Apex Facts For You To Flex In Conversation
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Guess what. It's December, and that means you're going to need to interact with other human beings. Not only do we sympathize, but we are HERE for you. We've collected a stack of interesting facts that will jump-start your conversation game.
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![CRACKEDCON THE STATUE OF LIBERTY DOESN'T REPRESENT WHAT YOU THINK IT DOES. The statue was intended to celebrate the end of slavery. It's right there i](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/3/9/715039.jpg?v=2)
![STREET FIGHTER RIPPED OFF A CHARLES BRONSON MOVIE. 1975's Hard Times, starring Charles Bronson, is about street brawls in settings that look a lot lik](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/4/3/715043.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED co COM ROALD DAHL WROTE DIRTY STORIES FOR PLAYBOY. Dahl is the beloved author of books such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/5/6/715056.jpg?v=2)
![JEANS ARE MADE FOR NATASHA WAGNER'S BUTT. Wagner's body is so aggressively average that major brands design their jeans for her specifically. If a pai](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/5/4/715054.jpg?v=2)
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![FLOWER SMELL AND POOP SMELL ARE CHEMICALLY THE SAME. Shit smells like shit because of an organic compound called indole. And the exact same stuff caus](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/5/0/715050.jpg?v=2)
![GENERIC DRUG NAMES ARE MADE UP BY TWO WOMEN FROM CHICAGO. Acetaminophen, albuterol, lorazepam... Where do these names come from? They are devised by t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/5/5/715055.jpg?v=2)
![-CRACKEDC THE POP ROCKS AND COKE MYTH ALMOST KILLED POP ROCKS. With no internet back in the 1970s to debunk urban legends, everyone believed that th](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/5/2/715052.jpg?v=2)
![THE DIRECTORS OF AMERICAN PIE'S DAD WAS MADE OF AWESOME. Paul and Chris Weitz have made popular movies, but they have nothing on their dad. German-bor](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/4/9/715049.jpg?v=2)
![RAMBO WAS MEANT TO KILL HIMSELF. Before he became the invincible manifestation of American foreign policy we all know, First Blood depicted Rambo as a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/3/5/715035.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED CON JOHN WICK WAS A BOOK BINDER. What did John Wick do during his retirement? He learned to bind and restore old books, according to the scrip](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/4/1/715041.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDCON PEZ WAS INVENTED TO HELP YOU QUIT SMOKING. Austrian Eduard Haas lII, a staunch anti-smoker, created the peppermint candy in the 1920s as an](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/5/1/715051.jpg?v=2)
![ARGENTINA BUILT AN ISLAND LAIR FOR A NAZI MAD SCIENTIST. After World War II, with all the good eX-Nazi scientists working for the superpowers, Argenti](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/4/6/715046.jpg?v=2)
![ELIZABETH WARREN USED TO BE A CONSERVATIVE. It's hard to imagine Warren as a hardcore free- market advocate, but that she was back in the '70s and '80](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/4/8/715048.jpg?v=2)
![THE USSR WANTED TO MELT THE ARCTIC'S ICE. Back in the 1950s, no one was thinking of climate change - except for the Soviets, who wanted to make it hap](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/4/7/715047.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED COM ANCIENT EGYPTIANS HAD A CEREAL-BASED PREGNANCY TEST. Over 3,000 years ago, Egyptians had a surprisingly accurate way to test for buns in t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/4/4/715044.jpg?v=2)
![CORETTA SCOTT KING PAID FOR JULIA ROBERTS' BIRTH. Roberts' parents ran the first racially integrated acting workshop in Atlanta, Georgia - and one of](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/4/5/715045.jpg?v=2)
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![VICTORIA'S SECRET WAS CREATED FOR EMBARRASSED GUYS. Roy Raymond felt very awkward buying underwear for his wife, so he went and opened a lingerie shop](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/4/2/715042.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDCON BLUE EYES USED TO BE WAY MORE COMMON. DIT Half of Americans had blue eyes in 1900. Today, it's about one in six. Blue eyes are a recessive](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/3/8/715038.jpg?v=2)
![A DEADLY COLD WAR MIX-UP GAVE YOU GPS. In 1983, a navigational error caused a Korean airliner to stray into Russian airspace. It was shot down, and 26](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/4/0/715040.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED COM YOU CAN BE ALLERGIC TO YOUR OWN SPERM. Seminal plasma hypersensitivity is a very rare condition, but it can suck if you have it -especiall](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/3/4/715034.jpg?v=2)