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Who Let The Dogs Out is not about ugly women. While not about literal dogs, Baha Men's song isn't about unattractive women either, as it's often interpreted to be. In the lyrics, it's the women calling the creepy, annoying men dogs. It's a man-bashing song, explained songwriter Anslem Douglas. CRACKED.COM — Source

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It took a Supreme Court ruling to end Abercrombie & Fitch's tyrannical dress code. A&C notoriously refused to stock clothes bigger than Large - and yet, employees of all sizes were forced to wear them (among other draconian rules). All this ended when a Muslim woman sued them for firing her over her headscarf, and the case made it to the Supreme Court. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM Leonardo da Vinci studied butt clenching. The Renaissance was a time more obsessed with butts than you were taught in school - and Leonardo, the definitive Renaissance man, dedicated several pages to sketch the anus' ability to take different forms when clenching. — Source

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GRACKED COM Bugs living on your face die by poop explosions. Demodex mites are tiny, gross bugs that burrow into your hair follicles, when they eat and lay eggs - but don't poop. They can't, as they don't have a butt. They just keep getting more and more full of crap, until they die and release a lifetime of feces all over your face. — Source

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Two X-Men mutants have ice cream-based powers. Eye-Scream can turn into any flavor of ice cream - a power he somehow hates. More recently, penciler Robert Quinn hid his own creation in a comic - a girl named Soft Serve, who has the even more baffling power of pooping ice cream. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED.COM The Matrix reused Dark City's sets. Both movies aren't just similar - they also used some of the exact same sets. Why hire someone to make a new set when you've got a perfectly good one lying around in storage? — Source

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Scooby-Doo was the result of Robert Kennedy's assassination. In the '60s, action- packed cartoons were all the rage - but after RFK was shot, a moral panic ensued against violence in the media. Pressured to come up with more wholesome content, Hanna-Barbera created Scooby-Doo and his gang. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jediism has become a real religion. Sorry, you don't get cool powers or a lightsaber when you join the International Church of Jediism. You do get, however, to believe in the Force and follow the Jedi Code. It isn't just pretend - it's a real church, with ministers and a tax exemption. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tupac had his first movie role in a horrible comedy. Nothing But Trouble was an awful vanity project of Dan Aykroyd, who dragged Demi a Moore, Chevy Chase, and John Candy along the way. As the movie also features the hip-hop LIFE group Digital Underground, it has the distinction of being the acting debut of Tupac Shakur. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Danny Elfman composed the Batman theme in a plane's bathroom. After visiting the movie's sets in London, inspiration hit Elfman right on the plane back to Los Angeles. Fearing he'd forget it, he spent the rest of the flight coming and going to the bathroom, humming a little music into his tape recorder every time. — Source

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GENERAL GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR WAS FAMED FOR BEING SUCH A LADIES' MAN THAT HIS OWN SOLDIERS OFTEN MARCHED TO THE TUNE OF ROMANS, LOCK UP YOUR WIVES. THE BALD ADULTERER IS BACKIN TOWN GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Klingong The Federation Starfleet Command The Prime Directive The Gorn Khan The Шагр Drive ...all created by Gene Coon. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Producer Gary Kurtz coached the actors in Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. CRACKED.COM http://www.ign.com/artidles/2002/11/11/an-interview-with-gary-kurtz — Source

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CHRIS CLAREMONT TURNED THE X-MEN FROM A DEFUNCT SERIES TO THE BEST-SELLING COMIC BOOK OF ALL TIME. EXCELSIOR, INDEED. GRAGKED.COM http:/nymag.com/nymetro/arts/feajures/3522/ — Source

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Octave Chanute gave the Wright brothers designs, support, and financial backing. He's also been proven to be the designer of the first functioning airplane, predating the Wrights by four years. Chanute and the Wright brothers had a falling out, because Chanute felt the technology they were working on should be shared freely. photo: Getty Editorial http://www.lib.niu.edu/2001/iht810114,html CRACKED.COM http://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/dec/01/theairlineindustry.g2 — Source

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Ulysses S. Grant worked to sweep out slavery, protect African-American citizenship, and support economic prosperity in the wake of the Civil War. THE CRAZY: Не never let anyone see him nude. Late into his 60s, Grant bragged that no one had seen him naked since he was child-not even the nurses and aides who were assigned to help him in the war. CRACKED.COM Daniel Q'Brien, 2014. How to Fight Presidents Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country — Source

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Salvador Dalí was celebrated for his playful work and flamboyant personality. Fans loved the visual puns in his surrealist paintings. THE CRAZY: Не thought he was possessed. In 1947, Dali had a friar named Gabriele Maria Berardi perform an exorcism on him. Не gave the friar a crucifix sculpture he had made, as a thank-you gift. CRACKED.COM http://cathnews acu.edu au/510/72.php — Source

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Andrew Jackson is probably in your wallet right now. a Не was a national hero, and was elected by popular vote. As President, he sought to act as the direct representative of the common 92059A OFA RESERVE ITED STATES SYSTEM IN AZO SP UBLIC AND PRIVATE EGAL TENDER THE Robert CRAZY: Secretary ES Hs 1996 Не had a violent temper and was JACKSON constantly challenging people to duels. The number of duels Jackson participated in ranges from 13 to hundreds, depending on the source. Не had so many bullets in his body that he rattled like a bag of marbles — Source

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Ryan Reynolds has launched his own streaming service, Mint Mobile +. The platform's only offering is Foolproof, the 2003 movie he starred in with Kristin Booth. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The United States has the world's most violent weather. It receives more high-impact weather events than anywhere else on Earth. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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People who move to the Villas Las Estrellas settlement in Antarctica must first have their appendix removed. This is because the nearest hospital is 600 miles away. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the 1960s Batman series, Batman and Robin buckled their seatbelts before taking off in the Batmobile. This occurred after a complaint by the National Safety Council & the Dynamic Duo set a good example thereafter. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1985, a man rigged his computer to call Jerry Falwell's toll-free prayer line every 30 seconds for eight months. It clogged the line and cost it over $750k in reverse charges. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Submarine Escape Immersion Equipment acts as a one-man life raft. If a submarine is downed and there is no submarine rescue vehi- cle nearby, the crew put on special pressur- ized suits which float them to the top. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Kevin Feige was hired on to the first X-Men film as an assistant. Feige was eventually given an associate producer credit when another producer dis- covered he was a walking encyclopedia of Marvel. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Gene Roddenberry was once in a plane crash in the desert in Syria. With two broken ribs, he repeatedly went back into the burning plane to evacuate passengers, then organized search teams to look for civili- zation. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Actor Clark Gable fought in World War 2 and was almost killed. When word of this reached MGM, studio executives began to badger the Army Air Forces to reassign him to non combat duty. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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In 1906, a man named Joe Munch in Seattle was sentenced to one minute in jail for drunkenness and disorder. The original sentence was 30 days, but after an appeal and 6 months of litigation, it was shortened to one minute. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Tetrachromatic Super Vision may help some women see 100 million colors. Some women can have a genetic mutation that causes them to gain a 4th color-vision cone in their eyes, allowing them to see millions of more colors. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Henry Winkler's parents escaped Nazi Germany on the last day Jews were allowed to leave. Since they were given only a six-week visa, Henry's fa- ther hid his mother's jewel- ry inside pieces of choco- late to covertly take as much wealth with them as they could without being detected by the Nazis. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A US baseball team in the 1910s was made up of death row prisoners. The Wyoming State Peni- tentiary's All Stars had an agreement with their pris- on's baseball-obsessed warden that if they kept winning, their executions would be delayed. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Duolingo users help the service make money by translating real documents. Duolingo has contracts with websites like CNN's to translate stories and is earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with this business model. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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People with Misophonia are triggered by common sounds such as chewing and loud breathing Reactions range from dis- comfort to sharp anger to physical violence. There's no cure, but if one is diag- nosed there are coping mechanisms that can im- prove one's quality of life. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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In January 2018, Belgium and the Netherlands swapped land to change their national borders. Grote Polder via Zoeterwoude-Rijndijk KMWS Belgium's foreign minister noted that the agreement shows that borders can also be ex- changed peacefully. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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