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December 27, 2024

Hopefully, your boss brain doesn’t get too offended if it approaches these facts around the water cooler and they abruptly change the subject. It’s natural (and perfectly healthy) for facts to vent a little about their boss or the way the company is being run. It can try fitting in with its subordinates all it wants, but the hierarchy causes a little separation no matter what.

A boss’ desperation to fit in is extra cringey in the workplace, so tell your brain to hang back and let them do their knowledge-sharing thing.

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Taxis

The light in the back of New York City taxicabs is called a trouble light. MA SOFF Address XXX.DVD XXX PGEP SHOP H RESMEMAES - LOVELY GIFTS.. NO ut of NATIONAL KINGMO It's a distress sign that can be silently activated by the driver ... and doing that also alerts any passing police cars that the driver is in danger. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rich People

Rich people requests EXTRAVAGANT HOME MOVIES Travel company Black Tomato paid a prominent Hollywood cinematographer $665,000 to film a family's sailing trip through the Indonesian Islands. CRACKED — Source

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Notre Dame Football

Careers built on a lie C 5 adidas 3 embarrassing George lie: Notre Dame stunned. O'Leary resigned as Notre Dame football coach after it was revealed that he had lied about his academic and athletic background, causing a major embarrassment to the storied Notre Dame football program. CRACKED — Source

36

Elvis

Elvis Presley was the ultimate '5os ladies' man. BUT He had one very specific type: They had to be young (like, school age). He met his future wife Pr

35

Vikings

Viking men wore makeup. CRACKED.COM A Spanish Arab who vis- ited Hedeby around the year 1000 described how both men and women in the town wore make-up to look young- er and more attractive. — Source

34

Brie Larson

BRIE LARSON IS A STAR WARS FANGIRL. Larson says that her dream role as a kid was to play a young Princess Leia. She regularly posts pictures of herself dressed as a Jedi and even cried on the set of Captain Marvel when Samuel L. Jackson brought her his Mace — ScreenRant, Instagram & People

33

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise Quite a few celebrities are dyslexic, actually. Tom Cruise was diagnosed at seven and graduated high school as a functional illiterate. Dur — Source: Washington Post

32

Speech Therapy

94.4% of speech therapists in the U.S. are female. CRACKED cO COM

31

Amish Christmas

The Amish actually celebrate Christmas twice in a two-week period. The first celebration is on Dec 25, and the second one on Jan 6 - Christmas used to be celebrated all over the world on Jan 6 until relatively recently, and the Amish kept that tradition (but also took on the new one). CRACKED.COM — Source 13 Interesting Facts To Up-Level Our Knowledge Of The World

30

Jim Carrey

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM JIM CARREY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SUPERMAN VILLAIN IN TIM BURTON'S MOVIE. Burton's Superman Lives was being worked on in the late '90s, with Carrey as the villain Brainiac (and Nic Cage as Superman), but the movie fizzled out. — Source

29

Avocados

Almost all avocados in the U.S. can be traced back to a single tree. The Hass avocado is descended from a seedling planted in 1926 by postman Rudolf Hass. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

28

Kuki

COOKIE &?#!* The Hungarian term kuki has five English translations, including wee-wee, thingy, dork, willy, and weenie. CRACKED — Martin Gardeazabal/Shutterstock
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27

South Park

UNITED NATIONS say In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the flag display outside the United Nations includes the Jolly Roger and an LGBT Pride flag. CRACKED.COM — Source: 28 Sneaky Jokes Tucked Into Movies And Shows

26

Vanilla Ice

Musicians trying to be actors (and vice versa) Vanilla Ice got the cold shoulder. The '90s rap superstar dipped his toe into acting with the romantic musical Cool As Ice. The movie got slammed for a variety of reasons, starting with Ice's vanilla performance. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Washington Post

25

Redheads

Redheads are overrepresented in commercials 11% of actors in U.S. commercials are redheads, despite only occurring in 2-6% of the U.S. population. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Atlantic

24

Bob Hoskins

WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT GAVE BOB HOSKINS HALLUCINATONS WHICH PROMPTED HIM TO TEMPORARILY STOP ACTING. Throughout his life, Hoskins would invent imagin

23

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Lois Arquette (pen name Lois Duncan) started writing suspense novels in 1966. She's probably best known for her novel I Know What You Did Last Summe

22

Parks and Recreation

CRACKED ADAM SCOTT MET ROB LOWE MOMENTS BEFORE SHOOTING THEIR FIRST SCENE TOGETHER FOR PARKS AND REC. Both actors said it was pretty terrifying. — 15 Trivia Tidbits About Adam Scott / IMDB

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Christmas

THE MILK AND COOKIES YOU LEAVE OUT EVERY YEAR WERE ORIGINALLY INTENDED FOR A GIGANTIC, 8-LEGGED FLYING HORSE. ew, raisins DURING YULE, NORSE CHILDREN WOULD LEAVE OUT FOOD FOR ODIN'S MANY-HOOVED STEED SLEIPNIR, HOPING FOR GIFTS IN RETURN. CRACKED.COM — History Museum of Western Virginia

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Chocolate

CHOCOLATE WASN'T ALWAYS SWEET AND SOLID The history of chocolate goes back at least 2000 years, and back then it was a bitter drink. Chocolate as we know it didn't exist until late 19th century. CRACKED.COM — 22 Foods That Have Changed And Morphed Over Time

19

The Beatles

The Beatles' Help! had an unusual dedication. THIS fILM IS RESPECTfULLY dEdICATED TO THE MEMORY of MR. ELIAS HOWE, WHO IN 1846. INVENTED THE SEWING MACHINE Were the filmmakers truly inspired, think it was funny, or (the most likely answer) were they high? CRACKED.COM — Source

18

Curry

Curry has been in the UK longer than fish and chips Fish and chips originated in 1863, but curry was popular in the UK since 1784. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC and Historic UK

17

The Bible

CRACKEDCOMT A flying head was cut out of the Bible. According to The Life of John the Baptist, after John was beheaded, his head flew around the world — More: 6 Crazy Stories That Got Cut From The Bible

16

World War I

In 1919, a German u-boat washed ashore in England. Gorman Submarine, 0.118 Washed Anhoro 87 Bastings The 267-foot-long submarine was being towed for scrapping when it broke free during a storm and beached itself. Two local men got sick and died after giving tours of the wreck, due to chlorine leaking from the sub's batteries. CRACKED.COM — Source

15

Leaded Gasoline

CRACKED Leaded gasoline and CFCS Thomas Midgley is now considered one of history's most dangerous inventors due to his development of leaded gasoline and CFCs, which have been linked, years and years later, to lead poisoning and global warming. Helluva guy. — History / BBVA Open Mind

14

Game Boy

A conspiracy theory exists that says the creator of the Game Boy was murdered by the Yakuza. + SELECT START VIRTUALBOY. As the story goes, Nin- tendo's President Gun- pei Yokoi hired the Yakuza to murder Gun- pei Yokoi for the fail- ure of the Nintendo Virtual Boy. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

13

Antarctica

ANTARCTICA HAS A CRACK PROBLEM A GIGANTIC, 70-MILE-LONG, 300-FOOT-WIDE CRACK HAS BEEN SNAKING ITS WAY ACROSS ANTARCTICA'S LARSEN C lce SHELF SINCE 201

12

Monkeys

Begging hellmonkeys roam the streets of Jakarta, Indonesia. In Kampung Monyet, a slum in Jakarta, people dress trained monkeys in children's clothes and doll head masks (ostensibly to beg). The government has made efforts to stop the practice, because it's cruel to the animals and because just goddamn look at that. — More: The 6 Most Terrifying Places on Earth to Be Stranded

11

White and Nerdy

Chamillionaire GRAGKED.COM Chamillionaire loved White and Nerdy so much that he posted the video to his own MySpace, which was like putting something up on the walls of your home back then. He's actually rapping pret- ty good on it, he gushed to MTV. He's spittin' just like Krayzie Bone on the second verse. — TheBoomBox

10

Sharks

You have a 1 in 11.5 million chance of getting attacked by a shark... ...Which is still more likely than winning the Powerball (0 in 175 million) LOTT

9

It’s A Wonderful Life

It's A Wonderful Life isn't just a classic - it's actually also a studio-killing flop. The movie bombed when it was released and bankrupted its studio. It only started to be considered a classic decades later. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pamela Anderson

7

Firefighters

Most high-rises have nearly unbreakable windows, which is a problem for firefighters.. So there are building codes that require some of a high-rise's

6

Steven Spielberg

Shrek was almost a Spielberg movie. Before it became one of the most irreverent fantasy comedies, it was almost turned into a golden film for all ages by none other than Steven Spielberg - who bought the rights to the book, and first brought it to Dreamworks. Не ended up as executive producer. — Source: WikiShrek, Screen Rant

5

Ed Wood

The relationship between Ed Wood and Bela Lugosi CRAUI in Tim Burton's ENTNOD was a reflection of Burton's own relationship with Vincent Price.

4

Cats

WEIRD WORLD After somehow being donated to a thrift store, a cat found its way back. When they were moving out, a Denver family donated a recliner to a thrift store, not realizing their cat was hiding inside. Thankfully, the cat was discovered at the store and reunited with the family. CRACKED.COM — Source

3

The Pastry War

The Pastry War CRACKED.COM In 1838, a French baker living in Mexico had his pastry shop damaged by Mexican soldiers. The owner got French King Louis-Phillipe to demand repayment; when Mexico refused, the French navy blockaded the entire Gulf coast, leading Mexico to declare war.

2

Greg Giraldo

CRACKED Greg Giraldo was an intellectual prodigy. After earning a Bachelor's from Columbia, he got a near-perfect score on Harvard's Law School Admission Test. Не graduated and worked as a lawyer for 8 months before quitting for stand-up. — Source

1

Looney Tunes

Bugs Bunny was a reskinned Daffy Duck. The first cartoon featuring Daffy Duck was very well received - so people over at Warner Bros. just went and ripped off their own hit, changing the loony duck for a loony rabbit. Then Bugs was further developed with the years, becoming the trickster we know today. CRACKED.COM — Source

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