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February 18, 2025

We know that change can be hard. This new guy popped into the office with all these big plans that the higher-ups liked, and it really messed with our fact-finding flow. Don’t get us wrong, we still tracked down these amazing random facts (we’re consummate pros like that), but that little transition period was annoying.

These facts are like that annoying, peppy new guy. They burst into your brain with all these “new ideas,” but we recommend you hear them out. Once your annoyance levels drop, you’ll see that they have a lot to offer.

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Donkeys

Two donkeys together for 10 years at a Polish ZOO were separated because of complaints they were mating in front of children. A petition with 7, O00 s — Source: The Star

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Pepsi

REFRESHING SERVING OF SODA TRIVIA... CRACKED.COM PEPSI WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED BRAD'S DRINK. In 1893, Caleb Bradham invented the drink. Surprisingly not created by a Bradley. — Source: Pepsi

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Martha Stewart

CRACKED MARTHA STEWART Martha Stewart was born in '41 to a working-class Polish family in New Jersey. Her dad pushed her to succeed and she showed it from the age of three, pulling all the weeds from the cobblestone path. — CNN / PBS

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Central Park

In 1881, an Egyptian obelisk named Cleopatra's Needle was erected in NYC's Central Park. CRACKED COM A capsule buried beneath holds the 1870 census, a Bi- ble, a Webster's Dictionary, the complete works of Shakespeare, a guide to Egypt, and a copy of the Declaration of Independence. — Source

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Google Searches

Incriminating Google searches a where to get a gun Jordan Malcom-Taylor and Nikisha Hosten were given more than 20 years in jail after they planned to break into a house in the UK in 2020. Investigators looked at Hosten's Google history and saw things like how to open a locked window and where to get a gun. a how to open a locked window CRACKED — Surrey Police
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The Blue Mustang

CRACKED.COM The Blue Mustang statue has tasted blood. Locals call him Blucifer. The red-eyed fierce-faced 9,000-pound sculpture at Denver International Airport actually killed its maker, Luis Jiménez, by falling on him and severing an artery in his leg. — Source

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The Roosevelt

The Roosevelt hotel gave away a 7-night stay and spa treatment services to someone who stole a coffee pot. CRACKED.COM The hotel was running a contest to see who could steal the most outrageous item from the premises. Leigh Guglielmo, thanks to the historic coffee pot she nicked, won the hotel package worth $15,000. — Source

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Dollywood

Dollywood employees will get 100% of tuition covered. Dollywood Parks & Resorts announced that it will cover 100% of tuition, fees and books for any employee, helping employees at all levels pursue their personal education goals. CRACKED.COM — Source: WBRC

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Japan

Tokyo's Imperial Palace was valued to be more than all of the real estate in California in the 1980s. CRACKED.COM The value of the 0.44 square mile grounds ex- ploded during the height of Japan's property bubble, and the country's property was worth five times that of the much larger US. — Oxford Handbook of Capitalism

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Anesthesia

Your body briefly panics as it goes under anesthesia. CRACKED.COM As the foreign substance starts to interfere with your normal bodily functions, your brain tries to save you by twitching, gagging, and rapidly changing your breathing and heart rate. — How Stuff Works

29

Eraserhead

ERASERHEAD CRACKED.COM David Lynch has never revealed how exactly he made the grotesque baby prop in Eraserhead. One journalist asked David if the baby was a calf fetus or battery-operated. Не refused to answer. His daughter is one of the few in the know, but she remains mum. — Source

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Heart Attacks

Heart attacks are common while shoveling snow. GRAGKED.COM Shoveling snow is a known cause for heart attacks. In- creased blood pressure combined with cold air constricting arteries cre- ates the right environment for it to happen. — Source

27

Sean Connery

Sean Connery GOLDFINGER Connery required that his name be 25% larger than any other cast member's on any promotional material for Goldfinger. Making h — Source: Cracked

26

TikTok

15 Feel Good Stories Of 2020 To End This Wretched Year - Two long-lost twin sisters find each other in Indonesia, over TikTok. The identical twin sis — Source: NPR

25

Congressman Andrew May

A congressman let it slip that Japanese depth charges during WWII detonated too soon. CRACKED COM After Congressman Andrew May's remarks during the press conference, the Japa- nese changed depth-charge tactics, killing 800 US sub- mariners. The leak became known as The May Incident. — War History Online

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The Iranian Viper

There's an Iranian viper that's equipped with a fake spider at the end of its tail. The structure resembles a spider but it's actually a lure to attract birds when scientists first saw it, they thought it was an abnormal growth. CRACKED.COM — Source: NatGeo

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Mosquitos

Wearing light colors will help repel mosquitos. CRACKED.COM Light colors don't produce shadows like darker shades. Mos- quitoes won't be able to sense your pres- ence as easily. — Source

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When Harry Met Sally

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Leighton Meester

Leighton Meester, who you've seen in Gossip Girl, was born in jail. Her mom was doing time for drug smuggling. CRACKED COM

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Alf

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McDonald’s

McDonald's egged on sci-fi nerds sze CHUA sauce MU DEAL not the CRACKED.COM After the notorious Rick & Morty Szechuan sauce episode, McDonald's very publicly over-promised a limited time return of their signature sugar goop. Fans turned out in droves, and were extremely miffed when they quickly ran out. Dan Harmon says the show had nothing to do with the promotion -- Ronald brought this on himself. — 16 Bizarre Non-Food Stunts From Fast Food Companies

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Irish Seagulls

The plan to feed contraceptive pills to seagulls has been called problematic. CRACKED.COM Politicians in Ireland have suggested leaving pill-laced pellets for aggressive gulls that attack people for their food, but some of the birds are protected species and the laced food may affect other animals. — Source

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Lana Del Rey

CRACKED LANA DEL REY Born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, she sang the same type of music, but wasn't becoming successful. A total repackaging of her name, hair, and clothes matched the sound, and she blew up as Lana Del Ray. — The Richest / Pitchfork

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Social Interactions and Health

Low social interaction is as dangerous to your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day Social connections (including friends and family) improve our odds of survival by 50%. CRACKED.COM — Source: Relationships By The Numbers: 13 Statistics About Dating, Breakups, and Marriage

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Salvador Dali

When Dali's remains were exhumed, his mustache was still perfectly intact X His body was removed for DNA samples for a paternity case, 28 years after his death. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Now-You-Know Facts From Art History

13

Con Men

A con man convinced people that he was the last POW from World War 1, Oskar Daubmann. CRACKED.COM The parents of the real Oskar Daubmann ac- cepted the impostor as their son, despite his different eye color and lack of known fa- cial scar. — Source

12

Cocoa

TO Aztecs, cocoa beans were so valuable that they used them as currency. the They couldn't grow cocoa beans in their own territory, so they traded for them (and, for example, a turkey hen cost 100 beans in the 16th century). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: History.com

11

Celebrity Cruises

CRACKED A CRUISE PASSENGER'S DEAD BODY MAY HAVE BEEN KEPT IN A FAULTY WALK-IN FRIDGE. Celebrity EQUINOX Valietta One cruise passenger's family is suing Celebrity Cruises because they say they kept his body in a refrigerator for six days, and it started to decompose. — Insider

10

William Shatner

William Shatner sold a kidney stone for $25,000. CRACKED.COM An online casino bought the jagged rock made of calcium for the publicity, and Shatner donated the money to Habitat for Humanity. — Source: CBS News

9

Serial Killers

HERB BAUMEISTER When his son found a skull on his property, Herb convinced his family it was from a medical skeleton his late father had owned. Later, — Source: Indianapolis Star

8

The Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa originally looked super different before we cleaned it way too much. CRACKED.COM In 2007, an engineer named Pascal Cotte got a chance to digitally scan the Mona Lisa in unprecedented detail, and spotted enough tiny traces of eyebrows and lashes that they had to have existed at ONE point, but people cleaned the painting so much over the years that they rubbed away. Cotte also dug up other details of the painting's hidden layers, claiming that originally, she was holding a blanket, smiling more widely and doing something or another with the fingers of her left hand.

7

Kale

Pizza Hut used to be the largest purchaser of kale in the U.S. Pizza Hut Pizza-Hut 5' It wasn't even eaten - it was a garnish on their salad bars. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Now-You-Know Food Facts To Chew On Today

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Little Miss Sunshine

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE THE MOVIE WAS INSPIRED BY ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (BUT NOT IN A GOOD WAY). Screenwriter Michael Arndt read an article about Schwarzenegger telling high school students, If there's one thing ... that I hate, it's losers. Arndt hated that mindset, and wrote a movie about that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Plants

Soldiers-and-sailors is the nickname of the lungwort plant. With a name like lungwort... it was needed. The name comes from the flowers turning from red to blue, like the (old) uniforms of british soldiers & the navy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Power Rangers

The original Power Rangers actors were paid around $600 a week. That was for filming two episodes a week, and they didn't get any residuals, either -- $600 was it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Favourite

T H E FAVOURITE Director Yorgos Lanthimos was inspired by the quick back and forth bickering between Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in The Odd Couple (1968). CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Movies That Owe Their Existence To Other Films

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Popsicles

Popsicle GENERIC NAME: ICE POP Patented since 1925, Frank Epperson sold The Frozen Drink on a Stick! Good Humor bought the rights to the name in 1989. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Atlantic

1

Rogue One

The guy who created Photoshop also wrote the plot for Rogue One. His name is John Knoll, and he's the chief creative officer of Industrial Light & Magic (so he also supervised the VFX for Rogue One). CRACKED.COM — Source: WIRED

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