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40 Chivalrous Bits of Trivia That Will Lay Their Jackets Over A Puddle for Your High-Heeled Brain to Tread On

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When people say, “They don’t make ‘em like they used to,” they’re not talking about these facts. These polite, gentlemanly, yet also somehow a little rugged facts are a chip off the old “man’s man” block.

Your brain is about to be wined, dined and left wanting more.

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Underwater Strip Club

There is an abandoned, underwater strip club in Israel. CRACKED.COM It used to be an underwater restaurant before it reopened as a strip club. The entrance is above water, people just crossed a 230-foot bridge and went down a flight of stairs. No need to get wet. — Huffington Post

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The University of Oxford

THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD IS OLDER THAN THE AZTEC EMPIRE. 15th century m Tax 9th century GRACKED COM — Source: 25 Then/Now Demonstrations Of Time's Power

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Coco

While making the movie Coco, Disney tried to trademark the phrase Dia de los Muertos. CRACKED.COM The Mexican holiday has been celebrated in Mexico for centuries. The trademark also included applications pertaining to toys, cereals and jewelry. — Source

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Bad Predictions

There's simply no demand for YouTube. YOUTUBE COFOUNDER CRACKED COM Cofounder and СТО Steve Chen once said there's just not that many videos I want to watch. Strange that a man with zero foresight could accidentally invent a perpetual motion propaganda machine! — Source: 15 Impossibly Silly Predictions (Made By Serious People)

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Star Wars

MARK HAMILL WAS HIGH ON PAINKILLERS.
Hamill had been in a car accident in early ‘77, and surgeons had had to rebuild part of his face. His upsetting l — Source: The Telegraph

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Cannibal! The Musical

CRACKED.COM In this early work by Trey Parker, there's a Native tribe called the Nihonjin. CANNIBALR THE MUSICAL Nihonjin is the Japanese word for Japanese people, referencing that all of the Natives in the film are played by Japanese actors.

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Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty almost had a massive phonograph installed inside. That was Thomas Edison's idea, when the statue was still being planned - he wanted to broadcast speeches through the entire bay. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Giraffes

NATURE'S DATING TIPS CRACKED.COM DRINK THEIR PEE A male giraffe will whack the female until she pees, then taste her urine to see where she is on her cycle. If she's in heat, he'll follow her around for a few days until he can successfully mate with her. — Source

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Johnny Stuck With It

Billy Zabka got into martial arts because of The Karate Kid. Не didn't know any martial arts going into the movie, and he kept training karate for five years with Pat Johnson, its martial arts choreographer, after filming wrapped up. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Scotland

CRACKED Scotland: saving the planet one breath at a time. Scotland has become the first nation to ban hospitals from using the anesthetic desflurane due to its environmental impact. This move is expected to reduce emissions by the same amount as powering 1,700 homes annually. — Source

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Ads

TENDER Friend HUNDRED are A AUS SUPER PGK S KB46 FEDERAL HENERVE NOTE KB 46279860I BOWL AD B2 TENSER KTS NATURAL TAKIS - Disney AJATE have 46 GRACKED.COM SONTE DO MA PAR the - The Census Bureau spent $2.5 million in 2010 on a Super Bowl ad with B-list celebs. The government kind of has better ways of reaching KB S people. This ad, say experts, targeted those who'd likely have answered the census anyway. 60 I — Source

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Laura Dern

David Lynch's 2006 Oscar campaign involved sitting by the road with a cow. DER LAURA Не was convinced Laura Dern should be nominated for an Oscar for her role in his movie Inland Empire - and he sat at a roadside corner in Hollywood, next to a cow and a big picture of her, where he'd talk to people who stopped by and explain what he was doing. It didn't work. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mad Max: Fury Road

The night-time sequence in Mad Max: Fury Road was shot in bright daylight. They just heavily overexposed the footage to turn it into a deep blue night. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Freckleface Strawberry

Children's books written by celebrities Freckleface Strawberry Julianne Moore Illustrated by LeUyen Pham Freckleface Strawberry by Julianne Moore Inspired by her childhood, Moore has a series of books about a freckled redhead that goes on adventures while learning to love who she is and how she's built. (While Freckleface Strawberry is a bit on the nose for a name, it's at least more creative than Ginger.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Deadpool

Deadpool's non-linear plot was just a way to save on filming action scene. They didn't have the money for a big action scene at the start plus more action scenes throughout the first act, so they shot just one and broke it up with flashbacks. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Skyfall

2012's Skyfall revived the straight razor industry. The movie's straight razor scene led to a spike in demand that didn't totally fade away even years later. One company went from making 8,000 straight razors per year in the mid-2000s to having orders for 110,000 a decade later. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Nelly

CRACKED 2005 WAS LIKE THE EDGE OF A CLIFF FOR NELLY. From 2000 to 2004, Nelly was a mainstay in hip hop and pop music. His first 3 albums went multi platinum, and all hit #1 on Billboard. Then, because of experimental songs and oversaturation, his next 3 albums didn't even go gold, and he completely fell off. — Youtube / XXL Mag

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The Royals

Rich people requests THE PUNCTUAL ROYAL DINING EXPERIENCE The clocks in the kitchen at Windsor Castle are set five minutes ahead so meals for the Royals are never late. CRACKED — Alexey Fedorenko/Shutterstock,
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Mount Rushmore

The Sioux nation refused $1 Billion in compensation for Mt Rushmore, saying the land was never for sale. CRACKED COM The US Government took the land on which Mt Rushmore was built from the Sioux nation, and developed Mt. Rushmore on sacred Sioux grounds without any compensation. — The Atlantic / Wikipedia

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Swimming Flippers

YOUNG INVENTORS SOME KID NAMED BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INVENTED SWIMMING FLIPPERS. Yup, it was that Ben Franklin. When he was 11, he loved to swim but wasn't too good at it, so he came up with lily pad-shaped wooden planks to move with his hands. They did help swim faster, but they got his wrists tired so he abandoned the idea. CRACKED.COM — Kuznetcov_Konstantin/Shutterstock
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Community

Spencer Crittenden went from audience member to podcast regular to actor. Не was in the audience for Dan Harmon's podcast, and evolved into the podcast's Dungeon Master and Harmon's assistant. Не appeared in the show as Annie's brother. NOW YOU KNOW: COMMUNITY CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 'Community' Expert-Level Facts

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30 Rock

COMEDY NERD In the pilot, Rachel Dratch was actually a prominent part of 30 Rock. She played TGS star and Liz's friend Jenna, but Jenna then got totally rewritten and Jane Krakowski got the role. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Sitcoms Whose Pilots Were Different From Later Episodes

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Ancient Greece

CRACKED.COM In Ancient Greece, it was believed that if you cut the feet off the corpse, it couldn't rise to haunt you. Greek tragedies discuss the method of cutting off the feet, hands, ears, nose, and other extremities and tying the removed body parts together under the armpits of a murder victim to prevent the undead from taking vengeance. — Source: Oxford Classical Dictionary

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Scottish Unicorns

The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn. GRACKED.COM The mythical beasts adorn castle walls, cathedrals, and Linlithgow Palace, birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots. — Source

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Ulysses

THE YEAR WAS 1922... ULYSSES WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN PARIS ULYSSES JAMES JOYCE BY James Joyce's famous work was first published in full on his birthday February 2, 1922, in Paris by Sylvia Beach at the Shakespeare and Company Bookstore. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Home Alone

Holiday Movies Home Alone The director's family members all have cameos in the movie, and almost all of the crew snuck pictures of their family members into the set decoration. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer hates his iconic role in The Sound of Music. It was so awful and sentimental and gooey. CRACKED.COM — 21 Roles Famous Actors Wish They Could Delete From History

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Man of Steel

Henry Cavill wishes he'd smiled differently when he filmed Man of Steel. Talking about a scene with Martha at the end, he said I would've smiled differently. Every time I see it I'm like, 'That's an irritating smile.'. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Satellites

Ariel-1, Britain's very first satellite, was put into orbit on April 26, 1962. It was as accidentally destroyed weeks later after the US military detonated a 14 megaton nuclear weapon called Starfish-Prime) in the upper atmosphere. CRACKED.COM — Source: These 47 Facts Will Make You A Walking History Channel

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Tibetan Burials

In Lhasa, Tibet, people are practicing Sky Burial It's a funeral practice where they lay a human corpse on a mountaintop to decompose or to be eaten by scavenging birds CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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Dogs

DOGS' PERSONALITIES CAN CHANGE OVER TIME. Owners have a major influence on their dog's personality. Fear and anxiety, however, are personality traits that remain consistent CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Dog Facts That Are Pleasant As Hell

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Botswana

A cave in Botswana has a key role in the founding of Christianity there. (illustration) Kebokwe's cave was supposedly haunted, but missionary David Livingstone convinced a local ruler to sleep there - he did, and converted to Christianity. CRACKED.COM — Source: Atlas Obscura

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Octopuses

Captive octopuses need puzzles to keep their minds busy. Being the smartest invertebrates, octopuses need mental challenges in addition to food and a clean environment. Some aquariums keep their eight-legged guests happy and healthy by giving them puzzle boxes they have to solve to get to a treat. — More: 5 Octopus Facts That Prove They're Floating Piles of Superpowers

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Ryan Lochte

Ryan Lochte: great swimmer, awful liar BC UI THUND HERBIROS CRACKED.COM In the middle of the 2016 Rio Olympics, at the height of his fame, Lochte and some teammates got in a bit of trouble campus. Lochte's instinct was to immediately get his mug in front of TV cameras and make up some half-baked story about being robbed at gunpoint.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson totally wanted to play Jar Jar Binks. But he wanted to use prosthetics and makeup, not CGI, and George Lucas was apparently totally no — Just think that there is an alternate universe where this is the reality.

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Spies

Au.S. CONGRESSMAN SPIED FOR RUSSIA As Jewish immigrant, Samuel Dickstein was desperate to stop Hitler's rise to power but was ignored by Congress. He — Source: Politico

4

Harry Potter

The Eriovixia gryffindoris spider is named after one of the oldest characters in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The odd-looking spider is shaped — Love when fantasy nerds get into the sciences.

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Charlie Korsmo

Charlie Korsmo, known for Hook and Dick Tracy, is a former lawyer and current law professor. He went to MIT majoring in physics before entering Yale L

2

Aladdin

Aaddin was actually modeled after Tom Cruise. CRACKED.COM

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Futurama

UTURA4 CRACKED.COM The character of Fry originally looked like that but was redesigned to look like that.

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