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Lego

Lego is the world's largest tire manufacturer. The company produces over 318 million tires every year- or about 870,000 tires a day. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Bristol Bus Boycott

In 1963, the Bristol Bus Boycott was held to protest racist hiring practices. INO COLOUR BAR EVERY MAN BOYCOTT TRE FREHT BUSES NO COLOUR DOA At the time, the bus company in Bristol refused to hire Black drivers - but after an extended boycott, on 28 August 1963, they changed their policy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Modern Slavery

CRACKED SLAVERY It's estimated that right now, more people than ever before are living in slavery. The United Nations' International Labour Organization and the Walk Free Foundation say that 40.3 million people are affected. — The Guardian

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The TSA

Weird Stuff Confiscated by the TSA A gun inside a raw chicken. The TSA found a gun hidden inside of a raw chicken at the Fort Lauderdale Airport. The post from the TSA joked that it was a waste of time to try and hide a firearm in a holiday bird. CRACKED — TSA
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Dunkirk

Historical war drama Dunkirk was partly based on a sci-fi horror movie. ALLEN In space no one can have you scream Director Christopher Nolan says Ridley Scott's Alien inspired him-it might be from a different genre, but it's an established classic of tension. CRACKED.COM — IndieWire

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Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs lived during a time when the day was only about 23 hours long. I That's because the gravity of the Moon affects the Earth's spin, and the day is very, very slowly lengthening- it took millions of years to get 1 hour longer. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Geophagia

Pregnant women sometimes crave eating dirt (that's called geophagia). It's been recorded throughout history in all regions of the world, but actually eating dirt carries risks (including, say, exposure to parasites). CRACKED.COM — Source: Healthline

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The MTA

New Yorkers find delightful way to bring dogs into the subway. CRACKED.COM The MTA explicitly states that dogs must be enclosed in a container and carried in a manner which would not annoy other passengers. Dog-owning subway riders started putting their dogs in hiking backpacks and shopping bags. — Source: 6 Hilarious Loopholes Normal People Used To Beat The System

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Snakes

In the 190 BC, Hannibal won a naval victory over King Eumenes II of Pergamon by firing pots full of venomous snakes onto Eumenes' ship. Getty Photos: — Source: 5 Real MacGyvers Who Won Battles With Improvised Weapons

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Virtual Reality

Virtual reality Hugo Gernsback's teleyglasses were an actual working prototype of two tiny stereoscopic TVs strapped to your face. He dreamed them u — Source: BoingBoing

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Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase got SO mad at Dan Harmon, he left him a long, ranty voicemail. Не went into detail about why Community doesn't work, according to him, and said It's just a mediocre f-king sitcom. I want people to laugh, and this isn't funny. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Young Astronauts

A cartoon was never aired because of the Challenger disaster. In January 1986, all was set to start broadcasting Young Astronauts, a CBS cartoon/Marvel comic combo made with government involvement. Then the space shuttle Challenger blew up, and all 13 episodes of space-going children were quickly canned. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Colorado Cop

WRONG CAR, WRONG TIME: DEPUTY REWARDED FOR FATAL MISTAKE. PRIVATE In February 2022, a Colorado sheriff's office gave a deputy a purple heart medal after he shot and killed a man who had mistakenly tried to get into the wrong car. CRACKED — sirtravelalot/Shutterstock
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Turtles

Alligator Snapping Turtle CRACKED.COM The alligator snapping turtle engages in a tactic known as lingual luring. It wiggles its worm-like tongue as a lure, attracting gullible fish right between its jaws. — Savannah River Ecology Laboratory

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Dr. Dolittle

WWI led to the creation of Doctor Dolittle. Writer Hugh Lofting was appalled by the deaths of the horses in the war, and eventually started writing stories about animals working with each other c- eventually, he introduced a doctor that could talk to them. — Source: New England Historical Society

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Noor Inayat Khan

40 Random Bits of Trivia to Apply Directly to Your Forehead Like That Roll-On Headache Treatment From the Early Aughts — Source: BBC

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Mads Mikkelsen

MADS MIKKELSEN PRETENDED TO BE A JAMES BOND FAN. CASINO ROYAL At his audition, Mikkelsen told the casting directors he was a huge Bond fan. Not only was he not a fan, he had never even seen a Bond film before. Не only got around to watching the films once he started getting asked questions about the franchise during the press tour. CRACKED.COM

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Xena: Warrior Princess

Xena: Warrior Princess CRACKED.COM Xena was supposed to be killed off after a three-episode arc on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, but was so popular she got a six-season starring role instead. — Source

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Thailand

Every year, hundreds of fireballs erupt from the surface of the Mekong River in Thailand. Nobody knows what causes them. Locals believe a mythical ser- pent called Naga spits fire from the water. The event is known as 'Naga Fireballs.' CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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George A. Romero

George A. Romero got his start making short films for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Romero, who was just out of college at the time, joked that film- ing Mr. Rogers Gets a Tonsillectomy was the scariest thing he ever shot. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Farts

Sean Sykes, Jr. got out of an interrogation because his farts were too mighty for the detective to handle. After being found in a car with a backpack that had drugs and guns in it, he was brought in for an interrogation. When he stopped answering questions with anything other than farts, the interrogation was ended, and he wasn't charged with anything at that time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Alice Walker

CRACKED.COM Alice Walker, Pulitzer-winning author of The Color Purple, is a devoted follower of British conspiracy theorist David Icke. This includes a belief that the world is controlled by a villainous race of reptilian creatures from another planet. — Source

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Skrillex

A Skrillex song was found to be an effective mosquito mood killer. Wilk THE BEST GLOBAL CLUB THE BEST GLOBAL CLUB esia amne esia amne IBIZI BAL CLUB IBIZA LOBAL CLUB amnesia a amnesia HE BEST GLOBAL CLUB THE BEST GLOBAL CLUB esia amn на amne IBIZA LOBAL CLUB IBI The low-frequency vibra- tions of the song Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites were observed as a mosqui- to repellent, and mosqui- toes exposed to the song had sex far less often than those without music. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Mercury

CRACKED.COM Mercury has a fickle sun Because of Mercury's eccentric orbit and slow rotation, sometimes the sun reverses direction in the sky. If you were standing on the planet's surface, you could see the sun rise, then set on the same spot, then rise again. — Source

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Neanderthals

WE MIGHT OWE A LOT TO NEANDERTHALS, IT TURNS OUT. cm 5-cm Analysis of tools and remains found in Bulgaria tells us that modern humans lived alongside Neanderthals for 5,000 years more than we thought, so they must have interacted a lot. The remains include jewelry worn by humans that looks a lot like Neanderthal jewelry, so the influence seems clear. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Marketing Mishaps

CRACKED #powergenitalia Powergen (UK's leading gas and electricity company) chose an unfortunate domain name for their Italian subsidiary. Powergen Italia really could've used some capitalisation. POWERGEN — Source

14

South Park

Sitcoms and real world events South Park killed Osama Bin Laden way before America! Season 5's Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants aired on November 7, 2001, and in classic durka durka fashion, they revealed Bin Laden's microscopic penis and shot him, and blew him up Looney Tunes style. CRACKED — Comedy Central
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Run DMC

Celebrity Crowdfunding WC DMC's $100K Kickstarter. DMC attempted to launch a Kickstarter in 2013 to fund a 64-page graphic novel set in 1985 and focused on hip-hop culture, but it failed to reach its $100,000 goal, only raising $5,537. Despite this, the comic was eventually made, and was met with positive reviews. CRACKED — Darryl Makes Comics,
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Halloween

MICHAEL MYERS'S HANDS IN HALLOWEEN. In the beginning of the 1978 film where Myers open a kitchen drawer to retrieve a knife, we're actually seeing the hands of co-writer and producer Debra Hill. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Rad Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Your Favorite Horror Movies

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Don Cheadle

CRACKED.COM Don Cheadle voiced Donald Duck in the season one finale of DuckTales when Donald swallowed a voice modulator that made him able to speak with a normal voice. — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Nicaragua

A Canadian company is saving money by outsourcing cashier positions to Nicaragua. 90990 CRACKED.COM 'Percy,' the company sup- plying remote workers, says it allows for the face-to-face customer ex- perience that restaurant owners and operators want to provide their guests. They pay $3.75 an hour. — Our Generation

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Call of Duty

The new anti-cheat system in Call of Duty turns honest players invisible to the cheaters. GRACKED.COM The new measure not only makes regular players invisible to cheaters but also makes all of their honest shots completely untraceable. — 'Call Of Duty' Now Trolls Cheaters By Turning Non-Cheaters Into The Predator

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The Rockefeller Christmas Tree

After the holidays, the Rockefeller Christmas Tree is milled into lumber and donated to Habitat For Humanity. GRAGKED COM The tree is made into 2x4 and 2х6 beams after being transported to a mill in New Jersey for sawing, and then dried in a kiln and milled at a landscaping company. — Rockefeller Center

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Dunkirk

The guy walking off into the sea in Dunkirk -well, that really happened. The man who did it in real life just dropped his equipment, told people he'd walk to England, and simply walked off into the waves. CRACKED.COM — Slate

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India

India CRACKED.COM In India, hands are the utensil of choice, more specifically, the right hand. Eating with your left hand is considered unclean. Personally, I don't see what your hand's politics have to do with eating, but OK! — Spoon University

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Thor

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS CHRIS HEMSWORTH ACTUALLY VOICED THROG. Despite only making unintelligible noises, the show actually got Chris Hemsworth to record lines for the frog variant of Thor. CRACKED.COM — Vulture

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Movie Explosions

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Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy almost starred in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He was supposed to play Eddie Valiant, but he thought What? Animation and people? That sounds like bulls* to me. He says, Now every time !I see it I feel like an idiot. CRACKED.COM — Source: NME

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Camels

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- Wild camels, which are found in China and Mongolia, can live on a nuclear test site. — Source: Wild Camel Protection Foundation

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Coffee

WHY IS ROOM TEMPERATURE COFFEE GROSSER THAN ICED OR HOT? Our taste buds respond differently at different temperatures. Coffee is naturally bitter, and

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