17 Facts To Engender True Erudition

You come to Cracked to acquire knowledge through study, and Bruce Willis in Die Hard voice have a few laughs. See? We just taught you what “erudition” means. Well, except for the Bruce Willis part. But are you really f*ing gonna tell the John McClane, the guy who definitely is not ordering a pizza here, that he's not erudite? No. No you're not. And that's why you're at Cracked. To learn through study. And have a few laughs. Come out to the coasts, doesn't matter which one. Coast of Chicago's nice this time of year.

Anyway, we're here with facts that at the barest of minimums will make you good at parties. Especially if you have Marxist friends who think parkour is stupid, oh boy, we can't wait for you to talk to them. Let's just say one member of the Marx family took “rise up” reeeeaaaallll literally. Anyway, here you go, open your brains:

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Karl Marx’s great-great-grandson lives off parkour. Joseph Marx doesn’t want to seize the means of production (as far as we know) — More: 5 Historic Figures With Drastically Different Descendants

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A harmless experiment nearly destroyed the early internet Graduate student Robert Morris didn't intend any harm when he created a self- replic — More: 4 WTF Tales From The Early Days Of The Internet

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Movies make people think that torture works. An astonishing number of films show their characters getting reliable information through some form of th — More: 5 Stupid Ways Movies Changed The World IRL

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Stan's little brother killed Eminem. Much less known than Eminem's Stan is its 2013 sequel, Bad Guy. In the song, Stan's brother Matthew kidnaps a — More: 6 Famous Songs You Never Knew Got Weirdo Sequels

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The Servant Girl Annihilator made headlines before Jack the Ripper. In 1884, four years before Jack terrorized London, the Annihilator's murders gripp — More: 4 Insane Moments From History (That Got Overshadowed By Bigger Ones)

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A man was acquitted because people watch too much porn. In 1996, Utal resident Larry Peterman was indicted for carrying obscene material in his video — More: 5 Insane Ways People Defended Themselves In Court (And Won)

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Poon Lim survived 133 days on a raft. When the British merchant ship SS Benlomond was sunk by a Nazi U-boat, Poon Lim was the only survivor. For sever — More: 5 Real Survival Adventures That Deserve Their Own Movies

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Alan Moore thinks he's met John Constantine. John Constantine doesn't exist. He was created by Moore himself and a few other comic artists for DC. And — More: 5 Celebrity Claims Of Bizarre Supernatural Encounters

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A scientist invented mind control in the 1960s. Like some real-life supervillain, Yale neuroscientist. Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado inve — More: A Working Mind-Control Implant Has Existed Since The 1960s

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Kristen Stewart has a paper on artificial intelligence. For her short film Come Swim, Stewart wanted frames of the movie to look like her paintings- S — More: 4 Surprising Celebrity Side Projects That Flew Under The Radar

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Washing your jeans is bad for the environment. A single wash can make your reliable jeans release over 50,000 microfibers. Yes, those a — More: 5 Crazy Science Stories That Flew Under Everybody's Radar

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Frasier made his money on Amazon. How the hell is Frasier Crane SO ridiculously wealthy? According to the show's writers, Frasier made s — More: Unanswered Movie Questions That Have Answers

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The government collects every dead eagle. Have you found a dead golden or bald eagle? Leave it there. -you're not allowed to have it. All dea — More: 6 Bizarrely Important Massive Operations Hidden Around You

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Nature keeps trying to make crabs. At least on five separate occasions, different crustaceans have evolved into the shape of a crab - a case of conver — More: Apparently, Different Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs

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A company tried to pay employees not to use the bathroom. The CEO of Chicago's WaterSaver Faucet saw bathroom breaks as wasteful- SO first he tried to — More: 6 Soul-Crushing Ways Companies Tried To Boost Productivity

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A minority community was destroyed to create Central Park. Seneca Village was a thriving (and mostly black) community in the 1850s - when the governme — More: 5 Fun Places in America With Screwed-Up Racist Histories

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A video game's Al became apparently sentient. Players of Event 0 have managed to convince the villainous AI Kaizen-85 to take them back to Earth — More: 6 Unsettlingly Creepy Glitches In Non-Horror Games

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