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Star Wars

An unaltered 35mm print of Star Wars resides in the Library of Congress. CRACKED.COM The Library of Congress in the US has the unadulterated 35mm print of Star Wars submitted to them in 1977 for copyright, and anyone can watch the 4K restoration by prior appointment. This is the closest you can get to reliving the experience of seeing the film in theaters for the first time. — Mashable

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Ashton Kutcher

CRACKED.COM Ashton Kutcher's first job was at General Mills as a cereal dust sweeper. — Source: 28 Celebrities That Held Surprising Jobs

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Zach Braff

N. Joshua is Zach Braff's older brother and a writer. Не has published three books, four anthologies, and multiple short stories. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Aviator

CRACKED LEONARDO DICAPRIO The Aviator The Aviator is a biographical film about Howard Hughes, an eccentric billionaire with OCD symptoms. The movie follows his life as he deals with classic contamination-related fears and compulsions while also exhibiting traits not typically associated with the disorder such as risk taking and promiscuity. — Source

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Scut Farkus

Movie Bullies A Christmas Story SCUT FARKUS This little redheaded snot scares Ralphie and his friends with his braces, cackling laugh, and terrifying yellow eyes. Ralphie eventually snaps and kicks the freckles out of Scut, because a man can only take so much. That is the true meaning of Christmas, kids: bloody vengeance. CRACKED.COM

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Kiss

GRACKED.COM THE FBI KEPT FILES ON... KISS The FBI report from 1980 includes a request of more information on the civil unrest caused by the band, especially over an instance in Texas that included attacks on police. A follow-up response assures that no such thing ever happened. Except maybe in Ohio, during a stampede...for a concert for The Who. — Source

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William Hayes

GRACKED MERMAIDS ARE REAL WILLIAM HAYES This LA Rams player believes in mermaids, apparently. I remember him getting really excited about the potential for moving out here because he knew he would be closer to mermaids here on the West Coast, his coach said. — NFL / Sporting News

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Saved by the Bell

23-YEAR- EMPLOYER 17-YEAR-OLD EMPLOYEE SAVED BY THE BELL'S CLASSIC THE LAST DANCE WAS THE EPIC STORY OF KELLY BREAKING UP WITH ZACK FOR JEFF. WHILE

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Doom

CRACKED.COM THE NEW DOOM WAS ALMOST A CALL OF DUTY CLONE. Before the DOOM reboot brought new life to the FPS genre in 2016, the developers spent years working on DOOM 4, which was essentially Call of Duty with demons. Luckily, the company saw the light on time and pulled a 180, bringing the game back to its roots. HR — Source

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KFC

KFC bath bombs KFC x VILLAGE VONGUARD - dock - GRACKED.COM In 2017, KFC Japan offered bath bombs that would make your skin smell just like the decadent fried flesh offered by your favorite poultry murder syndicate. — Source

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The Hunger Games

AT THE END OF THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY- PART 2, KATNISS AND PEETA ENJOY THEIR LIFE TOGETHER WITH THEIR TWO KIDS. Living up to the COol aunt ster — Yahoo!

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Super Bowl

13 Little Things You Didn’t Know About Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects - The bathrooms at the Super Bowl use more water than passes — Source: ESPN

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Primer

TIME TRAVEL MOVIES PRIMER THE MOVIE COST 7,000 TO MAKE. Only five people worked on the film, with Shane Carruth acting as director, writer, producer, editor, designer, composer, and protagonist. To call Primer an indie film is truly an understatement. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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Hula Burger

MCDONALD'S released the HULA BURGER. M It consisted of PINEAPPLE between 2 cheese slices. It was introduced as a meat alternative for Catholics that could not eat red meat on Fridays. Ultimately, it was a terrible idea and the Filet-O-Fish was popularized. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Nanny

CRACKED.COM The Nanny isn't Jewish in Italy. If you ever saw The Nanny (and you most likely did if you lived through the '90s), then you know that being Jewish was a huge part of Fran Drescher's character. Which makes it particularly odd that the Italian dub turns her into a Roman Catholic hailing from Italy, for some reason. — Source

25

Aliens

Aliens (1986) James Cameron and his then-wife and collaborator Gale Anne Hurd fought to have Sigourney Weaver star in the sequel. Fox studio was reluctant to insist on Weaver returning for the sequel because it could've caused her agent to inflate the asking price. Cameron and Hurd quit, and only came on board again after Fox agreed to cast Weaver. CRACKED.COM — L.A.Times

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The Suicide Squad

THE SUICIDE SQUAD There's a small TV in the prison scene that's screening The Toxic Avenger in the background. CRACKED.COM — James Gunn on Twitter

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The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption inspired a dance program at a Filipino jail. In the movie, Andy Dufresne plays an aria to inmates over the loudspeaker- which gave Byron F. Garcia, security advisor at a prison in Cebu, the Philippines, the idea to play Queen's Another One Bites the DuSt for inmates. — Source: Refinery 29

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Sandman

Things that Guillermo del Toro almost did sandman The Netflix series has removed Guillermo Del Toro's chances of directing any adaptation... for now. CRACKED.COM

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The Karate Kid

Plot Holes CRACKED The Karate Kid Daniel manages to beat his rival Johnny Lawrence with a kick to the head, even though they had agreed at the beginning of the fight that no head shots were allowed. — Columbia Pictures
The Independent

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Bruce Banner

CRACKED COM Putting too many credentials on one character forces me to realize they're actually fictional. What purpose did Banner have in obtaining s

19

Mean Girls 2

MEAN GIRLS 2 CRACKED.COM Be honest, did you know there was a Mean Girls 2? Premiering on ABC Family, then direct-to-video, the few unfortunate viewers saw a reboot with worse characters, and no connection to the original (other than Tim Meadows as the principal). — Source: Buzzfeed

18

Dune

Give us a song, Gurney. In Dune, this is what Paul tells Josh Brolin's Gurney to get out of a knife fight with him. In the book-and what Part 1 left out - Gurney Halleck plays the baliset, a fictional instrument that's a cross between a sitar and a mandolin. Scenes with Gurney holding the instrument were filmed but ultimately cut. CRACKED.COM — Source: Den of Geek

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The Ring

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Evil Dead

Evil Dead Real ammo was used. Since the groundling filmmakers didn't have the money or know-how to get blanks, the shotgun blasts were done with actual ammunition. CRACKED.COM — Mental Floss

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Aragorn

LORD OF THE RINGS FILMS Aragorn's buttons were embellished with the tree of Gondor, according to the costume designer. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Olivia Munn

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM OLIVIA MUNN USED TO BE A FAN WHO WAS TOTALLY OBSESSEDWITH JOHN MULANEY. At one point, they were both at a wedding and, she says she kept going up to him at the wedding like 'So, you having fun?' I was just so obsessed with hanging out with and talking with him. — Source

13

The Goonies

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES The Goonies DO GREMLINS EXIST IN THE GOONIES UNIVERSE? The cop dismisses Chunk's call with, Just like that last prank about all those little creatures that multiply when you throw water on them? Both movies were written by Chris Columbus. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Jeff Dunham

Jeff Dunham has the Batmobile. A ventriloquist getting ahold of the Batmobile sounds like a Batman plot, but that's what happened. Dunham bought the prop from Tim Burton's Batman, put a Corvette engine in it, and turned it into a real car that can be driven around. — Source: Comic Book

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Jude Law

Jude Law's sister Natasha is an accomplished painter. She has done fiVE art exhibitions that travelled all over the world. CRACKED COM

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Pharrell

Pharrell's 24-hour music video. ISE 08:57AM AM 08 SHARE THIS MOMENT Directed by We Are from LA, the full length version of Pharrell's 2014 hit Happy is 24 hours long. It filmed hundreds of regular people and celebrities dancing to the song overll days of shooting and 42 separate locations around L.A. CRACKED — Source

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Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton Was Awful to Her Own Children CRACKED.COM The creator of the Noddy series of books may have created fanciful worlds for other children, but her own daughter described her as lacking even a trace of maternal instinct, keeping her and her sister shut away in a nursery that she rarely visited except to yell at them. Oh, and her books were also deeply racist. — The Guardian

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Succession

CRACKED THE UNDEFINABLE SUCCESSION Technically a drama, but the zingers add up to sitcom status for sure, right? Those icky, sadistic jokes rival Todd Phillips' Joker, the constant scheming feels like a spy thriller, and one could compare it to the feuding rich to family on the '80s soap opera Dallas. — HBO
GQ

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Ben Stiller

BEN STILLER IS A HUGE TREKKIE. Stiller's film company Red Hour Films is named after the red hour' from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode The Retur of the Archons.' He also regularly references Star Trek in his movies. — Nerdist

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George Clooney

FANS AREN'T THE ONLY ONES WHO HATE BATMAN AND ROBIN. George Clooney also thinks the movie was a disaster, and he says he apologizes for it every chanc

5

Super Soaker

A former NASA scientist who helped develop stealth bombers invented the Super Soaker. NERF Super THE Soaker CRACKED.COM Lonnie G.Johnson eventu- ally licensed his design to Larami Corporation, later acquired by Hasbro. Не made so much money that he was able to fund his own research and develop- ment company. — Source

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Jaws 3

Jaws 3 was almost a comedy written by John Hughes. CRACKED.COM Universal Pictures near- ly greenlit the sequel, called, Jaws 3, People 0. Instead, they made Jaws 3-D, which bombed with critics and at the box office. — Source

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Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut delivered a pizza to space. Pizza-Hut The company paid $1 million for the promotional gesture of sending pizza to the International Space Station. The pizza had salami instead of pepperoni due to the meat's shelf-life. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

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Karen Gillian

DOCTOR WHO Karen Gillian Before becoming the 11th Doctor's companion, she had a bit part in the same episode that Peter Capaldi did.

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Vin Diesel

Back when Vin Diesel was still a struggling actor, he made a short film about a (surprise) struggling actor, called Multi-Facial. Steven Spielberg saw

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