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28 Grab-Bag Facts to Gobble into Your Brainfolds

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28 Grab-Bag Facts to Gobble into Your Brainfolds

December 05, 2023

Facts are good. We should hoard them in our collection of knowledge. They help us understand the world and make sense of our experiences. They also enable us to communicate, share our ideas and learn from each other. Facts are a valuable commodity, and we should never take them for granted. We should cherish them, nurture them and use them wisely. Facts are the foundation of our knowledge, and they should be treasured as such. So consider everything our below our gift to you, and your noble pursuit of knowledge…

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Pikachu could have had big boobs. Nintendo of America thought that the Pokémon were too cute for U.S. children, and proposed alternative designs. They turned Pikachu into something like a tiger with huge breasts, said Tsunekazu Ishihara, president of The Pokémon Company (sadly, with no accompanying pictures). CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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Your avocados may be grown by a drug cartel. Since trade restrictions were lifted in the '90s, avocados from Mexico became more and more popular in the U.S. while Mexican cartels were hit by the escalating War on Drugs. So what did the hardened narcos do? Exactly- they branched out into the lucrative avocado business. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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9/11

On 9/11, Walt Disney World employees escorted guests out as a human wall. At all 4 WDW parks, once the rides were shut down, employees held hands and walked out, basically forcing the guests to walk out of the park too. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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Islam

Baby, It's Cold Outside helped usher in Islamic fundamentalism. Egyptian scholar Sayyid Qutb arrived in the U.S. in 1948- only to leave two years later with a raging hatred of American debauchery, which he felt was best summed up by the depraved Baby, It's Cold Outside. Qutb's writings were influential in the creation of Al Qaeda. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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You're picturing Neanderthals wrong. The image of Neanderthals as hunchbacked brutes comes from the very first specimen that was ever found, which happened to be a geriatric man riddled with bone diseases. This conception has been debunked decades ago - Neanderthals were as good at walking upright as we are. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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Bob Costas got penalized for speaking out against concussions in the NFL. He's a broaodcaster who'd been covering the NFL for decades, and NBC removed him from Superbowl coverage after his comments. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Facts To Make You More Attractive To The Opposite And/Or Same Sex

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Stone Cold Steve Austin

0000 FOX CHOICE AWARDS Stone Cold Steve Austin got his ring name from tea. Hot leaf juice is the last thing you'd expect any wrestler to drink, but that's what Stone Cold was having as he tried to come up with a badass name. Then his wife told him to leave names for later and finish his tea before it got stone cold. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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Pete Davidson's dad perished trying to rescue people on September 11, 2001. (not a photo of Pete Davidson's dad) Не was a firefighter sent to the WTC, and apparently he was last seen trying to get people out of the Marriott World Trade Center hotel. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Facts To Make You More Attractive To The Opposite And/Or Same Sex

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Comic book artists are awfully underpaid. Almost nothing of Marvel and DC's mountains of money go to the artists who make the comics-in fact, it's one of the worst fields to make a living with ink and pencil. You'd almost have an easier time becoming Spider-Man than fully paying your bills drawing him. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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Jack the Ripper actually might not have been a dude after all, it turns out. DNA evidence from letters he sent indicated he might have been female - but because the samples were so badly preserved, it's hard to say for sure. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Facts To Make You More Attractive To The Opposite And/Or Same Sex

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One third of Pakistan's pilots have been faking it. Just one false pilot is worrying-and in 2020, it came out that 262 of Pakistan's 860 airplane pilots had dubious licenses, which they got by cheating. These were all grounded, which is fine, but maybe entirely too many fake pilots kind of late. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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Of all the planets and moons we know, Titan is the most similar to Earth. The surface of Saturn's largest moon has liquids on its surface (but it's methane, not water), and it's the only known world besides Earth that does. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Facts To Make You More Attractive To The Opposite And/Or Same Sex

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Marvel

CRACKED.COM Heroes in the Marvel universe have gained powers by eating Skrull burgers. In an early Fantastic Fourissue, Reed Richard hypnotizes some shapeshifting Skrulls into believing they're COWS. In the '90s, the comic Skrull Kill Krew followed up on that particular story. The comic stars random people getting superpowers from burgers made from those cow-Skrulls. — Source: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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In WWII, there was a duo of underage assassins of Nazis in the Netherlands. Among other activities, Freddie Oversteegen and her sister Truus (both teenagers) would seduce Nazis, take them into the woods, and then shoot them. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Facts To Make You More Attractive To The Opposite And/Or Same Sex

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William Shakespeare was a price-gouging businessman. When he wasn't revolutionizing English literature, the Bard liked to keep himself busy by buying huge stocks of grain, which he'd then sell at inflated prices. Не was eventually prosecuted for tax evasion and hoarding food during a time of shortage. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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Spider webs are kind of prized items for birds - they use them to make nests. It's very stretchy and very tough, so some small birds collect it and use it for nests. It's even strong enough to bear a bunch of restless baby birds. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Facts To Make You More Attractive To The Opposite And/Or Same Sex

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CRACKED.COM Joe Pesci sued Gotti for cutting him out. You'd think any actor would be happy not to be in a critically panned box-office bomb. Except Pesci was cut from his part after gaining 30 pounds for it, and offered to play a different character instead (with a pay cut). Не ended up receiving a settlement. — Source: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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Very, very few astronauts actually died in space - the total number is 3. About 550 people went into space, and about 30 died on a space mission or training for one, but only 3 died beyond the Kármán line (where space starts). CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Facts To Make You More Attractive To The Opposite And/Or Same Sex

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Humphrey Bogart wasn't really a tough guy. According to James Cagney, Bogart was about as tough as Shirley Temple. In a time when studios pretty much owned the actors, everything about Bogie's public image was a fiction carefully constructed by Warner Bros. They even went so far as to rewrite Bogart's life history to make him fit his niche. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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Casablanca

After WWII, they released a version of Casablanca with zero WWII references. It was for the West German market, and they changed the plot so it was about an atomic physicist, Victor Larsen, trying to evade Interpol. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Facts To Make You More Attractive To The Opposite And/Or Same Sex

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Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden forced a video game to change its title. In 2019, the band sued the developer of the retro-style game lon Maiden for $2 million, claiming it was an incredible blatant infringement on their trademark. The game people caved and renamed their product lon Fury. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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In 1992, they advertised a hacking-themed movie with a hackable disk. The marketing materials given to journalists for Sneakers involved a floppy disk with a program they had to hack (by guessing the password). CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Facts To Make You More Attractive To The Opposite And/Or Same Sex

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The original Ferris wheel was built to compete with the Eiffel Tower. The 1893 Chicago World's Fair had a bit of tower envy, so they built a 264-foot-tall rotating wheel to rival Paris' iron monstrosity. It was a huge success... for the fair, at least. The thing's builder, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., ended up bankrupt. copyr mL trat 18 AP CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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Die Hard director John McTiernan is also, it turns out, a convicted felon. In 2010, they sentenced him to a year in prison (plus a $100,00 fine) because he lied to the FBI during an investigation into a wiretapping scandal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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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: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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In Mexico, there's a huge complex of condos patterned after an Aztec god. EI 311. Big-time Mexican architect Javier Senosiain designed the 16,500 square-foot complex in the image of Quetzalcoatl, including his serpent head. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Facts To Make You More Attractive To The Opposite And/Or Same Sex

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Yes, Thomas More was martyred for his beliefs... after he martyred others for theirs. More is looked up to as a symbol of conscience and resistance - sidestepping the fact that he didn't exactly champion those values when he was Lord Chancellor. Не had heretical texts burned, and ordered imprisonment, torture, and death for those who owned them. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Stack On Your Brainshelves

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There's a herd of wild zebras roaming an area somewhere near Malibu, California. Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst had a private zoo there, and they're some of the animals that were left behind after it was dismantled. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Facts To Make You More Attractive To The Opposite And/Or Same Sex

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