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November 02, 2024

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Clint Eastwood

CLINT EASTWOOD SAVED A MAN FROM CHOKING. The Oscar winner was at a party before a Pebble Beach golf event when tournament director Steve John began to

39

White Privilege Cards

Police let a woman go when she flashed a white privilege card after being pulled over. CRACKED.COM The woman, in town for a Donald Trump rally, was pulled over at 3:43 am for weaving. When she couldn't find her license, she showed officers a white privilege card, which must have been sufficient to let her go. — NBC News

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The Fastest Gust of Wind Ever Recorded

The fastest wind gust on Earth was recorded in Australia in 1996. CRACKED.COM A tropical cyclone named Olivia hit off the coast of Barrow Island, an it's eye- wall (the area immediately outside the eye of a storm) produced a gust of wind going 253 miles per hour. — Source

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Searing Meat

MYTH: TO KEEP YOUR MeAT MOIST, you need TO SEAR it. FAGT8 Searing DOESN'T LOCK in JUIceS Searing meat doesn't do a thing to keep juices inside. When

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Therapy Dogs

Dogs can help you graduate college In one study, stressed college students who had therapy dogs had improved thinking and planning skills greater than those traditional stress-management programs. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Facts That Prove How Good Dogs Are (As If You Needed Proof)

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Kevin Smith’s Prince Documentary

Unreleased movies Kevin Smith's PRINCE DOCUMENTARY Smith made a documentary about Prince that was never released. Не filmed it at Prince's home, Paisley Park. It was supposed to be about how people felt about his music, and also about religion and race. CRACKED — Northfoto/Shutterstock,
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The Cop Who Prevented Over 200 Suicides

One man saved over 200 people from taking their lives on the Golden Gate Bridge. CRACKED.COM Officer Kevin Briggs, who battles depression himself, retired in 2013 after saving hundreds of lives. Не wrote a book and now goes on speaking tours to encourage public discussion of suicide and mental illness. — NPR

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Automatic Transmissions

Cars with automatic transmission are preferred by drivers in the US, to the point that less than 3% RNDS of all units sold in the country are manual vehicles. 135 And while the trend Hh is slowly changing 246R in specific markets like the UK, manual cars are still the most common in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. CRACKED.COM — Source: 29 Ways America Is Super Weird, Compared To Other Countries

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Snowmen

16th-century Belgians built porn snowmen. The Miracle of 1511 was a huge winter festival held in Brussels, when lots of elaborate snow figures were made - more than half of them of a sexual or scatological nature. People were mad (at the government and the harsh winter), and the snow things gave them an outlet to vent. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pandoraviruses

Scientists theorize that giant viruses named Pandoraviruses point to the existence of a 4th domain of life. More than 93% of their genes resemble nothing known, and their origin cannot be traced back to any known cellular lineage. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Sci News

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The Netherlands

The Netherlands is a leader when it comes to food production due to innovations in agricultural techniques. Growing a kg of tomatoes in the Netherlands uses 9.1 liters of water (1.1 gal- lons/lb). The global aver- age is over 210 liters of water per kg (25.6 gal- lons/lb). CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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World War II

There's a decaying, abandoned WWII US army base in the landscape of Greenland. The abandoned equipment includes about 10,000 rusted and leaking fuel barrels, which the locals charmingly call American Flowers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tigers

THERE ARE MORE TIGERS PRIVATELY OWNED IN THE US THAN TIGERS IN THE WILD WORLDWIDE. ESTIMATED TALLY ESTIMATED TALLY I IN THE WILD IN US CAPTIVITY 3,890 5,000 And only 6% of the tigers in the United States are held in accredited facilities. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hook

Hook Captain Hook's hat is rimmed with crocodile teeth. Apparently, the pirate's greatest fear is always on his head. — Source: Screen Rant

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Game of Thrones

If you didn't like Euron in Game of Thrones, the actor might agree with you. Не says she wishes he could have played him more dark, more mysterious - that's closer to the books, he says. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Corneas

Your cornea has no blood supply. It's the only organ that harvests the oxygen it needs directly from the air. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Kinda Gross Facts About The Human Body That'll Make You Feel A Little Uncomfortable

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Naked Sleeping

34% of American and 38% of women American men say they sleep in the nude with their partner. Based on the survey data, it is suggested that sleeping naked with your better half significantly increases sexual closeness in the relationship. GRACKED.COM — Source: 24 Shocking Statistics That Change How You View Sex

23

Pet Cemetery

A pet cemetery in England offered burial ground for dead Tamagotchi ch People shipped their toys from all over the world to their final resting place. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

22

District 9

The District 9 voices were made from the sound of pumpkins being rubbed together combined with clicking and the actors' voices. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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Candy Barr

In 1960, a famous dancer and porn star who went by the alias Candy Barr was sentenced to 15 years in prison... ...for hiding less than an ounce of marijuana in her bra. GRACKED.COM — Source: The 23 Worst Overreactions To Marijuana

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For the Love of Money

CRACKED FAKE Money is the root of ail evil. - TIMOTHY 6:10 This verse from the King James Bible is actually, The love of money is the root of all evil. — Nancy Bauer/Shutterstock
Bible Gateway

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Dumb and Dumber Paydays

Jim Carrey became box-office gold right before Dumb & Dumber was made, which let him negotiate a $7 million salary. Jeff Daniels, as Harry Dunne, was paid only $50,000 despite delivering the greatest delivery of Cool in any film ever. CRACKED — Source / Shutterstock

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The Pyramids

THE PYRAMIDS WEREN'T BUILT BY SLAVES Researchers believe they were built by a rotating labor force, organized more like a feudal system. CRACKED.COM — Source: Harvard

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Sweat Glands

Growing up in a warm climate will make your sweat glands more active. CRACKED COM Sweat glands mature during the first 2 years of life, so growing up in warm cli- mates leads to more active sweat glands than people who grew up in a cli- mate-controlled environ- ment or in cold climates. — Source

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Pyramid Myths

MYTH FACT Egypt has the Sudan has the most most pyramids pyramids in the world, in the world. with a total of 255- 117 more than Egypt. x CRACKED — Pete Linforth/Pixabay
JSTOR Daily

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Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was the first American woman to lead a military assault. The Combahee Ferry Raid freed more than 700 slaves. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM — Source: Smithsonian

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Healthy Foods

GRACKED.COM IT'S TOUGH FOR OVERWEIGHT PEOPLE TO STICK TO DIETS BECAUSE OF THEIR TASTE BUDS. Weight gain leads to an impaired sense of taste, and a recent study may have found out why: inflammation of the taste buds. This results in desensitization, and may be why obese people have trouble subsisting on salads and lean meats. Which proves that we still haven't figured out how to make healthy food taste good. — Source: Scientific Reasons for B.S Things Our Bodies Do

13

The Thinker

When The Thinker statue is brought up in conversations, you imagine a huge, lonesome statue of a thinking man. However, the original statue is a very

12

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe CRACKED COM Marilyn Monroe left her estate to her acting coach, Lee Strasberg. She also left money for her psychoanalyst and a poet friend. She set up a trust to care for her mother, who spENT most of her life in mental institutions. — Source: NPR

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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

10

Redheads

Red hair in lated central Asia The red hair gene mutation failed to provide sun protection, but when people starting migrating to Northern Europe, the pale-skinned mutants were able to produce Vitamin D BETTER. CRACKED.COM — Source: Washington Post

9

The Ripchair

40 Random Bits of Trivia to Swallow in One Messy Gulp Like a Hippo Chomping on a Huge Pumpkin — Source: 17 Badass Gadgets You Didn't Realize You Needed

8

Christian Myth

Early Christians HISTORY' THE were fed to lions in the Colosseum. It's one of the earliest, most terrifying examples of Christian persecution and ma

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Motor Oil Syrup

MMMM... PENNZOIL. PENNZOIL Motor oil is used instead of syrup to photograph pancakes, as it doesn't Korea - - des and responsive absorb as fast and looks better. ENNZ CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Marketing Lies Somehow Still Seen

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Taco Bell

CRACKED IN 2018, A MAN'S FIRST WORDS UPON WAKING FROM A COMA WERE TACO BELL. Doctors believe this was because he, um, wanted Taco Bell. EST 1 TAC B — KULLAPONG PARCHERAT/Shutterstock
5 Highly Relatable Reactions People Have Had Immediately After Waking Up From a Coma

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Narc Printers

Our printers will snitch on us to the cops. пр Printers put information in every sheet that will allow authorities to track any printed page back to your printer. This hidden infor- mation survives scans and photos of your printed documents. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — ACM

4

Starbucks

The small cup size in Starbucks is called tall because of how their menu changed over time. venti grande tall There were originally short, tall, and g

3

Underwater Driving

CRACKED.COM IF YOUR CAR Goes FLYING INTO THE WATER, DO пот open YOUR DOORS Opening the doors lets in too much water too fast, so stick with the windows. If the window's electrical components still work, roll your windows down and climb out. If they are damaged, you'll have to wait for the car to fill with water. Take a big breath at the last possible second, open the door, and swim for the surface. — Source: 19 Awesome Survival Tips (You’ll Probably Never Need)

2

The Human Brain

Our brains respond differently to singing than other music Neuroscientists have found neurons in the human brain that light up when we hear singing but not other music. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Crocodiles

crocodiles are more closely related to birds than to lizards. Crocodiles, alligators, and birds are the last surviving archosaurs (a group that included dinosaurs). Their common ancestor lived 240 million years ago. CRACKED.COM — Source: Science Facts That Sound Like Nonsense

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