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July 22, 2024

Lady Gaga took a lot of flack for that meat dress, but those are technically the most sustainable slabs of beef the world has ever seen.

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Buddhist monks turn themselves into mummies by starving to death. CRACKED.COM The practice of Sokushinbutsu involves the monk following a strict starvation diet until ab- staining from eating altogether in order to lose as much body fat and moisture as possible. They would finally be locked in a tomb while still alive. — Source

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The rarest known mammal can only be found on one US island. CRACKED COM The Beach Vole can only be found on Muskeget Is- land, off the west coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The vole was driven to functional extinction by stray cats until reintro- duced in 1893. — Source

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The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz wore real lion's skin. CRACKED.COM The costume, made from real lion skin and fur, sold for more than $3 million at a New York City auc- tion in 2014. — Source

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During Mardi Gras, if you find the plastic baby in the King Cake, you have to buy the next one. GRACKED.COM The King Cake baby, sometimes called a fève, represents baby Jesus and the finder is said to have luck and prosperity for the rest of the year. — Source

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Glass sponges were recently rediscovered after being thought extinct for 100 million years. CRACKED.COM In the last 25 years, the long thought extinct sponges were found living on reefs at up to 900 meters below the ocean surface. They are thought to live up to 40,000 years, but changing sea lev- els cut that to 15,000. — Source

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The Marines

Jacklyn Lucas joined the Marines at 14 and 3 years later snuck onto a ship bound for Iwo Jima. GRACKED.COM Lucas stormed the beach without a rifle and threw himself on top of 2 gre- nades to protect his team. Не survived and earned the Medal of Honor at age 17. — Source

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Two people in the 1800s made money by killing people and selling the cadavers. CRACKED.COM William Hare would rent housing in Edinburgh's poor community, and Wil- liam Burke would get resi- dents drunk and suffocate them. The bodies were sold to Edinburgh Universi- ty medical school. — Source

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The #1 Bridge player in the world had his credentials taken when it was discovered he was boosting his testosterone. 7 9 K 24 5 3 A Chicago Score Sheet www. GRAGKED.COM Geir Helgemo had used two drugs to increase his testosterone and was stripped of his credentials, even though performance enhancers wouldn't have affected his ability to play the card game. — Source

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Over four years, road debris accounts for more than 200,000 car crashes. GRACKED COM Nearly 37 percent of all deaths in road debris crashes resulted from the driver swerving to avoid hitting an object. Debris results in approximately 39,000 injuries and more than 500 deaths in the US. — Source

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The Mets

The Mets switched their mascot for a mule one season. CRACKED.COM Mr. Met was replaced in 1979 with a live mule named Mettle. The team finished the season with the worst record in their division, and the average attendance was the lowest in Mets history. — Source

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The only bone in our body not attached to another bone is right under our jaw. Mandible Hyoid bone Larynx GRAGKED.COM The hyoid bone is a small horseshoe-shaped bone locat- ed in the front of your neck. It is instrumental in the function of swallowing and tongue movements. Since it's not con- nected to other bones, anato- my skeletons don't show it. — Source

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In Chicago public schools, male students were required to be nude during swimming classes. GRACKED COM For more than 50 years, boys swam laps with their cheeks out. Female students were allowed to wear swimsuits. The practice persisted until the 1970s. — Source

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Ford’s Theater

Ford's Theater refuses to perform the play which Abraham Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated. GRACKED COM The theater says: What would a full-scale reenact- ment of a night that ended in violence do for even someone who hadn't experienced gun violence - much less some- one who had. — Source

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You actually do catch more flies with vinegar than with honey. CRACKED.COM Adult flies forage for mi- crobes on overripe fruit, relying on their sense of smell to detect the acetic acid (the chemical that gives vinegar its pungent aroma). — Source

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Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga's meat dress was preserved by taxidermists. CRACKED COM The taxidermists turned the 2010 dress into a form of beef jerky. Over twelve years later, the dress is still intact and on dis- play in Las Vegas. — Source

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Italian cowboys challenged Buffalo Bill when his troupe toured in Italy. CRACKED.COM The Butteri, led by Au- gusto Imperiali, chal- lenged his troupe in 1890 when they came around - and won, proving far more expe- rience. — Source

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The Colorado River has not flowed into the ocean since 1998. CRACKED.COM The Colorado originates in the Rocky mountains and tra- verses seven US states be- fore reaching Mexico, where it is supposed to flow on- wards to the Sea of Cortez. Instead, the river is dammed at the US-Mexico border. — Source

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There is one castle for every 5,200 people in Wales. CRACKED COM There are more than 600 castles in Wales, more per square mile than anywhere in the world. Some have been lived in continuously for a thousand years, while others are romantic ruins. — Source

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Citibank played a huge role in destabilizing Haiti. VIDEO BEER CBD citibank afrain EADS - Citibank MOTT STREET to BEY 2 PENSKE ENTER GRACKED COM Citibank took over the na- tional bank of Haiti in 1910, which also served as Haiti's treasury. Citibank paid rebels to destabilize the county and pressued the US to occupy Haiti in 1915. — Source

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One FBI agent infiltrated the Italian mafia for five years. CRACKED.COM Joseph Pistone infiltrated one of the five big fami- lies of the Italian Mafia in New York. The operation lasted from 1976 to 1981 and led to over 200 in- dictments and over 100 convictions. — Source

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An ancient Korean medicine, Ttongsul, is made from fermented poop. CRACKED.COM The poop of a 4-7 year old child is left to ferment with rice and yeast. When per- fectly ripe, this alcoholic drink is claimed to cure pain, broken bones, bruis- es, inflammation, and even epilepsy. — Source

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Kevlar was added to fencing uniforms after a death in 1982. CRACKED.COM Kevlar is used in top level uniform pieces following the death of Vladimir Smirnov at the 1982 World Championships in Rome, in which a broken blade went through his mask and pierced his brain. — Source

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The White Sox held a Disco Demolition Night attended by 50,000 people, which turned into a riot. STEREO CIO U - - Cotillion KARETHERK RA - J. adidas GOLD GARE Low Origin STER CRACKED.COM 1 The promotion, held in 1979, was an effort to boost atten- dance and was connected to prior Disco Nights, al- though those didn't usually end in fans rushing the field after a bunch of records were blown up. — Source

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Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas. ON ree CRACKED.COM Keaton had to change his name when he arrived in LA, per the Screen Actors Guild rules, so he flipped through a phone book. Не selected 'K' in the book and stopped at 'Keaton.' — Source

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2 USAF F-15s shot down 2 US Army Black Hawk helicopters in 1994. FF 026 GRACKED.COM The friendly-fire incident, which killed all 26 helicop- ter passengers, is attribut- ed to a chain of errors, from the general heading up the Operation Provide Comfort Task Force all the way down. — Source

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A Singapore Airlines cargo plane had to make an emergency landing because of sheep farts. CRACKED.COM The flatulence from the 2,186 sheep on- board allegedly trig- gered the plane's smoke detector, a claim in which the air- line denies. — Source

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It was believed in Ancient Greece that leprosy could be cured by bathing in children's blood. GRAGKED.COM Virgin blood was another cure, both to bathe in and consume, as it was tied to puri- ty. After a while, the blood of dogs and corpses started to be- come popular when (somehow) virgin and/or toddler blood just wasn't doing the trick. — Source

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Pearls are created when an irritant enters a mollusc's shell. CRACKED.COM The mollusc secretes ara- gonite and conchiolin that creates nacre (aka mother of pearl) which encases the irritant (such as a parasite, sand, or other debris). — Source

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A Michelin star restaurant in Norway is completely underwater. CRACKED.COM Half-sunken into the sea, the building's 34-meter long monolithic form breaks the surface of the water to rest direct- ly on the seabed five meters below. — Source

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A boy raised by wolves lived among other humans in the 19th century. CRACKED COM Dina Sanichar was a feral child, born in 1861, and dis- covered by a group of hunt- ers among wolves in a cave in India. Не went on to live among other humans for over twenty years, but never learned to speak. — Source

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Thomas Wise used his reputation as a legit collector of first editions to create and sell forgeries. CRACKED.COM Wise was a keen collector of first editions in original con- dition dating back to Elizabe- than era and given an honor- ary М.А. by University of Ох- ford. Не created and sold forgeries of nearly 300 works of English authors. — Source

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Xerox holds the patent for Ethernet. CRACKED.COM The idea was first docu- mented in a memo that Robert Metcalfe wrote in 1973, where he named it after an omnipresent, completely-passive medi- um for the propagation of electromagnetic waves. — Source

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Wheeler, Virginia is closer to the capital of 9 other states than it is to its own state capital. SE est VII - Herlb Cardie GRACKED.COM It is the southwestern- most populated place in Virginia, at the very tip of Virginia's west stretching arm, 411 miles away from Rich- mond. — Source

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No species of centipede has exactly 100 legs. CRACKED.COM Despite the name, centi- pedes can have a vary- ing number of legs, ranging from 30 to 382. Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs. — Source

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Fantasia

Disney built a temporary theater just to show 'Fantasia/2000.' FANTASIA 2000 CRACKED.COM When the only IMAX theater in Central L.A. couldn't meet the demands of Disney to showcase the very first ani- mated IMAX movie, Fanta- sia/2000, Disney spent $4 million to build a theater to show it. — Source

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