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November 28, 2024

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Lord Byron

Lord Byron wasn't allowed to have a dog at university so he got a bear While at Trinity College, the poet was upset that students were forbidden from keeping dogs, so he proved a point by acquiring a pet bear. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: University of Cambridge

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln turned down the opportunity to populate the country with elephants. King Somdetch Phra Paramendr Maha Mongkut offered to send elephants for breeding. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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30 Rock

Alec Baldwin agreed to do the show because he got a four-day weekend. He said he wanted to spend more time with his daughter in LA. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — Salon

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Oprah

38 Random Bits of Trivia That Have Achieved Greatness and Are Content Living Out Their Twilight Years in Your Brain — Source: 6 Absurd Phobias (And The People Who Actually Have Them)

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I Know What You Did Last Summer

I Know What You Did Last Summer LOIS DUNCAN I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER CRACKED.COM Author Lois Duncan had zero input on the production, and was horrified to see her beloved characters immediately murdered by some insane fisherman she'd never met. — Source: 20 Movie Adaptations That Disgusted The Original Author

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Spider-Man

Lucy Lawless plays a punk rock girl in Spider-Man. As part of a news program about Spider-Man, a reporter asks what she thinks about him. Guy with ei

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Scarface

Filming Scarface took almost monk-like dedication on Michelle Pfeiffer's part. She had to be super thin for the end of the movie, and filming that scene was pushed back over and over she kept herself so thin for it, people brought her bagels. CRACKED.COM — Source: CinemaBlend

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Laptops

LAPTOPS CRACKED.COM In 1985, the New York Times catalogued what they saw as the demise of the laptop, due to the simple fact that folks just don't like having tiny computers on their person: Somehow, the microcomputer industry has assumed that everyone would love to have a keyboard grafted on as an extension of their fingers. It just is not so. — Source: 15 Modern Conveniences That Were Met With A Bizarre Amount Of Resistance

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Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi's first professional recording was backup vocals on a Star Wars Christmas album. CRACKED.COM The 17-year-old Jon was on 1980's tie-in album Christ- mas In The Stars because his cousin Tony managed the studio where the al- bum was recorded and had hired him as a janitor. — Source

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Community

38 Random Bits of Trivia That Have Achieved Greatness and Are Content Living Out Their Twilight Years in Your Brain

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Quiet Dinosaurs

DINOSAURS DIDN'T ROAR. THE RULED NIRS Research suggests that dinosaurs made low, throaty sounds without opening their mouths, like many of their bird and croc relatives. So basically, dinosaurs cooed. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Lies About Dinosaurs and Paleontology Movies and TV Have Told You

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Vanilla

13 Cool Things You Didn’t Know About Movies (And Other Stuff) - A 12-year-old slave invented modern vanilla pollination. — Source: National Geographic, Lapham's Quarterly

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Christmas

Christmas caused the Second English Civil War. The Puritans thought people got too drunk and promiscuous on Christmas, so they banned it in England fo

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The Lord of the Rings

THE LORD OF THE RINGS THE HOBBIT SEAN BEAN WAS READING HIS MONOLOGUE OFF HIS CROTCH. Peter Jackson and co-writer Philippa Boyens wrote the scene the night before, so Bean had to read off a crib sheet. On his crotch. One does not simply look away from Sean Bean's crotch. CRACKED.COM — More: Peter Jackson Revealed The Chaotic Origins Of The Best 'Lord Of The Rings' Meme

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The Walking Dead

Jeffrey DeMunn chose to be eaten by zombies in THE WALKING DEAD. A long-time collaborator of Frank Darabont, DeMunn was furious when AMC fired Darabont as showrunner. So he just went and said, It's a zombie show. Kill me. I don't want to do this anymore. And just like that, Dale Horvath became walker chow. — Source: Cleveland.com

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The F-Word in Movies

CRACKED VULGARITY HISTORY The F-word becomes the norm in movies In 1973, The Exorcist dropped the F-bomb 13 times, but was the highest grossing movie of the year. That same year, Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets dropped it 49 times, and these profitable, well-made films helped the F-word become more acceptable. — Source

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Las Vegas

CRACKED LAS VEGAS: WHERE DREAMS GO TO TIE (UNDERGROUND). There's a huge network of tunnels underneath Las Vegas, and it's estimated that hundreds of people live down there in makeshift homes. FKMN RAIS — Source

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Iron

We have enough iron in our blood to form a three-inch nail. CRACKED.COM Iron helps our red blood cells carry oxygen, which is necessary for producing energy throughout the body. The three grams of iron within us, if it were ex- tracted and melted down, could produce one nail. — Source

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Evian Water Bra

CRACKED.COM evian WATER BRA evian This bra has pockets that can be filled with water. This feature allows women to avoid the disaster of having sweaty breasts. — Source: 30 Products Companies Want To Forget

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Dark Souls

The game 'Dark Souls' was originally going to be called 'Dark Ring.' CRACKED.COM The title had to be changed after the developers learned that, in Britain, ring is a slang for anus. — EuroGamer

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Tom Cruise

Suffering from post-partum depression? Tom Cruise says you need vitamins and exercise. And you should never ever take anti-depressants for it, he says

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Courthouse Sillies

WEIRD WORLD In a Pittsburgh courthouse, a lawyer suddenly dropped his pants. It wasn't exhibitionism or anything: his suspenders were setting off the metal detector, so he took off his pants so he could go through. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Betty White

AT A GLANCE BETTY WHITE Her first TV role was a live show, five and half hours long, six days a week. Her costar Al Jarvis, previously a radio announcer, hadn't been on TV before either. CRACKED.COM — Source: Betty White: First Lady of Television

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Jetlag

Jetlag messes with your mind. With enough jetlag, the damage is permanent. Constantly resetting your body clock changes your brain anatomy. Flight att — For details, read 5 Things You Won't Believe Are Making You Dumber

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Taste Buds

By the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds. GRACKED.COM You are born with 9,000 taste buds, and between the ages of 40 and 50, the number of taste buds decreases, and the rest begin to shrink. — NY Times

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Adidas

38 Random Bits of Trivia That Have Achieved Greatness and Are Content Living Out Their Twilight Years in Your Brain — Source: Adidas

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Space Farts

AN UNANTICIPATED THREAT SHOOK NASA IN THE 1960s. SPACE FARTS. Farts don't really go away in zero-G because there's no convection. Floating bubbles of turd-gas just hover like space mines. That's your future: Hordes of people spewing anal gases until the air turns brown. The inevitable purging fire will come as sweet relief. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lithuania

IN Lithuanian FOLK LORE, Aitvaras... IF IT ROOSTER MIGHT HATCH LAYS . INTO AN EGG AN A A DEMONIC chicken THAT LIVES IN YOUR HOUSE AND BRINGS YOU BAD LUCK UNLESS YOU feed it. IN REALITY, IF A ROOSTER LAYS AN EGG, THEN YOU WERE PROBABLY MISTAKEN ABOUT OWNING A ROOSTER. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Choking

SLAPPING CHOKING PEOPLE IN THE BACK MIGHT KILL THEM. By all means, slap that choking person in the back, like you see in movies - if you really hate them. The slapping can dislodge the object and send it further down, making the person choke harder. You're supposed to lean — More: 6 Medical Myths Hollywood Needs To Stop Using

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Apocalypse Now

Two Apocalypse Now characters after are named important people in Francis Ford Coppola's life. General Corman Colonel Lucas George Lucas and Coppola h

8

William McKinley

When President McKinley got shot, a gynecological surgeon operated on him. Dr. Matthew Mann was the first doctor who responded, so he did the surgery. They did try to call experienced abdominal surgeon Dr. Roswell Park, but he was with another patient and said he couldn't leave even for the president of the United States. They told him that's who it was for, but it didn't change Park's mind. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Travolta and Pitbull

PITBULL AND JOHN TRAVOLTA QA Spirit Travolta said his good friend Pitbull inspired him to shave his head. Travolta is a fan of Pitbull, and Pitbull co — Source: Mitu

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Casey Anthony

GRACKED INEPT COPS OVERLOOKED CASEY ANTHONY'S INCRIMINATING SEARCH HISTORY. Police found 17 vague searches on her computer's Internet Explorer browser, but completely forgot to check Mozilla Firefox, where she Googled fool-proof suffocation on the day of her daughter's disappearance. This was discovered after the trial, where she'd already been acquitted. — USA Today

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Christopher Columbus

The history books teach that Columbus had trouble finding backers because nobody believed the world was round. WHAT THEY LEFT OUT Pythagoras pretty much settled the flat earth thing 2,000 years before Columbus' time. The navigational techniques used in Columbus' day were actually based on the fact that the Earth is a sphere. The reason Columbus had trouble finding backers was that he had grossly underestimated the size of the Earth and stood absolutely no chance of reaching Asia, and everyone knew it. CRACKED Hp://www.pa.msu.edu/sciencet/ask st/071592.html — Source: 22 Historical Stories That Left Out The Best Details

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The Barefoot Contessa

CRACRED.COIM The Barefoot Contessa was a Nuclear Policy Analyst during the Ford and Carter administrations. She left her high ranking position to buil

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Ariel-1

Arie-l, Britain's very first satellite, was put into orbit on April 26, 1962. It was asaccidentally destroyed weeks later after the US military detona

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Colombia

Colombia used a Christmas-themed ad campaign to get guerrilas to go home. They put up Christmas trees in the jungle, with the message If Christmas can come to the jungle, you can come home. Demobilize. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: PRI

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Bruno Mars

Bruno Mars made a major contribution to fighting the Flint water crisis. As he said in a Michigan concert, he gave $1 million to victims of the crisis. CRACKED.COM — Source

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