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In the 1800s, before public parks were common, cemeteries were popular picnic spots for many GRACKED.COM While critics found the outings uncouth, oth- ers enjoyed gathering with family and friends and picnicking near their late loved ones' headstones. — Source

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When frequent cigarette breaks were disrupting a Japanese marketing firm's productivity, the company, Piala, Inc decided the workers' smoking habits needed to change. CRACKED.COM In 2017, instead of ре- nalizing employees, Pi- ala's management de- cided to give non-smoking staff six days off to curb their nicotine addiction. — Source

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Billy Joel doesn't want his fans in the cheap seats. CRACKED.COM Joel has said in interviews that he reserves the front row, then sends his road crew to find his fans in the worst seats and brings them up to the front. Joel said it prevents what he calls gold chainers, extremely wealthy fans and/or scalpers from buying out the best seats in the house. — Source

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The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas hosted CAGED, a Nicolas Cage film fest in 2017. CRACKED.COM Cage showed up and crashed the film fest, sitting through several of his own films and then held a Q & A for almost an hour. Не ended the evening by doing a reading of Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story The Tell-Tale Heart. — Source

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As far as seas are concerned, the Baltic Sea is the youngest. Located in Scandinavia, and started by glacial erosion, the Baltic Sea formed Stockholm Tallinn Hilumoo RUS ESTONIA Saaremos Kattegat Skagerrak Gulf of Gotland Riga Sea LATVIA DENMARK Riga Oland Copenhagen Malmo Funen Zeoland Baltic LITHUANIA Bornholm Vilnius Kaliningrad Kiel Rügen (RUSSIA) GRACKED.COM Gdansk For being the young- est, it is also consid- ered the largest brack- ish body of water hav- ing a special combina- tion of both freshwater and saltwater. — Source

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In 2012, engineers at the UK research institution Open University spent a lot of time thinking about Legos. CRACKED.COM Dr. lan Johnston, an applied mathematician and lecturer, de- ducted that 375,000 lego bricks stacked on top of each other would cause the bottom brick to break. Sadly, this experiment was only theoretical, and highly implausible in reality. — Source

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In 2019, a man named Elmer Alvarez returned a $10,000 check to real estate broker, Roberta Hoskie. CRACKED.COM As a reward, Hoskie helped Alva- rez find an apartment, covered his rent for several months, and put him through real estate school. Hoskie was once homeless too prior to becoming a wealthy real estate broker, so she wanted to help him now that she could. — Source

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Remember the time in 2014 when 500 million iTunes users awakened to Bono in their earbuds? CRACKED.COM The U2 album Songs of Inno- cence, which was their first in five years, was thrust upon lis- teners for free, though no one requested it. The release was not free for everyone though. Marketing costs ate up around $100M in Apple's budget. — Source

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Before his death in 1991, legendary Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, was shown a video of the famous Wayne's World Bohemian Rhapsody headbanging scene. CRACKED.COM The film had not yet been released, but Queen gui- tarist Brian May was giv- en a VHS tape by actor Mike Myers. May showed it to Mercury who had a good laugh. — Source

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Xbox One Controller Lasts 3 Million Button-Presses. A + CRACKED.COM In 2013, Microsoft announced the Xbox One. To test the capabilities of the gaming system's controller, research- ers found that it would stop function- ing properly after 3 million button presses. Microsoft also deducted that 3 million button presses could equate to roughly 10 years worth of play. — Source

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A covert Tennessee volunteer group that called themselve,s The 9 Nanas had been stealthily helping their community for decades by delivering envelopes of cash and freshly-baked pound cakes to people who needed assistance. GRACKED.COM When their adult chil- dren discovered their secret in 2012, they gained online notori- ety which gave their group even more suc- cess. — Source

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In 2011, a 29-year-old Australian man named Dan Saunders discovered a bank glitch in an ATM that allowed him to withdraw considerably more than his balance. DIEBOLD CRACKED COM Saunders blew through $1.6 million of the bank's money in five months. Out of guilt he stopped the ATM transactions, but since both the bank and the court couldn't figure out what happened, he ended up serving just one year in jail. — Source

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Dr. Seuss' First Book Was Rejected 27 Times. CRACKED.COM Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss had his first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, rejected 27 times. It wasn't until Geisel ran into a friend in NYC who had recently become an editor at a publishing house, that it was finally published in 1937. — Source

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Currently, only one law governs space, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, but it does not specify anything regarding individuals or privately-owned companies. CRACKED.COM A murder In 1970, which occured on an ice island in the Arctic Ocean north of Canada, is being consid- ered to determine how fu- ture crime in other atmo- spheres could be handled. — Source

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Her Majesty must not have blisters! CRACKED.COM Angela Kelly, dressmaker for the queen and author of the book, The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, The Dresser and Her Wardrobe, admits it is she who does the breaking in. Another ward- robe designer of the queen says that Kelly is required to wear socks during the breaking-in period also. — Source

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It's illegal to sell photos of the Eiffel Tower taken at night. The rights to the build- ing's evening light show belong to the artist who created it, so the image is there- fore protected under French law. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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All pilots are required to speak Aviation English. The 300-word lan- guage is something that senior aircrew are required to know no matter where they come from or what their native language is. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Corncobs were used as toilet paper in the US. According to the Farm- ers' Almanac, Even after toilet paper became available, some people in Western states still pre- ferred corncobs when us- ing the outhouse. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Tiny Brazilian frogs have skeletons that glow under UV light. The bright orange and poi- sonous pumpkin toadlets glow under the light, which is actually emanating from their bones. During mating season, they walk around the forest making a soft buzzing call. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The largest waterfall on Earth is underwater. Jan Mayen RUSS Denmark Strait Norwegian Sea ICELAND FINLAND At the bottom of the Den- mark Strait, there is a se- ries of waterfalls that be- gin 2,000 feet under the surface and drop nearly two miles down to a depth of 10,000 feet. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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17 percent of all American restaurants are pizzerias. These pizza places sell 350 slices of the good stuff ev- ery second. Americans eat 100 acres of pizza every day-that's 3 billion piz- zas, or 46 slices for every person in the country. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The first hamburger was a smushed meatball. In 1885, Charlie Nagreen flattened a meatball, which wasn't selling terribly well, and placed it between slic- es of bread to make it easi- er to carry around and eat at the Seymour Fair in Wisconsin. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Charles Dickens always slept with his bed pointing north. Не was an insomniac who believed that his creativity was dependent on his bed pointing northward. Не also insisted on sleeping in the middle of the bed with his arms outstretched. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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60,000 years ago, Neanderthals made thousands of stone tools in a factory-like system. Archaeologists in Poland working on the Flintstone Factory found more than 17,000 stone items, mak- ing it the first large Nean- derthal work area discov- ered in Central Europe that isn't in a cave. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Scientists may have found fossils from the asteroid that triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs. At a location in Tanis, North Dakota, a treasure trove of fossilized fresh- water fish, trees, and ma- rine ammonites that ар- pear to be from the day an asteroid hit the Earth. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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There is a species of ant that adapted to live in Manhattan. The ManhattAnt appears to exclusively live in New York City where Broadway meets 63rd street and also 76th street, and has adapt- ed to its warmer, drier, concrete-covered environ- ment. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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David Hasselhoff made sure he owned his nickname and catchphrase after his divorce. Thanks to his fans and a long career in entertainment, Has- selhoff earned the nickname The Hoff and the catch- phrase Don't hassle the Hoff - both of which were included in the settlement with his ex-wife Pamela Bach in 2008. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Hawaiian pizza is a Canadian invention. Ontario takes all the credit (or blame, de- pending on your alle- giances) for the pineap- ple-ham pizza concoc- tion, which it has been serving up since 1962. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The world's longest fingernails are over two feet long. vb lo As of 2017, Ayanna Williams, a resident of Houston, Texas, hadn't cut her fingernails in 23 years. They mea- sure between 24 and 26 inches each. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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