20 of the Dirtiest Facts You Never Learned in History Class

20 of the Dirtiest Facts You Never Learned in History Class

The Most Embarrassing Failures of Famous Geniuses

The Most Embarrassing Failures of Famous Geniuses

40 of the Funniest Tweets from the Week of September 2, 2024

40 of the Funniest Tweets from the Week of September 2, 2024

34 Random Bits of Trivia, Just As Legend Foretold

34 Random Bits of Trivia, Just As Legend Foretold

Five Historical Figures With Silly Phobias

Five Historical Figures With Silly Phobias

40 Random Bits of Trivia That Might Seize the Means of Production at Any Moment

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Celebrity Crowdfunding Donate for a chance to co-star with NICOLAS CAGE. Paul Lalonde started a crowdfunding campaign to finance the sequel to the 2014 Left Behind film, offering perks such as speaking roles and characters named after dedicated fans who want to spread the message of the End Times. CRACKED

Samuel Goldwyn Films

The Washington Post

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OLD-TIMEY DEADLY HAZARDS BAKING BREAD In the 19th century, London bakeries were dirty and grubby. One investigator found cobwebs, animals, rats and mice in the troughs, smelly drains, and no ventilation. CRACKED

Helen Allingham

The Social Historian

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George Washington did not give enough rations to enslaved people for survival Enslaved people at Mount Vernon were only provided a quart of cornmeal and 5-8 ounces of salted fish per day. In order to receive enough nurtrition for forced hard labor, they tended gardens, foraged, and hunted wild animals in their precious time not working for Washignton. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Source: Mount Vernon 

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MORE BOOKS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN THAN ANY OTHER PERSON, BESIDES JESUS CHRIST. Some 15,000 books have been written about the sixteenth President of the United States. CRACKED.COM

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Samuel L. Jackson HOLLYWOOD ATLANTA CRACKED.COM Laurence Fishburne notable for not being Samuel L. Jackson, among other things -- starred in some Super Bowl ad in 2014. When a reporter asked Jackson if he got a lot of attention from the ad, Jackson said You're as crazy as the people on Twitter. I'm not Laurence Fishburne! We don't all look alike!

Source: YouTube

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CRACKED.COM Money is the root of all evil 1 TIMOTHY 6:10 The full translaton is For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Greed, not money itself, creates some, not all, evil.

Bible Gateway

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Iranian women sneak into soccer game by dressing in Bro Drag. CRACKED.COM 5 women went viral in 2018 by wearing wigs and beards to get into a futball game in Tehran. It's not technically illegal for women to attend, but 35 women were detained just that year for trying to get into a stadium.

Source: BBC

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Ice is a mineral, like quartz, copper, and gold. CRACKED.COM Ice is a naturally occurring compound with a defined chemical formula and crys- tal structure, thus making it a legitimate mineral. Its only limitation is that it is not stable at room tem- perature.

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APOCALYPSE? HOW? WATERWORLD The whole world drowns. After global warming melts the polar ice caps, the only dry ground is Mount Everest. CRACKED.COM

Source: Film School Rejects

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The first meal on the moon included bacon squares, peaches and coffee. It was eaten by Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, and it also included sugar cookie cubes and pineapple grapefruit drink. CRACKED.COM

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1991 was a big LA 1994 year for Nickelodeon 993 cartoons. 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 993 1994 1995 1996 1997 It was the debut of their first animated series: Doug, 994 1995 Rugrats, and Ren & Stimpy. 1993 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s CRACKED.COM

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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Might Seize the Means of Production at Any Moment

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Elijah Wood shot his own audition tape for the LOTR trilogy back in the day. Не did that way before making your own tape was common and, he says,he enlisted some friends, including George Huang, who is a writer and filmmaker. We went out to the woods in Griffith Park and shot two of the audition sequences there and one at my house. CRACKED.COM

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Celebrities who tried something new Tom Hardy has a ton of unreleased rap songs. At 14, he rapped as Tommy No. 1, and was repped by Lauryn Hill's manager. Не said I've recorded loads of stuff but it's never been released. They were shared on Reddit but pulled right away, and hip hop heads said he was pretty good. CRACKED

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HotNewHipHop

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Villains Gru would look up to James Bond franchise ERNST BLOFELD With his bald head, desire for world power, nondescript European accent, and association with a clandestine organization bent on global disarray, Blofeld is essentially the mold that Gru was forged from. CRACKED.COM

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Alien3 (1992) Writer Vincent Ward proposed a planet-sized wooden spaceship occupied by monks as the main location for the movie. someone Ward wrote a number of scripts, hired illustrators, and even built some of the sets, but the producers couldn't grasp how a wooden structure would be able to hold up in space. Ward's concept has been dubbed one of the Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made. CRACKED.COM

Vox, Vincent Ward Films

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Two paleontologists fought the so-called Bone Wars in the late 19th century. It was just two very angry nerds going at each other, and it included stuff like fossils being destroyed so the other guy wouldn't find them. CRACKED.COM

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Solar panels are less eco-friendly than you think. Photovoltaic cells get cheaper every day - but they have a limited lifespan. As recycling isn't widespread, lots of panels wind up in landfills, with all the potentially toxic stuff they contain. Even clean energy can't help being dirty. CRACKED.COM

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When pirates caught a. merchant vessel, some of its crew joined the pirates. That was relatively common, anyway, and the reason was simple: the conditions aboard merchant (and military) ships were terrible. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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COMEDY NERD Completing a celebrity rite of passage, Ed Sheeran cameo'd on The Simpsons. It was in a 2018 episode, Haw-Haw Land, and he played Brendan, a musician that Lisa soon falls for. CRACKED.COM

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Jennifer Aniston's anti-stress routine involves eating one potato chip. Vh O Ад When an interviewer asked Aniston what she eats when stressed, she simply answered by saying A chip. Crunch, crunch, crunch. CRACKED.COM

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AMERICAN PSYCHO LEONARDO DICAPRIO WAS OFFERED THE LEAD ROLE. The studio offered the part of Patrick Bateman to DiCaprio. Director Mary Herron, however, thought he was wrong for the part, and fought for Christian Bale. CRACKED.COM

Source: The Guardian

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GRAND THEFT AUTO CRACKED.COM Grand Theft Auto, originally titled Race'n'Chase, struggled to find its identity during development. The game first gave players the option to play as law enforcing police, but after realizing playing as a criminal was more fun, they decided to lean into the mayhem the series became known for.

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Brunch dates back to at least 1895. The word first appeared in print in Hunter's Weekly, in which the article's author suggested a Sunday meal that was lighter than a post-church heavy breakfast. CRACKED.COM

Smithsonian 

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Old Town, San Diego THE WHALEY HOUSE Built on the grounds of San Diego's old gallows, the Whaley House is said to be haunted with chandeliers swinging on their own and the ghosts of hanging victims walking around. CRACKED.COM

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The father of modern taxonomy fled Hamburg after debunking the mayor's taxidermied hydra. Carl Linnaeus stopped in the German town and was presented the supposed remains of a seven-headed hydra, which Linnaeus identified as being cob- bled together with weasel and snake parts. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Leatherface is hiding in the poster for the new TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE The film is said to be a direct sequel to the original. CRACKED.COM

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In feudal Japan, lords built homes with squeaky floors as a measure against ninjas. CRACKED.COM 'Nightingale floors' make a chirping sound when walked upon, were used in the hallways of some temples and palaces assuring that none could sneak through the corridors undetected.

The Vintage News 

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James Cameron nearly directed a Spider-Man movie before Sam Raimi did. His idea involved Electro (AKA Carlton Strand) being the main villain, and it was surprisingly dark by 1990s superhero movie standards. CRACKED.COM

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Javier Bardem used to be a male stripper - well, for one whole day, anyway. Не said It was a disaster. And you know who was there watching? My mum and my sister! It was kind of a thing -you go there and dance, they pay you some money. It wasn't like a Full Monty thing. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED BALI'S DAY OF SILENCE. In Bali, New Year has 24 hours of silence and meditation known as Nyepi. There is no talking, travel, work, or activities, and the only people outside are the Pecalang - Security enforcing the rules. Doesn't this sound better than a hangover at brunch?

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WEIRD WORLD The POTUS called a reporter a stupid son of a bitch at one point. Не got an inflation question from a Fox reporter and said those words when he thought the mic was off. CRACKED.COM

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PEOPLE THINK: TERRORISTS WILL KILL US ALL! YOU SHOULD FEAR In the U.S., way BABIES MORE. more people are killed by toddlers getting their hands on guns than by terrorists. CRACKED.COM

Source: Real Facts That Make Common Fears Less Scary

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AN AMERICAN PATROTIC SONG TOPPED THE CHARTS AT THE HEIGHT OF THE BRITISH INVASION. Do you think the '60s were all about The Beatles? Nope! The Ballad of the Green Berets, by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler, was the #1 song on the Billboard chart for 1966. CRACKED.COM

Source: 25 Facts That Get In Accepted History's Face

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EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS, AND REFERENCES THE SUICIDE SQUAD Guardians OF THe GALAKY CAMEO Pom Klementieff (who plays MCU Mantis) has a brief cameo inside the Corto Maltese club, sans the costume. CRACKED.COM

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS THE DRAGON TYPE WAS SEVERELY UNDERPOWERED. CRACKED.COM Despite characters remarking on their fearsome strength, the Dragon type was only given one offensive move, Dragon Rage, which could only do a set amount of damage-a paltry 40 HP.

Source: 16 Facts About Pokémon Red & Blue

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CRACKED.COM CELEBRITY LOOKALIKES KAITLYN KAY DEVER PANABAKER PHIL OF THE BOOKSMART FUTURE This is a deep cut, but when I first watched Booksmart, I thought the round-faced redhead was for sure the Disney Channel child actor.

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Jack Nicholson CRACKED.COM He denies reports that he's bowed out due to memory loss. In fact, according to him, the only thing he's retired from is hitting on chicks, because it doesn't feel right dating women his own age. Cool!

Source: CinemaBlend

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CRACKED.COM Justin Bieber can solve a Rubik's Cube in less than two minutes! RUBIK'S 4LIFE Yes, probably faster than you can! Bieber has been showing his puzzle-solving skills in many interviews through the years, for example on The Late Late Show with James Corden in 2015.

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40 Random Bits of Trivia That Might Seize the Means of Production at Any MomentSource: Smithsonian Magazine

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