18 of the Most Brutally Hilarious Letterboxd Reviews of Bert Kreischer’s ‘The Machine’

These reviews are likely funnier than the film itself

Authors: By Ian Garner
Published: May 31, 2023
Comments: 1

Mark Hamill Thinks Lorne Michaels Is Holding An 'SNL' Grudge

Is the evil emporer of the SNL empire mad about Luke Skywalker's turn to the 'Fridays' side?

Authors: By Matt Solomon
Published: May 31, 2023
Comments: 0

12 Celebrities Who Refused Medical Intervention

To Steve Jobs, an apple was a great logo (and a cure for cancer!)

Authors: By Andres Diplotti, Jay L'Ecuyer
Published: May 31, 2023
Comments: 1

The 20 Best Insults from Susie Essman, the Queen of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’

She’s the only person who can truly give it right back to Larry David

Authors: By Lauren Vinopal
Published: May 31, 2023
Comments: 0

15 Hall of Fame Sketches from ‘I Think You Should Leave’

I think you should leave, but not before diving into these sketches

Authors: By Erik Barnes
Published: May 31, 2023
Comments: 0

27 Fascinating Facts About Well-Known Inventions

By:: Cracked Writers; Timon DJ Spajic

October 01, 2021

27 Fascinating Facts About Well-Known Inventions

Might be hard to imagine today, but LEGO didn't always make little plastic bricks. They started off by making wooden duck toys. Today we'll learn more about that and about other origin stories of famous inventions:

27

Oxygen was 8 discovered by two O people in a span Oxygen of 2 years. 15.9994 In 1772, Carl Wilhelm Scheele was the first person to isolate oxygen, and he decided to name the element fire air. Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen in 1774, and he is often credited with the discovery because Scheele didn't publish his discovery until 1777. CRACKED.COM — 12 Uncanny Instances Of Simultaneous Invention

26

Spring Break comes from a 1960 book (and movie). ABA Glendon Swarthout's Where the Boys Are was so popular that a movie was rushed out in the same year. Afterwards, college boys and girls all across the U.S. made Florida their Easter party destination, like it happens in the story. CRACKED.COM — Groovy History

25

Giant circles on the pavement in San Francisco mark the location of auxiliary water cisterns. Huge reserves of water sit right underneath the pavement, and the circles make it easy for firefighters to find the cisterns and tap into them. CRACKED.COM — 14 Mesmerizing Machines That Run The World Behind The Scenes

24

CRACKED COM GROA UNTAIN THE CREATOR - LA OF et THE K-CUP FEELS BAD Lte THAT НЕ MADE IT. Gloria Jean's COPFEES HAZELNUT ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED MEDIUM ROAST COFFEE KEURIO FRANCIA Original SH The ONUT The K-cups disposable, are bad for non-recyclable the BOLD OFFEE environment. John Sylan has tried to offer improvements to Keurig after he sold his company. LK — Inventors Who Can't Stand Their Own Creations

23

CRACKED.COM Become the Terminator of golf. Golf Ball Finder Glasses not only look cool but allow you to easily spot your ball amongst the grass by illuminating everything that's white. — 17 Badass Gadgets You Didn't Realize You Needed

22

The first E LEGO toy IV are Mondensarat Girline A 350 LEGO didn't get into the brick game until the HOLL 1940's, more than a decade after producing this wooden duck. CRACKED.COM — Rarely Seen Prototypes Of Modern Gadgets

21

The colorful, bright balls hanging on power lines prevent aircraft crashes. Power lines are very, very hard to see clearly from low-flying aircraft, so these things- marker balls-show pilots a power line's distance and position. CRACKED.COM — Invisible, Super-Smart Gadgets That Are Hidden All Around Us

20

27 Fascinating Facts About Well-Known Inventions — 16 Ridiculous Gadgets Used By IRL James Bonds

19

Silicon used for making semiconductors has to be almost impossibly pure. For each 1 billion silicon atoms, there can be at most 1 non-silicon atom. If that condition is met, it's considered electronic grade silicon. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Tom's Hardware

18

PEZ candy was invented as an alternative to smoking The word PEZ comes from the German word for peppermint. It was invented by Eduard Haas III in the 1920s. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — PEZ

17

CRACKED.COM HIGH HEELS USED TO BE A WARRIOR THING. Long before it became an uncomfortable symbol of femininity, high-heeled footwear was all the rage on the battlefield. The heels allowed Persian horsemen to stand securely in their stirrups, giving them stability to use their bows and arrows. — Everyday Objects That Started Out As Something Else Entirely

16

Computers, the terror of the '80s. People were afraid of computers to the point that they refused to touch or talk about the machines. CRACKED.COM — The 16 Dumbest Ways People Freaked Over New Tech

15

Theatre leads to godlessness! GRACKED COM In 1642, London banned all plays to appease and avert the Wrath of God. Plays, said the puritan Parliamentarians, are Spectacles of Pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious Mirth and Levity. — Theatre, Community, and Civic Engagement in Jacobean London

14

CRACKED.COM Two people from different countries developed the automated teller machine separately. ENE Barron first debuted his cash dispensing machine in 1967 at Barclays Enfield. Не John Shepherd kept it a trade secret. Barron (UK) In 1968, Wetzel came Don Wetzel (US) up with a similar concept on his own. His idea came about while he was waiting in line at a bank. Не had his design patented in 1973. — 12 Uncanny Instances Of Simultaneous Invention

13

The company that created Skynet is real in Japan. An outfit named Cyberdyne operates over there, but we're sure the name is just a coincidence. What they manufacture is... hum... a wearable cyborg for disabled people. They call it Hybrid Assistive Limb. Or HAL, for short. Yup. CRACKED.COM — Cyberdyne

12

27 Fascinating Facts About Well-Known Inventions — 14 Mesmerizing Machines That Run The World Behind The Scenes

11

CRACKED.COM THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 'II' IN SITES IS SORRY. http://w Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the world wide web, said the said the double slashes after 'http' are unnecessary and that he didn't realize that the slashes would cause so much hassle. — Inventors Who Can't Stand Their Own Creations

10

CRACKED.COM CORKSCREWS WERE MILITARY TOOLS. Early guns were, well, pretty shitty. Bullets got stuck all the time, and soldiers used a tool called a gun worm to remove them. It turned out it was useful for uncorking bottles, so a variety intended for this specific purpose was created in the 17th century. — Everyday Objects That Started Out As Something Else Entirely

9

27 Fascinating Facts About Well-Known Inventions — 17 Badass Gadgets You Didn't Realize You Needed

8

The Apple I 187 in Girline A 350 DAAOm ICO APPLE: COMPUTER Apple's first product was actually just a circuit board. Users had to add their own keyboards, monitors, and custom cases. CRACKED.COM — Rarely Seen Prototypes Of Modern Gadgets

7

27 Fascinating Facts About Well-Known Inventions — Invisible, Super-Smart Gadgets That Are Hidden All Around Us

6

Real-life James Bonds hid maps in playing cards. In order to sneak a map past prison security, the Brits would cut one into 52 pieces and hide them on playing cards. 48 of the cards would form the main map, the four aces made a small map of Europe, and the Joker held the map's key. CRACKED.COM — 16 Ridiculous Gadgets Used By IRL James Bonds

5

In the late '70s, the microchip industry was crippled by one guy getting sick. 550 IKX708 A 9722 010 IX The entire industry bought diamond-tipped saws from a single dude who was making them in his garage. His getting sick halted chip supplies globally. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — The Register

4

The Chinese take-out box is American Enjoy Enjoy The paper container was invented by Frederick Weeks Wilcox in Chicago, originally created to hold raw oysters. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — New York Times

3

CRACKED.COM SLINKYS WERE INTENDED TO STABILIZE NAVAL INSTRUMENTS. In 1943, engineer Richard James was developing springs to keep sensitive instruments on battleships safe and stable. That didn't pan out, but he accidentally found the springs had this funny way of moving around when dropped, so he sold them as a toy. — Everyday Objects That Started Out As Something Else Entirely

2

The hi-tech campaign to relocate books to Google and replace books with Kindles is, in its essence, a deportation of the literary culture to a kind of easily monitored concentration camp of ideas... This death of intellectual privacy was also a dream of the Nazis. And when I hear the term Kindle, I think not of imaginations fired but of crematoria lit. -Alan Kaufman, comparing Kindles to the Holocaust in 2011. kindle GRAGKED.COM — The 16 Dumbest Ways People Freaked Over New Tech

1

Comic books are evil! IVORY SNOW - - TRACILE CRACKED.COM After the Depression, plenty in America blamed comic books for juvenile delinquency. Some places banned selling them to kids. Plenty of other places burned books publicly. — CNBC

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

‘Babylon Bee’ Becomes Social Media Hornet’s Nest

When conservatives cancel conservatives, all hell breaks loose

Authors: By Matt Solomon
Published: May 31, 2023
Comments: 8

Five Times Fans Read Way Too Much into a Joke

Sometimes funny is just funny and means absolutely nothing

Authors: By Amanda Mannen
Published: May 31, 2023
Comments: 2

15 Trivia Tidbits About Chris Elliott on His Birthday

We love that little Fancy Lad

Authors: By JM McNab
Published: May 31, 2023
Comments: 2

5 Modern Conveniences We Put Too Much Faith In

Your favorite movie will be around forever, maybe

Authors: By Eli Yudin
Published: May 31, 2023
Comments: 11

Viral Tweet Claims Jim Carrey Has ‘Absolutely Zero Haters,’ Many, Many Haters Quickly Arrive to Prove Otherwise

Even Mr. Rogers wasn’t safe from the hordes of haters

Authors: By Keegan Kelly
Published: May 30, 2023
Comments: 6

13 Highly Irrational Fears Of Celebrities And Historical Figures

Beach Boy Brian Wilson is afraid of the ocean.

Authors: By Andrea Meno, Andres Diplotti
Published: May 31, 2023
Comments: 3

MUST READ

Mark Hamill Thinks Lorne Michaels Is Holding An 'SNL' Grudge

Is the evil emporer of the SNL empire mad about Luke Skywalker's turn to the 'Fridays' side?

Authors: By Matt Solomon
Published: May 31, 2023
Comments: 0

12 Celebrities Who Refused Medical Intervention

To Steve Jobs, an apple was a great logo (and a cure for cancer!)

Authors: By Andres Diplotti, Jay L'Ecuyer
Published: May 31, 2023
Comments: 1

15 Hall of Fame Sketches from ‘I Think You Should Leave’

I think you should leave, but not before diving into these sketches

Authors: By Erik Barnes
Published: May 31, 2023
Comments: 0