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13 Cool Facts To Make Us That Much More Interesting In Conversation

November 21, 2021

Ever had a conversation just kind of die off and wish you had somethin to say? Yes? Well, here are 13 just such things.

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Clint Eastwood only became Dirty Harry after everyone else said no. The role first got offered to Steve McQueen, Burt Lancaster, and Paul Newman, among others, but they all thought Harry was too right-wing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama hates Hollywood's Dragon Ball movie. Не hated Dragonball: Evolution so much, he says, that that made him rewrite the whole script for Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jonah Hill had to be hospitalized on the shoot for The Wolf of Wall Street. It was all the fake coke he'd snorted - it was vitamin powder, which sounds harmless, but he'd snorted so much that he got sick. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's no place in Michigan where you're more than six miles from water. Which is kind of amazing to think about, but there are 11,000 lakes in the state, so it's actually super hard to avoid them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Christmas tree in front of the Rockefeller Center doesn't get thrown away. Instead, it gets cut up, and the lumber is then used to build Habitats for Humanity homes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Britain's Colchester Zoo uses mirrors to help flamingos breed in captivity. Flamingos apparently aren't too enthusiastic about breeding when there's not a lot of them around, but mirrors make it look like there's a big flock. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Spain, there's a village that was cursed by the Pope himself centuries ago. Well, the curse was placed by someone else, but explicitly allowed by the Pope. It hasn't been lifted to this day. CRACKED.COM — Source

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One guy in China tried to declare his love with an elaborate Rubik's Cube portrait. Specifically, he used 840 Rubik's Cube (he basically used each one as a pixel) to make a picture of his crush. But she rejected him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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We now think that cave paintings might have been an attempt at animation. They kind of flicker when you look at them by torchlight, and their creators might have painted them the way they did specifically for that effect. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sirens were originally really horrific creatures, not sexy seductresses at all. They were actually bizarre bird-women in Greek stories, and they definitely weren't seductive. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Steve Jobs named his company Apple as a way of getting back at Atari. The reason is pretty simple - back then, you had to rely on directories in phone books, and Apple would be on the list before Atari. CRACKED.COM — Source

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An Irish town built a runway just so that one particular plane could use it. The plane made a forced landing there, but couldn't take off, so the locals eventually built an all-new runway for it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kylie Minogue got into a legal battle with Kylie Jenner over Kylie, and won. Jenner tried to trademark the word Kylie in the US, but Minogue stepped in to block her - successfully. CRACKED.COM — Source

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