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June 26, 2024

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The Buffalo Bills helped popularize buffalo wings. CRACKED.COM Buffalo wings were being served in Buffalo, NY since the '60s, but the media attention to the town after the Bills made four consecutive Super Bowl appearances from 1990 to 1993 helped introduce the dish to the rest of the country. — Source

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There is more sugar in a can of Coke than cotton candy. il is 1 10 ة CRACKED.COM A typical serving of Cola cotton candy, which is basically all sugar, contains 30 grams of sugar, where a can of Coke has 39 grams. — Source

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Mr. T was only supposed to have a small role in 'Rocky III.' CRACKED.COM After being featured on NBC's 'America's Toughest Bouncer,' Sylvester Stal- lone intended to use Mr. T in a minor role, but that was quickly expanded to make him the primary an- tagonist. — Source

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Buzz Aldrin got his name from his older sister mispronouncing 'brother.' CRACKED.COM When Edwin Aldrin was born, his one-and-a-half-year-old sis- ter called him 'buzzer,' trying to say 'brother.' This was shortened to 'Buzz' and be- came his chosen moniker. — Source

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An ectopic pregnancy in a Chinese woman from 1948 wasn't removed until 2009. CRACKED.COM Huang Yijun didn't have money for an operation to terminate the unviable pregnancy, so calcium de- posits eventually devel- oped around the dead tis- sue until she could have it removed at age 92. — Source

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Rabbits

It's a rabbits biology, not so much its sexual proliclivity, that makes them multiply so quickly. CRACKED.COM A rabbit will be sexually ma- ture at around 5 months, and they can live for 10 years. They also only have a one month gestation period, and they can become preg- nant immediately after de- livering their litter. — Source

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The O.J. Trial

A retired ad executive came up with The Puppy Channel while watching the O.J. Simpson trial. CRACKED.COM Dan FitzSimons realized that he liked to channel surf while he waited for the program he was watching to come back from commercials, so he came up with a channel that showed nothing but puppies playing for 24 hours a day. — Source

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The Senate has a 'candy desk' that is, yes, filled with candy. CRACKED GOM Senator George Murphy started the tradition in 1968 when he sat at the desk and offered candy to other passing Senators. Since then, whoever sits at the Candy Desk maintains its original purpose. — Source

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King Cheetahs are regular cheetahs with a recessive mutation. CRACKED.COM Thought to be a separate species, the unique cats have only been seen a handful of times in the wild since 1926. They have the Таqрер mu- tation which gives them stripes and a small 'mane' tuft on their necks. — Source

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The official Twitter account for the country of Sweden is run by random citizens. CRACKED.COM Citizens are given a week to run the account, with loose guidelines, if they've shown the ability to pro- duce engaging tweets on their own. This has only gone terribly wrong a few times. — Source

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Some people suffer from 'Sleeping Beauty Syndrome' which basically turns them into a hibernating bear. CRACKED.COM Sufferers will have periods of several days to a few weeks where they sleep for 16-20 hours a day and be- come extremely hungry when awake. They usually don't remember what they did during these episodes. — Source

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Mississippi didn't ratify the 13th amendment until 1995. CRACKED COM The 13th amendment, out- lawing slavery, was set into law in 1865, but several states didn't get around to ratifying it for some time. Delaware took until 1901, and Kentucky took until 1976. — Source

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About 75% - 94% of the time a male giraffe has sex, it's with another male. GRACKED COM Male giraffes fighting over a female will often end their battle by having sex with each other. Female gi- raffes are only seen about 1% of the time getting it on with another female. — Source

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Yoda was puppeteered and voiced by the same person as Miss Piggy. CRACKED.COM Frank Oz is responsible for Yoda's distinctive character traits, as well as bringing beloved charac- ters to life, like Cookie Monster, Fozzie Bear, and Grover. — Source

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Happy Days

CRACKED.COM HAPPY DAYS Fonzie's famous ayyyy came about due to Henry Winkler's dyslexia. Не struggled to learn lines so he'd say ayyyy in lieu of dialogue. — Source

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WHen YOU THINK ABOUT пт BUGS IS An ODD nAme FOR A BunnY. не ACTUALLY GOT HIS nAme BECAUSE OF A MISTAKE. BUGS BUNNY MODEL SWEET M.M.22. Animator Ben Bugs Hardaway asked one of the artists at Looney Toons to draw a rabbit. The artist complied, labeling the model sheet Bugs' Bunny. After the still-nameless rabbit had appeared in a few cartoons, producer Leon Schlesinger looked at the old sketch for its name. Не saw the caption, and the rest is history. CRACKED.COM Peter Bogdanovich, 2012 Who the Devil Made It? — Source

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The Boos' shy but scary personality is based on one of the Super Mario developers' wives. The wife of developer Takashi Tezuka was normally a quiet person, but one day she exploded at him because he worked so much. So he decided to put her in the game as a character that becomes scarier when they're not looked at. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A rare genetic condition probably stoked the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Several descendants of the McCoys were found to have von Hippel-Lindau disease, which causes adrenal tumors that make you short-tempered and violent. So, at least on the McCoy side, the feud was probably fuelled by tumors pressing on the adrenal glands of those involved. CRACKED.COM — Source

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What’s My Line?

The first African American presidential secretary was announced on a game show. $ MR. DALY Instead of letting the world know about his appointment through a boring press conference, Lyndon Johnson wanted to use What's My Line?, a hit game show where people guessed what job guests had. The secretary, Geraldine Whittington, said OK, and history was made. CRACKED.COM — Source

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When the Berlin Wall fell, banana sales exploded. Titanic N - Zonen-Gaby (17) in Glück (BRD) Meine erste Banane f nt - I East Germany only got mushy brown bananas, so when the Wall came down, East Germans went crazy for unripe green bananas. There's a joke that they rose up for bananas, not democracy, and whenever a long line forms, Germans say, Are they handing out bananas or what? CRACKED COM — Source

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Apollo missions increased the moon's temperature by 1-3 degrees Fahrenheit. Dust on the surface is lighter than the soil underneath, and astronauts walking and driving during their explorations disturbed the top layer. With more of the darker soil showing through, the Moon absorbs more heat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ariel-1, Britain's very first satellite, was put into orbit on April 26, 1962. It was accidentally destroyed weeks later after the US military detonated a 1.4 megaton nuclear weapon called Starfish-Prime in the upper atmosphere. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MOUNT RUSHMORE WASN'T ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO BE A NATIONAL MONUMENT. THE INITIAL IDEA WAS JUST TO HAVE GIANT SCULPTURES THAT WOULD ATTRACT THOUSANDS OF TOURISTS TO SOUTH DAKOTA. GRACKED COM — Source

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Vaseline originated as a byproduct of the oil drilling Vaseline - - - 1 - process. سيد - WITH In 1859, British chemist Robert Augustus Chesebrough visited a small town in Pennsylvania where petroleum had been discovered. Не noticed Vaseline's skin-healing properties after seeing how oilers used it to heal cuts and burns. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bill Clinton was the first U.S. President to send an e-mail. It was to John Glenn, who in at the time, was from space Satellite Pro laptop, which bird to White House Physician Commander Robert G. 10 1010 Darling. - CRACKED.COM — Source

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