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Your brain seems pretty adamant that it doesn’t want facts, but come on, just look at these! When precious little facts look up at you with those big, adorable, knowledge-filled eyes, you just wanna take home a whole box of them. Well, we do anyways.

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Bill Hader

Scott Pilgrim VS. The World Bill Hader did all the voiceovers. From the narration to the K.O.!, Hader was the omnipresent voice. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lego

Only 18 out of 1 million Lego pieces are defective. CRACKED.COM Out of the 20 billion pieces that are manufactured ev- ery year, just 18 per 1 mil- lion are found to be defec- tive. That's 360,000 defec- tive pieces a year, or 39.6 LEGO Titanic sets. — Source

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Haunted Pubs

PROPERTY DEVELOPERS TOLD TO REBUILD A HAUNTED PUB FROM RUBBLE. PUNCH BOWL I PUNCH BOWL - bentley niggs FOR SALE CRACKED In March 2023, property developers were told to put back together a pub in Lancashire that they had taken down without permission. The Punch Bowl Inn, built in the 1700s and said to be haunted, must be rebuilt using materials from the rubble. — Food and Wine

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Metro Dogs

Moscow's metro dogs actually use the subway system to travel through the city. Some of them just live in the subway, but some use it to take short trips through city, and some take long trips and work the subway crowds for treats. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Incredible Now-You-Know Facts About Russia

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Antoine Walker

Antoine Walker made over $100 million in the NBA, but filed for bankruptcy. Despite making a total of $108 million in his career, he was bankrupt two years after he retired. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Facts To Make Us Sound Smarter And/Or More Informed

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Wine

CRACKED.COM add Our brain associates quality with weight, and for that reason wine bottlers often use thicker-than-necessary glass and deeper punts to give even mediocre wines the illusion of quality. — 17 Sneaky Industry Tricks To Make Food More Appealing

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Beetles

CRACKED COM There are over 300,000 species of beetles currently identified. get by with a little help from my friends... This represents nearly 30% of ALL KNOWN ANIMAL SPECIES. — Source

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RoboCop

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Dairy Queen

Dairy Queen sells soft-serve, not ice cream. Day Queen To meet the definition of ice cream, the butterfat content needs to be 10%. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lululemon

CRACKED ulemon CHIP WILSON, Lululemon founder, said at a conference that kids in developing countries should be allowed to work in factories, since it gives them an income. Не also suggested that even in Canada, 12- and 13-year-old kids should be able to find work in factories. — Robert Way/Shutterstock
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Pac-Man

The brown-on-blue color scheme in the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man was a result of the company having a rule against black backgrounds for non-space games. 396 SHARP KAD-M LIMBETTE - Programmer Tod Frye later said if CRACKED.COM he had known how important a blue maze on a black background was to Pac-Man's iconicity, he would have broken that rule. — Source

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Nukes

The U.S. nuked the Japanese again in 1954. The U.S. never got rid of the atomic munchies, SO nine years after Hiroshima, they were testing a new therm — More: 4 Horrific Incidents The Military Tried To Cover Up

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District 9

The District 9 voices were made from the sound of pumpkins being rubbed together combined with clicking and the actors' voices. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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Inglorious Basterds

In Inglourious Basterds, the massive fire at the end almost burned the actors alive. It was three times hotter than expected- so much so that the steel cables holding up the giant swastika liquefied, and it unexpectedly fell. CRACKED.COM — Source: LA Times

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Professional Screamers

Professional screamers work in movies. Very often, the screams you hear in movies don't come from the stars, but from specialized actors. These pros h — More: People Get Paid To Be Professional Screamers

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Easter

Unfortunately for some of the most overdone stand-up premises around, eggs do have a link to Easter. Adopted from Ukrainian pysanka, cracking the egg symbolizes both the opening of Jesus' tomb and rebirth. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bonnie and Clyde

CRACKED.COM MYTH: Bonnie and Clyde: The Legendary Bank Robbers. REALITY: They mostly robbed small grocery stores and gas stations. In the four years the Barrow gang targeted banks, they hit less than 15, didn't get away with much money, and a lot of times Bonnie stayed home and wasn't even involved. It was also easier to rob places with lower risk and quicker getaways. — Source

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Machu Picchu

CRACKED THE TEMPLE OF THE SUN Six jerks pooped all over Machu Picchu. Five South American citizens and one French national were arrested for vandalizing Machu Picchu in Peru. The vandals caused damage to the temple, defecated on the floor, and soiled walls. — EuroNews

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Plague

A 6th century Pope suggested people say God bless you when someone sneezes. Two of the world's deadliest plagues wiped out half of Europe's population (100 million) during the 6th century. SInce sneezing was an early sign of the plague, the idea was that a prayer would protect the sneezer. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Snopes

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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot was a trap Arnold Schwarzenegger baited for Sylvester Stallone. Schwarzenegger knew right away that the movie he was being offered was crap - but knowing how hyper-competitive Stallone was, he pretended to be interested in taking the role, so his rival would try and take it away from him. And Sly just went and swallowed the bait. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Quench Your Fabled Inquisitiveness

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Jaws

If you love (or hate) summer blockbusters, you can thank Jaws for it. Before Jaws got released, summer was considered a dead period for movie releases - and Jaws was the first ever summer blockbuster. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Brazilian Plantation Owners

Brazil was a monarchy until Crown Princess Isabel signed a law emancipating all slaves in Brazil in 1888. CRACKED.COM This move was so un- popular among the rich plantation owners that the imperial fami- ly was deposed in a military coup. — The Brazilian Princess Who Freed the Slaves

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

THE TeenAGe MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ARe LOVABLE GOOFBALLS. BUT THEY STARTeD OUT AS TRAINED execuTioneRs. TIME FOR YOU TO ac TOLO OF THE MISSION FOR WHICH HAVE TRAINED THESE PAST YOU THISTRAN YEARS YOU WILL LEARN OF CITY LIFE AND HOW YOU CAME TDX BE NOW HAVE AM OLD You AND THERE is ATASK THAT WOULD DE BC ILLAADE THIS LIFE NOW NO DEING MUST ASM YOU ID DO THAT WHICH SHOULD LASK THE YOU EN YOSHI, ASK OF ANOTHER OF SKEN AND TO CHALL ENGO AND KILL THE 2 ORDKU SAKI... THE SHREDDER! In the first issue of Teenage — 21 Horrifying Origin Stories Of Famous Characters

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Florence

CRACKED.COM THE CITY OF FLORENCE BANNED ARABIC NUMERALS. The Indo-Arabic numeric system we use today was resisted for centuries in Europe. Professional abacus users lobbied intensely against this newfangled Eastern invention, fearing their profession would become obsolete. Florence and other cities outright banned Arabic numerals, citing concerns that they would be used for fraud. B p6 RAS Ф & OGVL BOETIVS 21 8 РУ VC 6 — Source

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Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci scrubbed toilets that didn't have running water. RESTROOM At a young age, the actor worked at a park in Westchester, New York. He call

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Cinderella

Cinderella CRACKEDCe COM Disney made in 1950, but animation innovator Lotte Reiniger had made the first animated version almost three decades earlier.

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Protests

In 1963, the Bristol Bus Boycott was held to protest racist hiring practices. NO COLOUR BAR EVERY MAN BOYCOTT TRE FRIGHT BUSES COLOUR DOA At the time, the bus company in Bristol refused to hire Black drivers - but after an extended boycott, on 28 August 1963, they changed their policy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lost

Because it blew its budget, Lost locked up a bunch of major characters in cages. The IMPROVISATION: The producers saved most of the third season's bud

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Insects

85% of male insects have accidental gay sex. It's accidental because they don't bother trying to find out their partner's gender -- basically, they just get it on. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Manatees

Manatees GRACKED.COM When the docile sea cow isn't busy chewing on sea cud, they are filling the waterways with their bubbling plant-farts; all that vegetation in their diet fills them with methane, which they release to control buoyancy. — Source: 34 Real Creatures More Terrifying Than Any Work Of Fiction

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Mulan

Easter Eggs for Polyglots Mulan Eye candy The fake name Mulan gives, Fa Ping, translates flower vase -a term roughly equivalent to eye candy, which is exactly what she's meant to be at the beginning. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Supremes

Cindy Birdsong became a nurse THE SUPREMES CRACKED.COM The Motown singer left the public eye in 1976 to work at UCLA Medical Center: People don't know where I am and what I'm doing. I haven't lived a fairytale lifestyle for many years. I've been up and down -- a roller coaster it's been. — Source: 15 Famous Musicians Who Quit The Scene For (Relatively) Normal Jobs

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Roar

ON THE SET OF ROAR, A FILM ABOUT A FAMILY LIVING WITH LIONS, A 14 YEAR OLD MELANIE GRIFFITH WAS MAULED SO BADLY THAT SHE REQUIRED FACIAL CRACKED.COM RECONSTRUCTION AND ALMOST LOST AN EYE. — Source

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WALL-E

WALL-E's premise was inspired by director Andrew Stanton's online shopping experience. Не said, I just went with kinda what was happening around me. We were having anywhere from two to a dozen boxes from Amazon show up at my doorstep every other day. ... I just started to think, like, where does all this S**t go? CRACKED.COM — The Hollywood Reporter

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Cancerous Cells

Your body kills cancerous cells everyday. Your body is constantly surveilling and attacking white blood cells that, if left unattended, would turn cancerous. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Emma Watson

Emma Watson keeps around 10 personal diaries. RSTGENERATI star+ I keep a dream diary, I keep a yoga diary, I keep diaries on people that I've met and things that they've said to me, advice that they've given me. I keep an acting journal. I keep collage books. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Alien 3

The chestburster in Alien 3 was supposed to be played by a very good boy. They wanted to make the alien take on some of the traits of the host organism, so they dressed up a dog, since the alien burst out of a baby ох. But the dog looked too funny, so they dropped the idea. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Way Different

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The Little Rascals

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO... Petey THE LITTLE RASCALS CRACKED.COM Pal the Wonder Dog was paid $125 per week the second-highest salary in the whole cast. Bizarrely, Pal was poisoned by an unknown piece of human trash in 1930, and his son Pete took over the role. — Source: The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang

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The Frozen Zoo

The San Diego ZOO has the world's first frozen ZOO. It stores the living tissues and stem cells of over a thousand animal species in freezers (like the facility in Jurassic Park, just not for dinosaurs). — Source: National Geographic

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Ancient Rome

The first Roman fire brigade was created to be a very lucrative, paid service. CRACKED.COM The firefighters did nothing while a price was negotiat- ed. Failing to reach a deal, the structure was allowed to burn to the ground after which an offer was made to purchase it for a fraction of its value. — Source

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Coal

A lack of microscopic organisms 300 million years ago is why we have coal today. CRACKED.COM Bacteria and fungus eat the dead wood of trees that fall in the forest, which was not the case during the Carboniferous period before those organisms evolved. Felled trees simply piled up, with nothing stopping them except raging wildfires, which turned the mountains of wood into smoldering carbon that we dig up today as coal.

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Bagels

2000 people a yeare are treated POP BRIso OP CRAON People going to the emergency room from hurting themselves while cutting a bagel is so common it has its own name. — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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Harry Potter

The clock tower Harry Potter flew over has a fancy apartment. Inside the St. Pancras clock tower, there's an apartment with ridiculously high ceilings and two bedrooms. Unfortunately, since it's literally on top of a train station, neither bedroom can give you a good night's sleep. CRACKED.COM — Source

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