18 High-Octane Facts To Turbocharge Your Brain

Your brain needs two things to work: glucose and facts. Glucose is its fuel, and facts are its... uh... manifold filter pump? OK, we might not know much about engines, but we do know about random facts -- and we have prepared some that will make your brain purr like a Ferrari with shiny new O-ring grommets.

And for full service, just check the links to the original Cracked articles under each fact.

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Sweden tortured psychiatric patients with candy. In the 1940s, the Swedish set out to test the hypothesis that sugar caused cavities. And they did it More: Top Secret Psychological Experiments (That Were Basically Torture)

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CRACKED cO Food is used to punish prisoners. Nutraloaf is a soul-crushingly bland concoction that counts as food in that it will nourish you, if you mMore: Ways Prison Life Is Even Worse Than On TV

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CRACKED c COM In Lebanon, Pulp Fiction was shown in chronological order. Pulp Fiction's Lebanese distributor thought audiences would be confused by thMore: Transcendentally Stupid Movie Censorship

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A murder took place at the Lebowski mansion. L.A.'S Greystone Mansion, where countless shows and movies were shot, was the stage of a real murder mystMore: Deeply Cursed Los Angeles Places (You Know From Movies)

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CRACKEDGOM Tolkien hated Disney and his dwarfs. Good ol' J.R.R. really disliked Disney's take on Snow White's story. Tolkien, who had just published hMore: Tolkien Versus Disney, And More WTF Historical Feuds

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CRACKED CO COM Should the last smallpox samples be destroyed? This is a tricky one. On the one hand, the WHO says the virus samples are necessary to dMore: Weird Ways Science Is Screwed

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A man keeps getting arrested for pointing out where JFK was shot. Robert J. Groden, a high-profile conspiracy theorist, has been arrested 82 times forMore: Tyrants Who Punched Down On WTF Dumb Things

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CRACKEDCO Ang Lee played the Hulk himself. Lee personally donned the motion capture suit when he directed his pre-MCU version of the Hulk. According tMore: Sneaky Ways Directors Hid Cameos