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We’ve all had that one friend in our teens or early 20s that was so insanely fun, but didn’t really know their limits. Pushing those limits was hilarious back then, but now that you’re a responsible adult, you don’t necessarily want that craziness over for dinner with your spouse and kids.

This group of facts is a lot like Wild Kyle or Feral Darrel, or whatever you called that psycho. Have your fun with it now and then maybe just say you’re busy with the kids’ soccer practice or a PTA meeting the next time it wants to rage.

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Taylor Swift

A MAN ROBBED A BANK TO IMPRESS TAYLOR SWIFT. Bruce Rowley stole $1,600 and drove to Swift's house. When he found she wasn't home, he threw the money o

39

Mean Girls

Tina Fey had to give Tim Meadows carpal tunnel. MEAN GIRLS CRACKED CO Meadows broke his wrist a week before filming started, and would need a cast for the entire shoot. Instead of kicking one of their biggest stars to the curb, Tina Fey decided the chronic condition would explain why — Source: ScreenRant

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Matt Gaetz

Matt Gaetz made a Twitch channel and only managed to get six viewers on his inaugural stream. CRACKED.COM Representative Gaetz, who is under investigation for sex with a minor and trafficking, thought now is the time to reach a younger audience. The few viewers he did manage to get left vulgar ASCII images in his chat. — Independent / Wikipedia

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Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster Foster had an Oscar nomination when she was only 12 years old, but she attended Yale University, graduating magna cum laude with a degree in literature. During college, she was in five movies to help pay for her education. CRACKED.COM — Source: Yale News

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The Largest Flying Animal

THE QUETZALCOATLUS WAS AS TALL AS A GIRAFFE Quetzalcoaflus northropi Quetzalcoatlus sp. The Quetzalcoatlus is the largest known flying animal. It was a pterosaur with a wingspan of around 33 feet. CRACKED.COM — Source

35

Get Out

Get Out Walter's running shoes are from the same year Jesse Owens ran in the Olympics. Dean tells Chris that his father competed and lost against Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics. The costume designer managed to find shoes from that same year for Walter to wear. CRACKED.COM — Source

34

Riz Ahmed

RIZ AHMED was the first Muslim actor to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor. The 2021 nomination was for his lead role in the movie Sound of Metal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Toilets

CRACKED Toilets don't flush the other way in the other hemisphere. Both hemispheres contain toilets that flush both ways, depending on the design of the toilet. Sorry, The Simpsons lied to you. — MITstudio/Shutterstock
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Modern Ancient Medicine

FROM THE 13TH CENTURY UNTIL 1572, THE INCANS PERFORMED EFFECTIVE SKULL SURGERIES. aniza TO CRACKED.COM Archaeologists have found more than 100 Incan skulls that have been drilled with holes, and it is estimated that this surgery had a survival rate of about 80%. — NatGeo / Smithsonian Mag

31

The Bourne Identity

The first Jason Bourne was quite older. In 1988, when Matt Damon was barely 18, ABC aired a three-hour- long adaptation of The Bourne Identity. Richar — Source: 7 Bizarre Early Versions of Famous Characters

30

Glenn Close

Glenn Close was raised in a cult. Close's parents joined the Moral Re-Armament, a right-wing religious cult, when she was seven and she was in it up until she was 22. The actress says the experience had a profound impact on her life, and that for years after she wouldn't trust any of her instincts because all her beliefs had been dictated to her. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ancient Persian Torture

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Dairy Queen

Dairy Queen CRACKED.COM 6-Piece Chicken Strip Basket 1300 calories II A chicken strip basket's calories are equal to that of over 5 small cones. — Source: Dairy Queen

27

Garry Marshall and Hector Elizondo

Director Garry Marshall demanded in his contract that his friend Hector Elizondo get a role in every film he directed. DAY Elizondo, who had appeared in every single film directed by Marshall, only found out about the contract clause upon the death of the director. CRACKED.COM — 16 Extremely Specific Celebrity Demands

26

Pink

CRACKED PINK & HER DAUGHTER'S HIGH-FLYING PERFORMANCE. Her kids often accompany her on tour. She and her daughter Willow sang together on Cover Me In Sunshine, and performed an aerial performance of the song together at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards. — Youtube / CNN

25

Wayne Brady

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS Wayne Brady was offended by CHAPPELLE'S SHOW CRACKED.COM Brady hated it when show character Negrodamus said white people love Wayne Brady, because Wayne Brady makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X. Brady and Chappelle had drinks to hash it out, then created a sketch where Brady could show off his edgier side. — Mental Floss

24

World War II

Japanese high school curriculum usually leaves out the early 1900s to WWII. CRACKED.COM Only 19 of the book's 357 pages dealt with events be- tween 1931 and 1945, said Mariko Oi, who attended high school in Tokyo. There was also just one sentence on the atomic bombings of Hiroshi- ma and Nagasaki. — Source

23

Max Baer

Max Baer is shown as a murderous psychopath, who has killed multiple boxers in Cinderella Man. In fact, the real-life Max Baer did actually kill a box

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22

Survivor

OUTPLAY OUTWIr SURVIVOR GAME CHANGERS MAMANGA IISANDS OUTAST In 2017, Zeke Smith was outed as transgender by an angry tribemate during a tense Tribal

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Pulp Fiction

20

John Bodkin Adams

CRACKED.COM John Bodkin Adams was a wealthy doctor (and maybe a serial killer). Doctor Adams' wealth had a dubious origin - he had his elderly female patients write him into their wills, and then he would (allegedly) alleviate their suffering with an injection. Не was never convicted for murder, but he was still found guilty of forging prescriptions and other such suspicious going-ons. — Source: 15 Creepy Crimes That Were Never Solved

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Joseph Barcroft

JOSEPH BARCROFT GASSED HIMSELF. During World War I, the Allies planned to produce a bunch of hydrocyanic acid, so Barcroft sealed himself up in a chamber full of it. After he failed to die, he told them not to waste their money. CRACKED — Wiki Commons,
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Jussie Smollett

CRACKED JUSSIE SMOLLETT FAKED A HATE CRIME. Jussie Smollett was found guilty on five of six charges of disorderly conduct for lying to police about staging an anti-gay, racist attack on himself, and experts say his career is now unsalvageable due to the verdicts. — Fox / Vanity Fair

17

Hollywood

NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED. Animals were harmed, or even died, while filming movies such as Life of Pi and The Hobbit. Those got the American Humane Association's seal of approval anyway, SO as not to upset Hollywood types. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Marketing Lies Somehow Still Seen

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Australian Parliament

The Australian government banned the word mate for a day. CRACKED.COM In 2005, Australian Parlia- ment banned anyone on their staff from using the word mate while at work. Prime Minister John How- ard objected, claiming that mate was an important part of Australian culture. — ABC

15

Michael Caine

Michael Caine is actually in Dunkirk, but he never shows up on-screen. He's the voice that gives out instructions, via radio, to Tom Hardy's and Jack Lowden's pilots near the start of the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

14

M. Lamar

M. Lamar, brother of Orange Is The New Black star Laverne Cox, is an accomplished goth musician with five albums under his belt.

13

The Capitol

CRACKED THE U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING: NOT SUITABLE FOR NUCLEAR POWER, BUT RADIOACTIVE ENOUGH. The Capitol Building in D.C. has a lot of uranium in its granite walls, which makes it so radioactive that it could never be used as a nuclear power reactor site. — f11photo/Shutterstock
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12

The Batman

'The Batman's new Joker Barry Keoghan made a fan film to play Nightwing. Keoghan, who describes himself as a huge fan of DC, spent a long time lobbying to play either Robin or Nightwing. Keoghan shot a fan film in 2018 where he plays Nightwing, just to show that he could, even learning some martial arts and gymnastics to make the part more convincing. CRACKED.COM — 'The Batman's New Joker Barry Keoghan Made A Fan Film To Play Nightwing

11

Skittles

S S S S All Skittles actually S taste the same. All the differently-colored candy pills are made of the same thing - sugar. The differences you experience come from fragrances and colors (yes, even colors can trick the tasting part of your brain). So you're smelling (and seeing) the rainbow, rather than actually tasting it. S S S SV S S CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Presume That You Know Things

10

Scotland’s Stone of Destiny

CRACKED SITTING ON AN ANCIENT STONE MAKES YOU A KING The Stone of Destiny, a relic that symbolizes Scotland's monarchy, was taken by King Edward I of England in 1296 and used in the coronation ceremonies of the English and British monarchs since. Nobody knows where it's originally from. — Edinburgh Castle / Historic Environment

9

The Colossus Penguin

The fossil remains of a 6 foot 8 inch tall penguin were found in Antarctica. GRACKED.COM Palaeeudyptes klekowskii, or the Colossus Penguin, weighed over 250 Ibs and its skeleton was 37 million years old - the most com- plete fossil ever uncovered from the Antarctic. — The Guardian

8

King Charles

KING CHARLES' holistic healthcare. Experts believe Charles' Duchy Originals food company's detox concoction of artichoke and dandelion was scientifically unproven. They called it outright quackery under the banner of holistic and integrative healthcare. CRACKED — Salma Bashir Motiwala/Shutterstock
The Guardian

7

Poland

GRACKED NO WATER WARS ON EASTER. In Poland, Ómigus-dyngus (aka Wet Monday) is an ultimate water fight held each year on Easter Monday in Poland and Ukraine. This could be huge in The U.S. — Source

6

Einstein

CRACKED PART OF EINSTEIN'S BRAIN WAS 15% WIDER THAN NORMAL. Scientists in Canada have found that his inferior parietal lobe, a region that processes mathematical thought, is larger than most. His brain was otherwise normal in size. — Ferdinand Schmutzer/Wiki Commons,
Croisy/Shutterstock
Time

5

Scams

An Army vet posted workout selfies while claiming he could barely lift his arms. CRACKED.COM Zachary Barton pleaded guilty to stealing $245,286 in Veter- ans Administration benefits over several years by telling administrators he could barely lift 10 pounds, and going as far as wearing adult diapers and using a cane. — Task and Purpose

4

Mount Augustus

CRACKED The biggest rock in the world is Burringurrah, also known as Mount Augustus, in Australia. It's twice as massive as the better-known Uluru, at 2,350 feet high and five miles long, although arguably not as photogenic. — Source

3

JFK

The First Presidential Debate The 1960 debate between Nixon and JFK was the first time America collectively decided we want a hot president. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 TV Groundbreaking Firsts (That Seem Pretty Mundane Now)

2

Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro was obsessed with ice cream, and once ate 18 scoops in one sitting. Не even opened his own ice cream parlor. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

1

Zoolander

Zoolander's name is kind of a dig at a really famous male model. When the character was being written, perhaps the most famous male model around was Mark Vanderloo- Derek Zoolander was a riff on that. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vanity Fair

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