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January 03, 2025

In the world of fact finding, it’s nice when a few easy ones fall in your lap. We searched high, low, far and wide for these, but at the end of the day, we came up a little short for this list. Luckily for us, the last few we needed came to us when it felt like all was lost.

Now we know what Charlie Bucket must’ve felt like when he found that golden ticket.

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Canada

Churchill, Canada residents keep their car doors unlocked. Locals keep their cars accessible in order to provide other resi- dents a quick escape, should they encounter a polar bear. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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After Earth

Will Smith got the idea for AFTER EARTH from the TV show I Shouldn't Be Alive. Discovery SHOULDN'T CHANNEL 1 BE ALIVE It was originally intended to be about a father and son who have to survive after a car crash. It was then turned into a sci-fi story. CRACKED COM — Source

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Rain

Urban expansion is changing the weather! Research has shown that larger cities can alter the clouds and rain formation, making it rain more in urban areas than other areas. CRACKED COM — 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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Film Firsts

The first to credit the full crew. 1977 CRACKED.COM George Lucas decided to list every last crew member in the Star Wars final credit crawl. Before that, only department heads would get their moment in the limelight. — Source

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The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is partly made of rice. The builders added sticky rice to the mortar, which made the Wall more stable and helped protect it against earthquakes and exposure to the elements. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Toothed Whales

Toothed whales are some of the most intelligent animals on the planet. Pictured: A Beluga whale. Thanks to their large brains they exhibit complex behavior-they can teach and learn from others. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Criminal Parents

Ohio parents tied up their child so he didn't get into the candy as they slept. CRACKED.COM Jason and Tabetha Sosno- wicz were arrested after police received a call stat- ing a child may have been tied up in one of the rooms. Officers found the 12-year-old hogtied with shoestrings. — WTOL

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Butt-Head

Butt-Head SKULL CRACKED.COM Mike Judge once lived next to an annoying little kid who called himself Iron-Butt: 'Supposedly, you could kick him in the

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England

England is such a rainy place. In actuality, D Average millimeters per vear English Zurich cities 1048 Leeds 1.024 don't see more Naples 1.008 rainf

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson gave his library to Congress after the British burned the Capitol in 1814. That doubled the size of the Library of Congress -- there were 3,000 volumes before the fire (all of which burned down), and Jefferson sent about 6,500 volumes. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Leguizamo

John Leguizamo sadly sacrificed a lot to play Luigi in Super Mario Bros. Не had gotten the chance to play Tom Hanks' character's love interest in Philadelphia, but he refused the offer and decided to play Luigi instead. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Conversation-Starting Facts We Never Knew

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Breaking Bad

RIED THE A1A CAR - - ASH Marius Stan, who played Bogdan on Breaking Bad, is actually a scientist - a computational physicist and chemist. Не works at Argonne National Laboratory as a Senior Computational Scientist. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Deadly Products

Product Recalls Electric Worm Getter worm probes In 1993, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled 83,000 electric Worm Getter worm probes because they were linked to over 30 deaths due to electric shock and electrocution. CRACKED — Richard Peterson/Shutterstock,
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Consumer Product Safety Commission

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Chef’s Hats

The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent 100 ways to cook an egg. CRACKED.COM In the past, the pleats of a chef's hat used to actually represent a chef's level of experience, such as the number of ways they knew how to prepare eggs. — Source: Mental Floss

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A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange left Malcolm McDowell unable to see for a while. The apparatus he wears in the Ludovico Technique scene was really painful, and he complained that he scratched his left eye's cornea, was in pain and couldn't see. Stanley Kubrick told him, Let's go on with the scene. I'll favor your other eye. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Criminal Minds

Thomas Gibson is an alleged shin kicker. CRIMINAL MINDS CRACKED.COM His bad behavior finally caught up with him after kicking a writer/producer in the shins during a dialogue disagreement that went off the rails. — Source

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Drinking

CRACKED ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION: THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE HEAVY DRINKERS. People consume alcohol in a skewed distribution, with a tiny minority responsible for almost all the nation's drinking, a pattern that has remained more or less a constant over many decades, and holds for other countries too. — Source

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China

+3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +10 +11 DESPITE ITS MASSIVE SIZE, CHINA ONLY USES ONE TIME ZONE. Tea Bering Sex Seo of Okhana KAZAKHITAN Kell blands Company I Sex of Japan TURKMEMETHA CHINA MAN THE NORTH MAD +41 +3 1/2 PACIFIC PROSTAN OCEAN Carr Chine SOLO Sex ARABA SAMPLE +5% PHILIPPINES Philippine Rever - - Bengal South Date Sea Arabian -27 Sea - - Sea - - -5% - CAS - - - - - - - PALMU IN -P% - LIONA The country has room las for five different time zones, but only recognizes Beijing Standard Time, which means that in KIA — Source

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Domino’s

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Community

40 Random Bits of Trivia Someone Left in the Basket of a Citi Bike So They’re Public Domain Now — AV Club

20

Dodgeball

Behind-the-scenes Drama NO - - - B Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story The team was supposed to lose. Keeping with its irreverent tone, the film originally ended with the team losing. When the studio changed that, the credits included Ben Stiller's White Goodman mocking the fact that they won. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise CRACKED.COM Quite a few celebrities are dyslexic, actually. Tom Cruise was diagnosed at seven and graduated high school as a functional illiterate. During his first auditions, he'd have to ad lib from whatever info he could pry from the director or producers. — Source

18

Transplants

1962/ Lung 1 963 Liver First human organ Kidney transplant from deceased donor. 2018 First successful penis and scrotum transplant. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Ways Technology Has Changed In A Short Time

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The Constitution

The document is framed in pure titanium coated with gold. The encasement is designed SO the building could collapse around the Constitution and the document would survive. CRACKED.COM — Source: Popular Mechanics

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Tigers

In Nepal, there was a tiger that killed 400 people in the early 1900s. She was nicknamed The Demon of Chompawat, and was apparently the deadliest tiger in history (until she got killed by a hunter and tracker). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley was a natural blond. Не began dyeing his hair black from a very young age. Only one picture of him exists with his true hair color, which is framed on the wall of Graceland. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — County Music Nation

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Royalty

England's Forgotten Queen was only the Queen of England for 9 days in 1553. CRACKED.COM Lady Jane Grey only as- cended to the throne be- cause Edward VI wanted to keep a Protestant as the sovereign of England. She was then deposed and exe- cuted the following year. — Source

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Cold

The coldest temperature recorded on Earth would kill you in a few breaths. The -144 degrees Fahren- heit temperature was re- corded in Antarctica during a span of research between 2004 and 2016. At that temperature, breathing would induce hemorrhaging in your lungs and kill you. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — National Geographic

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Whales

The closest living relative to whales is the hippopotamus. The molecular phylogeny shows that these two are likely first cousins. The reason they look so different from each other is that there's a good 40-million-year gap between the fossils of early whales and early hippos. Scientists have yet to find the common link between them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The State

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS NYU film and drama nerds became THE STATE 1339 CRACKED.COM The members of the MTV comedy troupe all met when they were freshmen and sophomores at NYU. After the group broke up, members went on to star in comedy hits like Reno 911, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Wet Hot American Summer. — David Wain

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Bryan Cranston

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Disney

Mulan and Jasmine share a singing voice. Lea Salong sang for both Mulan and Jasmine. CRACKED.COM — Source: Walt Disney Archives

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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

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Sacred Tooth

Religious Relics The Awakened One's tooth The Temple of Sacred Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka holds Lord Buddha's tooth relic. It's said whoever has it rules the country. Every year, Kandy celebrates Esala Perahera to honor the relic. CRACKED — A. Savin/Wiki Commons,
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Original Buddhas

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Clerks

Clerks CRACKED.COM A deleted scene almost had the movie Clerks ending with Dante being murdered during a robbery attempt, credits fading in over his lifeless body crumpled next to the sour straws under the counter. In the end, they went with an ending that didn't show the soul draining from a man's eyes. Boooooring! — Source: 21 Movie Deleted Scenes (That Change A Lot)

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James Franco

James Franco sold an invisible sculpture for $10,000. A USTIN FI LM FES TIVAL GRACKED.COM The non-visible artwork, which was purchased by an art collector, was billed as an endless tank of оху- gen. To be fair, nothing ranks high on the list of things we would want Franco to give us. — Source

4

Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss and his editor had a closet full of hats to use when struck with writer's block. CRACKED.COM Seuss and his editor would go into this closet, filled with hundreds of hats, and wear them until the words came. We're sure that's what Seuss told his wife, anyway. — Source

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James Bond

James Bond Then vs. Now The Bonds 007 has been played by Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. But a complete list must include David Niven, and also Barry Nelson, who played Bond on TV eight years before Dr. No. CRACKED.COM

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Fart Musician

14 THINGS YOU CAN CRACKED.COM DO WITH A FART BECOME A FAMED ENTERTAINER JOSEPH PUJOL WAS A FART MUSICIAN WHO BECAME THE MOST WELL-KNOWN PERFORMER IN FRANCE DURING THE LATE 1800S. Не did farting impressions of famous people, blew out candles and played tunes on various wind instruments. Intestinal Artistry — Source

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Metal-Singing Cockatoo

Buyers-remorse hit a man who is now the owner of a cockatoo that sings Drowning Pool. CRACKED.COM After purchasing a cockatoo on craigslist, TikTokker Bödan was surprised to find out that it loved to vocalize the Drowning Pool song Bodies, in which the titular bodies hit the floor. — Louder Sound

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