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Hugh Jackman worked as a birthday clown named 'Coco' and made just 50 bucks. CRACKED.COM Jackman admits that he had no magic tricks and was even told off by a 6-year-old that he is terrible. — Source

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Ikea’s Interactive Advertising

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7,000 new insect species are discovered every year. CRACKED.COM There are more than 1,000,000 different kinds of insects known in the world. Entomologists es- timate there may be as many as 10 million undis- covered insect species. — Source

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Rat poison works because rats can't vomit. CRACKED COM In fact, no rodent can. Squirrels, mice, rats, gophers, beavers and all other rodents are incapable of throwing up. — Source

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The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles. GRACKED.COM Crocodiles were revered in Egypt; thousands were bred and reared in captivity to be dis- patched and expertly mummified for offerings to the potent gods. — Source

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A study done in Florida in 1968 found that termites exposed to rock music ate wood faster. CRACKED COM The behavior would endan- ger the colony because the termites neglected the oth- er worker duties, including caring for and feeding oth- er colony members that cannot feed themselves. — Source

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The world's rarest autograph belongs to William Shakespeare. CRACKED.COM The playwright's sig- nature only survived on 4 documents, to- taling six signatures total, all of which are currently in museums. — Source

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Only male fireflies can fly. CRACKED.COM The females sit on the ground and wait, then show their interest by responding with a single flash, timed to follow the males' character- istic flashes in a spe- cies-specific manner. — Source

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It takes up to two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg. CRACKED COM Ostrich eggs are the largest of all eggs, though they are actu- ally the smallest eggs relative to the size of the adult bird. — Source

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Wearing light colors will help repel mosquitos. CRACKED.COM Light colors don't produce shadows like darker shades. Mos- quitoes won't be able to sense your pres- ence as easily. — Source

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Lake Nicaragua is the only freshwater lake in the world that has sharks. CRACKED.COM It is also the only fresh- water lake containing other oceanic animal life, including swordfish and tarpon, thanks to a volca- nic eruption cutting it off from the sea. — Source

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Mexican Jumping Beans jump because of moth larvae inside them. CRACKED.COM The moth lays its eggs in the flower of the plant, and the eggs are incorpo- rated into the seeds. The larvae then eat out the in- terior of the bean and live there. — Source

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Warren Beatty once worked as a rat-catcher. CRACKED.COM Beatty got a job at a theater in Washington DC, where his sister, Shirley MacLaine, had worked as an usher. Beatty was the doorman and handyman, enacting all sorts of pest control. — Source

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The household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1922. CRACKED.COM Johnson created the device while serving a prison sentence for traveling across state lines with his white girlfriend. — Source

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Val Kilmer grew up on Roy Rogers' ranch. CRACKED.COM Kilmer's family lived next door to Roy, in Chatsworth, CA. When Roy died, Kilmer's father bought the ranch. — Source

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Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. CRACKED.COM After one of his many surgeries, Hitchcock had his stomach stitched up the mid- dle, leaving him with- out the button. — Source

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Billionaire Howard Hughes stored his own urine in large bottles. CRACKED.COM Hughes loved films so much he moved into a projection room at a Santa Monica film studio, where he would watch a marathon of movies, not even stopping for bath- room breaks. — Source

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Apes in ZOOS take human birth control as a means of animal population control. CRACKED.COM Other ZOO animals eat hormone-spiked food or have slow-releasing hor- mones implanted in their bodies. — Source

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci wrote backwards in his personal notes, but wrote the correct way for other people. GRACKED.COM Da Vinci wrote from right to left, in a mirror image, by choice. It's thought that he did this to make it harder for anyone to read his notes and steal his ideas. — Source

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A new examination of Julius Caesar's health has found that he may have suffered from a series of strokes. CRACKED.COM Conventional wisdom has long held that he suffered from epilepsy, but his symptoms are more in line with Transient Ischemic At- tacks, more commonly known as mini-strokes. — Source

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The Oscars

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Cleopatra married two of her brothers. CRACKED COM More than a dozen of Cleopatra's ancestors married cousins or sib- lings, and it's likely that her own parents were brother and sis- ter. — Source

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King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie, despite being censored in Germany. GRACKED COM Nazi Health Officer, Professor Zeiss, didn't like the fact that it showed a blonde women of the German- ic type in the hand on an ape. — Source

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Rapper LL Cool J's name is short for 'Ladies Love Cool James.' CRACKED.COM LL took the stage name at 16 when he signed with fledgling rap label Def Jam in 1984. his first single, I Need a Beat, sold more than 100,000 copies. — Source

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