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June 20, 2024

You don’t mind regurgitated facts, do you? Because yes, these facts were up in our brains before we shared them with you, but this doesn’t have to be a baby-bird situation. Taking them in through your eyes is way less gross. Plus, to get firsthand facts, you’d have to go find some of your own. Leave the legwork to us, and we’ll leave the eye work to you.

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The guy who wrote the Redwall series was actually an unhappy milkman. - IN EVENTERS TheOriginal Milkhale ENTERS سعود : AIR Well, he was unhappy because he'd been reading to blind kids, and he thought the books available were pretty crappy, so he wrote new ones. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The vice president of the US wasn't always the president's running mate. Before they added the 12th amendment, it was whoever got the 2nd most votes in the election. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Sweden, people sometimes do something that's known as death cleaning. It basically involves getting rid of everything you don't need before you die, so others won't have to clean up after you. CRACKED.COM — Source

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People tried to grow vanilla for 300 years in Europe, totally unsuccessfully. In 1836, they finally figured it was because vanilla was pollinated by an insect that didn't live in Europe. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Turns out, T-Rexes grew so fast, you could almost watch them grow. Teenage T-Rexes could sometimes add 35-45 pounds to their frame in as little as a week. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Whiskey distilleries sometimes keep cats around just to catch mice. Distilleries have been using cats for that for centuries and, despite the many alternatives that exist today, they still do. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's an organization that sends out saplings and seeds that survived the A-bomb. Specifically, the bomb that exploded over Hiroshima - Green Legacy Hiroshima is spreading them worldwide. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Drinking alcohol used to be a regular part of participating in the Olympics. For example, runners drank it in the 1908 London olympics - i it was believed to be a performance enhancer. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1916, a New York construction worker was literally shot up on a geyser. Just like in a cartoon - he was working on a subway tunnel, and got shot through a hole in the tunnel. Miraculously, and also just like in a cartoon, he survived. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Brazil has the country with the most Japanese people outside Japan itself. There's a total of 1.5 million Japanese living in Brazil - this is partly due to the Japanese government promoting emigration until the '60s. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a fruit fly gene that's named after Kenny from South Park. TRASH Fruit flies that have a bad version of it die two days after they've gotten a specific bacteria. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The filming of 1971's A Bridge Too Far had a single million-dollar hour. They had an hour to shoot a scene with Robert Redford - if they didn't, they'd have to pay him a million dollars and try again in a week. Luckily for the budget, they made it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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They asked Benedict Cumberbatch to use an English accent in 2018's Grinch. But he pushed back, because the Grinch was already so different from the other characters, and Cumberbatch didn't think he should be English as well, but I thought just not thematically a bad guy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED THE FRIENDSHIP PARADOX The friendship paradox says that your friends tend to have more friends than you do. Network scientists have also found that your friends are usually wealthier and happier than you are. — Source

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CRACKED GETTING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING It's really unlikely that you'll get hit by lightning in any given year - almost a one-in-a-million chance. Most people who do get struck by lightning make it out alive, with around 90% of them surviving. — Source

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CRACKED LEFT-HANDEDNESS IN SPORTS Lefties have a statistical advantage in sports that involve direct one-on-one interaction, like baseball, tennis, and boxing. This is because they are a bit of a surprise, since most opponents aren't used to facing someone who is left-handed. — Source

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CRACKED GENETIC INFLUENCE ON GENDER OF OFFSPRING According to a Newcastle University study of hundreds of years of family trees, men who had more brothers were more likely to have sons, and those with more sisters were more likely to have daughters. This pattern wasn't seen in women. — Source

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CRACKED FURNITURE VS TERRORISM A 2015 study showed that the chances of getting hurt or killed by a terrorist in the US are really small. In fact, you're more likely to get crushed to death by falling TVs or furniture than by a terrorist. — Source

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CRACKED RISK OF DYING ON ONE'S BIRTHDAY People are 14-18% more likely to die on their birthday than any other day of the year. That's according to a major Swedish study, and one of the authors says We can only speculate on the reasons for the extra deaths on birthdays. — Source

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CRACKED FLIPPING A PENNY When you flip a penny, it's more likely to land on tails than heads. That's because the penny's center of mass is slightly more on the heads side, making tails come up about 80% of the time. — Source

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A New Zealand farmer was put into a board game after his friends made him a fake Wikipedia entry. KE GRACKED.COM G Kotahi-Manawa Bradford was accidentally turned into a character for the board game 'Rising Sun' after his friends created a fake Wikipedia entry de- scribing him as a mythical Japanese monster. — Source

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Knitting is part of the school curriculum in Finland. CRACKED.COM Crafts as well as knitting have long been an integral part of Finnish culture, hence why it is a part of the school curriculum and part of the tradition that has long been passed from one generation to the next. — Source

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Pill bugs are crustaceans, not insects. GRACKED CORE The potato bug, ro- ly-poly, or woodlouse is an isopod, a type of non-insect arthropod also called a terrestri- al crustacean. — Source

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Lead can be detected in the remains of former Japanese geishas. CRACKED.COM The white face paint worn by geishas and samurai in ancient Ja- pan was lead based, and so lead can be de- tected in their bones. — Source

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Toilet paper is bleached to make it softer and last longer. GRAGKED.COM Manufacturers bleach wood pulp to remove the polymer lignin, a process that creates softer tissue. The paper being whitened is just a positive by-prod- uct of this process. — Source

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Some wasps paralyze spiders and bring them back to their nests to lay their eggs. CRACKED.COM The Mud Dauber wasp builds tubular nests out of mud, and then gathers spiders to para- lyze and seal up in their nest with an egg. When their young hatches, they eat the spider. — Source

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Parrots will eat clay to help when food is scarce. CRACKED.COM This is most common during the breeding season when parrots need extra minerals to feed their young. Clay helps eliminate toxins from the body, allowing parrots to eat toxic foods without be- coming ill. — Source

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Itching powder was put into the underwear of German uniforms by resistance laundresses. frait aball 245 3 odt . 1930 CRAGKED.COM The itching powder made from the Mucuna plant's spiked seeds was devel- oped by the United King- dom's intelligence service to demoralize German sail- ors by making them tre- mendously uncomfortable. — Source

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The Ute Native Americans of Utah wore trilobite fossils as amulets to protect from bullets. CRACKED.COM The fossils, called lit- tle water bugs by the Utes, were worn on a string and said to pro- tect against bullets and diseases such as diphtheria. — Source

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