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February 25, 2025

When mother sent us out for fresh facts this morning, she never dreamt that we’d bring home such a massive haul. We couldn’t be more proud of ourselves, but her slightly worried smile tells us that it might be a bit too much. They won’t last forever, after all.

We told her not to worry because we’d help jar them and bake them into pies. Heck, if the fact bushes out back keep producing like this, we can start our own little fact pie business. Try this one, and let us know what you think!

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Red Lobster

CRACKED RED LOBSTER'S LOBSTER BISQUE HAD NO LOBSTER. A DNA test on Red Lobster bisques from 3 locations found that 1 had no lobster whatsoever, and 2 had lobster mixed with a mystery crustacean. They found that it was langostino, a cousin of the hermit crab that is commonly used as lobster. — Source

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Odor

GRACKED WE ALL HAVE A UNIQUE BODY ODOR Your body has a smell that's like your fingerprints - it's unique to you and it's determined by your genes. Even if you change what you eat, your body odor will stay the same. — Live Science / CNN

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Cate Blanchett

EMBARRASSING EARLY APPEARANCES CATE BLANCHETT in an Egyptian boxing movie When Blanchett began her film career in 1996, she had already appeared in 1990's Kaboria. Apparently, she was offered the role while backpacking, and never saw the movie out of embarrassment. CRACKED.COM — Source: Eighties Kids

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Red Dead Redemption

19th-century artists inspired Red Dead Redemption 2. In The Mountains, Albert Bierstadt The game's lighting director, Owen Shepherd, looked to the pastoral and landscape painters like Turner, Rembrandt and American landscape painters from the 19th century such as Albert Bierstadt, Frank Johnson, and Charles Russell. — Source: Polygon

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Puff the Magic Dragon

Puff, the Magic Dragon has nothing to do with drugs. Leonard Lipton, who wrote the poem the song was based on, is sick of people asking him if it's really about smoking pot. Не swears it's a straightforward children's tale, and that advocating marijuana for little kids is not a good thing. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Of Our Favorite Songs (Have Surprising Backstories)

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Harvard Frat Boys

Goldfish-gulping challenges HARVARD GRAGKED. COM In 1920s, Ivy League frat boys would swallow live golfish for attention. This was a whole trend, started by one guy's $10 dare. — Source

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Mammoths

The last mammoths are more recent than the Egyptian pyramids. Wooly mammoths died out about 4,000 years ago. By then, the furry mega-phants could only be found on Wrangel Island, in the Arctic Ocean. It wasn't a dignified ending for the giants - their population got so small that it was extreme inbreeding that finally did them in. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Presume That You Know Things

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Birthday Odds

40 Random Bits of Trivia We Foraged From A Particularly Fruitful Fact Thicket — Source: Scientific American

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Elmo

NO MORE TICKLES, ELMO. SESAME STREET CRACKED Kevin Clash voiced Elmo for 27 years, and was accused of abusing 3 underage boys in 2013. The case was dismissed because the claims were made too late but this does add a new level of creepiness to Tickle Me Elmo dolls. — Source

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The U.S. Air Force

The US Air Force got adjustable seats and equipment thanks to one guy. His job was to calculate average pilot dimensions, but soon figured out that equipment designed for an average pilot would fit no current pilot. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Seth Rogen

Celebrity-Owned Booze and Weed DUSEPLANT HOUSEPLANT by Seth Rogen The well-known stoner has his own line of marijuana products and paraphernalia, such as lighters, grinders, and papers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Frogs

At 7-8mm in length, the Paedophryne amauensis frog from Papua New Guinea are the smallest known vertebrates on Earth. Here's one sitting on a dime. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WALL-E

The Hello, Dolly holding hands moment in WALL-E wasn't in the original. Holding hands is a crucial symbol in WALL-E, but there was no hand holding in Hello, Dolly except in one wide shot, so they just faked a close-up. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds got a big role when he was just a teenager. It was in Nickelodeon's Fifteen, from 1990, and it's, well, about teenage life - and it was Reynolds' debut, when he was just 14. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Being John Malkovich

Meta Movies Being John Malkovich It just had to be John Malkovich. Charlie Kaufman didn't personally know Malkovich or anything, he just liked how the name sounded. And yet he wouldn't budge on his choice, even shooting down the studio's idea of turning the movie into Being Tom Cruise. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cooking with Alcohol

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Mittens for Koalas

In light of the recent bush fire in Port Macquarie, Australia, a quilting community in Netherlands began knitting mittens for koalas that suffered burn injuries. Over 400 pairs of mittens made with the best fabrics were sent over to koala crisis centers in Australia. CRACKED.COM — Feel-Good Stories To Buoy All Our Souls

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Desalination

A suitcase-sized desalination unit could bring freshwater to communities that need it. CRACKED.COM The device, designed by MIT scientists, uses electricity to trans- form seawater or other non-potable water sources into fresh drinking water. — SYFY

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John Hodgman

Celebrity Colognes and Perfumes SPERM WHALE COLOGNE by John Hodgman Mostly as a joke to advertise his comedy special Ragnarok, Hodgman sold survival kits which contained a real, sea mammal- themed cologne. The kit also has a flask for your urine. (-WHALE) JOHN HODGMAN KOLON/S GRACKED.COM — Source

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Soldiers Leaking Information

CRACKED COM SOLDIERS KEEP LEAKING SENSITIVE INFORMATION VIA THEIR PHONES. Nowadays, you don't need spies to know the location of secret military bases — From 5 Bizarre Problems Modern Militaries Are Facing.

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JFK

During the 1960 campaign, John F. Kennedy's opponents said he had Addison's disease. His doctors released a cleverly worded statement saying that he did not have Addison's disease caused by tuberculosis, and the matter was dropped. Не did have it, caused by a rare autoimmune disease. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Lord of War

The filmmakers of Lord of War used a real stockpile of over 3,000 AK-47s because it was cheaper. CRACKED COM New Zealand director Andrew Niccol said, I bought 3000 Kalashnikovs and then sold them back at a loss. I wouldn't make a very good arms dealer. — Source

18

Owls

owls had much of the same societal fate as witches. The ancient Greeks linked owls to the goddess Athena and saw them as symbols of wisdom, but during — Source: Rijksmuseum

17

Lady Bird Johnson

A former First Lady had a lake named after her against her will. CRACKED.COM Lady Bird Johnson repeat- edly declined the dubious honor of having Austin Town Lake named after her, so the City Council waited until she died and named it after her anyway. — Source

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Banner Ads

The first banner ad: 1994 Have you ever clicked your mouse right HERE? CRACKEDCON Wired.com (nee HotWired) ran this vintage clickbait ad for AT&T. It — Source: Wired

15

The Breakfast Club

Molly Ringwald's character in The Breakfast Club wasn't supposed to be Claire. Her full name in the movie is Claire Standish, but in the original script, it was Cathy Douglas. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Glenn Close

Glenn Close only took a role in Guardians of the Galaxy for the cash. But I'm doing that because it will then afford me to go do the other kind of movies that I really love, and hopefully I will have a great time , she said. CRACKED COM — Source

13

Sperm Motors

Scientists are trying to give sperm cells motors. Researchers have concocted a method to (theoretically, for now) boost lame swimmers that struggle to make it to the egg - turbocharging them. A tiny metal helix is wrapped around the sperm's tail, and then a magnetic field propels the spermbot forward. — More: 5 Medical Innovations That Are Straight Out Of Sci-Fi

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Pythagoras

a2+b = c2 t BELIEF: The Pythagorean theorem was discovered by Pythagoras. TRUTH: The theorem was used centuries before Pythagoras was born. Little is — Source: Maths History

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Heather Langenkamp

Heather Langenkamp starred as Nancy Thompson in the cult-classic A Nightmare on EIm Street'. Heather is now CO-owner of the award-winning make-up FI

10

Apple Seeds

Ingesting enough apple seeds can kill you. CRACKED.COM When metabolized in the digestive system, the chemical contained in apple seeds degrades into highly poisonous hydrogen cyanide. Fortunately you would need to chew up thousands of seeds in one sitting to be at risk. — Source: USA Today

9

Football Rivalries

In 1896, Auburn students greased the train tracks leading in and out of the local station. CRACKED COM When Georgia Tech's train came into town, it skidded through town and didn't stop for five more miles. The GT football team had to make the trek back to town, then went on to lose, 45-0. — Source

8

Three-Year-Old Mayor

A U.S. town had a 3-year-old mayor. CRACKED COM In the small town of Dorset, Minnesota, where a new mayor is picked every two years by drawing names out of a hat, a 3 year old named Robert Tufts was elected mayor in 2015. — Source

7

Toilet Paper

Americans use 36.5 billion rolls of toilet paper each Year. That's 1/5 of all the TP in the world, even though the U.S. makes up only 4% of the global population. CRACKED.COM — Source

6

Dennis Hopper

Celebrity overseas gigs DENNIS HOPPER rides that Speed popularity. In 1995, Hopper was in a Japanese ad for Tsumura cleaning products. Не starts as his villainous Speed character, then gets belly deep in a bubble bath, plays with a rubber duckie, and cackles like a lunatic. CRACKED — Denis Makarenko/Shutterstock,
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5

Basset Hounds

In 2014, a basset hound named Yo Yo was allowed to stay on campus at Cambridge University despite the rules. CRACKED.COM After meeting with the college council, the dog owner was told Yo Yo would classify as a very large cat. — BBC

4

Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds regrets making the movie that earned him an Academy Award nomination. Reynolds hated making Boogie Nights with the then 26-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson, who the actor described as young and full of himself. Не even turned down the director's next film, Magnolia. CRACKED.COM — 21 Roles Famous Actors Wish They Could Delete From History

3

Star Trek

Geordi LaForge was based on a disabled Star Trek superfan. His name was George LaForge, he'd suffered from muscular dystrophy, and he showed up all the time at fan conventions. Не made friends with Gene Roddenberry, and Roddenberry remembered him when he was creating characters for The Next Generation. CRACKED.COM

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Rembrandt

Rembrandt's Portrait of Jacob de Gheyn lIl has been stolen 4 times The 9x12 inch painting has been nicknamed the takeaway Rembrandt' as its small size has led to its numerous thefts. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM — Source: The Art Newspaper

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Ivermectin

WEIRD WORLD Not so unexpectedly, the horse dewormer is not an effective method of protecting from COVID-19. w Each i ml contains Active substance Ivermectin 10 ng Ivermectin Also contains: Methyl paraben and propy paraben TARGET SPECIES إفرمكتين Cows camels and sheep INDICATIONS: Solution for Injection For to treatment d the folowing محلول المحقن parastes In COMS Gestrointestinal roundwoms lung BOTTS, N ice, tch ticks rodent Ice In camels Gastrortestinal roundworms, lung worns, munge nites In sheep Gestrontestinal roundworms lung WOTHS nasal X mange nites. ADMINISTRATION: SPI SPI to used by subcutaneous injection. COMPOSITION - 100 ml tach in contains WITHORANAL PERIOD — Ars Technica

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