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Dave Portnoy

David Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, tweeted this threat to employees considering unionizing: Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente If you work for @barstoolsports and DM this man I will fire you on the spot Rafi Letzter @RafiLetzter Aug 12 Replying to @stoolpresidente and @ringer If you work for Barstool and want to have a private chat about the unionization process, how little power your boss has to stop you, and how you can leverage that power to make your life better. my DMs are open. 9:30 AM Aug 13, 2019 Twitter for iPhone 3.1K Retweets 38.3K Likes This is a textbook violation

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Finland

Finnish people receive a top hat and a sword when completing their doctoral degrees. CRACKED.COM The sword comes with a scabbard, a black or golden scab- bard holder and the golden emblem of the University. — Source

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci wrote backwards in his personal notes, but wrote the correct way for other people. GRACKED.COM Da Vinci wrote from right to left, in a mirror image, by choice. It's thought that he did this to make it harder for anyone to read his notes and steal his ideas. — Source

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Islands

GRACKED AN ICELANDIC ISLAND YOUNGER THAN POP-TARTS Surtsey, an island off the coast of Iceland, was created in 1963 - which is more recent than Pop-Tarts, The Jetsons, the Rolling Stones, and video games. — Source

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Home Appliances

HOME 50 5 APPLIANCES 1955 CRACKED.COM Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years. -Alex Lewyt, vacuum company president. We have nuclear power today, but it makes a lot more sense to produce it centrally than to stick a reactor in every appliance. — Source

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Pluto

RUSSIA IS ABOUT THE SAME SIZE AS PLUTO Pluto's surface area is 17,646,012 km2, compared to Russia's 17,098,246 km2. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Strange Laws

A law was passed that required psychiatrists and psychologists to dress up as wizards in court proceedings. CRACKED.COM The 'Expert Wizard Amendment' in New Mexi- со (1995) was revealed to be satire before the vote, yet passed the New Mexico Senate unanimously. It was not signed into law. — Source

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UFOs

In 1978, Australian pilot Frederick Valentich and his plane disappeared during a supposed UFO encounter. GRACKED COM His last communication was Melbourne, that strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again... (two seconds open micro- phone)... it is hovering and it's not an aircraft... — Source

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Space Rocks

CRACKED A WEIRD SPACE ROCK MOVING THROUGH THE SOLAR SYSTEM In 2018, two astronomers from Harvard suggested that Oumuamua, the strange, cigar-shaped object that flew through our solar system, could be an alien probe from outer space. — Source

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New York City

New York was briefly named New Orange. WINNER BEST adidas - - M Helped inju MUSICAL opponent W KITM RS BILLY! SPORTSMANSH Com BC WHERE MAXIMUM ЕЦИЛЬ adidas FI - PERFORMANCE LIVES of adidas odait maxell NAMMO MILK CRACKED.COM a - saar M When the Dutch cap- tured New York from the English in 1673, they renamed it New Orange in honor of William III of Orange. — Source

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The Middle Ages

CRACKED EVERLAST CHASTITY BELTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES In the Middle Ages, people talked about chastity belts as a way to keep women faithful. But the truth is, not many of these belts actually existed back then. The references to them in writing were probably just symbolic. — Source

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Billy Crystal

CRACKED BILLY CRYSTAL RAISED TRIBUTE TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL. Billy Crystal dressed up as a giant penis to pay tribute to his friend Robin Williams at an American Cinematheque event. Friendship truly is magic. — There Was Only One Way Billy Crystal Could Think of to Honor Robin Williams — To Cosplay as a Giant Penis / Buzzfeed

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Dentistry

CRACKED Why does tinfoil on dental fillings give you a shock? When two different metals, like silver and aluminum, touch each other in the presence of saliva, it creates a tiny electric charge that gives you a shock in your tooth. This is called galvanic shock. — Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock
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Carlos Mencia

CRACKED CARLOS MENCIA STILL WON'T ADMIT HIS JOKE THIEVERY. After two HBO specials and his own very popular show Mind of Mencia, his career was derailed in the mid 2000s after many accusations proved him to be arguably the biggest joke thief in comedy history. Не still wouldn't admit it on Bobby Lee's podcast in 2021. — Ranker / AZ Central

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Heartbreaker

CRACKED 25 25 25 WOMEN'S HEARTS BEAT FASTER THAN MEN'S. On average, a woman's heart beats 8-10 times per minute faster than a man's. This is thought to be because women have smaller hearts that need to pump blood more efficiently. — NCBI / Self

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Cocaine

Cocaine is sometimes called California cornflakes on the street, and that's been used as a slang term since the early 2000s. CRACKED — Brent Hofacker/Shutterstock
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Walt Disney’s Death

CRACKED RUMOR: WALT DISNEY CRYOGENICALLY FROZE HIS BODY so НЕ COULD BE UNFROZEN AT A LATER DATE. FACT: Walt Disney died of lung cancer at the age of 65 in 1966. His official death certificate states he was cremated. There is little evidence to suggest he knew much about cryogenic freezing to begin with. — Snopes / TCM

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The Wright Brothers

CRACKED ORVILLE WRIGHT WAS OBVIOUSLY DAD'S FAVORITE WRIGHT BROTHER. The Wright brothers made history on May 25, 1910 when Orville flew for six minutes, with Wilbur as his passenger. Later that day, he also took their 82-year-old father out for the first and only flight of his life. — Biography

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The Nobel Committee

Albert Einstein wasn't interested in accepting his Nobel Prize. CRACKED.COM Не never received a Nobel Prize for relativity, and he did not attend his prize giving for services to theoretical physics. Не chose to contin- ue with a lecture tour of Ja- pan because he simply no longer valued it. — The Guardian

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The COVID Vaccine

WEIRD WORLD Bad plant employee hygiene was partly why millions of vaccine doses got ruined. SERONS COVID-19 COVID-19 19 Coronavirus Coronavirus Vaccine rus Vaccine e -200-25 Employees at a Baltimore plant where millions of J&J vaccine doses went bad didn't shower or change clothes, which is likely a big part of the reason. CRACKED.COM — Source: Weird World: 12 Bafflingly Strange Pieces Of Local News

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Punch Out

Punch Out!! CRACKED COM Soda Popinski was originally named something much more overtly offensive: Vodka Drunkenski. — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 1982 Art Direction Film Editing Sound Sound Effects Editing Visual Effects Raiders of the Lost Ark The movie features a cameo by C-3PO and R2D2 on the walls of the room the Ark of the Covenant was kept in. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Bears

If you ever want to figure out how old a bear is, just look at its teeth. Take one tooth, and look at its cross-section -- you want to count the rings in the cross-section under a microscope. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sharks

CRACKED.COM Sharks are older than trees. The first plants we'd call trees appeared about 350 million years ago. By then, sharks had been swimming in the world's oceans for several tens million years. (Still, these early sharks were very different from what we know today.) — Source: 15 Random Facts to Flex Your Knowledge Muscles

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Astronauts

One of the biggest occupational hazards for astronauts is losing your eyesight. Astronauts sometimes develop vision problems, and experts now consider that the #1 risk of going into space. Nobody knows why it happens. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — VICE

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Auctions

Miley Cyrus auctioned a Caitlyn Jenner-themed artwork for $69,000. The money went to an AIDS charity, and the artwork was a set of three copies of the Caitlyn Jenner Vanity Fair cover that were framed, bedazzled, and signed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Greenpeace

Greenpeace destroyed a 2000 year old Peruvian geoglyph. TIME FOR CHANGE! THE FUTURE IS RENEWABLE GREENPEACE Ironically, it was their footprints that did the most damage. CRACKED.COM — Source: The New York Times

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Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Radcliffe once bought a custom-made mattress for $17,000. Which is pretty exceptional for him, considering he's not a celeb who spends money like crazy (and it's a lot saner than many other celeb purchases). CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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DiGiorno Pizza

DiGiorno jumped on a domestic abuse hashtag DIGIORNO DiGiorno Pizza @DiGiornoPizza #WhyIStayed You had pizza. 9/8/14, 11.11 PM CRAGKEDOOM The social media person or DiGiorno clearly didn't do their research before tweeting out a joke on a trending hashtag. The hashtag was in defense of domestic abuse victims.

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The Nintendo Wii

CRaCKED.com The Nintendo Wii sold well to senior citizens and retirement communities. With titles like Wii Sports and Wii Fit, which are easy to pick

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Dax Shepard

Dax Shepard rented a sloth for his wife Kristen Bell for her birthday. CRACKEDCON

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Junko Tabei

Junko Tabei was the first woman to reach the summits of the tallest mountains ON EVERY CONTINENT.

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Pearl Harbor

A comic book foretold Pearl Harbor. National Comics #18 depicted an air assault on Pearl Harbor. It was released in November 1941- one month before th

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Cloud Seeding

CRACKED Rich people have the option to not get rained on during their wedding day... ...because they can opt for 'cloud seeding' service, which utiliz

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