14 Facts That Will Make People Love And Fear You
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The gaming world in ‘85 was brutal; if you sent in your home made video game to publisher Firebird, the worst they could do isn’t “say no," it's “publish your work in a compilation of terrible games that they'd rather people steal than make any money from.” This and more stories below.
![There is an urban legend about an arcade game that caused players to go insane. POLYBIUS CRACKED.com The fictitious arcade cabinet game Polybius was said to have been created as part of a government-run psychology experiment. There are a few alleged pictures and recreations of the cabinet, logo, and start screen, as well as a description of the gameplay that used subliminal messages and caused hallucinations and amnesia.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/5/794885.jpg)
Source: Ahoy
![William Shatner intentionally ruined takes on Star Trek when they tried to censor his kiss with co-star Nichelle Nichols. CRACKED.COM The interracial kiss between Kirk and Uhura in 1968 was a first for TV, and the network was nervous about the potential backlash. To appease certain affiliates, producers attempted to shoot an alternate scene for southern audiences where the two did not kiss. Shatner deliberately sabotaged his takes during these scenes by making faces and looking right into the camera, SO that the network was forced to show the kiss.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/6/794886.jpg)
Source: Hollywood Reporter
![Jim Henson dreamed of opening a nightclub in the 1960's. CRACKED.COM The experimental nightclub Cyclia would have featured images and videos projected onto walls, synced up to music to create a holistic experience. The nightclub never came to be, but Henson did record a lot of the visuals that would have been used, some of which were posthumously released by his company.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/3/794883.jpg)
Source: Jim Henson Company
![Deep Sea Sponges live up to 18,000 years. CRACKED.CO COM Giant tube sponges can live past 2,000 years, in part due to the cells that make up their bodies. Unlike typical animal cells, the sponge cells can transform into whatever the sponge needs at the time. Deep sea glass sponges, which sway in deep waters atop 10 foot poles of silicone, can live up to 18,000 years.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/2/794882.jpg)
Source: Eos
![An unintentional pandemic spread across the online game World Of Warcraft. CRACKED.COM The debuff spell Corrupted Blood, cast by newly added end boss, Hakkar the Soulflayer, was only supposed to last a few seconds, but an oversight allowed in-game pets to catch the corruption and spread it across the game. Programmers imposed quarantines and players fled densely populated areas, until a series of patches got rid of the infection. Epidemiologists studied the event for real world prevention.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/4/794884.jpg)
Source: Washington Post
![Video game publisher Firebird released 5 of the worst games that were submitted to them, under the name Don't Buy This. 48K SPECTRUM COMPILATION DON'T BUY THIS FIVE OF THE PRINTING GRACKED.COM LIVES OD HI-SCORE=150 Instead of simply disregarding them, Firebird decided to publicly mock the worst submissions they received in the 1985 release Don't Buy This: Five Of The Worst Games Ever. Upon release, Firebird disowned the game, claimed it escaped instead of being released, and encouraged people to pirate it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/0/794880.jpg)
Source: Sinclair Programs
![We found a planet that rains glass over 5 times the speed of sound. CRACKED.COM The deep blue color of HD 189773B, a gas giant exoplanet 64.5 light-years away, was observed in 2005. Scientists theorize the color comes from shards of glass that are whipping around the planet's surface at 4,349 mph.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/1/794881.jpg)
Source: PBS
![Dolph Lundgren sent Sylvester Stallone to the hospital while filming Rocky IV. CRACKED.COM In order to capture the most realistic boxing possible, Stallone, who directed the film, asked the hulking Lundgren to really go for hard hits to the body. After wrapping, Lundgren got word that production had to BE halted after Stallone was hospitalized for swelling of his heart.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/9/794879.jpg)
Source: Yahoo
![There are indeed different types of hangovers from different drinks. CRACKED.COM The severity of your hangover is determined not only with how much you drink, but what you drink. This is caused by a byproduct of fermentation, congeners, and the greater concentration of them, the worse the effects. Dark liquors like brandy, red wine, and whiskey have higher concentrations than clear ones, like vodka.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/7/794877.jpg)
Source: CNN
![Shopping carts are getting bigger SO that you'll unintentionally spend more money. CRACKED.COM The shopping cart, invented in 1936, was basically two regular shopping baskets on a rolling frame, made so that you could fill up more baskets with goods. The next step for tricking you into spending more lies in the ever growing size of the carts themselves; research shows that when shopping cart sizes double, people buy 40% more at the checkout counter.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/3/794873.jpg)
Source: National Geographic
![Bea Arthur wasn't too fond of Betty White on Golden Girls. CRACKED. The two characters that Bea Arthur and Betty White played on Golden Girls were closer to their real life personalities than you think. Betty White said that Bea found her to be a pain in the neck, and her positive attitude got under Bea's skin. Sometimes, Betty said, if I was happy, she'd be furious!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/8/794878.jpg)
Source: Village Voice
![The most liked post on Instagram is an image of an egg. CRACKED.com .COM The account tworldrecord_egg was created by advertising creative Chris Godfrey to raise awareness for mental health. The first post, a stock image of a brown egg on a plain white backdrop, raked in 55.5 million likes, more than doubling that of the second most liked post from Ariana Grande's wedding.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/5/794875.jpg)
Source: CNN
![Chicago, Illinois is the most rat infested city in the US. CRACKED.com Based on data from pest control company Orkin, Chicago has topped the list of most rodent saturated cities in America for several years in a row. A combination of climate change, increasing urbanization, and even the COVID pandemic has helped the rat population surge.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/4/794874.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![One man has garnered millions of views on Youtube by sitting motionless on camera for hours at a time. CRACKED.COM As a form of endurance art, performer Benjamin Bennett released a series of odd videos where he sits and smiles in front of a camera in four hour chunks, at a rate of one video a week. In 2019, after 300 of these videos, Bennett started a new series where he walks and talks continuously until his camera battery dies.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/7/794887.jpg)
Source: Boing Boing