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Okay, so there are some expansive patches of nothingness in our brains. But there are some oases, too — yes, that’s the plural of oasis — and these facts knew just how to find them. Hopefully they packed enough knowledge reserves in their humps to make it across our brain deserts. Because if they have enough knowledge left in them, they could build permanent shelters and survive up there for a long, long time.

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Starsky & & Hutch was based on two real-life NYC cops. CRACKED.COM Lou Telano and John Sepe went undercov- er as Hasidic Jews, gay lovers, and fe- male nurses in the 1960s and 1970s. — Source

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Peru

In 1992, Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori initiated a self-coup. CRACKED.COM Despite already being the democratic ruler of the country, he overthrew the Congress and Judiciary with military force and assumed full autocratic power. — Source

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Pigeons

The Chinese Army has 10,000 trained pigeons in the event that war renders its modern technology unusable. CRACKED.COM The pigeons, flying at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour, are being trained to car- ry loads of up to 3.5 oz. — Source

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A Canadian hitchhiking robot relied on the kindness of strangers to travel from place to place. CRACKED COM It had its arms and head ripped off after one day in Philadel- phia, having traveled peacefully around Canada for 26 days. — Source

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Cars

The Peel P50 car was designed for a single driver and one shopping bag. adidas TRIDENT CRACKED.COM Because it had no re- verse gear, drivers had to walk out of the car and physically drag it around, which was do- able because it weighed only 130lbs. — Source

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A Fitbit played a role in solving a murder. CRACKED.COM Using the Wife's Fitbit and analyzing her movements, analysts were able to create a timeline that proved the husband had cre- ated a false story. — Source

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In one scene in Swingers, sirens can be heard from the state troopers arriving to shut down filming. CRACKED.COM Avram Ludwig pretended to have a phone call with the producer who had a permit in front of one trooper, with the producer on the other end of the call not knowing what he was talking about. — Source

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Space Jam was created after a successful Super Bowl commercial. CRACKED.COM In 1992, Nike made a com- mercial where an animated Bugs Bunny played basket- ball with a real-live Michael Jordan. Warner Brothers decided to turn it into a whole movie since it was so well received. — Source

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In 1978, Australian pilot Frederick Valentich and his plane disappeared during a supposed UFO encounter. CRACKED COM His last communication was Melbourne, that strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again... (two seconds open micro- phone)... it is hovering and it's not an aircraft... — Source

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A man named Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja grew up in the wild amongst the wolves. CRACKED.COM Marco didn't rejoin hu- man kind until he was 19-years-old. In 2018, he expressed he was disap- pointed with humanity and wished to return to the wild. — Source

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Jet Li hasn't been a Chinese citizen since 2003. CRACKED.COM Li became a United States citizen from 2003 to 2009, and has been a naturalized Singaporean citizen since 2009. Не said he chose Singapore for its education system for his two younger daughters. — Source

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The first female state senator to be elected in the United States ran against her own husband. GRAGKED.COM Martha Hughes Cannon was a Mormon polygamous wife, earned four degrees by age 25, opened a private prac- tice, was a suffragist, and beat her husband to be a Utah State Senator in 1896. — Source

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Anton syndrome is a type of blindness where individuals deny being blind. CRACKED.COM The blindness occurs in the brain's vision area rather than the eyes. Doctors theorize sufferers deny being blind because their eyes still work. — Source

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Ancient Egyptians mummified cats SO they could follow people in death. Plus, cats represented gods, and gods were happy to get, uh, offerings of cats. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Here Be Dragons wasn't actually a regularly used phrase on medieval maps. It's only been recorded one single time, on a 16th-century globe (Hic sunt dracones, in Latin) - that's it. It doesn't seem any other map ever used it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pirates

A surprisingly high number of 18th-century pirates were actually from Africa. The reason for that is pretty simple - a pirate ship was one of the few places at that time where a slave could actually free themselves. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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It turns out that dinosaurs could get arthritis, too, the same way we do. That's what multiple studies say - and, for example, a T-Rex found in 1990 (nicknamed Sue) might have been suffering from gout. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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If you eat too much meat that only has protein, you'll eventually die. Apparently, the liver can only process so much protein at once-so you need to add lots of fat, or you'll undergo protein poisoning AKA rabbit starvation. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Statue of Liberty

The hand of the Statue of Liberty sat in an NYC park for six years. They sent the hand (with the torch) to be displayed in the US to raise the funds needed for finishing the statue - it took years, but it worked. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Arby's bought Dunkin for $11.3 billion ROAST Beer Sandwich IS DELICIOUS Arby's Several years prior, Arby's bought Buffalo Wild Wings for $2.9 billion. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pet Cemetery

A pet cemetery in England offered burial ground for dead Tamagotchi ch People shipped their toys from all over the world to their final resting place. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nicki Minaj worked at multiple Red Lobsters before she was famous She was fired from multiple locations. She once followed a customer who hadn't tipped and taken her pen out to their car. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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There are 30 to 60 ships buried under San Francisco. The ships remain from the Gold Rush, during the time the city decided to move the shoreline. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Very soon, quantum computing might be able to totally break Bitcoin's security. Bitcoin only works because, to crack its security, you'd need insane computing power - - and quantum computers could easily provide that by 2027 or so. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hairy Houdini

Ken Allen the orangutan escaped from his ZOO enclosure multiple times The Hairy Houdini would stroll around looking at other animals in the zoo. Не taught other orangutans how to escape. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lions

Lions are actually surprisingly fast. 27% Their top speed is just over 50 miles per hour. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sculptures

Greek and Roman sculptures were painted in bright colors The pigments have faded over time. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones didn't speak for eight years. After moving across the country as a child, he began stuttering due to the trauma of being separated from his mother (she didn't come along) and of almost being left behind by his family. Не stopped speaking, because other kids made fun of him - - until, in high school, an English teacher had him read poetry out loud. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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