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29 Trivia Tidbits Hiding in Plain Sight

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The stars Rose looks at on that door raft are supposed to be the same stars that were in the sky on that fateful night. Neil deGrasse Tyson emailed James Cameron to tell him that his initial shot of the sky was wrong, SO Cameron included Tyson's star map of April 15, 1912 in the Titanic Director's Cut. CRACKED.COM

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Stanley Kubrick insisted that the War Room table in Dr. Strangelove be covered with green felt, even though the entire movie was filmed in black and white. Kubrick wanted to create the feeling of a poker table, and how the characters in the War Room were gambling with the fate of the entire world. CRACKED.COM

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Those markings on the Guardians of the Galaxy characters' prison outfits represents their crimes. James Gunn explained that the color of each stripe signifies the type of crime, and the patterns of the stripes show the crimes' detail and severity. In Gunn's words, it's a sort of criminal law morse code. CRACKED.COM

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The Lego Movie added smudge marks and even virtual dandruff to the characters. The animation team did a lot of research on how many fingerprints and even dandruff you would typically find on a played-with Lego figurine. In some close-up shots we get to see these smudges and thumbprints. CRACKED GOM

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CRACKED Ghirlandaio's 15th-century The Madonna with Saint Giovannino contains a baffling detail that looks a lot like a flying saucer, with a dogwalker pointing at it. It's probably not incontrovertible proof of aliens, but, you know, maybe it is.

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CRACKED An Italian musician recently theorized that placing a musical staff across The Last Supper and treating the bread rolls as notes results in a short hymn to Jesus. Leonardo was more musical than people realize, but still, whoa, that's insane.

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CRACKED It wasn't until 1990 that anyone realized that in Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the cloak surrounding God and his angels is a giant brain, complete with cerebellum, optic chiasm and pituitary gland.

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CRACKED The Adoration of the Magi places multiple well-known figures of the time around Christ, including the powerful Medici family and the guy who commissioned the painting. The dude on the far right looking straight at us? Botticelli himself, showing off.

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CRACKED Flemish artist Clara Peeters' Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels features another incredibly subtle self-portrait - Peeters painted with such accuracy that she included herself reflected in the rim of the jug.

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NOT 2018 TOSHIBA HAPPY NEW YEAS TOSHIBA «ТОК HAPPY NEW YEAR A major building in Times Square is empty. It's the building where they drop the New Year's Ball - One Times Square. There's one tenant: a Walgreens on the ground floor. The building has been used as a gigantic, vacant advertising stand since 1992. It makes $23 million a year. CRACKED.COM

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People literally used to live in New York's public libraries. Back in the day, janitors had to keep books warm and dry with coal furnaces, which needed to be fueled with coal 24/7. So libraries had special apartments for janitors. Those apartments are abandoned today, since there's no money to renovate them. CRACKED.COM

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Radio City Music Hall has a swanky apartment. Radio City built it for its first impresario, Samuel Roxy Rothafel, who had brought in a ton of top-shelf acts. It became his bachelor pad and party venue. And today, it could be yours - it's been kept in top shape, and is up for rent. CRACKED.COM

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The Washington Monument has a tiny, hidden twin. A 12-foot replica of the Monument is buried right next to it. It was built in the 1880s as a surveyor's tool-they'd use its scale to verify readings. The ground level rose over time, and the Mini Monument was encased in a tube, buried, and forgotten. CRACKED.COM

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There's a creepy secret chamber inside Mt. Rushmore. Its sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, wanted Mt. Rushmore to have a Hall of Records, where historic American documents would be stored. When he died in 1941, it was unfinished. In 1998, the government put a sealed titanium vault with copies of important documents in there. So he kinda got his wish. CRACKED.COM

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Disney World is hiding an abandoned island. Disney used it as a wildlife observatory, but shut it down in 1999 when they opened Animal Kingdom and moved all the animals there. Today, it's an overgrown jungle of empty animal cages, ruled by vultures (the actual kind, not the cartoon Disney kind). CRACKED.COM

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The highest floor of the Empire State Building is reserved for a chosen few. The 103rd floor, which is so secret it's usually not listed, is only open to the rich and/or famous. It's a small observatory with 360-degree views. Almost no sounds reach it, so there's near-total silence. CRACKED.COM

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The clock tower Harry Potter flew over has a fancy apartment. Inside the St. Pancras clock tower, there's an apartment with ridiculously high ceilings and two bedrooms. Unfortunately, since it's literally on top of a train station, neither bedroom can give you a good night's sleep. CRACKED.COM

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There are three tiny flagpoles on the Capitol. They're used for the Capitol Flag Program, through which you can buy flags flown over the Capitol. The flags fly on one of these flagpoles, not the real flagpole, for all of 30 seconds before they're packed and shipped. CRACKED.COM

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A luxury apartment sits at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Gustave Eiffel had it built for himself when the tower went up, and kept it secret for a long time. He'd get offered crazy sums for a night in it, but always said no. It didn't open to the public until 2015, 90 years after he died. CRACKED.COM

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You might think that Hyundai's logo is simply a stylized 'H.' It actually represents two people, the company and the customer, shaking hands. CRACKED COM

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The gold and blue swishes around 12 / Dairy Queen's symmetrical ellipse BLIZZARD represents the food it serves. ATRO DQ The gold signifies the hot foods and the blue signifies the soft-serve treats. CRACKED.COM

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The smiley face of the Goodwill Industries logo GOODWI BOY'S ORT SLEE SHIRTS goodwill CRACKED.COM is also the g in the beginning of the nonprofit company's name.

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The six stars in the Subaru logo represent a cluster of stars in the Taurus constellation. Known to astronomers as the Pleiades, Japanese call them Subaru, a word for unite. CRACKED.COM

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Many cathedrals have a cruciform plan; that is, if CRACKED.COM you see them from above (as God would), they look like a cross. Washington National Chartres Cathedral, Cathedral, USA France Peterborough Amiens Cathedral, Cathedral, UK France

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GRACKED.COM THE BRONX ZOO Between the giraffe legs in the logo of the Bronx Zoo, is New York's iconic skyline from the point of view of a park in the Bronx.

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According to Elon Musk, the Tesla T logo is part of a cross section of an electric TESLA motor. CRACKED.COM

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The logo for the film, Ready Player One, CRACKED COM READY PLAYER ONE is a maze. READY PLAYER ONE

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