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Homicide detectives work way fewer cases than you think. Put on a cop show, and you'll see detectives solving a different murder every week. But in real life, the average homicide cop works maybe five cases in a year. Even in such a stab-happy place as Detroit, the number barely goes up to eight. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The product placement in Jurassic World was basically a subplot.

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The original poster for Carrie (1976) gave away the prom scene. IF YOU'VE GOT A TASTE FOR TERROR... TAKE CARRIE TO THE PROM. SPOILER the VU ALERT! CARRIE a novel da girl with A frightening power STEPHEN KING If you compare the book cover with the movie poster, you can clearly see the prom scene spoiler. And sure, the novel came out two years prior, but Carrie only became a hit after the movie was released. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Careers built on a lie Chloë Grace Moretz: Film star, British accent master. Moretz tricked Martin Scorsese into thinking she was British in order to land a role in Hugo. She had lived in London while filming Kick-Ass, so she was familiar with the rhythm of the accent. CRACKED — Source

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The Siberian mine that eats helicopters

This looks like a sci-fi superweapon, but it's what used to be the world's biggest diamond mine. This Siberian mine was blasted open in the 1950s with explosives and jet engines, and the Russians just kept digging for years. (They closed it in 2004.) The mine acts like a superweapon, too. It's so big that helicopters can't fly over it because the downdraft would suck them inside. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Seemingly Sci-Fi Places Here On Earth

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Celebrate Leif Erikson Day on October 9th!

CRACKED THE U.S. CELEBRATES ITS FIRST NORWEGIAN IMMIGRANTS. October 9th is Leif Erikson Day. It's the anniversary of the 1825 arrival in New York of the ship Restauration, which carried the first organized group of Norwegian immigrants to the U.S. — Sharon Mollerus/Flickr
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There is little historical evidence that ball-and-chain flails ever saw widespread use. CRACKED COM A spiked ball at the end of a chain is a 'ball and chain flail,' not a morning star (which has spikes but no chain). — Source

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COMEDY 06 NERD CRACKED.COM The Ladies Man: Thanksgiving Whether there's trouble in your love life or not, there's nothing to be learned from Tim Meadows' Ladies Man in this Thanksgiving edition of the recurring sketch. Donning a pilgrim hat, he doles out relationship advice between sips of the cognac from the Courvoisier truck that jackknifed in front of his house.

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Organic, but prison-sourced.

CRACKED WHOLE FOODS MARKET Whole Foods relies on prison labor. Whole Foods has gotten some things, like goat cheese and tilapia, from farms that rely on the labor of incarcerated people. by ROOM OPEN ONLY — Sundry Photography/Shutterstock,
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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Anthony Hopkins paints canvases that sell for up to $80,000. BLK Не paints four times a week, for hours and hours, and he's made more paintings than he can count. CRACKED.COM — Source: 36 Bananas Facts About Fav Celebs

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The Cardamom Hills in Cambodia now have wild elephants and otters again. This is a forest conservation site, and the event is pretty significant since elephants left it five years ago and have only now returned. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Anyone on Earth can bounce a laser off reflector arrays left on the Moon by the Apollo missions. CRACKED.COM These mirrors were put there for scien- tists on Earth to aim lasers at them and calculate the time it took for the beams to return. — Source

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CRACKED CHOCK FULL O'NUTS COFFEE DOESN'T CONTAIN ANY NUTS. It's named that because the store originally sold nuts before they were converted to coffee shops. — Source

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Order the large pizza

A 16-inch pizza is 4 times as big as an 8-inch When in doubt, always get the larger pizza to get the most 'za for your buck. CRACKED.COM — Source: NPR

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Jersey (Fasting) Girl

No one knew why Lenora Eaton stopped eatin'. 1881 CRACKED COM Unlike most of these would-be saints, while others in her New Jersey town promoted her as a symbol of their faith in the miraculous, Eaton refused to explain her sudden rejection of food. Maybe she just had a keen sense of irony. — Fasting Girls / Knowol

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Dean Martin Jerry Lewis CRACKED.COM After they split, Martin became a leader of the Rat Pack, and Lewis had to settle for The King of Comedy. But that was after a decade of bruised egos, which ended officially when Martin told Lewis you're nothing to me but a f*ing dollar sign. — Source: 15 Iconic Couples Who Despised Each Other

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Cops Came Up with Black Friday

Whiny Philadelphia cops named it Black Friday NS14 PHILADELPHIA POLICE adidas SERVICE INTEGRATION In the 1960s, tourists would come into Philadelphia after Thanksgiving for an Army-Navy football game on Saturday. Local police officers called it Black Friday because they had to work long hours, deal with bad traffic, and unfavorable weather. CRACKED.COM — Source: New York Times

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Kevin Jonas builds custom homes DIGIT RONT 2011 RONT 2011 I TAS GITAS CRACKED.COM The oldest Jonas set popstardom aside to profit from suburban sprawl. He started up Jonas Werner Fine Custom Homes, where he designs and builds massive, fancy houses: I like to get my hands dirty. I've been blessed in my life where I get to say 'You know what? I want to do this. — Source: Fox News

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WEIRD WORLD Sacramento authorities told people they should offset the taste of bad water with lemon. Because rivers and streams in California are drying up, there's more geosmin in the water but officials say that's harmless and the taste should just be masked with lemon. CRACKED.COM — Source: Fox5Vegas

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The Navy has officially launched a ship named after a gay rights leader. The USNS Harvey Milk was launched in the San Diego bay in early November. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dogs are as smart as the average two-year-old. CRACKED.COM They can understand more than 150 words, and much like chil- dren, they are capable of using deceit to get what they want (treats). — Source

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CRACKED CITIBANK Citibank made a mistake and accidentally sent $900 million to the wrong people, and the lenders refused to return the money. The lenders were taking advantage of the situation due to a longer running saga between them and Revlon, the company that borrowed the money. — Source

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40 years of war over a horse race TFE CRACKED.COM In the year 568, two Arabian tribes went to war after an unbeatable horse named Dahis was scared off the track, mid-race, by opposing warriors. Dahis was, unfortunately, owned by a King, who declared war after his bet was ruined. — Source: 12 Petty, Trivial, Or Downright Dumb Reasons War Was Declared

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Jamie Waylett was busted with gillyweed. HARRY POTTER CRACKED.COM Malfoy's sycophantic yes-man lost his role in the Deathly Hallows films after he was arrested for marijuana possession in 2009. Не later did jail time after the 2012 London Riots. — Source

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You can tell the rank of the sculpted warriors featured in China's Terracotta Army by their clothing. The lowest ranked warrior? The one wearing a terracotta t-shirt that says Fart Now Loading. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKEDCON The horses in Game of Thrones' Battle of the Bastards are the same as those in the finale of 2012's Les Miserables.

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African buffaloes practice democracy and let the females make the decisions. The females all vote on which direction the herd needs to trek by lifting their heads, one by one, and staring into the direction they wish to go. If the vote is split, they'll divide into two groups and spend the night apart, only to reconvene in the morning and vote again. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Animals With Envy-Inducing Biology

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They've created the transparent aluminum from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. It's a completely new state of matter, and it's created by firing a short pulse from a super-powerful laser at regular aluminum. The catch is, the aluminum is in this new state only briefly before returning to normal. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — The Engineer

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Alyssa Milano is serious about L.A. Dodgers baseball. 94 LA org org And she designs Dodgers gear for women fans. Her line is called Dodgers Touch, and includes stuff like jerseys, caps, t-shirts and hoodies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Weezer opened for Keanu Reeves’ bass-playing side gig.

CRACKED WEEZER'S VERY FIRST GIG WAS OPENING FOR KEANU REEVES. Their debut performance was as an opener for Reeves' band, Dogstar. (Well, strictly speaking, not his band - Keanu plays bass in Dogstar, but he's not the frontman.) — Ahanui/Shutterstock,
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Whoopi Goldberg was a beautician- for corpses. On her first day, Goldberg's boss pretended to BE a ghost, causing Whoopi to run into a door and knock herself out. CRACKED.COM — Source: Huffington Post

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Want to remember the information you read? Then read it out loud. Called the production effect, you will find it easier to commit something to memory when you both speak it and hear yourself speaking it out loud. We simply learn and remember better if it happens actively. CRACKED.COM — Science Daily

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Your beliefs about personality will determine how you deal with a breakup. 2016 ** CRACKED.COM If you think personalities are more malleable, you're more likely to move on quicker from the perceived rejection than someone who thinks personalities are more static. — EurekAlert

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The stolen works of Charles Darwin were mysteriously returned.

Darwin's notebooks were anonymously returned after being stolen from Cambridge University library 22 years ago. The small leather-bound books, worth millions, were dropped off in a pink bag and in good condition. On the envelope the books were returned in was printed a short message: Librarian, Happy Easter X. CRACKED.COM — BBC

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Taylor Tomlinson

TAYLOR TOMLINSON I have a lot of friends that are like, I tried to get on antidepressants. I just didn't like how I felt on them. I just didn't feel like myself on them. Now that I'm on them, I'm like, Yeah, me either. It's the best! CRACKED — Source: The Tonight Show

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Some cicadas are so loud, they can almost cause physical pain to humans. Large cicada species have a call that's rated at over 120 decibels at a short distance, which is pretty close to how loud a sound has to be to cause pain in the ear. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — HowStuffWorks

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Research shows bisexuality isn't a phase In a 10-year study, researchers showed bisexuality in women to be a distinct sexual orientation, not an experiment or transitional phase before lesbianism, as stereotypes believe. CRACKED.COM — ScienceDaily

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BILLY WEST TALKS TO HIMSELF A LOT. Not only did West voice Ren & Stimpy, he was also a good chunk of Futurama, the red M&M, and even Bugs Bunny. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Faces Behind Your Favorite Animated Characters

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Jack and Jay-Z: cashing out in style.

Celebrity Side Hustles Jay-Z Digital streaming Square, Jack Dorsey's mobile payments firm, bought a big chunk of Jay-Z's Tidal streaming service for $297 million. Jay-Z also sold half of his Armand de Brignac champagne company, earlier worth $630 million, to LVMH for an unknown amount. TIDAL CRACKED — Brian Friedman/Shutterstock,
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