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April 02, 2025

During our daily doom scrolls, there are certain things that are too good to just blow right by. Each app luckily has their own version of saving or “favoriting,” so we can go back for that recipe, affirmation or sweet random fact.

Our version of it is basically just to save the image itself, and trust us, you’ll be doing a whole lot of that today!

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Mad Max

George Miller's time in a Sydney emergency room inspired Mad Max. He's a medical doctor who spent time in a hospital emergency room in the '70s - there, he says, he saw a lot of real road trauma. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Thanksgiving

CRACKED THANKSGIVING IN THE U.S. IS WEIRD! Canada has an even older Thanksgiving than the U.S., and most countries who celebrate Thanksgiving do so in early October, to give thanks for the last harvests. The U.S. holds it way after the harvest, and is the only one that involves Pilgrims.

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Stem Cells

Scientists were able to repair spinal cords with patients' own stem cells CRACKED.COM In one test group, half of patients with spinal cord injuries saw substantial improvement after receiving stem cell injections.

37

Dinosaurs

It turns out that dinosaurs could get arthritis, too, the same way we do. That's what multiple studies say - and, for example, a T-Rex found in 1990 (nicknamed Sue) might have been suffering from gout. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Beer Hops

Beer Hops naturally produce an acid that can kill off a parasitic mite known to annihilate entire colonies of bees. CRACKED.COM Hops have shown such promise in helping Colony Collapse Disor- der, that the EPA has even approved their use as a biochemical miticide. — Source

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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

34

Auctions

Kurt Cobain's MTV Unplugged sweater sold for $334,000 The garment of the late Nirvana singer holds the record for the most expensive sweater sold at auction. CRACKED.COM — Source

33

Nightmare on Elm Street

Meta Movies Wes Craven's New Nightmare Reality itself got meta during shooting. The script featured earthquakes, and those scenes were actually shot. But then an actual earthquake hit California, and they included footage from the real-life disaster in the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

32

Feuds

The Everly Brothers After 20 successful years, Don Everly got so drunk at a show in 1973, that he couldn't remember the lyrics to their most popular songs. Phil Everly broke his guitar over his brother's head, stormed out of the venue, and they didn't speak again until their father died years later. CRACKED — Source

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Tanks

The longest distance at which one tank destroyed another is about 3 miles. The record was made by a British Challenger tank in the Gulf War, in 1991 - kind of amazingly, it hasn't been beaten since. CRACKED.COM — Source

30

Clue

CRACKED.COM CLUE HAD A FOURTH, LOST ENDING. The Clue movie was supposed to have four different endings, not three, but one was scrapped for unknown reasons. No footage has survived, but what little records exist show it was a very dark ending, with Wadsworth the butler killing everyone. — Source

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Tom Selleck

Tom Selleck is an avocado farmer. At the height of his Magnum, P.I. fame, Selleck bought a ranch and devoted part of it to growing avocados. During the California drought, he was fined $21,000 for stealing water for his crop. It's a puzzle why he did that, considering he doesn't even like avocados or manage to make a profit off of them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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King Charles II

CRACKED.COM King Charles II drank human skulls King Charles II paid a lot of money to drink a tincture called The King's Drops. Made from human skulls from Ireland, the cannibalistic alcohol mixture was thought to be medicinal. — Source

27

Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson worked passionately for two decades to make the movie The Professor and the Madman. It was a box office disaster which didn't even recoup a third of its budget. It also only got 38% on Rotten Tomatoes. CRACKED.COM — Source

26

USB

The inventor of the USB says his team blew it. by not making the plug work both ways. Ajay Bhatt said that would need more wires and circuits, so it would have been more expensive - they thought about it, but it would have cost too much. Still, 20 years after inventing it, he says that was a mistake and the USB plug was good, but not good enough. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

25

Fight Club

WEIRD WORLD China changed the ending of Fight Club ... and, uh, the system wins. In the recently released edited version, the final scene doesn't have any exploding buildings - just a black screen with the text The police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding. CKED.COM — Source

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iPods

Floyd Money Mayweather spent $50K on a diamond-encrusted iPod. 75240029D el F ! I 92400 00 GRAGKED COM OFF — Source

23

Spartacus

76,000 people CRACKED.COM The sound crew from Spartacus went to a Michigan State Spartans game, directing over 76,000 people to scream and cheer to use in the movie's soundtrack. — Source

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Dr. Mario

DR. MARIO DR.MARIN TM Dr.MARIO TOP 0010000 SCORE 0003400 LEVEL 10 SPEED MED CRACKED.COM ..Dr Marin Dr. Mario was titled Virus and did not feature the hirsute Italian in its first incarnation. Trying to recreate the success of Tetris, Nintendo needed to use their strongest IP to sell this new puzzle game, so the title was changed and a lab coat wearing Mario was added. — Source

21

Shia LaBeouf

CRACKED NOT BEING GIVEN A CIGARETTE (IF YOU'RE SHIA LABEOUF) Shia LaBeouf got into trouble in Georgia in 2017 when he got drunk and started acting out after he approached a cop and a random guy, asked for a cigarette, and didn't get one. Не was arrested for being drunk and disorderly in public. — NBC / Insider

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Mr. Rogers

Mr. Rogers was bisexual Не told gay psychologist William Hirsch that if sexuality was a scale, Well, you know, I must be right smack in the middle. Because I have found women attractive, and I have found men attractive. CRACKED — American Public Television
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Vandalism

CRACKED BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK ISAAC NORMA AVEL the 12-26 ROSTO Two jerks signed an ancient petroglyph. On December 26th, 2021, two tourists visited Big Bend National Park and decided to leave their mark by carving their names into a well-preserved petroglyph. This act of vandalism not only permanently damaged the ancient artifact, but also destroyed part of history. — Independent / CBS Austin

18

Mysterious Blood Pool

A mysterious, 7-foot wide pool of blood appeared outside a PA retirement home. CRACKED.COM Police Chief Chris Rauben- stine said All we can say about that amount of blood and ... is a very serious injury (has) occurred. No signs of struggle, or a body, have been found yet. — Yahoo

17

Pineapples

A single pineapple used to cost $8000. Pineapples were imported to be used as lavish decoration in the American colonies. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Tasty Now-You-Know Food Facts

16

Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan hates streaming services. In 2017, Netflix was the major target of the director's disdain because the streaming service was simultaneously streaming and releasing their movies in theaters. In 2020, he went off over HBO Max doing the same thing with their entire 2021 movie slate. Some of our industry's biggest filmmakers and most important movie stars went to bed the night before thinking they were working for the greatest movie studio and woke up to find out they were working for the worst streaming service. CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Directors And The Things They Hate

15

JFK

Frank Sinatra Не was friends with JFK. Sinatra helped Kennedy ascend in popularity, and even introduced Marilyn Monroe to him. But Sinatra's mob ties were too dirty for the Kennedys, so he was cut off from the circle. Не didn't take it well. CRACKED.COM — Source: Biography

14

Wallabies

We tried to save a species of wallaby in the 1920s, but accidentally doomed them instead. During conservation efforts to save the critically endangered Toolache Wallaby, 10 of the 14 last surviving members of the species were accidentally killed during efforts to capture them for a breeding program. The species is now extinct. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Red List

13

IKEA

WEIRD WORLD People had to spend the night at an IKEA in Denmark because of heavy snow. 10 Entrance IKEA m 4 Since they couldn't get home, 25 staff and 6 customers had to sleep on some of the IKEA beds lying around the shop floor. CRACKED.COM — Source

12

I Love Lucy

Lucille Ball once almost got beaten to death in a fight on the set of I Love Lucy. She had an on-screen fight with actress Teresa Tirelli for a scene, and Tirelli apparently got really into it - so much so that Ball was afraid she'd die. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Hamlet

CRACKED.COM Hamlet productions often use real skulls The 2008 production of Hamlet starring David Tennant uses composer Andre Tchaikowsky's skull, which he willed for that specific purpose. While not every Hamlet skull is a celebrity, stagings of the play have been using real human heads since at least 1755. — Source: 15 Creepy Random Facts for Spooky Season

10

The Constitution

The word democracy does not appear in the Constitution. De the Hands den Peop important Pertinity, Hinde Po and (Although it doesn't use the word, our government is still a representative democracy.) CRACKED.COM — Source: US Constitution

9

Fortune Cookies

Fortune cookies CRACKEDCO con CRACKED.COM The modern fortune cookie was not invented in China, but San Francisco in the early 1900's.

8

Firefly

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7

Thomas Patrick

In 1956, Thomas Patrick stole a plane in New Jersey and landed it in front of a New York city bar. TGCERENII TWO years later, he repeated the feat aft — Know More

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SFX

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A-List Celebrities

A-list celebrities are paid small fortunes to wear designer dresses and jewelry at red carpet events. Celebrity stylist Jessica Paster has confirmed t

4

Trees

CRACKEDO COM These are the branches of the world's largest cashew tree located in Parmarinim, Brazil viewed from ground level. This is an aerial view.

3

Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson used to be a political cartoonist. WHEN I GROW UP, I'M NOT THAT WAY I CAN COMPLAIN GOING TO READ THE NEWS- TH

2

Planes

The bright lines on airplane floors are there to save your life in case of heavy smoke. Smoke is thickest around the ceiling, sO heavy smoke easily ob

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Jason Sudeikis and George Wendt

You probably recognize these two NBC comedy stars. JASON SUDEIKIS AND GEORGE WENDT You probably didn't know they're family. Sudeikis was a cast member

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