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An 11 day traffic jam occurred in China.

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Lewis And Clark CRACKED.COM Lewis, Clark, and their adventuring party tried to have sex with every local woman they encountered, with a respectable rate of success. To their great fortune, plenty of Native communities believed that sex was a great way of absorbing other cultures. All of this fun had its downsides, however. Within months, most of the expedition had been diagnosed with venereal diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea. — Source

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It can cost $250 million to make one NASA spacesuit Spacesuits aren't custom-fitted... NASA mixes arms and leg sections to adjust to different astronauts. CRACKED.COM — Source: NPR

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Best: Major League

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A Clockwork Orange

Behind-The-Scenes Accidents 1971 A Clockwork Orange Those eye contraptions in the iconic scenes sure do look painful, right? Malcolm McDowell ended up with scratched corneas and horrifying pain. His eyes were anesthetized for the scene, but the lid-locks kept sliding off his eyelids. Stanley Kubrick, of course, just asked him when he could do the next shot. CRACKED.COM — The A.V. Club

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Pi

Forgotten Indie Movies From the '90s 1998 Pi Everybody remembers Requiem for a Dream, but Darren Aronofsky's very first movie, Pi, is the stuff of legends. Part Eraserhead and part Tetsuo, it's a black-and-white thriller about paranoia and math. CRACKED.COM — Watch the Trailer

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In It, when Pennywise's eyes look in opposite directions, that's not an effect. Bill Skarsgård can really do that with his eyes, so he did it in the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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BELIEF: Classical statues were white. TRUTH: Ancient Roman and Greek statues used to painted bright colors but have faded over time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sentences reduced for book reviews - only in Brazil.

CRACKED IN BRAZIL, PRISONERS CAN GET THEIR SENTENCES REDUCED... ... BY WRITING BOOK REVIEWS. The Prison Reviews program is run by the National Justice Council and the Carambaia publishing house. — CBC / Global Voices

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Missing Thumbs and Sing-Song Accents: the Finnish Jackass

Finnish foursome the Dudesons showed up in a few Jackass movies, and their endlessly upbeat Scandinavian charm has made them huge stars at home. They sport 39 fingers between them, one member having lost a thumb filming an early stunt. CRACKED — Twitter

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Raw Red Kidney Beans are Toxic.

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Mysterio

Spider-Man Movie Villains Sam Raimi's Trilogy Fans thought Bruce Campbell was Mysterio. Some fans believed that Campbell was playing the same person, illusionist villain Quentin Beck, in each of his cameos throughout the trilogy. Campbell debunked the rumors in 2019. NO QUIET PLEASE WHILE CRACKED.COM — Columbia Pictures, Marvel Entertainment
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Sienna Miller defended her cigarette habit, saying, I think the more positive approach you have to smoking, the less harmful it is. Because that's how diseases work. CRACKED COM — Source

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The Battle of the Words happened during World War I. CRACKED.COM With their trenches only 150 feet apart, Belgian and Ger- man soldiers threw insults at each other all day and night. It became so annoying that the Belgian commander for- bade his men from talking to the Germans. — Source

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SNL Italy

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Bee crime is huge in california. Honeybees are very valuable in the state - not because Californians like honey a lot, but because the bugs are in high demand to pollinate crops. So it's no wonder that there's a huge black market for bees, and bee theft is rampant. It's serious enough that some cops specialize in it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tom Wilson ad-libbed one of his best-known lines in Back to the Future. It was Biff's threat Make like a tree, and get out of here that and the word butthead were some of his many improvisations on the set, he says. CRACKED.COM — Source: Yahoo

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37% of Americans skip going to the doctor or refilling prescriptions because of the cost. In Great Britain and Sweden, that number is 4-6%. $ A hip replacement costs $80,000 in the U.S. and less than $14,000 in Europe. Nexium costs $215 in the U.S. and $20-60 in Europe. http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/ CRACKED.COM 05/30/no-the-us-doesnt-have-the-best-health-care-system-in-the-world — Source

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With Amazon Ring, your home will be a fortress, scanning visitors for facial recognition, irises, skin texture and more.

CRACKED In the future, if Amazon Ring has its way, your front door will be a fortress that scans visitors for biometrics like facial recognition, irises, skin texture and more. ring If anyone deemed suspicious shows up, the alarm system will lock all the doors in the home or alert homeowners. — Know Techie

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The African Grove Theater

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WEIRD WORLD After a parakeet breeding plan went wrong, parakeets crowded an animal shelter. A guy left some parakeets at the shelter in Michigan - he said he'd drop off a few, but there were 497 parakeets. Apparently, his son wanted to breed just a few of them, but had no idea how quickly birds would breed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hollywood tragedies that brought change Deadpool 2 Stunts gone wrong After the deaths of stunt performers, the SAG-AFTRA union set up a commission to look into issues like long hours, having to drive far to work, and how to protect people from bad weather on movie and TV sets. The Walking Dead CRACKED — Source

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The longest Cricket Test match was played over 12 days. CRACKED.COM The game was between England and South Africa in Durban in 1939. It was eventually abandoned, otherwise, the England team would have missed the boat back home. — Source

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Italian Futurist Cooking tried to do away with pasta P In the 1930 Manifesto of Futurist Cooking, the art movement attempted to redefine Italian food. It didn't catch on. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: The New Yorker

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Michael Jackson had a pet llama he regularly brought CRACKED.COM with him to the studio. When he and Freddie Mercury started WEAR VEST HOLLYWOOD collaborating, the llama drove Mercury insane, so he called his manager and asked to get him out of the studio. — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Gwyneth and Paul McCartney

The Royal Tenenbaums Gwyneth Paltrow tried to bribe Paul McCartney into letting them use a couple of Beatles songs. Wes Anderson wanted to use quite a few Beatles tunes, but the rights to the original recordings were hard to come by. At one point he sent Paltrow to try and sweet talk McCartney into helping them out, but no dice. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Batman and Superman have a terrible sleepover

...AND WE THANK THEY... THEY YOU. PROFOUNDLY, THEY BECOME LIVED... GRANTING A SPARKLING FOR IN A 1983 COMIC, us SUCH A DUST WHICH SIFTS TO THE PRECIOUS FLOOR.. WORM-LIKE ALIENS GIFT. CRASH AT THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE CWHERE BATMAN AND SUPES ARE HAVING A SLEEPOVER), HAVE LOTS OF TENTACLE SEX, THEN DIE. BATMAN AND SUPERMAN CRY. ...ONLY THE END. -AFTER A BRIEF HOUR FEELING, CRACKED COR OF OF BEAUTY TO DIE. World's Finest Comics #289 1983. — Source: 28 Cringeworthy Comic Book Storylines the Movies Left Out

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The Cure was originally named after one of their first songs Easy Cure. Robert Smith thought the name Easy Cure was too American and hippie-ish so they shortened it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Ninja Turtles caused Hitler's death. Archie Comics' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures was supposed to be closer to the cartoon than to the bloody source material. And yet, it featured plotlines like the turtles going back in time, kicking Hitler's ass, and spooking him into shooting himself. CHOK 12 CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home

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Impressive indeed.

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Jon Hamm voiced a 00000 sentient toilet. CRACKED In the episode O.T. The Outside Toilet, Gene discovers an advanced, talking toilet in the woods and VOWS to protect it from Max Flush, the toilet hunter. — 15 'Bob's Burgers' Behind-The-Scenes Facts

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN BRUGES (2008) AFTER A KID ENDS UP AS COLLATERAL DAMAGE DURING A JOB, A HITMAN HIDES OUT IN BELGIUM AWAITING HIS BOSSES' NEXT ORDERS. JEAN VAREYCI WHY IT WORKS: A debauched black comedy that uses the quaint city of Bruges as a backdrop for the mayhem.

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WHAT'S UP WITH SCIENCE? CRACKED.COM Selfies may be driving plastic surgery Cellphone photos can distort facial features. One study shows that this distortion may be related to an increase in plastic surgery requests that are asking surgeons to fix issues that only exist in photos. — Source

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Full House

TV Reboots and Revivals Then vs. Now 1987-1995 Full House The original show was kind of bland, but generally beloved for its sweetness and earnestness. The revival continued the blandness, only now trying raunchy humor, and no, it didn't work. Well, at least Bob Saget was cool. Fuller House 2016-2020 CRACKED.COM — IndieWire

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The Super Soaker was invented by a Nasa Engineer. In addition to the Super Soaker, Dr. Lonnie Johnson also invented the Nerf Gun and holds over 100 patents. CRACKED.COM — Source

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