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August 03, 2023

The deepest human-made hole on earth is 7.5 miles deep. See, the first one’s free. But then you start to feel the inevitable itch, begging, pleading with you to click and learn ever more fascinating tidbits.

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We almost got a Sofia Coppola adaptation of The Little Mermaid. Her version was supposed to adapt the original fairy tale, and she wanted to shoot underwater. They did some underwater shooting tests, but she left the project when too much money started pouring in, because she couldn't make the movie she wanted to make. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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In Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Ego's planet is based on fractal artwork. The filmmakers brought on Hal Tenny, who makes Mandelbrot set art, as a visual consultant. They based much of Ego's core, landscape, and the structures on the planet, on his concepts. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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Koala fingerprints are nearly identical to human ones. At one point, Australian authorities were even concerned that koala fingerprints might have messed up criminal investigations. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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The deepest man-made hole on Earth is 7.5 miles deep. It's the USSR's Kola Superdeep Borehole, and its deepest part is nine inches in diameter but reaches a third of the way down the continental crust. One of the Borehole researchers' most amazing finds was two-billion-year-old rocks with intact organic compounds inside. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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The Avengers: Endgame plot grew out of a throwaway comment. The Russo brothers couldn't figure out what to do with Thanos, as he was super powerful and could beat the Avengers easily. One day, producer Trinh Tran said Kind of really wish we could just kill him, which gave the Russos a totally new idea. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Fascinating Facts

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In the early 19th century, West Point's 1st year curriculum was just math and French. The best math textbooks at the time were in French, so students had to learn the language first. And they needed math because they were all military engineers -- West Point was the first engineering school in the U.S. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Facts

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In Australia, there's a fire that started burning before the pyramids were built. A coal seam under the surface of Mount Wingen began smoldering 6,000 years ago, and hasn't stopped since. It's the world's oldest continuous coal fire. X NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Facts

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C.J. Jones, who played Baby's deaf foster father in Baby Driver, is himself deaf. A bunch of hearing actors auditioned for the part after Jones did, but watching their auditions was very difficult for Wright after he'd seen Jones. Не says he couldn't give the part to someone else when a deaf actor can do it, so he just gave it to Jones. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Facts

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In 2020, a New Zealand town banded together to save a cat. Rodney had been a fixture at a local store in Marton, New Zealand, until a staff member apparently drove him about 9 miles out of town and left him there. Locals were outraged and spent a month looking for Rodney, eventually finding him on a nearby farm. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Facts

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The Diplomoceras Maximum

A giant paperclip-like creature roamed the seas 68 million years ago. Diplomoceras maximum was about five feet long, similar to a squid, and had a shell shaped like a paperclip. D. maximum's lifespan might have been 200 years, and it grew a new rib on its shell each year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Facts

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In First Man, they recorded the sound of Ryan Gosling's breathing with a real lunar helmet. Gosling breathed through the helmet worn by Apollo 16 astronaut John Young. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Facts

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The San Diego ZOO has the world's first frozen zoo. FROZEN ZOO EN DURA-GYL NITROGEN It stores the living tissues and stem cells of over a thousand animal species in freezers (like the facility in Jurassic Park, just not for dinosaurs). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Facts

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Troy

Eric Bana made $550 off Brad Pitt in Troy. They had an agreement that they'd pay each other for hits during training for their fight scene - - 550 for minor ones, and $100 for major ones. Eric Bana apparently got a whacking, because Pitt had to pay him $750 while he had to pay Pitt $200. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Facts

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It

In It, when Pennywise's eyes look in opposite directions, that's not an effect. Bill Skarsgård can really do that with his eyes, so he did it in the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies, Science, And History Now-You-Know Facts

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The Star Spangled Banner

The Star Spangled Banner only became the U.S. national anthem in 1931. THE Chores STAR SPANGLED BANNER Fing - Boos that efter spengled Besser - O'se LA . PARIOTIC SONG, Baltimure. Printed tid et CARRS Music Store Air 36 Ane Baltimore Bear Street - The kcal 3 and nest 2 the der the dialy throughtle Where wwore Carb boughty E have - 1 And shere when dear healt - - the . - Seoul Whe ميلاط Love - very - مع extelly More M - Between leade There that - ..... and المبر the book Ead - - Now OF — Source: 13 Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects Now-You-Know Facts

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Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, playing a board game is part of getting your driver's license. TRAFFIC POLICE VEHICLE EXAMINATION 1 Y STATION CENTRE CHECK GAS 3 R TRAFFIC CHECK A CHECK I VEHICLE CHECK U DIRECTION I 40 I CHECK VEHICLE N CHOICE . PARKING LOT RAILWAY CROSSING ALLOW TRAIN TO CROSS MILLTI-LANE CHOICE Applicants have to play Driver's Way (which involves rolling dice, moving car models on a board, and answering + questions about road laws) at least once before their actual driving test. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects Now-You-Know Facts

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Step Brothers showcases Will Ferrell's and John C. Reilly's musical talents. UPTOWN GiRL In the scene at the Catalina Wine Mixer where Reilly's character plays drums and Ferrell's sings, the actors are really doing that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects Now-You-Know Facts

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The Super Bowl

The bathrooms at the Super Bowl use more water than passes over Niagara Falls every second. MEN WOMEN IN OUT I ST: n It's almost a million gallons. That's used, among other things, for flushing the 8,000 gallons of urine produced. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects Now-You-Know Facts

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It looks like sharks and swordfish fight brutal undersea duels. In the Mediterranean, since September 2016, at least seven dead sharks have washed up with a swordfish's sword broken off in their body. Scientists theorize they might be fighting for dwindling food in the overfished Mediterranean waters. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects Now-You-Know Facts

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Mark Hamill's phone number is in A New Hope. In the trash compactor scene, he was supposed to just say a long serial number, so he wanted it to be his own phone number. But Harrison Ford got the line instead, and he started saying his own number. Hamill nagged him to say his, Hamill's, so Ford did that and told him Happy now, you big baby? NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects Now-You-Know Facts

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Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe's agent wanted Maximus' death in Gladiator to be fake. Не pitched Gladiator 2 as a movie that would start with Maximus' body being taken behind the arena on a stretcher, then Maximus would get up and high-five the people carrying him, saying Hey, it worked. That way, Crowe could do the sequel. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects Now-You-Know Facts

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The Andean condor glides 99% of the time it's airborne. It flaps its wings only 1% of the time, and it's the heaviest soaring bird in the world. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects Now-You-Know Facts

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The WAP music video spent $100,000 just on Covid testing. Every single person on the shoot had to get tested. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects Now-You-Know Facts

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Richard the Lionheart took over an island because he felt offended. On his way to a crusade, some of his ships were wrecked near Cyprus, and Isaac Comnenos, the self-styled Emperor of Cyprus, pillaged them. Не also insulted Richard's favorite sister and his bride-to-be, which enraged Richard and led him to conquer Cyprus and overthrow Comnenos. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects Now-You-Know Facts

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