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April 14, 2021

You never stop learning stuff. Even when you visit Cracked for your daily fix of fart jokes, you walk away knowing new things. As usual, we have collected here some facts that have appeared on Cracked for your convenience, so you don't need to frantically search for them to win that ill-advised bet you made with the guy delivering your discreetly-wrapped package (really, you should stop making those bets).

And as usual, you can click on the links to learn even more.

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‘Dangerous’ Neighborhoods

Dangerous neighborhoods aren't particularly dangerous. Yes, some neighborhoods have a high crime rate, but statistics alone don't make them less safe than other places. Crime is pretty much concentrated in highly specific areas, among highly specific people. You're not more likely to be robbed in a bad neighborhood than anywhere — Source

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Billionaires stifle innovation more often than they advance it. The much touted innovation is a lot harder and rarer than you've been led to think, and not how most billionaires make their fortunes. For big companies, it's just much easier and lucrative to keep churning out new versions of — More: 5 Myths About The Mega-Rich That Need To Go Away

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willy Wonka has a sequel partly set in outer space. In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket, and Charlie's family ride a magic elevator to space, where they meet aliens and that's the least bonkers thing that happens. it's an outrage that we never — More: 5 Sequels To Classic Movies We Never Got

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Coachella is owned by a right- wing billionaire. Like many of our hippest institutions, the Coachella Festival is owned by a rich old codger. In this case, it's 81-year- old oil mogul Philip Anschutz, who has thrown money at decidedly un-hippie causes like climate change denial and immigration panic, and — More: 5 'Cool' Brands That Have Big Problems

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The cast and crew of Titanic did PCP by accident. A night of shooting was cut short when dozens of people got extremely high and had to be rushed to the hospital. As it turned out, the clam chowder the crew had for lunch had been spiked with PCP. — More: 5 Weird Crimes That Happened On Movie Productions

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Euro bills could have a unicorn on them. Among the many designs considered for the Euro banknotes in the '90s, some were quite unconventional - a particular entry depicting a majestic unicorn on the 100 Euro bill. The fact that it wasn't picked is reason enough to call Ur00.Y European authorities — More: 5 Goofy Ways Designing The Euro Was A Major Pain

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American Psycho 2

American Psycho 2 wasn't supposed to be American Psycho 2. When Mila Kunis signed up for a slasher movie, she had no idea it was an American Psycho sequel - -because no one did. It wasn't until production kicked off that the producers decided to connect the two films. — More: 5 Trash Sequels That Failed Beloved Films

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Ronald McDonald

Ronald McDonald can't say that burgers come from coWS. The dream gig as the corporate mascot of a multinational fast food company comes with some rules the most bizarre of those being, you are never allowed to tell children where burgers come from if they ask — More: 7 Real (Ridiculous) Rules For Being Ronald McDonald

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He-Man villain Beast Man has a tragic backstory. The series bible states that Skeletor's furry minion used to be Biff Beastman, a regular Earth guy who crash-landed in Eternia along with He-Man's future mom. So while his travel mate ended up marrying a king, Biff was mutated by Skeletor into — More: 5 Famous Films' Side Characters With Effed Up Backstories

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Coca-Cola

A Soviet general got Coca-Cola into the USSR. Coke's imperialistic reputation bugged General Georgy Zhukov, who had taken a liking to the brown sugary beverage during World War ll. So through his foreign contacts, he got crates of colorless Coke sent to him, which he could happily chug without anyone — More: 6 Eyebrow-Raising Old Sodas That Sound Like Liquid Nightmares

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Peter Pan

The creator of Peter Pan wrote Sherlock Holmes fanfic. Think fanfiction is a thing of the internet? People have been writing (and publishing) pastiches and imaginary sequels with their favorite characters since the 1800s. J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, wrote his own Sherlock Holmes adventure in 1893. — More: 4 'Internet Things' That Are Older Than You Thought

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Nukes helped US learn that whale sharks can live over 100 years. The vertebrae of whale sharks have a ring build- up, kind of like trees - but it wasn't known how: long those rings take to grow. Cold War nuclear tests helped solve the puzzle - by locating a spike of — More: We Know How Old Whale Sharks Are Because Of Nukes

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The Flash used to be a huge square. In most media incarnations nowadays, Barry Allen is a wisecracking, lighthearted rookie - but back in the day, he was the most stuck-up member of the Justice League. He was a e-wearing cop who regularly fought hippies and Satanic rockers. — More: Superhero Details Only The Apex Nerds Know

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Your earlobe wrinkles may predict future heart conditions. Like some sort of science-base palmistry, a crease on your earlobe (known as Frank's sign) may be correlated with a higher rate of coronary artery disease. No one knows how it works, with many assuming the sign results from smoking and other — More: 7 Small Symptoms That Could Signal Major Medical Issues

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Max von Sydow had a secret role in Ghostbusters II. Von Sydow voiced Vigo the Carpathian in the 2009 Ghostbusters video game - and fans noticed that he sounded exactly like Vigo in Ghostbusters Il. Eventually, producers spilled the truth - they had von Sydow overdub the original actor's voice in — More: Casting Hollywood Kept Buried Forever

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Galileo mathematically mapped Hell. Long before The Lord of the Rings, nerds liked to argue about Dante's Inferno- and Galileo Galilei outnerded them all. In 1588, a young Galileo gave a series of lectures presenting his calculations about the physical and mathematical properties of Dante's Hell, and poking holes into — More: Old-Timey Icons With WTF Habits

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