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After a coordinated effort between the fact feds, local fact finders and Cracked, our year-long fact hunt has finally concluded. We’d like to thank them all for helping the cause, but we’ll take it from here. It wasn’t easy. We lost a lotta good fact finders back there, but their sacrifice helped round up the biggest, baddest facts in the game. So yeah, it was well worth it. 

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Puritans were really, really serious about not letting people fall asleep during a service. Anyone who did that would get poked with a long wooden pole to get them to wake up. CRACKED.COM

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In 2018, after 116 years, Barnum Animal Crackers stopped locking up animals. Giraffe Tiger Camel Kangaroo Cougar Rhino Sheep Gorilla Monkey Elephant Bear ? Hippo Seal On their packaging, that is - all that time, they'd been using a design that showed animals in boxcars. CRACKED.COM

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Stalin was actually covered in scars - he'd had smallpox as a child. The reason his pictures don't show that is that he had all his photos heavily retouched. CRACKED.COM

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There's a long tradition of using Alcatraz as a prison, going back to Native Americans. People who violated tribal laws among the Ohlone would get banished to Alcatraz. CRACKED.COM

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Dwarf goats are really, really smart - way more so than you might think at first. They have object permanence, which means they can remember where objects were placed without seeing or smelling them. CRACKED.COM

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US dairy farms produce incredible amounts of excess cheese, it turns out. The amount produced as of 2018 would be roughly the same size as the US Capitol if you placed it in one spot. CRACKED.COM

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Francis Ford Coppola is known as a filmmaker, but he made more money with wine. All I know is that one year we did $9 million. Four years later, $60 million. I was making much more money in the wine business than I ever made in films, he said in an interview. CRACKED.COM

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In 1925, a one-legged clown escaped prison and was never found. Не was convicted in 1912 in Chicago, for the murder of an heiress, and was sentenced to life in prison. CRACKED.COM

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Lionesses can actually get birth control implants that work. And they receive those implants in zoos sometimes - that way, all the lions can hang out without new cubs being born all the time. CRACKED.COM

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The first heating system actually dates to 550 вс, and it's from Ancient Greece. It was constructed at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and it was powered by a wood-fired furnace. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED DISNEY HAS CANONIZED THE WORD TÌTÌTEW. titstew [ti 'tstewl Avatar created a language for the Na'vi, where the word for courage is titstew. Disney gave it the thumbs up, and it's become a big source of jokes and memes.

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CRACKED TWO DRUNKS HAD A BRIGHT IDEA, AND COMEDY CENTRAL SAID, WHY NOT? In 2007, two drunk guys had an idea to make a show about people getting drunk and telling stories about historical events. They filmed the first episode in a backyard, and eventually Comedy Central picked it up as Drunk History.

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CRACKED JONAH HILL: A REMINDER THAT FAME DOESN'T EQUAL HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS. Hill was all over social media recently, but not for a good reason. It turns out he had asked his ex, Sarah Brady, to delete her swimsuit pics, stop modeling, and end her friendships with guys he didn't like.

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CRACKED HASSAN BENNETT REPRESENTED HIMSELF IN COURT - AND WON. In 2018, Bennett defended himself and was acquitted of second-degree murder after spending 13 years in prison. Не made the jury doubt the government's witnesses and methods, and was freed.

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CRACKED Madison JOHNNY KNOXVILLE TURNED DOWN SNL. Knoxville decided not to take a job on Saturday Night Live and instead focus on his own show, Jackass. Just think of what might have been.

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CRACKED MARK WAHLBERG WAS TOO HUNG OVER TO DIE ON 9/11. Wahlberg says he just barely missed being on a plane that crashed into the WTC because he chose to go to a party at the Toronto Film Festival the night before.

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CRACKED SEVEN AMATEURS AND A CANADIAN PRODUCER CREATED A COMEDY EMPIRE. The first season of Saturday Night Live was made up of seven inexperienced improvisers and a nervous Canadian producer, Lorne Michaels. Even though the show had a rough start, the cast eventually made SNL a cultural phenomenon.

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CRACKED A MAN ROBBED A BANK TO ESCAPE HIS WIFE. A 70-year-old man from Kansas got into a fight with his wife, and decided he'd rather be in jail than with her. So he went to a bank, robbed it, and then waited in the lobby to be arrested. Не was sentenced to home confinement.

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CRACKED YOUR FAVORITE SITCOMS LIED TO YOU ABOUT THEIR SETTINGS Some of the biggest sitcoms weren't too accurate about the places they were set in. For example, Frasier and Niles' favorite coffee shop was actually in a dangerous part of Seattle, and Community's Greendale had palm trees but no mountains.

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CRACKED THE SWORD-FIGHTING IN THE PRINCESS BRIDE WAS A BIG DEAL Cary Elwes (Westley) and Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya) took the whole thing very seriously, and put in a lot of effort to prepare for their fight at the Cliffs of Insanity.

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CRACKED JAPANESE SKINCARE INCLUDED NIGHTINGALE POOP For centuries, Japanese skincare has included the use of nightingale droppings to lighten skin and take off lead-based makeup. This is now commonly referred to as the geisha facial.

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CRACKED JOAN RIVERS ROASTED EVERYONE EQUALLY Joan Rivers was famous for her sharp, cutting jokes and her willingness to make fun of anyone, even her own relatives. She roasted Betty White with I bet you'd be funny on a date if you ever had one.

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CRACKED ALEXA IS DANGEROUS FOR KIDS In 2017, the FBI had to warn people about the dangers of internet-connected devices after Amazon Alexa told a child to stick a penny into an electrical socket.

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CRACKED FUTURAMA HAD SOME REALLY, REALLY ODD INSPIRATIONS In the Futurama episode Godfellas, the writers drew on a variety of sources, like Arthur C. Clarke's The Nine Billion Names of God and Lord Dunsany's The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater, to explore the big questions about life.

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CRACKED TRULY PERSONALIZED MEDICINE IS COMING UP Moderna, the company behind the COVID-19 vaccine, is looking to create personalized mRNA injections that could be used to treat various illnesses, such as cancer and heart disease, by 2030. Hopefully Jetsons flying cars are next.

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CRACKED LAST ACTION HERO'S FAILURE MOVED ARNIE TO TEARS Arnold Schwarzenegger was really upset after Last Action Hero flopped. Не was so sad that he didn't want to talk to anyone for a whole week and was heard crying in his bedroom. lea - BIR I GREEN - BUGSY SYLVESTERS

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CRACKED RFK JR.'S CANDIDACY IS ALREADY CELEB-BACKED Cheryl Hines and Alicia Silverstone are backing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his run for president. We're just wondering if any more comedy blondes will come out for him. Say, Amy Schumer?

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CRACKED MIKE MYERS WAS HIRED FOR SNL SIGHT UNSEEN Lorne Michaels hired Mike Myers for Saturday Night Live without ever seeing him before. A producer had seen Myers do his famous Wayne Campbell character in a sketch at The Second City in Chicago and recommended him. WAYBE

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CRACKED TERRY GILLIAM LEFT THE U.S. so НЕ WOULDN'T BECOME A TERRORIST Terry Gilliam was so worried about becoming a full-time, bomb-throwing terrorist in the U.S. that he left in the late 1960s. He's now known as a Hollywood rebel because of his refusal to change his stories.

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CRACKED WHY DO YOU EVEN NEED TO USE AIRPLANE MODE? Even though they tell you to switch to airplane mode for takeoff and landing, they don't actually need you to do this to protect the cockpit equipment. It's to protect cell towers from being overloaded by too many phones passing overhead.

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CRACKED NAPLES MIGHT GET MELTED DOWN IN OUR LIFETIMES Naples is situated near Mount Vesuvius, the volcano that famously destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD ... and Naples might meet the same fate if Vesuvius ever erupts again.

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