33 Facts We Didn’t Know What Else to Do With
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Did you know that a housefly only lives for around one month? This is just one of the many interesting facts we learned while researching this article. We honestly didn’t know what else to do with all of this information, so we decided to share it with you…
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![Paul Verhoeven thought RoboCop would make a stupid movie. Verhoeven called the script stupid garbage and American nonsense after reading just a few pages. His wife Martine, though, convinced him to give the story a shot-so Verhoeven read the script more carefully, and saw a layer of philosophy or theology under the gory sci-fi action. GRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/6/815596.jpg)
![The 1918 flu pandemic caused a lemon boom. During the Spanish flu, lemons became the most popular home remedy for the illness that was ravaging the world. It started with an official-looking health campaign by lemon growers - and soon enough, lemons were being touted as a miracle cure, with prices skyrocketing. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/4/815594.jpg)
![Mindfulness can cause depression. Mindfulness is the latest fad touted as an easy fix for your mental health, but researchers say that, while it can be helpful, it has been overhyped. Data compiled from dozens of studies show mindfulness can occasionally worsen anxiety and depression- or even outright cause these conditions. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/5/815595.jpg)
![Neckties were originally worn by Croatian mercenaries. During the Thirty Years' War, in the 1600s, France hired Croatian mercenaries who wore cravats as a kind of neck armor. After the war, French noblemen took a fancy to these scarves, which were then further adopted by the English, and progressively evolved into the strangling symbol of office drudgery. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/3/815593.jpg)
![Warner Bros. wanted a Batman musical. In the late '90s, Warner Bros. approached songwriter Jim Steinman to create, of all things, an official Batman musical for Broadway. It was never produced, but some of the songs (sung by Batman, Joker, and Catwoman) can be heard on YouTube, while another song ended up in a Meat Loaf album. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/1/815591.jpg)
![The U.S. tried to use radioactive foxes against Japan during World War II. Vaguely aware of Japanese stories about ghostly foxes, someone had an idea: Dunk foxes in radioactive, glow-in-the-dark paint, and release them in Japan as psychological warfare. The plan was abandoned-but not before a trial run in New York City, to test how scary the foxes were. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/2/815592.jpg)
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![Conspiracy theorists mistook a guitar pedal for a 5G chip. A TREBLE TuF 220 DAJ 1 BASS A100 A100M 10oF 22k 220 1202 5G FREQ 4Trs 10n 2XA4TR DA32 ٨/2٧٠ In December 2020, an electronic diagram started circulating online in Italy, with conspiracy theorists claiming it was for a 5G chip added to COVID-19 vaccines. It wasn't, though-an engineer revealed that it was the circuit board for a guitar pedal. (And a crappy guitar pedal, at that.) CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/9/815589.jpg)
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![Black people are more likely to get hit by self-driving cars. You'd think that cars can't be racist-but the Als that drive them are often biased. / / 48 100m wish A 2019 study by the Georgia Institute of technology found that dark-skinned people are less likely to be correctly identified as pedestrians. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/0/815590.jpg)
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![Bollywood established a new Hindu goddess. Unlike the cadre of age-old gods, Santoshi Maa wasn't mentioned in canonical Hindu texts (or anywhere else) before the 1960s. She went mainstream in 1975, with the success of the Bollywood movie Jai Santoshi Maa. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/8/815588.jpg)
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![A sitting senator is responsible for keeping candy for everyone. In 1965, California senator George Murphy began keeping candy in his desk drawer to share with other lawmakers. The practice stuck, and to this day there is a designated Candy Desk. During his tenure as resident candyman, Rick Santorum became infamous for keeping only Peppermint Patties. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/7/815587.jpg)
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![Domino's Domino's Pizza got too many people to get their logo tattooed on them. When Domino's Russian branch offered a lifetime of free pizza to whoever got a tattoo of their logo, they didn't expect many takers. They were wrong. They had to withdraw the promotion early, and were left on the hook for an awful amount of pizza. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/6/815586.jpg)
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![MARVEL THE INFINITY ENGERS NCIBLE GAUNTLET MAN MARVEL AVENGERS FO مركية . in - - I I the I - I with - The MARVEL - - - - NAME - MATIC THANOS AVENGERS BENDIS APRIME DAVIS NE OM MAN LEMON - MINISTRY 1 - - The '90s comic book bubble brought Marvel to bankruptcy. Many were collecting comics in the early '90s, thinking that their collections would one day sell for big bucks - and Marvel was happy to cater to those people. When collectors realized that their books weren't rare enough to ever be valuable, they just stopped buying, leaving](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/4/815584.jpg)
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![An extinct human species gave Tibetans the ability to live at 14,000 feet. The EPAS1 gene, sometimes called the super-athlete gene, helps Tibetans easily breathe the thin, oxygen- poor air of their high-altitude homeland. This gene, however, didn't originate in modern humans-it comes from the Denisovans, a human species that went extinct 40,000 years ago. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/5/815585.jpg)
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![People hated shopping carts at first. When grocery kingpin Sylvan Goldman invented shopping carts in the 1930s, his customers rejected them, preferring to stick to the comfort zone of their small wire baskets. To have his idea accepted, Goldman had to hire people to push the carts around while pretending to shop. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/3/815583.jpg)
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![Richard Donner was never told what the budget for Superman was. It's a miracle Donner managed to make such a beloved movie, as the producers for some reason wouldn't let him know how much money he had to work with. They'd just tell him, You can't do that, without further guidance. Не didn't even get to see the final cut until the premiere. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/2/815582.jpg)
![Nintendo ran a M price-fixing cartel for years. In the '90s, getting a Nintendo game in Spain cost you three times as much as it did in Britain or Germany. The European Commission fined the company 149 million euro in 2002 for rigging the market. In 1991, they had been found guilty of the same racket in the U.S. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/0/815580.jpg)
![Whipping Tom was London's serial spanker. 200 years before Jack the Ripper, London's Fleet Street was stalked by Whipping Tom-not a serial killer, but a serial spanker. Tom would lift women's dresses and spank them on the buttocks, yelling Spanko! Another, more violent Whipping Tom started assaulting women years later. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/1/815581.jpg)
![Mickey Rourke spent some time in a Russian prison for Iron Man 2. Without telling anyone, Rourke took a plane to бло Moscow and paid a erroll prison an extended visit, the better to play ex-con Ivan Vanko. Не also put a me lot of effort into learning the language. In the end, Marvel Studios cut most of his performance, which Rourke was furious about. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/9/815579.jpg)
![The Bee Gees' Stayin' Alive is about what a dump NYC was. The Gibb brothers have explained that the group's most emblematic song is not about disco dancing at all, but about how hard it was to survive in 1977 New York City. They didn't even know the plot of Saturday Night Fever when they wrote the song. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/7/815577.jpg)
![Chuck Jones hated Space Jam. As a huge part of Looney Tune's success, Jones knew Bugs Bunny better than anyone else- and according to him, Bugs wouldn't need help from Michael Jordan (or anyone) to deal with any basketball aliens. (Also, Porky would never say, I think I wet myself.) GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/8/815578.jpg)
![Solar panels are less eco-friendly than you think. Photovoltaic cells get cheaper every day - but they have a limited lifespan. As recycling isn't widespread, lots of panels wind up in landfills, with all the potentially toxic stuff they contain. Even clean energy can't help being dirty. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/6/815576.jpg)
![Somali pirates started out as vigilantes. With no military to stop foreign ships from illegally fishing or dumping nuclear waste, fishermen in Somalia started going after the offenders themselves. Eventually, however, they became greedy, and realized that being pirates was more lucrative than fighting them. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/5/815575.jpg)
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![Ancient Greek music was hardcore. Old-timey Greeks didn't leave any sheet music behind, but we have a good idea of what their tunes sounded like. Scholars have used a bunch of clues (poetry meter, word patterns, well-preserved instruments, and so on) to reconstruct ancient Greek music. (And it flippin' slaps.) CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/7/815567.jpg)
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![MineCraft players spent years recreating Middle-earth. 14,000 fans spent nine years building every major location from The Lord of the Ringsand The Hobbit in MineCraft-from the Shire to Moria and Minas Tirith. The project is 29,000 by 30,000 blocks, or about 336 square miles. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/8/815568.jpg)
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![Hot dog stands in London are run by gangs. A lot of stands operate illegally, run by violent gangs that often fight each other. The business is SO cutthroat that cops often fear to do anything about it, as they might get boiling fat thrown at their faces. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/0/815570.jpg)
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![A TV show ending can hurt as badly as a breakup. When you hang with people all the time, you form a bond with them-even if they're fictional characters. When the show ends, the parasocial breakup can leave you feeling alone and depressed, just like you ended a real relationship. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/3/815573.jpg)
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![В batteries were just too middle- of-the-road to be popular. The A to D standard sizes were established in the 1920s, with AA and AAA batteries expanding the range later on-and each end of the spectrum eventually found its specific uses But the poor Bs, being either too large or too small, were ignored like middle children everywhere. - - - - en . E - ARIO - - CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/4/815564.jpg)
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![Commando was meant for Gene Simmons. Can you picture anyone but Arnold starring in this testosterone fest of a movie? And yet, the original script was a much more subdued story. The lead character was a retired Israeli soldier, intended to be played by Kiss frontman Gene Simmons. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/4/815574.jpg)
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![There's a market for royal underwear. People exist willing to pay top dollar for underwear worn by famous people - not just celebrities, but also queens. Pairs of Queen Victoria's bloomers have sold for over $15,000, and a pair of Elizabeth Il's (dirty) undies fetched $18,000 on eBay. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/1/815571.jpg)
![A death row prisoner tried to get too fat for the electric chair. In 1952, Donald Snyder was sentenced to death for killing a 9-year- old girl. Resolved to grow too big to be executed, he put on 150 pounds in less than one year. It didn't work- when the time came, he fit the chair just fine. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/6/815566.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Pineapples used to be a status symbol. For centuries, pineapples in Europe were rare, exotic, and above all expensive, as they were imported from across the ocean. The rich would often get one-not to eat it, but to show off their wealth by parading the fruit in front of other people.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/5/815565.jpg)
![The Oversteegen sisters were teenage Nazi hunters. Freddie and Truus Oversteegen were only 14 and 17, but did their part in helping the Dutch resistance take care of Nazi occupiers. They would seduce Nazis in bars and then lead into the woods- where a resistance fighter would shoot the Nazi creeping on underage girls. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/2/815572.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Women's restrooms weren't always bathrooms. In Victorian England, women were thought of as delicate creatures that would crumble at the drop of a hat-so public rooms were set up, with chairs and couches, for the ladies to seek shelter from the scary outside. Once toilets became a thing, those were just added OMEN to existing restrooms.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/9/815569.jpg)