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January 06, 2025

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Currency

China once accidentally faked out all its ATMs. 100 100 00 10 AA00000001 AA0000000 Their high-roller gold 100-yuan bill contained actual gold. It was such an effective anti-counterfeiting measure that the country's ATMS couldn't recognize them for several days. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Christmas

Want to have a traditional Christmas? Try some naked, drunken gambling. Early church leaders chose Dec. 25 to distract Christians from the pagan festi

37

Lance Armstrong

Investing in Uber is what enabled Lance Armstrong to survive financially. Although he'd lost millions, his investment in Uber ballooned - when he invested, Uber's valuation was $3.7 million, and it later went to $120 billion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lucy Lawless

Lucy Lawless is a huge fan of criminal justice. E And wherever she goes, she likes to attend trials. I spend a lot of time in the courthouse of whatever city I am at, says Lawless. She calls it a way to educate herself on what's happening in the communities her acting takes her to. She also hangs out with with court officials, for fun. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Martha Stewart

To stay sane while Martha Stewart was on trial, her daughter had to quit all media. To make sure she didn't see anything upsetting about her mom, Alexis Stewart had to stop reading newspapers, listening to radio, and watching TV. CRACKED.COM — Source: Hidden Side Effects Of Having Famous Relatives

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Lord of the Rings

Elijah Wood shot his own audition tape for the LOTR trilogy back in the day. Не did that way before making your own tape was common and, he says,he enlisted some friends, including George Huang, who is a writer and filmmaker. We went out to the woods in Griffith Park and shot two of the audition sequences there and one at my house. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Housing

In the US, the number of vacant houses are six times greater than the number of homeless people. USA Europe Homeless 3.5 million 4.1 million people Vacant 18.5 million 11 million houses The ratio in Europe is less than half that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Push Doors

A variety show told an audience of 1000 children that they had free toys. SUNDERLANND, UK CRACKED cO 183 children died in the stampede that followed, — Source: Smithsonian Magazine

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Marijuana

TWO pounds of marijuana were found in a 2,700-year-old grave. The Gobi Desert grave has the world's oldest known stash. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED GOM

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Intelligence

Smart kids tell better jokes One study found that intelligence and humor was more strongly linked in children. Now we have more incentive for judging kids' knock-knock jokes. CRACKED — Source: Humor

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Celebrity Crimes

CRACKED ALLISON МАСК RECRUITED GIRLS FOR HER CULT LEADER. The Smallville actor recruited women who would be severely mistreated by NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere. She faced sex trafficking charges but negotiated a plea deal for the lesser charge of racketeering. She served 2 years in prison, and Raniere got 120 years. — Source

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt was surprisingly progressive for his day. In his Harvard undergrad thesis, he said there was no question that women should have eq — Source: Theodore Roosevelt Association

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Dating

The ВСЕ/СЕ dating system is about one thousand years old. It was created some 500 years after Year о, or the birth of Christ, and it only got accepted 500 years after that - s so, as a relatively widely used system, it's about one millennium old. CRACKED.COM — Source

26

The Wolf of Wall Street

On the set of Wolf of Wall Street, Jonah Hill made Leonardo DiCaprio eat sushi til it made him sick. In one scene, Hill improvised and, in-character, said DiCaprio could have the last bite of sushi. So they had to do the same thing on every take, and DiCaprio ate that sushi for another 70 or so takes -- until he doubled over from the pain. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Bizarre Pranks Pulled By Famous People

25

Parasite

The trash can in the Parasite house cost $2,300. Bong Joon-ho wanted that specific model because it would look great in the movie: it opened and closed very smoothly, and it made a quiet sound instead of a loud clank. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Thriller

Michael Jackson's THRILLER is so much more than a music video. In December 1983, the 13-minute short film was solely responsible for increasing MTV's ratings tenfold. It is the only music video to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. CRACKED — Source

23

Alien

The Xenomorph was almost a weird chicken- lizard-crab hybrid. The titular alien in Alien is a gloriously nightmarish vision. Which is almost a miracle

22

Zoe Saldana

Zoe Saldana apologized for her prosthetic nose SINGER ACTIVISI SURVIVOR LEGEND CRACKED.COM Saldana wore a fake nose and dark makeup to play Nina Simone in 2016. By 2020, she realized she'd made the wrong move: I should have done everything in my power to cast a Black woman to play an exceptionally perfect Black woman. — Source: CNN

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30 Rock

Dark Sensations 30 Rock Tina Fey loved the improv. Although she's a profound comedy writer, Tracy Morgan's improv lines were some of her favorites. She fondly recalls a moment in Episode 2, where Morgan lists his character's ridiculous possessions. CRACKED — NBC
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Fruit Flies

Some of the biggest sperm cells in the animal kingdom are from fruit flies. And the biggest sperm among fruit flies is from drosophilia bifurca - they have sperm that's over two inches long (that's 1,000 times longer than ours). CRACKED.COM — Source

19

Ghostbusters 2

Ghostbusters 2's fur coat gag was recycled. They were going to use the gag with the dead skins coming back to life in the first movie, but they just didn't get around to filming it. So they put it in the sequel. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

18

Poorest Areas of the U.S.

In one of the U.S.'s poorest areas, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, people make on average less than $8,000 a year. ENTERING PINE RIDGE INDIANPESERYATION About 60% of them can't afford to plug into the power grid. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Canadians

Most Canadians live south of the 49th parallel. 40 N Ceded to CANADA Britain, 1818 Ceded to Oregon United States, 1818 Territory 49th Parallel Stony Mts. 42° N Louisiana Purchase 1803 Atlantic UNITED STATES Ocean 500 MILES 72% of them live south of it, including the population of the two largest Canadian cities, Montreal and Toronto. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Safety Coffins

Gravesite Tech SAFETY COFFINS TO THE RESCUE In 18th and 19th century Europe, fear of premature burial led to the invention of the safety coffin, with over 30 different designs patented in Germany in the second half of the 19th century. These included mechanisms for allowing the dead to communicate with people above ground, such as ropes which, when pulled, would ring a bell. K AI CRACKED — Franz Vester
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Dollars

On average, the lifespan of an American dollar bill is eighteen months. THE UNITED STATES - Notes that meet the L400279121 Federal Reserve's strict -12 L 12 quality criteria continue L 986275131 12 4 فسط HEA to circulate, while those TO TOYEDOLLAR 12 I GTZ. that do not are taken CRACKED.COM out of circulation and destroyed. — Federal Reserve

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Antarctic Medicine

A doctor in the South Pole biopsied and treated her own breast cancer. GRAGKED.COM In complete darkness, medical equipment had to be airdropped from mili- tary aircraft to Dr. Jerri Nielsen during the over- winter period when the crew is normally isolated from the outside world. — Source

13

Cookie Monster

Cookie Monster was created for an ad for Munchos potato chips. In the ad, he ate up a whole bag of the chips, to the slogan of There's more to a Muncho! Later, he made his way to Sesame Street and found a love of cookies rather than chips. — Source: The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It

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Bagels

2000 people a year are treated for BRIs or bagelrelated-injuries. CRACKED.COM People going to the emergency room from hurting themselves while cutting a bagel is so common it has its own name. — Source

11

Breaking Bad

BREAKING BAD Walt's pants are right where he left them. Walt retrieves his money in season 5 from the same spot he ditched his drawers in the pilot. — Source: Hypable

10

Walmart

WEIRD WORLD Apparently, the US' largest primary care provider may soon be Walmart. Walmart P14 AM 16° 28th 12 88 Water 29 49 '26 M 16 - Prim '44 And in some locations, you can now get things like, say, x-rays, optometry, and dental services at Walmart. CRACKED.COM — Source

9

Time’s Arrow

Time's Arrow Sean Carroll suggests that there could be other Big Bangs like ours that sprout other universes whose arrows of time run in many different directions - including backwards. The question is, What happens when the arrow reaches its target? CRACKED.COM — Source

8

Notre Dame

May 1924, Indiana Notre Dame students drove out the KKK with potatoes. To make in-roads in the area, the KKK displayed a cross made from red lights in

7

Billionaires

CRACKED.COM The average CEO has made more money by lunchtime on January 2 than the average worker will make all year. — Source

6

Lottery Tickets

5% A of 35 31 25 8 3.4 lottery 29 5 5 ticket buyers buy 17 51% of all tickets 2 sold. 33 CRACKED COM — 23 Staggering (True) Facts About Money

5

Get Out

GET OUT The name Armitage connects the movie to H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror, a novella about race mixing. CRACKED.COM — Looper

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Popularity

39 Random Bits of Trivia That’ll Make You the Only Welcomed and Celebrated Know-It-All in Human History — Source: Science Daily

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Lutefisk

Lutefisk is fish that has been soaked in lye, a caustic chemical used to clean drains. POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE CORROSIVE 8 HANDLE WITH CARE кон In Wisconsin, Norwegian churches host Lutefisk suppers during the fall and winter. The practice links to a legend that tells of a village attacked by Vikings. When villagers returned to their burned homes, they found Photo Wikimedia Commons that their fish had been bleached white by the Iye generated by the ashes. CRACKED.COM http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/LutefiskHistory.htm — The 26 Most Terrifying Foods on Our Planet

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Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong-un

SHADY TIES DENNIS RODMAN AND KIM JONG-UN Rodman has visited the North Korean dictator several times since 2013, calling Kim a friend for life. Не has even defended North Korea's infringement on human rights. CRACKED — Ulora/Shutterstock,
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Squid

GIANT SQUIDS' EYES ARE BIGGER THAN BASKETBALLS Scientists believe they may have giant eyes to help them detect their giant predator, the sperm whale, while in the darkness of underwater. CRACKED.COM — NPR

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