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July 09, 2024

We get it — the day-to-day can get a little boring. Nobody knows more about the monotony of office life than we do. You think that finding facts will be this fast-paced, highly intense endeavor, but as the days go by, the facts start to blur together. In fact, we had to start finding more punch-packing facts to spice up our days.

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The dragons in Game of Thrones are actually wyverns. CRACKED.COM The difference between a wyvern and a dragon is that a wyvern has 2 legs and a dragon has 4 legs. They also happen to be make-believe, so it doesn't really matter. — Source

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Warner Bros. canceled 'Home Alone' because they didn't want to spend $14.7 million on it. CRACKED.COM 21st Century Fox continued the production, and it be- came the highest grossing movie of 1990 at $476 million worldwide. It was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song. — Source

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Restaurants often serve a fish called Escolar, disguised to be Tuna on the menu. CRACKED.COM Eating too much of this fish, more than 6 ounces, will cause explosive, oily, uncontrollable orange di- arrhea. Accidents can also happen while pass- ing gas. — Source

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A Polish pianist had his grand piano confiscated at JFK Airport. CRACKED.COM Krystian Zimerman was go- ing to play at Carnegie Hall shortly after 9/11 but his Steinway grand piano was confiscated and later de- stroyed because the glue smelled like explosives. — Source

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A teenage girl of the Xhosa people in Africa convinced her entire tribe to kill all their cattle. CRACKED.COM She claimed it would bring about a cataclysm destroying English colo- nizers. Tens of thousands died in the subsequent famine, and the English were unharmed. — Source

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A woman named Alice Pike tried to use a fake million dollar bill at Wal-Mart. WAL MART РАСТОЙ GUARANTEED PRAIN ER CRACKED.COM Pike claimed she thought the bill was real. When told that the United States Treasury does not make $1 million bills, she said, You can't keep up with the U.S. Treasury. — Source

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The Sega Master System and Genesis are still produced under license and being sold in Brazil. 16-BIT T - F POHER - BRAVE SEOK MECA DRIVE SEGA CRACKED.COM The old systems routinely outsell modern game con- soles, due to high tariffs making imported consoles very expensive. Almost half of all Sega Master Sys- tems ever sold were sold in Brazil. — Source

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Joseph Smith was killed by an angry mob while incarcerated. CRACKED.COM A local had exposed Smith's practice of polyga- my implying that he used his religion as a pretext to seduce and marry unas- suming women, including the wives of some of his closest associates. — Source

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The Roman Empire mined so much silver that at peak production they were mining 220 tons per year. Scottsdale Silver - Leo Your Olive us CRACKED.COM This was 5 to 10 times larger than the com- bined amount of silver available to Medieval Europe and the Ab- basid Caliphate around 800 A.D. — Source

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Ernest Hemingway hunted German U-boats in the Caribbean during WWII. CRACKED COM Hemingway used his fish- ing boat named after his ex-wife (Pilar) to hunt Ger- mans, armed only with Thomson machine guns and hand grenades. Не was given unlimited gasoline by the US government. — Source

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Coca Cola is responsible for Santa Claus being depicted as fat. CRACKED.COM In 1863, cartoonist Thomas Nast began drawing Santa with a huge stomach, but his jolly weight problem wasn't cemented in pop culture until the 1930s with Coke's advertisements. — Source

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Sightings of the mysterious Spring-Heeled Jack stretch from 1837 to 1904. A MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES CRACKED.COM Jack was a boogeyman that was said to ring resi- dents of Londons' door- bells dressed as a bear, a ghost or a devil and scratch them with metal claws before leaping away with unnatural agility. — Source

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The first Roman fire brigade was created to be a very lucrative, paid service. CRACKED.COM The firefighters did nothing while a price was negotiat- ed. Failing to reach a deal, the structure was allowed to burn to the ground after which an offer was made to purchase it for a fraction of its value. — Source

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As of 2012, there is still an active witch-hunting unit in Saudi Arabia. GRACKED COM In 2009, 118 people were charged with witchcraft and by 2011 there were 9 bureaus in the country to combat sorcery. They have even accused the US of having sorcerers. — Source

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'Moon Knight' is getting review bombed for acknowledging the Armenian genocide. It seems that IMDb has been swift in scrubbing the reviews featuring Armenian genocide denialists spreading all this false information, but some of these reviews were caught early and published. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There is a dumb behind-the-scenes reason Sonic the Hedgehog doesn't swim: Sonic The Hedgehog programmer Yuji Naka decided his fictional hedgehog would have an inability to swim, just like, he assumed, actual hedgehogs. Not only does Sonic share no other similarities to other hedgehogs, but hedgehogs can actually swim. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sought after graphic cards are finally back on store shelves after years-long shortages. HOME END The global microchip shortage, stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic and disruption of supply chains, seems to have lifted a bit. Shipping is getting back on track and oil prices are stabilizing, and global manufacturing is revving up again. CRACKED.COM — Source

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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured plasma rain on the sun. Electrified gas glowing at more than a million degrees floats up, cools, condenses, and falls back down to the surface. Around the feet of these magnetic loops, the scorching plasma is superheated from several thousand degrees to nearly 2 million degrees Fahrenheit. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Martin Luther King Jr.'s killer was caught half-way across the world. ED FDI CIVIL RIGHTS - CONSPIRACY INTERSTATE FLIGHT - ROBBERY JAMES EARL RAY I'm THE D By the time witnesses and fingerprints on the identified murder weapon pointed to escaped convict James Earl Ray, he was long gone. First he went to Canada, where he procured a fake birth certificate and passport, then to England. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1999, a 'Star Trek' actor had to write a magazine to prove he wasn't online. Star Trek: The Next Generation actor Jonathan Frakes had to send a physical letter to a Star Trek magazine to alert fans that someone on line was pretending to be him. It couldn't be him, he explains, because he did not have an internet account. CRACKED.COM — Source

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'The Batman's new Joker Barry Keoghan made a fan film to play Nightwing. Keoghan, who describes himself as a huge fan of DC, spent a long time lobbying to play either Robin or Nightwing. Keoghan shot a fan film in 2018 where he plays Nightwing, just to show that he could, even learning some martial arts and gymnastics to make the part more convincing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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'The Division 2' features an ill-timed update called countdown. Ubisoft has decided to launch a nuclear power plant invasion-themed update, in which teams of 8 players will not defend but take over a nuclear power plant from enemy forces, while the Russians are dangerously taking over various nuclear plants all over Ukraine. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Steve Jobs insisted he was infertile when his girlfriend became pregnant. When Jobs's girlfriend at the time got pregnant in 1976, he insisted that he was infertile and the child couldn't be his. His daughter's mother had to go on welfare and juggle several jobs to support her until she could get a DNA test to prove Jobs' biological responsibility. CRACKED.COM — Source

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An 'Elden Ring' glitch turns dogs into unstoppable death machines. ELDEN RING Due to a code miscalculation, the game's bleed dogs hit players once for each frame of the attack animation, totaling 60 attacks in the blink of an eye. The rabid canines can hit players for over 11,000 points per one attack, magnitudes higher than even the toughest enemies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fortnite introduced a mode with no building, and fans are pissed. Ligeral W NA N 1:16 A 35 02 Membership adidas BATT des the - - - 29/24 100 One thing that set Fortnite apart from other battle royales was players quickly assembling structures on the fly, so a game mode without it is seen as a removal of a key feature according to some fans. This is just one mode though, the regular game is still available. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Disney bent over backwards to disprove a gruesome 'Star Wars' fan theory. Following the battle of Endor, suddenly all that remained of the Stormtroopers were their helmets, leading fans to speculate that the cute little Ewoks ate them. Disney released an animated short showing Han trading rations for the captured Stormtroopers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Game Of Thrones' hardest special effect was animating Daenerys's legs. So we had the dragon flying and the muscles moving - but Dany's legs didn't react to any of it, said VFX supervisor Derek Spears. Some of the shots, we replaced her legs completely ... Literally we had to deform the lower half of her body to make it fit. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Walmart doesn't pay for its own security. Walmart 14 Walmart's commitment to keeping its payroll mercilessly low means they rely on local police to provide the security that in-house employees should, annoying both the beleaguered cops and those at risk of being brutalized by them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tommy Wiseau's 'The Room' almost had vampires. Wiseau wanted his character, Johnny, to reveal himself to be a vampire by driving a car off a roof into the sky after the confrontation with the drug dealer which is never mentioned again in the film. CRACKED.COM — Source

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