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October 18, 2024

Lifelong friends are hard to come by. If you have one, consider yourself very lucky. Lifelong facts are a dime a dozen. You don’t need to put work in to nurture a relationship with a fact. It’s so interesting that you remember it for life. It’s really that simple.

Here, try it for yourself with this big batch of lifers!

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Genghis Khan would marry off a daughter to the king of an allied nation, dismissing his other wives. GRACKED.COM Then he would assign his new son-in-law to military duty in the Mongol wars, while the daughter took over the rule. Most sons-in-law died in com- bat, giving him shields around the Mongol lands.

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1-800-COLLECT owned the misspelling of AT&T's competing service. 5 jkl 4 ghi 6 mno 8 tuv 7 pqrs 9 wxyz CRACKED.COM AT&T launched 1-800-Opera- tor, but found that many peo- ple misspelled Operator with 'er' at the end. 1-800-COL- LECT owned 1-800-OPERAT- ER and had been taking their customers.

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4.2 million units of a kid's arts and crafts toy were recalled in the US for containing sedatives. GRACKED COM Aqua Beads were found to have been made with cheap chemicals in China that was a pharmacologically active sedative drug which left kids comatose after they in- gested the beads.

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'Back in Black' by AC/DC is used to get a baseline of sound quality. HC/DC BACK IN BLACK CRACKED.COM The sound quality of the album is so good that after its release studios in Nash- ville would use it to check the acoustics of a room, while Motörhead would use it to tune their sound system.

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Nic Cage bought a dinosaur skull. M MORITI GES CRACKEDCO Cage is famous for flushing his money on bizarre MacGuffins, and making bizarre films to fill — 5 Famous People Who Lost Everything (For Stupid Reasons)

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French burglars tried to use wine bottles as weapons. CRLL Cutt Oire oIS Cuin OMATEAL E CRiTEAU SINTENAY CriTEM SANTEN SANTENAY DELACREE DE LAOTE ges — Source: The Guardian

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GERARD BUTLER apologized to the people of Ireland. GeS BUTLER SWANK L loveyou In a 2009 interview, Butler admitted he butchered the Irish accent in P. — YouTube

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The duck-billed platypus has a gene mix of birds, reptiles, and mammals and genetically has 25 possible sexes. GRACKED COM The Platypus is one of the few mammals that lay eggs. They lactate but have no nipples, hunt via electricity, and their ven- om has 80 different kinds of toxins. — Source

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Pandora Radio didn't pay its employees for 2 years. 10 CRACKED.COM Pandora co-founder Tim Westergren claimed he didn't know he was break- ing the law. It took ven- ture capital money in 2004, and two lawsuits, to pay the 50 employees the $2 million owed. — Source

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Keya Morgan: Not So Super.

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New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco. Measuring 843 acres, Cen- tral Park is larger in land mass than the principality of Monaco which is just un- der 500 acres large. Cen- tral Park isn't even the big- gest park in New York. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Michael Jackson didn't sleep for 60 days prior to his death. Jackson suffered from severe insomnia and instead of sleep, his personal doctor had been putting him un- der general anesthesia every night. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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We suspect this was a jab at Cobie Smulders’ Canadian heritage.

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Tolkien stood up for his beliefs, even when it meant losing money

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Ten Commandments Monuments

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Dwarf Fortress

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Stephen King smashed the car that almost killed him.

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The Don’t Say Gay bill was shot down.

The Louisiana 'Don't Say Gay' bill failed 4-7. CRACKED.COM If passed, it would prohibit classroom discussion about sex- ual orientation or gen- der identity in certain grade levels. — WGNO

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A Fact You Can Trust!

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Unbelievable Statistics

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Viking$ did not wear horned helmets. Carl Emil Doepler is the main culprit behind this notion. He included horned helmets as part of his costume design for the performance of Der Ring des Nibelungen. It then just kinda stuck. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Facts That Get In Accepted History's Face

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David Lynch's 2006 Oscar campaign involved sitting by the road with a COW. LAU'RA DER He was convinced Laura Dern should be nominated for an Oscar for her role in his movie Inland Empire -. and he sat at a roadside corner in Hollywood, next to a cow and a big — Source: The Independent

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