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If you think it's too stupid that in every Jurassic Park film, some military guy wants to use dinosaurs to fight wars, then you're not prepared to hear about the anti-tank dogs. If you're brave enough, read on below:

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One of the largest battles in video game history cost $330,000. CRACKED.CO The Bloodbath of B-R5RB was fought in the MMORPG EVE Online in 2014, and lasted 21 hours. The conflict pitted two factions, the Russian alliances and Clusterfuck Coalition against the N3 Coalition and Pandemic Legion alliance, with 7,548 active users. The cost of the losses, using the market value of in-game item PLEX which can be purchased with real currency, is estimated to be $330,000. — Source: Engadget

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A spider burrowed into a man's stomach, and crawled up to his chest under his skin. CRACKEDO on a trip in Bali in 2014, a spider entered Dylan Maxwell's abdomen through an old appendix scar. When he was seen at a local medical center, he was prescribed an antihistamine for a bug bite. The spider navigated up to his chest over the course of three days, leaving a red trail on Maxwell's flesh, until it was surgically removed. — Source: Reuters

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The Soviets used anti-tank dogs to covertly blow stuff up. CRACKED.COM The Soviet and Russian military from 1930-1996 trained dogs to carry explosives to targets that were too dangerous to risk human life. Initially, the dogs were trained to drop the bombs off and run back to their master, but eventually the Russian forces said actually, who cares, they're dogs and used them more as suicide-bombers. — Source: Gizmodo

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The most brutal torture lets Mother Nature do all the work. CRACKED.com Bamboo torture involves letting a chute of bamboo grow, over the course of days or weeks, through the body of a suspended victim. Bamboo can grow at 4 cm per hour, and even MythBusters proved it has the ability to work its way through ballistic gel if given time. — Source: "The Other Empire: Literary Views of Japan from the Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia"

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There are Pig Olympics were pig-letes compete all over the world. CRACKED These specially trained and bred piglets take part in competitions organized by the Sport-Pig Federation, and get to breed the next generation of oink-lympians. From China, to Moscow, the pigs take part in events like pig-racing, swimming, and a soccer-like game called pigball. — Source: BBC

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Someone hijacked Chicago TV broadcasts dressed like Max Headroom in 1987. CRACKED.com The first broadcast was 25 seconds and had no dialogue, just a persistent buzzing noise as the masked man swayed erratically. The second broadcast was 90 seconds and the man spoke cryptically about the real Max Headroom's endorsements, ending with their bare bottom being spanked by a woman with a flyswatter. They were never caught. — Source: Motherboard

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100 cane toads were brought into Australia to help with bugs, and now they outnumber people - by a LOT. CRACKED.COM To deal with the greyback cane beetle, the Queensland, Australia government introduced 102 cane toads in 1935. By 2010, the cane toad population had exploded to 1.5 billion 60 times the human population in the entire country. The toads do so well because they are exceptionally hardy; they hop out of brush fires, shake off being run over, and have even survived being in a dog's stomach for 40 minutes. — Source: National Geographic

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A man successfully sued a video game publisher for making their game too addicting. XLOR CRACKED Craig Smallwood sued NC Interactive after playing their game Lineage II, a MMORPG like World of Warcraft, for 20,000 hours and ruining his life. Consequences like those smallwood suffered would normally be covered in the End-User Licensing Agreement, but in Hawaii, where the case was filed, they don't recognize contracts that waive the ability to make gross-negligence claims. — Source: The Register

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A reality game-show made adoptees try to pick their biological father out of a line up, for cash. FOX CRACKED.co The show Who's Your Daddy put TJ Myers, an adult that had been put up for adoption as an infant, in a room of 25 men, one of whom was her biological father. If she could pick out her real father she would win $100,000, and if not then the man she wrongly chose would get the money instead. The contestants were reunited with their father even if they didn't win the game. — Source: NY Times

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A woman was found living in a Cyber Cafe after being missing for 10 years. CRACKED.co In 2005, the then 14-year-old Xiao Yun ran away from home and wasn't seen again for another decade. She was presumed dead until, by chance, police found her in 2015, living in a Cyber Cafe in Hangzhou, China. She was forced to pay a fine of about $131 for the fake I.D. she used. — Source: Independent

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Koalas have fingerprints that are nearly indistinguishable from ours. CRACKED COM In a case of convergent evolution, both humans and koalas ended up with fingerprints that exhibit the same kind of whorls and loops for better grip. Chimps and gorillas have fingerprints, but most monkeys and other arboreal animals don't. It's possible the prints help koalas with their picky eating habits, allowing them a finer sense of touch. — Source: Gizmodo

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The longest movie ever has a runtime of over 35 days. LOGISTICS installation the products CRACKED.COM The experimental film by Erika Magnusson and Daniel Andersson, called Logistics, shows the production cycle of a pedometer, in reverse chronological order. The 420 minute movie records the journey taken by commercial goods from Sweden to China, from freight truck, to train, to cargo ship, all in real time. — Source: DNA Syndication

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The BBC aired a hoax in 1957 showing spaghetti growing from trees. CRACKED.COM On April Fools' Day in 1957, the BBC program Panorama aired a three-minute report on supposed spaghetti trees being harvested in Switzerland. At this time, the UK wasn't super familiar with spaghetti, so people trusted the accuracy of the program, and began calling in for advice on how to start their own spaghetti trees. — Source: CNN

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The game Chubby Bunny resulted in at least 2 deaths. CRACKED.co The game is simple you see how many marshmallows you can fit in your mouth and still be able to say Chubby Bunny. If this sounds like an asphyxiation waiting to happen, you'd be right. 12 year old Catherine Fish died from choking at her elementary school's Care Fair when her teacher was looking away, and 32 year old Janet Rudd collapsed at the London, Ontario Western Fair, with paramedics unable to free her airway. — Source: CNews

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O.J. Simpson was nearly cast as the Terminator, but James Cameron couldn't see him as a killing machine. CRACKED.COM Mike Medavoy ran Orion films when The Terminator was being cast, and thought he was going to blow James Cameron away by suggesting to cast NFL Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson as the T-800. Cameron never entertained the idea of Simpson as the Terminator, since he couldn't see O.J. as a cold and ruthless killer. — Source: EW

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A Butter Panic befell Norway in 2011. CRACKED.COM A shortage of butter and the resulting inflation of its price in Norway lead to soaring prices and empty butter shelves across the country. During the 'Norwegian butter crisis, authorities apprehended butter smugglers trying to cross the border, and butter was auctioned off by Norwegian college students to fund parties. — Source: Slate

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