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Right now, your brain is the only one at this fact cookout that’s relentlessly pounding its fork and knife on the picnic table. To be honest, it’s making us a little uneasy. Sorry these facts are taking a little longer to cook than usual, but maybe ask it to distract itself with some frisbee for now.

We just don’t want our hands getting bitten while we drop this list on its plate.

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Eggs

America is one of the only countries that refrigerate eggs. WHY? ASABE A to on 1234 but 1450 Because the FDA makes HOT acc us Fresh Form Eggs XL GOOSE ADE A EGGS wash off the hen's natural Tray coating that protects the egg from salmonella. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Soap Operas

The first soap opera 1946 the entire production Fargway written and directed by Hill DAVID P. LEWIS CRACKED.COM Farway Hill, about a New York City widow who finds herself upstate in a love triangle, was the first to port the soap opera from radio to TV. — Source

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Rocky III

Mr. T was only supposed to have a small role in 'Rocky III.' CRACKED.COM After being featured on NBC's 'America's Toughest Bouncer,' Sylvester Stal- lone intended to use Mr. T in a minor role, but that was quickly expanded to make him the primary an- tagonist. — Source

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Einstein

Albert Einstein's Failing Grades Einstein never failed math. Не did fail the Zurich Polytechnic entry exam but not the math section. And it might have been due to being rusty on French, the language the exam was in. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Joe Russo

JOE RUSSO IS IN SEVERAL OF HIS MCU MOVIES. CRACKED.COM Russo played a doctor in The Winter Soldier, a corpse in Civil War, and one of the survivors attending Captain America's meeting group in Endgame. — Source

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Nike

GRAGKED.COM THE FIRST NIKE SHOES WERE MADE WITH A WAFFLE IRON. Bill Bowerman noticed over breakfast that a waffle pattern was just right to make light soles with a good grip. — Source

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Game of Thrones

An early version of the Game of Thrones theme can be found on the soundtrack to the first 'Iron Man! CRACKED.COM 18 seconds into 'Mark Il' you can hear composer Ramin Djawadi wrestling with the notes that will three years later become part of the Game of Thrones tune. — Source

33

Lions

Some lion cubs can take down antelopes. In the wild, one female lion has been observed teaching her three-month-old cub to catch a small antelope. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

32

Jimmy Fallon

Children's books written by celebrities 41 NEW YORK TIMES Brother YOUR BABY'S FIRST WORD WILL BE DADA JIMMY FALLON моо Your Baby's First Word Will Be DADA by Jimmy Fallon The Tonight Show host regales us with a tale about the secret campaign that all fathers go on to get their child's first word to be Dada. Yeah, it's lighthearted, but it still feels like Mama erasure. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Benjamin Franklin

CRACKED BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CRAFTED HIS OWN WEIRD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. The glass armonica is an instrument made of tuned and color-coded bowls that were spun with a foot pedal. Its sound was so beautiful it was said to be the music of angels. — Source

30

Trees

GRACKED.COM 3.04 TRILLION TREES THERE ARE MORE TREES ON EARTH THAN THERE ARE STARS IN THE MILKY WAY. APPROXIMATELY 400 BILLION STARS — Source

29

Harold and Kumar

Harold and Kumar were originally written to go to Krispy Kreme Krispy Kreme didn't want to be associated with the movie, but White Castle took the risk. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chiclets

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Alec Baldwin

CRACKED Alec Baldwin on SNL. The current leader in the times hosted category with 17, he was also basically a cast member during the Trump administration with 46 appearances as the Donald. Just sign him to a contract and get him in every episode already! — Fandom / Deadline

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Alexander Hamilton

CRACKED ALEXANDER HAMILTON Hamilton wrote an account of a really bad hurricane hitting the island of St. Croix in 1772. This was printed in a local newspaper, and it was so good, especially from a teenager, that it encouraged people to raise money to send him to the U.S. from the West Indies. — Mentalfloss

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Touch Grass

CRACKED TOUCH GRASS IS ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD HEALTH ADVICE. Over 28 studies have found that being outside can lower blood pressure and reduce depression symptoms. — zhukovvvlad/Shutterstock
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24

Sunken Treasure

CRACKED IN 2007, FLORIDA DIVERS FOUND $500 MILLION WORTH OF SUNKEN TREASURE. The treasure was mostly in coins and originated from a Spanish ship that sank around 1804. — Fer Gregory/Shutterstock
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23

Elizabeth Banks

PERFECT 2 PITCH THIS IS ELIZABETH BANKS' VERY FIRST FEATURE FILM AS A DIRECTOR. Banks used a body double in order to direct the scenes her character was in. She has then gone on to direct the 2019 reboot of Charlie's Angels, and 2023's Cocaine Bear, a movie about, well, a cocaine bear. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia, The Things
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Hugh Jackman

Wrestling Celebrities HUGH JACKMAN On the September 19, 2011 episode of WWE Monday Night RAW, Jackman jacked Dolph Ziggler in the face to help his new friend Zack Ryder win the match. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Celebrities Who Got Involved In Pro Wrestling

21

The Taliban

The Taliban promises good news for women's rights is coming soon, but 'naughty women' should stay home. CRACKED COM When asked about Afghan women who say they are afraid to leave their homes under Taliban rule, Afghan- istan's acting interior min- ister added with a laugh: We keep naughty women at home. — CNN

20

Guinea Pigs

WEIRD WORLD Dozens of guinea pigs were found roaming a parking lot outside an adult novelty store. Two people face more than 60 counts of animal cruelty after an argument led to one man grabbing his girlfriend's guinea pigs after she went to bed and dumping them outside. CRACKED.COM — Dozens of guinea pigs dumped near adult novelty store

19

Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman is claustrophobic. CRACKED.COM Which obviously made this Kill Bill scene excruciating. — Source: 20 Bizarre Fears, Phobias, and Superstitions Of The Rich And The Famous

18

The Bee Gees

The Bee Gees' Stayin' Alive is about what a dump NYC was. The Gibb brothers have explained that the group's most emblematic song is not about disco dancing at all, but about how hard it was to survive in 1977 New York City. They didn't even know the plot of Saturday Night Fever when they wrote the song. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Random Facts For Your General Edification

17

David Bowie

David Bowie went from '70s freak to '80s megastar out of spite. Specifically, he did it to spite his former manager, who was contractually entitled to take 50% of Bowie's royalties until 1982. Between 1976 and 1980, Bowie made the most intentionally uncommercial records of his career. Then, as soon as the contract expired, he released the pop-est album imaginable, Let's Dance. It sold 10 million copies and made him a multimillionaire. GRAGKED.COM Marc Spitz, 2009 Bowie: A Biography — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

16

Coywolves

Coyotes and wolves can interbreed, producing what's known as coywolves. They have longer legs and a larger jaw than coyotes, among other changes -- and they're good at hunting both in the open and in forests. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Smithsonian Magazine

15

Screen Time

Screen time may have social benefits for kids CRACKED COM School-aged children who spend more time in front of screens are more likely to have close friends but are slightly more likely to have disturbed sleep, attention disorders, or lower grades. — ScienceDaily

14

Conspiracy Theories

Even if you don't believe conspiracy theories, they influence you CRACKED.COM Just being confronted with conspiracies is enough to affect our behavior, regardless of our actual belief. — EurekAlert!

13

Waterloo

For years after the Battle of Waterloo, companies would dig up the bones of fallen soldiers, grind them up, and sell them as fertilizer. Bones are rich in calcium which farmers believed was beneficial to plants. The practice went on for a couple decades and only stopped when the farmers were criticized for fertilizing their lands with the bodies of their relatives. CRACKED.COM — Source: These 47 Facts Will Make You A Walking History Channel

12

The Catholic Church

The Catholic Church is actually pretty cool with evolution and the Big Bang. OVIA DILIGO TE O PETRE NC DIXIST VNA FIDES REFVIG M NDO It also says that Young Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design are essentially just pretending to be science, and it rejects them outright. CRACKED.COM — Source: Smithsonian Magazine

11

Logan

One of Logan's deleted scenes totally changed the tone of the dinner sequence. In the scene, Xavier reveals that Logan actually killed Jean Grey, which makes the dinner pretty bleak and kills the sense of renewed hope that sequence has. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

10

Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp collects Barbies Barbis 04 CRACKED COM He started buying them for his kids, but his collection of limited edition dolls became personal at some point: I've played with a lot of Barbies and Kens... it's actually one of the things I'm good at.

9

Sniper Rifles

You can't go sniping right after putting your rifle together. Guns that can be taken down to fit in a case need to fire several test shots to properly adjust the scope. Only in recent years has the U.S. Navy built a prototype that doesn't have this issue. — Sources: TechLink, TechLink

8

Breaking Bad

Bulgaria translated Breaking Bad as In Satan's Shoes. Somehow, Prada didn't use that as a marketing tagline first. — Source: IMDB, Google Translate

7

Sartre

Bonkers Ways Famous Creators Made Iconic Works -Sartre wrote his magnum opus while overdosing on pills. He took a bunch of — Source: 7 Great Works Of Literature (Written While Wasted)

6

Bill Murray

On his 20th birthday, Bill Murray was arrested at O'Hare with 10 pounds of marijuana. E R A I S A I He had joked about having a bomb in his luggage to — Source: Esquire

5

Seinfeld

Jerry seinfeld wears sneakers because he idolized Bill Cosby and NFL player Joe Namath, who both wore distinctive white sneakers. CRACKED COM

4

Royal Sex

If you were a king or a queen in centuries past, your intimate life was anything but intimate. Since providing an heir was SO important, the royal bum — From 5 Insane Facts From History Nobody Taught You In School.

3

Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams worked as a bodyguard to Qatar's ruling family. It was one of the various jobs the Hitchhiker's Guide author held pre-fame, while writin

2

Trump

TRUMP ONCE TRIED TO STOP THE BUILDING OF A WIND FARM IN SCOTLAND BECAUSE IT WOULD OBSTRUCT THE VIEW FROM HIS GOLF COURSE. THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT IGNO

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Power Rangers

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers had some memorable characters. And a startling number of them died young. Yellow Ranger Thuy Trang died in a car crash a

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