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August 08, 2024

We all know that sometimes your brain needs a little reset. Take us, for example. This little pre-list blurb was stumping us, so we took a little stroll and came back with the goods.

How’s that for honesty? This list might very well do the same to your brain. Maybe you’re a tad foggy today, and all you need are these facts to stroll around that brain of yours. Get the juices flowing, ya know?

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Pandas

CRACKED PANDAS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CARNIVOROUS. However, they inexplicably lost their appetite for meat during evolution, and we don't know why. — Source

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CRACKED MOST WASABI IN THE US IS FAKE. Most of it is actually just a blend of horseradish, mustard, and food coloring, due to the cost of real wasabi. — Source

28

CRACKED JAMS ARE MADE FROM FRUIT, WHILE JELLIES ARE MADE FROM JUICE. Furthermore, preserves have fruit chunks, and marmalades have peel and pulp. — Source

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CRACKED IN 2006, A NORWEGIAN COACH GAVE A SKI POLE TO A CANADIAN SKIER, WHO WENT ON TO WIN A SILVER MEDAL. GANAGA 29 OMIC CANADA Canada was so grateful that they collectively gave him 5.2 tons of Maple Syrup. — Source

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CRACKED JAMES CHADWICK, THE DISCOVERER OF THE NEUTRON, WAS THE STUDENT OF ERNEST RUTHERFORD, WHO DISCOVERED THE PROTON. Rutherford was the student of J.J. Thomson, who discovered the electron. — Source

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CRACKED COLLECTIVELY, INDIAN WOMEN CONTROL AN ESTIMATED $600 TO $800 BILLION WORTH OF GOLD. That's four times as much gold as the U.S. reserves in Fort Knox. — Source

24

CRACKED IN 2006, HONDA BECAME THE SOLE SUPPLIER OF ENGINES IN THE INDYCAR SERIES. It was the first time that the race went on without a single engine problem. — Source

23

CRACKED IN NEVADA, PUBLIC INTOXICATION IS EXPLICITLY LEGAL. KE A It's also illegal for any city or town in Nevada to make it illegal. — Source

22

CRACKED THE ADULT LUNA MOTH HAS NO MOUTH. Therefore, it lives for a week, only to reproduce, and then dies of starvation. — Source

21

CRACKED STARTED IN 1990, IMDB IS ONE OF THE OLDEST WEBSITES ON THE INTERNET. And it began as a list of actresses with beautiful eyes. — Source

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CRACKED IN 1929, A BAT TOWER WAS BUILT IN THE FLORIDA KEYS WITH THE HOPES OF CONTROLLING THE MOSQUITO POPULATION. It was filled with bats, which immediately flew away and never returned. — Source

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CRACKED A DOCTOR NAMED ERNST MORO SAVED THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN'S LIVES BY INVENTING CARROT STEW, A CURE FOR OTHERWISE FATAL DIARRHEA. Experiments in 2009 showed that the carrot soup could cure diarrhea caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. — Source

18

CRACKED NETFLIX CLOSELY MONITORS WHAT SHOWS AND MOVIES ARE BEING ILLEGALLY PIRATED TO DECIDE WHAT SHOWS THEY SHOULD PURCHASE FOR THEIR LIBRARY. TOOTOTOTOTTO IOOOTOTOTOO 0010101000110:101010100101 000100100010110001001 0110001007 00000110001 110100101011011101001 0010101101110100: 00010010101 They started doing this in 2013 when they were just launching in Europe and there weren't a lot of streaming sites on the continent. — Source

17

Buttloads

CRACKED BUTT IS TECHNICALLY A UNIT OF MEASURE FOR WINE THAT STARTED IN MEDIEVAL TIMES. A buttload of wine is about 475 liters or 126 gallons. — Source

16

CRACKED ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER ONLY MADE $75,000 FOR HIS ROLE IN TERMINATOR. 7 years later, in Terminator 2, he made $15,000,000. — Source

15

CRACKED THREE MUSKETEERS USED TO COME IN DIFFERENT FLAVORS. Reach for Candy Bars by Dictor MARS 3 MUSKETEERS 0 - Candy Bars It came in three flavors, strawberry, chocolate and vanilla - that's how it got its name. — Source

14

CRACKED IN THE MOVIE BABE, BABE WAS PLAYED BY 48 DIFFERENT PIGS. Filming took three years, and the piglets kept outgrowing the role. — Source

13

CRACKED THERE HAVE BEEN NO U.S. PRESIDENTS WHO WERE ONLY CHILDREN. And more have been second born than any other birth order placement. — Source

12

GRACKED ARMADILLOS ARE THE ONLY ANIMALS (BESIDES HUMANS) THAT CAN GET LEPROSY. Humans most likely transmitted the disease to them about 500 years ago. — Source

11

GRACKED THE AFGHAN HOUND HAS BEEN DETERMINED TO BE THE LEAST INTELLIGENT DOG BREED. While the Belgian Malinois was found to be the smartest. — Source

10

CRACKED GEORGE WASHINGTON BECAME A SLAVE OWNER AT 11. Не inherited 10 enslaved people upon his father's death. In his will, he instructed that all his slaves be freed upon his wife's death... so he definitely knew slave owning was wrong. — Source

9

The Atlantic Ocean

GRACKED THE ATLANTIC OCEAN IS SALTIER THAN THE PACIFIC OR INDIAN OCEANS. Large rivers like the Amazon tend to deposit more salt from land into the Atlantic Ocean. — Source

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CRACKED MEN ARE 2% MORE LIKELY TO BE LEFT HANDED WHEN COMPARED TO WOMEN. Science has yet to figure out why. — Source

7

Cleopatra

GRACKED ELIZABETH TAYLOR'S CLEOPATRA COST $44 MILLION TO MAKE, IN 1963. In 2023 dollars that would be over 350 million dollars. — Source

6

GRACKED OUR EYES ARE THE SAME SIZE OUR ENTIRE LIVES. But our ears and nose never stop growing. — Source

5

CRACKED THE CIVIL WAR WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING OVER 400,000 MORPHINE ADDICTS. For this reason, the addiction was referred to as Soldier's Disease. — Source

4

CRACKED ARABIC NUMBERS WERE ACTUALLY INVENTED IN INDIA. 1 + THE DD HOKA 12530 They were called Hindu Numerals by Arabic people, but when western merchants learned about them through Arabs they referred to them as Arabic numbers. — Source

3

CRACKED SPEEDING TICKETS IN FINLAND ARE PROPORTIONAL TO AN INDIVIDUAL'S WEALTH. In 2002, an executive from Nokia was fined 103,000 dollars for going 45 in a 30 zone. — Source

2

CRACKED POLICE OFFICERS DON'T EVEN CRACK THE TOP TEN MOST DANGEROUS JOBS IN AMERICA. PIZZA Delivery drivers, loggers, and crossing guards all beat out police officers when it comes to workplace danger. — Source

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GRACKED THE COCA COLA FORMULA HAS NEVER BEEN PATENTED. - Nutrition Facts Serv Soe better Par Serving Calories 100 Total 30mg (1% DV). Total Carb 25g (9% DV) - Cola (incl 26g Added Sugars, 52% DV) Pretein to TASTE significant source of other nutrients. - CARBONATED HIGH FRECTOSE COMMSTEUP CARANI WATER NATIOAL FLAVORS CocaCola CocaCola Coca-Cola Coca-Cola de In order to patent a formula, you have to reveal what it is - and Coca Cola refuses to do so. — Source

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