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Gather round children and hear the tales of fun facts of yore! Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there was a great author named Maurice Sendak. He dreamed of a magical world where wild horses roamed free, and he called it "Where the Wild Horses Are." But alas, poor Maurice could not draw horses, and his dreams were dashed. Meanwhile, in another part of the kingdom, a great tragedy had befallen the people of Jamaica. A dastardly thief had stolen an entire beach, leaving behind only a barren wasteland. And if that wasn’t cruel enough, across the sea in a distant land, a dark and evil tyrant by the name of Hitler had a diabolical plan for the city of Moscow: to kill all its residents and turn it into a lake. No, seriously. These are the wild and wondrous tales of our fun fact land! Read on to hear more about this mystical and mysterious place!
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Big Budget Movies
![CRACKED THE BLUES BROTHERS HAD A PRODUCTION BUDGET FOR COCAINE. It was included to help the cast and crew stay awake during night shoots.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/4/896574.jpg)
Universal Pictures
Wildin’ Out
![CRACKED WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE WAS ORIGINALLY WHERE THE WILD HORSES ARE. Author Maurice Sendak quickly realized he didn't know how to draw horses.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/0/897380.jpg)
Maurice Sendak
SpongeBob NoPainPants
![CRACKED SPONGES ARE THE ONLY MULTICELLULAR ANIMALS THAT LACK A NERVOUS SYSTEM. They do not have any nerve or sensory cells. However, if you touch a sponge it will cause it to contract.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/6/896586.jpg)
FP media/Shutterstock,
Nickeloden
So No Head?
![CRACKED SPERM WHALES ARE SO CALLED BECAUSE... THEIR HEADS ARE FULL OF SPERM? Sperm whale's heads are filled with large amounts of oily fluid, which whalers thought was sperm. Scientists still aren't sure what it's there for.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/5/896585.jpg)
Bill Nye The Natural Philosopher Guy
![CRACKED THE WORD SCIENTIST DID NOT EXIST UNTIL 1833. Before that, they were known as natural philosophers.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/4/896584.jpg)
Pineapple Poise
![CRACKED PINEAPPLES WERE A STATUS SYMBOL IN 18TH CENTURY ENGLAND. In today's dollars, they'd cost $8,000 to purchase (or you could rent one).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/2/896582.jpg)
German Luxury
![CRACKED DURING WWII, GERMAN OFFICERS WHO WERE SENT TO BRITAIN AS POWS LIVED IN LUXURY DWELLINGS. This was done to make them feel relaxed, as their conversations were heard by over 100 planted bugs. The information they revealed helped win the war.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/3/896583.jpg)
Moscow Cruel
![CRACKED HITLER'S PLAN FOR MOSCOW WAS TO KILL ALL ITS RESIDENTS And replace the city with a lake.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/0/896580.jpg)
Reidl/Shutterstock,
Everett Collection/Shutterstock
The War Aims and Strategies of Adolf Hitler, by Oscar Pinkus (via Google Books)
Tragic Telegraph
![CRACKED SAMUEL MORSE INVENTED THE TELEGRAPH BECAUSE НЕ RECEIVED NEWS TRAGICALLY LATE. While in Washington DC, he got a letter that warned of his wife's illness. Morse returned home at once, but arrived to find his wife already buried. Devastated, the event led him to research and patent the telegraph.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/8/896578.jpg)
No Pain No Gain
![CRACKED NOT ALL MIGRAINES ARE CHARACTERIZED BY PAIN. Silent migraines involve no pain, and instead can induce vision loss, flashing lights, wavy lines in the vision, and hallucinations.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/9/896579.jpg)
Lyndon Linda
![CRACKED LYNDON JOHNSON IS THE ONLY PRESIDENT TO HAVE BEEN SWORN IN BY A WOMAN. It was on Air Force One after Kennedy's assassination.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/7/896577.jpg)
Buckets O Blood
![CRACKED THE 2013 REMAKE OF EVIL DEAD USED 70,000 GALLONS OF FAKE BLOOD. About 50,000 of it was used in the final scene alone.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/1/896581.jpg)
TriStar Pictures
Dolphin Daze
![CRACKED BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS HAVE THE LONGEST MEMORY (AFTER HUMANS). They can recognize the whistles of other dolphins after being apart for over 20 years.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/6/896576.jpg)
The Beach Is Back
![CRACKED IN 2008, A BEACH WAS STOLEN IN JAMAICA. About 500 truckloads of sand remain missing today.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/5/896575.jpg)
Oh Say Can You See
![CRACKED THE ALGERIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM WAS FIRST WRITTEN IN BLOOD. An Algerian revolutionary wrote the anthem in his own blood on a prison cell while he was imprisoned by the French colonial regime.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/3/896573.jpg)
Embassy of People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria in Pretoria