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30 Now-You-Know Facts About Movies, Space and Much More

Time to squish the boredom with some interesting facts

30 Now-You-Know Facts About Movies, Space and Much More

August 22, 2023

What do movies and space have in common? Well, a lot of movies are set in space. (Have you seen Gravity, yo?) But more importantly, they have this list in common, which has facts about movies and space.

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One cicada species has. a sense of time that's SO good, you could set your clock by it. It's called the six o'clock cicada, lives in the forests of Borneo, and it got its name because it starts to sing at exactly six o'clock in the evening. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Google Books

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North Korea's military used Bitcoin to steal over half a billion dollars. They stole it from online trading platforms in 2017 and 2018, and used blockchain technology (the basis of Bitcoin) to be able to do it undetected. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Technology Review

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Lord Byron wasn't allowed to have a dog at university so he got a bear While at Trinity College, the poet was upset that students were forbidden from keeping dogs, so he proved a point by acquiring a pet bear. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — University of Cambridge

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Vitamin с doesn't prevent the common cold. It might, however, help with physical exertion or exposure to cold. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — PMC

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Adult lions kill so many cubs, they cause up to 25% of all cub deaths. 21 That happens when a new group of male lions takes over a pride - they kill all the lion cubs. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — University of Minnesota

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Prehistoric painters used burnt bones to make black pigment. They also used charcoal for black. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Web Exhibits

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Warner Brothers makes $1 billion a year from syndicating Friends. Tapes NE CLOSKO Each of the main cast members gets 2% of that, or $20 million a year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — USA Today

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Roy Lichtenstein directly reproduced from comic artists I DON'T CARE/ TO RATHER SINK THAN CALL BRAD FOR HELP/ His paintings sell for milliions, while the original artists struggled to make end's meet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Smithsonian

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Garfield phones have been washing up on a French beach for decades. It took 35 years to solve the mystery, and it turned out that they were coming from a container that fell off a cargo ship and got lodged in a coastal cave. At high tide, the water would carry some of the phones out of the cave. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — The Guardian

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There's a Guinness World Record for farthest distance walking barefoot on Lego bricks. VI and RAY'S BIG EYE STUDIO and PHOTOGRAPHY GUINNESS OFFICIAL WORLD FORDS ATTEMPT Bricks of Farthest ce Wait ... It's 5.1 kilometers, or 3.15 miles. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Guinness World Records

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U.S. government advice for running from bears says you shouldn't sacrifice your friends. A set of recommendations from the National Park Service cautions against pushing down a friend who's slower than you (even if you think the friendship has run its course). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — The Guardian

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Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones never met while making Star Wars. Their first face-to-face meeting was in 2014 on The Big Bang Theory. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Cinema Blend

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Stephen Hawking is buried between Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, at Westminster Abbey. During the burial, the European Space Agency beamed recordings of Hawking's voice to the nearest black hole. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — NBC News

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In 1979, programmers working for Atari met with the CEO and demanded the company treat them more like musicians, with access to royalties & c credit on packaging. - - DIG DUG IMUNTED HOUSE The CEO refused, stating that anyone can do a cartridge. The programmers left and started Activision. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — InfoWorld

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In 2006, suspected serial murderer Ricky Simonds was found dead of heatstroke in the trunk of his ex-girlfriend's car. Investigators theorized he became locked in as he lay in wait to ambush and kill her. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — The Charlotte Observer

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The dial code of the Czech Republic is 420, and the country is among the highest users of cannabis in the world. During an appearance on The $100,000 Pyramid, Snoop knew that fact without delay. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — ET Online

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Iconic Captain America #1, with Cap punching Hitler, came out a year before the U.S. entered WWII. Jewish creators Joe Simon & Jack Kirby received death threats, but the mayor of New York pledged protection. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — CBR

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During the filming of Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Robin Williams improvised constantly. So much so that there were PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 edits of the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Know More

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People used to think that witches could actually shapeshift into cats. Apparently that's why one pope said that the cat was the devil's favourite animal and idol of all witches. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Egyptians liked to mummify animals so much, they almost made some extinct. And if anyone objected, they probably wouldn't have got it - to them, mummification was a great honor. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The epic bank heists you see in Westerns almost never actually happened. BANK BANK S DIELAR There were fewer bank robberies in a roughly 40-year span in 15 states in the Old West than there are in a year in modern-day Dayton, OH. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The standard pop culture pirate flag is actually just one guy's personal flag. It belonged to John Calico Jack Rackham, who had a pretty uneventful two-year pirate career. His only lasting influence is, well, that flag. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dinosaurs - at least some of them- laid eggs that were colored. Which is surprising, because scientists thought colored eggs only appeared once birds showed up - - but that's apparently not the case. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The barbecue stall happens, basically, because the meat sweats a lot. A stall is when meat on a BBQ gets to 150°F or so and then doesn't budge, and it happens because the evaporating moisture continually cools off the meat. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — SmokedBBQSource

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The Statue of Liberty almost had a massive phonograph installed inside. That was Thomas Edison's idea, when the statue was still being planned - he wanted to broadcast speeches through the entire bay. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — UC Riverside

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Dave Thomas received his high school diploma when he was 60 years old The very successful Wendy's founder returned to school after dropping out 45 years prior and was voted Most Likely to Succeed in his 1993 graduating class. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Advertising Hall of Fame

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NASA's first woman astronaut was asked some truly ridiculous questions. JTCS AND For example, NASA engineers assumed Sally Ride would want a makeup kit in space, so they asked for her help in developing it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — History.com

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The Hamster Dance was created on a competition between an art student, her friend, and her sister to see who could get the most traffic The creator Deidre LaCarte and her friend later got married. Internet memes have brought people together since their beginning. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — CBC

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Stevie Nicks wrote Landslide when she was 27. The song is about growing older, even though the songwriter wasn't even 30. Nicks explains, You can feel really old at 27. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Rolling Stone

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Rogue planets (planets that don't rotate stars) could outnumber the stars in our galaxy They are hard for astronomers to spot as they don't emit light or much heat. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — CNN

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