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December 14, 2024

Fat stacks of cash might be sweet and all, but a fat stack of facts is quite the sight to behold. It’s informational gold, and it’s a heck of a lot easier to come by than a fat stack of cash — especially when generous fact stackers like us stack them for you!

If we could stack cash for you, we would. But as you can probably guess, list writers don’t have that kind of paper to dole out. Rent is due, and that Subway sandwich isn’t gonna pay for itself now is it?

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Pennies

How many pennies are there? There are 130 billion pennies in circulation. In pounds, that's over 716 million. GRACKED COM — Source

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Phobias

Hippopotomonstrosesquippe daliophobia is the fear of long words. CRACKED.COM The American Psychiatric Association doesn't officially recognize the phobia, which for some reason is one of the longest words in the dictionary. — Source

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Star Fox

CRACKED.COM We almost had a Star Fox claymation show. Back in 2014, CollegeHumor was working on an official Star Fox project, made in the style of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Nintendo pulled the plug (along with all of their other adaptations) when rumors spread about a Legend of Zelda live-action show by Netflix. — Source

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Epic Losing Streaks

Biggest Losing Streak D1 FOOTBALL I DUAMED CRACKED.COM The Prairie View A&M Panthers didn't taste victory for nearly a decade. They lost 80 straight games from 1989 to 1998.

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Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg was a beautician- for corpses. On her first day, Goldberg's boss pretended to BE a ghost, causing Whoopi to run into a door and knock herself out. CRACKED.COM — Source: Huffington Post

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Historic Mortality Rates

MYTH x Before modern medicine, people used to die at 40. FACT If people survived into young adulthood they were likely to reach their 70s and 80s just as we do today. This myth stems from people calculating the average age of death without taking high child mortality into account. CRACKED — Abraham Bloemaert/National Gallery of Art
SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine

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Ancient Egypt

CRACKED.COM Ancient Egyptians believed the heart would be weighed by the gods cemilla NVB The heart was considered the center of emotions, knowledge, and memories. The deceased's heart was believed to be weighed on a scale against the feather of the goddess Maat, who embodied goodness. If it weighed more, it was consumed by the crocodile-headed goddess Ammit. — Source

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The Capitol Riot

WEIRD WORLD Two Capitol rioters asked for their ankle monitors to be removed for dumb reasons. They're siblings, and one asked for the monitor's removal so he can hike and maintain his health, while the other wanted to be able to give a water birth. CRACKED.COM — Source: Insider

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Kingpin

Bill Murray actually M bowled three strikes in a row in his Kingpin scene as Ernie McCracken. R L I A T The crowd's applause is completely genuine and — Source: Uproxx

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Converse

Converse shoes have fuzzy soles so that they can be imported as slippers. GRACKED.COM Tariff rates for importing shoes into the US can be as high as 37.5% and vary widely based on material used, but classifying the shoe as a slipper guaran- tees the rate at 3%. — Source

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Jon Heder

BEHINO-THE-SCENESPACTS have Heder shared dance moves with his TWIN BROTHER OBO CRACKED.COM Napoleon Dynamite's signature steps can be traced to the days when Heder and his twin brother Dan would go to clubs and do syncronized dance routines. Once Hess saw Heder's swagger, he realized this is how we've got to end the film! — Rolling Stone

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Guns N’ Roses

Axl Rose And Slash Glick Slash claimed that before a show, Axl refused to go onstage until the band agreed to sign away their rights to the band's name. After their 1993 tour, Axl referred to Slash as a cancer, the band broke up, and Axl didn't even attend their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. CRACKED — Source

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Pompeii

The oldest graffiti in Pompeii is, sadly, pretty underwhelming as graffiti go. It just says Gaius Pumidius Diphilus was here, and there's a timestamps that dates to what we would now call October 3, 78 ВСЕ. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tara Lipinski

Tara Lipinski started as a roller skater. She went to nationals at age 9, when she switched to gymnastics. (Which is geriatric in gymnast years.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Clerks

CRACKED.COM CL RKS Quick STOP GROCERIES I ASSURE YOURWERE OPEN! Clerks was shot in a grocery store where Kevin Smith was working at the time. The joke about the jammed locks was written in because they could only film at night. — Source

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Cameron Diaz and Snoop Dogg

It's hard to imagine these two hanging out. IN CAMERON DIAZ AND SNOOP DOGG But they were in high school together. Cameron Diaz and Snoop Dogg both att

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Shakespeare

Your English teacher probably convinced you that Shakespeare was a prim and proper fop who wrote elegant plays full of flowery speeches. WHAT THEY LEFT OUT Shakespeare's plays filled were with dirty jokes and crude language, and some of his plots were full-on sick. We're talking kidnapping, rape, dismemberment, murder, and cannibalism. Seriously. He was the Quentin Tarantino of his day. CRACKEDG William Shakespeare Henry Titus Andronicus King Lear. — Source: 22 Historical Stories That Left Out The Best Details

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Kotex Pads

Product KOTEX PADS Original SURGICAL DRESSING Purpose How War Nurses Found a New Use 042 DODEN + for Cellucotton КОТЕХ of being invention, the CELLUCOTTON PRODUCTS co CHICAGO our war nurses in France first discovered a new use 5c for Cellucotton, which, has Each Kimberly-Clarke invented a new cotton product for medical use during WWI, and Red Cross nurses discovered it worked well for periods too. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Noid

The Noid caused a hostage crisis N PIZZA CRACKED.COM Domino's recently brought back The Noid, hoping we'd all forgotten that time in 1989 when a paranoid man, surnamed Noid, took two Domino's employees hostage because he thought the tagline avoid the Noid! was directed at him. — Source

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Sad Movies

WATCHING SAD MOVIES MAKES yOu FEEL HAPPIER. Sad movies normally highlight the importance of relationships, which brings your attention to the positive — Source: EurekAlert!

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Mickey Mouse

MYTH Walt Disney drew Mickey Mouse. x FACT Disney came up with the concept for Mickey Mouse and voiced the character. But Disney's partner, Ub Iwerks, was the artist behind the Mouse, as well as his first animator. CRACKED — Source

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Riz Ahmed

RIZ AHMED was the first Muslim actor to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor. The 2021 nomination was for his lead role in the movie Sound of Metal. CRACKED.COM — The L.A. Times

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Dogs

Evidence of human-canine relationships from 26,000 years ago have been found. CRACKED COM A cave in France contains the footprints of a young child alongside the paw prints of a dog, during the Upper Paleolithic which is the last subdivision of the Old Stone Age. — Source

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The Soviet Union

The Soviets put out a huge gas fire by nuking it. A gas well was on fire for three years before the bomb blew it out like a birthday candle. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 "Now You Know" Facts That Have No Business Being True

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Jimmy Neutron

PILOTS THAT WERE WILDLY DIFFERENT JIMMY NEUTRON The pilot featured the same plot as the original movie, with some characters looking just a bit different, but everything else being pretty similar. It was so well-received that instead of going to series, they decided to make a movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Pilots That Were Wildly Different from the Rest of the Show

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Eyeballs

This looks like a lake in a canyono It's your eyeball. This is a real photograph of a human eye, via electron microscope. The blue part is the pupil,

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The Madonna (The Painting, Not the Singer)

CRACKED Ghirlandaio's 15th-century The Madonna with Saint Giovannino contains a baffling detail that looks a lot like a flying saucer, with a dogwalker pointing at it. It's probably not incontrovertible proof of aliens, but, you know, maybe it is. — Source

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Half Baked

HALF BAKED BEST WINGS DAY SPECIAL 99 BEST VEW ANDWICH - ausage sub Pop CRACKED.COM Dave Chappelle's stoner comedy was set in NYC, but Harland Williams feeds the police horse directly in front of Toronto's Pizza Pizza, an unmistakable chain only found in Canada. — Source: torontoist.com

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The International Space Station

The ISS has amazingly fast internet. tee 0000 a It has 600 Mbps internet -- NASA upgraded the connection in 2019, since being able to upload and download a lot of data is pretty integral to the ISS' mission. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: ScienceAlert

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Guillermo Del Toro

Guillermo del Toro His grandmother tried to exorcise him. Del Toro's imagination is Oscar-winning and exorcism-inducing. The notebook he used to draw monsters and write stories in led his grandmother to attempt an exorcism - twice!-including throwing holy water at him, which is maybe why all his religious figures look so scary. — Source: The National

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Bo Burnham

COMEDY NERD Во Burnham got the chance to work with Judd Apatow when he was 18. rizo. dation fo He'd written a script that Apatow ended up working on too - it didn't get made, but he says the mentoring was invaluable. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Winona Ryder

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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

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World War I

During WWI, German measles were called liberty measles. CRACKED.COM The German dachshund breed also became liberty hounds, and sauerkraut was called liberty cabbage. — Source: Digital History

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Billy Joel

Billy Joel wasn't impressed by We Didn't Start The Fire. THE BILLY JOEL WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE B loel- (4:29) VS 73021 - Joel and - . Hero Richard del in too Terror A inc light a Nown BAX Again Moon the Woodbleck Watergate Punk SALE Rock Begin Reagan. Palestine On The Autine in ko - Alghmaistan Wheel of Fortune Salts Ride Henry Meral. Sancide Forcign Debex Monden Ven Air Crack Bernie Goets m the - . - - We Didn't Start the Fire is one of Billy Joel's biggest hits. But Billy himself didn't think the song sounded very — Source

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