26 Strange Facts About Radiators, Doge, And The Joker
![26 Strange Facts About Radiators, Doge, And The Joker](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/3/815523_320x180.jpg)
If you're bored and lonely, why not just use your free time to learn something new? When it comes to strange facts, they say that truth is stranger than fiction, and this is never more true than when you're learning. Yes, Abraham Lincoln did indeed get a championship in wrestling and was a licensed bartender. And did you also know that honey bees flap their wings 230 times every second? Seriously, there's a lot to be fascinated about in the universe, and we're not just talking about Snapple trivia.
Drop a few of these cool—yet definitely strange—facts into most any conversation and watch it turn entertaining. You could make trivia questions out of these strange facts or play quiz games with your pals. Or, you can simply astonish someone by texting them something interesting.
So, don't just sit there, scroll on down for strange facts that you just won't be able to forget…
![CRACKED.COM THE BIBLICAL PLAGUE OF FROGS MIGHT HAVE BEEN JUST ONE HUGE FROG. We imagine the plague as a whole lot of frogs getting everywhere-but according to some medieval rabbis, it was just one big-ass frog that covered the entire land of Egypt with its gigantic body (and spawned normal-sized frogs every time it was hit).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/1/815521.jpg)
![IF YOU'RE POOR, YOU'RE MORE LIKELYTO BE AUDITED BY THE IRS. The IRS's job is to make sure everyone complies with the convoluted American tax code-which is easier if you're broke. Yes, auditing the Jeff Bezoses of the world makes more sense-but it's also a lot more complicated, so poor communities are targeted more often. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/0/815520.jpg)
![YOUR CLUNKY HEATING RADIATOR IS THE RESULT OF A PANDEMIC. During the 1918 flu pandemic, cities ordered people to keep their windows open, even on frigid days. That meant that big radiators were needed to keep the cold at bay. And now you know why your old, ugly radiator overheats your apartment. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/9/815519.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM DOGE HAS A TRAGIC BACKSTORY. Kabosu, the Shiba Inu gone memetic as Doge, was abandoned when the puppy mill where she was born closed down. Luckily, she was adopted by a kindergarten teacher before she was put down in a shelter. Very story, such sad.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/8/815518.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM MARK HAMILL DIDN'T WANT TO PLAY JOKER. Hamill did want to be a part of Batman: The Animated Series-just not in a high-profile role. Не agreed to audition for Joker only because he thought the producers would back down, fearing backlash. Luke Skywalker playing an iconic villain? Fans would surely be mad about that!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/7/815517.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER WAS BASED ON A BIG LIE. The New York Magazine article Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night made disco mainstream overnight, and the movie was based on it-too bad that it was all lies. Reporter Nik Cohn made up Tony Manero (and everything else) after he failed to get any good interviews.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/6/815516.jpg)
![COINS WERE FIRST RIDGED TO STOP CRIME. Back when coins were made of precious metals, enterprising felons would file a bit of gold or silver off each coin-a practice known as clipping. It was the Romans who first carved ridges into coins, to know if someone had clipped them. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/5/815515.jpg)
![THE V2 BOMB WAS A HORNY THING. Wernher von Braun was known as a ladies' man- and that carried over to the flying death contraptions he designed. The V2 bomb wasn't just inspired by the rocket in the film Woman on the Moon, but it had naked women painted on its tail. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/4/815514.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM JAMES BOND MAY BE NAMED AFTER A CHURCH IN CANADA. Officially, lan Fleming named his spy after the author of a book on birds. But maybe it isn't a coincidence that Fleming spent a couple weeks in Toronto in 1942, just down the street from St. James Bond United Church (an amalgamation of two other churches, St. James and Bond Street).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/3/815513.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM THE NEW DOOM WAS ALMOST A CALL OF DUTY CLONE. Before the DOOM reboot brought new life to the FPS genre in 2016, the developers spent years working on DOOM 4, which was essentially Call of Duty with demons. Luckily, the company saw the light on time and pulled a 180, bringing the game back to its roots. HR](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/1/815511.jpg)
![BABIES USED TO HAVE SURGERY DONE WITHOUT ANESTHESIA. Well into the 1980s, doctors believed babies' nervous systems weren't developed enough to feel pain-so the poor little things would have procedures done (even major surgery) without any kind of pain relief. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/0/815510.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM We all agree that angry internet posts are just release valves for our self- righteous anger. BUT THEY MIGHT BE NOT SO USELESS AFTER ALL. You start tweeting a A protest organizer likens it to the Double Foot In hashtag and end The Door technique used up joining a by salespeople, where a grassroots small action leads later to movement. bigger commitments.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/2/815512.jpg)
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![Elon Musk and Neil DeGrasse Tyson have little in common, but they share a bizarrely specific belief. THEY THINK WE'RE LIVING IN A SIMULATED REALITY. Both Their argument: If simulated scientists and realities are possible, philosophers there must be simulations inside simulations inside agree that this simulations... So the is a bunch of chance we're at the top is nonsense. exceedingly small.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/9/815509.jpg)
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![GRACKED.COM Rookie doctor is one of those word combinations people really don't want to hear. SO DON'T GET SICK DURING THE SUMMER. However, this effect was Researchers found that your chances of being killed by observed only in mixed-up medications counties with increase by about 10% in teaching July. This is when lots of medical residencies start. hospitals.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/8/815508.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM EVERYONE ON THE GAME OF THRONES SET HATED THE CAT. Ser Pounce, King Tommen's cat, was popular with fans even though he only appeared once- but he only appeared once because he was hell to work with. Natalie Dormer called it a bit of a diva -and according to showrunner David Benioff, he was horribly killed (in-story, that is).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/7/815507.jpg)
![KILLER PLAYLISTS HELP SAVE CORAL REEFS. One of many solutions tried to revive dying reefs is to bring fish back by playing sounds of a healthy reef through underwater speakers. Scientists from the UK and Australia have tried this acoustic enrichment approach, which does bring the fish to the reef party. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/4/815504.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM SLAPPING CHOKING PEOPLE IN THE BACK MIGHT KILL THEM. By all means, slap that choking person in the back, like you see in movies-if you really hate them. The slapping can dislodge the object and send it further down, making the person choke harder. You're supposed to lean the person forward beforehand.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/9/815499.jpg)
![WELL. LET'S том, IF THE YOU US PAGANS PRAY, PRAY TO THE DOIT... REAL GOD! ARCHIE WAS RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA AT ONE POINT. Back in the '70s and '80s, long before Riverdale made Archie and Jughead cool again, Archie Comics licensed their characters to a Christian publisher. That's how we got plots like the Riverdale crew acting as missionaries to ethnic stereotypes around the world. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/6/815506.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM THANOS' CREATOR GOT DIDDLY-SQUAT FROM THE AVENGERS MOVIES. Jim Starlin wasn't even invited to any showing-he had to pay for his ticket to see his own creation on a movie screen. All in all, he got more money from DC for an obscure character in Batman V Superman than for Thanos, Gamora, and Drax combined.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/6/815496.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM The church is the biggest enemy of abortion rights. But it wasn't always that way. BEFORE ROE V. WADE, SOME CLERGYMEN WOULD HELP WOMEN GET ABORTIONS. About one Many young priests and pastors out of ten were aware of how dangerous clandestine abortions were, women needing and would help women get to an abortion got Mexico or Canada, or otherwise get the procedure done safely. it this way.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/3/815503.jpg)
Source: 10 Horizon-Broadening Facts
![GRACKED.COM Back when the space race started, no one knew what a space suit was supposed to be like. So lots ofideas were tested. SOME OF WHICH WERE COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS. Perhaps the lack of An early concept provided arms and legs mobility made while giving astronauts engineers a bit the option to roll around like giant gerbils. too desperate.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/0/815500.jpg)
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![CRACKED COM Pimples can be a pain in the ass. But hey, you can always pop them. IF YOU DON'T MIND COURTING DEATH, THAT IS. If you get an infection An area on the face called the here (say, from TRIANGLE OF DEATH (upper popping a zit), it case mandatory here) houses will soon reach blood vessels that drain directly into the brain. your brain.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/5/815505.jpg)
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![GRACKED.COM Audrey Munson's name may not ring a bell, but you've certainly seen her. SHE IS A LOT OF STATUES IN YOUR CITY. Sadly, she spent During her short but high- decades in a profile career early in the 20th century, she modeled mental asylum, for dozens of sculptures dying in obscurity standing in New York and other American Cities. in 1996.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/2/815502.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM In 1998's Fallout 2, your character's stats affect 100 everything you do. INCLUDING HOW GOOD YOU ARE AT SEX. The game includes a As in real life, sidequest where you audition your charisma to be a post-apocalyptic porn star. Players eventually accounts for half figured out that the game of your sexual uses a formula to calculate how good you are at it. success.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/1/815501.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM The blood of horseshoe crabs is blue because it contains copper instead ofiron. AND A QUART OF IT IS WORTH $15,000. Amazingly, Horseshoe crab blood is used by most of them the pharmaceutical industry to test medications for survive and are contamination. So the poor released back things are captured and bled alive like in a horror movie. into the wild.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/8/815498.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM Back in the '50s, the government had an atom bomb testing ground a mere 65 miles from Las Vegas. SO THE CITY USED NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS AS A TOURIST DRAW. It all ended The Vegas Chamber of Commerce when above- distributed schedules detailing detonation times and advertising ground tests the best spots to watch them. were banned Casinos held bomb parties and nuke-themed beauty pageants. in 1963.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/7/815497.jpg)
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