20 Super Facts About Steve Irwin, Henry Winkler, And Honey Badger Poop
![20 Super Facts About Steve Irwin, Henry Winkler, And Honey Badger Poop](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/4/876424_320x180.jpg)
The “Hunchback of Notre-Dame” was written mostly just about architecture. But it's not dry or boring, I promise! In Victor Hugo wrote the “Hunchback of Notre-Dame” to inform people of the value of Gothic architecture which was neglected and destroyed at the time. That's why the book is full of beautiful descriptive passages informing readers about this special style of architecture. Next up, we have something less literary but no less interesting: did you know that submarine crew members have special suits they can put on in case of an emergency? It's true! Submarine Escape Immersion Equipment acts as a one-man life raft. If a submarine is downed and there is no submarine rescue vehicle nearby, the crew puts on special pressurized suits which float them to the top. Last but not least, we've got an odd disorder called Rapunzel Syndrome, which causes sufferers to pull out and eat their hair. To be fair, though, only the pulling part always occurs – the eating part may or may not happen.
Honey badgers make a big stinky in a hive to get rid of the bees.
![Honey badgers get honey by making a stink so powerful that a hive full of bees will flee. Honey badgers emit smelly, suffocating se- cretions from its anal glands to fumigate hives, causing bees to flee and leave their hon- ey for easy pickings. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/6/876446.jpg)
Keira Knightley should have been Kira.
![Keira Knightley's name is an accidental misspelling. Keira was meant to be named Kira, after the Russian ice skater, Kira Ivanova, but her mother misspelled the name when she went to register her. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/4/876444.jpg)
NASA had big plans if they kept getting funded in the 70s and 80s.
![NASA planned to have a manned mission to Mars in 1981 or 1983. NASA If funding had remained at 1969 Apollo mission levels, NASA planned to develop such elements as a lunar orbit station in 1978, and a lunar surface base in 1980. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/3/876443.jpg)
A politician faked his death to run off with his secretary.
![British politician John Stonehouse faked his death in November 1974, leaving a pile of clothes on a beach in Miami. It was presumed he had gone swimming and drowned. But Stonehouse was actually en route to Australia to set up a new life with his mistress and secretary, Sheila Buckley. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/5/876445.jpg)
It was exceedingly rare for Steve Irwin to be killed by a stingray.
![Only one to two fatal stingray attacks are reported each year worldwide. When Steve Irwin was killed in a stingray at- tack in 2006, he was only the second re- ported fatality in Aus- tralia since 1945. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/2/876442.jpg)
A group of men called the Poison Squad ingested untested chemicals for science.
![The Poison Squad helped spur the creation of the FDA. From 1902-1907, a group of 12 scientists regularly ate dangerous, common food additives that had previ- ously been untested, such as formaldehyde, and doc- umented how they reacted to them. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/1/876441.jpg)
A holiday in Spain features people jumping over babies.
![Babies in Spain get their original sin removed by having people jump over them. The annual holiday El Cola- cho (Baby Jumping) in Spain features men dressed as dev- ils jumping over babies lying on mattresses. Pope Bene- dict XVI asked Spanish priests to distance them- selves from the holiday. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/0/876440.jpg)
Belgium and the Netherlands swapped their national borders.
![In January 2018, Belgium and the Netherlands swapped land to change their national borders. Grote Polder via Zoeterwoude-Rijndijk ANWO Belgium's foreign minister noted that the agreement shows that borders can also be ex- changed peacefully. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/9/876439.jpg)
There is a real disorder that makes someone violent over the sound of chewing.
![People with Misophonia are triggered by common sounds such as chewing and loud breathing Reactions range from dis- comfort to sharp anger to physical violence. There's no cure, but if one is diag- nosed there are coping mechanisms that can im- prove one's quality of life. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/8/876438.jpg)
The Fonz’s parents escaped Nazi Germany.
![Henry Winkler's parents escaped Nazi Germany on the last day Jews were allowed to leave. Since they were given only a six-week visa, Henry's fa- ther hid his mother's jewel- ry inside pieces of choco- late to covertly take as much wealth with them as they could without being detected by the Nazis. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/5/876435.jpg)
A baseball team of death row prisoners would have their executions delayed as long as they kept winning.
![A US baseball team in the 1910s was made up of death row prisoners. The Wyoming State Peni- tentiary's All Stars had an agreement with their pris- on's baseball-obsessed warden that if they kept winning, their executions would be delayed. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/6/876436.jpg)
Duolingo users translate real documents.
![Duolingo users help the service make money by translating real documents. Duolingo has contracts with websites like CNN's to translate stories and is earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with this business model. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/7/876437.jpg)
There is a genetic mutation that allows a person to see more colors.
![Tetrachromatic Super Vision may help some women see 100 million colors. Some women can have a genetic mutation that causes them to gain a 4th color-vision cone in their eyes, allowing them to see millions of more colors. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/4/876434.jpg)
A man was sentenced to one minute in jail.
![In 1906, a man named Joe Munch in Seattle was sentenced to one minute in jail for drunkenness and disorder. The original sentence was 30 days, but after an appeal and 6 months of litigation, it was shortened to one minute. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/3/876433.jpg)
Clark Gable was almost killed during WWII.
![Actor Clark Gable fought in World War 2 and was almost killed. When word of this reached MGM, studio executives began to badger the Army Air Forces to reassign him to non combat duty. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/2/876432.jpg)
Gene Roddenberry was a real life Captain Kirk.
![Gene Roddenberry was once in a plane crash in the desert in Syria. With two broken ribs, he repeatedly went back into the burning plane to evacuate passengers, then organized search teams to look for civili- zation. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/1/876431.jpg)
Star trek creator : the authorized biography of Gene Roddenberry / Wikipedia
Kevin Feige was given an associate producer credit on X-Men because he knew so much about Marvel.
![Kevin Feige was hired on to the first X-Men film as an assistant. Feige was eventually given an associate producer credit when another producer dis- covered he was a walking encyclopedia of Marvel. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/9/876429.jpg)
Sufferers from Rapunzel Syndrome pull out and eat their hair.
![There is a rare mental disease called the Rapunzel Syndrome. The disorder causes a patient to develop an irresistible urge to pull out their own hair, and sometimes eat it. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/7/876427.jpg)
Special suits can be put on by submarine crew members in case of an emergency that brings them to the surface.
![Submarine Escape Immersion Equipment acts as a one-man life raft. If a submarine is downed and there is no submarine rescue vehi- cle nearby, the crew put on special pressur- ized suits which float them to the top. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/8/876428.jpg)
"Hunchback of Notre-Dame" was written mostly just about architecture.
![Victor Hugo wrote the Hunchback of Notre-Dame to inform people of the value of Gothic architecture. Much of it was being ne- glected and destroyed at the time. This explains the large descriptive sec- tions of the book, which far exceed the require- ments of the story. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/0/876430.jpg)