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January 13, 2022

The world is filled to the brim with interesting facts, trivia, intel, and general knowledge and inspiration. When we consider the areas of science and history alone, well, it's enough to fill several lifetimes of study. Since most of us are unfortunately constrained to this one life, well, we best get cracking.

So buckle up because we've assembled more than thirty now you know facts about science, history, and other fascinating subjects that are sure to delight and surprise you.

For example, you might find it surprising to hear that the first-ever food consumed on the surface of the moon was a wafer and wine, as part of the Christian communion.

We bet you didn't know that even the talented Hillary Duff required an acting coach on the set of Lizzie McGuire.

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Michael Scott-less

Paul Rudd tried to talk Steve Carell out of auditioning for The Office. Rudd told Carell that the audition was a bad move, as the remake was never going to be as good as the British original. Fortunately for all of us, Carell ignored Rudd (and many other naysayers), and forged ahead. — More: 'The Office': 5 Wild Revelations From The Sitcom's New Oral History Book

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Is Squid Game a Rip-Off?

Squid Game looks an 067 awful lot like a manga. The premise, the themes, the big twist, and even some of the individual games are all pretty much the same as those in the long- running manga Kaiji. Squid Game's creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has even talked about reading Kaiji while conceiving his show. — More: The Manga Netflix's 'Squid Game' Seemingly Swiped

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Ghostbusters' Inspirations

Ghostbusters was based on 1940s movies. According to Dan Aykroyd, the idea was to make an old-style ghost comedy, like Bob Hope's The Ghost Breakers, or Abbott and Costello movies. A heavy influence was the Bowery Boys' Spook Busters, which was about exterminators hired to remove a ghost from a mansion. — More: Even The Original 'Ghostbusters' Was Fueled By Nostalgia

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Eternal Kiss

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Real Pre-Crime

Minority Report is already real. No psychic mutants are necessary - law enforcement agencies are already practicing predictive policing, which combs through huge amounts of data to try and determine when a crime will happen. What's that? You're predicting the algorithms exhibit enormous racial bias? You're completely right! — More: 5 Modern Tech Innovations That Are Racist As Hell

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Hollywood's Wax Museum

Hollywood's Wax Museum is pretty much Uncanny Valley Central. The museum has been around for decades, despite the fact that many of their figures barely look like any celebrities (or even human beings). In 2009 they auctioned off several of their people-shaped candles, proving that some will pay thousands for a wax figure no one will ever believe it's Patrick Swayze. — More: Hollywood's Wax Museum Was A Real Freak Show

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Pyramid Head's Ass

Fans demanded that Pyramid Head be given a juicy butt. When the iconic monster was to be featured in Dead by Daylight, promotional images showed him with what is scientifically known as a thicc-ass butt - which was nowhere to be seen in the game. Fans begged the company to patch that ass back in (and the devs complied). — More: 5 Weird Changes Slipped Into Video Games

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Magic Tomatoes

Tomatoes were blamed for werewolves. When tomatoes first arrived in Europe in the 7 1500s, many were suspicious of them - with some even identifying them as a key ingredient to potions used by witches to fly and turn themselves (or others) into werewolves. — More: 5 Of The Most 'Wuh?' Facts History Class Never Covered

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Apple

Apple was close to going down in the late '90s. The entire '90s was a string of failures for Apple, and by the end of the decade, industry insiders were saying that the company should seek a buyout to remain afloat. Of all the Apple takes at the time, it was Wired magazine who nailed the right one: Put Steve Jobs in charge of product development. — More: 5 Huge Companies That Once Were Failing Miserably

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Female-Illuminated Manuscripts

We know medieval women illuminated books from looking at their teeth. Ultramarine was a wildly expensive blue pigment, which was mostly used to illuminate luxury manuscripts. That's how we know nuns did this work, as opposed to just monks as it was assumed - licking their brushes to sharpen the point left traces of ultramarine on their teeth. — More: Looking For The Best Medieval Artists? Check For Blue Teeth.

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Dakota Johnson's Lime Lies

Dakota Johnson lied to the world about loving limes, for some reason. Of all the lies told by celebrities, Johnson's pretend fondness for limes in her 2020 Architectural Digest home tour has to be among the oddest. Why pretend to love a fruit you don't care for, and are actually allergic to? What she really loves is chaos, her fans decided. — More: Dakota Johnson Lied To The Entire Internet About Her Viral Zest For Limes

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Doctor's Paperwork

Half a doctor's work is paperwork. Doctors do much less doctoring than you think - about half of their workday is spent doing paperwork. All in all, nurses spend much more time caring for patients than doctors do. — More: 5 Big Jobs That Movies And TV Get All Wrong

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No Real Racists, Please

Sega nixed the KKK as a villain in a video game. Sega was fine about 2002's ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth having anti-racist themes, but said no to the end boss being a caricature of a Klansman, and had him replaced by some skull. Because being against racism is OK, as long as you don't offend actual racists, apparently. — More: 5 Video Games That Chickened Out And Censored Themselves

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ASL Failure

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A Nazi War criminal was Secretary- General of the U.N. Kurt Waldheim was declared a war crimes suspect as early as 1948, but he avoided investigations, rose in politics, and ended up running the U.N. from 1972 to 1982. It eventually came to light that he was involved in executions and sending people to death camps. Whoops. CRACKED.COM

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