12 Fascinating 'Now You Know' Facts
Movie and general facts to stick in your noggin.
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Right now, it's really easy to graze, and keep your belly happy with an influx of snacks. (Maybe too easy, but that's a different subject.) But are you neglecting your brain? Your mind also needs feeding, to keep it humming along happily. Probably.
Have no fear, Cracked is here, with a roundup of snack-sized facts to feed your brain. Snack away, guilt-free.
![Tokyo Drift couldn't secure certain permits but filmed scenes anyway. Universal Studios hired a fall guy to go to jail instead of the director. NOW YO](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/0/2/743802.jpg?v=2)
![In 1971, Sylvester Stallone sold his dog, Butkus, for $40 to buy food. After selling the script for Rocky, he bought him back for $15,000. NOW YOU KNO](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/9/8/743798.jpg?v=2)
![1846: A snail from Egypt was thought dead SO it was glued to an index card and put on display in a British museum. 1 850: The snail starts moving and](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/0/0/743800.jpg?v=2)
![In 986, Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of tiny Carmel, California. One of his first official acts was to repeal a city ban on selling ice cream cone](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/9/6/743796.jpg?v=2)
![To people have fallen from the Empire State Building and lived. They both fell from the 86th floor and landed on the 85th. NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/0/1/743801.jpg?v=2)
![Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes 24 hours apart. Presumed dead after the second, he emerged from the jungle with a bottle of gin & some ban](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/9/7/743797.jpg?v=2)
![Two donkeys together for 10 years at a Polish ZOO were separated because of complaints they were mating in front of children. A petition with 7, O00 s](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/0/6/743806.jpg?v=2)
![James Bond first appeared in 1953 and through all the books & movies... On HER MAESIYS SECRET SERVICE There has been one monarch of Britain: Queen Eli](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/0/4/743804.jpg?v=2)
![Biologists don't fully understand how eels reproduce. No one has ever seen how they spawn. NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/0/3/743803.jpg?v=2)
![lconic Captain America #1, with Cap punching Hitler, came out a year before the U.S. entered WWil. Jewish creators Joe Simon & Jack Kirby received dea](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/0/7/743807.jpg?v=2)
![A Virginia couple with the last name Null'' has a tough time filling out online forms. Error try again inforation hore for more cick Often, they're](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/9/9/743799.jpg?v=2)
![Three words are used around every 12 seconds in The Big Lebowski. They are: 'Dude,' 'Man,' or 'F*ck.' NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/0/5/743805.jpg?v=2)