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June 28, 2024

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In 2012 Unabomber Ted Kaczynski got invited to his 50-year Harvard reunion. 5 5 in Не RSVPed, listing his occupation as prisoner and his 8 life sentences as awards. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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61% of Americans dread the holidays, because of the cost. And 75% of parents worry about disappointing their kids. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lobsters don't age like other creatures. They don't lose their fertility or strength, and their metabolism doesn't slow. And they keep getting bigger. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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They didn't use any special effects in the Wizard of Oz color transition scene. When the movie turns from sepia to color, they shot Judy Garland's stunt double in a sepia dress, with sepia makeup on, on a sepia set. When she steps out of the shot, she's replaced by Judy Garland in a blue dress. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Judy Sheindlin just set her own salary for Judge Judy. Every three years, she'd discuss her contract over dinner with the president of CBS Television Distribution - which meant she'd write down the number she wanted, put it in an envelope, and give it to him after dinner. The one time he tried to hand her an envelope, she didn't even open it, and told him This isn't a negotiation. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Michelangelo hid underground for three months While avoiding the wrath of the Pope, the artist doodled on the walls of a room underneath the Medici Chapel. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Al Pacino nearly got fired from The Godfather. In the first couple of weeks, his performance totally baffled the filmmakers (except for Coppola, who supported him) and they wanted to replace him. They only changed their mind once they saw him in the restaurant scene -- if that scene hadn't worked, not even Coppola's support would have kept him in the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1999, the United States' 22nd most successful money manager was a chimp. She picked stocks by throwing darts at a list of 133 companies, which gave her a 213% return. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Peach Black is a deep blue-black pigment that saved lives During WWI, Peach Black was used in gas masks to fight against chlorine gas NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Laika was the first animal to be launched in the Earth's orbit Laika the dog was part of the Soviet space program. She died from stress only a few hours after the launch. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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We didn't always have the same North Star. Due to a slight wobble of the Earth's axis, the North Star changes. When humans were building the Pyramids, the star Thuban was used for Northern guidance. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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There are exactly as many cicada songs as there are cicada species in existence. Each species of cicada has its own song, and they're all really mating calls -- they're sung by masses of cicada males trying to attract females. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Hard Rock Café is entirely owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. CAFE Hard Rock CAFE HONGIKONG They bought it back in 2007 - and that also means they in turn own the world's biggest music memorabilia collection, since that's owned by Hard Rock. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Heinz mounted a campaign to get hot dog bun and wiener packages to match. They brought up outrage about the bun-to-hot-dog ratio issue, by which they meant the fact that buns are sold in packs of eight. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Schrödinger's cat experiment was deliberately proposed as a silly idea. Schrödinger suggested it was ridiculous for a cat to be dead and alive because of a quantum state, but that turned out to be basically right. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Polio was actually a serious disease only in a very small minority of cases. Less than 1% of infected people got paralytic poliomyelitis, while 72% have no symptoms and about 24% have symptoms that quickly resolve. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The first man who freely walked in space got over 300 feet from his space shuttle. NAS Astronaut Bruce McCandless' untethered spacewalk (with just a jetpack) happened in 1984, and he says he wasn't nervous about doing at all. CRACKED.COM — Source

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One Scottish town celebrates Halloween on the last Friday of October. In Kilmarnock, they hold Killieween celebrations on the last Friday for unclear reasons - it's a very old tradition, but nobody knows how it got started. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Visitors to a dinosaur park demanded refunds because the dinos weren't alive. The park was called Dinosaurs Live! and some people took it too literally - about six people asked for their $2.50 back, apparently. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The longest distance at which one tank destroyed another is about 3 miles. The record was made by a British Challenger tank in the Gulf War, in 1991 - kind of amazingly, it hasn't been beaten since. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The record for the fastest run from LA to NYC is 25 hours and 39 minutes. That was the Cannonball run record set in 2020 (by a team who beat their own 2019 record of 27 hours, 25 minutes). Their average speed? 112 mph. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a decaying, abandoned WWII US army base in the landscape of Greenland. The abandoned equipment includes about 10,000 rusted and leaking fuel barrels, which the locals charmingly call American Flowers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The shoot of There Will Be Blood got in the way of No Country For Old Men. Both movies shot in the same isolated area and, one day, No Country couldn't film because the other movie released too much smoke. CRACKED.COM — Source

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George Clooney would call out Brotherhood! to Michael Keaton on a movie set. It was on Out Of Sight, and Keaton only figured out later that, oh yeah, Clooney was talking about the fact that they both played Batman. CRACKED.COM — Source

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They poured Coca-Cola on an Italian town's cobblestones for No Time to Die. o They were filming a chase scene and the cobblestones didn't have enough grip, so they used Coke and it was incredible how well it was working. CRACKED.COM — Source

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