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Bone Spurs

Over 50% of the human population has bone spurs. Bone spurs are permanent deposits and do not heal or go away. You would nev- er know you had them un- less you had an x-ray spe- cifically to look for them, as they have zero impact on your life. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — 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

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The Doors

Caitlin O'Heaney got punched by Val Kilmer in her audition for The Doors. That's what she alleges suddenly happened in an audition scene where she was supposed to have a verbal fight with Kilmer's character. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

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Bela Lugosi

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Elevators

Early elevators were blamed for elevator sickness. When elevators were becoming common in the early 20th century, many users reported nausea and dizziness. This elevator sickness was caused by organs still moving when the elevator stopped - or so some dubiously reasoned. CRACKED.COM — Source

37

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) was rejected by every major studio in Hollywood because they didn't think the franchise could work if it were shot in live-action. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES The movie's creators stuck to their guns and released the movie at their own expense! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jason Statham

Sport Celebrities Jason Statham was on the national British diving team. Before becoming a Hollywood action star, he dove in the 1990 Commonwealth Games. CRACKED.COM — Source

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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

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Happy Gilmore

FIRST MTV BEST FIGHT B CRACKED.COM Adam Sandler and Bob Barker's brawl won the very first MTV Movie Award for Best Fight. In 2015, Sandler and Barker went at it again on Comedy Central's 'Night of Too Many Stars'. There... Now you've had enough. — Source: vh1

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German Superstitions

GRACKED BLACK CATS DON'T HAVE TO BE BAD LUCK! Germany has a different take on luck with black cats. It's only bad luck if they cross your path right to left. Left to right is good luck, so there's a silver lining not given in the U.S. — Source

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Viruses

Smallpox scabs GRACKED.COM A librarian opened a book from 1888 and fround an envelope inside with smallpox scabs. Scientists were excited that they might harbor the live virus. The librarian was less pleased. — Source

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Beetles

Jewel beetles can feel infrared. CRACKED.COM They have receptors in their chests that can detect a forest fire dozens of miles away. While you or I might run in the opposite direction, they get all horned up and fly toward the fire (a charred, desolate wasteland is the perfect place to copulate in peace).

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The Largest Dinosaur Ever

Amphicoelias Fragillimus, possibly the largest dinosaur that ever existed, giving a modern elephant a piggy back ride. CRACKED.COM — Source

29

The Seven Deadly Sins

The seven deadly sins aren't in the Bible. Unlike the commandments, there's no list of deadly sins in the Bible - they were formulated by the medieval Church as broad categories to classify all sins. — More: Bible 'Stories' Everyone Gets Wrong
Image: A Man Drinking, “Gluttony,” by Jacques de L’Ange (ca. 1642)

28

Adam West

Adam West gave life to Frank Miller's take on Batman. In an obscure documentary for PBS in 2013, West reads 20 seconds' worth of narration from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, the ultra-violent Batman miniseries that is about as different from West's live action Batman as you can get.0M — 4 Goofy Alternate Takes On Iconic Characters (That Somehow Work)

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ODB

Ol' Dirty Bastard wasn't originally intended to be on Ghetto Supastar. CRACKED.COM Mr. Bastard's verse on the hit song was the result of him mistaken- ly bursting into the studio, loving the song, and asking to be part of it.

26

Coraline

AT A GLANCE NEIL GAIMAN Coraline almost wasn't published because it was too creepy for kids Gaiman's agent Merrilee Heifetz believed the book wasn't appropriate for kids but used her kids as a litmus test. Her kids said it wasn't too scary, but years later, they admitted it terrified them but lied because they wanted to know what happened next. CRACKED.COM — Source: EW

25

Indigenous People of South America

The Yahgan people adapted to their very cold climate by having significantly higher metabolisms than other humans. CRACKED.COM Their average body tem- perature is 1 degree warm- er than Europeans'. They routinely went bare naked in the frigid cold of the far southern region of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. — Reuters / Wikipedia

24

Spidey

They nearly had Tom Holland cameo in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. He would have shown up in a scene in a train station, walking in the background with a line like Hey, kid but the idea never got past the planning stage. CRACKED.COM — Source: IndieWire

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Miskell Spillman

MISKELL SPILLMAN CONTEST WINNER WON STOV MCTT CRACKED cO 80-YEAR-OLD MISKELL SPILLMAN WON SNL'S FIRST (AND ONLY) 'ANYONE CAN HOST' CONTEST WITH THIS 25-WORDS-OR-L ENTRY: I'M 80 YEARS OLD. I NEED ONE MORE CHEAP THRILL, SINCE MY DOCTOR TOLD ME I ONLY HAVE ANOTHER 25 YEARS LEFT. — AV Club

22

The Batsuit

In Batman V Superman, the Batsuit often wasn't there. . ODDD.D. Apparently, it was cheaper to make Batman's suit all-CGI in some scenes. The Batman VS

21

Nascar

The first African American to win a Nascar race was snubbed in 1963. - MOTORG CRACKED COM Though being two laps ahead of the other cars, Wendell Scott was ignored because the winner was to kiss a white beauty queen. Не was awarded the tro- phy in 2010, 20 years after his death. — Source

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Neanderthals

You're picturing Neanderthals wrong. The image of Neanderthals as hunchbacked brutes comes from the very first specimen that was ever found, which happened to be a geriatric man riddled with bone diseases. This conception has been debunked decades ago - Neanderthals were as good at walking upright as we are. CRACKED.COM — Source

19

Florida Man

A Florida man was bitten by an alligator after he mistook it for a dog. CRACKED COM Investigators said the man was walking outside the mo- tel overnight when he spot- ted a dark figure that ap- peared to look like a dog with a long leash. When it bit down on his leg, his mis- take was obvious. — Click Orlando

18

The Rachel

If there was one cut that defined the '90s, 1990 92 1995 199 it was the Rachel. 1998 1999 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1995 1996 1997 1998 One way 1993 hairstylist 1994 estimates that 1999 40% of her mid-90s clients 1995 992 1993 wanted that Rachel look. 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Amazing, Now-You-Know Things That Happened In The 1990s

17

Baby Experiments

TWO PSYCHOLOGISTS BUILT A VISUAL CLIFE. A GLASS SUREACE LOOKED LIKE A SUDDEN DROP. One at a time, they plopped a bunch of babies on the cliff' and — For details, read The 6 Cruelest Science Experiments Ever (Were Done on Kids)

16

Caucasian

The term 'caucasian' originally described skull traits, not exclusively white skin color. Skin colors ranged from white-skinned to dark brown. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

15

Taiwanese Marriages

WEIRD WORLD A man in Taiwan remarried his wife three times to get time off. The bank where he works gives eight days off with pay for a wedding, so he married her four times and divorced three times, over and over, to get free vacations. The bank only approved — Source: Yahoo

14

Kindness

PERFORM RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS Intentional acts of kindness reduce anxiety and depression. Varying those actions can have a longer term positive affect on your mental health CRACKED.COM — Source: CNet

13

Michael Jordan

MICHAEL JORDAN earns $100 million a year from his Nike royalties alone. That's more money per year than he earned during his entire NBA career ($90 mi

12

Water

Water isn't colorless. Pure water has a slight blue tint, not just because the reflection of the sky. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — USGS

11

Arby’s

Arby's bought Dunkin for $11.3 billion ROAST BEEF Sandwich IS DELICIOUS. Arby's Several years prior, Arby's bought Buffalo Wild Wings for $2.9 billion. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

10

Ricky Simonds

In 2006, suspected serial murderer Ricky Simonds was found dead of heatstroke in the trunk of his ex-girlfriend's car. Investigators theorized he became locked in as he lay in wait to ambush and kill her. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

9

Princess Bride

There's a Spinal Tap easter egg in Princess Bride OORAL SEA usS Ov ae The hat Rob Reiner wore in Spinal Tap is hanging on the wall of The Grandson's room. — Source: EW

8

Enormous Military Spending

CRACKED FIVE U.S. ARMY PROJECTS The U.S. Army spent a whopping $30 billion on five weapons projects that didn't work out between 1989 and 2019. These included the Brilliant Anti-Tank Munition, the RAH-66 Comanche Stealth-Chopper, and the Crusader Self-Propelled Howitzer. $30 billion — NY Times

7

Doom

The name Doom came from a Tom Cruise movie. What you got in there, Cruise's character is asked in The Color of Money, about his pool stick case. Doom, he replies, and proceeds to kick ass at the game. That... was how I viewed US springing the game on the industry, John Carmack has said. — Sources: Doomworld, Movie scene on YouTube

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Weekend Rain

HO Weekend Rain T 3,14 3 I 2 5 JI 58 12 9 13 1 16 17 20 28 24 25 28 27 25 CRACKED.COM Does it feel like it rains extra on Iv weekends, right when you're free? It's not your imagination. The week's car pollution accumulates, seeding clouds and leading to wet Saturdays. mg Soy — Source

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The Most Wanted Man in Australia

THE MOST WANTED MAN IN AUSTRALIA: НЕ WAS JOHN DENNING, AND НЕ LOVED FAME. Не went on TV. Не went to a prison art exhibition while the head of the country's prison system was there. Не taped demands to police HQ (he planted his fingerprints on the glass to prove his identity). CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 True Crimes That Seem Impossible

4

The Cigarette Diet

Source: Washington Post

3

Tall Tales

CRACKED THE TALLEST PERSON IN RECORDED HISTORY WAS OVER 8 FEET TALL. Robert Wadlow was born in Alton, Illinois, in 1918, and grew to a height of 8 feet 11.1 inches before his death at age 22. — Wiki Commons
Guinness World Records

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The Universe

The Big Splat What if the Big Bang was actually a Big Splat of two colliding universes? Some cosmologists believe that our ever-expanding universe could expand right into another expanding universe, generating enough energy to create a whole new universe. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Margot Robbie

HARLEY QUINN MARGOT ROBBIE TRAINED IN GYMNASTICS AND MARTIAL ARTS FOR SIX MONTHS. While she had a stunt double on set for Suicide Squad, Robbie did most of the stunts herself. This includes the elevator fight. SLOVATORI AOIN 8 CRACKED.COM — Source: WhatCulture/YouTube

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