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WEIRD WORLD It's now technically illegal to play Gangnam Style in gyms in Seoul, South Korea. E E Y In group exercises, anyway - it's to make sure people don't breathe too heavily. Any music with a bpm over 120 (like Gangnam Style, with its bpm of 132) isn't allowed. CRACKED.COM — Source: Yonhap News Agency

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Hair dryers used to have asbestos.

Hair dryers used by hairdressers often contained asbestos through the late 1970s. Hair dryers containing as- bestos, including hand-held and hood vari- eties, which were used to insulate the appliances, made up 90% of annual U.S. hair dryer sales. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Asbestos.com

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CRACKEDCONT In 2010's HOW T0 TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, the vikings of Berk spend their entire lives training to kill dragons and not much of anything else. S

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Uvalde schools police chief: I didn't know I was in charge at the shooting scene.

The Uvalde school police chief admitted he didn't realize he was the one in charge during the deadly shooting. CRACKED.COM Pete Arredondo said that he didn't consider himself the person in charge as it unfolded and assumed someone else had taken control of the law en- forcement response. — CBS

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The Blair Witch Project

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS People thought The Blair Witch Project was real, and that the people in the movie actually died. CRACKED.COM Due to the marketing around The Blair Witch Project, which described the unknown actors as missing, presumed dead, many viewers thought they were really watching the final days of the people on the screen. The mother of actress Heather Donahue actually received sympathy cards from concerned audience members. — Source: 14 Behind The Scenes Facts About Our Favorite Horror Movies

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CRACKED.COM Does it say here that your credit rating is low...? Oh, sorry, I had the wrong file. The fear-then-relief tactic is evil, but effective. Someone gives you something to fear or be anxious about, only to immediately ease your concerns. After this wild mood swing, you become more trusting and pliable for a while. — Source

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MARTY to can - علد MARTY ROBBINS BIGGEST TUTS My How ، That TO A Dritter Pasive II adidas leardrent This song from OF the Breaking Bad finale tells us how the episode ends. A cowboy steals a ride, flees to New Mexico, then returns, as My love is stronger than my fear of death. A stray bullet hits him. Не dies in the arms of Felina, his true love. Just like Walt dies accompanied by his true love. No, not anyone in his family. Chemistry. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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TIME TRAVEL MOVIES PLANET OF THE APES THE ORIGINAL SCRIPT WAS TOO AMBITIOUS. Rod Serling's draft would have been too expensive to shoot, so many changes were made. The twist ending, however, is all his own. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Ralph Fiennes' nephew Hero Fiennes Tiffin played young Tom Riddle. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Charlie Brown Christmas

Christmas Time Is Here wasn't supposed to have any lyrics. Mendelson got the idea to put some lyrics in two weeks before the special aired, and called some lyricist friends, but they were all busy. So he quickly came up with them himself. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Bits Of Weird Trivia About A Charlie Brown Christmas

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40 Random Bits of Trivia Laminate Like Cold Butter in Your Brain Dough — Source: Playbill

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K The King of Hearts and the Queen of Spades are the only cards with sleeves X o The sleeves don't match Where's the Queen's other hand? The case is solved, Watson THE QUEEN OF SPADES DID IT CRACKED.COM — Source: 19 Easter Eggs In Pop Culture And Art

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Anything but Reginald.

CRACKED Elton John hated his birth name. Born Reginald Kenneth Dwight, he went by Elton John in honor of blues legends Elton Dean and Long John Baldry. Because he hated his birth name, he legally changed his name in May 1972 (adding the middle name Hercules). — Express / Ents24

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Colin Trevorrow

Colin Trevorrow got fired from The Rise Of Skywalker before JJ Abrams took over. The official statement was pretty dry - Lucasfilm just said that their visions for the project differ. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Andrew cunanan, most remembered for Gianni Versace's murder, had read and memorized a whole set of encyclopedias by the age of 10. CRACKED COM

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Peloton: ‘We didn’t know’ – but they should have.

CRACKED CHRIS NOTH Peloton pulled an ad with Chris Noth after sexual assault allegations, which he denies. They said they didn't know about the claims when they used him in their 'Sex and the City' ad. — CNN / NBC

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CRACKED.COM Rural America still uses dial- up internet. About one third of rural residents browse the net like it's the 1990s, because they don't have access to broadband. In an increasingly digitized economy, this leaves these areas at a disadvantage. — Source

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

PILOTS THAT WERE WILDLY DIFFERENT BUFFYTHE VAMPIRE SLAYER Aside from a complete lack of any budget, the unaired pilot follows the same basic plot as the first episode with a few differences. For one, who the hell is this Willow? CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Pilots That Were Wildly Different from the Rest of the Show

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Youth: misunderstood.

MYTH SUPERPREDATORS In the mid-'90s, social scientists were predicting that America was going to be taken over by huge groups of superpredators, young people who had no control over their impulses and no guilt. This fear was almost like a state of panic. CRACKED — Rainer Fuhrmann/Shutterstock
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A surprisingly high number of 18th-century pirates were actually from Africa. The reason for that is pretty simple - a pirate ship was one of the few places at that time where a slave could actually free themselves. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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597 ft. The Statue of Unity in India is so tall the Statue of Liberty could barely touch his knees with her torch. 152 ft. CRACKED.COM — Source

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On her 2010 World Tour, Rihanna's room had to have Archipelago Black Forest Candles. If the promoter couldn't get these, they had to contact Rihanna's people ASAP to find out which candles were her #2 choice. CRACKED.COM — 22 Bizarre, Real Demands Made By Celebrities Behind-The-Scenes

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CRACKED COM Remember the Dead Parrot sketch? There was once a joke about a dead slave. The slave you sold me died. By the gods, replied the other man, he never did such a thing when he was with me. -From Philogelos (4th century CE) — Source: Ancient Jokes You'll Laugh, Not Eyeroll At

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40 Random Bits of Trivia Laminate Like Cold Butter in Your Brain Dough — Source: MTV

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We all know those sigh-inducing boredom bots.

CRACKED LOUISE ROASTS (ACTUALLY, BAKES) JESSICA. BOB'S BURGERS Bland, boring Jessica. If she was a spice, she'd be flour. If she was a book, she'd be two books. — YouTube

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Dog fleas jump much higher than cat fleas. In one study, dog fleas jumped about 50% higher than cat fleas on average. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Surprising Facts About Your Pets

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Aaliyah and Kourtney Kardashian

AALIYAH WOULD HAVE BEEN KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN'S AGE. The R&B super star tragically died when she was 22 years old. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED THE FENN TREASURE A millionaire from Santa Fe hid a treasure chest full of gold and gems in the Rocky Mountains six years ago. Lots of people have gone looking for it, and he wrote a poem with clues to the location in his book, The Thrill of the Chase. — Source

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Director John Landis makes a quick cameo in An American Werewolf in London. It's in the Piccadilly Circus scene --he's a random pedestrian who smashes through a plate glass window after getting hit by a car. CRACKED.COM — Mental Floss

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WEIRD WORLD One woman bit another one during a fight about disciplining their dogs. This happened in Germany, and their dogs were apparently just standing nearby and calmly looked on at the two, according to the police. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Someone Great

BREAK-UP MEDIA Someone Great I ER SI S This break-up friendship comedy is sad and poignant but also hilariously funny. Grab your closest friends and watch it. CRACKED.COM

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Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world, outside of Poland. 8 SOX CRACKED COM In the early 19th cen- tury, Chicago was seen as the place where new ideas and new technology could be tried out. — Source

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'Roseanne'

COMEDIES that shouldn't have been saved Everything but ROSEANNE's views had evolved. 20 years after its initial run, Roseanne aired on ABC in 2018. Its renewal for a second season was halted by Roseanne's racist remarks on Twitter, and ABC moved forward with The Conners minus Roseanne. CRACKED — ABC
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Mind Spotless the O The film originally had a darker ending. SUNS Charlie Kaufman initially wrote an Eternal ending that saw Joel walk away from the relationship. SCENES Another idea was floated to have the u ending reveal that everything was happening in Clementine's head. BEH CRACKED COM — Vanity Fair

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4.7% - Netflix movies and series featuring a main character with a disability. 27.2% of U.S. citizens live with a disability. CRACKED.COM — USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative

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Hollywood feuds CRIMINAL MINDS VS THOMAS GIBSON Gibson had numerous verbal and physical on-set altercations. In 2010 he reportedly shoved an assistant director, and he was fired in 2016 for kicking a writer in the shin because of creative differences. CRACKED — Source

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Randy Quaid got arrested for squatting. So he fled to Canada. Не and his wife claimed they were being targeted by Star Whackers, a group he says killed off celebrities such as Heath Ledger and David Carradine. The couple even created a documentary on the subject, starring Quaid wearing nothing but an open fur coat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Harrowing experience: two-year-old girl, lumbar puncture, rising pulse, respiration.

CRACKED WENTWORTH'S LUMBAR PUNCTURE ON A TODDLER Dr. Arthur Wentworth performed the first lumbar puncture in 1895 on a two-year-old with tuberculous meningitis, but the experience was harrowing as the child became restless and her pulse and respiration rose, causing Wentworth to fear for her life. — Casa nayafana/Shutterstock, Mygate/Shutterstock
Pediatrics

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1,300 stone circles CRACKED.COM Stonehenge is only one of 1,300 surviving stone circles found in the British Isles and Ireland. — Source

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CRACKED.COM MYTH: Chloroform can knock you out in seconds. REALITY: Nope, try five minutes. While chloroform has been used in murder cases, it doesn't have an immediate effect on a damp cloth over one's face. It will take around five minutes to kick in, and there will be a lot of kicking from the victim. In real murder cases, victims were usually tricked into taking the anaesthetic, or giving drugs prior to getting chloroformed. — Source

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