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Uncle Rico legitimately gave Napoleon Dynamite two black eyes.

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Puddle of Mudd

PUDDLE OF MUDD's REHEARSAL SPACE WAS TURNED INTO A LITERAL PUDDLE OF MUD. The band wound up naming itself after the flood that soaked the entire first floor of their rehearsal space, which was located next to the Missouri River. CRACKED.COM http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Puddle_of_Mudd.aspx — 29 Bizarre True Stories Behind the Most Popular Music Ever

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Music

Your heartbeat will sync to music. Some scientists believe this phenomenon can even benefit your cardiovascular health. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Amazing Spider-Man

CRACKED.COM Deleted scenes The Amazing spider-Man The Lizard forces two high school girls into a corner in a bathroom he bursts into. Then he licks one before running away to fight the hero. It isn't great. — More: 10 Deleted Scenes That Would've Ruined The Film

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Bruce Forsyth

Bruce Forsyth was a Neopet TM The bow-tied British game host was one of the original Neopet options. His character eventually evolved into a penguin, still with a bow tie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mario Kart

M Mario Kart wasn't supposed to be a Mario game. Nintendo was simply trying to create a two-player racing game. A few months into development, they decided to put Mario's face on one of the racers to see what it would look like from the other car, and they liked it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Prometheus

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Lord of the Rings

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Got When We Sat on the Wrong Guy’s Lap at the Mall — Watch the clip here

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Paul R. Williams

Paul R. Williams was an architect who designed for Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball. Не learned to draw upside down because many white clients weren't comfortable sitting next to a Black man. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nikola Tesla

CRACKED PHYSICS IN GENERAL IS WRONG NIKOLA TESLA Nikola Tesla thought that space was flat, that atoms couldn't be broken apart, and that he had discovered something that could travel faster than light, even though it turned out he was wrong about all of these things. — IFL Science / History Biography

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Aliens

Aliens (1986) Actor William Hope got a lot of flak for playing Lieutenant Gorman. A friend of mine did two tours in Vietnam, and he was furious. He saw the movie and said, You call yourself a fuckin' Marine?!' But my passion is acting. I couldn't care less about that — Empire Online

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Esurance

Remember Erin, the Esurance mascot? The company axed her from its commercials because fans kept creating and posting Erin porn.

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Gwyneth Paltrow

WEIRD WORLD Gwyneth Paltrow backed a crypto miner, and it crashed right off the bat. Not long after TeraWulf Inc., a crypto mining company, went public, its shares dropped 40% on Nasdaq. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bee Movie

Bee Movie was inspired by a random joke Jerry Seinfeld once told at dinner. At a dinner with Spielberg, to fill the silence, Seinfeld said that a movie about bees called B-movie would be funny-- that got Spielberg really excited. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Globe And Mail

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Thor: Ragnarok

VILLAIN: Hela, Ruler of Hel MOVIE: Thor: Ragnarok VILLAINV: Smashed Thor's hammer, tried to kill Thor, and conquered Asgard. BUT WAIT! Hela was traine

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Goldfinger

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Got When We Sat on the Wrong Guy’s Lap at the Mall — Source: 25 Special Effects Which Were Straight Practical

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Uncle Rico

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Elvis Costello

ELVIS COSTELLO'S RADIO RADIO PERFORMANCE ON SNL. CRACKED In 1977, Lorne told him not to play Radio Radio because it was critical of corporate broadcasting. Не initially agreed, but played it anyway, and was banned! Critical of corporate broadcasting? Oooh, scandalous! — Goliath / Pitchfork

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Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis CRACKED COM We've had false alarms before, but his current retirement, effective since 2017, seems pretty permanent. He released a statement that he will no longer be working as an actor, nor would he make any further comment on this subject. — Source: People

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Sarah Jessica Parker

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Bane

CRAGKEDCOM Think Bane's coat was just grabbed off the Big and Evil rack? Think again! It took 2 years to make and involved the delicate combination of

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Frasier

YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE HIM FROM COMMERCIALS. Moose starred alongside Seinfeld star Jason Alexander in a Rold Gold pretzel commercial. CRACKED COM

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Nick Thune

Nick Thune CRACKED.COM My Dad always wants to go there whenever I tell him I'm depressed. I want to open up a restaurant and name it I don't care so I can finally go to the place my girlfriend is always talking about. — ParamountPlus

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Audiobooks

Audiobook narrators may only have one night to review. That means you may only be able to scan the book once before your performance. It's important that voice actors research words that describe vocal attributions, are hard to pronounce, or indicate accents before they record. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Monster Bash

MONSTER BASH RIP 1801 1923 Johnny, armed with a slingshot and rocks, took on zombies in a graveyard. It was an appropriate yet fun game for us kids with macabre sensibilities. CRACKED

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Clerks

Kevin Smith's original ending for Clerks was extremely grim and brutal. Try for price. Stay Cambridge AMERICAN POR LESS Try for price. pendige - Car for - PARA Laste, 1.50- In that ending, Dante Hicks would get murdered by a robber, and the movie's last shot would be of Dante's dead body lying on the ground. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Empire State Building

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Arrested Development

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Clifford

Clifford The Big Red Dog - We doubt anyone involved in this movie survived unscarred. Just look at their faces and tell US they look like this crap won't haunt their dreams forever. — Source: BuzzFeed

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Merry Christmas

Many Victorians were against saying Merry Christmas. To Victorians, the word merry entailed all manner of drunken debauchery. So the pious (and the stuffy) decided that wishing others a Happy Christmas was more Christ-like. The two greetings co-existed until the 1840s. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Spider-Man

HOW YOU HAD BEEN POISONED WITH SPIDER-MAN: REIGN RADIOACTIVITY! HOW YOUR BODY SLOWLY BECAME RIDDLED REVEALS THAT WITH CANCER! MARY JANE DIED OF RADIATION POISONING I DID. FROM SPIDEY'S I WAS...I AM FILLED WITH RADIOACTIVE TOXIC SPERM. BLOOD. IN THE STORY, SPIDEY IS AN OLD MAN EXPRESSING HIS REGRETS TO MARY JANE'S CORPSE. AND NOT JUST BLOOD. EVERY FLUID. LOVING ME... TOUCHING ME... LOVING ME KILLED YOU! GRACKED.COM Spider-MantReign 2006 — Source: 28 Cringeworthy Comic Book Storylines the Movies Left Out

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Anime

/SEN-pie/ senpai If you watch anime (or have been on the internet at all), you know that senpai will never notice you. In Japan, a senpai is a senior

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Harley Davidson

The all-American icon Harley Davidson actually ... isn't made in the USA. That is, many of its parts are from abroad - suspension components come from Japan, brake parts from Italy, wheels from Australia, and so on. CRACKED.COM — Source

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David Bowie and Peter Frampton

David Bowie and Peter Frampton were childhood friends. They both went to Bromley Technical High School, where younger Frampton would sit in on Bowie's jam sessions. Bowie introduced him to the music of Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran. In their early years, Bowie would open for Humble Pie, and later, Bowie asked Frampton to join him on tour, when he was the more famous one. CRACKED.COM — Source: Billboard

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William Fichtner

William Fichtner is a wonderful character actor who should be getting more roles. He is usually cast in secondary parts of movies and tv shows, but he

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Master and Commander

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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Smart Dumb Comedies Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. All three Bill & Teds are awesome odes to healthy male friendship, but the 1989 original deserves even more love. Seriously, if you know anything about people like Socrates and Freud, then the scenes with them actually hit the spot. You don't see that in many slacker comedies. CRACKED.COM — Source: Scene on YouTube

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Jaws

IN CRACKEDCON JAWS ROBERT SHAW DID 5O TAKES ASSEMBLING THE GREENER GUN. THE REASON? DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG HAD TO KEEP EVERYONE BUSY WHILE THE SHAR

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Blade Runner

A fight scene got cut from Blade Runner. When Deckard and Gaff search an apartment and find the snake scale, they were supposed to pull down a Murphy bed from the wall, releasing a replicant hiding inside who would fight them. There was no money for it, though. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

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Danny Trejo

Danny Trejo His uncle got him into marijuana at eight, and since then, he was in and out of prison over taking drugs. And dealing drugs. And committin — Source: BBC

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Roger Ebert

CRACKED VS. Versus Others ROGER EBERT ROTTEN TOMATOES EMOJI THE MOVIE When Spike Lee's Do The Right To circumvent Rotten critic Thing wasn't nominated for Best scores for their films, some Picture in 1990, Ebert and Siskel studios have used embargoes to were livid as they both believed it prevent RT's influence on their was the movie of the year. They Box Office sales. But cinephiles criticized the Academy for being can't be folled, and such old white men who didn't want to embargoes have since become talk about race relations, and red flags that, chances are, the said the voting — Sources: The Ringer, Vox, Mashable

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