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When we say that these facts are on a top 10 list, you don’t even need to ask which one. It’s on all of them. Since it contains a little bit of everything, it got on absolutely everyone’s radar. In “Top 10 Country Music Bands,” it’ll sing its country music fact and be one of the best to ever do it. In “Top 10 College Basketball Players,” it’ll slam dunk it’s college basketball fact into your brain from half court and get the NCAA’s full attention.

We could go on and on, but why don’t you check these creams of their respective crops out for yourself?

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Artifacts

The National Museum of Ireland in Dublin believes it was gifted stolen artifacts. GRACKED.COM In 2016, an anonymous donor sent two Bronze Age axes and two piec- es of rare Viking jewel- ry to the museum, which may have been illegally excavated. — Atlas Obscura / Wikimedia

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Dinosaurs

It turns out that dinosaurs could get arthritis, too, the same way we do. That's what multiple studies say - and, for example, a T-Rex found in 1990 (nicknamed Sue) might have been suffering from gout. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Eiffel Tower

CRACKED THE EIFFEL TOWER WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO BE A TEMPORARY STRUCTURE. It was built for the 1889 World's Fair, and meant to be dismantled 20 years later. However, they kept it around to act as a radio tower after radio was invented in 1895. — Source

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Captain America and the Winter Soldier

Captain America and the Winter Soldier was almost a different name. CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE WINTER SOLDIER That name was Captain America and the White Wolf, and it wasn't used for one reason - Marvel wanted to keep some of the original title in there to land that feeling, says head writer Malcolm Spellman. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rhenium

The element that holds the distinction of the world's highest boiling point is Rhenium. Boiling at roughly 10,100 degrees Fahrenheit, it's also one of the world's worst things to try to cook ramen in. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Solar System

CRACKED.COM You can fit every planet in the Solar system between the Earth and the Moon. While everyone knows the Moon revolves around the Earth, most people don't have the right idea of how far it is. Depending on where the Moon is in its orbit, there's enough room to fit every planet in the Solar System end to end in the intervening space. — Source: 15 Random Facts to Water and Fertilize the Brain

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Jimmy Buffett

Jimmy Buffett has no chill when it comes to the Heat. Не even got himself kicked out of a game. The famously laid back Margaritaville singer is a devoted Miami Heat fan, and got booted from a game in 2001 for yelling at an official. CRACKED.COM — Bleacher Report

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The Cannabis Ambulance

WEIRD WORLD Maine has a cannabis ambulance that makes house calls. CAL MARSUARSA RAOTITIONERS TIFICATION UNIT CIHIID E 210-0MMP ESNSLION People living in the Greater Portland area can receive a visit from the ambulance, which allows people who can't leave their house to meet with a licensed clinician as part — Source: WCYY

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Celebrity Pranks

George Clooney tricked a whole town with a fake celeb wedding. Не put high-top chairs on the lawn of his Italian villa, making paparazzi swarm around the villa for weeks, as they thought Brad and Angelina's long-expected wedding was about to happen. Even the town's mayor got antsy and put police on alert, but nothing happened. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Amazingly Over-The-Top Celebrity Pranks

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Borat

For the first Borat movie, Sacha Baron Cohen never washed Borat's suit. Не never wore deodorant when he was filming, either, creating a Soviet-bloc smell the moment he walked into a room. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Facts About Movies (And Other Cool Stuff)

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Space Law

Canada passed an amendment to allow for the prosecution of crimes committed on the Moon. GRAGKED.COM Ottawa has already extended its jurisdiction over criminal acts committed by Canadian astronauts during space travel to the International Space Station, treating them the same as crimes committed in Canada. — The New Arab

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The Neolithic Star-Mappers

Nomadic people on the Nabta Playa (in modern-day Egypt) were ahead of the game in astronomical terms - around 5000 ВСЕ they built what certainly seems like a star map from stones. Almost nothing else is known of them. Eerie! CRACKED — source / Astronomy

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Jennifer Aniston

EMBARRASSING EARLY APPEARANCES JENNIFER ANISTON in Leprechaun Aniston's film debut is this (not so) classic horror movie from 1993. The franchise has had eight movies, the last one featuring the daughter of Aniston's character. Spoiler alert: None are any good. CRACKED.COM — Source: Game Rant

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David Boreanaz

David Boreanaz was walking his dog. A neighbor saw this beautiful, brooding man walking his dog one day, and decided to hook him up with his pal - - Buffy writer Marti Noxon. — Source: GQ

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The Holy Grail

BEHIND-THE-SCENESPACTS THE CAMERA BROKE ON THE VERY FIRST SHOT OF MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL. CRACKED.COM First-time film directors Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones leapt feet first into the pro- duction of the movie, choosing an impos- sible location half a mile up Glen Coe in Scotland for their first days of filming. The camera jammed on the first shot, leaving them scrambling to make do. — Source

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Illinois

Illinois has the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica. Monks Mound is 1,000 feet long, 700 feet wide, and 100 feet tall. Its footprint is compa- rable in size to that of the Great Pyramid of Giza. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The Haunted Inn

Wotton-under-Edge, England THE HAUNTED INN The Ancient Ram Inn might look like a quaint and quirky little house, but it's believed to be home to everything that is macabre. The list of hauntings include an incubus, a succubus, the ghost of a witch who was burned at the stake, and children who were sacrificed in black magic rituals. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Christmas Story

A CHRISTMAS STORY TOOK YEARS TO BECOME A HOLIDAY CLASSIC. While the movie did somewhat OK in theaters, it completely vanished from screens after a few — Source: Vanity Fair

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College Basketball

BASKETBALL SAVES LIVES. R quillar all OODS SOUTHERN 35 0 CRACKED A men's college basketball game in 2008 saved hundreds of lives when a tornado came close to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, GA. The game went into overtime right before a tornado passed by, keeping the audience inside the building. — Wish TV / Bama State Sports

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Two-Party System

TWO PARTIES There are ten political parties represented in Israel's parliament, the Knesset. The Bundestag in Germany has six. Eleven in the Oireachtas in Ireland. Brazil's Chamber of Deputies has 28. New Zealand? Seven parties. South Africa's Parliament? Thirteen. CRACKED.COM

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Game of Thrones

GRACKED HAFPÓR BJÖRNSSON WAS ASKED TO PLAY THE MOUNTAIN VIA FACEBOOK. GAME OF THRONES In 2014, producers sent him an unsolicited Facebook message. Не said, They asked me if I was strong enough to pick one of the guys up. I gave it a try, and they were surprised at how easily I lifted him overhead. Не was crowned The World's Strongest Man in 2018. — CNBC / Body Building

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Talladega Nights

BEHINO-THE-SOENESPACTS Learning to drive a race car is TERRIFYING في to wonder TALLADEGA NIGHTS CRACKED.COM THE BALLAD OF BICKY BOBBY After a single scary lap at racing speeds, Ferrell and McKay were ready to call it a day. Reilly insisted they keep going: Guys, we can't be wusses here. We can't make a NASCAR movie and not actually experience being in a race car. — Source

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The Munsters

Grandpa Munster was more than a decade younger. THE MUNSTERS CRACKED.COM AI Lewis lied about his age to get the part, and kept up the old man ruse for the rest of his life. — Source: 20 Actors Who (May Have) Lied To Get The Part

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Lamborghini

CRACKED LAMBORGHINI STARTED MAKING CARS TO GET BACK AT FERRARI. Ferruccio Lamborghini was so mad when Enzo Ferrari insulted him that he decided to make his own sports car. So Lamborghini got together a group of people who had worked for Ferrari, and they built the Lamborghini 350 GT. — PhatTai/Shutterstock
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Wealthy Revenge

A rich NJ guy bought his former boss' house just SO he could raze it to the ground. (illustration) Billionaire David Tepper bought it from his boss' ex-wife, then demolished it, and built a giant 11,268-square foot palace on the property. CRACKED.COM — Source: NJ.com

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The Super Bowl

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Monkeys

CRACKED.COM The gambling website GoldenPalace.com paid $650,000 for the naming rights of a newly discovered monkey species. The species' name became Callicebus aureipalatii, aureipalatii meaning golden palace. — Source: These 24 Companies Have A 'Funny' Idea Of Advertising

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Basketball Cards

Michael Jordan's replacement jersey got on a card. el jordan game michael jordan gam 12 BULLS michael jord 12 grume CRACKED.COM Jordan forgot his jersey during an Orlando Magic game and had to borrow one. That's why people pay $40 for a Sam Vincent card where Jordan is wearing a #12 jersey. — Source: Beckett

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Shia LaBeouf

THE ACTOR: Shia LaBeouf THE ROLE: Mutt Williams in Indiana Jones IV WHY НЕ The movie was bad, yes, but he says his acting HATED IT: made it worse. I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished. CRACKED.COM

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Bed

CRACKED YOU SPEND NEARLY HALF YOUR LIFE IN YOUR BED. The typical American spends a lot of time in bed-about 11 hours a day, which adds up to 36 years, or almost half of their life. — Max kegfire/Shutterstock
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Peanut Butter

CRACKED Peanut butter A doctor from St. Louis supposedly came up with a type of peanut butter in the early 1900s as a protein alternative for elderly people who had trouble chewing meat because of bad teeth. — National Peanut Board / Wikipedia

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Cy Young

CRACKED CY YOUNG has 815 STARTS The most of any pitcher in history. This record has stood or over 100 years, and it's unlikely that anyone will ever beat it. — Source

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Knight Rider

William Daniels was a beloved teacher on Boy Meets World. And he schooled the Hoff as a talking car. Daniels, who played Mr. Feeny, was the voice of

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Gerber Adult Food

GERBER ADULT FOOD Singles Singles We ADULTS BEEF BURGUNDY Single 40% BLUEBERRY MEDITERRANEAN CC DEL IGHT We don't blame Gerber for trying, but baby food for adults is hard to make sound sexy. Gerber Singles were released in 1974, reminding people that maybe they were single because they were eating pureed meat from a jar. CRACKED — Source: CNN

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Jennifer Grey

Jennifer Grey GOT A NOSE JOB CRACKED C Grey didn't have a huge, public implosion; she just had minor cosmetic surgery. What she calls the nose job fr

5

The Mafia

Trash collection in NYC was run by the Italian mafia until the mid-'90s. They fixed prices regularly, with all the cruelty you could imagine that that entailed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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NASCAR

Z uTD 55 BAUGHMAN HASPEED The Dodge Charger Daytona was the first car to break the 200 mph barrier in NASCAR in 1969. It was later banned by authoriti

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Hook

Amazing effects made without CGI Hook The island is a painting - and yet, the perspective subtly changes as Robin Williams blue-screen flies over it. This was done by slightly tilting the painting, and then returning it to an upright position. CRACKED.COM

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Kangaroos in World War I

WWI troops smuggled kangaroos: Europe's wild wallabies living proof? GRACKED.COM Australian troops in Egypt during WWI smuggled kangaroos and other marsupials as mascots, with some even being taken to the Serbian front. The fate of these animals is largely unknown but stories persist about wild wallabies living across Europe today. — Australian Geographic

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Country Music

Country music was popularized by a Nazi quack. Back in the 1930s, Doctor John Brinkley had a radio station where he pushed phony remedies, praised H — More: The Drunk Nazi Surgeon Who Made Country Music Super Popular

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