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Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas received his high school diploma when he was 60 years old The very successful Wendy's founder returned to school after dropping out 45 years prior and was voted Most Likely to Succeed in his 1993 graduating class. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Doctors

COMT If you are a big fuss about your situation, your status doctor might diagnose you as dramaticus (Not to your face, of course.)

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Parakeets

WEIRD WORLD After a parakeet breeding plan went wrong, parakeets crowded an animal shelter. A guy left some parakeets at the shelter in Michigan - he said he'd drop off a few, but there were 497 parakeets. Apparently, his son wanted to breed just a few of them, but had no idea how quickly birds would breed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Terminator

The Terminator came to James Cameron when he got a high fever while visiting Rome. CO He says that the fact that he was alone in a foreign city helped

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Polar Bears

Polar bears are nearly invisible to infrared cameras. The bear's fur is so good at keeping the bear warm, that almost no heat escapes that can be picked up by infrared sensors. Invisibility cloaks are being researched that copy how the bear's hairs work. GRACKED COM — Harvard University

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The Rugrats Movie

Reptar from The Rugrats Movie was actually voiced by... .Busta Rhymes. CRACKED.com COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Austin Powers in Goldmember

CRACKED.COM AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER MICHAEL CAINE THOUGHT THE MOVIE WAS SPOOFING HIM. Before agreeing to play Austin's father, Caine thought Myers was being cheeky and portraying his character from the British spy film The Ipcress File. — Source: CNN

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Sneakers

Nike's first pair of running shoes were inspired by a waffle maker. CRACKED.COM In 1970, while having breakfast with his wife, Bill Bowerman had the idea of using the waffle texture for the sole of a running shoe. Just two years later, his waffle sole shoe debuted in the 1972 U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Eugene. — Business Insider

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Orson Welles

Orson Welles THE BLACK ROSE CRACKED.COM Welles demanded that a coat he wore in the film The Black Rose be completely lined in real mink... despite it never being visible. I bet that coat was very comfortable! Unlike trying to watch a movie from 1950 where everyone's in brownface. — Source

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Halloween

Carving jack-o'-lanterns into pumpkins was a tradition that came from the British Isles, and they used different types of vegetables. They used turnips, beets, and potatoes and stuffed them with coal, wood embers or candles. Kids would prank others by walking with their jack-o'-lanterns in the dark, making people think they saw Stingy Jack. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hair

WEIRD WORLD There's such a thing as uncombable hair syndrome, it turns out. A toddler in Georgia was diagnosed with it, and it's kind of exactly what it says on the tin - but it's extremely, extremely rare. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Florida Man

A Florida man cut open his truck when he heard purring inside. Не found a kitten. The kitten was adopted & people offered to help pay for his truck repairs. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apollo 16

Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left a family photo behind on the moon. CRACKED.COM The back of the photo says: This is the fami- ly of Astronaut Duke from Planet Earth, who landed on the Moon on the twentieth of April 1972. — 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 — Britannica

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Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park GRACKED.COM John Hammond's cloned dinos were even more messed up than we thought. Remember that sick triceratops? A deleted scene shows it's subject to a grim fate shared by every dino, due to how they were made. Turns out Hammond's mosquito-frog-dino genetic minestrone leads to short, painful lives. — Cracked

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Jeeps

JEEP Younger folks might not know that these cars come with hidden Easter eggs (mostly images of animals) that's been a tradition for one of its designers since the '90s. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stradivarius

In 1936, a rare million-dollar Stradivarius violin got stolen from virtuoso Hall Huberman. CRACKED.COM The thief, a café musician named Julian Altman, be- came famous and performed for presidents. 49 years after the theft, he confessed to the theft on his deathbed and his wife received $263,000 find- er's fee. — Source

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Ghostbusters

JohN Candy had a bizarre request for his character. GHST BUSTERS lvan Reitman offered Candy the role of Louis Tully, but he wanted to play him with a

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Cats

A sailor stranded on a deserted island used cats as protection. Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk survived for over 4 years stranded on a de- serted island, partly by us- ing feral cats to protect him from ravenous rats that attacked during the night. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Edward Kelley

EDWARD KELLEY Kelley came to John Dee (see previous entry) as a young man who could speak to angels, and Dee ate up his every word. Kelley was also considered a master of alchemy, even being knighted in Prague for it. CRACKED — Source: London Review of Books

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The HMS Dolphin

The 1767 expedition of the HMS Dolphin had to be cut short due to accidental horny mutiny. Captain Samuel Wallis noticed his crew were dismantling the ship for iron parts, which were traded for sex with locals. CRACKED.COM — Source: 10 Historical 'Now You Know' Facts

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Birth Rates

There's no reason to worry about falling CRACKED.COM birth rates. True, the U.S. fertility rate is only 1.73 children per woman, an all-time low. But researchers get that number by assuming women currently in their 20s, say, will have as many kids in their 40s, as women currently in their 40s are having. And young women today are postponing having kids until later in life, so they'll have more kids than that assumption predicts. — Source

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Solomon Northup

40 Tormented Bits of Trivia That Always Seem to Pump Out Better Work Than Trivia With Much Happier Childhoods — Source: Inquisitr

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The Hulk

Not even Stan Lee knew how the Hulk's pants stay on. CRACKED.COM Lee liked to work science into all of his stories, but the Hulk's miraculous inde- structible pants were the only time he never had a clue how the exact science behind it worked. — ScienceABC

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Saturday Night Live

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES ANT-MAN THE FIRST LIVE-ACTION ANT-MAN ACTOR Garrett Morris has a super fast cameo as the cab driver in Ant-Man. The SNL alumnus was the first actor to portray the character in a comedy sketch back in 1979. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Elephants

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Dr. Evil

When Dr. Evil goes nuts about not getting sharks with frickin' laser beams, that's based on SNL boss Lorne Michaels. An SNL alum said they'd seen that conversation play out between Michaels and the SNL set designer before the show started 500 times. And, like Dr. Evil, Michaels puts his pinkie to his mouth and chews the fingernail once he's done speaking. CRACKED.COM — 7 Insane Ways Actors Got The Ideas For Famous Performances

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Eyes

GRACKED OUR EYES ARE THE SAME SIZE OUR ENTIRE LIVES. But our ears and nose never stop growing. — Source

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Cicadas

Cicadas build elaborate underground tunnels and chambers to live in. Just after it hatches, a cicada is in an immature form (called a nymph) and digs underground, creating tunnels where it can spend years in. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Phys.org

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The Sun

THE SUN IS WHITE, NOT YELLOW, WHEN VIEWED FROM SPACE The Earth's atmosphere makes it appear yellow or orange, but from the International Space Station, it appears white. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter slew an entire audience with a single joke... or so he thought. APPLAUSE In 1981, Carter opened a speech to an audience of Japanese colle

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CBS

CRACKED COM In the early 1970s, CBS cancelled all its shows set in the country. Rural shows like Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies made up the bulk of CBS's programming - but their audience skewed old, and execs wanted their network to be young and hip. So they cancelled the lot of them-a move that went down in history as the Rural Purge. — Source

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The Great Barrier Reef

CRACKED THE GREAT BARRIER REEF IS THE ONLY LIVING THING THAT CAN BE SEEN FROM SPACE. It is home to over 1,500 species of fish and 600 types of coral. — Source

7

Pan’s Labyrinth

CRACKED.COM PAN'S LABYRINTH FLAMES AND SPARKS WERE DIGITAL TO PREVENT FIRES. Because of a drought in the film's shooting location of Segovia, Spain, the timber was dry enough to risk a blazing fire. For this reason, most sparks and fire were added in post and green moss was used to cover the brown, dead vegetation. — Source

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Sunny Delight

A child once turned orange from drinking too much Sunny Delight. The girl was drinking 1.5 liters a day. The company used Beta-Carotene (found in carrots) to color the drink which can make you orange at extremely high doses. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

5

Loki

Chris Hemsworth actually voices Frog Thor, or Throg, in a Loki episode. T369 Thor Frog is literally a version of Thor in the form of a frog, and the screams he makes as he tries to escape the jar he's in are Chris Hemsworth's. CRACKED.COM — Source: SlashFilm

4

NASA

Specially made, aluminum Lego figures are inside NASA's Juno probe. CRACKED.COM The 3 Lego mini fig- ures represent Galileo, the Roman god Jupi- ter, and his sister and wife, the goddess Juno, specially made by the Lego Company. — Source

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Jeremy London

party of five actor Jeremy London CRACKED.COM claimed in 2010 that he was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to go on a drug bender. Because of Jeremy's history with drug abuse, his story was doubted publicly by his twin brother, Jason. Additionally the man who was arrested for the kidnapping claimed that there was no gun, no kidnapping, and the drugs were done of Jeremy's own free will. — Source

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Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks was the only Tom having fun in that bathroom. On Conan O'Brien's segment Hanks Secrets, Hanks said that at the 1998 Oscars, he was in the bathroom stall next to Tom Selleck and joked, Looks like we're a couple of peeing Toms. Не then said, His angry silence is something I'll never forget. CRACKED — Source / CNN

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The Mona Lisa

There is a copy of the Mona Lisa painted by one of Da Vinci's students. Prado Mona Lisa was a copy painted simultane- ously as Da Vinci's origi- nal. It has come to be un- derstood as the earliest known studio copy of Leonardo's masterpiece. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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