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August 22, 2024

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CRACKED.COM A thief was caught because he was a hopeless romantic. Stephfon Bennet and a couple partners fled after robbing an apartment in 2009. A couple hours later, he came back to ask the victim out on a date. This was a big miscalculation, as А, the victim wasn't single, and B, WTF were you thinking, dude. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Victor Hugo was a huge horndog. Hugo wasn't just famous for writing Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre- Dame, but also for sticking his little Jean Valjean in everything that moved. When he died, France mourned the loss of its greatest writer while French sex workers mourned the loss of their greatest patron. — Source

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spider-Man 3 didn't actually sink the franchise. We're not saying that Spider-Man 3 was actually good - but it was a huge box office hit (even bigger than its predecessors by some metrics). A fourth movie was underway when Sony chose to reboot the franchise instead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A protein is named after sonic the Hedgehog. The SHH gene codes for the sonic hedgehog protein, which is called that partly because it kicks in during fetal development to split your eyes apart. Before that, your eyes are fused together, kind of like the blue speedster. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The boy who played Peter Pan had a crappy life. Bobby Driscoll didn't just voice Disney's Peter Pan, but had a remarkable movie career - which was all but over by age 17. Не spent the rest of his life in and out of jail and rehab houses - and after he died of a drug-caused heart attack at 31, the press took four years to notice. CRACKED COM — Source

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev released an album of ballads. In 2009, 10 years after his wife died of leukemia, Gorbachev took the step of contributing to a cancer research charity by... uh, singing ballads and auctioning off the album. It fetched $164,940 from someone who (understandably) chose to remain anonymous. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bee crime is huge in california. Honeybees are very valuable in the state - not because Californians like honey a lot, but because the bugs are in high demand to pollinate crops. So it's no wonder that there's a huge black market for bees, and bee theft is rampant. It's serious enough that some cops specialize in it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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You're eating way more plastic than you think. Plastic doesn't degrade - every piece of plastic ever made still exists, ground down to smaller and smaller parts. These microplastic particles make their way into waterways and soil - and eventually, into our food. It's been calculated that we eat a credit card's worth of plastic every week. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Irish crown Jewels have been lost for over 100 years. The jewels were supposed to be kept in a strong room, in a secure tower - except that the safe didn't fit through the door. So the jewels were kept in the office of the Ulster King of Arms - where they went missing from in 1907. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Doctors tried to treat fake wounds from a Goodfellas actor. CRACKED.COM While filming his death in 'Goodfellas,' Michael Im- perioli cut his hand on a glass and was taken to the ER where the doctors rushed to treat his fake bullet wounds. — Source

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A NHL player refused to attend his own Hall of Fame ceremony because women weren't allowed. CRACKED.COM Ted Lindsay, one of the greatest players in NHL history, wouldn't show for the 1966 ceremony. The league changed the rules to allow women the fol- lowing year. — Source

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There's a Korean TV show about a 400-year-old alien who falls in love with a human woman. CRACKED.COM The show, 'My Love From Another Star,' is a huge hit in Korea and elsewhere; Chi- nese fans were hospitalized for binging on the woman character's favorite food: fried chicken and beer. — Source

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Hydrangea flowers are a naturally occurring pH indicator and can change color depending on soil. GRACKED COM In acid soils, chemical re- actions occur in the soil that turns the flowers blue. In alkaline soils, these reactions cannot occur causing the flowers to remain pink. — Source

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Star Trek's Captain Kirk was named after the explorer of the Pacific, Captain Cook. CRACKED.COM The title of the pilot epi- sode was an homage to one of Cook's diary en- tries: ambition leads me ... farther than any other man has been be- fore me. — Source

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The Pope in 1950 did not reject the theory of evolution. CRACKED.COM Pope Pius XII confirmed there was no conflict be- tween Christianity and the theory of evolution, and the Church supports the idea of theistic evo- lution. — Source

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Weed smokers in the 1930s were called muggle-heads. CRACKED.COM Its leaves can be dried, ground and rolled into cig- arets , which are boot- legged under the name of 'muggles,' 'reefers,' or 'Mary Warners, according to a Time article from the period. — Source

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Ferdinand Magellan didn't actually circumnavigate the globe. CRACKED.COM Не was killed by a poi- soned arrow in the Philip- pines, and under the leadership of Juan Sebas- tian de Elcano, his expe- dition completed the trip without him. — Source

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A festival in Wisconsin is held to honor the Russian satellite, Sputnik. GRACKED.COM A piece of the first satel- lite in space, the Russian Sputnik, landed in Mani- towoc, Wisconsin upon re-entry and the towns- people created a festival in its honor. — Source

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A condemned ship filled with animals sailed over Niagara Falls as part of a tourism stunt. CRACKED.COM In 1827, William Forsyth, an investor in the Falls, con- cocted the idea to draw in more tourism. The ship held Buffalo, bears, rac- coons, a dog, and a goose. 10,000 people watched it sail over the edge. — Source

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During the Great Famine, Ireland continued to export enormous quantities of food to England. GRAGKED COM This kept food prices far too high for the average Irish peasant to afford and was a major con- tributing factor in the large death toll from the famine. — Source

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Edward Briney booby-trapped his farmhouse which resulted in a burglar's legs being shot with a shotgun. CRACKED COM The burglar sued him and won. Later, when asked if he would do anything different, Ed- ward Briney stated I'd have aimed that gun a few feet higher. — Source

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Venus flytraps were once thought to have been brought to Earth by meteors. CRACKED.COM Venus flytraps were believed to be an alien species because they seemed to grow in places where meteor- ites were found. — Source

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A doctor in the South Pole biopsied and treated her own breast cancer. GRACKED.COM In complete darkness, medical equipment had to be airdropped from mili- tary aircraft to Dr. Jerri Nielsen during the over- winter period when the crew is normally isolated from the outside world. — Source

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93% of Indians work in informal, off-the-books jobs, and get paid in cash. CRACKED.COM Most transactions en- tail personalized re- lationships rather than standardized forms of legal con- tract or corporate in- stitutions. — Source

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The experiment that ultimately became the basis for cochlear implants involves a cat hooked up to a phone. CRACKED.COM In 1929, Princeton re- searchers opened a cat's skull and connected its au- ditory nerve to a tele- phone. When one re- searcher spoke in the cat's ear, the other could hear it through the receiver. — Source

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Mia Wallace from 'Pulp Fiction' is, technically, a Disney princess. CRACKED.COM Miramax was owned by Disney from 1993 to 2005, which means that the film was, in a way, a Dis- ney movie. — Source

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In the Soviet Union, it was common for people to take their windshield wipers with them when they parked. CRACKED.COM Otherwise there was a chance of them be- ing stolen because there were severe shortages of auto parts in the USSR. — Source

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The producer of 2007's The Man From Earth thanks people for illegally downloading it. CRACKED.COM After the movie was ille- gally shared via BitTorrent, Eric D. Wilkinson publicly thanked the file sharers because it lifted the pro- file of the film far beyond the financier's expecta- tions. — Source

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Hitler planned to rebuild Berlin after the war into a neo-roman cosmopolitan city. CRACKED.COM One state building, the Volkshalle was to be so massive, that it could rain inside during events due to the perspiration and breath from 150,000 ос- cupants. — Source

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