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5 unusual facts about cracked


BriTANicK

The group's videos have been featured on major internet video sites including YouTube, CollegeHumor, Cracked, Break, and FunnyOrDie.

Cracked.com

In early 2005, then Cracked owner Dick Kulpa sold the magazine to a group of investors who announced plans to revive a print version of Cracked with a new editorial focus and redesign.

Techno-Cracked

Flip makes his robot out of household parts but gives it a Jack-o'-lantern for a head.

The Church of Lazlo

Lazlo likes to have guest stars on the show and weekly interviews Soren Bowie of Cracked.com for the buzz on whats interesting, Matt Atchity from Rottentomatoes.com to find out what movies to see that weekend, and other various characters they find on the internet that are of interest to talk to.

Tracey Forbes

In 2012/2013, she co-created, wrote and executive produced the TV drama series "Cracked" on CBC in Canada.


1867 Manhattan, Kansas earthquake

Isolated reports from Iowa and Missouri, describing fallen and cracked plaster in Dubuque and Chillicothe, compliment additional reports of fallen plaster and roof shingles, damaged wells, and cracked walls.

Asus

In September 2008, PC Pro discovered through a reader that Asus had accidentally shipped laptops that contained cracked and pirated software.

Bill Davis Racing

By 1998 the #22 team cracked the top ten in the final Winston Cup points standings and matched those results in 1999 (by which time Caterpillar, Inc. was sponsoring the team) and 2000, when the team finally returned to victory lane at the spring Darlington race.

Carl Wanderer

The case was cracked in part by famed Chicago-based reporter and future screenwriter Ben Hecht, of the Chicago Daily News and reporter and future playwright Charles MacArthur of the Chicago Examiner.

Colonel Kurt Von Strohm

To increase his pension, he also plans to sell the well known vase with the big daisys by Vincent van Gogh (or "The Cracked Vase With The Big Daisies"), which was found in the café.

Combination lock

Early combination padlocks made by Master Lock could be cracked by pulling on the shackle of the lock and turning the dial until it stopped; each numeral in the combination could be revealed in this manner.

Dodge Neon SRT-4

The SRT4 engine had many improvements, including: stronger crank case webbing, a thicker deck with 11 mm head bolts (vs 10 mm), an oil drain back for the turbo, a cast aluminum structural oil pan, a higher capacity oil pump, a crankshaft of higher hardness steel, improved machining of bearing journals, oil squirters (to cool underside of pistons), eutectic aluminum alloy pistons made specially by Mahle, and forged connecting rods with cracked caps and 9 mm bolts.

Emil Josef Diemer

He became less interested in chess, and increasingly interested in Nostradamus, the famous 16th century French clairvoyant: he claimed to have cracked Nostradamus's secret code, and over 25 years, is said to have mailed over 10,000 letters on the subject.

Etiquette in technology

For example, Paris Hilton's Sidekick PDA was cracked in 2005, resulting in the publication of her private photos, SMS history, address book, etc.

Flake ice

This ice is sub-cooled down to -7°C in order to make it brittle, then cracked off by a harvesting blade.

Great Sasuke

He is said to have an incredible tolerance for pain, mainly in reference to the injuries he has had including a cracked skull on two occasions.

Heliocybe

Heliocybe sulcata typically fruits on decorticated, sun-dried and cracked wood, such as fence posts and rails, vineyard trellises in Europe, branches in slash areas, and semi-arid areas such on sagebrush or on naio branches in rain shadow areas of Hawaii, or in open pine forests.

Henry Boucha

Boucha was enjoying a solid year in his home state when he was involved in a highly publicized stick incident with Dave Forbes of the Boston Bruins in 1975 which left him with a cracked bone around his eye and blurred vision.

Ivan Klisanin

Klisanin has produced two albums with the New Orleans indie rock band Rotary Downs (Chained to the Chariot and Cracked Maps and Blue Reports).

Jay Pinkerton

In addition to Cracked, Pinkerton’s work has also appeared on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Modern Humorist, CollegeHumor.com and numerous other sites.

Juniperus deppeana

The bark is usually very distinctive, unlike other junipers, hard, dark gray-brown, cracked into small square plates superficially resembling Alligator skin; it is however sometimes like other junipers, with stringy vertical fissuring.

Lactarius rufulus

The surface characteristics of many species in section Thejogali (as defined by Hesler and Smith in 1979) are called rimulose-areolate (irregularly cracked, with the cracks crossing one another) based on a surface with "numerous mounds of inflated cells" paired together with crevices.

Larry Elgart

The instrumental was a medley of swing jazz hits - "In the Mood", "Cherokee", "American Patrol", "Sing, Sing, Sing", "Don't Be That Way", "Little Brown Jug", "Opus #1", "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart", and "String of Pearls" - that became so popular it even cracked the US Billboard Pop Singles chart (at #31) and Adult Contemporary chart (#20).

Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway

In 1965 0-6-0 PT 1607 of Llanelli shed 87F was purchased by the National Coal Board and worked at Cynheidre Colliery until 1969 when it was condemned with a cracked frame, and was subsequently scrapped on site.

Lonnie Smith

However, in 1989, he cracked the starting line-up for the Braves' outfield, and he went on to accomplish one of his best baseball seasons, ever.

Master with Cracked Fingers

Madacy released the film with the title Master with Cracked Finger (singular) in 1996, and later in a twin video pack along with Fantasy Mission Force (2000).

Naujoji Vilnia

In August the same year Lithuanian authorities cracked down on this initiative on the grounds that Polish leaders in the area had supported the failed August Putsch in Moscow.

New Madrid Seismic Zone

The quake damaged virtually all buildings in Charleston, creating sand volcanoes by the city, cracked a pier on the Cairo Rail Bridge and toppled chimneys in St. Louis, Missouri, Memphis, Tennessee, Gadsden, Alabama and Evansville, Indiana.

Oops Upside Your Head

(Humpty Dumpty) "Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall/Humpty Dumpty had a great fall...I say he cracked on the whack!"

Pakistan Forex Scam Case

In November 2008, the government sought support from Interpol with whose help the FIA cracked down all over Pakistan searching for persons involved in illegal smuggling of US dollars outside Pakistan.

Prevention of Terror Ordinance

In 1994, when Kach activist Baruch Goldstein committed the suicidal Hebron massacre, the Rabin government cracked down on the group's activities, as the Shabak increased its surveillance of activists, and leading figures such as Noam Federman, Baruch Marzel, and Itamar Ben-Gvir were put under house arrest.

Sarai Banjara train disaster

The accident started when a cracked rail on the line between Mandi Gobindgarh and Rajpura in Punjab derailed a large freight train at 5.40am without causing any injuries.

Sophie Blanchard

Charles Dickens commented "The jug goes often to the well, but is pretty sure to get cracked at last".

Stv.tv

Amongst the most viewed videos on the site are networked soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale alongside regional programmes produced by STV themselves, including the comedy dramas High Times and Cracked, game show Postcode Challenge and documentary series The Merchant Navy.

The Grave Diggers

In 1985 they released the self recorded "Monsters At Play" EP on Mark Lee Goodale's Bobbette Records to follow years later in 1987 with "Move It" a full length LP released on Infamous raunch autourist Crypt Records with artwork provide by Cracked Magazines Mort Todd.

Tom Fuller Band

The follow-up recording “Abstract Man” was released in 2009, and the track "Only in America" cracked the top 10 in US FMQB Radio Chart AC Format (sharing the honour with Coldplay, Kid Rock and Maroon 5).


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