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40 Random Bits of Trivia Shrieked to Us by a Haunted Cuckoo Clock at the Stroke of Midnight

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As you can probably tell, we’ll get our facts from pretty much anywhere. If they come in a falling piano that narrowly misses us on the street, we’ll sweep them right up. Someone else can sweep up those broken keys though, cus that’s not our job!

Last night, they came from a shrieking cuckoo clock, and that was honestly alright with us. Who needs sleep when there are facts to be gathered? Check them out, and you’ll see that they’re worth losing sleep over, too.

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Prescription Drugs

CRACKED AMERICA IS ONE OF TWO COUNTRIES THAT ALLOW PRESCRIPTION DRUG ADVERTISING. The other is New Zealand.

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Sylvester Stallone

Method acting doesn't always go as planned. Just ask Sylvester Stallone. During the filming of Rocky IV, Sylvester Stallone asked Dolph Lundgren to really try and knock him out during a fight scene. Well, he got his wish. Lungdren punched Stallone so hard, his heart banged against his ribs and started to swell. Stallone had to spend 5 days in intensive care. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Shia LaBeouf has an injured hand in Transformers 2 because of a real-life injury. Не hurt himself in an auto accident so, rather than pause filming, they just wrote the injury into the movie (he hurt himself while teleporting). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ever wonder why flies have such great reaction times? It's because they see in slow motion. The perceived speed of time is determined by species. Generally, the smaller the animal, the slower it perceives time. This helps small animals avoid danger, but requires more energy and a higher metabolism. So, while the lifespan of a fly might be short, the amount of information it processes in that time is enormous. CRACKED COM — Source: 27 Facts That Will Shatter Your Perception Of Time

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Bake-Kujira

This is the Bake-Kujira, a skeletal Japanese ghost whale that haunts the seas near whaling villages, and if anyone sees it, it curses their village with fire, plague, famine, and other catastrophes. Japanese mythology doesn't screw around... CRACKED.COM — Source

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Too much painkillers can cause a medication overuse headache. If a person with a primary headache disorder, such as migraine, takes these headache-relieving medications more than two to three days a week, they may trigger a medication overuse headache. CRACKED.COM — Harvard Medical School

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Kramer and Monk swapped shows. MONK CRACKED.COM Tony Shaloub auditioned for the role of Kramer, which went instead to Michael Richards. Years later, Richards was considered for the title role in Monk, but that ultimately went to Shaloub. They would both go on to win three Emmys for playing their respective roles. — Source: Hollywood Reporter

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The first attack on the mainland US during WWII was revenge against a wounded butt. Kozo Nishino visited the Ellwood Oil Fields before the war. But while walking from the beach, Nishino slipped and landed butt-first on a prickly-pear cactus. As soon as war broke out, he took his submarine back to Ellwood and shelled the oil refinery. CRACKED.COM — 5 Times Butts Changed The Course Of History

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Marc Maron

COMEDY NERD In 2002, Fox agreed to produce a pilot for a show based on Marc Maron's act. It was supposed to be about Maron and his odd family, and the script got written but not made. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Great Wall

The Great Wall of China didn't actually work. Despite stretching over more than , miles, it never effectively kept invaders out of China. NOW YOU KNOW — Source: History.com

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Jason Segel has a house full of puppeTS. He's been collecting puppets since childhood and even has a Muppet of himself. CRACKED.COM

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CBS

CRACKED COM In the early 1970s, CBS cancelled all its shows set in the country. Rural shows like Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies made up the bulk of CBS's programming - but their audience skewed old, and execs wanted their network to be young and hip. So they cancelled the lot of them-a move that went down in history as the Rural Purge. — Source

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A dead body was ignored for several hours because people thought it was a Halloween decoration. The body of a 42-year-old woman in Delaware hanged from a tree, fully visible by passing cars on a busy road, after an apparent suicide. One witness said, It looked like something somebody would have rigged up. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

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Our Little Genius

Production staff OUR LITTLE GENIUS CRACKEDCON A parent alleged that producers were sneaking kids the answers to upcoming questions. The show's creator

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESp FACTS CRACKEDcO SNOWPIERCER IS BASED ON A GRAPHIC NOVEL. LE TRANSPERCENEIGE Rochette Lob 8 SNOWPLEREERN The movie is based on Le Transperceneige, an acclaimed French graphic novel that only got translated to English in 2014. Bong Joon-ho fell in love with the novel after finding it in a — The Verge & The New York Times

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Spielberg's hands in Poltergeist During the scene where the investigator looks in the mirror and gets his face ripped off, the hands we're seeing belong to the director. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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GRACKED.OOM Jerry Seinfeld was hoodwinked by a shady accountant. Seinfeld gave him an envelope with thousands of dollars in it, the accountant spent it all on drugs. — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A penguin in Budapest escaped the ZOO and wandered the streets. The extremely curious 6-month old penguin, Sanyika, got out of his outdoor enclosure and wandered out of the zoo in the early hours of the morning. Now returned, zoo officials have installed cameras to thwart any further escape CRACKED.COM attempts. — Budapest Zoo

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Al Green is an ordained pastor CRACKED.COM After his girlfriend assaulted him with a pot of boiling grits in 1974, he was inspired to become a reverend, and continues to preach weekly at the Memphis church he established. — Source

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The Washington Monument

The Washington Monument has a tiny, hidden twin. A 12-foot replica of the Monument is buried right next to it. It was built in the 1880s as a surveyor's tool-they'd use its scale to verify readings. The ground level rose over time, and the Mini Monument was encased in a tube, buried, and forgotten. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Talladega Nights

BEHINO-THE-SOENESPACTS Ready for some crazy CASTING WHAT-IFS? TALLADEGA NIGHTS GRACKED.COM THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY Michael J. Fox was considered for Jean Girard, the role that went to Sacha Baron Cohen. Also in the running for John C. Reilly's Cal Naughton Jr.? Dennis Quaid, Billy Crystal, and Jack Black. — Source

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The longest SummerSlam lasted over four hours. Hust Loyalty&e SummerSlam 2016 With nine matches on the main card and three matches in the pre-show, the entire event lasted four hours and one minute. That's too much summer being slammed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Palace of Fine Arts

San Francisco's Palace of Fine arts is not the original structure. It was originally constructed to be part of the 1915 Panama-Pacifi Exposition, and

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Steve Rannazzisi

STEVE RANNAZZISI LIED ABOUT BEING IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ON 9/11. In 2015, The League star came clean and admitted that he came up with the story to get people to like him after moving from New York to Los Angeles. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The First Birth I Love Lucy would never say the word pregnant, only that Lucy was expecting. But it still featured the first (semi-) on-screen birth, in 1953. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 TV Groundbreaking Firsts (That Seem Pretty Mundane Now)

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Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine did Jaws IV: The Revenge just to get paid. As he later wrote, I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific. CRACKED COM — Source

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NASA

CRACKED.COM DreamWorks hired nearly a dozen former NASA employees DreamWorks has a team of 120 people members with master's and doctoral degrees to create technology within the animation industry. — Source: Sydney Morning Herald

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A tomato has 00 more genes than a human does. 4 2+8 LlE CRACKED COM Turns out that there's a lot more to what makes an organism complex than just the number of genes hgso in its genome. — Source: Houston Chronicle

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The mule is the most well-known hybrid animal, and we've seen a few ligers here and there. But you might not have heard of the cama, a cross between a camel and a llama. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Police were in a comically, incredibly slow street chase in Indiana. PUR A guy stole a street sweeper, so cops chased him at a thrilling and cinematic 10-15 mph. CRACKED.COM — Source

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They came up with tomato-based ketchup in the 19th century (1812, to be exact). HEINZ 1869 EST TOMATO KETCHUP GROWN Before that, ketchup (which comes from imperial China) was actually made with very different ingredients: soy beans, meat by-products, and fish entrails. CRACKED.COM — Source: History.com

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Air traffic controllers get a break every 2 hours. When controllers re- main on position for more than 2 hours without a break, per- formance can deterio- rate rapidly, even at low traffic levels. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Buzzing in a bedroom was coming from inside the wall. A couple in Spain heard a strange buzzing noise that kept them up at night. So they decided to h

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CRACKED TUTE MILK $33 BILLION IN 18 MONTHS Eike Batista, a Brazilian oil tycoon, went from an estimated wealth of $34 billion to less than $1 billion in just 18 months. Until Elon came along, that made him a contender for the person who has lost the most money in the history of the world. — Source

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CRACKED IRAQ WAR VET TAKES HIS MARTIAL ARTS SKILLS TO THE STREETS. Fernando Rodrigues, an Iraq war veteran, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon after attacking two people with his martial arts skills. — 4 Times Someone’s Hands Were Legally Considered Deadly Weapons

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Ben Hardy swore he was an experienced drummer. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY CRACKED.COM Then, when he got the part, he took a crash course to make good on his promise: I bought the cheapest drum kit I could find and found a drum teacher locally and was like, 'Look, here's the deal... — Source: 20 Actors Who (May Have) Lied To Get The Part

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Rogaine

NOBODY KNOWS HOW ROGAINE RE WORKS. BEST USE - TWICE DAILY The drug minoxidil was oeo initially approved by the FDA to treat high blood Rogair MEN'S pr

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Barcelona's pickpockets spray bird pOOP on their marks. Oh, look, they say. You have poop on you! Before you know it, the kind stranger is rubbing — More: 6 Obnoxious Tourist Scams From Around The Globe

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Cameron Diaz

CRACKED.COM An injury prevented cameron Diaz from being sonya Blade. Diaz started martial arts training for Mortal Kombat as soon as she finished filming The Mask. Alas, testing her might broke her wrist before shooting started. Bridgette Wilson took her place, and we never got to see Princess Fiona kicking Outworld ass. — Source

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