24 Childhood-Ruining Factoids

The truth can set you free, but it can also make the world a cold and bitter place. What follows is that second kind of truth. We asked our readers to take pop culture staples of our childhood and reveal the disturbing facts we didn't know about them.
24 Childhood-Ruining Factoids

The truth can set you free, but it can also make the world a cold and bitter place. Look, it's been a common internet trope for well over a decade to say that learning a certain fact about a beloved piece of pop culture “ruined your childhood.” It's actually a little annoying, people being so precious about TV shows and movies they loved before they could even dress themselves. But honestly…can we be vulnerable for a second? Don't tell anyone, okay? If we could time travel and talk to our four-year-old selves? We'd be more than a little bummed that the Power Rangers actors couldn't actually fight. And we'd be especially horrified about the Comic Sans fact you're about to see. 

We asked our readers to take pop culture staples of our childhood and reveal the disturbing facts we didn't know about them. The winner is below, but first the runners-up …

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As Andy grew older all of his toys had to sit there motionless while they watched him masturbate. CRACKED COM
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24 Childhood-Ruining Factoids
Anyone who's seen 1983's A Christmas Story remembers this scene, when Flick gets his tongue stuck onto a frozen pole. 13 years later, the actor star
In the original novel The Neverending Story Atreyu The Bastian and Childlike Artax Empress had green had white was a skin and hair & wore was a talki
This is Lee Quigley. He played the baby Kal-El in the 1978 Superman movie starring Christopher Reeve. He died in 199 I after an overdose of solvents
CRACKED COM Billy Blue Ranger David Yost, the Blue Power Ranger, quit the show... Because everyone on set bullied him for being gay.
Television's Superman was immune to bullets. George Reeves, who played the hero, was not. Reeves died, by gunshot, on June 16, 1959. CRACKEDCON
Back in 1915, Raggedy Ann stood for grief and a medical controversy that cost a little girl her life. Marcella Gruelle, daughter of children's author
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