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Your brain’s getting a little flabby, but that’s okay. It happens to the best of us. Ours feel a little doughy on Monday morning after the weekend break from fact-finding. No need to worry. This list will beef that brain muscle right up, and it should be in peak physical condition to get out there and stomp those rival teams on trivia night.

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Drug Cartels

The repeal of the prohibition of alcohol in 1933 led to the emergence of the modern CRAGN drug cartels. Crime syndicates needed a replacement for thei

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Frogs

The wood frog injects its own tissue with anti-freeze. It fills up with glucose to reduce the size of ice crystals that would otherwise destroy its ti

35

Iceland

Iceland has the world's highest count of books read and books published per capita. Icelanders are so into books, 10% of them publish one. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Serial Killers

The Servant Girl Annihilator made headlines before Jack the Ripper. In 1884, four years before Jack terrorized London, the Annihilator's murders gripped Austin, Texas-just to completely stop one year later. And just like the Ripper, no one ever found out who the killer was. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sean Connery

Sean Connery Connery famously loathed working on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, saying that idiots now making films in Hollywood drove him to quit. He later had a less bitter take on the whole thing, declining to appear in Crystal Skull because retirement is just too much damned fun. — Source: BBC

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Watches

Your $10 Casio keeps better time than your $10,000 Rolex ORIGINAL 05 GAS ESCAPE ROLEX VALVE DEEPSEA 40 DATE WORLD - IO, RING YEL I C LOCK SYSTAM 30 20 Since Rolex watches use a mechanical oscillator, they are more vulnerable to temperature changes, magnetism, or just plain not having a full wound spring, unlike digital watches, that use a quartz crystal as an oscillator CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hungary

Religious Relics Someone's right fist In Hungary, the right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king is treated as a holy relic. It's kept in a fancy golden container in the Basilica of St. Stephen, and once a year on Saint Stephen's Day, it is taken out for a walk. CRACKED — Andrzej Otrębski/Wiki Commons,
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Polaroid

Polaroid had to issue a statement in response to OutKast. OneStep Plus POLAROID LAND CAMERA CRACKED.COM After OutKast sang Shake it like a Polaroid picture, Polaroid released this statement: Shaking or waving can actually damage the image — Source

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Stevie Nicks

CRACKED.COM Stevie Nicks' Stand Back was inspired by Prince. When Prince's Little Red Corvette came on her car's radio, Nicks stopped her honeymoon to write the similarly synth-driven Stand Back. Then she contacted Prince to split the royalties, and was amazed when he showed up at the studio and did the synth part himself. — Source

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SmelloVision

On April Fools Day 1965, the BBC aired an interview with the inventor of SmelloVision. The man claimed he was a London University profes- sor and cut onions and brewed coffee to prove he could transmit scents through the screen. View- ers called and confirmed that they had received the CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

27

Tibetan Mythology

Tibetan mythology has zombie-like creatures called Ro-Lang, which are created by sorcerers. GRACKED.COM People inhabiting Tibet construct low doorways to keep the ro-langs out, since the zombies can- not bend their joints and walk with a stiff-armed lurch. — Source

26

Anna Paquin

Big Actors Who Had Never Acted Before ANNA PAQUIN in The Piano Paquin got praise (and an Oscar) for her first movie role ever, at age 11. I had no idea what I was doing, she said years later - but her ensuing career proved that it wasn't a fluke. — Sources: Stuff, The Guardian

25

The Empire State Building

Two people have fallen from the Empire State Building and lived. They both fell from the 86th floor and landed on the 85th. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — NY Daily News

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Man-Thing and Swamp Thing

Marvel's Man-Thing and DC's Swamp Thing debuted within weeks of each other back in 1971. Man-Thing co-creator Gerry Conway and Swamp Thing co-creator Len Wein were roommates at the time. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Game Spot

23

Farmed Salmon

CRACKED MOST FARMED SALMON ARE BORN DEAF. They're three times more likely to be partially deaf than wild salmon due to a deformity called vaterite, which can cause up to 50% hearing loss. — University of Melbourne / The Human League

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Moon Litter

There are 96 bags of human waste on the moon. They were left behind by the six Apollo Missions. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

21

Foreign Accent Syndrome

AN AUSTRALIAN WOMAN DEVELOPED A FRENCH ACCENT AFTER A CAR ACCIDENT. Leanne Rowe is not happy with having an accent that isn't her native Australian one, and often avoids talking to people. Her condition is called Foreign Accent Syndrome. CRACKED.COM — Medical Cases That Baffled The Pros

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Big Cats

Wildlife sanctuaries welcome lions and tigers rescued from circuses. CIRCUS SHOW TODAY!!! INFO: (702) 336 wm Two tigers were part of a traveling circus and dropped off at a local farm in Argentina, and then the circus never came back. The tigers had two cubs and spent 4 years in a metal train carriage. The tigers were rescued and now live in Lionsrock Big Cat Sanctuary in South Africa.'OM — Ecowatch

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High on Life

In 2017, a group of travel influencers called 'High on Life' were banned from all U.S. public lands. JUN PRATO CRACKED.COM Their violations included driving an RV across the Bonneville Salt Flats, and affixing a rope swing to the Corona Arch. A year later, they fell off a water- fall in British Columbia and died. — Outside Online

18

Paris

The Arc de Triomphe is an incredibly meaningful and beautiful landmark in the city of Paris. It was also really, REALLY expensive to build. The final cost of the Arc was 10,432,000 francs. In 1806. CRACKED.COM — Source

17

Cockroaches

Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to help relieve the paín. CRACKED.COM However, collecting and uncontrolled uses of therapeutic inverte- brates can put undue pressure on certain highly sought after species. — NCBI

16

Charlie Sheen

CRACKED SPIRITS H CH CHARLIE SHEEN WAS BEING FILMED BY A WOMAN IN A BAR WITH HER CELL PHONE, AND НЕ DIDN'T LIKE IT. Не slapped the phone out of her hand and damaged it, so security threw him out of the bar. — Economic Times

15

Michelangelo’s David

CRACKED A PRINCIPAL RESIGNED OVER RENAISSANCE NUDITY. Michelangelo's David caused a stir when it was shown to middle school students in Tallahassee, Florida, and the school's principal ended up resigning. — Source

14

King Tut

The guy who broke King Tut's beard tried to glue it back on. It took 9 weeks of scraping high strength industrial glue off of the 3000 year old mask in order to restore it, however a gap still remains between the mask and the beard. CRACKED.COM — Source: Live Science

13

Megan Fox

CRACKED.COM Megan Fox was fired from Transformers: Dark of the Moon for a Hitler remark. In an interview in 2009, Fox said of director Michael Bay, Не wants to be like Hitler on his sets,and he is. Transformers series. producer Steven Spielberg told Bay to fire her right now. — Source

12

Ghostbusters

An architect was the inspiration for Egon Spengler. On the front page of an architectural journal, Harold Ramis saw a photo of a man with wire-rimmed — Source: Esquire

11

Catch Me If You Can

Catch Me If You Can Frank catches himself. The French cop escorting Frank Abagnale Jr. after his arrest is the real Frank Abagnale Jr. CRACKED.COM — Source

10

Peace Sausages

During World War I, Cologne Mayor Konrad Adenauer developed sausages without meat to deal with shortages. While Germany didn't embrace his soy-based Friedenswurst (or peace sausage), after the war, they were taken back to Britain and Adenauer was granted a patent. CRACKED — Source

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Charles Ingram

Charles Ingram WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? A number one followed by one hundred zeros is known by what name? GRACKED.COM Ingram and his wife had devised a scheme wherein he would list the answers out loud to himself, and she would cough, from the studio audience, when he said the right one. — Source

8

Lars von Trier

Danish film director Lars von Trier made some intolerable statements about Hitler at the 2011 Cannes film festival. I understand Hitler... I sympat

7

Bill Cosby

ET VAULT Whenever Bill Cosby would be interviewed by Entertainment Tonight, he'd request that they send the same reporter and that she wear orange. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Extremely Specific Celebrity Demands

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Sweden

Sweden is so into sourdoughs, there's a hotel for them. You can leave your sourdough there when you travel, safe in the knowledge that it'll be fed, massaged and taken care of (if it's not, it shrivels up and you can't make any more bread with it). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Penn Jillette

Penn Jillette invented a masturbation tank. 36 22 34 24 A в 20 25 A 26 3 23 CRACKED CONE 27 Не patented a therapeutic tub for holding water and a user, in particular, a female user. This personal spa happened to have a bunch of water jets optimized for prime humpin'. — Google Patents

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J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling wasn't invited to Harry Potter's 20th Anniversary. CRACKED.COM Because of her transphobic tweets in 2020, HBO didn't include Harry's creator in HBO Max's Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts. The main Harry Potter trio have all publicly spoken out against Rowling's views. — SCMP

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New York Public Libraries

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 neede

2

Friday Night Lights

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Friday Night Lights EAST LLO ###### 5 LIONS FOOTBALL The Judge is wearing a T-shirt promoting the East Dillon Lions in the series finale. It's a callback to one of her early favorite shows she liked to binge. The Good Place CRACKED.COM — Source: 29 Easter Eggs And Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Iconic Comedies

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Benjamin Bolger

One of the most credentialed perpetual students in human history has dyslexia. Benjamin Bolger dropped out of Yale Law School when he was unable to compensate for his dyslex- ia, but enrolled in Oxford after receiving additional training. Не has since ac- quired 14 degrees. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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