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February 20, 2025

When the Cracked higher-ups suggested arts-and-crafts time in the office, we were like, “Umm, we’re big boys now. We don’t do kid stuff anymore.” But since it was mandatory and we desperately need this job, we sat on those little chairs and picked up the glue. After a few minutes of pouting, we really started loving it! We crafted some of our best facts yet, and had the time of our lives doing so.

Maybe the ol’ higher-ups know what they’re doing after all.

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Human Bodies

It turns out, you literally sparkle in fact, - everybody else does, too. The human body emits light, but that light is very, very hard for our eyes to detect. It'd have to be 1,000 times stronger for us to see it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cats

When your cat leaves his poop unburied, you might think he's just being careless. The truth is, he's leaving a message. Normally cats are quite tidy with their turds, leaving them in litter boxes and carefully covering them up. But when your cat drops a log in the box- or worse, outside the box exposed and uncovered, he's saying, Attention other cats: this is my territory. So, there's another cat making him feel threatened. CRACKED.COM http understanding-your-cat/why-do-cats-cover-their-waste — Source: 25 Pet Behaviors That Mean The Opposite of What You Think

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Terrible Marketing

It's clever to use suicide in beauty branding ... right? for happier hair, dark or fair anatomicals peachy head peach shampoo for suicidal hair de elita и n alt Jom n por only abile adida Mentiful and colour, for this see . want el state heaven dye clitte late, conditioning me, page by wonderfully 1 knew but job. hair you tossing completely and of bring to i just here I never complete the follow would for de wacky your was rocks put your & Itself on peach de actually knew world feeling earth. that locks bald. Twitter body below. depression off de down — Source

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Siberia

In Siberia, a 42,000 year-old foal was found fully intact in the frozen ground. CRACKED COM Researchers have been able to remove liquid blood from the baby horse's heart vessels in an attempt to clone it. — Source

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Texas

Texas ranked the 5th best state for business, but the 2nd worst to actually live in. GRAGKED.COM Workers are flocking to Texas, and then are shocked to find a state with limited childcare options, a stressed health care sys- tem, and few protections against discrimination. — KHOU

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The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood created an 'unburnable' edition of 'The Handmaid's Tale' amid book bans. CRACKED.COM Atwood took a flamethrow- er to the tome to demon- strate her works' resilience. Auction of the fire-resis- tant edition comes ahead of an expected US Supreme Court ruling reversing the right to abortion. — The Guardian

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Session 9

SESSION Danvers State Hospital is a real abandoned mental asylum. No set dressing was necessary -the place was already as spooky as seen on screen, complete with patient records and other creepy memorabilia. CRACKED.COM — Source: 26 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Hit Movie Locations

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Atlanta ER

WEIRD WORLD In Atlanta, a woman had to pay an ER bill despite, uh, not going to the ER. Well, she was in the waiting room for a while, and then left after some time - apparently, that was enough for the hospital to charge her $700. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Movie Ratings

THE KING'S SPEECH 3 F-WORDS CRACKED COM King George VI must overcome his stutter because the MPAA feels that teens become psychologically damaged if they hear too many F-words. In one funny scene, he stutters the word 5 times in the R rated version, but only 2 times in the PG-13 version. — Screenrant

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American Apparel

GRACKED.COM American Apparel wanted to launch an XL clothing line and created a casting call to hire plus-sized models to promote them. THE NEXT BIG THING However, they did so with awkward, offensive puns like calling their potential models 'booty-ful', 'full-sized fannies', and naming the contest 'The Next Big Thing'. The contest, of course, generated a lot of backlash. — Source: 29 Companies That Ran Unbelievably Dumb Promotions

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Firelight

One of Steven Spielberg's first movies, Firelight in 1964, cost $500 to make. 500 people came to the movie and it is thought that one accidentally paid $2 (tickets cost $1), earning Spielberg a to- tal profit of $1 from the film. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Captain Kirk

William Shatner avoided appearances at Star Trek conventions for 10 years after an incident in the '60s. CRACKED.COM In April, 1968, rabid fans cornered Shatner and attempted to tear his clothes from him as he left 30 Rockefel- ler Plaza. — Florence Times / YouTube

28

Picasso

Picasso used his daughter's actual poop to create some of his works of art. It was a family secret until Picasso's granddaughter revealed it, and it's not clear how often he used the poop. But it showed up at least in a 1938 still life. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Flag

CRACKED.COM THE CURRENT U.S. FLAG WAS DESIGNED BY A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. 17-year-old Robert G. Heft made a 50-star flag for a school assignment when Alaska and Hawaii were given statehood. Не got a В-, which was changed to an A when the government adopted his flag. — Source

26

Fleas

IF FLEAS WERE AS TALL AS PEOPLE, THEY COULD JUMP OVER 15 CARS And that's bumper to bumper. Fleas can jump 38 times their body length. CRACKED.COM — Source: New York Times

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Iron Man 3

Iron Man 3 didn't have a female villain for sexist reasons. An early draft had Rebecca Hall's Maya Hansen as the villain, but the idea was nixed by Marvel CEO lke Perlmutter, who believed that toys of female characters wouldn't sell. The movie was rewritten so that Guy Pearce's character became the bad guy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Parliament Oak

Parliament oak The Parliament Oak in Warsop, England, is thought to be over 1,000 years old and is really important in history. It was the place where King John and King Edward I held two parliaments in the 12th and 13th centuries. CRACKED — Ann Ballinger/Wiki Commons
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The Pentagon

CRACKED.COM Jack Kerouac helped build the Pentagon. Before he became an iconic Beat writer, Kerouac had several jobs in the 1940s - including a gig as a construction worker at the new HQ of the War Department. Не would bring a pint of gin or whiskey to work every day. — Source: 15 Random Facts That Are Making Us Question Everything We Know

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UFOs

CRACKED JIMMY CARTER In 1976, Jimmy Carter, who would soon become President, said he saw a UFO in Leary, Georgia. Не called it the darndest thing I've ever seen and said it was very bright changing colors and about the size of the moon. — Source

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Hashtags

CRACKED #QantasLuxury Aussie airline Qantas asked customers to share their experiences just one day after the airline grounded their fleet and locked out staff over a union dispute. Disgruntled staff and customers used the hashtag to put them on blast. QANTAS ............ Spirit of Australia — HBR / FT

20

Air Travel

CRACKED.COM Do you have to fly? Then fly in the morning. The air will be smoother than later in the day, making for a less bumpy flight. — Source: Life Hacks We Think Are Pretty Darn Boss

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911 Dispatchers

911 dispatchers have regulars. Dispatchers have people whose number they recognize and develop a relationship with. A seasoned professional can also multi-task on a call, browsing the internet or knitting, while saving a life. CRACKED.COM — Source

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George Washington

CRACKED GEORGE WASHINGTON BECAME A SLAVE OWNER AT 11. Не inherited 10 enslaved people upon his father's death. In his will, he instructed that all his slaves be freed upon his wife's death... so he definitely knew slave owning was wrong. — Source

17

Penguins

19 Terrifying Real-World Monsters You Won't Believe Exist - Penguins swallow their food alive and wriggling, so their tongue and mouth parts are lined — Source: Smithsonian

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Pringles

Fred Baur, the man who designed the Pringles container, had some of his ashes buried inside a classic-flavored one. Original Prin OBiLE WIN'TER les GA

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Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson loves Wellingtono The New Zealand capital served as his base in his mission to film all things Tolkien. It's more like Mordor, than The

14

Art

In 2019, a priest from the Basque town of Estella asked a local arts and crafts teacher to restore a 500-year-old wooden carving. It sounds like a sit

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Name Brands

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The Muppets

There was a Muppet that was inspired directly by Michael Cera. It's Walter, and his puppeteer said They told me to think about Michael Cera-that if he was a puppeteer he would already have the job. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Vanilla Ice

Vanilla Ice has a bunch of exotic pets, including even a pet kangaroo. The kangaroo apparently sometimes goes rogue, and once ran off for two weeks with another one of Vanilla Ice's animals his pet goat. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Hippos

ENEMIES CAME TOGETHER FOR THE HIPPOS. Two partners in the hippo initiative were South African Fritz Duquesne (left) and American Frederick Russell Burnham (right). They had both served in the Second Boer War in Africa - on opposing sides (and plotting to murder each other).

9

Boosie Badazz

A fan drove three hours + 15,000, to bring rapper Boosie OVER 0743,000,000 IN CASH PR OVER 1175,000,000 m PRIZES FROM $500 UP 100130 Badazz some much-needed SINNING NUMBERS Z insulin to his home. YOUR RUMBERS $ $ $ $ PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE $ S PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE $ $ $ PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE S S $ L PRIZE PRIZE 99 PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE VAL $ $ PRIZE PRIZE STON EN She refused payment but stopped to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket after leaving the house and won $14,000. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

8

AOC

SANDY RESENTATIVE ia Ocasio-Cortez New York 229 ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ CRACKED.COM Opponents on the other side of the political aisle have plenty of choice nicknames for AOC, but friends and family call her Sandy. — Vanity Fair

7

Rain Man

Farts on and off-screen DUSTIN HOFFMAN RIPPED AN IMPROVFART. RAIN MAN Much like his I'm walkin here in Midnight Cowboy, Dustin Hoffman's fart in a phone booth in Rain Man made it into the critically acclaimed film. CRACKED.COM — Source: Contactmusic.com

6

William Shatner

William Shatner apparently watches shows on the CW, and then livetweets them. He seems to be totally into shows like The 100 and The Tomorrow People, tweeting things like Where are my #the100 -teers? We live tweeting tonight? CRACKED.COM — Source: 5 Famous People Who Are Pure Madness On Social Media

5

Flavor Flav

Flavor Flav had many failed chicken joints. Не opened Flav's Fried Chicken in lowa in 2011, but it closed in four months due to bounced checks and bad business decisions. Не tried House of Flavor and Flavor Flav's Chicken & Ribs in 2012, and both restaurants were closed by July 2013. OHOKSH 2 CRACKED — Source

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Goldfinger

Goldfinger CRACKED.COM Not the ska band, but rather, German actor Gert Frobe. Long before playing the titular villain in Goldfinger, as a young man, Frobe was forced to join the Nazi party. It turns out he was a terrible Nazi, because he successfully hid a Jewish family for the duration of the war. — Source: 7 Stars With Wild Off Screen Lives

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Alien

Ash wasn't an android in the original Alien script. Не was made an android at the studio's suggestion -- originally, he was human. Which would have made his death scene play out very differently. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Donnie Darko

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES AND MEANINGS Through DOnnie Darko the Looking-Glass Donnie talking to Frank through a liquid mirror is reminiscent of how Alice connects to her wonderland. CRACKED.COM — Source: Avoiding the Subject: Media, Culture and the Object

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Rats

Chemotherapy-based infertility may become a thing of the past by collecting cells before treatment. GRAGKED.COM Scientists were able to take a sample of rat testicle cells that had been frozen for 23 years and produce sperm af- ter being implanted into mice. This is good news for children that undergo treat- ment before puberty. — New Scientist

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