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By:: Cracked Writers; Brian C. Miller

October 16, 2023

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With humanity’s rise to the top of the food chain, we have created more of an impact on the planet than we could ever imagine. Thanks to humanity (aka us) — and electricity in particular — there have been several new adaptations in mosquitos, bed bugs and moths. We also have created a new type of rock.

It’s not all bad, though. For instance: Peeing in the ocean can help it more than our trash does.

It’s amazing how weird our world has become because of us living in it. Here are 37 odd facts about the world that will boggle the mind while forcing us to see how much of an impact we have on our day-to-day existence…

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ANIMALS ARE TRYING TO AVOID HUMANS AND WE'RE CAUSING THEM TO BE MORE NOCTURNAL In areas populated by humans, multiple animal species- - carnivores and herbivores alike - which used to split daytime and nighttime activities evenly, have begun spending two-thirds of their time in nocturnal pursuits. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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Human activity permanently shrank ALL DAT VICHT big fish. YAGHT GULF STREAM GULESTREAM CRACKED.COM A hanging board for a regular fishing tour's biggest catches, in 1957 The same board in 2007 Today, large fish species are one-fifth to one-half as big as they used to be. Why? Fishing has been removing large individuals from those species' gene pools for decades. — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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The London Underground has its own mosquito species CRACY SO distinct it can no longer interbreed with the above-ground mosquito. UNITED ESTED They don't hibernate as there are no seasons underground, no longer feed on birds as there are none, don't need blood to lay their eggs and don't form swarms to breed. — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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CRACKED.COM Like moths to the light? Not anymore. A 2016 study discovered that city moths have started adapting to the prolonged exposure to artificial lights and are no longer drawn to them. — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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Human activity and interference on the Earth's surface, ranging from mining activities to shipwrecks, have led to the creation of over 200 new minerals. Simonkolleite, a glowing mineral first discovered in a mine in Arizona, was formed by the mixture of natural properties like water and mining artifacts. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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Some scientists consider the Earth to have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene; an age where human activity causes more changes to the Earth's ecosystems than natural forces. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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In 30 years, over half of China's rivers disappeared. Yellow River China's Beijing ridiculously fast industrialization and Zhengzhou population Lanzhou growth required Xi'an massive Nanjing Sh amounts Juhan of water. Chongging, Yangtze River BEFORE Yellow River As a result, Beijing 28,000 of the country's 50,000 rivers Zhengzhou Lanzhou dried up. Xi'an Nanjing Shanghai Wuhan Chongging Yangtze River AFTER CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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PHARMACEUTICALS! CONTAINED IN HUMAN URINE ARE CHANGING THE BEHAVIORO OF FISH. DRUGS SUCH AS ANTI-DEPRESSANTS THAT REMAIN IN URINE AND ARE FLUSHED INTO THE ENVIRONMENTO CAN SLOW A FISH'S ESCAPE RESPONSEAND EVEN MAKEAFISH BECOME BRAVER BY WANDERING AWAY FROM A SCHOOL OR LEAVING A SAFE, DARK ENVIRONMENTIC MAKING THEM MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO PREDATORS, GRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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Urban expansion is changing the weather! Research has shown that larger cities can alter the clouds and rain formation, making it rain more in urban areas than other areas. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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Unknowingly, humans have created a bubble around the Earth that helps to shield the planet from solar flares and other harmful radiation. VLF (Very Low Frequency) waves have been found to complement the protective properties of the magnetosphere, forminge a cocoon that, since its creation in the 1960s, has kept. the Van Allen radiation belts further from Earth than they were before. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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There is a cape of debris covering Earth's orbit. The U.S. Space Surveillance Network and other organizations track roughly 750,000 pieces of space junk as they orbit the Earth, moving as fast as 17,000 miles per hour. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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CRACKED.COM During the 9/11 attack, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ordered 000 aircraft in the U.S airspace to land immediately. Flights weren't resumed for three days. This drastically reduced contrails in the atmosphere, which increased the range of temperature to about 2 degrees Celsius in populated regions. — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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New York City's layout has created genetically distinct rat populations. Researchers have divided them into Uptown and Downtown rats. The two groups are geographically cutoff from each other by Midtown. CRAON — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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Humans having persisting effects on the environment is nothing new. Researchers recently found that the imprint of farming from our earliest agricultural period (The Bronze Age) fundamentally changed the makeup of the earth's soil for thousands of years. CRACKED.co — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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Bedbugs that feed on humans have GRAGN armored up. Scientists found that bedbugs that feed on humans have developed thicker exoskeletons. It is believed to be an evolutionary response to being swatted by humans. — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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The widespread use of plastic has led to a new type of stone: Plastiglomerate. Plastiglomerates are created when melted plastic is bound with natural elements like sand and pebbles. Researchers reported that this type of stone will survive as future fossils. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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WHILE FOX POPULATION IN THE UK IS STEADILY DECLINING, THE TREND IS REVERSED FOR URBAN FOXES. CITY COUNCIL BRISTOL TEL: 922 3838 They don't have to deal with problems like scarcity of prey or hunters, and being adaptable animals they thrive in urban areas. CRACK — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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Thanks to humans, the Milky Way is invisible from much of the Earth's surface. Because of artificial lighting, the Milky Way is invisible to 80% of North Americans, 60% of Europeans, and over 33% of the global population. Until night-time lighting became common in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Milky Way was as clear as the moon. Because urbanization is rising, most people born in the future will never get to see it. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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CRACKED.COM The Suez Canal has opened the way for invasive fish from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean: Sea. Hebron Gaza Gaza Strip freen Port Said Beersheba Line Alexandria Arish ISRAEL El-Qantarah Tanta Ismailia Suez Canal CAIRO Suez Sinai Hulwan Peninsula The competition for food, along with the temperature rise from the warmer water flooding in, has displaced the local fish, disrupting the local ecosystem. — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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Peeing in the ocean is helping marine life! Research has found that a chemical found in people's urine reacts with the ocean water to produce ammonium which helps to feed ocean plant life. This in turn provides food and shelter for marine animals. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

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IS FACTORY HARD-ONS. A VIAGRA AIRBORNE 100 CAUSING Brife pfizer 001 O9A pfrier VGR Most of the world's Viagra supply is manufactured in Pfizer's factory at Ringaskiddy, Ireland. Neighbors claim that fumes from the plant are causing them to stand at attention at all times. Pfizer laughs off the claims, calling them' an amusing myth. Still, locals stand outside the factory to inhale deeply. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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THAT ALL ISN'T PEOPLE. SEX TO IMPORTANT A survey found out that 62 percent of women and 48 percent of men stop mid-sex to check their phones. Different studies discovered that nearly half of people would rather give up bumping uglies than the internet. A good WiFi connection ranked above the horizontal mambo for 40 percent of responders. (Where are you reading this, by the way?) CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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IV IN ROCKY ROBOT STORY. THE A TOUCHING HAS That puzzling robot butler is named Sico, and was built to, among other things, interact with autistic children. So Sylvester Stallone arranged for his autistic son, Seargeoh, to meet the robot. Then Stallone wrote Sico into the movie as a way to please Seargeoh. The franchise wasn't bombing itself just for kicks. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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WAS PYRAMID A ROAD. A MAYAN TO MAKE DESTROYED In 2013, a construction company in Belize needed limestone for a road, SO they decided to go the closest available source. Which just happened to be a 2,300-year-old Mayan pyramid. That's right, they destroyed an invaluable archaeological site out of laziness. They were fined a grand total of $24,000. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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ARE BIRDS. PORGS THE DISGUISED DIGITALLY The Irish island of Skellig Michael, which stands in for Luke's refuge in The Last Jedi, is home to a population of hundreds of puffins that kept photobombing the shots. Porgs exist because turning the birds into a different critter was easier than editing them out. They didn't exactly hurt the film's bottom line, either. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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BOMB? HELP! A NUCLEAR WILL WANT GOVERNMENT THE In 2007, congressional investigators set out to find out how easy it'd be to get your hands on nuclear materials. All they needed to do was set up a fake company and apply for a license to buy some. And they got it. The Regulatory Commission did no background checks. Sleep tight, though: That specific loophole has been closed. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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A HOUSE GOT MAPS MISTAKE. GOOGLE BY DEMOLISHED A demolition company was hired to tear down a house at 7601 Cousteau Drive, Rowlett, Texas. Too bad that Google Maps pointed them to 7601 Calypso Drive. Whoops. The owner must be glad that Google soon corrected the directions to her pile of rubble. The demolition company stated: It's not a big deal. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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BANNER BRUCE NIGHT. AT FIRST, HULK AT THE BECAME The Hulk wasn't always the green rage monster we all know and love (from afar, because Hulk). He was actually conceived as a gray night monster. What triggered his transformation was retconned several times until settling for anger. And his color was changed to green without any explanation. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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CONS THING. A REAL SCOOBY-DOO-STYLE BE TO USED Belief in ghosts was more widespread in the past. And, of course, some took advantage of it for fun and profit. Someone in the 17th century pretended to be the ghost of a suicide victim haunting an establishment to scare gamblers off and steal their money. Having ghosts (or being one) could be very lucrative. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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THEME GHOSTBUSTERS TOGETHER THE THROWN WAS MINUTE. LAST THE AT With the film's release imminent and no theme they liked, they asked Ray Parker Jr. to give it a try. And they gave him a couple days for it. He came up with the Who you gonna call? part a few hours before the deadline. The inspiration came from a TV ad for bug exterminators. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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USED WERE TESTS. FROGS PREGNANCY AS Your grandmother didn't have cheap sticks to pee on to find out if she was pregnant. But she had frogs. Between the '30s and the '50s, doctors would inject African clawed frogs with urine and wait. The human pregnancy hormone would trigger ovulation if present, causing the frogs to lay eggs. Immunological testing kits left them without a job. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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MILLIONAIRES VALLEY CHICKENS. SILICON PAMPERED KEEP Sometimes, the people who create the future like to return to the basics and raise their own chickens. Ridiculously expensive chickens that wear diapers, roost in high- tech coops made of redwood, and sometimes have their own chefs. It's like being poor, only way costlier and fancier. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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HAVE MEDICINES ANIMALS. ON HUMAN EFFECTS WEIRD When our medicines reach the environment, animals go all kinds of freaky. Prozac makes crabs fearless, so they don't hide from predators and brawl among themselves. And metformin, a drug used to treat diabetes, makes male fish develop female organs and lay eggs. Side effects aren't limited to what happens in your body. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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WAS BODY CHAPLIN'S MECHANICS. BY STOLEN In early 1978, shortly after his death in Switzerland, Charlie Chaplin's body was dug up by two Eastern European mechanics. Then they tried to extort $600,000 out of his widow, Oona O'Neill. It worked out for them as well as you'd expect: The Swiss police monitored every pay phone in the area and found them. Chaplin was reburied in concrete after that. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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200 PROGRAM-ID. EVALALSO. 300 ENVIRONMENT 400 DATA DIVIS 500 DEPEND 500 SAVINGS SOFTWARE. YOUR DECADES-OLD ON DIVISION. DATA DIVISION. 500 WORKING -STORAGE this 0600 01 AGE nc you 00700 01 CENDER 00800 PROCEDUBE DIVISION. 000900 ACCEPT NOR. ACCEPT 001000 EVALUATE 001100 A ridiculously large part of the world's financial system (including ATMs, credit cards, mortage payments, and so on) relies on software written in COBOL, a language created in 1959. And programmers with the skillset required to maintain that are becoming fewer and fewer, as they're all basically dying off. The banking industry is rushing to train young programmers. — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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BANNED ARE MICHIGAN. CARS IN MACKINAC, Back in the 1890s, the residents of Mackinac Island didn't care for those newfangled horseless carriages, so cars were banned. The ban still stands today. If you try to drive around Mackinac, you will get in serious trouble. Horse-drawn buggies are still used to ferry things around. And they like it that way, thank you very much. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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