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Oh boy are you in for it. We’re taking these random trivia sets that are titled in the most excruciatingly nonsensical ways possible up to 75 entries. What this means for you is more fantastic facts, and what this means for us is more fantastic cash. Cash we need to settle our own Keegan Kelly’s bar tab after it became clear the Chicago White Sox are totally going to lose 120 games this year.

Poor kid, bad enough we make him write about Matt Rife, but this White Sox thing is definitely piling it on. With that, read on, and we’ll keep an eye on Keegan.

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Russians can't stop with the vodka

THE STEREOTYPE... RUSSIANS ARE THE WORLD'S DRINKERS. Славянская ЗААССИЧЕСКАЯ 11 Русский ПУТИНИ НАСТО СТАНДАРТ КЕДРОВАЯ Boyka PUTINK For FREE NORTH SALE TO was YODKA the AARA BNA водука ITTA OCOGAN NOTU BUT in REALITY... THEY DRINK THE SAME AS AMERICANS. The average Russian drinks 2.77 gallons a year, not much more than the average American's 2.42. In fact, it puts Russia at number 23 on the list of countries ranked by alcohol consumption. CRACKED.COM — Source: Widely Believed Stereotypes That Are Completely False

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CRACKED VS AFFILIATION COMIC BOOK WOLVERINE MOVIE WOLVERINE CRACKED.COM Has worked Has worked alongside with the past Spider-Man, X-Men, the the Fantastic present x-Men, Four, and the and the future Avengers. X-Men.

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United Airlines

A blind woman flying United Airlines was assured by the flight crew they would help her exit the plane. Instead, they forgot her, left, and locked up — Source: CBC

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine

JOE LO TRULIGO was in comedy troupe The State CRACKED.COM Brooklyn 99 producers told Jones: Just bring in funny people. So she brought in Joe Lo Truglio, who she had loved for a long time, says producer Mike Schur. Lo Truglio had auditioned for Jones dozens of times over two decades. — New Yorker

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"Uiver" saved by Albury’s headlights.

HOW TO GET RESCUED USING CAR HEADLIGHTS TO DIRECT A PLANE LIVER K.L.M In 1934, the people of Albury, Australia saved a Dutch airliner that had gotten lost during a London- to-Melbourne air race. They used their car headlights to light up a makeshift runway. CRACKED — Albury City Collection (via Uiver Memorial DC-2 Restoration Project)
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Haing S. Ngor

HAING S. NGOR In 1980, Ngor came to the U.S. with his 10-year-old orphaned niece after escaping Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. Four years later, he won an Oscar for his acting debut in The Killing Fields, a movie about the very regime he escaped. After winning, he gave the Oscar to — THR & Oscars

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WEIRD WORLD Apparently, North Korea is hard at work on eliminating corruption. DO KH 0 M K 0 M p -> At least, if you go by the fact that it's created special prosecutorial teams with the specific task of rooting out corruption. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gardening gone wrong: Kate learns the perils of opium poppies the hard way.

CRACKED A POPPY FARMER SAYS SHE GREW OPIUM BY ACCIDENT. A Tasmanian flower farmer issued a warning to other gardeners after mistakenly growing opium poppies, which were found by authorities and removed from her property. — The Guardian

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At 22,394 square miles, Lake Michigan is larger than 9 states. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM

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If a woman's favorite movie is the 1991 Madonna documentary Truth or Dare, run. That's Brad Pitt's advice. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cell

PHONE FILMS 2016 CELL Based on a book by Stephen King. John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson have to survive an apocalypse triggered by an odd cell phone signal that has turned people into zombies-but-not-really. It's... a choice. CRACKED.COM — IMDb

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A WOMAN FOUND A LOCK OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S HAIR HIDDEN IN A RING. CRACKED.COM Maral 1855 The woman says she found the ring in an attic in Wales, and that it belonged to her late father-in-law. The ring, inscribed with Brontë's name, opened up to reveal a band of plaited hair. Apparently it was a thing during the 19th century to put hair in jewelry. — Source

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In the 1920s, people discovered a hidden tunnel underneath Washington DC. The mystery was really simple: it was built by an entomologist who just liked digging tunnels in his spare time. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Facts To Make Us Sound Smarter And/Or More Informed

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75 Random Trivia Tidbits That Only Dogs Can Hear — Source: YouTube

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MIMEERAET WANT TO BUILD A 60AT5 BOAT. TAKE YOU JUST 4 wooden planks NEED FOUR WOODEN PLANKS. NO PROBLEM WANT TO MAKE A SMALL SIGN, ONLY SIX PLANKS SIO

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The Pentagon wasted $5 billion on a plane that was never made. The A-12 Stealth Bomber was billed as a long-range bomber for the 21st century, but the development program just fizzled out after burning a bunch of money and never produced anything (except lawsuits). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Elon Musk has plenty of genius ideas ...but nuking Mars isn't one of them In 2015 Musk proposed that we should nuke Mars to make it warm up faster. Nu

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Two greats, one era.

Beef myths SALVADOR DALÍ Dalí and Picasso weren't always enemies. In fact, their relationship was complicated, with admiration, rivalry and even some inspiration from each other. PABLO PICASSO CRACKED — Studio Harcourt/Wiki Commons,
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Citizen Kane

Dinosaurs in movies Then vs. Now The Citizen Kane of dinosaur movies That would be Citizen Kane, actually. Yup, it's a dinosaur movie. Well, a pterodactyl movie. Orson Welles used rear projection for a party scene set in a jungle - featuring dactyls from 1933's Son of Kong. CRACKED.COM — FilmMunkeyShow/YouTube, Media Service News, The Digital Fix

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Indiana Jones

Harrison Ford had that scar way longer than Indie. INDIANNA JONES Indianna Jones gives himself that chin scar the first time he tries out his whip. But Ford got it years earlier, in an impressively dumber way: he tried to put his seatbelt on, while driving, and smashed into — Source: Parade

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Rocky Balboa

ROCKY IS A STORY ABOUT PERSEVERANCE. ROCKY BALBOA NEVER QUITS, NO MATTER WHAT. THAT'S JUST THE FINISHED MOVIE, THOUGH. ORIGINALLY, HE DID QUIT. The fi

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Tyrese Gibson & The Rock

Tyrese Gibson tried to start a feud with The Rock over Fast & Furious. A custody dispute apparently took its toll on Gibson's mental state, as he demanded Fast & Furious producers choose between him and Dwayne Johnson (who he blamed for a delay in filming) via Instagram: I'm sorry to announce that if Dewayne is in Fast 9 there will no more Roman Peirce - You mess with family and my daughters survival I mess with yours......... close your eyes dude you're a 'Clown. They'll probably go with The Rock. CRACKED.COM — Source: 11 Supernova-Grade Celeb Meltdowns

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An elephant actually made Hannibal’s trip through the alps.

Someone actually re-enacted Hanníbal's route through the alps with an elephant. A 1959 archeological ex- pedition successfully led former circus elephant Juno through Hannibal's route in the Alps from France into Italy after 10 days of travel. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Life Magazine

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CRACKEDCON ocat CocaCola On average, a fourth of all people drink one Coca-Cola drink a day.

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Paul McCartney

CRACKED PAUL MCCARTNEY James McCartney was born June 18, 1942 in Liverpool. His mom was a nurse at Walton Hospital and his dad was away fighting in WWII. Sadly, when James was 14, his mom died from an embolism. — Gold Radio UK

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Terrance and Phillip Prank

T b P RT W Yer The South Park Season 2 premiere CApril 1, 1998) was a meta prank. Trey Parker & Matt Stone promised that the identity of Cartman's dad

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Moe Szyslak Louis Deutsch, New Jersey bartender and former boxer, was a favorite target of a couple of prolific prank callers. Recordings of the calls

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Huge examples of normally small things A tadpole the size of a Coke can In 2018, an ecologist stumbled upon the biggest tadpole on record in a pond in the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona. It was a whopping 10 inches long and wider than a can of soda. CRACKED — Source

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Sony

Sony had to recall a camera that could see through clothes in 1998. Canon The video cameras were equipped with infra-red technology that allowed users to take pictures in the dark, but when they were used in daylight they were able to see through certain clothes. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Anne of Green Gables

Japan has an Anne of Green Gables theme park that used to be super-popular. I The park got tens of thousands of visitors a day in the '90s, and has replicas of Prince Edward Island landmarks including the Green Gables house. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: cbc.ca

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GRACKED.COM Traditionally, female pigs are employed to find and extract truffles (a subterranean fungus considered a delicacy in many cuisines) due to their natural affinity for sniffing them out. That's because truffles contain androstenol, the same chemical found in boars' testes and saliva that makes female pigs horny. Your truffles are extracted by horny pigs. — Source: 19 Facts About Food We'd Bet Anything You Didn't Know

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IMMEDIATE SEQUELS STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI The Force Awakens ends with Rey handing Luke his lightsaber. The Last Jedi begins with Luke grabbing it and throwing it over his shoulder, while the canned studio laughter roars and Sheldon says Bazinga! The scenes fit together-which is not the same as working together, because Abrams and Johnson couldn't find the time for a video call, we guess. CRACKED.COM — Source

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At the Mountains of Madness

Things that Guillermo del Toro almost did At the Mountains of Madness Del Toro never made his Lovecraft adaptation led by Tom Cruise after Prometheus covered all the same ground. Не hasn't fully given up, though. CRACKED.COM — Source: IndieWire, Collider

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Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux

Celebrity Weddings Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux Aniston and Theroux were so secretive about their wedding that some of the guests thought they were showing up for a birthday party. CRACKED.COM — Source: TMZ

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World War II CRACKED.COM Ice cream rations were more coveted than cigarettes and fresh socks. Look at the Battle of the Coral Sea from 1942. While engaging the Japanese, the USS Lexington sank. But before the crew abandoned ship, they carried out one important task: They ate all the ice cream. The men broke into the freezer and scooped all the ice cream into their helmets, licking them clean before evacuating at the last minute. — Source

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A cloud 2 may float, but it weighs a million pounds. 4 +8 140 160 12 180 70 100 60 80 200 50 90 80 40 220 100 30 110. 60 240 20 120 10 in 130 260 D O 280 310 CRACKED A cloud might contain half a million — Source: USGS

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The Mona Lisa

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The NASA Blue Beam Project According to the late journalist Serge Monast, NASA is planning on projecting giant 3D holograms of religous figures into the atmosphere to initiate a spiritual apocalypse among world religions. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Insane Conspiracy Theories The Internet Believes

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Gen Z Congressman-elect denied D.C. apartment: Wealthy political world needs reform.

CRACKED GEN Z'S FIRST CONGRESSMEMBER CAN'T GET AN APARTMENT IN D.C. Maxwell Frost was denied a D.C. apartment due to his low credit score, highlighting the issue of affordability and accessibility in the D.C. political world for people who don't come from wealth. Frost's experience has encouraged him to look into solutions for other people in the same boat once he joins Congress in January. — NPR

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Nicki Minaj CRACKED C An interviewer asked her a willdly pointed, incendiary question: ls there a part of you that thrives on drama? to which she responded -- a little dramatically -- Why would a grown-ass woman thrive off drama? I don't care to speak to you anymore. — Source: NYTimes

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Toto's lead singer helped write the Yub Nub song. Joe Williams wrote the English lyrics for Ewok Celebration and the Jabba's palace number Lapti Nek from the original release of Return of the Jedi. Не recorded the words with his father, composer John Williams, which were then translated into Ewokese and Huttese. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Behind-The-Scenes Star Wars Facts

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Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel made history when she won an Oscar for Gone with the Wind, but wasn't allowed to be buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery because of her race. — EW

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TELL US NOW. Liz H. has her mom to thank for the mullet she had in grade school. The cringe part wasn't the mullet- it was that the top was permed an — Liz H.

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During Mexico's Day of the Dead, women often dress up as a skeletal figure dressed in Western attire. It is known as 'La Catrina', and it originated from a caricature made by Jose Guadalupe Posadas in 1910 to mock rich Mexican people who ditch their Mexican culture in favor of Western culture. CRACKED.COM — 21 Holiday Traditions With Shockingly Bizarre Origins

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles' full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula. CRACKED.COM In 1781, a group of 14 fami- lies journeyed more than one-thousand miles across the desert from pres- ent-day northern Mexico and established a farming community in the area. — Source

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Dean Cain

Dean Cain CRACKED.COM Superman was a star on Princeton's football team in the late 80's (when that was extremely impressive), and snagged a league-record 12 interceptions. Не was signed to the Buffalo Bills, but dropped out due to injury. — Source: 14 Startlingly Athletic Hollywood Actors

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Walk Hard

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS JOHN C. REILLY SANG ALL OF HIS SONGS. WALK! HARD. Reilly put a huge amount of effort into becoming Dewey Cox. He would be on set all day and then record songs during the night. I was really determined not to be treated like an actor playing a musician. CRACKED.COM — The Ringer

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A helium balloon on the moon would plunge to the ground Without air to rise above, the helium might as well be lead. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — PopSci

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Apollo astronauts had no toilet in space - they just had a plastic bag. E KIA NOW SALE The bag had a rim that would stick to their skin and, after using the bag, they'd put disinfectant in it and knead the resulting mixture by hand. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hanna-Barbera kept ripping off Scooby Doo. As Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was one of their biggest hits, they went and made it again. And again. And ag — Source: Screen Rant

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WEIRD WORLD A youth football team in the Dallas-Fort Worth area is officially too good. Sea YRASHIN YEARSH PRO They were so good, they got kicked out of the playoffs, which resulted in a bunch of unhappy 7- and 8-year-olds. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Saved by the Bell

COMEDY NERD Saved By the Bell's pilot was actually all about Miss Bliss - she was the lead. The show's original name was Good Morning, Miss Bliss, and it took place in Indiana. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Sitcoms Whose Pilots Were Different From Later Episodes

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When Microsoft was developing XBox, they tried to buy Nintendo. Microsoft They were trying to buy developers for the upcoming console, and that included Nintendo, but Nintendo wasn't having any of it. They just laughed their asses off, a Microsoft director said. Like, imagine an hour of somebody just laughing at you. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

They filmed the rape scene in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo in 16-hour days. It took a week to film it-and they even did it in the week of Valentine's Day, of all possible times. Rooney Mara called it really, really challenging, not just emotionally but physically. CRACKED COM — Source

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Jazz was considered a health hazard. In the 1920s and '30s, many communities banned jazz on the grounds that it was allegedly a threat to public health. Rulings were enacted blaming the music for all kinds of calamities, ranging from mental breakdowns to spontaneous miscarriages. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Myanmar

To get a waiter's attention in Myanmar, you have to make a kissing sound. It's kind of like the sound you'd make to call a cat, and it consists of two or three kisses. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Exoplanets

The number of known exoplanets has doubled every 27 months since they were first discovered. CRACKED.COM Since the first exo- planets were discov- ered in the early 90s, the number is now over 4,000 of con- firmed findings. — NASA

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Jeff Bridges

CRACKED JEFF THE DUDE LEBOWSKI In 2019, Jeff Bridges tweeted Can't be living in the past, man. Stay tuned. Fans clearly thought it meant a full-length reprisal, but it was all for a Stella Artois ad. The original has such a huge following that would absolutely be disappointed by a sequel. The Big Lebowski — IGN / Irish News

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What Are the Best-Reviewed State Parks in the U.S.?

75 Random Trivia Tidbits That Only Dogs Can Hear — Source

TripAdvisor data has found that Shore Acres (Oregon), Kachemak Bay (Alaska) and Humboldt Redwoods (California) have the highest ratings.

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Saturday Night Live

CRACKED.COM SNL is a traumatizing gig. Sabotage, backstabbings, degradation, performers refusing scripts written by women/younger members, drug-fueled BS, even fistfights - those are the kinds of horror stories former SNL cast members often recount. Toxic working environment? Hell, this is the Chernobyl of comedy. — Source

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The Hamster Dance was created to win a bet. THE HAMPSTER DANCE dance the night away Art student Deidre LaCarte created the website in a bet over who could get the most views on a site. Gonna go out on a limb and say she won. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Waterworld

CRACKED TELL US NOW CRITICALLY PANNED MOVIES WE LOVE WATERWORLD Nathan C. says, It was given way more crap than it deserved... It was also particularly visually appealing, where everything had a very tactile, mechanical feel to it.

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CRACKED BALI'S DAY OF SILENCE. In Bali, New Year has 24 hours of silence and meditation known as Nyepi. There is no talking, travel, work, or activities, and the only people outside are the Pecalang - Security enforcing the rules. Doesn't this sound better than a hangover at brunch? — Source

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De-Rust a Tool

Is your tool rusty?* Soak it overnight in vinegar and salt, then clean it and dry it. Good as new! *We mean an actual tool, not that tool of yours. Don't soak that in vinegar! CRACKED.COM — Source: Life Hacks We Think Are Pretty Darn Boss

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CRACKED VS GAME RELEASES GAMING THEN GAMING NOW 00 PENADO COLOR funt CRACKED.com Games were AAA games are released 100% glorified demos complete, and any that need to be additional content patched almost was saved for the immediately sequel. after release.

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STEVE HARVEY was going to knock Kenan's ass out OK, he was joking. Kind of. Steve wasn't overly excited about it in the beginning, confesses Thompson, but he grew to love it. I don't do it out of any malice. Harvey clarifies: I really don't have 50 buttons on — TV Guide, CinemaBlend

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TELL US NOW. GETTING A START ON THE DAY Anna T. says, Making my bed first thing every morning. It's quick to do but still makes you feel like you've accomplished something. Plus, you always have a tidy bed to come back to at night.

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Bones

CRACKED.COM YOUR FEET. OF YOUR BONES ARE IN MORE THAN A QUARTER each hand has 27. hands. Each foot has 26 bones, and Half of all your bones are in feet and Groope for tradon Fucus Groope for tradine of Talua Premium LANGO Artic with do benea Groope for Sendon of PEROXATA PARKS Terra TENTICS BAKYIN Caseifire - from BORIAL 19 INTERNATIONS Body His EXT pour Body Pholenge EXTESSIRES DISTRICT some IT BRAYZ dend EXT MASSEY — Source

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Cats

CRACKED.COM Cats were accused of killing babies. Not too long ago, when a baby died with no explanation, the cat was often pointed to as the culprit. Some believed that cats would suffocate babies for a variety of reasons-including sheer jealousy. — Source

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Heinz ketchup costs more than other brands. But you're paying for GRAGKED.COM the name and the jingle, not the taste. In multiple blind tests, Heinz ketchup was compared with cheaper brands and ranked based solely on taste. Heinz didn't come out HEINZ on top in any of them. EXTY 1869 EITE TOMATO KETCHUP 57 VARIETIES GROWN UPT MADE* - 300ml-3429 — Source

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CRACKED SOME U.S. STATES HAVE LAWS AGAINST CLONING HUMANS. It is also prohibited by federal law in Canada. — Source

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CRACKED COM In the US, it's normal to go to college for four years. BIOLOGY HISTORY ENGLISH sociology POLITIC GEOMETR MATHEMATICS 9 ELIGION ECONOMY PHYSICS TUC ARTS OG EDUCATION MISTRY In Europe, it's usually just three years, as lots of the general education that US students take is taken care of in high school. — Source

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Space Jam was a spin-off of a Nike Super Bowl commercial. The 1992 ad featuring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny was very popular, leading Jordan's agent to take the now famous duo to the big screen. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jeff Spicoli

THE REAL JEFF SPICOLI WAS A TOTAL D**K. In the investigative novel Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Spicoli shows up in class one day waving a graphic ne

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