During WW II, Italian Doctors Made Up A Disease (To Save Jewish Lives)

When Nazis occupied Italy in 1943, doctors in Rome created a fake disease as a way to save Jewish people in Italy.

Authors: By Ethan Tyrrell
Published: November 27, 2021
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'Clone High' Is Coming Back (And Deserves More Love This Time )

The underrated cartoon comedy greatness is being brought out of the meat locker.

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Published: November 27, 2021
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4 Fictional Characters That Are Secretly Dark As Hell

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On Wisconsin: The Funniest People and Pop Culture in the State

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The Bonkers Movie That Cost Zero Dollars: 'Attack Of The Giant Blurry Finger'

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Published: November 27, 2021
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13 Interesting Facts To Fill Awkward Silences With

By:: Andrea Meno

November 01, 2021

13 Interesting Facts To Fill Awkward Silences With

To keep Sally’s voice in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” same throughout the movie, they had to rush the actress in at one point and record her remaining lines super-quick. Here’s the full story, plus 12 others:

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A loose tooth almost jeopardized It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. When Sally's six-year-old actress had a tooth get loose, they rushed her to the studio to get all her lines in before it fell out and she started to lisp. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The original 35-page treatment for The Blair Witch Project had zero dialogue. That was on purpose: the authors described what would happen, but they wanted all the lines to be ad-libbed by the actors themselves. CRACKED.COM — Source

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OG Michael Myers actor Nick Castle did way more than you probably knew. He's not just an actor, but a writer and director-he co-wrote Escape from New York and directed '90s films like Dennis the Menace. CRACKED.COM — Source

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It's estimated that 2,5 billion Tyrannosaurus rexes ever lived on Earth. SPECIMEN RAORDINARY That's over the species' entire 2.4 MILLION-year lifespan and, at any given moment in that span, only about 20,000 T-Rexes were running around. CRACKED.COM — Source

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After the Civil War, the capital of the US was almost moved to St Louis. The scheme even involved disassembling important buildings like the White House and the Capitol building, and shipping them to St. Louis. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Operation Magic Carpet, the US returned eight million people home. K-ADN The operation, led after WWII ended, involved getting an average of 22,222 soldiers back to the US every day for almost a whole year. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Bow Valley, Canada, one grizzly bear has been dominant for some 10 years. illustration He has the humdrum name of Bear No. 122, weighs 500-600 pounds, and has been at the top of the local grizzly hierarchy for about a decade. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kodak used to operate a private nuclear reactor under its corporate campus. A K K I HANDLER MANNEY The reactor was there for 30 years, and was about as big as a fridge. They kept it behind concrete walls in a basement and operated it remotely. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Ancient Egypt, they had egg incubators that could hatch up to 4,500 eggs. The incubators were cleverly designed ovens that, if operated right, could hatch all those thousands of fertilized eggs within several weeks. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The National September 11 Memorial is always carefully heated and cooled. ALAN RICHARD J. GUADAGNO AMARTINEZ MARK BINGHAM It was designed so that people could always touch it, so an elaborate system of copper tubes heats or cools it as necessary at all times. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The CIA built a tracking device shaped to look just like a piece of tiger poop. It was for the Vietnam War, and they needed a device that could look completely unobtrusive in the jungle. The choice was clear. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scotland Yard is sitting on a bunch of information about Jack the Ripper. NEW SCOTLAND VARD For some reason, they just don't want to release it apparently, they have four ledgers with information they refuse to publish. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a Grateful Dead show that somehow hasn't been recorded at all. Apparently, there's no tape of any kind of the performance, and people want a recording so bad that the reward for one is $1,200. CRACKED.COM — Source

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