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Wolves

Wolves can also play fetch Scientists were surprised to discover that wolf puppies were interested in balls and were able to return them to a stranger with enncouragement. This went against previous understanding of dog evolution. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The MCU

CRACKED.COM THANOS' CREATOR GOT DIDDLY-SQUAT FROM THE AVENGERS MOVIES. Jim Starlin wasn't even invited to any showing-he had to pay for his ticket to see his own creation on a movie screen. All in all, he got more money from DC for an obscure character in Batman V Superman than for Thanos, Gamora, and Drax combined. — Source

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Catholics

For five centures, the Catholic Church refused to even acknowledge witches existed. That was from 900 to 1400 - and, not long after that, they got pretty enthusiastic about putting witches on trial. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Impersonations

A French man impersonated an American family's lost son for 3 and a half months. GRACKED.COM Frédéric Bourdin imper- sonated American Nicho- las Barclay from San An- tonio, Texas, who disap- peared in 1994 at age 13. Bourdin was caught and deported back to France. — Source

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Royal Underwear Purchasing

There's a market for royal underwear. People exist willing to pay top dollar for underwear worn by famous people - not just celebrities, but also queens. Pairs of Queen Victoria's bloomers have sold for over $15,000, and a pair of Elizabeth Il's (dirty) undies fetched $18,000 on eBay. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pranking Tony Soprano

14 THINGS YOU CAN CRACKED.COM DO WITH A FART PRANK TONY SOPRANO LORRAINE BRACCO ONCE PRANKED JAMES GANDOLFINI WITH A FART MACHINE WHILE FILMING THE SOPRANOS. Bracco, who played Dr. Melfi, taped a fart machine under her chair and told Gandolfini that she wasn't Butt of the Joke feeling well. — Source

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TRIVIA: You Think Bats Meeting Up With Deadpool Is Dumb...

BATMAN squared off against ELMER FUDD. What's more bonkers than a Batman/Looney Tunes crossover? A dark Batman/Loo Tunes crossover. This time, Elmer is hunting for Wuce Wayne. For wevenge! — test caption

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AMEX

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Clouds

40 Random Bits of Trivia That Assemble Into A Puzzle Portraying Movies, History And Data

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Flavor Flav

Flavor Flav is a musical prodigy. GRAGKED.COM By the time he started performing with Public Enemy, he was proficient in 15 different instru- ments, from drums to oboe, and co-wrote their first album with Chuck D. — Source

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Lions vs. Hyenas

In 1999, lions fought a two-week war with hyenas in Ethiopia. A pride of lions lost six, but killed 35 hyenas and drove off the entire group to take control of the territory -- a conflict that was broadcast on Ethiopian TV and monitored by the police. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Friends

CRACKED.COM The writers' room of Friends was a toxic bro-fest. In 2002, writer assistant Amaani Lyle sued Friends for harassment. The (mostly male) writers never denied their edgelord sexism and racism, claiming it was all necessary for their creative process. The suit was eventually dismissed, as the horrible remarks weren't aimed specifically at Lyle. — Source

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The Shining

STRANGER THINGS INSPIRATIONS HE THE Stanley STATING Kubrick and legendary Hollywood graphic designer Saul Bass went through 300 ideas for the movie's poster. Apparently, Bass wasn't fond of the final poster's color, and proposed to make it red instead of yellow too dud for mools emphasis as mare CRACKED.COM — Source

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Roseanne

BEHINO-THE-SCENES SFACTS ROSANNE BARR DISPLAYED A LIST OF HER ENEMIES ON THE DOOR TO HER DRESSING ROOM ON ROSANNE. CRACKED.COM Not trying to hide her aggravation to- wards the crew, Barr prominently dis- played a memo addressing THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BE FIRED IF THEY'RE NOT NICE TO ME. This included, EVERYBODY... ALL PRODUCERS, ALL WRITERS, ALL SUBJECT TO CHANGE. — Source

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RoboCop

Paul Verhoeven thought RoboCop would make a stupid movie. Verhoeven called the script stupid garbage and American nonsense after reading just a few pages. His wife Martine, though, convinced him to give the story a shot-so Verhoeven read the script more carefully, and saw a layer of philosophy or theology under the gory sci-fi action. GRACKED COM — Source

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Eagles

Migrating eagles being tracked by scientists ran up huge data roaming charges. CRACKED.COM A Russian eagle named 'Min' and 3 other eagles un- expectedly flew into Iran/Pakistan. Scientists had to take out a loan and ask for help on social media to pay off the phone bill. — Source

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Coffee

Coffee does NOT dehydrate you. The reason you might see an increase in urination is because it's mostly water. It actually helps hydrate you and you can count it toward your water intake. CRACKED.COM — Source

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E.T.

CRACKED.COM Steven Spielberg refused for years to release E.T. on home video. In the mid '80s, home video was booming - but the decade's highest-grossing movie wasn't available. It took the industry six years to convince Spielberg to release his ugly alien on cassette. His more recent beef with streaming platforms isn't exactly unprecedented. — Source

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Doctor Strange

Behind-the-scenes Drama Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness The movie had to be changed because of the pandemic. The entire plot was rewritten after Marvel's films were shuffled around and this became a sequel to Spider-Man: No Way Home. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Khloe Kardashian

Khloe Kardashian bragged about baking. But her Instagram pies looked a little familiar. Sweet Lady Jane bakery owner Jane Lockhart confirmed they were her pies, quipping, I thought, 'She has to be kidding me.' I want to say, 'Good job. You want a job here? CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Late-Night Host Whisperer

Peter Lassally produced Johnny Carson, David Letterman and Craig Ferguson. In his youth, he survived a concentration camp and went to grade school with Anne Frank. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Astronauts

YOUR HEART WEAKENS IN SPACE. OVHD TIPO YOUR ONL Y REMEDY? CONSTANT EXERCISE. You have to exercise a good 2.5 hours a day, every day, as long as you're out there. You'll spend those hours strapped into one of the three exercise contraptions available, forever grinding in a tiny room that's filled with cables and presumably smells like jock straps. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a troubled genius. Не hated round objects, jewelry and human hair, making something like a hair-clip with a pearl on it triply terrifying. Tricky to know how he'd feel about bald dudes - no hair, but cueball-esque heads... CRACKED — Source

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Project Loon

CRACKED Google's steampunk-ass internet balloons. Going literally above and beyond cell towers, Alphabet (Google's parent company) tried to give affordable internet to planet Earth with internet-emitting balloons. Many countries denied them for airspace security reasons. They lost $1 billion and popped them all. — BBC / Wikipedia

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San Francisco

No one knows who put a tiny house atop a 30-foot-tall tree stump in a San Francisco park. CRACKED.COM Tamara Aparton, a spokes- person for San Francisco's Recreation and Park De- partment (that sounds off, doesn't it?), said it's been a mystery to the park's gardeners for more than a month. — SFGate

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Pearl Harbor

Three men survived for 16 days in a sunken battleship after the Pearl Harbor attack. They were only found when the battleship was salvaged six months later - next to their bodies was a calendar with 16 days crossed off. The Navy didn't tell their families how long they'd survived. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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Popeye

Popeye the Sailor owns a dog-like creature whose cells leaked through from the 4th dimension. CRACKED.COM The creature transmuted into a being capable of moving between dimensions and solving difficult problems. His name is Eugene the Jeep. — MeTV

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Aardvarks

Ever wonder how an aardvark's dust-raising dietary habits don't result in constant nasal irritation? Aardvarks actually have the ability to close their nostrils when eating, to stop dust (and particularly brave bugs.) CRACKED.COM — Source: National Geographic

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The EU

The EU offers free train passes to 18-year-olds so they can explore Europe The 'DiscoverEU' program offers 60,000 travel passes to young people. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — The Brussels Times

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Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas received his high school diploma when he was 60 years old The very successful Wendy's founder returned to school after dropping out 45 years prior and was voted Most Likely to Succeed in his 1993 graduating class. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Advertising Hall of Fame

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Terrence Howard

TERRENCE HOWARD FALSELY CLAIMED TO HAVE A PH.D. IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING. pany In 2013, Howard told Jimmy Kimmel that he got a doctorate from South Carolina State University. However, he actually only got an honorary degree after speaking at the school's commencement ceremony- -SCSU doesn't even offer a chemical engineering degree. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Head-Scratching Lies (Told By Famous Actors)

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Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus saw a UFO while out driving - and even an alien, apparently. The UFO chased her and a friend in her car, and even saw a being sitting in front of it. They made eye contact, and it shook her, she says. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith's wife knocked on his hotel room door to do an interview with him. He was doing press and was supposed to get interviewed by a USA Today reporter-- who he'd eventually marry. CRACKED.COM — Source: Comicbook.com

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Dumbledore

lan McKellen turned down the opportunity to play mbledore. They wanted to give him the role after Richard Harris died, but Harris called him technically brilliant, but passionless,' and McKellen said he couldn't take over the part from an actor who I'd known didn't approve of me. CRACKED.COM — Source: Variety

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Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant THE DAILY SHOW CRACKEDCO According to Jon Stewart, the affable Brit was not SO affable on set, being a bit of a nightmare to deal with. As — Source: ScreenRant

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Terry Kniess

Terry Kniess THE PRICE IS RIGHT oue SHOwdam WINNER CRACKEDco Drew Carey accused Kniess of colluding with audience regular Ted Slauson via intricate ha

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Jon Hamm

Before getting his big break, Jon Hamm worked as a set dresser for Cinemax soft-core- porn movies. Hesaid it was soul lcrushing. CRAGKEDOOM

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Hoki

MEET HOKI. YOU MAY HAVE EATEN IT WITHOUT KNOWING IT. This ugly fish, also known as blue grenadier, is used by McDonald's in their Filet-O-Fish sandwic

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Eyeballs

This looks like a lake in a canyono It's your eyeball. This is a real photograph of a human eye, via electron microscope. The blue part is the pupil,

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