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The richest person to ever live may have also technically been most generous person to ever live. Also, incidentally, one of the worst rulers to ever live.

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Eels and groupers hunt together.

Giant moray eels hunt cooperatively with grouper. In the Red Sea, the grouper approaches an eel's hiding place and shakes its head rapidly to indicate that it wants to hunt. The eel recognizes the signal and accompanies it on the hunt, where they work in tandem. CRACKED.COM — ResearchGate

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Did these rats get cancer from eating GMOs? No, they didn't! These are Sprague Dawley rats, which develop tumors naturally regardless of what they eat. The article linking them to genetically modified corn was retracted. CRACKED.COM — Source: 26 Famous Photos And Their Backstories

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The City of Calgary uses goats to fight weeds. They began using goats in 2016 and just kept going -- in 2020, there were three different goat herds operating in the city, according to Calgary Parks. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM OSMOSiS JONES takes place inside a human body, but kids might have trouble getting this joke. OUR FOUNDER There is a scene with a monument that reads Our Founder with the statue of an sperm cell on top. — Source

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Wrapping Paper Was Created by Hallmark

Hallmark created wrapping paper to sell more paper Hallmark gets a lot of blame for creating unncessary holiday traditions, but it's historically accurate to blame wrapping paper on them. In 1917, Rollie and Joyce Hall were running out of tissue paper so they started selling paper used to line the inside of envelopes, and it took off. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Atlantic

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A Michelin star restaurant in Norway is completely underwater. CRACKED.COM Half-sunken into the sea, the building's 34-meter long monolithic form breaks the surface of the water to rest direct- ly on the seabed five meters below. — Source

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Ratatouille

CRACKED.COM PIXAR MOVIES RATATOUILLE ALMOST HAD ITS OWN WINE. The movie was poised to put out the perfect product placement - Ratatouille wine, a white Burgundy. Worries about underage drinking nixed the rat wine. — Source: 16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In

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Peter Atencio

CRACKED.COM KEY& PEELE PETER ATENCIO DIRECTED EVERY EPISODE (UNTIL THE FIFTH SEASON). Atencio, a trusted collaborator, was the sole director until Comedy Central doubled the number of episodes. As he didn't want to give up doing post- production of his own episodes, he let other directors do a third of the fifth season. — Source: The New Yorker

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La La Land has a subtle nod to Hitchcock's Vertigo that you might have missed. In the City of Stars reprise, Emma Stone wears a purple dress just like the one Kim Novak wore in Vertigo when she's made up like Jimmy Stwart's dead lover. CRACKED.COM — Source: DenOfGeek

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You could trade in 10 friends for a free burger.

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Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali empire, is the richest man to have ever existed. During a visit to Egypt, hē gave away so much gold that it destroyed the Egyptian economy for 12 years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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McDONALD'S VEGETABLE OIL NTXX CRACKED.COM In 1990, McDonald's switched from beef fat to vegetable oil to cook their fries. Vegetarians were thrilled until discovering the vegetable oil still contained beef products. A lawsuit awarded $10 mill to Hindu and vegetarian groups. — Source: rd

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WHAT'S THE DEAL: RANKED CHOICE VOTING I Have To Choose 5? Moody, Sha Gorham In the 2nd column for your 2nd Write-in choice candidate, Continue until you have ranked as many or as few candidates as you like. them one oval for each candidate or column. CRACKED.CO candidate write Don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of ird-party candidates? You can rank as few as you like. That way you don't end up accidentally saying some guy who believes in jew space lasers is your 3rd favorite

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COMEDY DE NERD CRACKED.COM CARL WEATHERS NEEDED A SOUVENIR The ex-linebacker kept mementos from the Rocky movies but there's a Happy Gilmore prop he wants in his collection. I wish I had Chubb's wooden hand, he says. I would love to have it all broken with the fingers missing so you'd have to glue them back on. — YouTube

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CRACKED $150 MILLION SPENT ON RICH-GUY KNICKKNACKS Nicolas Cage has splurged on a private island, a dinosaur skull, 15 homes, two castles, a huge burial tomb, shrunken рудту heads, a Lamborghini, a pet octopus, and the first Superman comic - all adding up to a whopping $150 million. — Source

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THE FAMILY WHO WAS PLAGUED BY GARDEN CERAMICS. A family in Southern California thought it was a prank when a bunch of ceramics appeared in their garden one day, but the creepy things didn't stop coming. Over 50 pieces showed up in about a month, with some in menacing positions as if they were supposed to stare at the family, watching them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD An Olympic athlete jumped up and down on his bed to prove it was safe for sex. To quash rumors that the beds were made of cardboard to prevent sex, Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan filmed himself jumping up and down on his bed. CRACKED.COM — Source: CNN

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You used to be cool ALEC BALDWIN verbally assaults his 11-year-old daughter. Basically the '90s John Hamm, he was a hot movie star who was legitimately funny. At that point, he had hosted SNL 13 times. In 2007, we heard a leaked voicemail of him screaming you're a rude, thoughtless little pig to his 11-year-old daughter, Ireland. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED VS CONFIDENCE EARLY SERIES LATE SERIES CRACKED COM Jerry is very Jerry knows he's Even Steven and nervous in the things will work pilot if the woman he is out for him, so he takes a more meeting from detached out of town is attitude. into him.

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15,000 LEONARDO'S SUIT FROM TMNT IIL LOOKS LIKE IT WAS STITCHED TOGETHER 30 YEARS AGO FROM VARIOUS HUMAN AND ANIMAL PARTS. CRACKED.COM — Source: Prop Store Auction

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2,000 thunderstorms are going off at any given moment.

At any given moment, there are approximately 2,000 thunderstorms happening on Earth. CRACKED.COM Annually, there are about 16 million thun- derstorms across the globe and around 100,000 of them occur somewhere in the United States. — NSSL

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“Sugar daddy” visits prevented one juror from attending certain court dates.

WEIRD WORLD A potential juror cited visits with her sugar daddy as a conflict in fulfilling her civil duties. TEAM FIME FREE A juror in the Parkland shooting case against Nikolas Cruz told the judge her schedule with her sugar daddy, as well as her husband, would prevent her from being available on certain days. CRACKED.COM — Fox News

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feacemaker, I have kstn the The details in since Peacemaker's cell in The Suicide SQUAD PEACE that's almost MAKE There impossible to see. James Gunn shared photos on Twitter of the art department's contribution to Peacemaker's cell: Hand-written letters and drawings from fans of the anti-hero. There's even an erotic letter from one fan called Lilliana the Peacelover. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MOST CHAMPIONSHIPS BILL RUSSELL & HENRI RICHARD CRACKED.COM Brady needs 5 more Superbowls. Yes, the NBA had 8-11 teams at the time, and the NHL had 6-12, but 11 championships in any era shows utter dominance. Bill Russell won 11 NBA titles with the Celtics in a 13 year career (1956-69), and Henri Richard won 11 Stanley Cups for Montreal from 1955-75. Current NHLers have 3 and Lebron has 4. — Source

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You can strip this one down and sell it for parts

Celebrity Items Sold in Auctions A Jar of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Breath The jar closed at $15,099 in an eBay auction in 2005. CRACKED.COM — Source

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You used to be cool MICHAEL JORDAN demanded money from a huge fan (Chamillionaire). PIOZ NAVO an REV 2014 Not only did he publicly trash his own kids, he denied Chamillionaire a picture after he purchased a $7,000 jersey. Hating rap music, Jordan replied, I ain't taking pictures with no n***as. I tell you what, you pay $15,000 right now for a jersey from me, and I'll take a picture with you. CRACKED — Source

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30 Rock / Lutz

John Lutz (Lutz) and Sue Galloway (Sue) are married in real life. So Lutz's girlfriend didn't live in Canada after all. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About '30 Rock'

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The Vermont Mummy

There is a cremated mummy from 3,800 years ago buried in Vermont. CRACKED.COM The mummy of Amum-Her-Khepesh-Ef was in a museum attic for 60 years, but a curator was worried student pranksters would dig it up if buried whole, so the mummy was burnt in a furnace in 1950. — Atlas Obscura

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Guy Fawkes

The word guy comes from Guy Fawkes. CRACKED.COM Folks used to burn his effigy, a Guy Fawkes or a guy, and from there it came to refer to a frightful figure. Eventually it just came to refer to a man. — Source

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Laughter is not always the best medicine.

Laughter is more likely to trigger an asthma attack in a child than exercise or smog. CRACKED.COM Laughter is the 2nd leading cause of asthma attacks behind exercise and ahead of all of the allergens. Laughter-triggered problems can be avoided if the asthma is managed properly. — New Scientist

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