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September 06, 2024

It’s end-of-summer cleaning at the Cracked offices, and boy do we have way too many facts. We knew it was getting bad when we got a call from the producers of Hoarders. The facts built up so slowly over time that we didn’t even realize the piles only left a thin walkway to the bathroom.

Luckily, we snapped out of it and shoveled a ton of facts into this list. Apologies if some old chicken bones or malnourished cats got in here.

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Frosties

Wendy's chocolate Frosty is actually half chocolate and half vanilla. CRACKED.COM Owner Dave Thomas thought full chocolate would be too over- powering a flavor paired with their burger and fries meal. — Source

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Pink Floyd

A flying pig caused Heathrow Airport to cancel all their flights. GRACKED COM When Pink Floyd was de- signing the iconic 'Animals' album cover, the inflatable pig tied to Battersea Pow- er Station broke free. It fi- nally landed on a farm in Kent, where it frightened a herd of cows. — Source

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Excel

Microsoft Excel can reach down to 1,048,576 rows. Kryiga1 - Microsoft Excel Datoteka Polazno Umetanje tagled stranice Formula Podaci Pregled Prikaz Dodac Optenito Uvjetno oblikovanje Umetni E Calibri 11 A A AZ % 000 Oblikuj kao tablicu Izbriti Zalijepi в I U Sortira 5 Stillovi celija Oblikuj 2. fitriral Meduspremnik Font Stilovi Celije Poravnanje Bro Uredi & A1 A в с D E F G H I J K L M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 GRACKED.COM YouTuber Hunter Hobbs spent nine and a half hours straight holding the down arrow down to scroll all the — Source

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Starsky & Hutch

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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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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The Hitchhiking Robot

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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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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Fitbit

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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Wolves

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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Neckties

Neckties were originally worn by Croatian mercenaries. During the Thirty Years' War, in the 1600s, France hired Croatian mercenaries who wore cravats as a kind of neck armor. After the war, French noblemen took a fancy to these scarves, which were then further adopted by the English, and progressively evolved into the strangling symbol of office drudgery. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Amelio Robles Ávila was a transgender badass. Despite what some would have you believe, trans people have always existed-and even kicked ass in the battlefield. Robles Ávila rose to the rank of colonel during the Mexican Revolution. Не was a respected, courageous commander- and would shoot anyone who tried to expose him. — Source

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Mindfulness can cause depression. Mindfulness is the latest fad touted as an easy fix for your mental health, but researchers say that, while it can be helpful, it has been overhyped. Data compiled from dozens of studies show mindfulness can occasionally worsen anxiety and depression- or even outright cause these conditions. CRACKED.COM — Source

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1918 Flu Pandemic

The 1918 flu pandemic caused a lemon boom. During the Spanish flu, lemons became the most popular home remedy for the illness that was ravaging the world. It started with an official-looking health campaign by lemon growers - and soon enough, lemons were being touted as a miracle cure, with prices skyrocketing. GRACKED COM — Source

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Paul Verhoeven thought RoboCop would make a stupid movie. Verhoeven called the script stupid garbage and American nonsense after reading just a few pages. His wife Martine, though, convinced him to give the story a shot-so Verhoeven read the script more carefully, and saw a layer of philosophy or theology under the gory sci-fi action. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Rick and Morty

CRACKED.COM Rick & Morty's Council of Ricks is based on The Fantastic Four. A body composed of versions from different realities of a genius scientist? Reed Richards did it first. The Interdimensional Council of Reeds was founded by three Fantastic Men who finagled themselves an Infinity Gauntlet. — Source

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G.I. Joe

Springfield, IL officially honored Cobra Commander. As Springfield was hosting a big G.I. Joe convention in 2015, the event was celebrated by handing the keys to the city to the show's villain. It kinda checks out, Considering Illinois' long history of government corruption. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM 12:01 PM was Groundhog Day before Groundhog Day. The 1990 short film starring Kurtwood Smith doesn't just have the same premise as the Bill Murray movie, but a lot of the elements and plot beats are the same. The writer and the director reportedly tried to sue the makers of Groundhog Day, but ultimately gave up. — Source

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Solar Panels

Solar panels are less eco-friendly than you think. Photovoltaic cells get cheaper every day - but they have a limited lifespan. As recycling isn't widespread, lots of panels wind up in landfills, with all the potentially toxic stuff they contain. Even clean energy can't help being dirty. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Space Jam

Chuck Jones hated Space Jam. As a huge part of Looney Tune's success, Jones knew Bugs Bunny better than anyone else- and according to him, Bugs wouldn't need help from Michael Jordan (or anyone) to deal with any basketball aliens. (Also, Porky would never say, I think I wet myself.) GRACKED.COM — Source

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Stayin’ Alive

The Bee Gees' Stayin' Alive is about what a dump NYC was. The Gibb brothers have explained that the group's most emblematic song is not about disco dancing at all, but about how hard it was to survive in 1977 New York City. They didn't even know the plot of Saturday Night Fever when they wrote the song. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mickey Rourke spent some time in a Russian prison for Iron Man 2. Without telling anyone, Rourke took a plane to бло Moscow and paid a hol prison an extended visit, the better to play ex-con Ivan Vanko. Не also put a OCBO РОДИТ me lot of effort into learning the language. In the end, Marvel Studios cut most of his performance, which Rourke was furious about. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Whipping Tom was London's serial spanker. 200 years before Jack the Ripper, London's Fleet Street was stalked by Whipping Tom-not a serial killer, but a serial spanker. Tom would lift women's dresses and spank them on the buttocks, yelling Spanko! Another, more violent Whipping Tom started assaulting women years later. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nintendo ran a M price-fixing cartel for years. In the '90s, getting a Nintendo game in Spain cost you three times as much as it did in Britain or Germany. The European Commission fined the company 149 million euro in 2002 for rigging the market. In 1991, they had been found guilty of the same racket in the U.S. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mission to Mars

CRACKED.COM The movie Mission to Mars was based on a Disneyland ride. Before Pirates of the Caribbean, Brian De Palma's Mission to Mars was loosely based on the Tomorrowland ride of the same name. The connection was downplayed in the marketing, though, and it's unclear whether De Palma himself was aware of it. — Source

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Someone calculated just how fast the Doom guy is. Redditor u/Phytor has done the math on this long-debated issue. Не concluded that Mr. Doom Man weighs 1,204 lbs, and still manages to walk at a speed of 49.5 miles per hour. That's faster than Usain Bolt (on a motorbike). CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM A treatment for alcoholism involves poisoning the patient. Disulfiram was the first drug approved by the FDA to treat alcohol dependence. It's never the first option, though, as its effect is as simple as it is devious: it makes alcohol poisonous. (Or rather, it interferes with the body's ability to make it not poisonous). — Source

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Clowns

CRACKED.COM British clowns use eggs as a makeup registry. Over 250 ceramic eggs are housed in the London's Clown Gallery-Museum, each painted with the signature look of a particular clown as a form of copyright protection. The gallery- museum is housed inside a church, because clowns are apparently trying to be creepy. — Source

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CRACKED.COM George Washington was actually the 15th U.S. president. Before Washington, 14 people held the office of President of the Continental Congress between 1774 and 1788, when the Constitution created a new executive branch. Those guys aren't officially counted, mostly because it was a largely ceremonial position with no real power. — Source

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CRACKED.COM NEW CC Conservatism played a big part in the failure of New Coke. de-mark The backlash against the new recipe was particularly strong amongst Southern conservatives, who saw it as a new aggression from those damn Yankees. A University of Mississippi professor called it an intrusion on tradition that Southerners won't like, regardless of how it tastes. — Source

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