Will Forte Missed Three Calls in a Row from Barack Obama

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‘Cyanide and Happiness’ Creators Could Sue Elon Musk for His Latest, Lamest Meme

‘Bodkin’ Lets Will Forte Be Normal for A Change

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Four Hilarious Ways Cities Are Discouraging Idiot Tourists

Four Hilarious Ways Cities Are Discouraging Idiot Tourists

30 Random Bits of Trivia to Fill Up Your Wineskin Before Your Great Trek North of the Wall

30 Random Bits of Trivia to Fill Up Your Wineskin Before Your Great Trek North of the Wall

29 Random Bits of Trivia to Decorate the Bare Walls of Your Mind Palace

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Ozzy Osbourne arranged to have Robin Williams come to the house when his wife Sharon had all but given up on cancer treatment. Williams climbed into bed with her, and the entire family went from tears to laughing. Sharon resumed treatment the next day. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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A fire destroyed several buildings next to a Carl's Jr. location, and the restaurant was spared. Carl's Jr. CHARRION en Carl's Jr. cooked 165 burgers as thanks to first responders but a grease fire ignited and caused substantial damage to the building. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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In 1999, Raven the chimpanzee chose random stocks using darts. She became the 22nd most successful money manager on Wall Street. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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As many as three U.S. presidents may have died because of contaminated water at the White House. Before 1850, there was a night soil depository (read: a field of human poop) upstream from the White House's water supply. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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In 1994, one woman got the IRS to agree that her massive breast implants are tax-exempt. She was an exotic dancer, so they were considered a business expense. The legal opinion said: Because petitioner's implants were so extraordinarily large, we find that they were useful only in her business. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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The horse's head in The Godfather was real. Francis Ford Coppola didn't like the mockup of the fake head the studio wanted him to use, so his scouts went to a dog food plant and found a horse that was going to be slaughtered. They asked for its head when the time came, and the plant dutifully shipped it to them in a crate full of dry ice. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Aquariums usually can't buy animals, so they barter for them. Putting a price tag on animals leads to poaching, so aquariums mostly barter with other aquariums to get the specimens they want (sometimes in very elaborate deals that take weeks or months of planning). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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A computer can tell a real Jackson Pollock from a fake It has 93% accuracy. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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John Cleese considers having a lemur named after him a greater honor than being knighted. They named a lemur species Avahi cleesei after him because of his work for lemur conservation, and he says he'd rather have that than a knighthood or peerage (he turned down a knighthood in 1996). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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The Enterprise in The Next Generation had dolphin and whale crewmembers. CETACEAN NAVIGATION LAB CETACEAN LIFEBOAT (1 OF 4) WET/DRY ACCESS LOCK CETACEAN OPS According to a 1991 technical manual, there's a Cetacean Navigation Lab with 12 bottlenose dolphins and two whales who act as supervisors. This is never shown on-screen, but it's occasionally alluded to in dialogue and set design. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Scheele's Green was extremely popular in Victorian England...and extremely deadly. The dye included arsenic and was commonly used in wallpapers, clothing, and carpeting. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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The spiciest part of peppers aren't the seeds. The hottest part of chili peppers are in the membrane (aka the pith). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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A monkey killed Alexander, the King of Greece Не died at 27, only three years after being crowned, from a disease contracted by the bite of a pet monkey. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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The total value of all cryptocurrencies is now roughly equal to the money spent on gold. 52025 FINE FINE GOLD GOLD 000 .. 999 a GOLD FPIE 999.9 LOODS 1000s 1000g 1000g FI FINE GOLD LE and In early May, the total value of crypto was 399.9 999.3 about $2.4 trillion, and the total value of money invested in gold was about $2.6 trillion. Lotto FOODS CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW

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You can get male cicadas to follow you by fooling them into thinking you're a female cicada. If you snap your fingers so that it sounds like a female's wing flip, male cicadas will be drawn to you and will follow you just about anywhere. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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We don't know what Neil Armstrong took to the moon. His record for his personal property kit has never been made public. During his moon trip, he took an unscheduled visit to Little West crater, off-camera. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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A teenager survived a plane crash still strapped to his seat after being ejected from the plane. TOP CRACKED.COM In 1985, a 17-year old named George Lamson Jr. was ejected from Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 upon the crash, and landed up- right in his seat in the mid- dle of a street. Не was the only survivor.

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Mummies were shipped to America in the 1800s to use their wrappings as paper. GRACKED.COM Several shiploads of Egyp- tian mummies were import- ed so that the linen rags could be used to make ра- per to accommodate news- paper printing - which was as much as England and France combined.

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Every ball used in an MLB game is covered in mud that comes from a secret location in New Jersey. 4 CFFICIA MOR LEAGUE R - CRACKED COM A man skims through riv- erbanks to find the mud, then refines it before it's applied to balls. It is called the Lena Black- burne Original Baseball Rubbing Mud.

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Weta Digital hired 900 people to work on the visual effects for Avatar. CRACKED.COM To render the movie, Weta made use of 4,000 Hewlett-Packard servers with 35,000 processor cores with 104 TB of RAM and 3 PB of network area storage.

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There is an indigenous Brazilian man believed to be the last member of his tribe. CRACKED.COM Officials call him The Man of the Hole, from the 6 feet deep holes that he digs in each home that he has abandoned. Не has sig- naled to government offi- cials before to warn them about his pitfalls.

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Ants manage large-scale infrastructure projects with no coordination at all. GRACKED.COM Each ant acts alone, solving problems such as removing obstructions as they are en- countered. Research points to the simple, evolutionary energy-saving principle of: If you do not need to com- municate, don't!

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French law forbids official surveys accounting for racial or ethnic origin. CRACKED COM Nobody knows the exact number of people of African de- scent living in France because it officially declares itself 'color blind.'

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There are 45 genes which the human species has likely 'stolen' from worms and bacteria. AITACCGACGA TACGAGTTCTT TGTTGCEGCTGATACO AAAGA GCGCTCCG GTATGTTGGACCGAGT CRACKED.COM They have not simply been passed on from our primitive ancestors. In- stead, they have jumped directly into the human genome in the last couple of million years.

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Sarah Thomas is the NFL's only female official. GRACKED.COM Thomas earned a basket- ball scholarship to the University of Mobile, ranking fifth in the school's history, and graduated with a degree in communications.

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The Dudley Dursley actor had to wear a fat suit after the third Harry Potter movie. CRACKED.COM Harry Melling had lost so much weight that his role was almost recast. Eventu- ally it was decided that Melling would continue to play Dudley and would wear a fat suit to make him look heavier.

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The cruise ship MS Oasis of the Seas gets the gas mileage of 12 feet per gallon. MSC CRACKED COM Completed in 2010, it has a total length of 361.8 me- ters, a height of 72 meters above the sea line, and room for 6,296 passen- gers. It burns 11361 gallons of fuel each hour.

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Stevie Ray Vaughan had a dream about his own funeral a day before he died. CRACKED.COM On August 26, 1990, Stevie Ray Vaughan described a disturbing dream to his bandmates in which he witnessed his own funeral. The next day, he tragically died in a helicopter crash.

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No one knows how seals originally came to Lake Baikal in Siberia. CRACKED.COM The Baikal Seal is the only true freshwater seal on Earth, and may have trav- eled hundreds of miles to Lake Baikal from another large body of water during the last ice age before be- ing stranded.

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