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February 05, 2025

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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Musical movies Willy Wonka and the chocolate Factory Author Roald Dahl hated this movie for various reasons, including changes to the story and Gene Wilder's casting. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Now-You-Know Facts About Movie Music To Sing From The Rooftops

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Charles Darwin

CRACKED DARWIN BEING AN ATHEIST Darwin wasn't an atheist, but he was a deist and did believe in some kind of higher power. Не just didn't believe in Jesus as the Savior or Redeemer. — Source

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Newsweek

There is still a Newsweek article from 1995 up on their website scoffing about the future of the internet. week INKING g/85 Newsweek Sup cmp. MOVIFIED , CHOPPED. New CRACKED.COM It laughed at the idea that people would get news, learn, or buy airline tickets online, calling things like interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms baloney. — Newsweek / Wikimedia

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Deadpool 2

The neon Chinese sign on the rooftop in Deadpool 2 literally translates to deadpool. THIS SKEE LIS Flipped image II II Deadpool CRACKED.COM the the — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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Amanda Seyfried

Amanda Seyfried would love to be able to totally redo Les Misérables. She regrets it and says I still have nightmares about it - and it's purely because of the live singing she had to do for the role. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Big-Name Actors Who Hate Their Famous Roles

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Diversity

Diversity Helps Everyone One study showed that middle school students of all races feel safer, less alone, and less bullied in schools where there are students from various racial and ethnic backgrounds. CRACKED.COM — Source: EurekAlert!

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Japan

WEIRD WORLD The Japanese prime minister suggested that Japan hosts nuclear weapons. US nuclear weapons, that is - and the irony is truly too colossal to even contemplate. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jeeps

JEEP Younger folks might not know that these cars come with hidden Easter eggs (mostly images of animals) that's been a tradition for one of its designers since the '90s. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett crafted fun, playful fantasy worlds. BUT His friend Neil Gaiman says Pratchett was completely driven by rage. Beneath his dry wit is a

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The First Web Server

In 1990, Tim 1994 1995 11 1992 1993 1994 Berners-Lee created 199 the first web server. 1999 1997 This قطب DO NOT PROPRIETE CERN 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 That first server made the worldwide web 1090 possible. 1999 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mountains

The highest mountains in the world are nothing compared to the sheer massiveness of our planet. In fact, if you shrunk the Earth down to the size of a billiard ball... ST 12 M ...it would be smoother than the billiard ball. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Eric Clapton

Anyone remember Eric Clapton's racist tirade from 1976? Clapton was performing, and the sight of an Arab man sent him on a rant. We should send them all back, he said. Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white! His comments were so toxic, they inspired other musicians to found Rock Against Racism. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones CRACKED.COM Jones was named first-team All-Ivy League after his undefeated 1968 season with the Harvard football team. — Source: 14 Startlingly Athletic Hollywood Actors

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Counterfeit Money

It took 10 years GRACKED.COM (from 1938 to 1948) for the Secrets Service to catch the ensive HUNDRE Mister NOT LEGAL TE I Eight-Eighty ONE PLAY DOLLARS F - ... who had 'Wahsington' on his counterfeit $1 bills. That's right. Counterfeit $1 bills. — Source

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Planes

Each time a plane lands, 1 to 1.5 pounds of rubber are left on the runway The rubber needs to be removed regularly to create friction necessary for landing. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Plane and Pilot

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Hidden Nerve Agent

Charlie Rowley, from Wilstshire, England, couldn't believe his luck when he found a sealed box of what looked like expensive designer perfume, and gave it to his girlfriend, Dawn Sturgess. C Unfortunately the bottle contained a nerve agent of the same type that had been used recently to poison a Russian spy, and Sturgess died after applying it to her wrists. Rowley nearly succumbed, himself. GRAGKED.COM — Source: 20 Creepy Discoveries That People Stumbled Into

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Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina improved children's health in New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina stirred up the sediment in Lake Pontchartrain to such a degree that when it overflowed, the sediment carried along helped bury the lead-contaminated soil of New Orleans, resulting in reduced amounts of lead in children's blood. CRACKED COM — Source: These 47 Facts Will Make You A Walking History Channel

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Good Will Hunting

A scene in Good Will Hunting was based on Matt Damon's brother's life. LV XK When he was visiting MIT, his brother Kyle wrote an elaborate, fake equation on a blackboard in the hall and it stayed there for months. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vanity Fair

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The American Flag

THE FLAG - Homes fly flags, malls fly flags, cars fly flags, and people stick flags all over their clothes. But to other countries, this looks like obsession, or even fascism. In France, the flag is associated with nationalism and the far right. In the UK, flying a flag outside your home would be considered embarrassing-it's just not done. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Book Sales

CRACKED.COM In late 2008 and early 2009, 1in5 BOOKS SOLD was written by Stephenie Meyer. — Source

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Tomato Genes

A tomato has 7,000 more genes than a 4 human does. A 2+8 IN CRACKED.COM Turns out that there's a lot more to what makes an organism complex than just the number of genes mg S04 in its genome. — Source

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Pepsi

Coke and Pepsi are probably the best-known corporate rivals. 0o CLASSIC CLASSIC PEDG Coca-Cola PEPSLCEm Coca-Cola PEPSI PEPSI Yet Pepsi protected Coke

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McStuffins

McStuffins were Hot Pockets. CRACKED.COM McDonalds wanted to get in on the scalding pouch pastry game with two of their signature flavor profiles: ...chicken teriyaki, and ...pepperoni pizza. — Source

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Patrick Swayze

PATRICK SWAYZE was a ballet dancer. Swayze's mother ran a dance school, so he was dancing long before he was Dirty Dancing. Не couldn't make a career out of it because of a knee injury, but his move-busting experience still led to his movie breakout. — Source: The Guardian

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Brussels Sprouts

Brussels sprouts grow on stalks Brussels sprout plants grow two to three feet tall. CRACKED.COM — 13 True Facts That Don't Seem Real

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Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer predicted his own future. Norman Mailer Barbary Shore THe aig fRC DLOCKDUSTING THE T WRITER NOVEL -NAT HENTOFE, N NERICA B.20 VREEK Mail

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Platypuses

Platypuses can hear electricity. CRACKED.COM They have a 6th sense, electroreception, that's probably most similar to our sense of hearing. They can sense electric fields generated by muscular contraction.

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Harley Davidson

After the 2011 earthquake, a Japanese Harley-Davison washed up on a Canadian beach 4,000 miles away. The bike was tracked down to Ikuo Yokoyama, a Japanese man who lost family members and his home when the earthquake hit. Harley-Davidson offered to repair it, but Yokoyama asked for it to be displayed in a museum instead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mariah Carey

CRACKED.COM Mariah Carey threw a costume party where guests dressed as... Mariah Carey... OK... — Source

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Breaking Bad

PARENTS RECENTLY PETITIONED TOYS R US TO PULL THE BREAKING BAD ACTION FIGURES FROM THEIR SHELVES. WARNING: Ages CHOKING HAZARD The Walter White 15+ MY didas figure comes with a 35 gun, a bag of cash, and Br eaking 56 a baggie full of meth*. Bad TOY FAIR NY 14 EXCLUSIVE Not actual meth. an actual gun or actual cash Walter White Collection Figure Toys R Us no longer sells them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart is a hardcore train set builder. Most of the third floor of his mansion is taken up by a 124-foot train set. He built it while touring. Ho

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Ancient Rome

An English woman found a 2nd-century Roman slab in her garden. 1O FOL She had used it as a mounting block for horses for about a decade, but then saw — Source: CNN

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PainStation

This game actually hurt people who sucked at it. CRACKED.COM The PainStation, a German creation, is a two-player Pong-like game. Players can get shocked, whipped, or burned by the console. — Source

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J. Cole

J. Cole was a first-chair violinist in high school. From 5th to 12th grade, the emcee played violin, earning the top spot at Terry Sanford High School. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Death Wish

Death Wish III was renamed when a survey revealed half the US couldn't read Roman numerals. WH CRACKED.COM The title was changed to simply Death Wish 3 after the Cannon Group did a marketing survey. This didn't help the film with critics, however, and it was mostly negatively reviewed. — Bronson’s Loose!

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James Bond

Being James Bond went to George Lazenby's head. On the set of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Lazenby would frequently make crew members nervous by drunkenly tossing liquor bottles into the air and shooting them to pieces. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mad Men

An ordinary cheesecake package on Mad Men was surprisingly tough to make. They couldn't find actual '60s cheesecake packaging so they had to look for it in images of '60s kitchen scenes and redraw it from scratch. CRACKED.COM — Source: Collectors Weekly

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United Airlines

A blind woman flying United Airlines was assured by the flight crew they would help her exit the plane. Instead, they forgot her, left, and locked up the plane. Luckily, she was found by a maintenance crew a short time later. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Luis Suarez

Luis Suarez 1 YEAR CRACKED.COM Suarez is probably the only professional athlete with 3 distinct biting incidents on his Wikipedia page. His 3rd bite was his magnum opus: on an internationaly televised World Cup game, he chomped the shoulder of his opponent Giorgio Chiellini, then fell to the ground holding his face.

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