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Cave Crayfish

CRACKED.COM Cave crayfish are a lot like their surface relatives, minus the eyes and pigment. But while normal crayfish live for 6 to 7 years... ...cave crayfish live to be 175. — Source: 28 Animals With Superhero Level Abilities

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Babies

1 out of every 2,000-3,000 babies is born with a tooth. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Vin Diesel

VIN DIESEL SAID HE USED TO BE A BEASTIE BOYS BACKUP DANCER. CAST EURIOUS When Ad-Rock was asked about his claim, the musician said that it wasn't true. He thinks Adam Yauch might've helped Diesel get into a dance club once and that the actor might've misinterpreted that as being a part of the band in some way. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Head-Scratching Lies (Told By Famous Actors)

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Venom

Venom was based on a fan's idea. In the '80s, Marvel ran a competition for aspiring writers, and Randy Schueller submitted an idea about a black suit — From 6 Times Fans Got Put In Charge Of Everything.

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XronoMorph

TRACKS S P M FingerSering e F в E FingerString 1 g RideCrash S P S 8 P M Ridelle! P S M BassPlek P g BassThumb S S P g HHatClosed tunpito... E S P M HiTomFon 9 S P M LoTomCong 10 S P e Glan 11 R BY M HiTomFon 12 R F M Kink 144 (a) UR uio avenneus note dur (ma) VIII the send Y backs POLYGON 15 в R с 1.50 0.996 A44 200 34 S 2 7 1 с ٥ 5 R R 1.67 0,985 >33 80 100 2 8 a C 1.50 — Source

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The Smallest Handbag of All-Time

CRACKED A BROOKLYN ART GROUP JUST SOLD A HANDBAG SMALLER THAN A GRAIN OF SALT. An art group from Brooklyn sold a tiny handbag that was smaller than a grain of salt for over sixty-three thousand dollars at an auction. — BBC

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Brian Dennehy

Actor Brian Dennehy said he'd been a Marine. For years, he bragged of his Vietnam service. Не was actually stationed in Japan ... in the Marines' athletic department... and he left before anything major started in Vietnam. The truth came out in the 1998 book Stolen Valor. CRACKED.COM — Source

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New Zealand

WEIRD WORLD There was an (unsuccessful) one-person protest in New Zealand. It was being planned on social media -- but just one person showed up to the anti-lockdown protest, and police encouraged them to leave, which they did. CRACKED.COM — Source: Weird World: 12 Odd Incidents We Somehow Missed

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The Human Genome Project

The Human Genome Project was 1990 1991 1998 1999 1990 launched in 1990. 1998 1999 1997 996 So was the Hubble 1997 1995 Space Telescope. 1992 1993 1990 1991 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s CRACKED.COM — Source

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Uttar Pradesh

WEIRD WORLD A newly built road got damaged during, uh... its own inauguration ceremony. At the ceremony in Uttar Pradesh, India, an official smashed a coconut on the freshly-built road - and cracked it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Giraffes

Giraffes in the wild only spend a total of 5-30 minutes per day in deep sleep. One theory says this is because they're so vulnerable to predators - they need all the alertness they can get to protect themselves. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — BBC

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The Civil War

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NASA

In the '70s, as part of the Apollo program, NASA was going to build a moon base for six people. The project was only cancelled because Nixon saw the Apollo program as a leftover from JFK's and LBJ's administrations, and stopped supporting it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Growing Pot

U.S. farmers were encouraged (even required) to grow pot. Hemp used to be big in colonial times. In 1619, the Virginia legislature passed a law requiring every farmer to grow hemp. Everything was fine until the early 20th century, when the plant was demonized because poor, non-white people smoked it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Online Dating

1 in 10 coupled people met their partner online 32% people met their significant other through family or friends. However, 28% of LGB adults in relationships met their partner online. CRACKED.COM — Source: Relationships By The Numbers: 13 Statistics About Dating, Breakups, and Marriage

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Bill Gates

Bill Gates' first business was 'Traf-O-Data! GRAGKED.COM This was a company that created ma- chines that recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road. — Grasshopper

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Princess Diana

CRACKED COM BABY PRINCESS DIANA WILL HAUNT YOU. Ashton-Drake Galleries makes creepy realistic baby dolls for adults to treat like real infants. Not disturbing enough for you? How about a replica of a beloved dead princess when she was a baby? — Source: These 18 Ill-Conceived Toys Are An Embarrassment To Humanity

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Night of the Living Dead

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD WAS CONCEIVED AS AN ALIEN INVASION MOVIE. George Romero kickstarted the zombie genre - which, over 50 years later, still refu — From 5 Bizarre Early Versions of Iconic Characters.

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Colin Farrell

COLIN FARRELL WAS ONCE SUSPECTED OF ARSONANDATTEMPTEDI MURDER WHILE IN HIS LATE TEENS FARRELL GOT BROUGHT IN FOR QUESTIONING, BECAUSE A LOOKALIKE HAD

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Cobalt

The element 'Cobalt' gets its name from the German 'kobold' which means 'goblin.' Miners found cobalt veins near their silver, and blamed this strange and dangerous metal on goblins, and thus named it after them. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Xbox

GEOMETRY WARS STARTED AS AN ANALOG STICK TEST. While working on the Xbox prototype hardware, the developers of Project Gotham Racing encountered issues with the analog sticks on the controller. They decided to make a test app in order to find a fix for the problem and input it into Project Gotham Racing. This test app ended up becoming Geometry Wars. CRACKED COM — Source

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Sega

About 150,000 Sega Master System consoles are sold per year in Brazil. SEGA® Master System TM SEGA MASTER RISTEN Photo - «CHORCE PERA That's a console from the '90s, and it's so popular because modern consoles are hugely expensive thanks to high import fees - but Sega consoles are produced locally and are much cheaper. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Walking Dead

PUBLISHERS IN 2003 WEREN'T INTERESTED IN A COMIC BOOK SERIES ABOUT ZOMBIES. ROBERT KIRKMAN So creator Robert Kirkman told them The Walking Dead was about an alien invasion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cheese

Wondering who the first person to make cheese was? Unfortunately, you'll likely never get an answer. Cheese exists before recorded history, and its specific origin is still unknown, though estimated around 8000 ВС. CRACKED.COM — Source

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St. Patrick

Everyone honors St. Patrick by wearing green. But St. Patrick's official color is blue. The earliest depictions of St. Patrick show him clothed entirely in blue, not green, and when George III created a new order of chivalry for the Kingdom of Ireland, the Order of St. Patrick, its official color was a sky blue, known as St. Patrick's Blue. Blue was originally the color of Ireland, and a gold harp on a blue background still appears on the Irish constitution and presidential flag. The color green represents the divide between Ireland and Great Britain. CRACKED.COM http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/should-st-patricks-day-be-blue-180954572/ — Source

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Slash

Guns'n'Roses guitarist Slash kept, basically, a gigantic ZOO at his home. Не had a pet mountain lion (named Curtis), numerous cats, lizards, and venomous snakes. I installed a full-on reptile zoo over there, he wrote. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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James May

A British entertainer built a two-story house in Great Britain made out of Lego. GRAGKED.COM James May, of 'Top Gear' fame, created the home on the Denbies Wine Estate in Surrey with 3.2 million of the plastic bricks. The house had a working show- er, toilet, and sink. — Source

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Aubrey Plaza’s SNL Dreams

AUBREY PLAZA CRACKED.COM I wanted to be on that show for as long as I could remember, says Plaza. She landed an SNL internship in 2005 but didn't make the cast after her 2008 audition. — The Guardian

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Russian Spies

A FORMER RUSSIAN SPY SOLVED HIS OWN MURDER. Alexander Litvinenko, while he lay dying, figured out (alongside detectives) that his tea had been poisone — Source: The Guardian

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Watergate

Nixon's Watergate operation was blown by a piece of duct tape. Nixon's man used duct tape on the locks in the Watergate building to prevent doors from

10

Bitcoin

In 2018, Russian nuclear scientists were arrested for Bitcoin mining on the job. (illustration) Apparently, they tried to use one of the most powerful supercomputers in Russia, at a top-secret nuclear warhead facility, to mine ВТС. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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eBay

The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. ebay eBay founder Pierre Omidyar disclosed in his listing that it didn't work. Yet, a bidding war ensued. His original price was $1, but he ended up selling it for $14. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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TayTweets

CRACKED Humans trained AI to be racist. In 2016, Microsoft told users that the more they tweet to Tay, the more she'd learn. Within 24 hours, she was tweeting racial slurs, Hitler quotes, incestuous sexual acts, and was immediately canceled. TWEETS FOLL 96.1K 48 Tweets Tw TayTweets — Source

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Reese Witherspoon

You used to be cool A drunk REESE WITHERSPOON pulls the I'm famous card. She was seemingly America's good girl, but her arrest was caught on film in 2013, and she drunkenly yelled, Do you know my name? You better not arrest me to officers. They did arrest her... for disorderly conduct. CRACKED — Source

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Vinyl

Vinyl records sell as much as CDs. While most of the music industry's revenue comes from streaming, many people like to physically own the music they listen to. Vinyl records are a favored format for this, with sales going up as CD sales keep falling. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Thomas Urquhart

ЭЛТ DA Thomas Urquhart 1611-1660 DIED OF LAUGHTER Urquhart passed away in exile in the Netherlands in 1660. Allegedly, he died laughing after hearing about Charles II being restored to the throne. CRACKED — Wiki Commons
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Minority Report

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Winnie the Pooh

A new horror reimagining of Winnie the Pooh makes him a serial killer in Blood and Honey. CRACKED.COM Since А.А. Milne's classic children's book has en- tered the public domain, anyone can now adapt those classic characters as they see fit - so long as they don't look too much like Disney's version. — https://www.ign.com/articles/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-is-a-nightmare-reimagining-of-the-beloved-bear

2

The Nazis

The Nazis lost an entire room. The Nazis stole the entire contents of The Amber room, an entirely gold and amber room worth over 500 million dollars in today's currency, from the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo in Russia. It was hidden during the war and has yet to be found. CRACKED.COM

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Dustin Diamond

Dustin Diamond put out a Saved By The Bell book. He said he was writing the juicy stuff no one knew. Turned out he may not have written the book at all. Since 2014, he has maintained that it was written by a ghostwriter, and he had no input on the final manuscript. CRACKED.COM — source: Bizarre Lies 19 Famous People Thought They'd Get Away With

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