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October 29, 2024

Some guys have all the luck. And today, you’re lookin’ at one of those guys.

Well, you’re not looking at us per se. You’re looking at the words we’re typing. Either way, we just wanted to share that we’re feeling incredibly grateful today. Instead of scouring the universe for these facts, they fell right in our laps. Sure, we had to clean off all the gunk like those ducklings in Dawn commercials, but they’re here now and that’s all that matters.

Look how nice they clean up!

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Cold

The coldest temperature recorded on Earth would kill you in a few breaths. The -144 degrees Fahren- heit temperature was re- corded in Antarctica during a span of research between 2004 and 2016. At that temperature, breathing would induce hemorrhaging in your lungs and kill you. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — National Geographic

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CRACKED SPLASH MOUNTAIN this way! WATER FROM SPLASH MOUNTAIN People are selling Splash Mountain water from Disney World on eBay, saying it smells different because of germ-killing chemicals. Well... okay. — Mashable / Click Orlando

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Milestone Steve Carell Performances Foxcatcher TEAM Head FOXCATCHE Coach John E du Port Epale John du Pont Steve Carell transformed into du Pont to critical acclaim in this movie based on a true story. His performance led to nominations for an Oscar, a BAFTA, a SAG Award, and others. CRACKED.COM — Rotten Tomatoes Trailers/YouTube

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AT A GLANCE SNOOP DOGG He claims the only person to smoke him out was Willie Nelson Willie Nelson says, Me and Snoop Dogg had a smoke-off in Amsterdam and he crawled away. The duo recorded the song My Medicene together in 2008. CRACKED.COM — Source: Newsweek

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Mahna Mahna

The famous MAHNA MAHNA song originally came from a softcore Italian movie. The movie is called Sweden: Heaven and Hell. The song plays over a sauna scene. CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss

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Famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell was weak at math because he found it boring and saw no point in studying it. CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Geniuses Who Are Surprisingly Stupid (In One, Glaring Way)

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Tolkien Movies Bombur doesn't speak a single word in the first two Hobbit films. Stephen Hunter still had to learned Northern Irish dialect, like all the actors playing Dwarves. CRACKED.COM — Yahoo

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The Colorado River has not flowed into the ocean since 1998. GRACKED.COM The Colorado originates in the Rocky mountains and tra- verses seven US states be- fore reaching Mexico, where it is supposed to flow on- wards to the Sea of Cortez. Instead, the river is dammed at the US-Mexico border. — The Guardian

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A.A. Milne complained that Winnie the Pooh ruined his legacy. Milne, who wrote 25 plays, seven novels, and a few nonfiction works, aspired to be known

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CRACKED BBC . The soap opera As the World Turns was on for 54 years, telling a labyrinthine 13,763-hour story in which both loads of stuff happened and nothing mattered. — Source / Jacksonville

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You used to be cool SEAN CONNERY promoted hitting women. In 1987, he told Barbara Walters that slapping women isn't that bad, if the situation merits it. On what situation would merit hitting a woman, he said it should only come after a man has tried everything else. Not cool, James Bond. Not cool. CRACKED — Source

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RENO 911! BEHIND THE SCENES Facts THE SHOW OFTEN FEATURED THE FOUNDERS OF THE UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE (UCB). RENO 9111 Matt Besser and Matt Walsh showed up several times in the show, with lan Roberts joining the main cast for Season 6. Amy Poehler is the only member of the UCB 4 to never make an appearence. CRACKED.COM — Source: IMDB

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Comic books are evil! IVORY SNOW - - TRACILE CRACKED.COM After the Depression, plenty in America blamed comic books for juvenile delinquency. Some places banned selling them to kids. Plenty of other places burned books publicly. — CNBC

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Horror movies on streaming peacock Dracula The movie didn't have a musical score for a long time, until Philip Glass created one in 1998. CRACKED.COM — Universal Pictures
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TERMINATOR 2 JUDGMENT DAY Robert Patrick got the part of the T-1000 because Billy Idol, who was James Cameron's first choice, had recently broken his

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October on prime video Bridesmaids Jon Hamm and Ellie Kemper knew each other before the movie, as Hamm was Kemper's high school drama teacher. October 1 CRACKED.COM — Universal Pictures
Mental Floss

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WEIRD WORLD A Louisiana Senate candidate has an ad in which he smokes marijuana. I hope this ad works to not only destigmatize the use of marijuana, but also forces a new conversation that creates the pathway to legalize this beneficial drug, and forgive those who were arrested due to outdated ideology, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The animated show Histeria! always included a quick gag. MAIN TITLES LYRICS MAIN TITLE DIRECTION TOM RUEGGER BOB DOUCETTE HISTERIA WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS ITS BELIEF THAT WAR IS BAD. Others included Lady Godiva's Wardrobe Provided by No One and Histeria! Is Drawn Before a Live Audience. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kevlar was added to fencing uniforms after a death in 1982. CRACKED.COM Kevlar is used in top level uniform pieces following the death of Vladimir Smirnov at the 1982 World Championships in Rome, in which a broken blade went through his mask and pierced his brain. — First Post

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Onion Nuggets

McDonald's Onion Nuggets Onion Nuggets Before the Chicken McNugget, there was the Onion Nugget. Introduced in the 1970s, they were clumps of onions deep-breaded and fried. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cake Boss

CRACKED.COM Carlo's Buddy You can't arrest me, I'm the cake boss! That's what Cake Boss Buddy Valastro shouted when pulled over for drunk driving. It didn't work. — Source: ABC News

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No, President Bush wasn't holding a book upside-down. BLCA The Phesimhe to the S Cosstinition MUBIC TA Peaml Coiaatie Amserica LIV This image that wen

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Richard Sherman, cornerback for the 49ers, and former Seattle Seahawk, recently paid off $20,000 in school lunch debt for Tacoma students. C oe This w

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40% of first-time college students enrolled at a college within 50 miles of their home. 3.5% of the adult population does not live within 50 miles of a public university. — Source: Manhattan Institute

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CRACKED VANILLA ICE THREATENED A HOMELESS MAN. In 1991, he was arrested and charged with battery after threatening a homeless man with a gun. — Source

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2014's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brings the comic's creators into the Turtles universe. FASTMAN & LARL BY The Art of Ninjutsu handbook that Splinter finds and that enables him to become the turtles' martial arts trainer is written by Eastman & Laird, creators of TMNT. So, appropriately, Eastman & Laird made the Ninja Turtles in-universe, too. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MOUNT EVEREST IS LITTERED WITH DEAD BODIES. Once a desolate place, Mount Everest is climbed every year by hundreds of people wishing to look down on t — More: 6 Ways Selfie-Addicted Tourists Are Destroying The World

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Chocolate as Aphrodisiac

MYTH8 chocolate gets you in the rorood for love. FAGT8 But only if you eat an insane arount. Despite its association with love and romance, chocolate

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Jet Li hasn't been a Chinese citizen since 2003. CRACKED.COM Li became a United States citizen from 2003 to 2009, and has been a naturalized Singaporean citizen since 2009. Не said he chose Singapore for its education system for his two younger daughters. — Source

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Saruman's death was an homage to a classic Christopher Lee horror role. He took a stake through the heart on-screen as Dracula, so Peter Jackson decided to have him fall and get impaled on some machinery in Return of the King. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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S S S S All Skittles actually S taste the same. All the differently-colored candy pills are made of the same thing - sugar. The differences you experience come from fragrances and colors (yes, even colors can trick the tasting part of your brain). So you're smelling (and seeing) the rainbow, rather than actually tasting it. S S S SV S S CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE FBI KEPT FILES ON... ARETHA FRANKLIN The FBI spent years surveilling Franklin's involvement in the civil rights movement. The Queen of Soul performed and attended events organized by the NAACP and SCLC. Her father C.L. Franklin, a close friend of Martin Luther King, Jr., was also closely monitored. — Source

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CRACKED.COM 2 | 9T 15 bt 13 a 9 1 8 I Thursday 2 9 10 32 1 7 The calendar was a hot-button political issue. In the 1500s, Pope Gregory XIII commissioned a new calendar to fix serious inaccuracies in the one then in use - and threw the world into turmoil. Non-Catholic countries refused to use the new calendar, seeing it as a tool of Papal domination. Russia and Greece in particular resisted it until the 20th century. — Source

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Laika was the first animal to be launched in the Earth's orbit Laika the dog was part of the Soviet space program. She died from stress only a few hours after the launch. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — 5 Soviet Space Programs That Prove Russia Is Insane

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INDIA DEPLOYED ITS NAVY TO BRING PEOPLE HOME. utiimimiid It sent two ships to evacuate about 1,000 Indians on the Maldives, and a third to the United — Source: The Economic Times

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SCOT SCOTT SCOTT LAND ANDON HUNGRY HIO NIGHTS PEO You SCOTT, NDON In season 3, the library is filled with books written by Scott Landon, a fictional character in Stephen King's Lisey's Story. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cameroon sent the US $3.77 in relief during the Great Depression. Melgariga Bag Ngaoundal Numbe Wum Tibati Enugu OUEST Bozoum Bendies Mbakach Kumbo Migingwi Reserved Bouer Bkom Bamarch Babour Mamfe Garous Boulai Мьрода Fourdan CENTRAL Yoko SUD- Baloussam Dschang OUEST QUEST CENTRE ٢ TAT Bafaig AFRICAN Bangagura Mundemba Calaban Sanaga Bélabo Nkodasamba Kada C Bafia REPUBLIC Nanga Eboko Kumba - Batouri Minta Yabassi Bertou Monatave Berbérati Busa LITTORAL S Sanapa Gamboula Boubla Monate Yaounde Nddidld Abong Mbang Malabo Kado Edela Eseka E S T Missoda Misu Axyrights Yokadouma Lube Mipalmayo *Nola ل. Jale de EQUATORIAL Bioko *Lomié Ngoulémakong GUINEA Sanamélima — Source

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CRACKED.COM corporal Hicks was replaced because of drugs. Hicks is the only Marine left alive when Aliens ends, but his original actor didn't make it

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Hitler's War of the Worlds kicks off WWII CRACKED.COM The day before WWII officially kicked off, Hitler had a German radio station false-flagged in order to whip up support for the war. A Polish farmer was kidnapped, dressed as a soldier, shot in the head, and left in front of the station as evidence. SS officer Alfred Naujocks then took over the German radio station, and transmitted the message The broadcasting station is in Polish hands! before cutting the transmission. — Source: 12 Petty, Trivial, Or Downright Dumb Reasons War Was Declared

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In 1524, Spain created a settlement close to Jamestown's site. It failed a few years later, though - - long before Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement on the continent, was founded in 1602. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MYTH: CERTAIN GAmes CAn IMPROVE YOUR BRAIN. Memory Attention Speed Focus FACT: THEY JUST mAKe YOU BeTTeR AT THE GAme. Most studies that say brain-training games actually do what they advertise aren't exactly credible. Scientists who administered intelligence tests learned the actual result of playing a brain game: You get better at the game. That's all. But that hasn't stopped the multimillion-dollar brain game industry from making wild, unsubstantiated claims. CRACKED.COM https://www. ncbi nim nih gov/pmc/articles/PMC2884087/ — Source

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Billie Eilish

THE ORIGINAL BOND SONG EASTER EGG IN BILLIE EILISH'S BOND SONG THE TO 007 DIE Eilish revealed that her Bond title song has a subtle piece of the classic Bond opening sting hidden in its second verse. CRACKED.COM — Source: Digital Spy

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CRACKED.COM SCRUBS X-RAY The chest X-ray in the opening credits was backwards, until Elizabeth Banks guest starred and flipped it around. — Source: Screen Rant

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Cap'n Crunch's full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch. NATURALLY & ARTIFICIALLY RLAVORED Sweetened Corn & Oat Cereal CRACKED.COM He's also been called out for only having the bars of a Navy commander, but the so-called cap'n held his ground on Twitter, arguing that captaining the S. S. Guppy with his crew makes an official Cap'n in any book! — Wall Street Journal

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