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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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Jewish prisoners during WWII had to pay for a train ticket to the death camps. GRAGKED COM German railways during World War 2 forced adult prisoners to pay 4 pennies per kilometer while on their journey to death camps but children under the age of 4 traveled for free. — Source

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There is a mysterious waterfall called The Devil's Kettle in a state park in Minnesota. CRACKED.COM The waterfall remains a mys- tery to scientists because the western half of the water flows into a pothole; howev- er, every attempt to trace the path of this half of the river once the water has gone into the pothole has failed. — Source

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Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our solar system. CRACKED.COM Due to the intensity of its rotation the planet is flat at the poles and bulges at the equator. It takes less than 10 hours for it to com- plete a rotation on its axis. — Source

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Joaquin Phoenix called himself Leaf until he was 15. CRACKED.COM Joaquin was inspired by spending time outdoors rak- ing leaves and desiring to have a nature-related name like his siblings. This was the name he used as a child ac- tor until he changed it back to Joaquin at 15. — Source

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As Police Commissioner of NYC, Teddy Roosevelt personally made sure cops were working. CRACKED.COM Teddy Roosevelt inherited a vastly corrupt police force. In order to make sure offi- cers weren't slacking off or performing corrupt activi- ties, he himself would walk their beats most nights and early mornings. — Source

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Hurricane Harvey

Hurricane Harvey dropped so much rain that the Weather Service had to change their map. CRACKED.COM During Hurricane Harvey, the National Weather Ser- vice had to add two new colors to the rain accumu- lation map as the old color key topped out at an amount of rain they never before thought would fall. — Source

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Soviet authorities decided to use a 30 kiloton atomic bomb to extinguish a gas well fire in 1966. CRACKED.COM It was detonated at a depth of 5,000 feet, crushing the well and extinguishing the flames in seconds. Following this success, the same tech- nique was used on 4 other well fires. — Source

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The Ancient Chinese could tell the hour of the day by smell. CRACKED.OOM The 'incense clock' had a timed measure of incense attached to a ball, which then dropped from the display. Each section was indicated by a different aroma. — Source

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It's possible for a child to be born with two biological fathers. CRACKED.COM There are two birth anom- alies - superfecundation (twins with separate fa- thers) and chimerism (ab- sorbed twins), that if com- bined, will create a single human with two biological fathers. — Source

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A German filmmaker filmed an entirely silent documentary of the lives of Carthusían monks. CRACKED.COM Philip Gröning came alone to live at the mon- astery, where no visitors were ordinarily allowed, for a total of six months in 2002 and 2003, and spent 2.5 years editing 'Into Great Silence.' — Source

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The Hal Saflieni Hypogeum in Malta is believed to predate the pyramids by up to 1000 years. CRACKED.COM It housed up to 7000 bodies of an unknown Neolithic civilization who mysteriously dis- appeared in 2500 B.C. without explanation. — Source

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Cruise Lines

The cruise line industry dumps 555,000 gallons of greywater and blackwater into the sea every day. WONDER= SEAS CRACKED COM The EPA says an average cruise ship with 3,000 pas- sengers and crew produces about 21,000 gallons of sewage a day-enough to fill 10 backyard swimming pools in a week. — Source

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Leonard Nimoy came up with the Vulcan neck pinch because he was tired of fight scenes. CRACKED.COM In the first episode this pinch showed up, Spock was originally supposed to club evil Kirk over the head, knocking him out. Nimoy thought this was in- consistent with Spock's personality. — Source

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The actual Yeti may just be the extremely rare Tibetan blue bear. CRACKED.COM A 1960 expedition to search for evidence of the yeti, led by Sir Edmund Hil- lary, returned with two scraps of blue bear fur that had been identified by lo- cals as 'yeti fur.' — Source

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Boris Yeltsin once drummed on the head of Kyrgyzstan's president. CRACKED COM The former Russian Presi- dent got so drunk at a state dinner that he drummed on Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev's bald head, using dinner spoons. Probably got a pretty good sound out of that thing, too. — Source

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