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40 Random Bits of Trivia Stomped Out to Us by Clever Hans, the German Genius Horse

October 28, 2024

We’ve all heard what monkeys can do on typewriters, but no one has ever inquired about a horse’s typing skills.

Our curiosity got the best of us, so we took a little field trip to the stables. After 167 completely obliterated typewriters, one of those stallions actually stomped us one true fact! It really was something to behold. We typed up the other 39 facts because we don’t have the budget for more typewriters, but hey, this is a monumental day in the fact world.

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The kids saw the ship for the first time while filming. THE GOONIES CRACKED.COM They reacted the way any kids would: by cursing. They had to get a second take to supplement the explitive-laden first reaction. — Source

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Some absolutely huge websites were 199 launched 19HM in the '90s. 1999 1995 1997 1994 MNK Sep 14:00 Rosage Beerbaben Verlauf SIN - II +th Camal Now - - 1 منا Google Disney Google Deutschland IMDb (1993), EBay (1995), Amazon (1994), GeoCities (1994), Netscape (1994), Yahoo! (1995), AltaVista (1995), ICQ (1996), Hotmail (1996), Google (1998), and Napster (1999). CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s — Source

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CRACKED.COM BLANKA TOOK A WHILE TO BE GREEN. STREET FRICHTER The electric Brazilian was more naturally colored at first, which looked weird. With each iteration, each character got more and more vivid colors - with Blanka finally becoming the green beast we all know and love. — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A Japanese firefighter took a pay cut because of his YouTube channel. It was a gaming channel, and he'd made thousands of dollars in profit from ads -- so the authorities docked his pay by 10%, because he'd profited from ads, some of which could be inappropriate in nature, CRACKED.COM said a city official. — Source

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PROFESSOR MCGONAGALL HAS A HISTORY OF TRAGIC RELATIONSHIPS. According to J.K. Rowling's official backstory, soon after graduating, she got engaged to

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CRACKED.COM MOLDITOEGON In 2010, GoldToe -- an undergarment company - put a pair of briefs on Wall Street's iconic statue, the Charging Bull, to promo

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Boris Yeltsin

In 1992, Russian president Boris Yeltsin drummed on the Kyrgyzstan president's head with spoons. There was no particular reason for it, he just did cr — Source: Reuters

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Forever 21 upset its customers by including Atkins diet bars in as F DENINI their plus-size orders. PROTEIN-RICH MEAL BAR 16G 3G 2G 12G 8 NET CARBS SUGAR FIBER PROTEIN CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER BAR ATKINS NATURALLY FLAVORED BAR NO ARTIFICIAL COLORS VALUE FLAVORS PRESERVATIVES PACK SAME GREAT TASTE - DIR MELCOMEN DA 8 2.12 OZ 160g BARS NET WT 16.9 OZ (480g) The popular clothing company claimed that they sent the product to everyone, across all sizes and categories. Forever 21 apologized for their tone-deafness and pulled the promotion. CRACKED COM — Source

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The Size of Cells

This is a red blood cell and This is a flu virus They're both really, really, tiny. But not everything tiny was created equal... If the flu virus was exactly 1 meter long... ...then a red blood cell would be almost as long as a 747. Lufthansa GRACKED.COM — Source

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District 9's aliens could have looked like hobos. Bodbex Sarttex adidas An early idea was that they'd have such sensitive skin, they'd cover themselves with whatever they found nearby - from plastic bags to traffic signs. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

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Leonarda Emilia went full vigilante when her lover was executed. During the Franco-Mexican War, Emilia fell for a French soldier. The soldier was captured and sentenced to death by firing squad, and Emilia's pleas for mercy were ignored. Emilia transformed herself into La Carambada, the most famous bandolera in Mexican history. Dressed as a man, she traveled Mexico on horseback, using her skill with the pistol and machete to even the score. And just to make sure her victims knew they'd been bested by a female, SHE'd flasH HER boobs. CRACKED.COM Chris Frazer, 2006 Bandit Nation A History of Outlaws — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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Wat Khunaram Buddhist temple in Thailand. The temple features the shrine of Luang Pho Daeng. Now known as the Mummy Monk, Daeng died in 1973, and wanted his body displayed as a reminder of the transience of human existence. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED BEWARE OF DOG 2002 Before Animal Planet settled into its light hearted but legitimate animal doc style, they played the field, and had a regrettable one-night stand with the talking dog genre. Jack the dog and the Poole family got 2 episodes back to back before getting put down. — Collider / YouTube

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Michael Jordan won't carry this franchise. CHICAGO BULLS GM LLS 1 CRACKED.COM General Manager Rod Thorn was almost apologetic that there was no one taller he could have drafted: What can you do? Jordan isn't going to turn this franchise around. — Source: 15 Impossibly Silly Predictions (Made By Serious People)

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CRACKED.COM Almost one fifth of Wuhan's COVID patients had heart trauma. In a study of 416 patients, 19. 7% developed cardiac injury while hospitalize — Source: JAMA Cardiology

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NASA gave away hundreds of trees that have been to the moon. CRACKED.COM They never kept track of who they gave them to. Now they are trying to find them. One was at the White House. — N

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Over 1,400 African Americans held political positions right after the Civil War. These included secretaries of state, mayors, congressmen, and (briefly) even one state governor. It wasn't until later that poll taxes and literacy tests kept African Americans from being represented. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Plot twists hidden in plain sight YELLOW = BAD GUY True Detective The show keeps telling you who the bad guys are. The cult of the Yellow King? What's happening is shown clearly as day throughout the show. WAY 21 AN ACADEMY D. NOTICE RKING CRACKED.COM — More: 6 Brilliant Clues Hidden In The Background Of TV Shows

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WEIRD WORLD Effigies of Santa Claus were burned in India on Christmas Eve. The people doing the burning claimed that Santa is part of an insidious Christian missionary plot designed to convert Indians to Christianity. CRACKED.COM — Source

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40 Random Bits of Trivia Stomped Out to Us by Clever Hans, the German Genius Horse — Source: Washington Post

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The cache of emails that led to Enron's downfall became surprisingly useful. ENRON These emails became a dataset that was used to train tools like Siri and Gmail's Smart Compose. It was also used for research into gender bias, machine learning, and email filtering. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lobsters

MYTH Lobsters are monogamous. TRUTH Female lobsters spend up to two weeks with a mate. CRACKED.COM — Mental Floss

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It's a mystery why reduced oxygen makes us feel less pain rather than increased anxiety In near-death experiences, our brains continue to operate to create a positive and blissful experience as opposed to a panic-inducing one. CRACKED.COM — Source: Scientific American

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Try to fit all five fingers into one of the newer Pringles tubes. Can't fit? It's not your fault. 9I GI D1 GI z1 lol O S S S Prin When the company shi

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Despite summer temperatures, Germany was buried under several feet of ice. GRAGKED.COM An intense hail storm battered the town of Weiler-Simmerberg, covering the area in a winter-like scene. Tractors were brought out to plow the hailstones, which were part of thunderstorms that dropped stones the size of soft balls from France to Austria. — UPI

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CRACKED IN THE '90S, PEOPLE RELENTLESSLY MOCKED A WOMAN WHO CLAIMED A DINGO ATE HER BABY. ... ... including Seinfeld. However, the woman was proven right in 2012, when a court ruled that a dingo did in fact eat her baby. — Source

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Who buried the Saddle Ridge Hoard? While walking their dog, a California couple found in their property over 1,400 19th- century gold coins, worth a grand total of $10 million. Most of the coins were never circulated, and are in mint condition. It's the largest buried treasure ever discovered in the U.S. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fender

The inventor of Fender guitars didn't know how to play them. CRACKED.COM Despite designing the Telecaster and Strato- caster, and inventing the solid-body electric bass guitar, Lawrence Leoni- das Leo Fender was an engineer, not a musician. — Source

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CRACKED COM When the Treaty of Versailles was signed, officially ending the First World War in 1919, French Marshal Ferdinand Foch responded... THIS IS NOT PEACE. IT IS AN ARMISTICE FOR TWENTY YEARS. The Second World War started in 1939. — Source

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CABBAGE PATCH KDS weRe THE MusT-HAVE TOY OF THE 1980s. AND IF THEY weREn'T BOUGHT, THEY'D BecomE SLAVES. According to a 1984 Christmas special, storyb

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There is an upside to malaria. Scientists have discovered that people who were infected with the malaria virus were less likely to succumb to Ebola and other deadly diseases. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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CRACKED.COM Big media companies such as HBO and Netflix now work with intimacy coordinators, whose job is to help choreograph sex scenes, with a focus on the safety of the actors. — Source

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Long-necked dinosaurs probably didn't eat foliage from treetops, actually. Turns out, their neck and shoulder anatomy is more suited to moving from side to side and covering a wide area than to extending upward. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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WRITING Socrates was wary of the written word, claiming it would create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories. — Source: Gutenberg

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NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM ROMAN NUMERALS REPRESENT THE NUMBERS 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 AND 1000. IVXLCD M 1 5 10 50 100 500 1000 ROMANS USED AN S TO SHOW ONE HALF, AND DOTS TO INDICATE TWELFTHS. MDCLXVIS. = 1666 AND 7/12 — Source

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CRACKED.COM Jaws from James Bond was almost the Hulk. Richard Kiel was the first actor to be painted green for the pilot of The Incredible Hulk. Не was replaced by bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno after a few days, as Kiel, big as he was, wasn't bulky enough to make a good Hulk. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Visitors to Chippewa Square in Savannah, GA, are often disappointed to discover that the famous bench from Forrest Gump was just a prop ma

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The Abyss used an abandoned nuclear reactor vessel. To ensure nobody accidentally floated to the surface, the actors were all strapped down with weigh — For details, read 5 Famous Movie Scenes Made Possible by Reckless Endangerment

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CRACKEDcO POWDERED WIGS EXISTED BECAUSE OF WIDESPREAD GROSSNESS. In the 1500s, head lice and syphilis were everywhere. Wearing a wig helped keep the b — More: 5 Ways The Past Used To Be Unbelievably Disgusting

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CRACKED SPAM Canned Spam was around, but Monty Python's Flying Circus spurred the junk mail meaning. In a sketch, Vikings sing the word until they drown everyone else out. In the '80s, fans flooded chatrooms with the lyrics, and it became known as spamming. — Business Insider / Monty Python Fandom

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