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The term Peanut Gallery came from Vaudeville days. CRACKED.COM The audience in the cheapest and rowdiest seats in the theater of- ten ate peanuts and sometimes threw them at the performers. — Source

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Billy Joel received his high school diploma at age 43. CRACKED.COM In 1967, he was playing at a piano bar to help his moth- er make ends meet which interfered with his atten- dance, causing him to miss a crucial English exam. De- cades later he completed his diploma. — Source

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An Illinois inmate sells soap carvings for hundreds of dollars at art shows. CRACKED COM Michael Harms carves tiny, intricately-detailed chairs from soap, dis- played in cases cut from popsicle sticks with nail clippers and dyed with rust from steel wool. — Source

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Marilyn Monroe's hygiene and bedroom habits were pretty gross. CRACKED.COM Monroe rarely bathed, slept in the nude and ate a lot in bed, and shoved what was left on her plate under the sheets before going to sleep. — Source

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Scientists tested the sleepiness of penguins by poking them with sticks. CRACKED.COM In order to discover that penguins sleep more deep- ly in the afternoon, scien- tists crept up on sleeping king penguins at different times of the day and poked them with a stick until they woke up. — Source

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Vanessa O'Brien is the first woman to reach Earth's highest and lowest points. GRACKED.COM She received a Guin- ness World Record for her accomplish- ments in reaching Mt. Everest and the Mari- anas Trench. — Source

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McDonald's most costly promotion ever was for the 1984 Olympics. M CRACKED.COM The restaurant offered free products every time a US athlete won a medal. When the Soviet Union, the pow- erhouse team of the time, boycotted the event, it let the USA win big. — Source

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A GUY'S FISH STOLE AND SHARED HIS CREDIT CARD INFORMATION. A pet fish used its owner's credit card to add funds to their eShop account. It was part of an experiment to see if it could play Pokémon Scarlet and Violet unassisted (it could, and it could steal your identity to boot). It was all caught on video. CRACKED — Source

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THE EGGS YOU'RE BUYING MAY HAVE BEEN SMUGGLED FROM MEXICO. Egg prices in the U.S. have skyrocketed due to bird flu, smuggling, inflation, and supply-chain issues. As a result, smuggling eggs from Mexico into the U.S. is apparently a thing. CRACKED — Source

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THE UK GOVERNMENT SAYS PROTECTING MENOPAUSE WOULD BE DISCRIMINATORY. The UK government said no to protecting menopause under the Equality Act, worried it would be considered unfair to men. CRACKED — Source

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INSTEAD OF FAST FOOD, ONE MAN GOT SERVED THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. A guy got thousands of dollars in cash from McDonald's instead of his order, but he went back to the McD's and gave it back. The staff ecstatically hugged him. CRACKED — Source

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A GUY SURVIVED FOR 24 DAYS ON ONLY SEASONING. Colombia's navy saved a 47-year-old from Dominica who'd been lost in the Caribbean for 24 days. He'd survived on ketchup, garlic powder, and seasoning cubes. Не wrote help on the boat, which helped him get rescued. CRACKED — Source

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MICROSOFT SURE KNOWS HOW TO PARTY (BUT NOT HOW TO MANAGE). Microsoft held a fancy event in Switzerland with Sting, attended by execs. The next day, they said they'd cut 10,000 jobs. CRACKED — Source

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THE GOP SAYS THE POOR SHOULD ONLY EAT CANNED FISH. Republican lawmakers in lowa want to limit what SNAP recipients can buy, like cheese, white bread, rice, beans, and poultry, and only let them get canned tuna and salmon for meat. Of course, SNAP households usually spend a lot on meat and poultry. CRACKED — Source

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MICROSOFT: FORCING GAMERS TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE? Microsoft announced changes to the settings of Xbox to reduce its carbon footprint, but some conservative outlets have taken this to mean that they are trying to make gamers turn off their consoles to fight climate change. 7 + A CRACKED — Source

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Japan passed its first anti-stalking law in 2000 after a student was murdered. CRACKED.COM 21-year-old Shiori Ino went to the police about a stalk- er but had been turned away multiple times and falsely portrayed her as a promiscuous flirt in the media before finally being murdered. — Source

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Supernovae explode on an average once every 100 years in a galaxy. CRACKED.COM Assuming there are 170 billion galaxies in the universe, there are 53 supernovae exploding every sin- gle second. — Source

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George Clooney keeps a photo of himself as Batman. CRACKED.COM The actor looks at the photo of his time in the rubber suit 'As a cau- tionary reminder of what happens when you make movies for com- mercial reasons'. — Source

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Wal-Mart used to take out life insurance policies on their employees. WAL MART SECTION GUARANTEED CRACKED.COM The corporation would then keep the payouts when they died, a prac- tice colloquially known as Dead Peasant Insur- ance. — Source

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There is a community in Cairo, Egypt that collects trash and recycles upwards of 80% of it. FOOD M& TRIP und 100 GRACKED COM It is nicknamed Gar- bage City and its mostly Christian resi- dents have been col- lecting and recycling Cairo's trash for sever- al decades. — Source

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Amazon Web Services has a service for transferring large amounts of data with a truck. CRACKED.COM The service, called Snow- mobile, brings you a truck with 100 Petabytes worth of hard drives. They copy your data, then drive it to its destination, bypassing the internet entirely. — Source

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Growing up in a warm climate will make your sweat glands more active. CRACKED COM Sweat glands mature during the first 2 years of life, so growing up in warm cli- mates leads to more active sweat glands than people who grew up in a cli- mate-controlled environ- ment or in cold climates. — Source

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In the 1950s, the US Air Force tried to design a cockpit to fit the average pilot's body. CRACKED.COM After measuring 4000 pilots they discovered that none of them came close to having an aver- age body. This led to the introduction of adjust- able seats. — Source

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The British Air Force sank an ocean liner by mistake one day before the end of WWII. CRACKED.COM Just a day before the German government surrendered in 1945, the British Royal Air Force mistakenly believed the SS Cap Arcona, carrying 7,000 women, children and Holocaust survivors, was a warship and sank it. — Source

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Open plan offices are detrimental to workers and businesses. CRACKED.COM Despite about 70% of US offices being open con- cept, workers in open plan offices are 15% less pro- ductive, have trouble con- centrating, and are twice as likely to get sick. — Source

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Tour de France has a dedicated team that transforms penis graffiti on the route. ISRAEL deceminch a LC QUICK STEP - LCL LCL BOV 45 CRACKED.COM The team's sole pur- pose is to drive each day's route and turn genitals graffitied on the road into owls and butterflies. — Source

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Specially made, aluminum Lego figures are inside NASA's Juno probe. CRACKED.COM The 3 Lego mini fig- ures represent Galileo, the Roman god Jupi- ter, and his sister and wife, the goddess Juno, specially made by the Lego Company. — Source

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Knife manufacturer, Victorinox, claims never to have had to lay off an employee. CRACKED.COM To avoid this they set aside profits during boom peri- ods to supplement reces- sionary periods, as well as temporarily contracting employees to other com- panies as outsourced labor during recessions. — Source

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The more you spend on your wedding, the higher the chance you'll get divorced. GRACKED.COM A study in 2014 discovered that couples who spent more than $20,000 on their wedding are roughly 46% more likely to get di- vorced than couples who spent $5,000-10,000. — Source

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