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The is a hotdog a sandwich debate has a real answer. CRACKED.COM The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council made an of- ficial ruling and deemed that hot dogs are not sandwiches, and limiting a hot dog's sig- nificance by saying it's 'just a sandwich' is like calling the Dalai Lama 'just a guy, — Source

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A coffee taster for England's Costa Coffee company had his tongue insured for $11.3 million. CRACKED COM My job is to primarily safeguard the Mocha Italia Blend... My tongue and my ability to perceive differ- ent aromas are very im- portant to my work, says Gennaro Pelliccia. — Source

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding was watched by nearly 30 million viewers in the U.S. CRACKED.COM This is more than the Friends, Cheers, Seinfeld, and M*A*S*H finales combined. This is noth- ing compared to Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana's wedding, in which 750 million people worldwide tuned in. — Source

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The world's largest pumpkin weighed more than a sports car. CRACKED COM In 2016, Belgian native Mathias Willemijns set a new world record for growing the biggest pumpkin, weighing 2,624.6 pounds - that's 129.6 pounds more than an Alfa Romeo 4C sports car. — Source

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NFL referees get Super Bowl rings, too. CRACKED.COM Reffing the big game is the pinnacle for a refer- ее. The rings aren't as big as the ones the play- ers get, but they are still valuable pieces of jewel- ry. — Source

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NYC's Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning to extend Manhattan's shoreline into the East River. CRACKED.COM By extending the island by up to 500 feet with two city blocks of parkland, they hope to create a buffer zone that will save up to 70 per- cent of lower Manhattan from possible future floods due to climate change. — Source

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The most expensive bird ever to be sold at auction is a $1.4 million pigeon. CRACKED.COM The Belgian bird, Armando, is the best long-distance racing pigeon of all time. The price Chinese financier named Xing Wei paid for the bird topped auction records by a huge margin. — Source

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The creator of'Beetle Bailey' coined the term for a jumble of symbols in place of a curse word. CRACKED.COM The 'grawlix' term was named by late cartoonist Mort Walker, and rep- resents squiggly lines used in place of salty language. There's also jarns (spirals), quimps (planet shapes), and nittles (stars). — Source

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Pablo Picasso was arrested as a suspect in the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa. CRACKED.COM 30-year-old Picasso, who had a modernist entou- rage called the Wild Men of Paris, was questioned about its disappearance and even went to trial be- fore being cleared. — Source

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Male monkeys will pay to look at the butts of female monkeys. CRACKED COM Researchers at Duke Univer- sity Medical Center have dis- covered that male rhesus macaques will give up their juice rewards to get a peek at the rumps of female ma- caques. So like us! — Source

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Since Reagan, clam chowder has been served at every Presidential inauguration. PREMIUM CRACKED.COM During Ronald Reagan's first inauguration in 1981, he insisted that food from every state be included. Legal Sea Foods' clam chowder, representing Massachusetts, has been at every inauguration since. — Source

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Horseshoe crabs have eyes all over their bodies. CRACKED.COM Horseshoe crabs have 10 eyes in total, in- cluding ones near their mouth, on the top of their shell, and down their tail. — Source

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French poodles are actually from Germany. CRACKED.COM The word poodle comes from the Ger- man word pudel- hund, a combination of words meaning dog and to splash. — Source

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Street dogs in Moscow will sneak up on people holding food and startle them. CRACKED.COM One technique some dogs have for getting food is to sneak up behind a person who is holding some. The dog will then bark, which some- times startles the human enough to drop the food. — Source

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A Tokyo resident mailed soggy garbage to the people that bullied him in the Boy Scouts. CRACKED.COM Не mailed more than 500 boxes of garbage, including old underwear and rotten tea leaves, to his tormentors. Не wrote a random destination as the address with the bul- ly's return address in order to escape detection. — Source

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The Cinnamon Challenge could lead to permanent lung conditions. CRACKED.COM Cinnamon powder, when inhaled, can cause in- flammation and perma- nent scarring in the lungs, leading to condi- tions like emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis. — Source

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There are 5 temples in Kyoto, Japan that have blood-stained ceilings. CRACKED COM The ceilings are made from the floorboards of a castle where warriors killed themselves after a long hold-off against an army. To this day, you can still see the bloody outlines and footprints. — Source

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The cost of an oil change for a Bugatti Veyron is $20,000. CRACKED.COM The car literally has to be split in half in order to get to the oil inspection area. This includes taking off the heads, inspecting inside the engine thoroughly, and checking to make sure that oil is being applied in key areas. — Source

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Coca-Cola has a special arrangement with the DEA. NT S 10 e Coca-Cola® UN HCCB CRACKED.COM In order for it to continue to exist in its current form, the company has a special arrangement with the Drug Enforcement Agency to al- low them to import dried coca leaves from Peru in huge quantities. — Source

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The popular Indian style dish Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in Glasgow, Scotland. CRACKED.COM The dish comes from Ali Ahmed Aslam, proprietor of the Shish Mahal, said to have prepared a sauce us- ing spices soaked in a tin of condensed tomato soup after a customer said his meal was too dry. — Source

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A Las Vegas replica of the Statue of Liberty was mistakenly used on a USPS stamp. CRACKED COM The USPS mistook the replica for the real one in New York when creating the Lady Liberty forever stamp in 2010, resulting in $3.5 million payouts to the replica's sculptor for vio- lating his copyright. — Source

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Flavor Flav is a musical prodigy. GRAGKED.COM By the time he started performing with Public Enemy, he was proficient in 15 different instru- ments, from drums to oboe, and co-wrote their first album with Chuck D. — Source

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Tom Morello makes a cameo appearance in 'Iron Man! CRACKED.COM The 'Rage Against The Ma- chine' and 'Audioslave' gui- tarist was the first terrorist guard killed by Tony Stark when he made the first Iron Man suit in a cave with a box of scraps. — Source

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There is a special holiday in China where dogs are carried around like royalty. CRACKED COM Dog Carrying Day is a holi- day where villagers in China dress up a dog and carry it around on a throne to honor a legend where a dog saved the village by leading the people to water. — Source

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One of the most powerful supercomputers is used to model the planet's climate. CRACKED.COM Developed by the Japanese government, Earth Simula- tor runs global climate mod- els to evaluate the effects of global warming and prob- lems in solid earth geophys- ics with nearly 35 trillion ор- erations per second. — Source

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Hockey goalie Clint Malarchuk's throat got slashed by a skate during a live NHL game. 30 GRAGKED.COM The injury was so bad that 11 fans fainted, two people had heart attacks and at least 3 players vomited on the ice. Clint was back on the ice just a week later, with 300 stitches. — Source

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800,000 foreigners visit South Korea every year just for the band BTS. NBC NE dc CRACKED.COM BTS is responsible for a ripple effect that includes increased tourism to South Korea, inter- est in Korean culture, movies, and study of the Korean lan- guage, and added approxi- mately $5 billion per year to South Korea's economy. — Source

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Mao Zedong initiated a campaign to crack down on people with the wrong opinions. CRACKED.COM In the Hundred Flowers Campaign, Mao Zedong in- vited people to openly ex- press their opinions and have free discussions. Once this happened, he cracked down on those who said the wrong things. — Source

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Desperate Housewives The show was meant to be a 30-minute comedy. Marc Cherry noticed the pilot script he was writing kept getting longer and a bit more dramatic. Instead of fighting this, he decided it would be a different kind of show. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine The cast all got police gun safety training. Andy Samberg stated that he and the rest of the cast went through gun training before shooting the series. The producers wanted the police to be portrayed as accurately as possible with firearms. CEWTON CRACKED.COM — Source

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aff ewsle COMPLE eon T - LIM ! MIFF The Office Phyllis had her role made up for her. Phyllis Smith was working as a casting assistant as the show was being put together. Everyone was impressed by her performance as she read opposite other actors at the auditions, so they wrote a part for her. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Happy Days Ron Howard joined to avoid the Vietnam War draft. Since the government wasn't accepting college deferment for service, Howard auditioned and got the acting job to get a work deferment. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM DE - Twin Peaks David Lynch cast the Log Lady 13 years before the first episode aired. Catherine Coulson got her start as an actor in Lynch's Eraserhead. During the shoot, Lynch told to her, Someday, I'll do a series and you'll play a girl with a log. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Arrested Development David Cross had to fight for Tobias' mustache. The head of FOX had a no mustache rule as part of her 3 Rules of Comedy, but Cross just couldn't see the character without it. Не saw no logic with that rule, along with the other two: no baseball caps and no puffy sleeves. — Source

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