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20 Times Truth Was Stranger Than Fiction

By:: Eric B

July 04, 2023

20 Times Truth Was Stranger Than Fiction

If you’ve ever found yourself digesting new information so strange that it makes you wonder “am I in a simulation?,” fret not, you’re not alone. There are times in life where the things we experience are so bizarre we think that the only logical conclusion is that they were imagined. But lo and behold these little oddities are very much real.

Did you know that a nuclear bomb was once used to put out a gas fire? You probably didn’t because it sounds made-up. No one in their right mind would fight fire with fire. And yet, Soviet Russia did so for many years and did so rather successfully. You probably also didn’t know about these strange facts like the Japanese dish that snuck its way into The Matrix’s iconic green source code or the $3 bowl that was resold well over purchase price (spoiler alert: it was in the millions).

So after reading the list of 20 mind-bending facts below just remember, this is not a simulation…

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John Lennon caused a massive backlash by saying the Beatles are more popular than Jesus now. NOT Thou shalt ha SAVE DOWN no other DO THE BEATLES the ? BEATLES GODS TH BEATLE N TODAY. $100,000 before - WHAT TOMORROW? ITY WORLD REAL PRIZES SEASON NHK DANTEN BUSIS и GENERAL PARK 1017 In the U.S. south, church groups burned Beatles records on bonfires and some radio stations stopped playing Beatles songs. In Spain, Mexico and South Africa, people staged anti-Beatles rallies and boycotts. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 13 Facts That’ll Exert The Old Cerebellum

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We've found the first planet outside the Milky Way -- in the M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, 23 million light-years away. This is a big deal because the immense distance makes them so hard to detect, and it only happened because of a rare combination of circumstances. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 13 Facts That’ll Exert The Old Cerebellum

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In the 19th century, pioneering investigative journalist Nellie Bly feigned madness to get into the Blackwell's Island Women's Lunatic Asylum in New York. She was there for 10 days, and witnessed appalling abuse, like patients begging for water all night and nurses refusing to give them any. That led to a grand jury investigation, and she did the same thing in the city's jails, orphanages, factories and other institutions over the next 10 years. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 13 Facts That’ll Exert The Old Cerebellum

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Ed Sullivan censored the Rolling Stones (and they hated it). When they appeared on the show in 1967, they were told that Let's spend the night together is a bit too much and they should change it to Let's spend some time together. So they did, but Mick Jagger rolled his eyes every time he said the line (and managed to slip in the original version at one point). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 13 Facts That’ll Exert The Old Cerebellum

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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen aren't identical twins. They're fraternal twins (or, technically, sororal twins), which means they grew from different En x eggs. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 13 Facts That’ll Exert The Old Cerebellum

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Cleopatra is remembered as a beautiful seductress only in Europe and the U.S. In the Islamic world, she's remembered as a scholar. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 13 Facts That’ll Exert The Old Cerebellum

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Someone in New York State bought a Chinese bowl for $3 and sold it x for $2.2 million. They bought it at a tag sale and, a few years later, started getting curious about where it came from. So they had it assessed, and realized it was about 1,000 years old. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 13 Facts That’ll Exert The Old Cerebellum

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In 1777, 16-year-old Sybil Ludington rode through New York to rally American troops. Colonel Ludington received a warning about an incoming British attack, but had to prepare for the battle, so his daughter rode through the countryside to rally his men. She rode all night in the rain, covering 20 to 40 miles, and mobilized hundreds of soldiers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie (And Other Cool Stuff) Now-You-Know Facts

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The Matrix's code is a bunch of scrambled sushi recipes. To make the iconic code, production and concept designer Simon Whiteley scanned the kanji from his wife's Japanese cookbooks. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie (And Other Cool Stuff) Now-You-Know Facts

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95% of Mongolians are lactose intolerant, even though their diet relies on milk from seven mammal species. They can consume milk products only thanks to gut bacteria that digest the x lactose for them. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie (And Other Cool Stuff) Now-You-Know Facts

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You can't revive someone who's flatlining with a defibrillator. Unlike in movies, if you actually tried to shock someone who had flatlined back into life, you wouldn't accomplish anything. The only thing that can help them is CPR. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie (And Other Cool Stuff) Now-You-Know Facts

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50-80% of the human genome comes from viruses. Retroviruses can leave their genetic information in their host and pass it down to the host's children. Over millions of years, massive amounts of viral DNA can build up in a host's genome - as happened to humans, apparently. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie (And Other Cool Stuff) Now-You-Know Facts

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When Nelson Mandela was released from prison, he flinched from a reporter's microphone. Не thought the very modern-looking microphone might have been a weapon developed during the nearly 30 years he'd spent inside. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie (And Other Cool Stuff) Now-You-Know Facts

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Turns out, rats are actually pretty altruistic. An experiment found that rats will not only work to free another rat who's trapped in a plastic tube, they'll sometimes free the other rat before opening a plastic box with chocolate. And they'll share the chocolate with the rat that they just freed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie (And Other Cool Stuff) Now-You-Know Facts

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A 12-year-old slave invented modern vanilla pollination. In 1841, Edmond Albius, a slave on the island of Réunion, figured out how to pollinate vanilla plants by hand - which hugely boosted vanilla productivity, and made the modern vanilla industry possible. And we're still using his method today. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie (And Other Cool Stuff) Now-You-Know Facts

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The night-time sequence in Mad Max: Fury Road was shot in bright daylight. They just heavily overexposed the footage to turn it into a deep blue night. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie (And Other Cool Stuff) Now-You-Know Facts

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Originally, Groot was going to be all grown up again in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. But James Gunn decided to keep him as baby Groot because he thought that'd be too repetitive. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie (And Other Cool Stuff) Now-You-Know Facts

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Dallas Buyers' Club total makeup budget was $250. But it won an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie (And Other Cool Stuff) Now-You-Know Facts

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In 1966, the USSR put out a gas fire with a nuclear bomb. The fire had been burning in a gas well for three years, and they'd tried everything from capping the well to reducing the flow of gas. The bomb put out the fire in 23 seconds. The Soviets were so delighted, they did the same thing with four more gas fires over the years. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie (And Other Cool Stuff) Now-You-Know Facts

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The Phantom Menace even CGI'd Natalie Portman. She limped in some scenes because she had hurt her ankle, so the VFX team had to give her CGI legs in them. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie (And Other Cool Stuff) Now-You-Know Facts

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