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February 09, 2025

Every once in a while, a special batch of facts fills us to the brim with pride. We give each other a satisfied smile-and-nod before heading out the door for the evening. Some batches are special enough to warrant a happy hour beverage after work. This batch is definitely one of those.

So take them in while we force small talk and realize that we really are just work friends.

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Australia

There's a sovereign state inside of Australia CRACKED.COM 5 farms on the Hutt River attempted to secede from Australia in the 1960's a request that the state obviously denied. Except that, in their denial, they referred to the Administrator of Hutt River Province, which actually granted them statehood. To this day, the Province doesn't pay taxes. — Source: The 6 Most Creative Abuses of Loopholes

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Hyperinflation

In 1923, hyperinflation caused German currency to lose almost all of its value. It became so worthless that people gave it to children to play with or used it as wallpaper. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apollo

The Apollo Spacecraft lacked functioning toilets In lieu of a loo, astronauts used baggies that sealed to their... areas And yes, the lack of gravity was an issue. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Game of Thrones

If you didn't like Euron in Game of Thrones, the actor might agree with you. Не says she wishes he could have played him more dark, more mysterious - that's closer to the books, he says. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Spinal Tap

This Is Biinlidl Tig Spinal Tap started as a failed comedy sketch. GpinaL T The band came together 5 years before the movie, as a one-off sketch for The TV Show -- a sketch show that never became more than a pilot.

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Monty Python

THE MONTY PYTHON FOOT BELONGS TO CUPID. Terry Gilliam's cutout animations remix bits and pieces of classic paintings and photos. The foot in particular comes from a th-century painting -Bronzino's Allegory with Venus and Cupid, which Gilliam saw in London's National Gallery. — Source: Atlas Obscura

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The Platypus

The duck-billed platypus has a gene mix of birds, reptiles, and mammals and genetically has 25 possible sexes. GRACKED.COM The Platypus is one of the few mammals that lay eggs. They lactate but have no nipples, hunt via electricity, and their ven- om has 80 different kinds of toxins. — The Guardian / Wikipedia

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Boston Museums

Boston has a museum devoted to a collection a woman gathered over 30 years Isabella Gardner filled several warehouses with odd objects from foreign lands, then opened a museum. Anyone named Isabella gets in for free. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Quaker Oats

Quaker Oats fed kids radioactive oatmeal in the '40s and '50s. O SPRINTALLY That's according to a class action lawsuit from 1995 - apparently, Quaker Oats and MIT gave students at the Fernald State School oatmeal with radioactive iron and calcium. Quaker Oats and MIT settled out of court for $1.85 million. CRACKED.COM

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The Statue of Unity

597 ft. The Statue of Unity in India is so tall the Statue of Liberty could barely touch his knees with her torch. 152 ft. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jim Carrey

JIM CARREY Carrey was only 18 years old when he auditioned for SNL. Didn't get the gig but he was quickly hired at — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj worked at multiple Red Lobsters before she was famous She was fired from multiple locations. She once followed a customer who hadn't tipped and taken her pen out to their car. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Zayn Malik

Zayn Malik dumped his fiancee Perrie Edwards with a simple text. IM A M That's how she described it. The full quote reads It was horrible, the worst time in my life. A four-year relationship, two-year engagement ended by a simple text message. Just like that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Auctions

The dance floor from Saturday Night Fever - not a costume, not a prop, the actual floor - was auctioned off for $1.2 million in 2017. Where do you even keep that? CRACKED — Source / Vogue

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Art

Roy Lichtenstein directly reproduced from comic artists I DON'T CARE/ TO RATHER SINK THAN CALL BRAD FOR HELP/ His paintings sell for milliions, while the original artists struggled to make end's meet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Now-You-Know Facts From Art History

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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

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McDonald’s

McDonald's changed its French fry recipe because of a customer with a grudge. Businessman Phil Sokolof spent $3 million on ads scolding fast food restaurants for their unhealthy food. When he targeted McD specifically, they folded. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — News.com.au

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Chris Christie

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie had spent over $300,000 of New Jersey's expense account on food and booze, according to his ledger. Most notably, h

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22

The Challenger

The team searching for the Challenger's wreckage found cocaine worth millions. Experts spent nine weeks scanning 420 square miles of ocean with sonar. They found ordinary trash, a refrigerator, half of a torpedo, eight shipwrecks, and more. Oh, and a duffel bag with 25 kilos of cocaine (that came from who knows where), worth about $13 million. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Historical Facts That Don't Get Mentioned

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Silly Putty

SILLY PUTTY silly 4+ WAS A FAILED PUTTY The ORiGiNa ATTEMPT AT MAKING CAR TIRES. WARNING In the '40s, the U.S. government asked private companies to create a synthetic rubber substitute to make up for shortages caused by the war. General Electric created a particular mixture of chemicals that was just too squishy to make car tires, but proved very popular as a toy. CRACKED.COM — Everyday Objects That Started Out As Something Else Entirely

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Terminator 2

Terminator 2 The script James Cameron wrote the script with William Wisher Jr., who did rewrites for the original. As they hashed out the treatment, they took turns typing the pages on a single computer. They then divided it in two, wrote their halves, crossed results, sat for a few days to revise the entire thing-and it was done. CRACKED.COM — The Hollywood Reporter

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Raptors

Velociraptors probably weren't actually cunning, cooperative pack hunters. It's a popular image in both pop culture and science, but some scientists now think they attacked the same prey but didn't cooperate much NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Menu Psychology

Menu Psychology КОКТЕЙЛ Нік Клак Cocktail of Pines Профіль / Обемний, складний calan 3 яскравим ароматом ялини та сосни. Ӏнгредіенти Mac копчений післясмак сушеної дикої груші Джин a сушеною S Апельсин CRACKED.COM Menu psychology is a whole field of study that holds the secrets to getting you to order what best suits the restaurants, not your tum. For example, people natural- ly look at the center of a menu first, then the top right, then the top left, so try to head straight to the bottom. That's where they keep the cheap stuff. — Good Housekeeping

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Smartphones

Anyone with a smartphone can change the colors on a 20 story light spire in Stockholm. CRACKED.COM Installed in 2006, the cre- ators of the rainbow-col- ored installation hope that the work can stand as a statement on the power of democracy and the power of the public. — Source

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Trains

55 50 5 TRAINS 1850 : 8 SIERRA RAILROAD CRACKED COM Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia. -Irish professor Dionysius Lardner. We do have high-speed trains now, as well as even faster transport methods. — Source: 15 Really Inaccurate Predictions About The Future

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KHJ Radio

Real KHJ radio broadcasts were used for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. HAMPIO They went through 17 hours of broadcasts and took three hours of the best material, and picked material from the movie for that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

14

Wasabi

CRACKED MOST WASABI IN THE US IS FAKE. Most of it is actually just a blend of horseradish, mustard, and food coloring, due to the cost of real wasabi. — Source

13

Missy Elliott

Missy Elliott was bumped up two grades in school, because her IQ was super high. WANG She got so lonely, she decided to fail everything and get moved

12

Black Friday

A Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death by Black Friday shoppers in 2008. Walmart CRACKED.COM While other employees at- tempted to help him, the shoppers were unconcerned with the victim's fate and refused to halt their stam- pede, complaining that they were not willing to wait in the cold any longer.

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The Gulf War

The Big Lebowski It's set during the Gulf War due to John Goodman's character. The Big Lebowski came out in 1998, but it is set in the early '90s, with a even a dream Saddam Hussein. The main reason was to give John Goodman's right- wing character something to rant about. 12 Saddan 3 K CRACKED.COM — IndieWire

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Adam Sandler

CRACKED.COM NEC HOME ESTE 1270 adidas LEGAL E DESDER MIRRORE FORNO 5 I DELAR g Adam Sandler movies have grossed OVER and $5 BILLION worldwide. — Source

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Channing Tatum

Celebrities' Favorite Foods Channing Tatum Peanut Butter and Jelly and Cheetos Sandwich Tatum got experimental with this delicacy that was clearly invented by a latchkey kid after school, but there is something to be said about a sandwich that blends sweet, savory, and heat flavors with creamy and crunchy textures. CRACKED.COM — TheRecipe

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Grunge

Kurt Cobain invented Grunge fashion because he was broke. ml His mismatching outfits were mostly stuff he bought in thrift stores. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart met his wife because she happened to start watching his TV show. PLACE TABLE ank of A THE CINEM THE CINEMA SOCIE FOO E She told her friends she wanted someone funny and sweet, like Jon Stewart. It turned out that her roommate knew someone who knew Jon. CRACKED.COM — Source: Oprah.com

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The Bosnian War

Some of the most trigger-happy UN soldiers in the Bosnian War were Swedish. They often ignored orders from high up and would kind of go rogue. Why? They made it their number one priority to save civilian lives, no matter what. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Strategy Bridger

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My Strange Addiction

CRACKED A MENTAL ILLNESS MAKES YOU CRAVE TO EAT DIRT. Or any other type of inedible substance. It's called pica, and it's what those people who eat diapers on My Strange Addiction have. — Source

4

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: 15 Easter Eggs You Missed (If You're Monolingual)

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Hand Sanitizers

HAND SANITIZERS KILL 99.99% IN OF GERMS- A LAB. HAND SANITIZER KILLS 99.99% of GERMS DÉSINFECTANT Sanitizers are tested in lab conditions that don't match those of the real world, where they are supposed to do the bug-killing. Also, the surviving germs may or may not be the worst of the bunch. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Marketing Lies Somehow Still Seen

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The Hong Kong Flu

The 1968 Hong Kong Flu left more than one million dead worldwide. Doctors recommend- ed those ill to stay at home and take aspi- rin, tea, lemon drinks, whiskey or brandy ac- cording to taste. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Quentin Tarantino

Tarantino insisted he had to be the one strangling Diane Kruger in Inglourious Basterds. If it's just a guy with his hands on your neck, not putting any kind of pressure... you're not going to get the blood vessels bulging, or the eyes filling it with tears, he said, and requested to commit to choking you. She agreed. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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