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Baseball

The home team in baseball wears white because laundry used to be super hard. wers Brewers 21 In the early 20th century, visiting teams often couldn't find laundry services, so they had to wear dark colors that hid stains -- and the home team wore white. CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss

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Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner has a pet chicken that she's named after a Mean Girls character. The chicken is called Regina George (of course, who else?), and she's filmed herself for Instagram reading the newspaper aloud to Regina. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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Equifax

Equifax fired 24 remote workers who were discovered to be juggling two jobs. 1550 PEACHTREE STREET EQUIFAX EQUIDE 1550 CRACKED.COM Equifax used one of its own products, The Work Num- ber, to help it suss out who was holding down multiple jobs simultaneously in what they called Project Home Alone. — Source

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South Korea

WEIRD WORLD It's now technically illegal to play Gangnam Style in gyms in Seoul, South Korea. E E Y In group exercises, anyway - it's to make sure people don't breathe too heavily. Any music with a bpm over 120 (like Gangnam Style, with its bpm of 132) isn't allowed. CRACKED.COM — Source: Weird World: 12 Odd Yet Oddly Under-The-Radar Stories

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Star Wars

Grand Moff Tarkin was a cruel, angry man. Maybe it's because his feet hurt. The wardrobe department supplied Peter Cushing with boots that were too small, so he only wore them in shots where his feet showed. The rest of the time, he wore bedroom slippers. Those slippers are currently in a museum. http://thecushingcollection.tumbir.com/post/1198825847 CRACKED.COM 85/peter-cushings-carpet-slippers-on-display-in-the — Source

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Zebras and Ostriches

Zebras and ostriches have a symbiotic relationship in the wild. Zebras can't see too well, and ostriches can't hear too well, so they team up to warn each other about predators. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dirty Harry

20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - The real Dirty Harry was named Dave. Dave Toschi was a San Francisco cop who caught Hollyw — Read More: 5 Badass Movie Characters You Didn't Know Were Real People

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Leopards

Leopards love killing, and do it for fun! CRACKED.COM Not content to just hunt to survive, leopards appear to take a YOLO approach to slaughter. Of the recorded instances of leopards preying on domesticated animals, over half involve surplus killing, which involves killing and leaving the remains uneaten - sometimes with up to 50 animals dead in a single spree. — Source: Large Carnivores That Kill Livestock: Do "Problem Individuals" Really Exist?

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John Q. Adams

John Q. Adams thought the Earth was hollow. Не greenlighted an expedition to prove it, at taxpayer expense. CRACKED.COM Adams, 2010. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams. — Source

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Tokyo

The world's biggest storm drain sits just underneath Tokyo, and it looks like a building from a sci-fi film. The drain is a series of underground caverns, and protects the city from being flooded by any of the five different rivers in the area. CRACKED.COM — 14 Mesmerizing Machines That Run The World Behind The Scenes

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Smartphones

Anyone with a smartphone can change the colors on a 20 story light spire in Stockholm. CRACKED.COM Installed in 2006, the cre- ators of the rainbow-col- ored installation hope that the work can stand as a statement on the power of democracy and the power of the public. — Source

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Drones

BEE SIZED POLLINATION DRONES. In 2016, the U.S. lost 44% of all honeybee colonies. Eijiro Miyako has designed an insect-sized drone designed for artificial pollination. Does this mean we're just giving up on the bees? Also, insect-sized drones seem pretty ideal for surveillance. CRACKED — NPR

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Winona Ryder

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China

China CRACKEDC COM Clean plates are a demand of American mothers everywhere. If you're in China, though, it's considered a sign that you're still hung — Source: Republicworld

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Frogs

CRACKED.COM Nope, a frog won't let itself be boiled. When trying to make a point, people often bring up this froggy experiment which was done by... someone or other. It is a real experiment, though, done in 1869 by German scientist Friedrich Goltz - who first removed the frog's brain. That feels like an important detail. — Source: 15 Random Facts to Flex Your Knowledge Muscles

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English Law

There is a Right to Light in England. CRACKED.COM The owner of a building with windows that have received natural daylight for 20 years or more is entitled to forbid any construction or other obstruction that would de- prive him or her of that illu- mination. — Source

22

Cold Weather

COLD WEATHER MAKES YOU PEE FOR SURVIVAL. Cold diuresis is when your nervous system tries to stave off hypothermia by causing capillaries in the limbs to constrict and reroute blood to the more essential organs. The extra blood now swirling within the abdomen prompts the kidneys to release the liquid already there. Rescue teams should really be trained to recognize yellow snow angels from the air. CRACKED.COM — Source: Scientific Reasons for B.S Things Our Bodies Do

21

The Mask

The Mask was originally supposed to be pure horror, not comedy. The studio wanted a Freddy Krueger-style movie, but their idea eventually lost and the movie's tone changed to, of all things, a screwball comedy. CRACKED.COM — Source: DenOfGeek

20

Venting

Think it helps to vent all of your anger? Nope. Venting doesn't change the thing that made you mad, and most often will just make the situation worse.

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Darth Vader

THE DARTH VADER GARGOYLE AT THE WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL During the '80s the Cathedral held a design-a-carving competition for kids, with the third place winner entering the Darth Vader grotesque. These grotesques help deflect rainwater away from the stone walls by bouncing it off the heads and edges. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Cathedral.org, Extreme Craft

18

A Cave Goat

A cave goat that went extinct 5,000 years ago is the first known mammal to have become cold-blooded. CRACKED.COM Their bone growth rate is unlike any other mam- mal, and more similar to crocodiles in showing slow and adaptive rates to environmental tem- perature. — Phys.org / Wikimedia

17

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Buffy episode Hush had almost no dialogue. How do S lgt my JOSS WHEDON LEFT IT OUT TO SPITE HIS CRITICS. Whedon's detractors felt that dialogue

16

Blind Date

WEIRD WORLD Because of a blind date, one woman was locked down in a random apartment. She went on a blind date with a guy, and then a snap lockdown in Zhengzhou, China, hit - and she had to stay at his place for days. CRACKED.COM — Source

15

Django Unchained

Will Smith wanted to change everything about Quentin Tarantino's movie. DJANGO TONOHAINED Smith insisted that Django should be the one who kills the villain, Calvin Candie. Не also wanted to tone down the violence and make the film more of a love story. CRACKED.COM — Source

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This Is Spinal Tap

This Is Spinal Tap Every tour stop was actually in Los Angeles. CRACKED.COM They did a good job of hiding the City of Angels, but eagle-eyed fans have spotted palm trees in one scene set in New York. — This Is Spinal Tap: 16 Behind-The-Scenes Facts That Walk The Fine Line Between Stupid And Clever

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Disgraced Former Congressman Martin Hoke

In 1993, Congressman Martin Hoke was recorded preparing for a live TV feed, commenting on a producer to another congressman. Не put on a Mario-esque accent and said, She's got ze beeeg-a breasts. His political career didn't last much longer. CRACKED — Source / Cleveland

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Rollerblade Barbie

CRACKED.COM $10 RÉBATE Rollerblade Barbie had skates that light up... Barbie Rollerblade Skates flicker'a Bash! Because they were basically lighters. — Source

11

Tickle Me Elmo

When the FBI met with the inventor of Tickle Me Elmo, they suspected him of being the Unabomer. CRACKED.COM Не happened to be wearing a baseball cap with the initials that Kaczynski used as an identifier in a letter, and was in possession of the blueprints of the type of plane Kaczynski tried to blow up. — BoingBoing

10

Surfing

SURFING RIPPED OUT AN EYE GROWTH 2014 CRACKED.COM A 61-year-old had a pterygium, fibrous tissue over the eye. Не surfed in Hawaii, dipped his face in the water while riding a 30-foot wave, and the water ripped the growth out. — Source

9

Furby-Gate

CRACKED FURBY In '98, Furby was a hot Christmas gift, but it freaked out the NSA because they thought it could record and leak Top Secret info, so the NSA officially banned its employees from bringing Furbies to work. — Thrift Con

8

Mike Myers and Dana Carvey

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SNL AIRED A SKETCH THAT HAD A JOKE ABOUT CHELSEA CLINTON, AND HAD TO APOLOGIZE. It aired when Bill Clinton was in the White House, and the joke was Chelsea... well, she's a babe in development. Mike Myers and Dana Carvey (who had performed the sketch), and Lorne Michaels, all apologized to the White House. — Source

7

Bee Poop

A secret Soviet weapon turned out to be bee poop. When a yellow substance began raining down on Vietnam after the war, making locals sick, the U.S. accused the Soviet Union of using chemical weapons. Then a Harvard analysis discovered it was feces dropped by airborne bees. (The sickness was actually caused by all the malnutrition and other nasty stuff in the aftermath of a long war). — Source

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Decoy Pricing

GRAGKED.COM TIME pricing Decoy .... ENDI A - and - . CH A tactic that 20 increases the sales of 100 CI ES I OOL : high-profit items by creating another mid-range version solely to make the I pricier version seem economical by comparison. $3 $5 $5.10 — Source

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Psychiatry vs Psychology

Psychologists and psychiatrists are not the same thing. A psychologist will give you your weekly therapy, while a psychiatrist will prescribe you any medication you need. Despite what you see on TV, these are not the same person, and haven't been in decades. (It can happen, but it's very rare.) — More: 5 Big Jobs That Movies And TV Get All Wrong

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Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson had a pet llama he regularly brought CRACKED.COM with him to the studio. When he and Freddie Mercury started WEAR VEST HOLLYWOOD collaborating, the llama drove Mercury insane, so he called his manager and asked to get him out of the studio. — Source: 20 Celebrity Pet Facts

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Eminem

AT A GLANCE EMINEM Eminem's trademark blonde hair as a result of Ecstasy Eminem was on MDMA when he went to a drugstore and bought peroxide. He woke up the next day, forgetting he bleached his hair, but Dr. Dre approved of the new look: CRACKED.COM — Source: The Way I Am

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Game of Thrones

CRACKED.COM EVERYONE ON THE GAME OF THRONES SET HATED THE CAT. Ser Pounce, King Tommen's cat, was popular with fans even though he only appeared once- but he only appeared once because he was hell to work with. Natalie Dormer called it a bit of a diva -and according to showrunner David Benioff, he was horribly killed (in-story, that is). — Source

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The Shortest War

The Anglo-Zanzibar War was the shortest war in recorded history. N Est The 1896 skirmish between Aniward the British Empire and the Zanzibar Sultanate lasted 45 minutes, tops. The British managed to kill 500 soldiers in that time, while losing only 1 of their own. CRACKED.COM — Source

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