of the most famous cities in the world, like Jackson Hole in Wyoming, Hallstatt in Austria, Paris in France, Venice in Italy, and London in England. — Source

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CRACKED KEVIN HART HOSTED A CELEBRATION FOR WALMART'S IN-STORE WORKERS. VV almart Hart was asked to host the 2019 Oscars, but he declined after some of his old homophobic tweets and jokes were brought up. Recently, he hosted a celebration for Walmart's in-store workers, which was the end of their annual Associates Week. — Source

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CRACKED INDIAN AUTHORITIES CRACKED DOWN ON NOT BELIEVING IN JESUS. In 2012, prosecutors in Mumbai went after a guy for debunking an alleged miracle involving a statue of Jesus Christ said to be crying actual tears. Не was officially accused of breaking blasphemy laws. — Source

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CRACKED THE DOCUMENTARY ON LOUIS C.K.'S CANCELLATION HAS BEEN CANCELED. The documentary about the implosion of Louis C.K.'s career after the New York Times reported on his sexual misconduct has itself been canceled - or rather, put on hold for about a year, probably until people stop talking about it. — Source

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CRACKED SIMPSONS' SHOWRUNNER ISN'T HAPPY ABOUT COMMENTS ON THE CANON. Matt Selman has seen the nasty comments people have been posting. I get a little guff online sometimes about being dismissive of the idea of canon, he says. But the show's been on for 35 years without time passing, which puts it in a pretty unique situation. — Source

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CRACKED RICHARD PRYOR WAS AN UNSUNG ANIMAL RIGHTS HERO. In the early 2000s, Pryor teamed up with PETA to pressure Burger King to treat animals more ethically. Thanks to his efforts, Burger King put in place new rules to make sure animals were treated better. — Source

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CRACKED KIM CATTRALL SNUBS HER FORMER CO-STARS. It was announced that Cattrall was coming back to And Just Like That, but it turned out she didn't talk to any of the other actors from the show while she was filming her part. — Source

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CRACKED adidas Natural Studies NP DUN MIF WASEN 1st Qua I MINDY KALING'S FAVORITE WORK OF HERS ISN'T THE OFFICE. Kaling thinks that Never Have / Ever is the best thing she's ever done, even better than her work on The Office. — Source

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CRACKED EDI PATTERSON REFUSED TO SAY ONE LINE ON THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES. Patterson, who plays Judy Gemstone in the HBO show, wouldn't say a line in a Season Two episode that was too explicit. The line was, You need to make sure you scrape the white stuff out of your coochie. — Source

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CRACKED ZOOLANDER 2: REVENGE OF THE SNUBBED. Ben Stiller, Billy Zane, Jon Cryer, C. Thomas Howell, and Kyra Sedgwick all tried out for parts in the iconic movie Back to the Future, but didn't get them. However, they all ended up appearing 2016's Zoolander 2. — Source

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CRACKED WWI SPY PIGEONS. During World War I, the U.S. military used pigeons with cameras strapped to them to get information about the opposing forces. — Source

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