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We’ve all heard about dogs finding their way home, but those cutesy stories pale in comparison to the death-defying voyage that these facts just made. Sure, they might not elicit the same gushy feelings as a lovable little pups, but their brain-tracking abilities need to be studied.

It’s funny that you think you found this list right now. When in reality, these facts found you.

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No Doubt

Gwen Stefani's brother Eric left No Doubt to become an animator for The Simpsons. The pair actually wrote Don't Speak together. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wild Turkeys

A footrace (or talon-race) between Usain Bolt and a wild turkey might be closer than you think. Wild turkeys can run up to 25 mph, VS Bolt's top speed of 27. If they cheat and fly? They burn him at 55 mph. CRACKED.COM — Source

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B-52 Bombers

A B-52 bomber can have its engine kickstarted with explosive cartridges. CRACKED.COM The explosives can be in- serted into the bomber's engines to get them up and running more quickly if needed. The cart start reduces takeoff time from about an hour down to ten minutes. — Source

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Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan popularized longer basketball shorts. GRACKED.COM Longer shorts became a thing when Jordan asked Champion, the maker of NBA uniforms, to make lon- ger shorts so he could grab onto them when he hunched over out of breath. — Allen Sportswear

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Doctor Strange

Behind-the-scenes Drama Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness The movie had to be changed because of the pandemic. The entire plot was rewritten after Marvel's films were shuffled around and this became a sequel to Spider-Man: No Way Home. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Parasite

Bong Joon-Ho based Parasite on his days as a private math tutor. The family he worked for was super-rich, just like the one in the movie, and he got the job through his girlfriend (now his wife), who was working for them as an English tutor she recommended him. — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Alice in Chains

ALICE In CHAINS IS NAMED AFTER A HEAVY METAL DRAG BAND. The band's name was originally spelled Alice N' Chainz. Lead singer Layne Staley explained the

33

Beavers

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Lawsuits

Good samaritan is sued into oblivion CRACKED.COM When Alexandra Van Horn saw her friend flipped over and pinned beneath a burning car, she heroically rushed to save her. But her pal says the heroic deed (not the car crash) left her paralyzed, and sued her for $4 million.

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Shoes

SHOE STORIES CRACKED.COM THE WORLD'S LARGEST HIGH-HEELED SHOE IS OVER NINE FEET TALL. IT WAS MADE IN 2019 BY TUNISIA'S DIDO FASHION CLUB, TO PROMOTE LOCAL SHOEMAKING INDUSTRY. — Source

30

The Goonies

Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - The Goonies' Jake Fratelli wearing a fedora is the filmmakers' way of paying homage to Indiana Jones. — Source: Film School Rejects

29

The Energizer Bunny

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Booze

Alcohol predates the invention of the wheel. JACK DANIEL'S No.7 OTA CRACKED.COM Traces of mead have been found on clay from a 9,000-year-old Chinese village, which came 3,500 years before the wheel's invention in Mesopotamia. — Source: MentalFloss

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A Canadian Town

Fermont, Canada gets so cold in the long winters, they had to build a 0.8 mile long, 5 story windbreak complex. CRACKED.COM The Wall holds ev- erything from com- mercial real estate to residential housing, so citizens don't have to venture out into the severe cold. — Amusing Planet

26

The Muppets

Rowlf was originally the more famous Muppet. Не was created for a Purina dog food commercial in 1962. CRACKED.COM — Source: Frank Oz

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Girls Gone Wild

MYTH8 Girls go wild, in college. FAGT8 college women are less likely to dabble. Even Wikipedia has a page on the lesbian until graduation trope. But

24

Edward Russell

EDWARD RUSSELL 1694 CRACKED.COM The royal admiral threw a week-long party, filling a fountain with 250 gallons of brandy, 125 gallons of wine, 1,400 pounds of sugar, and 2,500 lemons. It was the greatest bowl of punch ever mixed. — Source: 15 Epic Feats of Partying by Famous People

23

Newspapers

CRACKED THE WORLD'S FIRST NEWSPAPER ORIGINATED IN CHINA. It dates back to 740 CE. — Source

22

Tokyo Drift

Tokyo Drift couldn't secure certain permits but filmed scenes anyway. RECARD Universal Studios hired a fall guy to go to jail instead of the director. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Fascinating 'Now You Know' Facts

21

Sloths

SLOTHS TAKE ONE REALLY LONG POOP ONCE A WEEK. Pooping is extremely dangerous for sloths as it requires them to take a (slow) trip to the ground where they are vulnerable to predators. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Horrific Facts About Adorable Animals

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The Shakers

The religious group known as the Shakers are completely celibate and cannot have children. CRACKED.COM They can only gain new members by converting outsiders. As a result, there were only two people in the last existing Shaker com- munity as of 2020, al- though they gained a single new member in 2021. — Source

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Evil Grimace

McDonald's character Grimace was originally introduced as Evil Grimace. CRACKED.COM Evil Grimace had four arms and would steal milk- shakes. The greatest trick Evil Grimace ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist. What do we really know about the good Grimace, anyway? — Today

18

Koalas

BABY KOALAS EAT THEIR MOM'S POOP Joeys initially breastfeed, but for several weeks it will peek its head out of its mom's poach to feast from its mom's butt. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Horrific Facts About Adorable Animals

17

The Lord of the Rings

CRACKED.COM THE LORD OF THE RINGS lan Holm played Frodo long before the films were made. Holm was Frodo Baggins in a 1981 BBC Radio 4 dramatization of the books. This performance factored into Peter Jackson's decision to cast him as Bilbo. — Source

16

Gum

CHEWING GUM HELPS YOU READ FASTER. Keeping your mouth busy stops you from subvocalizing (sounding out words), increasing your reading speed.

15

The Golden Girls

Characters that weren't supposed to last Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls Estelle Getty was only supposed to be in the pilot episode, but the audience loved her so much that she was added to the main cast. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Amy Poehler and John Stamos

Surprising Celebrity Couples Amy Poehler and John Stamos Poehler was set up on a date with Stamos, and didn't even know she was on a date. She went in a Parks and Rec shirt, because why not make it as funny as possible. CRACKED.COM

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Star Trek

Star Trek came up with transporters to make the TV show filmable. Initially, the Enterprise crew was supposed to use shuttles to land on planets. But

12

The Solar System

CRACKED.COM You can fit every planet in the Solar system between the Earth and the Moon. While everyone knows the Moon revolves around the Earth, most people don't have the right idea of how far it is. Depending on where the Moon is in its orbit, there's enough room to fit every planet in the Solar System end to end in the intervening space. — Source

11

Big Trouble in Little China

Big Trouble in Little China John Carpenter wanted Jackie Chan. The director wanted to hire Chan for the role of Wang Chi based on his performance in Police Story, but the producers nixed the idea because he wasn't well known in the United States. Dumb move. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

10

Jeb Bush

At a New Hampshire campaign event, Jeb Bush explained the type of president he'd want to be. ERI S RANG In the silence that followed, he said, Please

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Practical Effects

Amazing effects made without CGI An American Werewolf in London The iconic, game-changing werewolf transformation used prosthetics, animatronics, reverse photography, and a fake floor. FX wizard Rick Baker worked for months on these two minutes - and got an Oscar for it. CRACKED.COM — Source

8

Killer Corn

Corn kill farm can workers. Corn looks pretty much harmless, but a silo full of the stuff is like goddamn quicksand. One false step while you're standing on it, and you can be sucked in in less than 30 seconds, with no way to swim out. — More: 5 Horrifying Hazards of Seemingly Normal Jobs

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Luxury Parking

The world's most expensive parking spot costs $1.3 million A luxury building in Hong Kong sold a spot for more than $10,000 per square foot. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Childbirth

A MONTH AFTER A BANGLADESHI WOMAN DELIVERED A BABY, SHE WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL FOR STOMACH PAINS. It turned out she has two wombs and that she was in labor again, giving birth to twins. Arifa Sultana has a condition called uterus didelphys, where a woman develops two uteruses instead of one. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek was CRACKED.COM Hayek grew up in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, where her dad was an oil executive and her mom was an opera singer. — Source: The Guardian

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Strom Thurmond

The record for the longest filibuster is 24 hours. CRACKED.COM Senator Strom Thurmond spoke for an amazing 24 hours, 18 minutes straight in 1957 in opposition of the Civil Rights Act. Не read the Bill of Rights and other doc- uments, even his grand- mother's biscuit recipe. — NPR

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Shuffling a Deck of Cards

CRACKED SHUFFLING A DECK OF CARDS It's almost impossible to shuffle a deck of cards into the exact same order twice - it's like trying to arrange the same number of atoms as there are in our entire galaxy. So it's almost certain that every single shuffled deck of cards, ever, is unique. — Science Focus / Phys

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Spinal Tap

SPINAL TAP YOU MAY NOT FEED THE ANIM A 4 4 While the final Spinal Tap cut was a tidy 82 minutes, there were more than 100 hours of improvised goofines — YouTube

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World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft Lead World Designer Alex Afrasiabi created an NPC just to troll a forum user. When someone complained on the forums that a zone in t

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