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29 Morsels of Knowledge That Will Tickle Your Cranium

By:: Eric B

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29 Morsels of Knowledge That Will Tickle Your Cranium

Here’s a fun fact they never taught you in school: Honeybees can recognize human faces. Hope you kept the receipts for 10th grade, because we’re about to demolish everything you thought you knew. Click on and strap in.

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Schitt's Creek basically saved Annie Murphy. She had $3 in the bank when they asked her to audition for the show, and her apartment had burned down. Two days later, she got the part. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects Now-You-Know Facts

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In 2009, a parrot saved a child's life. The parrot repeated Mama, baby after his owner, Megan Howard, who was babysitting a toddler, walked out of the room and the toddler started choking on food. Howard came back in time and used the Heimlich maneuver to save the toddler. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects Now-You-Know Facts

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Barry Sonnenfeld made the decision to set Men in Black in New York City. In the original idea, the movie took place in Lawrence, Kansas; Las Vegas; and Washington D.C. But Sonnenfeld set it entirely in New York City because, he thought, that's the one place on Earth where aliens could walk around a disguise. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects Now-You-Know Facts

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In Elizabethan England, they played a weird game after Christmas dinner. It was called shoe the mare, and it involved one person running around barefoot and acting like an unruly horse while everyone else tried to catch them. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie, Science, History, And More Now-You-Know Facts

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One motto of the U.S. nuclear missile launch crew is Death Wears Bunny Slippers. CREW NUC DEATH WEARS SLIPPERS BUNNY They spend their days on nuclear-alert duty in a small capsule, so they get comfortable -- which means wearing things like Snuggies and bunny slippers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie, Science, History, And More Now-You-Know Facts

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Drew Carey hasn't needed glasses since 2010. He's only kept wearing them because they're part of the look people associate with him. I have a whole career built on me wearing these black horn-rim glasses, he says. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie, Science, History, And More Now-You-Know Facts

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In 2013, 69-year-old Canadian Bill Ayotte attacked a polar bear with a shovel to save a stranger. They were both seriously injured, but survived, and he was awarded the Star of Courage, Canada's second highest award for bravery. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie, Science, History, And More Now-You-Know Facts

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The Full Metal Jacket set was surprisingly toxic (literally). They shot some of the Vietnam scenes in Beckton Gas Works - where the actors were crawling in asbestos and ate food that a layer of dust would always quickly settle on. When they got home and took a bath, the bathwater would turn blue from the dirt. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie, Science, History, And More Now-You-Know Facts

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In 2016, they found a dinosaur tail preserved in amber. And it was covered in feathers, which made it the first direct, unambiguous piece of evidence for dinosaurs (some, at least) having feathers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie, Science, History, And More Now-You-Know Facts

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Disney almost made a theme park attraction based on the 1990s PC puzzle game Myst. They were going to make a real-life Myst island on an unused island area in the Florida park, but they couldn't figure out how to tie it into the theme. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie, Science, History, And More Now-You-Know Facts

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The press tour for Stargate inspired Independence Day. INDEPENDENCE DAY When Roland Emmerich told a reporter he didn't believe in aliens, the reporter asked What if tomorrow morning, we woke up and spaceships were hovering over the 30 biggest cities on Earth? That inspired him to start writing a pitch the next day. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie, Science, History, And More Now-You-Know Facts

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Patrick Stewart would never have starred in The Next Generation if he'd known how long it would be on the air. Не thought it'd go on for four or five years, not seven --he wouldn't have committed to seven. He's still a little scared at the thought that such a big chunk of his life was nearly all about Star Trek. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie, Science, History, And More Now-You-Know Facts

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Orson Welles wore a fake nose all the time. Не thought his real one was too fine and didn't have enough character. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie, Science, History, And More Now-You-Know Facts

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Dave Thomas apologized to his daughter for naming Wendy's after her. Не understood that it put a lot of pressure on her, and said You know what? I'm sorry ... I should've just named it after myself. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie, Science, History, And More Now-You-Know Facts

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Men in Black was totally altered at the last minute. Two weeks before the final cut was supposed to be done, director Barry Sonnenfeld changed the entire plot, in his words, by putting in new subtitles and new text on the board in MIB HQ. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie, Science, History, And More Now-You-Know Facts

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NASA astronauts wear orange suits, too. NASA Most of the time, they wear white suits, because white reflects solar radiation better than any other color. But when they're on their way into space, or returning to Earth, they wear orange because it's very easy to see against the sea or sky - that way, if they have to bail, rescue teams will find them more quickly. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie-Related And Other Now-You-Know Facts

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The engine room scenes in 2009's Star Trek were shot in a brewery. J.J. Abrams wanted a big, open space that was totally unlike the soundstage sets seen in every Trek before that, so they used the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Van Nuys, California - which has 1.7 million square feet of floor area. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie-Related And Other Now-You-Know Facts

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In 1978, a trove of lost movies was found under an ice rink in a Canadian town. 2 litre 18.5 kg 12 They were buried there when Dawson City's old theatres shut down, and lay forgotten until the ice rink got demolished to make way for a parking lot. Over 500 films were salvaged, including old newsreels, some from as far back as 1903. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie-Related And Other Now-You-Know Facts

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Honeybees can recognize human faces. In an experiment, bees remembered faces even two days after memorizing them. Somehow, they pull this off with 10,000 fewer neurons than humans. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie-Related And Other Now-You-Know Facts

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The Red Cross was invented by a guy who kind of wandered into a battle. In 1859, Henry Dunant was trying to meet with Napoleon III, and happened to see the Battle of Solferino - which ended with 40,000 dead and wounded left behind on the battlefield. When he came home to Geneva, he started to work on a society for helping the wounded in wars. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie-Related And Other Now-You-Know Facts

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In 2018, Danny DeVito gave a fan a unique shout-out. OYS High school senior and big fan of It's Sunny in Philadelphia Alison Closs brought a cardboard cutout of Danny DeVito to her prom and posted about it on social media. A month later, DeVito posed with a cardboard cutout of her in Paddy's Pub in the show. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie-Related And Other Now-You-Know Facts

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There was a real James Bond. Не was an MI6 agent spying on Poland in the '60s. e zam. e pracy Seki arth. trub W. sko telstwo miejsce urodz. James Albert Bond مع ر - 30. Polish counter-espionage noted that he was chatty, cautious, and a womanizer. Не pretty much did nothing of note on his ten-year mission, then left and never and came back. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie-Related And Other Now-You-Know Facts

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McDonald's burgers aren't resistant to rotting. They don't rot simply because they lose moisture very quickly--because they're small, and have a large surface area for their size - - so mold and bacteria don't get a chance to grow. A homemade burger that's small and has a relatively large surface area isn't going to rot, either. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie-Related And Other Now-You-Know Facts

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In Moon, the base is on the far side of the moon so it doesn't interfere with the Earth. All that activity kicks up a lot of soil, which might make the moon's surface less reflective and therefore less bright - and that could mess with a lot of biological systems on Earth. To prevent that from happening, it was put on the far side. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie-Related And Other Now-You-Know Facts

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Suzanne Somers was fired from Three's Company for asking for equal pay. Her co-star John Ritter, was getting $150,000 an episode, so she asked to get that (and not the $30,000 she'd been getting). Instead, they fired her, saying that Ritter is the star. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie-Related And Other Now-You-Know Facts

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The South Pole is so high, you can get altitude sickness on it. That's what happened to Buzz Aldrin in 2016 - - he got so sick on the South Pole (which is 9,300 feet high), he had to be evacuated to New Zealand. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie-Related And Other Now-You-Know Facts

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The Guinness World Record for the longest drift is 232.5 miles. It was set by a 2018 BMW M5, which had to be refueled mid-drift five times by an M5 tanker - and, every time, a stuntman had to connect the car and tanker as they drifted together. The drift took eight hours. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie-Related And Other Now-You-Know Facts

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Ghostbusters 2's fur coat gag was recycled. They were going to use the gag with the dead skins coming back to life in the first movie, but they just didn't get around to filming it. So they put it in the sequel. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie-Related And Other Now-You-Know Facts

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After filming Guardians of the Galaxy, they had to melt down the Kyln set and sell off the steel. That was the only way to make the budget for the Kyln scenes work. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie And General Now-You-Know Trivia Factoids

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