This Is the Biggest Waste of Money in U.S. Military History

This Is the Biggest Waste of Money in U.S. Military History

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30 of the Biggest Culture Shocks People Have Experienced

Ancient Poisons Not Even Putin Would Dare Use

Ancient Poisons Not Even Putin Would Dare Use

Real Estate That Even You Can Probably Afford

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British Comedian Canceled By Talent Agency After Threatening to Murder Another Comic

British Comedian Canceled By Talent Agency After Threatening to Murder Another Comic

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YOUR HOODIE MAY HAVE BEEN A BOTTLE ONCE. Plastic bottles are often recycled into polyester yarn, which is then used to make polar fleece clothing. CRACKED.COM

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GRAGKED.COM PEZ IS It takes about 3,000 pounds of pressure MADE to compress the UNDER sugary goodness that makes up a A LOT OF PEZ candy into the PRESSURE. familiar tiny brick.

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CUSTOM WIGS HAVE EACH HAIR ATTACHED BY HAND. Hairs are inserted and knotted into the foundation a few at a time, sometimes individually. Repeat 40,000 times and you have a full wig. GRAGKED.COM

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VELCRO WAS INSPIRED BY SEEDS. Swiss engineer George de Mestral created Velcro by replicating the microscopic hooks of the seeds that got stuck to his clothes during a hike in the woods. CRACKED.COM

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- USA Mudi Willow 123RF Hydrox America's Original Crème Filled THE - HEAL DEPT FOR Chocolate Sandwich Cookie adidas de Diral Sugars NET WT 8.8 oz (243g) Hydrox America's Original Crème Filled Chocolate Sandwich Cookie kear OREO COOKIES ARE KNOCKOFFS. Sunshine Biscuits launched their Hydrox cream-filled cookies in 1908. Four years later, Nabisco introduced Oreos, an identical product. GRAGKED.COM

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Q-TIPS WERE ORIGINALLY JUST FOR BABIES. Leo Gerstenzang's invention was sold at first as Baby Gays. The name was eventually changed to Q-tips (the Q stands for quality), because adults had a right to ear damage as well. CRACKED.COM

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A NASA ENGINEER INVENTED THE SUPER SOAKER IN HIS BATHROOM. Super Soaker Lonnie Johnson was testing an idea for a water-based refrigeration system. Не hooked his invention to his bathroom sink and got a very marketable high-pressure stream. CRACKED.COM

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Michelangelo's David has a clear sign of heart disease. It's a bulging vein on the right side of his neck - AKA jugular venous distension. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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A dye-maker added animal blood to a red dye to accidentally create Prussian Blue Prussian Blue is used in a pill to cure metal poisoning. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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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

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Rebecca the raccoon was President Coolidge's pet at the White House Gifted as a Thanksgiving dinner, she was treated as a pet and traveled with the First Family on vacation. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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In 2018, Russian nuclear scientists were arrested for Bitcoin mining on the job. (illustration) Apparently, they tried to use one of the most powerful supercomputers in Russia, at a top-secret nuclear warhead facility, to mine ВТС. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Cicada wings are built in such a way that they kill bacteria they touch. The wings are covered with tiny pillars that trap bacteria, then slowly tear them apart (the more elastic a bacterium's skin, the more vulnerable it is). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Buzz Aldrin took communion on the moon The wafer and wine were the first food consumed on the moon's surface. Neil Armstrong respectfully watched but didn't comment on the Christian sacrement. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Over two years, Michel Lotito ate an entire Cessna 150 Airplane C-GNBL Mr. Eat Everything ate 9 tons of metal througout his life. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Taylor Swift grew up on Christmas tree farm She spent some of childhood on Pine Ridge Farm in Pennsylvania, which she honors in her Christmas single aptly called Christmas Tree Farm. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Hilary Duff needed an acting coach on set of Lizzie McGuire. After filming the pilot, Disney hired an acting coach to help the children on set. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Britain had a hotline to report errant traffic cones in the early'90s. CRACKED.COM The Cones Hotline was launched in 1992 for citi- zens to report traffic cones on the road for no appar- ent reason, and then shut- tered in 1995 for being a waste of government re- sources.

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The acronym 'OMG' was first recorded in a letter to Winston Churchill. CRACKED.COM A retired British admiral of the Royal Navy wrote to Winston Churchill to share his take on the headlines of the day, some of which were so exciting, he wrote, O.M.G. (Oh! My! God!).

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A janitor pitched the idea of Flamin' Hot Cheetos to Frit-Lay. CRACKED.COM Richard Montañez had the idea to add chili powder to the cheesy treat, and has since risen up the ranks to serve as a PepsiCo executive. The movie Flamin' Hot about these events is cur- rently in post production.

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It was against Brigham Young University for students to grow a beard until 2015. CRACKED COM Exceptions at the Mor- mon flagship school were given to students with medical conditions, actors who need a beard for a role, or for reli- gious reasons.

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Koko the gorilla instinctively knew to help Mr. Rogers out of his shoes when she met him GRACKED.COM Mister Rogers' Neighbor- hood was Koko's favorite show, so it stands to rea- son why she would know to help untie his shoes when they met. She also cradled him in her arms because who wouldn't?

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The Netherlands sends poets to a funeral if the deceased has no one else. CRACKED.COM The country implemented the ritual of 'lonely funer- al poems,' where poets research the deceased and write a poem in their honor to recite at the fu- neral.

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The original 'Beauty and the Beast' was meant to help girls accept arranged marriages. CRACKED.COM It was written in 1740 to encourage girls into forced marriages, for an alliance that required ef- facing their own desires and submitting to the will of a monster.

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The first roller coaster was created to distract the public from debauchery. GRACKED COM In 1884, disgusted with the uprising of hedonistic amusements like saloons and brothels, LaMarcus Adna Thompson invented the Switchback Gravity Railway at Coney Island.

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Like the rings of a tree, a narwhal's tusk tells us about how it lived. CRACKED.COM Each year, layers of the tusk are added, and they offer insight into the whale's age, the level of pollution it lived in, tem- perature levels, and what its diet consisted of.

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Nearly 1 billion metric tons of food is wasted on the planet every year. CRACKED.COM The majority of wasted food (61%) comes from homes, while restaurants and other food services produce 26% of wasted food. Grocery stores make up just 13% of food waste.

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