People did not eat whole bananas (sliced them instead) and did not display bananas, because the fruits looked so phallic

Andrew Preston of the Boston Fruit Company launched a campaign to counter this, with postcards showing women eating bananas in a non-erotic manner www.cracked.com/article_3709...

Tetris creators Alexey Pajitnov and Vladimir Pokhilko moved from the USSR to the US. Pajitnov is still alive and made more games. Pokhilko killed himself, his wife and his son. www.cracked.com/article_3331...

The story got an update this month. The two pleaded guilty, and a judge rejected the plea, calling the maximum prison sentence of 240 months too lenient. www.cracked.com/article_4080...

Rather than opening stored files, the app is designed for playing purchased content. However, it also does not let you purchase content. It used to, apparently, but it no longer does.

Every time it runs, Windows Audio crashes and must be manually restarted from Services.msc.

There is one app on Windows that displays Dolby color: Movies & TV. It offers no option to open files. Meaning, it has no "open" button anywhere, or title bar, and ctrl+O does nothing.

But if you right-click the file, pick "open with" and navigate to Movies & TV, it plays it.

If the article reads as very scattered and confused, remember that January 2021 was a scattered and confused time, and we were all hungover. Marjorie Taylor Greene had just filed an article of impeachment against Joe Biden. www.cracked.com/article_2947...

Still, it wasn't exactly a fortune, given the situation. Jack's ticket giving him a bed in third class cost almost twice that.

The Titanic's parlor suites, meanwhile, each cost $130,000 in today's money, and Cal booked three of them.

This would be more obvious if we described efficiency in gallons-per-mile (or gallons-per-hundred-miles).

When you think about it, gallons-per-mile is what you really care about it. www.cracked.com/article_4467...

Hitler was nominated for the Peace Prize, but only satirically.

If you heard Hitler got nominated and assumed this was genuine, don't feel bad. Some people back then thought that too, and they responded by canceling lectures from the guy who nominated him www.cracked.com/article_3984...

Some people think poison ivy is contagious, or at least that scratching it spreads it from one part of your skin to another.

But poison ivy rashes are an allergic reaction, and the rash doesn't contain the allergen. So, touching the rash can't spread it. www.cracked.com/article_4525...

"But what if, instead of food for their children, parents buy crack?!"

If they like crack that much, they'd also launder their EBT cards into cash, and use that to buy crack. At least direct money lets them buy that crack more efficiently, leaving more cash leftover for food.

If the sole goal is instead to help needy people, the government should eliminate SNAP and replace it with direct payments, of money.

"But what if people spend the money suboptimally?!" That's their problem, not yours.