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Mel Gibson drove a friend to an audition. The night before, he'd got into adrunken brawl, so he showed up covered in bruises. The director told him to come back because the film needed freaks. When he did return, he instead landed the lead in Mad Max. CRACKED COM

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More than half your body is not human Human cells only make up 43% of the cells in our bodies. The majority of cells? Bacteria, viruses, fungi, and archaea. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED HONEY NEVER SPOILS. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are still edible after thousands of years. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Cagots were the ultimate example of the stupidity of bigotry. The Cagots were a minority in western France and northern Spain, who for centuries were discriminated against in an over-the- top way - just because. They were indistinguishable from everyone else - the only thing that made them Cagots was that they were Cagots (and were hated for it). — Source: 14 Random Facts That Show We Have a Lot Left to Learn About the World

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You don’t tell a cancer patient they have cancer in China.

It's a common practice in China to not tell an old person about their cancer diagnosis. CRACKED.COM It is believed that telling them can make their condition deteriorate quicker. The doctors will, however, tell the family. — NCBI / Pexels

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Cats Know Voices

CRACKED.COM Cats can recognize their owner's voices In one study, cats showed that they do in fact recognize their owner's voice over strangers but choose to ignore it. Gotta respect an independent feline. — Source: 14 Cat Facts That Get Our Purr Motor Running

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Atari

A man in the '80s programmed his Atari computer to make thousands of calls to Jerry Falwell. CRACKED.COM The calls to Falwell's toll-free number would hang up and call again, every 30 seconds, amounting to over $500,000 in phone bills to Falwell's organization. — Source

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Fish

CRACKED FISH COUGH. And burp. And yawn. — Sciencedirect / Pet Keen

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Mark Zuckerberg earns the average person's annual salary in his bathroom break. The average full-time U.S. worker makes $46,800 a year. Zuckerberg makes that much in less than two minutes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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STEALTH AIRCRAFT AREN'T REALLY UNDETECTABLE. No aircraft can be invisible to radar - the point is fooling the enemy into thinking it's something else, blending in with the background noise. This is becoming more and more difficult, as radar tech evolves. — Source: Military & Aerospace Electronics

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WEIRD WORLD An artist hung a replica of Napoleon's horse's skeleton over the tomb of L'Empereur. The artwork, created for an exhibition marking the bicentennial of Napoleon's death, was heavily criticized as a grotesque and disrespectful idea. CRACKED.COM — Source: Artnet

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People with schizophrenia do not have multiple personalities. Schizophrenia is often confused with dissociative identity disorder because it comes fro

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In 1932's VISA Evening News LATE SPECIAL (YOUNG Brave New World, - - SALE - Meet Louise, the world's Aldous Huxley first test-tube arrival described in-vitro fertilization. SUPERBABE BRAVE NEW WORLD Wide-eyed Louine Brown pictured in hospital 1* bours often the ... born, Today abo's doing well See Page Three In 1978, the world greeted Louise Brown, who was the first ALDOUS HUXLEY test-tube baby. CRACKED COM — Source: Entertainment That Made Crazy-Specific, Crazy-Accurate Predictions

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Prosecuted rich people in China sometimes hire body doubles to serve their sentences in prison. DUES LIEBRA *Hu Bin, a rich 20-year-old who ٨ hit and killed a 1932 *Alleged body pedestrian while double of Hu Bin. drag racing. The practice is called ding zui, which translates to substitute criminal. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Coolio was beaten and robbed in 2009 after attempting to stage dive. CRACKED.COM The rapper was performing to a Students Union at Stafford University in the UK, when he decided to launch himself off the stage into the crowd. No one caught him, and his shoes were stolen. — Source

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Norman Reedus

CRACKED A DRUNKEN FIGHT SPARKED NORMAN REEDUS' ACTING CAREER Не beat up his boss, who fired him. That day, he got drunk, yelled at people at a party, and was asked to be in a play. With zero intentions of being an actor, he tried it, and his first performance was seen by an agent who began sending him on auditions. — AMC
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An American socialist ran for president while in prison in 1920. CRACKED.COM In 1918, Eugene Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for criticizing the government's p,articipation in World War 1. Не managed to get 3.4% of the popular vote while behind bars. — Source

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A meteor exploded above Earth and no one noticed.

Everyone missed a meteor exploding in the atmosphere with ten times the force of an atomic bomb. The explosion on Decem- ber 18, 2018 went unde- tected, even by NASA, be- cause it took place over the Bering Sea close to the path of commercial planes flying between North America and Asia. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — BBC

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INTER HUMA TENCER FOR S KB46 WEB NOTE KB FEDERAL NOTE B SCREW-UPS I 0986 LB 46279860I adidas TOSTA NOT not adidas Close PREMIE www.ellthcare.gov ME - live HealthCare.gov Learn Get 46 All T Small Businesses Individuals & & Families CRACKED CON $4 million is not the amount spent on the site HealthCare.gov. $4 million is just the additional amount spent in the opening days after the site failed : ... the amount sent to the same contractors who screwed the site up 46279 160 I in the first place. 860 I — Source

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CRACKED.COM The family of the Sultan of Brunei owns a forgotten collection of 2,500 supercars. BN516 BQ 205 PO 28 The family has lost interest in the collection, and there are no plans to sell it or turn it into an exhibit, so it's literally rotting into oblivion in a big compound. Over 2,000 of the cars are beyond saving. — Source

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Mentally ill people aren't likely to be dangerous. Most people with serious mental illnesses aren't prone to violence- and when they are, other factors are often at play, like substance abuse. If anything, having a mental illness makes you more likely to be a victim of violence. — Sources: American Psychological Association, Treatment Advocacy Center

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain invented the modern bra strap. CRACKED.COM Не was trying to eradicate suspenders from the face of the earth, but instead, his patented attachable and removable garment straps became the bra straps we wear and/or burn today. — 15 Surprising Celebrity Achievements, Records, And Inventions

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Cursing Kids

south Park: Bigger, Longer, and uncut Exactly 399 curse words are uttered during the movie. Trey Parker and Matt Stone wanted to make their R-rating worth their while. They topped off their swearing count at 399 because 400 would have given the movie an NC-17 rating. CAKES Dinhig CHOCO CRACKED.COM — Source: Moviefone

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A German man tried to deliver mail by launching it in a rocket, and failed twice. CRACKED.COM Gerhard Zucker attempted to deliver mail by loading it onto a rocket and firing it at a Scottish island. Both times he attempted this, the rocket exploded and much of the mail was de- stroyed. — Source

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Only six founding fathers signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constituion The men are George Clymer, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, George Read, James Wilson, and Roger Sherman. CRACKED.COM — Source: Constitution Center

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Theo Germaine drew inspiration from Harry Potter for their character in The Politician. Germaine said that Draco Malfoy's cunning personality fit thei

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Hurricane Sandy saved an endangered species. CRACKED.COM The storm leveled a bunch of beachfront property, which the piping plover had previously inhabited. AS the Army Corps of Engineers began rebuilding, they had to build around the endangered birds, who quickly moved back into their old neighborhoods.

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It's possible to get pregnant during pregnancy, but that's very rare in humans. Medicine only has a few recorded cases of that (it's called superfetation) but it's common among some animal species, like hares, badgers, and fish. CRACKED.COM — Source: Healthline

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War photographer Robert Сара was with the U.S. troops on D-Day, and took 106 up-close pictures of the battle. Не handed the negatives to Life magazine, where an overeager 15-year-old assistant turned the heat up way too high while developing them, destroying 95. The heat gave the 11 surviving photos a blurry, haunting quality that helped make them memorable, so ... at least there was that? CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKEDCO Ente Shift When did you last clean your keyboard? A regular computer keyboard can host over 3,000 germs per square inch, as opposed to about

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Think Tiger Woods is the richest sportsperson in history? Then you are wrong. Introducing Gaius Appuleius Diocles a 2nd century champion Roman charioteer... who in his 24 year long racing career amassed winnings of 35,863, 120 sesterces which is equal to $15 billion in todays world. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gary Busey swears he's been to Heaven. GARY BUSEY OZPERKINS QUIGLEY ANANGERGTAIL Busey nearly died in a motorcycle accident in 1988. He demanded the s

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DOGS CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WORD MEANINGS AND DINTONATION! Older dogs can't tell words apart as well as younger ones. — Source: EurekAlert

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The Nazis made their own Bible with an ultra-white Jesus.

Nazi Germany made their own New Testament Bible to Aryanize Jesus. They removed the gene- alogies of Jesus that showed his Davidic de- scent, removed Jewish names and places, but left any mention of Jews that showed them in a bad light. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — University of Chicago

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