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WALL-E

More sound files than Star Wars: WALL-E ts WALL-E GRACKED.COM The futuristic animation required a massive number of made-up noises. TO create the sound of Wall-E moving slowly, audio designers used an old army radio generator. For the little guy's faster speeds, the choice was a bi-plane starter motor. — BBC

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Iranian Yakhchals

CRACKED Ancient accomplishments Keeping things cold in the desert Ancient Iranians made and stored ice during winter in a vaguely pyramid- shaped structure called the Yakhchal. It was able to keep ice all year round. — Ramillah/Shutterstock
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Star Trek

Star Trek Then vs. Now Warp speed An elongated effect, a big whoosh, and then a light in the background: warp speed is another visual staple of Star Trek. Unlike Star Wars' hyperdrive, which implies faster-than-light-speed travel through a higher dimension, warp speed actually achieves said speed. CRACKED.COM — John DiMarco/YouTube, Romulan64/YouTube

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Scams

CRACKED THE FOX SISTERS HELD PHONY SEANCES. They swindled untold numbers of people during the 19th-century Spiritualism movement and were even authenticated by skeptics, none of whom could figure out that they were just cracking their joints to make otherworldly sounds. — Source

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Statues

CRACKED.COM The Little Mermaid Statue is constantly being mutilated. What is considered the Statue of Liberty of Denmark has been a target of gruesome vandalism since the '60s. The poor thing has been blown up, decapitated, had its arms sawn off, and been painted over several times, both blood-red and blue. — Source

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Russia

ochi.ru 2014 Russia spent $8.7 Billion to construct a highway connecting Sochi to the mountain hosting the ski and snowboard events. This is more than the total cost for the 2010 Winter Olympics. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Young Inventors

YOUNG INVENTORS A 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL INVENTED A WAY TO WRITE IN THE DARK. In 1972, Becky Schroeder thought of of painting a clipboard with phosphorescent paint, and then placing paper on top, which would allow writing in the dark. She named her invention Glow Sheet, patented it in 1974, and got calls from NASA-while still being around 12 years old. CRACKED.COM

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Baseball

A grapefruit was dropped from a plane onto MLB coach Wilbert Robinson in 1915. CRACKED.COM The stunt was supposed to involve dropping a baseball into the coach's glove, but as a prank the grapefruit was dropped instead. When the red pulp exploded on Robin- son, he was convinced he was grievously injured. — Source

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Blazing Saddles

Hedy Lamarr sued Warner Bros. for the Hedley Lamarr joke in Blazing Saddles. A character was named Hedley Lamarr, and Lamarr really didn't like that. She settled out of court, winning some money and getting Mel Brooks to apologize to her for almost using her name. CRACKED.COM — Source: PBS

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ImprovOlympic

Comedy hotbeds was ROSTHERTEMS iO CHiCAGO ImprovOlympic was founded in 1981 by Del Close, and became known for long form improv. Many Second City and SNL alumni performed here, and others include Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Angela Kinsey, David Koechner, Danny Pudi, and Andy Richter. CRACKED — IO Improv, NBC
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Eurovision

Arabic countries stopped broadcasting the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest before Israel could win. CRACKED.COM Jordan replaced the live broadcast with a picture of daffodils and later announced that Belgium, the sec- ond place finalist, had won. — Source

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Patton Oswalt

COMEDY NERD Patton Oswalt starred in a profoundly unfunny show called Super Nerds. It was kind of supposed to be making fun of nerd culture, but it did that in such a hamfisted way, it comes off as a parody of a parody. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Frankenstein’s Monster

1931's Frankenstein was nothing like the novel. CRACKED.COM In Mary Shelley's novel, he has yellow skin that scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries. His hair was of a lustrous black and flowing. The 1931 film Frankenstein had Boris Karloff look like 1927 theatrical adaptation. — Ranker / The Fifth Estate

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Ancient Greece

Gentlemen used to rest one hand inside their jacket to signal good breeding. Corona In ancient Greece it was considered disrespectful to speak with your hands outside of your clothing. Portraitists in the 18th century began representing subjects in a similar pose, believing that it conveyed a noble, calm comportment and good breeding. CRACKED.COM — Reader's Digest

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Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

Pee-wee's Big Adventure was almost a kind of adaptation of Disney's Pollyanna. Paul Reubens got a new idea when he got a gift bike with the sign that said Bicycle parking for Pee-wee Herman only and had a picture of Pee-wee. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Weird Early Versions Of Movies And Shows We Love

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Charlize Theron

CHARLIZE THERON'S MOTHER KILLED HER FATHER IN SELF-DEFENSE. Theron's father was an alcoholic, and when she was 15 he attacked her mother. As an act of

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Hollywood

There are more than 2,600 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame GODZILLA 17 are dedicated to fictional characters GRAGKED CON — Source

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Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy ran a Los Angeles pet store with exotic animals. Avide from joining *Mission Impossible this year, Leonard found time to fulfill - lifetime dream-he opened . per shop. Nimoy's PET SHOP! PSTP His wife and the children all helped out con opening das and it turns out the love of animals is all through the family Would you believe we finally learned Не wanted to see more crocodiles and brightly colored birds, which he loved, in California. So his store sold monkeys, chipmunks, otters, and-yup-crocodiles. The store, Leonard Nimoy's Pet Pad, was only open for one year (that — Source: Projects That Celebrities Definitely Didn't Think Through

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Simon Bolivar

18 Amazing People Too Many Of Us Haven't Heard Of - Not only did he liberate six different Latin American countries from Spanish rule (and get one nam — Source: Smithsonian

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A Different World

GRACKED.COM A Different World The writing staff went on field trips to black colleges. Producer/director Debbie Allen would take the writers to Morehouse College and Spelman College in Atlanta, for them to capture that experience. Media — Source: Television Academy Interviews

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William Frawley

William Frawley I LOVE LUCY CRACKED.COM The actor who played Fred was reportedly a tough guy to work with. His weirdest hangup was probably the Yankees clause in his contract: he would get extra time off whenever the Yankees made the World Series, which happened 7 times over the course of the show.

19

Doctor Sleep

DOCTOR SLEEP Director Mike Flanagan paid homage to Stephen King's other big film adaptation, The Green Mile, by modeling the long corridors in the hospice to the death-row section. CRACKED.COM — Screen Rant

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Laura Dern

LAURA DERN The queen of Jurassic Park was born to Academy Award-nominated Bruce Dern and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore star Diane Ladd. CRACKED.COM

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Brussels Sprouts

Brussels sprouts grow on stalks Brussels sprout plants grow two to three feet tall. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Living Color

IN LIVING COLOR CRACKED In Living Color was an Emmy-winning sketch-comedy show on FOX for 5 seasons. It launched stars like Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Lopez. — Source

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Sprinters

Elite sprinters are genetically distinct. CRACKED.COM Running sports have evolved dramatically, as has our understanding of the mechanics of sprinting. People with a very specific mutation in the ACTN3 gene create a protein called alpha-actinin-3 that helps with the firing of fast-twitch muscles. That mutation allows people to use their muscles more efficiently, leading to, technically, super-human speed. — Source

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Free State

The South African province of Free State spent $4 million for a website that is hosted on Wordpress. The website is powered by the free blogging plat- form and according to developers is based on a theme called London Live Wordpress Theme, which costs only $40. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — News 24

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Home Alone

All the house interior scenes in Home Alone were actually shot in a gym. They just built the whole thing in a high school gym - apparently, using a real house wouldn't have provided enough space for a film to move around in properly. CRACKED.COM — Source

12

Burger King

Burger King's Where's Herb? ad campaign led to a 40% drop in sales. URGER ING The $40 million campaign rewarded customers who spotted a character named Herb who had never had ВК. Other chains flipped the narrative, pointing out that Herb must have been going to their businesses instead. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Fast Food Facts (Fresh Out Of The Fryer)

11

Cardi B

In 2016, Cardi B recorded an Instagram video in which she admitted to drugging and robbing men to survive. When the video resurfaced in 2019, comparis

10

Max Martin

Max Martin was the songwriter. Max Martin would go on to write basically every pop song you've ever loved, from I Want It That Way to Shake It Off.

9

Tumbleweeds

Tumbleweeds are actually an invasive species that came from Russia. Russian immigrants apparently brought it by accident to South Dakota in the 1870s on contaminated flax seeds, and it spread from there. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

8

Rita Hayworth

Rita Hayworth was the top pinup girl of the 1940s. She underwent a painful ethnic makeover. Rita was born Margarita Carmen Cansino. She was raised in a Spanish dance family, and spent much of her childhood dancing in bars. When she tried to make it in Hollywood she was told that that her lack of success was due to her being way too Spanish-y. So she underwent painful electrolysis to raise her hairline, then dyed her black hair red. Next came skin lightening - a dangerously unregulated practice even now. Imagine how it must have been in the 1930s. CRACKED.COM Susan Ware, — Source

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Nellie Bly

11 novels written by pioneering journalist Nellie Bly were just recently discovered. She wrote them in serialized form for a weekly newspaper, and they were thought to be lost - - but a writer discovered copies in archives in 2020. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Business.com

Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold at $7.5 million. + x business.com discover, compare & save ECompanies, a Santa Mon- ica Internet venture fund shelled out the cash to ac- quire business.com from a Houston media en- trepreneur who bought it for $150,000 in 1996. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Wall Street Journal

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John Candy

CRACKED JOHN CANDY Before making Wagons East in Mexico 1993, he told his friend Catherine O'Hara that he was afraid to go because he thought something bad was going to happen there. Не promised his family it would be his last movie, and he was right. — Grunge / Global News

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Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel played Dungeons & Dragons since the '70s While he was a bouncer at a club, Vin Diesel would play D&D on his nights off from the club. His character in The Last Witch Hunter was even based off his favorite D&D character. CRACKED.COM — Source: SyFy

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Brain Age

Women's brains are four years younger compared to men who are of the same age. According to researchers this is due to an unexplained slower brain metabolism rate, and could also be the reason why women can stay mentally sharp as they age. CRACKED COM — Source: 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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Wasabi

Most wasabi on the market contains no actual wasabi. It's most likely horseradish tinted green. That's because wasabi is so difficult to produce, and thus is very expensive. US CRACKED COM — 21 Debunked Food Myths

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Ground Squirrels

CRACKED COM The ground squirrel has been known to hide their scent from their most dangerous predator, the snake, by chewing an outer layer of snakeskin and rubbing it all over their fur. — Source: 28 Animals With Superhero Level Abilities

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