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34 Facts To Note In Our Fact Journals (Which We Obviously Have)

By:: Brian C. Miller; Cracked Writers

October 01, 2021

34 Facts To Note In Our Fact Journals (Which We Obviously Have)

If you don't have a fact journal of your very own, you'll just have to hold all of these facts in your head until you get one!

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CRACKED.COM E-readers can mess up your sleep. Reading does wonders to help you relax before bed-unless you're using an electronic device. The light from tablets and backlit e-readers suppresses melatonin, the hormone which regulates sleep cycles. You'll have a harder time falling asleep, and you'll feel more tired the next day. — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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CRACKED.COM COVID-19 may put old actors out of a job. Movie insurance premiums have gone astronomical during the pandemics, and older actors have become very hard to insure at all. Stars like Judy Dench, lan McKellen and Maggie Smith have all expressed doubts about their future careers. — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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CRACKED.COM Britney Spears' Toxic musically shouldn't work, yet it does. Toxic disregards the rules of music - not because it doesn't know them, but because it said, F-you, you won't tell me what to do. The song is a chaotic mishmash of clashing genres and musical traditions-and it makes it work. Generic pop music? Think again! — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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Ramen was controlled by the Yakuza. Japan was a mess when World War II ended. In the face of food shortages and restrictions, the black market rushed in to feed the populace. Imported wheat was secretly diverted and turned into ramen, which was then sold out of illegal stalls- most of which were under Yakuza control. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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GRACKED.COM VI A lot of the Scots-language Wikipedia is written in English with a Scottish accent. A teen from North Carolina has been a major contributor to the Scots Wikipedia for years - even though he doesn't speak the language. Of course, Scots speakers realized something weird was going on- but no one listened to them. A Reddit post blew the whole thing open in 2020. — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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CRACKED.COM Jordan Peele quit acting because of The Emoji Movie. Being offered the role of the Poop Emoji gave Peele serious pause-and it got worse when Sir Patrick Stewart snatched the shitty part before Peele could make any decision. His reaction was, F*ck this, and has stuck to working mostly behind the cameras since. — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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CRACKED.COM Kodak learned about secret nuclear tests by accident. In July 1945, Kodak started noticing that a sensitive film they made was fogged (covered with dark spots). As this was caused by radioactive contamination, they eventually figured out that the likely cause was that holy s#!t someone was setting off nuclear bombs. — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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Anime artists are horribly overworked and underpaid. While the anime industry is worth an estimated $24 billion, animators can earn as little as $12,000 a year (in Japan, a ridiculously expensive country to live in). Also, 100-hours workweeks aren't unusual, with the burnout sometimes leading to suicide. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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Bitcoin isn't as anonymous as DECENTRA you may think. B T8 1 ITAL BITCOIN No information about who you are is stored anywhere, that's true-but your address and other data are unique to you, and can be used to trace the ownership of cryptocurrency. Police are actually getting pretty good at tracing and seizing the stuff. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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Iron Man 3 didn't have a female villain for sexist reasons. An early draft had Rebecca Hall's Maya Hansen as the villain, but the idea was nixed by Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter, who believed that toys of female characters wouldn't sell. The movie was rewritten so that Guy Pearce's character became the bad guy. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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CRACKED.COM The Nanny isn't Jewish in Italy. If you ever saw The Nanny (and you most likely did if you lived through the '90s), then you know that being Jewish was a huge part of Fran Drescher's character. Which makes it particularly odd that the Italian dub turns her into a Roman Catholic hailing from Italy, for some reason. — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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CRACKED.COM New car smell is delicious...ly unhealthy. Going for a drive? Then you have a good chance of inhaling high levels of benzene, formaldehyde, and other carcinogens, coming from the various rubbers, fabrics, glues, and paints used to assemble your car. The problem is at its worst in the car's first six months. — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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Mary Jane Watson was deleted from The Amazing Spider Man 2. Divergent star Shailene Woodley was cast as Mary Jane, but none of the scenes shot with her made it to the finished movie. According to reports, she was cut to keep the focus on Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy as Peter Parker's love interest. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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A teen turned down millions for his COVID- tracking website. 165,096,424 TOTAL 21,097.1 +207,530 33,775,147 United States 101,516.27 +202 25,592,273 India 18,386.55 +97,129 Brazil 15,735,485 73,569.68 HEST France 5,898,347 90,188.17 100 5,139,485 Turkey 60,368.92 65188 Avi Schiffman was 17 when he created nCoV2019.live, a widely visited COVID tracker. Despite the site taking up all of his free time, he has turned down offers for several millions dollars to include ads. I don't want to be a profiteer, he said. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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GRACKED.COM Wonder Woman had two secret identities in an unproduced series. In a pilot made in 2011, Wonder Woman was Diana Themyscira, CEO of a company that managed her own superhero image. And she was also Diana Prince, an employee at her own company. Apparently, just being two people didn't keep her busy enough. — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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Teddy Roosevelt loved boxing with random people. Roosevelt liked fisticuffs so much that he had a boxing gym installed in the White House's basement, and would invite pretty much everyone to a bout. Не had to quit the sport after a military aide nearly blinded him in his left eye. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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Doctor Manhattan's body model died trying to outrun a train. Greg Plitt was an actor, fitness model, and all-around badass. Dr. Manhattan's CGI body for 2009's Watchmen was modeled after his ripped physique. And it looks like he thought he had real superpowers: In 2015, he was mowed down by a train, apparently while trying to prove he was faster. (Не wasn't.) CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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Clark Kent exists in the Marvel Universe. In 1976, Clark Kent and Lois Lane were included in an X-Men comic as a sight gag - and that became a running joke. Не has had over 20 copyright-bending cameos between the '70s and the 2000s. Не isn't Superman here, though-he's just a particularly buff reporter. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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The Professional could have been much creepier. The gross Lolita angle is mostly subtext, and easily overlooked - but it was intended to be right there in your face. Luc Besson's original screenplay includes a scene where Mathilda seduces Léon, and he is unable to oppose her. Yikes. CRACKED COM — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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Bugs Bunny was a reskinned Daffy Duck. The first cartoon featuring Daffy Duck was very well received - so people over at Warner Bros. just went and ripped off their own hit, changing the loony duck for a loony rabbit. Then Bugs was further developed with the years, becoming the trickster we know today. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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GRACKED.COM People used to get poisoning from potatoes. Before modern screening processes, it wasn't uncommon for people to get solanine poisoning from potatoes. Solanine is one of the same ingredients that make deadly nightshade, well, deadly. Green potatoes tend to be chock-full of the nasty stuff. — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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John Cena auditioned for Blue's Clues. When the show was revived in 2019, one of the persons who auditioned to host was John Cena. Yes, that John Cena. They actually entertained the idea of hiring someone mostly known for elbow-dropping people to talk to a cartoon dog. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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Captain America: The First Avenger takes clues from Raiders of the Lost Ark. According to director Joe Johnston (who worked on Raiders), he took Steven Spielberg's classic as a template for his Marvel movie. You can see this in nods such as Red Skull's comment that the Führer digs for trinkets in the desert. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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Director's cuts became a thing by accident. In the early '90s, a Warner Bros. employee came across an abandoned print of Blade Runner, and eventually lent it to a movie theater, thinking it was the theatrical cut. It was actually a workprint, before the studio-mandated changes. No one was asking WB to #ReleaseTheScottCut- audiences got it by mistake. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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CRACKED.COM Not even experts understand health insurance. 200 074 200 974 070 200 974 0702 200 974 0702 42TN 200 CA BUS CON 974 0702 421990 200 e GIN 974 0702 4219902 200 974 0702 4219902 001 SEX FC 200 HEALTH INSURANCE D - 974 0702 4219902 001 31 2 MD 200 HEALTH PLAN 974 0702 4219903 001 226 FEIENTE DATE o - BONE and USA 974 0702 5200900 001 211 MEDICALD - CLAIMANT INFORMATION o PO in 974 0702 5200900 001 213 1. MEDICARE . 974 0702 7950701 022 225 SPOUSE a - Down SELF C 974 0702 7950701 — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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Guitar distortion was thought to cause violence. Link Wray pioneered the use of distortion in the late '50s. His fans loved it, but moral guardians freaked out at Wray's ragged chords. His song Rumble (which has no lyrics) was banned from radios, for somehow being a call to engage in fights. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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CRACKED.COM King Kong was going to have a real gorilla. Director Merian C. Cooper's original idea revolved around a fight between a gorilla and a Komodo dragon - as in, he intended to get real animals and make them fight. Luckily, he then felt like including dinosaurs, necessitating a really big ape to fight them. — **Source:** **16 Random Facts to Download into Your Brain Right Away**

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CRACKED.COM Riverdale's Marisol Nichols fights sex criminals in real life. In the lulls of her acting job, Nichols moonlights as an undercover agent, helping the FBI hunt down sex predators. It sounds like the premise for a TV show - so of course, it's been turned into a TV show by Sony Pictures Television. — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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Paper airplanes have existed for thousands of years. The Chinese have been folding paper into flying shapes for the last 2,000 years. Of course, they didn't call them airplanes- those were more like simple origami birds. Paper planes as we know them today date back to the Civil War, when they were called paper darts. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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Boneless wings aren't wings at all. We're sorry to break it to you, but those boneless wings you just had were never used by any chicken to pathetically flap around. The nuggets are actually made with chicken tenders (from the breast of the bird). Calling them wings is just a marketing ploy. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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Insert Home Page Cut Ca Copy Using Excel cost JPMorgan billions. You'd think that a huge financial company would use something fancier than Excel. JPMorgan didn't - to assess risky investments, they relied on a complex series of spreadsheets. Predictably, small errors snowballed, eventually costing the company over $6 billion in 2012. В A CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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The original settlers of Madagascar really went out of their way to get there. You'd think that Madagascar was first settled by people coming from Africa - and you'd be wrong. Madagascar's indigeous population are descended from people who canoed all the way from Indonesia, 3,000 miles away. The motivation for that long trip is still a mystery. CRACKED COM — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT NO FEDERAL The FBI spent two PIDELITY ER years investigating a BUREAU fake anti-Goth group. Among the many online groups the FBI keeps tabs on was an Е.Д.Д. x extremist church which ran a website called God Hates - of do my membership et GAL - Goths. The group wasn't real, though- as the agents found out when they thought of checking the site's About Us page, after over two years of investigating them. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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CRACKED COM Romans had porn coins. Coins with sexy imagery have been found for centuries, going back to the early times of the Roman Empire. Regular money, however, wasn't X-rated- so it isn't clear what the deal with these was. It's been theorized they were tokens to be used at brothels. — **Source:** **18 Knowledge-Quenching Random Facts**

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