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March 26, 2025

If you can get past all the slimy seaweed, you can actually find some cool stuff at the bottom of a lake. While mucking it up for these random facts, we also stumbled upon a wedding ring, a previously undiscovered species and what looks to be a bone of some kind.

You guys worry about the facts. We’ll worry about pawning the ring, naming this new fish and notifying the authorities.

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Hagfish

When threatened or anxious, hagfish produce incredibly bizarre slime. They take less than half a second to release about a bucketful of slime that's 10,000 to 100,000 times softer than Jell-O - it's one of the softest materials science has identified. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Quentin Tarantino

celebrity Hobbies MB I Dream Quentin Tarantino NEY of Jeannie GAME collects board games MILTON based on old TV shows. GRADLEY The gritty film director has a niche hobby of collecting vintage board games licensed by classic television shows, such as s I Dream of Jeannie, The A-Team, and The Dukes of Hazzard. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dollar Coins

Turbine 14 DOLLAR 167 To Hondensator COINS SOLK SIDENU NOSSELLER STATES STROEL CRACKED.COM In 2007, the US government thought 4/2 dollar coins would replace bills, saving the mint $4.4 billion over the next couple decades. But people liked bills more. Half of all dollar coins sit uncirculated in government vaults. — Source

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Russia

Russia is still holding $1.5 billion in treasure sent over from Romania. ١٤٩ SING VITS CRACKED.COM During WWI, Romania de- cided to send its vast col- lection of treasure to Rus- sia for safekeeping. In 1918, the new Soviet govern- ment cut all diplomatic ties and refused to return the treasure. — Source

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Tiger King

34 million -amount of viewers who tuned in to watch Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness on Netflix in the first 10 days. CRACKED COM — Source

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Batman Forever

Batman Forever has a jab at Tim Burton. Arkham Asylum has a Dr. Burton who shows up now and again, giving Two-Face and Riddler the diagnosis of crazy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bonnie Tyler

Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler Songwriter Jim Steinman originally titled the song Vampires in Love while he was working on the vampire romance musical Nosferatu. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Landmarks

Disrespectful uses of priceless artifacts Skateboarding over the Great Wall of China The Great Wall is really old, so it has been really really neglected. But cool disrespect got truly post-modern in 2005, when Danny Way became the first person to jump it on a skateboard. Did China condemn such Western decadence? Nope, they televised it, and the Ministry of Culture gave him an actual chunk of the wall. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pilots

About HALF of airline pilots admit to falling asleep during flight. ONE THIRD report waking up to find the other pilot asleep as well. CRACKED COM — Source

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Film Firsts

Historical Firsts in Practical Effects 1909 George Albert Smith patents double exposure Не built his own movie camera and used his newly patented double exposure technique to make a ghost for his 1909 short The Corsican Brothers. CRACKED — Source

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Boredom

BOREDOM IS BAD FOR YOUR HEART. London researchers found that men with dull, unchallenging jobs were at higher risk for heart attack. Boredom makes your heart beat slowly and steadily. When the heart is used to beating at a slow rate, it's unprepared for exercise or shock, and can't adapt. CRACKED.COM http://menshealth about.com/od/work/a/deadly_jobs him? — Source

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Billionaires

Roberto Goizueta was the first person to become a billionaire by being an employee first and not a company founder. GRAGKED.COM The former CEO of Coca-Cola transformed the once-floun- dering soda maker into one of the world's richest corporate franchises. Не died from lung cancer, and had spent the last two weeks of his life working from his hospital room. — Source

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Zoolander 2

BEN STILLER NEEDED TIME TO MOURN BEFORE MAKING ZOOLANDER 2. CRACKED Drake Sather, who created and named Derek Zoolander, and wrote the original sketches that he and Ben Stiller molded into the screenplay, killed himself in 2004. Stiller was too crushed to think about a sequel for a long time, and dedicated the 2016 sequel to him. — Esquire / Variety

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Pen Names

CRACKED J.K. ROWLING WROTE AN EX-MILITARY MYSTERY NOVEL AS A MAN. She wrote the critically and commercially successful novel The Cuckoo's Calling as Robert Galbraith, and her lawyer was fined for spilling the beans. She chose Robert because of her hero, Robert F. Kennedy. — Amazon / Them

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Thieves

CRACKED A THIEF WAS INJURED BY THE STATUE НЕ WAS STEALING. A thief broke a glass door at the Christ the King Parish in Monterrey, Mexico, trying to steal a statue of St. Michael the Archangel, but fell on the angel's sword, hurting his neck badly. — Catholic News Agency

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Money

THE PLATES USED TO PRINT MONEY ARE HAND-MADE. The dots and lines you see on your money are engraved by hand using very small tools. An engraver can take up to one year to complete a bill plate. RES STAY 1 K 6 EW E 10A WASHINGTON Secretary of the CRACKED.COM — Source: 26 Wild Facts About Common Products

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Edibles

STRANGER THINGS INSPIRATIONS STAND BY ME According to Kiefer Sutherland, production had to be shut down for two days after Jerry O'Connell snuck into a hippy fair and unknowingly bought some funny cookies. They found him lost and crying in a park. CRACKED.COM — Source: Jimmy Kimmel Live! (via Dailymotion)

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Cyclists

Cyclists in the early '90s Tour De France that were on steroids had to exercise through the night. BMC The cyclists took so much EPOs (Erythropoi- etin) that if they let their bodies rest they would have heart at- tacks during the night while they slept. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — New Yorker

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Gone With the Wind

Censor Joe Breen almost had the most famous line in GONE WITH THE WIND replaced with such alternatives as: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a whoop! Thankfully director David Selznick successfully contended that the dramatic use of the word 'damn' was at worst a common vulgarism, not a curse or oath that required censoring. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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Rocketman

CRACKED.COM Jukebox Musicals Rocketman The studio wanted to tone down the sex and drugs, but Elton John wouldn't let them. In his own words, I have not led a PG-13 life. — Source: The Guardian

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Parasite

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies Parasite 2020 Director Picture Original Screenplay International Feature Film Clear visual lines are used throughout the movie to stablish the social and economic lines dividing the characters. CRACKED.COM — Source: Reddit

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Tips

WEIRD WORLD A server in Arkansas was fired over a $4,400 tip given by a group of execs. They specifically gave the tip to her and another server who took care of them - but the boss told her she had to share. They took back the tip, and later gave it to her outside the restaurant - and she got fired. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Birdman

Despite the fact that the main character shares many traits with the actor who starred it, Birdman isn't about Michael Keaton... It's about Director Alejandro Inárritu and his struggle with his own perfectionism. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Movies That Everyone Misunderstands (And What They Mean)

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Zildjian

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Lindsay Lohan

COMEDY NERD Lindsay Lohan hosted SNL in 2012 - that was her fourth time ever, in fact. According to Hollywood Reporter's summary of the critics' consensus, the best that could be said was that it was not the worst thing that's ever happened to the late-night show. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam bass guitarist Jeff Ament got robbed ... by, uh, ninjas. A Three masked guys (that looked like ninjas on security footage) attacked him when he got out of his car in 2009. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Marlon Brando

MARLON BRANDO'S DIALOGUE FOR THE GODFATHER VIDEO GAME HAD TO BE THROWN OUT. CRACKED.co Brando was in poor health when he was tapped to record his own lines for EA's Godfather game in the early 2000's. In the one session they were able to use the aging actor, the oxygen tank he was breathing through made his lines unintelligible, and eventually another performer was brought on to replace him. — Source: Hollywood

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Facebook

FACEBOOK DEVELOPED AN AI THAT INVENTED ITS OWN SHORTHAND Two chatbots started learning from one another and speaking in a shorthand they created. They experiement was shut down shortly after. CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer The entire show was hailed as a shining example of feminist TV. Then we learned of the allegations about Joss Whedon. All those female empowerment scenes ring kind of hollow now, after the show's actresses came forward. — Source: The Washington Post

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Misery

Kathy Bates' most violent scene in Misery made her cry. CRACKED.COM When her imprisoned patient gets loose, nurse Bates smashes his ankles with a sledgehammer. I was crying... I mean, to have that much violence coming at you... — Source: Today.com

10

This Is Spinal Tap

This Is Biinlidl Tin A bit from the movie inspired the Harry Potter films. The mysterious deaths of the band's drummers inspired J.K. Rowling to quietly replace the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in every book.

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John Wick

John Wick spent 5,000 on CG dog pooP. They weren't allowed to give laxatives to the dog on the set, so they had to make do with CGI. — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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Percy Julian

21 People Who Get Unfairly Left Out Of The History Books - In 1940, Percy Julian figured out how to isolate hormones so they could be used in medicine — For details, read 5 Important People Who Were Screwed Out of History Books

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Ghostbusters

A crewmember knocked over the bookcase. GHOSTBUSTERS CRACKED A falling bookshelf should have been a disaster, but Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd turned it into comedy gold.

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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 pick — Source: Harvard University

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China

China's Stone Forest is a maze of jagged limestone pillars. It's 186 square miles of stones carved over millions of years by a unique combination of w

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Moths

MOTHS ARE EVOLVING TO STAY AWAY FROM LAMPS. Moths' attraction to lamps is famously unhealthy for them. But evolution seems to be changing that. swiss — More: 5 Unintentional Ways Humans Are Totally Changing Evolution

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SpongeBob

Stephen Hillenburg graduated with a degree in Natural Resources Planning, then went on to teach marine biology and study animation. A comic book entit

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TGI Friday’s

THE FOUNDER OF TGI FRIDAY'S AYS DID IT ALL FOR THE NOOKIE. Alan Stillman had no food experience when he opened his first location. And his goal wasn't

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Lord of the Rings

The role that made Viggo Mortensen's career, Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, almost went to Nicolas Cage. CRACKED.COM

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