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November 05, 2024

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Sorry, that sounded weird. You know what we mean though, right? It’s that feeling when a warm bowl of soup just hits the spot, and you legitimately get that satisfying quiver like the people in those Campbell’s commercials.

Your brain could get that same exact feeling if you’d just read these facts. You wouldn’t want to deny it that feeling, would you? After all, you’d benefit too! It’s your brain!

Sorry, we got a little agitated there. All this soup talk reminded us that we’re starving, and we’re getting hangry.

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Nick Cannon

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Robert Smigel

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Robert Smigel penned Tales to Thrizzle. THRIZZLE VOLUME ONE Triumph's pal Smigel partnered with Michael Kupperman on this Eisner Award-winning collection of surreal short comics. This is for you if you like stories about evil girls and owls, Jesus' half-brother, sex blimps, silent robots, scary snakes, and delicious bacon. — Fantagraphics

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Bambi

The look of Bambi was inspired by Song dynasty artwork. An early Bambi sketch Chinese-American Disney artist Tyrus Wong drew on 11th-century art from the Song dynasty to create the backgrounds for the movie. — Source: VOA

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Burger King

Burger King's Bacon Sundae Burger King has not earned our trust with ice cream, let alone experimental ice cream. It was only available for the summer of 2012, a simpler time when bacon was trendy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Intuit Conflict Resolution

The Inuit resolve disputes through singing contests. Each of the two people involved in the dispute composes a song ridiculing the other and performs it, and an audience picks the winner. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

35

OK Go

OK Go was a pioneer in viral music videos. Their treadmill choreography in 2009's Here It Goes Again was a massive hit that led to their rube goldberg machine video for This Too Shall Pass. With a crew of 60 people, the machine synced up with the song itself and took roughly 60 takes to complete. CRACKED — Source

34

Venom

In the Russian version of the 1994 Spider-Mar cartoon Venom was metal enough to be called HpHa Cmeptb, which translates back into The Black Death.

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Dogs

RESEARCHERS BELIEVE DOGS GAINED THESE TRAITS TO ELICIT CARE-GIVING FROM HUMANS. Human preferences (intentional or not) are believed to be responsible

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Futurama

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE FUTURAMA EPISODE FRY AND THE SLURM FACTORY HAS AN APPLE IN-JOKE. 6502 Bender gets sick, so they scan his head, and there's a processor with the letters 6502 inside - the joke is, he deteriorated so much, his brain is an old-school Apple 6502 processor. — Source

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London

In 1381, English peasants revolted against the lords and sacked London. The revolt was led by a guy named Wat Tyler, and the mob beheaded the chancellor and treasurer and took over the Tower of London. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Blockbuster

CRACKED.COM Blockbuster Video almost had its own city. BLOCKBUSTER® Back in the '90s, Blockbuster wanted to build a 2,500-acre theme park near Miami-and they somehow convinced the Florida legislature to give them powers restricted to governments. This Blockbuster Town was entitled to collect taxes and seize private land. — Source

29

Lyme Disease

Lyme disease is named after the town where it was first recognized. EMERSON CEMETERY GRACKED COM The disease takes its name from Lyme, Connecticut, where the full spectrum of illness was first de- scribed in 1975. — Source

28

Dave Chappelle

Dave Chappelle was a giant cookie. BAK HOP The future comedian was forced to wear a humiliating cookie costume and hand out flyers for a place called

27

The Office

CREED BRATTON WAS IN A WELL-KNOWN FOLK BAND IN THE LATE 1960S. The Grass Roots had several Top 10 hits during Bratton's tenure. Не was a vocalist and guitarist. CRACKED.COM — 11 Celebrities Who Were Secretly Total Badasses

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German Chocolate Cake

GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE DOESN'T COME FROM GERMANY German's chocolate is named after Sam German, who is believed to be American or English. The cake recipe came from a Texas homemaker. CRACKED.COM — Source

25

Boris Johnson

WEIRD WORLD Boris Johnson uses WhatsApp to receive sensitive government material. Foxglove, a UK non-profit, says the government is potentially in breach of its own data security guidelines and the Public Records Act of 1958, which requires legal checks to be made on messages in case they need to be kept for the CRACKED.COM public interest. — BBC

24

Garbage Pail Kids

Garbage Pail Kids 300-II 4 A 1987 animated series based on the raunchy trading cards. CBS caved to pressure from parental groups and just threw an extra half-hour of The Muppet Babies at us. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Wild TV Shows Never Seen (Because They Never Aired)

23

Antarctica

In 1914, Ernest Shackleton set out to explore Antarctica. He never made it. His ship got stuck in the ice, sO he and his crew were forced to wait for

22

Pat Hingle

Pat Hingle (Commissioner Gordon in the 90s Batman movies) fell 54 feet down an elevator shaft. It happened when he tried to climb out of the elevator — Source: 6 Actors Who Survived Stuff That'd Kill Superman

21

Pirates

IND Pirates' loot was mostly stuff like food and fabric, which they almost never stashed in buried chests. Burying that loot would ruin it, and anyway

20

Steve Carell

The Office Michael Scott's worst is Steve Carell's favorite. Carell's all-time favorite episode is Season 3's A Benihana Christmas. Michael marks two Asian waitresses to try and tell them apart, which became one of the character's worst moments. CRACKED — NBC
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Jewels

GRAGKED.COM We assume shiny means good quality. Deep down, people are animals. We're attracted to shiny things. Jewels, polished cars, brightly lit storefronts-i if it shines, we're willing to pay more for it. — Source

18

Haiti

CRACKED IN HAITI, WHISTLING IS A SIGN OF DISRESPECT. In Haiti, whistling is considered rude for kids and younger people, as it is seen as a sign of arrogance and cockiness. — Sweet Coconuts / Pexels

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Reward Money

A kidnapped girl received the reward money for rescuing herself. CRACKED.COM 13-year-old Jayme Lynn Closs was abducted and held captive for 88 days un- til she escaped in 2019. Hor- mel, the parent company of the store where her parents worked, issued Hayme the $25,000 reward money. — Source

16

Crypto

WEIRD WORLD One Tesla owner started using his car as a crypto mining machine. EN Try And he says his Tesla makes him $800 in cryptocurrency every month. CRACKED.COM — Source

15

The First Cross-Country Road Trip

The first cross-country road trip taken in an automobile took 64 days. 1903 WINTON Horatio Nelson Jackson and his driving partner Sewell Crocker drove their 20 horsepower Winton from San Francisco, CA to New York. That year, the Wright brothers made their historic flight in Kitty Hawk. CRACKED.COM — PBS

14

Walmart

Walmart employs 2.3 million people around the world. That's more than the entire population of New Mexico. 2,059,179 CRACKEDCOMT

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Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan dictator Saparmurat Niyazov authored a holy book called Ruhnama. SAPARMYRAT TURKMENBASY RUHNAMA It was taught in schools, and people had to carry it during official ceremonies. One scholar thinks this was all because Niyazov couldn't read or write Turkmen or Russian properly. People who have disabilities, for example illiteracy, — Source: New Yorker

12

Fake Pakistani Pilots

One third of Pakistan's pilots have been faking it. Just one false pilot is worrying- and in 2020, it came out that 262 of Pakistan's 860 airplane pilots had dubious licenses, which they got by cheating. These were all grounded, which is fine, but maybe entirely too many fake pilots kind of late. — More: So ... A Third Of Pakistan's Pilots Have Fake Licenses

11

Batman v Superman

David Goyer claimed 'Superman Vs. Batman' was an admission that you're out of ideas, years before he wrote it. Batman Vs. Superman is where you go when you admit to yourself that you've exhausted all possibilities. It's somewhat of an admission that this franchise is on its last gasp. Goyer would go on to be the primary screenwriter for 2016's Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. CKED.COM — Source: Batman v Superman' Means You're Out Of Ideas, Said Its Writer Years Earlier

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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Harold and Kumar were originally written to go to Krispy Kreme Krispy Kreme didn't want to be associated with the movie, but White Castle took the risk. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

9

Naples

CRACKED NAPLES MIGHT GET MELTED DOWN IN OUR LIFETIMES Naples is situated near Mount Vesuvius, the volcano that famously destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD ... and Naples might meet the same fate if Vesuvius ever erupts again. — Source

8

Patton

PATTON WAS ABOUT A DEEPLY FLAWED WWIl GENERAL. Hray IT MIGHT HAVE INSPIRED NIXON TO INVADE CAMBODIA. Richard Nixon was a huge fan of the movie, and de

7

Baseball

A baseball player in 1919 got struck by lightning, then went back to playing. Ray Caldwell was hit by lightning on the pitcher's mound, then lay unconscious for five minutes. Then he got up and started pitching again. CRACKED.COM — Source: AccuWeather

6

Alaska

Anchorage, Alaska lies within 10 hours by air of nearly 90% of the industrialized world. CRACKED.COM Anchorage is almost equi- distant from New York City, Tokyo, and Frankfurt, Germany (via the polar route), and holds a critical FedEx hub as part of its global network or services. — Source

5

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Danny DeVito's casting saved the show from being canceled after the first season The network demanded star power. Luckily, DeVito's kids were fans of the show so he joined on. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM — Hollywood Reporter

4

The Naked Gun

CRACKED.COM OOL The Naked Gun The movie was John Houseman's final film role. Houseman, who won an Oscar for The Paper Chase and was a frequent collaborator with Orson Welles, made his final film appearance giving the middle finger as a driving instructor. — Source

3

SpaceX

REDDITORS SPOTTED A MORSE CODE IN A SPACEX PROMO PICTURE INCEN When SpaceX posted a crew portrait online, some Reddit users quickly picked up on the fact that the background contained morse code. The cryptic Easter egg read ad astra which means to the stars. CRACKED.COM — Vice

2

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd's album Atom Heart Mother doesn't end until you stop it. CRACKED.COM The final song, Alan's Psy- chedelic Breakfast, features a dripping sink at the end. The effect was cut into the vinyl's run-off groove, caus- ing the dripping noise to play on indefinitely until the sty- lus was removed. — Source

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Marriage

disp 77.9% OF SOFTWARE disp DEVELOPERS ARE disp MARRIED. val disp from DOS DOS Even though their median age is just 36 years old. CRACKED.COM — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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