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To get facts, we’ve found ourselves in some pretty grimy situations. The fact-finding game is like that, you know? You don’t get this gig without a “facts-at-all-costs” mentality. We’ve returned from some long, tiresome missions covered in the slimiest of slops and received standing ovations from the rest of the gang. They know what it takes, and they appreciate the effort.

Like a hockey player who understands that their role might involve a few shots to the face and a few lost teeth. It’s all part of the game, baby!

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Ijen Crater

Hellish mines in bizarre terrain are a sci-fi staple. This one's real. Eastern Indonesia's Ijen Crater is an active volcano where cracks in the rocks

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Three Mile Island

One light on a control panel was badly designed. Which caused the meltdown at Three Mile Island. The signal light was programmed to indicate that the

38

The Jonas Brothers

BALL CAPITAL CRACKED g O FAN STUNTS A fan gave the JONAS BROTHERS a dead shark. Joe and Nick said, The craziest thing we've ever been given is definitely a dead shark. It was a baby shark, but they'd preserved it in this tube for us. Kevin said, I mean, is there such a website as Buyadeadshark.com? — Source

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World Records

THIS IS 25-YEAR-OLD JYOTI KISANJI AMGE, FROM INDIA, THE WORLD'S SHORTEST LIVING WOMAN AT JUST PRETTY 2 FEET mg 0.7 INCHES 15 (62.8 cm) TALL. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Michael Jordan

BASKETBALL Michael Jordan CRACKED.COM A heckler once chided Jordan for dunking on a scrawny li'l 6'1 dude. The next time he got the ball, he targeted a guy 10 inches taller, then yelled to the fan: Was he big enough?

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The British Army

During World War I, the British army tried to train seagulls to defecate onto submarine periscopes. CRACKED.COM The British Board of Invention and Research in 1915 tried to feed gulls with dummy peri- scopes in the hope that the birds would flock to subs they saw in the water. When this didn't work, hoping the birds would poop on the subs was their best bet. — Audobon

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Toy Story

In Toy Story, each frame took between 45 minutes to 30 hours to render. There were a total of 114,240 frames. They invented a new software to handle it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dogs

EYE CONTACT IS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF DOG AND HUMAN SOCIAL INTERACTION. Over the course of 33,000 years, dogs have uniquely transformed to share a me

32

The President

The President is never alone, even in the bathroom. The Secret Service can't leave the President alone in the bathroom or doctor's examination room or any places where you'd want privacy. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Facts About Being The U.S. President (In Case You're Considering)

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Trains

A 19th-century passenger railway asked its passengers to get out and push the car over hills. CRACKED.COM The aptly named Get Out and Push Railroad connected Wilmington with Long Beach, California. The vehicle broke its wooden rails on the first day of service, forcing male passengers to push it, secur- ing its nickname. — USC

30

Jonah Hill

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS JONAH HILL TOOK A MASSIVE PAY CUT. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Hill was so desperate to be in one of Scorsese's films that he offered to be in it for $60,000-a Screen Actors Guild minimum. CRACKED.COM — Source

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World War I

The Titanic's sister ship sank an enemy warship during WWI. CRACKED.COM The RMS Olympic became the only civilian ship to sink an enemy warship during World War 1 when it turned around and rammed a Ger- man submarine attempting to attack it. — War History Online

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Predator 2

CRACKED.COM PREDATOR 2 SOME PREDATORS WERE LOS ANGELES LAKERS. A huge Lakers fan, Danny Glover convinced some players to come on set and get dressed and fully made up as Predator extras in the final sequence. — Source

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Hawaii

Hawaii tried to solve homelessness by providing one-way plane tickets out of the state. CRACKED.COM To qualify for the trial, participants must com- plete a background check, be mentally sound, and have what the bill calls sufficient personal hygiene. — Time

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Pizza

17 percent of all American restaurants are pizzerias. These pizza places sell 350 slices of the good stuff ev- ery second. Americans eat 100 acres of pizza every day-that's 3 billion piz- zas, or 46 slices for every person in the country. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Washington Post

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Matt Lauer

Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now MATT LAUER was the face of NBC's Today for 20 years. НЕ ALSO REPORTEDLY HARASSED A LOT OF WOMEN, abused his power, and had a button to close the door of his office automatically, as normal people do. Не was fired from NBC, and nobody has seen him since. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Beetles

A Central and South American beetle can lift over 17 pounds. The Hercules beetle (a spe- cies of rhinoceros beetle) can lift more than 850 times its own weight, making it one of the strongest animals on the planet, pound for pound. That's like a 200 lb human lifting 170,000 lbs. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Discover Magazine

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Alicia Keys

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Whipping Tom

Whipping Tom was London's serial spanker. 200 years before Jack the Ripper, London's Fleet Street was stalked by Whipping Tom-not a serial killer, but a serial spanker. Tom would lift women's dresses and spank them on the buttocks, yelling Spanko! Another, more violent Whipping Tom started assaulting women years later. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Random Facts For Your General Edification

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Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan played in several rock bands. GFIHITITIE Before he got into wrestling, he spent 10 years in the rock scene Che played guitar and fretless bass). — Source: Prince Could Ball! 7 Unexpected Pre-Fame Lives (RIP Prince)

20

Lawns

American lawns B WE SPEND MORE ON BEER GRACKED.COM Americans spend about $40 billion per year on lawns! Which works out to about $25 per household per month, which arguably isn't that much ... — Source

19

The Wizard of Oz

There are four known pairs of Dorothy's red slippers, worth up to $3 million Leonardo DiCaprio helped the Academy Museum purchase the most expensive pair of Wizard of Oz artifact. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Film Firsts

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Air Conditioning

13 Scintillating Now-You-Know Movie Facts and General Trivia - 13 Scintillating Air conditioning was invented as a way to keep printing plants going. — Source: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

16

Ashley Judd

CRACKED ASHLEY JUDD AND HARVEY WEINSTEIN (YES, THERE'S A THEME HERE) Ashley Judd sued Harvey Weinstein for defamation and sexual harassment. She alleged he spread lies about her after she refused his advances, resulting in her missing out on a major role in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. — NY Times / Today

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ABC

In 2005, ABC neartly launched a series called Star Wars Underworld. It was a mobster soap opera. Scriptwriters cranked out 50 hours' worth of what Geo

14

Flying Cars

FLYING CARS SOLH 3218 fe CRACKED.COM Henry Ford had a plan for cheap, easy-to-use, personal planes everyone can own. A plane in every driveway! Then his prototype (avoidably) crashed during a test flight, and Ford scrapped the whole idea. S

13

Toxic Sets

THE YELLOWISH SMOKE DURING THE OPENING CREDITS WAS PRETTY TOXIC IN THE RETURN-OF-THE LIVING DEAD. Apparently the only way to get yellow smoke was for the production team to use sulfur. It took a few minutes of pumping that smoke to give most of the people on set terrible headaches. CRACKED.COM — Source: Film School Rejects

12

Trees vs Stars

There are way more trees on Earth than stars in the galaxy. A 2015 survey found that three trillion trees grow on Earth, 7 times the previous estimate. About 15 billion are chopped down every year. CRACKED.COM — Source: Science Facts That Sound Like Nonsense

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Burials

Gravesite Tech TREE BURIALS One startup offers tree burials as an alternative to traditional burial and cremation, with each body planted directly under a tree and becoming part of the tree as it decomposes. The company also plans to plant 1,000 additional trees when customers reserve a future burial. Endings are beginnings Transcend for Peta مؤسسة - Sung DAR CRACKED — Transcend
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Ithaca, New York

Ithaca, NY, has announced that it's starting to decarbonize every last building. INS That's part of an to make the city 100% carbon-free - its buildings are 40% of its carbon footprint, so the city wants to decarbonize them all. CRACKED.COM — Source

9

Dogs

A border collie named Rico was a doggy genius. Research showed that Rico understood 200 words and responded correctly to the word for a new object after hearing it just once. This suggested he had the canine equivalent of the ability to fast map. CRACKED.COM — University of Portsmouth

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Dan Harmon

40 Random Bits of Trivia Our Luckdragon Hacked Up in a Coughing Fit — Channel 101

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Michael Keaton

Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas. ON ree CRACKED.COM Keaton had to change his name when he arrived in LA, per the Screen Actors Guild rules, so he flipped through a phone book. Не selected 'K' in the book and stopped at 'Keaton.' — Source

6

Penicillin

Didn't do dishes for a week STATE CRACKED.COM Alexander Fleming thought nothing about the dishes he left before vacation, until he found mold on them. That mold became penicillin. — Source: Time Magazine

5

Asbestos Snow

CRACKED COM ASBESTOS WAS ONCE SOLD AS FAKE SNOW FOR HOUSE DECOR. ASBESTOS Pure White FIRE PROOF EM CONTENTIN SNOW LOOKS LIKE REAL SNOW CLEANEST WHITEST-MEST It was used in this scene in The Wizard of Oz.

4

The Princess Bride

CRACKED.COM THE PRINCESS BRIDE Wallace Shawn was inconceivably worried. Shawn's agent decided to tell him that he only got the role of Vizzini because Danny DeVito was unavailable. This got into Shawn's head, and he feared to be fired whenever he did a bad take. — Source

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Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg got $1.5 million dollars when an actor was replaced on his movie. His contract for All the Money in the World had a clause that gave him approval over who his co-star was, SO when they quickly replaced Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer, he said he wouldn't approve — Source: USA Today

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Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig had to finish the Quantum of Solace script because of the 2008 Writers Strike. CRACKED.COM On 'Quantum,' we were fucked, he said. We had the bare bones of a script and then there was a writers' strike and there was nothing we could do. — IndieWire

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The Opera

An opera singer helped fake the death of her woman lover. GRACKED.COM The woman that swords- woman and opera singer Julie d'Aubigny seduced was placed in a convent by her parents. Julie joined her, placed a dead nun in her bed, and set the place on fire to escape. — Lesbian News

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