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Oh boo hoo, so you’re in excruciating pain right now. Big whoop. Stop keeling over for two seconds to look at these facts, would you? There’s like an eight-hour wait to see the doctor, so you might as well fill that time with some fun random tidbits.

Here, use your one good hand to scroll through them. And try to get to the end before you pass out!

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Beer

Russia didn't classify beer as alcoholic until 2011. Pamium PREMIER BALTIKA OBOLON OOLER Magna S TIL Premium not QUEEN Fa VERAINE MACICLICO Anything under 10% ABV was a soft drink. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Now-You-Know Food Facts To Chew On Today

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Fatigue Zones

Some roads in Australia feature trivia games. The games help to coun- teract the risk of fatigue in these 'Fatigue Zones' to keep drivers alert and reduce crashes and fatali- ties on the long, feature- less roads. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Twisted Sifter

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New Zealand

In 2020, a New Zealand town banded together to save a cat. Rodney had been a fixture at a local store in Marton, New Zealand, until a staff member apparently drove him about 9 miles out of town and left him there. Locals were outraged and spent a month looking for Rodney, eventually finding him on a nearby farm. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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COVID

CRACKEDCON COVID can really mess up your kidneys. Up to 30% of hospitalized patients in New York and China had kidney injury, and some of them had to — Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine

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Switzerland

No one knows why there is a statue of a guy eating babies in Switzerland. Kindlifresser, or Child Eater, stands in the middle of Bern, Switzerland, with a baby half stuffed into his mouth. It's one of the oldest fountains in the city, but no one knows why it's there. One theory is that it represents a fable that parents would use to get their kids to behave. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Strange Sounds

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Zodiac

The Zodiac killer in David Fincher's 2007 film ZO DIAC was played by 3 different actors based on CRACKED.COM actual descriptions from eye witness testimony. The use of the different actors helped emphasize a sense of mystery about the never identified killer as well as reinforce the film's ambiguous ending. — Source

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Fendersmiths

Jobs that no longer exist Fendersmiths A fendersmith is a specialist in fireplaces, who cleans, maintains, builds and tends to them, often in palaces. S Ana 0355 lemb-she out ghi rath 10 the higbeet CRACKED — Morphart Creation/Shutterstock
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Dogs

Isn't it adorable how excited your dog gets whenever he's chewing on a squeaky toy? That's because it reminds him of an animal screaming CRACKED.COM

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Psycho

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The first American film that featured a working toilet was Psycho. GRACKED.COM Flushing a toilet was seen as a little too risque for mid-20th century audiences, which is why Hitchcock added it as a plot point for some extra shock in 1960's Psycho. The scene in question doesn't include a toilet in the novel that the movie is based on. — Source: 14 Behind The Scenes Facts About Our Favorite Horror Movies

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Total Recall

It took 15 puppeteers to operate Kuato in Total Recall. The mutant leader puppet weighed 85 pounds, and needed 15 different people to operate its hands, eyes, and mouth, among other features. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Google Searches

Incriminating Google searches a Is it better to put crime scene clothes away or wash them Brian Walshe apparently searched the internet for information related to divorce, dismemberment, and murder in 2022 and 2023, before and after his wife Ana's death. Not the smartest thing to do, really. CRACKED — gualtiero boffi/Shutterstock
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The FBI

OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT NO FEDERAL The FBI spent two PIDELITY ER years investigating a BUREAU fake anti-Goth group. Among the many online groups the FBI keeps tabs on was an Е.Д.Л. x extremist church which ran a website called God Hates - of do my membership et - Goths. The group wasn't real, though-as the agents found out when they thought of checking the site's About Us page, after over two years of investigating them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sean Connery

You used to be cool SEAN CONNERY promoted hitting women. In 1987, he told Barbara Walters that slapping women isn't that bad, if the situation merits it. On what situation would merit hitting a woman, he said it should only come after a man has tried everything else. Not cool, James Bond. Not cool. CRACKED — Source

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MAS*H

M*A*S*H actor Wayne Rogers just waltzed off the show, because he could. When he decided to leave, the studio tried to sue him for breach of contract - but then found out he'd never signed a contract anyway. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chocolate

Eating dark chocolate can make some people sneeze, and it's due to genetics. About 25-30% of people are affected, and all those people carry a variant of a specific gene on Chromosome 11 that causes them to sneeze. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Interesting Facts To Become A More Intriguing Conversationalist

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Disney

Disney CRACKEDcO BASICALLY OWNS EVERYTHING. ARE 2OP1 IUCASFILM MARVEL MAKER abc STUDIOS PIXAR MupPeTs THE WALT DisNEY hulu STUDIO STUDIOS The Walt Dis

24

Blucifer

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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George Clooney

George Clooney is a megastar, plain and simple. And he also starred as Sparky, on South Park. So why would Clooney take time away from doing star stuf

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Money Laundering

Wolf of Wall Street, Dumb and Dumber To, and Daddy's Home are products of a huge Malaysian money laundering scheme. They were financed by the money si

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20

Sushi

Your sushi isn't the fish you ordered. More often than not, that halibut isn't halibut and the red snapper isn't actually red snapper. Not even in hig

19

UFOs

Robbie Williams was so UFO-obsessed, he thought about becoming a ufologist. RW He's had plenty of what he claims are UFO experiences, including a particularly weird one when he played a song about alien contact. CRACKED.COM — Source

18

Saint Teresa

A 16th-century nun's hand is wearing the Infinity Gauntlet. After Saint Teresa's death in 1582, her left hand was taken off so it could be preserved (

17

King of the Hill

We do know what Boomhauer does for a living. TEXAS 745 aas NTR ata ESE ARRTR Renhaner CRACKED COM Parts of Boomhauer's background remain a mystery right up until the very end. The finale features a shot of his wallet, revealing his Texas Ranger badge (and some other personal information).

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Japan

After WWII, there was a rumor that Japan renamed a town to Usa. At the time, Made in Japan meant cheap and shoddy - so, to get around that, Japanese authorities renamed a manufacturing town, the rumor went. Of course, it was 100% BS. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Home Alone

Odd, Fascinating Trivia About Home Alone - The house received visits from Japanese dignitaries. Years after the movie came — Source: Chicago Magazine

14

Fast Food

EXPIRED MEAT KFC CRACKED CON In 2014, undercover reporters filmed an American-owned Shanghai factory changing the dates on expired meat before sending it to McDonald's and KFC locations in China. KFC's parent company, Yum Brands, dropped the supplier, while McDonald's used the same company but a different plant. — Source: rd

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The Mayo Murder

A deadly shootout was caused by a sandwich with too much mayonnaise. CRACKED.COM Two female Subway em- ployees in Atlanta were shot after a dispute about the amount of mayon- naise on a customer's sandwich, leaving one in- jured and one deceased. — WSBTV

12

Friends

SPEND MORE TIME WITH FRIENDS Researchers discovered that people have higher levels of happiness after spending time with their friends....even more than with their spouse or children. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Thigh Bones

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. GRAGKED.COM A cubic inch of bone can in principle bear a load of 19,000 lbs. or more -roughly the weight of five stan- dard pickup trucks. — Live Science

10

Zoolander

Zoolander Mugatu was named after a Star Trek monster. Will Ferrell's fashion villain got his name from the mugato, a white-haired creature from an episode of the original series. CRACKED.COM — Source: Ben Stiller/Twitter, Memory Alpha

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Helen Mirren

Back in the 1980s, Helen Mirren was in a relationship with Liam Neeson. They met while making the King Arthur movie Excalibur, and Neeson later talked about falling in love while having sword fights and stuff CRACKED.COM — Source: Vanity Fair

8

Christmas

Artificial christmas trees are basically big toilet bowl brushes. Addis Housewares company had been manufacturing toilet brush cleaners for years befo

7

Dale Earnhardt’s Ghost

Myths with real-life consequences Ghosts (the thrill-seeking kind) A 51-year-old man was charged with attempted murder, DUI, and battery with a deadly weapon for driving the wrong way on Vegas' 215 beltway. Не said Dale Earnhardt's ghost told him to do it. DE Goodwrench QUICK LUBE CRACKED Goo G NAUGH Winston Cup Goodw - — Source

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Game of Thrones

The dragons in Game of Thrones are actually wyverns. CRACKED.COM The difference between a wyvern and a dragon is that a wyvern has 2 legs and a dragon has 4 legs. They also happen to be make-believe, so it doesn't really matter. — Source

5

The Alps

CRACKED.COM The Alps are hiding dead soldiers from World War I. There were 150,000 deaths on the Alpine front during WW1. A third of those were battle victims. The rest died from avalanches, frostbite, and illness. As the globe warms and the glaciers melt, the bodies of those dead soldiers pop up. — Source

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Ol’ Dirty Bastard

Ol' Dirty Bastard wasn't originally intended to be on Ghetto Supastar. CRACKED.COM Mr. Bastard's verse on the hit song was the result of him mistaken- ly bursting into the studio, loving the song, and asking to be part of it. — Howl and Echoes

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Anti-matter

The production of anti-matter at this point in time costs $62.5 TRILLION dollars per gram. That's almost 4 times the entire United States national debt. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Total Recall

They made up Benny's death scene in Total Recall on the spot. That part of the script was being rewritten when they were supposed to shoot the scene, — Source: SyFy

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Complaints

WEIRD WORLD In the UK, someone complained about an air ambulance ruining their sleep. Tranic - 000 KADIO DEVIN Seleners G-DAAN www.dani.org DEVON - AIR - AMBULANCE CUT The helicopter flew over residential areas at 4 am, and one person complained to the life-saving charity that operated the helicopter. CRACKED.COM — Source

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