15 Now-You-Know Facts That Really Wetzled Our Pretzels

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15 Now-You-Know Facts That Really Wetzled Our Pretzels
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You know what's the most interesting thing in the world? The number of things that aren't interesting. There's a lot of them. I enjoy this list of interesting facts because I enjoy the number of things that aren't interesting, but also because I don't have any friends, and these facts are all I've got to look forward to. You know what else is the most interesting thing in the world? The fact that I have no friends. This is a strange thing for me to think about. If you'd asked me at the beginning of my life if I wanted to be friends with other people, I'd have laughed and said ‘hell yeah!’ and then gotten together with all my friends and gone out for burgers. But now, there are no more friends, and I can't stop thinking about the fact that I've lost them all, and how strange it is that I enjoy this list of interesting facts.

V for Vendetta

China's national TV channel aired V for Vendetta fully uncensored in 2012. CRACKED.COM Despite being known for its strict censoring of foreign films, the anarchist movie aired unedited. It includes the quote, People should not be afraid of their govern- ments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

CBC

Greece took satellite imagery to find swimming pools left off of tax forms.

Only 324 of Greece households declared ownership of a swimming pool on their tax form. CRACKED COM Fearing tax evasion, Greek authorities turned to satel- lite imagery for further in- vestigation of Athens' northern suburbs. They discovered a total of 16,974 swimming pools.

BoingBoing

The Space Shuttle can’t handle a year rollover on the calendar.

The Space Shuttle never flew on new year's day or eve because it couldn't handle a year rollover. 1/151 UnitedStates 4 CRACKED.COM The space shuttle's computer software is about 45 years old and does not recog- nise when the calen- dar year switches.

New Scientist

People in the US didn’t think women were “designed” to ride trains.

Many people thought women could not ride trains when they were first introduced in the US. Mizuno FOUND Dro р/д CRACKED COM People believed that women's bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour, and that their uteruses would fly out of their bodies if they were accelerated to that speed.

Wall Street Journal

Milk Duds weren’t supposed to have an uneven coating.

Milk Duds were originally supposed to be perfectly round. CRACKED.COM Since making them per- fectly round was found to be impossible, the pieces became known as duds, and the name stuck.

Hersheyland

Ancient Romans believed eyelashes fell out from sex.

Women in Ancient Rome would make their eyelashes look fuller and longer to demonstrate their chastity. CRACKED.COM The ideal eyes, from the Roman perspec- tive, were large with long eyelashes. They believed that eyelash- es fell out from exces- sive sex.

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