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June 25, 2024

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Courage the Cowardly Dog's pilot episode earned an Oscar nomination. It was titled The Chicken From Outer Space, and it lost to Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave. CRACKED — Source

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Contrary to popular belief, lighter coffee has higher caffeine content. When coffee is roasted, it loses caffeine, meaning that a dark and robust cup of coffee has less caffeine than a lighter roast. CRACKED — Source

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Pizza Hut was one of the largest buyers of kale before its popularization in 2013. The company used it solely for ornamental purposes, to decorate their salad bars. CRACKED — Source

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Infrasound, which is below the range of human hearing, is occasionally incorporated into horror movie soundtracks. Although inaudible, it can provoke a sense of anxiety, heart palpitations, and shivering. CRACKED — Source

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Celebrities have to buy their stars on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. MICHAEL It costs $50,000. CRACKED — Source

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The well-known crocodile jump scene in Live and Let Die featured real crocodiles, and the only person brave enough to take on the stunt was the owner of the crocodile farm. The film's writers decided to name the villain Kanaga after the farm owner. CRACKED — Source

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People who buy birdseed are more likely to pay their debts regularly. Meanwhile, those who purchase chrome accessories for their cars are less likely to pay off their debts in full. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED U.S. officials are spending $25 million to bring bison back to Native Americans. U.S. officials are working with Native Americans to bring bison back to their lands. They are using $25 million in federal funds to help protect the bison and reconnect Native Americans with the iconic animal of the American West. — Source

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CRACKED 36 years of service rewarded with a 747 million dollar Powerball ticket. A Boeing employee recently won a massive Powerball jackpot. To commemorate their 36 years of service, they bought the ticket for $747 million and celebrated with a cake featuring a 747 jet. LOTTERY P O W E R BALL DATE February 28. 2023 PAY TO THE ORDER OF Becky В. $754,550,826 Seven Hundred Fifty-four Million, Five Hundred Fifty Thousand, Eight Hundred, and Twenty Six Power FOR — Source

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CRACKED The world unites to save the oceans - finally. Almost 200 countries have come together with a treaty to protect the world's oceans from the destruction caused by shipping, overfishing, pollution, and deep-sea mining. This is a major step forward in preserving 30% of the planet's land and sea. — Source

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CRACKED Donnie Yen puts his foot down for a Bruce Lee-inspired role in John Wick 4. Donnie Yen asked for and got some changes to his part in the next John Wick movie so it wouldn't be a stereotypical Asian role, but instead a tribute to his idol Bruce Lee. — Source

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CRACKED Two teens survive three days in the snow, cuddling for warmth. On March 6, 2023, two teenage boys were rescued after being stranded in a snowstorm in the San Bernardino Mountains for three days. They kept each other warm by cuddling, and were eventually spotted by a search and rescue helicopter. His Mart SNACK SHOP — Source

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CRACKED A writer is giving away 6,000 books to those who need them most. A writer and cultural historian, has set up a non-profit organization called the Free Books Campaign, which is giving away 6,000 books for free to people in the UK and Ireland. These books, by authors of color and are intended for those who can't afford them. ROSEWATER LIV LITTLE MILLIAMS 1 i ! SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE — Source

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CRACKED Aber-clam Lincoln: 214 years old and still alive and kickin'. A man in Florida found a giant clam that was estimated to be 214 years old, dating back to 1809 when Abraham Lincoln was born. It was named Aber-clam Lincoln and released back into the Gulf of Mexico. M If PER — Source

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CRACKED A famous bald eagle couple from Mystic River got their own children's book. MK, a female bald eagle, was rescued in eastern Massachusetts after being too weak to fly due to poisoning. She and her partner KZ are well-known in the Mystic River area and even have a children's book about them. — Source

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CRACKED Austria tells Sony to refund FIFA Ultimate Team card pack buyers in 2023. In March 2023, an Austrian court made a decision that FIFA Ultimate Team's card packs went against the country's gambling laws and told Sony to give money back to people who had bought them. 92 88 CM 90 CM см 94 см PIRLO PIRLO PIRLO PIRLO 73 PAC 91 DRI 70 PAC 90 DRI 75 PAC 90 DRI 76 PAC DRI 79 SHO 66 DEF 79 SHO 68 DEF 93 76 80 SHO 71 DEF 85 SHO DER 91 PAS 64 PHY 93 PAS 65 PHY — Source

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CRACKED 44 years later, a woman's son solves her murder. After 44 years of wondering, the woman found shot dead in the woods in Granby, Massachusetts in 1978 has finally been identified as Patricia Ann Tucker. Her son, Matthew Dale, was able to figure out who she was with the help of DNA evidence. UNKNOWN NOV.18. 1978 IN GOD'S CARE — Source

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CRACKED Scotland: saving the planet one breath at a time. Scotland has become the first nation to ban hospitals from using the anesthetic desflurane due to its environmental impact. This move is expected to reduce emissions by the same amount as powering 1,700 homes annually. — Source

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CRACKED Kaja Kallas re-elected in Estonia, continues to support Ukraine. Estonia's Prime Minister was voted back into office in the recent election, with her center-right Reform Party getting the most votes. Kallas is a big supporter of Ukraine and has given them a lot of help, including weapons and aid. — Source

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CRACKED Missourians are blazing through marijuana convictions. In Missouri, more than 7,500 people have had their marijuana-related convictions wiped away since recreational cannabis became legal. The process has been going faster than expected. — Source

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CRACKED.COM 12:01 PM was Groundhog Day before Groundhog Day. The 1990 short film starring Kurtwood Smith doesn't just have the same premise as the Bill Murray movie, but a lot of the elements and plot beats are the same. The writer and the director reportedly tried to sue the makers of Groundhog Day, but ultimately gave up. — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE WATCHMEN TV SHOW DID TELL US WHO LUBE MAN IS. Like in the comic, a lot of the backstory is in written documents ' and in this case it's Peteypedia, a companion website kept in- universe by FBI agent/fan of vigilantes Dale Petey. The last entry very heavily implies that Petey himself was the mysterious Lube Man who puzzled viewers. — Source

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CRACKED.COM P 101 DALMATIANS HAS A SEQUEL ABOUT A DOG RAPTURE. In The Starlight Barking, written by the same author as the original book, all dogs gain the ability to levitate and telepathically talk, as Sirius the Dog Star tries to save them from nuclear war. Also, there's a subplot about a cat trying to murder Cruella de Vil. — Source

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PALPATINE WAS A WOMAN WITH A CHIMP'S EYES. lan McDiarmid has become so iconic as Palpatine that it's easy to forget the part was originally played by someone else. In the theatrical version of The Empire Strikes Back, the Emperor was actress Marjorie Eaton in heavy makeup, with chimpanzee eyes composited on top of her face. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EAT PRAY LOVE AND COYOTE UGLY ARE ABOUT THE SAME PERSON. Author Elizabeth Gilbert was played by Julia Roberts in Eat Pray Love - and Piper Perabo in Coyote Ugly is also Gilbert (kind of). The movie about table-dancing bartenders is based on an article by Gilbert about her time working in the Coyote Ugly Saloon. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Super Monster Wolf

ROBOTIC MONSTER WOLVES PROTECT CROPS IN JAPAN. With local wolves hunted to extinction 200 years ago, boars and deer have become a nuisance to farmers. A modern solution is Super Monster Wolf, an animatronic, solar-powered scareboar that keeps animals (and probably people) at bay. CRACKED.COM — Source

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FANS KEEP THROWING PIZZA ON THE BREAKING BAD HOUSE. Your home becoming famous on TV is less fun than you think. Just ask the real owners of Walter White's house in Albuquerque, who keep getting pizza thrown onto their roof. Things got so bad, they put up a six-foot fence around their property. CRACKED COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM CLUE HAD A FOURTH, LOST ENDING. The Clue movie was supposed to have four different endings, not three, but one was scrapped for unknown reasons. No footage has survived, but what little records exist show it was a very dark ending, with Wadsworth the butler killing everyone. — Source

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Snowmen

16th-century Belgians built porn snowmen. The Miracle of 1511 was a huge winter festival held in Brussels, when lots of elaborate snow figures were made - more than half of them of a sexual or scatological nature. People were mad (at the government and the harsh winter), and the snow things gave them an outlet to vent. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM There's a collector's market for royal underwear. Queen undies are a hotter commodity than the underwear of living celebrities. Pairs of Queen Victoria's bloomers have sold for over $15,000, and Queen Elizabeth I's (dirty) panties fetched $18,000 on eBay in 2012. — Source

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9/11

CRACKED.COM Six men survived 9/11 thanks to a squeegee. All six were stuck in an elevator after the plane struck-among them veteran window washer Jan Demczur. Demczur used his squeegee to jimmy the door open and then cut through the brittle plasterboard wall. They managed to get out of the building minutes before it collapsed. — Source

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Oneida flatware was created by a sex cult. The Oneida Community started as an agrarian utopia in the 1800s, before switching to metallurgic industrialism and creating the fancy silverware still sold today. Their success was their downfall, as the government started to look closely into their free-loving, commie ways. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The first flying saucers weren't flying saucers. Pilot Kenneth Arnold, the first person who reported seeing UFOs, said they were flying like a saucer if you skip it across the water. Не was very annoyed when he was misreported as saying they were saucer-shaped - an image that was then cemented by hoaxes. — Source

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Mindfulness can help with your depression- or make it worse. While meditation can be helpful, it's far from the safe, easy cure-all that it's often claimed to be. Researchers at Coventry University found that in one out of 12 people, meditation and mindfulness can worsen (or even outright cause) depression and anxiety. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The movie Mission to Mars was based on a Disneyland ride. Before Pirates of the Caribbean, Brian De Palma's Mission to Mars was loosely based on the Tomorrowland ride of the same name. The connection was downplayed in the marketing, though, and it's unclear whether De Palma himself was aware of it. — Source

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