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Hey Arnold!

Hey Arnold originally started out as a series of claymation shorts on Sesame Street. CRACKED.COM The show's creator, Craig Bartlet, got his start making cutaways for Pee-wee's Playhouse, starring Penny and her friend Arnold. 27% — NY Times

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McDonald’s

They Stiff Their Employees NOTE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THIS PEANS 1 82510451 В WASHINGTOK.INC. 3 DES 0451 3 1 - 1 ONEDOLAR GRAGKED.COM McDonald's and wage theft go to- gether like McDonald's and suspi- cious meat patties. In 2013, it was re- ported that 84% of New York City McDonald's employees earned less than their stated wages, and in 2019, the company paid its largest wage settlement ever - - $26 million --to California employees who say they weren't paid overtime or given prop- er breaks. — Salon

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Gilligan’s Island

Gilligan's Island is based on the seven deadly sins. Each one of the castaways symbolizes a sin: Skipper is Anger, Professor is Pride, Ginger is Lust, and so on. That's not a fan theory or anything, it's how creator Sherwood Schwartz conceived of the characters. CRACKED.COM — The 7 Most WTF Origins of Iconic Pop Culture Franchises

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J.K. Rowling

Cribs of the rich and famous J. K. Rowling's haunted mansion Rowling's more famous abode, Killiechassie, is said to have a Celtic water spirit haunting it. Hopefully not an antisemitic, transphobic one. CRACKED.COM — Source: Harry Potter Places Book Five — Scotland, by C. D. Miller

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Fictional Characters

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Swallow Hook, Line and Sinker — Source: EurekAlert

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Baseball

Baseballs injure over 1700 fans per season! You probably think it's hilarious to see someone getting hit by a foul ball, but it could lead to serious

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Jeopardy!

In Jeopardy!, all the contestants are standing on adjustable platforms. $3,000 $29,600 $3,400 ML Y Kocrin. That makes sure they're all roughly the same height on TV. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Baltimore Sun

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Peter Pan

CRACKED.COM Peter Pan wendy's daughter followed on her footsteps. After the events of the novel and play, Peter Pan comes to find an old Wendy - and her daughter Jane, whom he flits away to Neverland with. — Source: Disney Wiki

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Mel Brooks

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Swallow Hook, Line and Sinker — Source: TCM

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Iron Man 2

FAW l In Iron Man 2, Tony has a YOLO moment and suddenly decides to drive his own race car. And whiplash is on the track, waiting for him. Can Whiplas

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Loki

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS MISS MINUTES ALMOST HAD A FIGHT SCENE. LOKI 0.0 According to director Kate Herron, a cut scene from the show involved Miss Minutes having an actual fight scene with Loki and Sylvie at the Citadel. Hopefully, we'll get to see what the TVA mascot is made of next season. CRACKED.COM — Marvel

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Ricky Williams

CRACKED Ricky Williams rides the couch. Не said, Back in 2004, I retired to smoke weed. Overall it was to help care for himself (which cannabis helped with), but his weed usage lost him $10 million in salary and endorsements. — Miami New Times

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Skyrim

In Skyrim, you can put a basket over a merchant's head. A Stock Goat Cheese Wheel WEIGHT 2 VALUE 10 Then you can do some shoplifting. There are no penalties for the theft, either. In fact, there's no acknowledgement whatsoever-even if you're grabbing merchandise from the counter right in front of them. They can't see or hear you. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/bm/799MEOSk — 12 Glitches That Are The Best Part Of The Game

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Mark Cuban

An online pharmacy launched with over 100 generic drugs at affordable prices. Billionaire Mark Cuban is behind it, and he says his goal is to be radically transparent when it comes to negotiating prices with drug companies. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Pieces Of Positive News To Make The World Look Sunnier

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Spider-Man

Comic and Cartoon Food Aunt May's Wheat Cakes from Spider-Man I COOKED YOUR 100 MUCH, DEAR! I CAN FAVORITE BREAKFAST, HARDLY OUT-WRESTLE PETEY--WHEATCAKES HIM NOW! Before he got powered up by a radioactive spider bite, Peter Parker got powered up by his aunt's wheat cakes. There's got to be something tasty about them, given how fattening they apparently are. CRACKED.CON — Sources: The Yeti Speaks!, Frank Cho/Facebook, Marvel Daily Art/Twitter

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Skyscraper

Skyscraper was pretty much filmed without skyscrapers. D WAYNE JOH'NSO.N SKYSCRAPER JULY In the ads, The Rock hangs on for dear life hundreds of feet

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Kurt Vonnegut

The New Yorker thought the prose in Slaughterhouse-Five left something to be desired. A 1969 review called its deliberate simplicity... as hazardous

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Homeland

CRACKED.COM The background graffiti in Homeland's fifth season is a metaphorical middle finger. #blacklivesmatter Homeland is racist I A group of Arab street artists hired to decorate a refugee camp set with Arabic graffiti used the gig as an opportunity to make a point about their own and others' unhappiness with the show. They graffitied nothing but accusations against Homeland. The biggest joke is that nobody checked what their graffiti said before shooting. — Source: 13 Movie And TV Jokes You'll Miss If You Only Speak English

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Jackass 3-D

COMEDY NERD Jackass best stunts Duck Hunting From Jackass 3-D Because who doesn't want to float on a boat with their mates, shooting their other mates with paintball guns while they do some gnarly air flips over a river dressed as a giant duck? Immediately pitching this for our year end function. CRACKED.COM — Video

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Dr. Seuss’ Adult Comics

Non-interventionism as a convenient excuse to allow atrocities to happen to foreigners. ...and the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bo

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Boy Meets World

Boy Meets world Daniel Fishel didn't know how popular she was with the boys. As Topanga went from kooky weirdo to sexy, popular girl, Fishel didn't realize how many dudes have crushes on her. Had. Had crushes on her. CRACKED.COM — Source: Parade

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Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez

Celebrity Weddings Ariana Grande & Dalton Gomez Grande wore a Vera Wang (that Vera agreed to make at the Met Gala years before) as she married... a real estate agent? The wedding had less than 20 attendees in all, as she was married at home. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vogue

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The Wizard of Oz

Dorothy is lucky to have Glinda the Good Witch on her side. Except that she doesn't help or protect her at all. In The Wizard of Oz, Glinda has magica

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre may have been financed by the Mob. The porno Deep Throat was funded by a family with alleged Mob ties who strongarmed thea

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South Park

PILOTS THAT WERE WILDLY DIFFERENT SOUTH PARK THE SPIRITURES OF CHRISTMAS OM'S RHIN South Park's pilot: Way more musical, and designed to be the world's weirdest Christmas Card. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Pilots That Were Wildly Different from the Rest of the Show

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Dumbo

WHO WAS BILL TYTLA? DUMBO IS BASED ON TYTLA'S TODDLER SON. I don't know a damn thing about elephants, Tytla candidly fessed up. Most of the expressions and mannerisms I got from my kid. There's nothing theatrical about a two- year-old kid. They're real and sincere. — Source: Vladimir Tytla, Master Animator, by John Canemaker (via AnimationResources.org)

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Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey is the first actor to have three films reach number one at the box office in the same year. It was during 1994. The films were The Mask, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, & Dumb and Dumber. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fox Sports

Fox Sports superimposed the Yankees and Red Sox logos over the 9/11 memorial. CRACKED.COM Fox issued an apology for us- ing an iconic New York City landmark as the backdrop for a graphic on Saturday night's Baseball Night in America broadcast, calling it poor judgment. — USA Today

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Donnie Darko

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES AND MEANINGS DOnnie Darko The connection with The Dark Knight. GRA FREENE 'T FUCTORS In Donnie Darko, the class discusses Graham Greene's The Destructors which features a scene where children burn money because, as Donnie says they just want to see what happens when they turn the world apart. Christopher Nolan was a champion of the movie, and Joker uses the line in The Dark Knight, saying that he wants to see the world burn. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Cinemablend, Video clip

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Police Academy

CRACKEDC Lieutenant Harris is such a bully in Police Academy! Ruining cadets' fun with all his enforcing rules and standards nonsense! Only, that is h

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The Expanse

easter eggstra meanings and references THE Tattoos EXPANSE The production team incorporated Oksana and Josep's tattoos on each other to show how close they are. CRACKED.COM — Source: Twitter

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Breaking Bad

Laura Fraser claimed to speak fluent German. BREAKING BAD CRACKED.COM Fraser said Ja! to the first German question she was asked, which happened to be: Do you speak German? — Source: 20 Actors Who (May Have) Lied To Get The Part

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Sylvie the Enchantress

Dating Profiles of Magic Blondes Sylvie the Enchantress LOKI A timeline refugee hunting for meaning and purpose in a world that isn't her own. Magical claim to fame Daughter of Laufey, ruler of Jotunheim. Adopted by Odin Allfather. Trained by Freya, mother and witch. Confused sentient entropy. Created the Multiverse. Likes Kablooie, herself Dislikes Bureaucracy, Jonathan Majors CRACKED.COM

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X-Men

Magneto's mutant conversion machine increased the powers of every mutant caught in its field. X-MEN Though Professor X says that it appears that the m

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Pablo Escobar

Escobar's hippos are multiplying faster than rabbits. CRACKED.COM In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar brought four hippos to Colombia. Now, their population has grown to over 130 and could reach 400 in the next eight years. To help manage their numbers, Colombia is looking to move some of them to India and Mexico. — People

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Jason Hervey

The big brother from The Wonder Years used to be a PR shill. Jason Hervey (whom you might remember bullying Fred Savage) was in 2003 the head of PR at healthcare giant HealthSound. But when HealthSound got involved in a billion-dollar accounting scandal, Hervey sucked at his job of making the company look as good as possible. Не was eventually fired, so he sued them for $400,000. CRACKED.COM — Source

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LeVar Burton

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Swallow Hook, Line and Sinker — Source: Hollywood Reporter

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Liberty Belle

Patriotic Superheroes Liberty Belle will ring-a-ding every anti-American baddie. While she was later retconned and modernized, the original Liberty Belle got her super powers from the spirit of America after the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia was rung. Comic books, y'all. CRACKED.COM — Source: DC Database

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Guns N’ Roses

Look at Your Game, Girl, a bonus track from Guns N' Roses' 1993 album, The Spaghetti Incident?, was written by Charles Manson. GUNS N ROSES THE SPACHETEI INCIDENTE ONE OF you The song was in Manson's album Lie: The Love and Terror Cult. It was released in 1970 to help pay for his legal counsel. 23 years after its initial release, AXL Rose insisted that GN'R do a cover version of that song and include it in their album. Manson lost a lawsuit filed against him by one of his victim's family in 1971. The court ordered him to pay — 20 Eyebrow-Arching Authors Of Famous Songs

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Ewan McGregor

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Swallow Hook, Line and Sinker — Source: Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi in original Star Wars Trilogy (Shamook)

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