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January 18, 2025

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Diet Coke

Friends was almost destroyed by Coca-Cola. For Friends second season, Соса-Соӏа spent $30 million to promote Diet Coke with the help of the hip twenty-somethings. The campaign was huge - so huge, in fact, that people got sick of seeing the characters everywhere, and rankings plummeted. (They got better, though.) let CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSEDREINDEER CRACKED COM Santa is known as a kind, jolly old elf. Why does he act like such a jerk to Rudolph for being different?

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The Prestige

In THE PRESTIGE, when Alfred and Sarah first met, he shows her son the dissapearing bird trick. The boy starts crying, whimpering He killed itr Whe

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Ali Wong

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Ali Wong is a talking beer can. Coors PURE LIGHT BEER Wong the Coors Pure Light Beer Can encourages a beaten-down mom to take a swig--she's earned it by going on a half-hearted run. Hard to think of a more depressing tag line than Because you tried today. New Coors Pure. — Ad Age

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Cannes

Danish film director Lars von Trier made some intolerable statements about Hitler at the 2011 Cannes film festival. I understand Hitler... I sympathize with him... And he was immediately banned from the festival by the Cannes board of directors; the ban lasted SEVEN YEARS. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Aaron Paul

Aaron Paul was hilarious on The Price is Right. In 1999, a lovable ball of energy stormed down to contestant's row, called Bob Barker his idol, and had the audience in hysterics. Не got to the showcase showdown but lost when his bid was only $132 over the retail price. CRACKED — Source

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‘90s Movies

CRACKED VS BLOCKBUSTERS THE'90s TODAY CRACKED.COM Jurassic Park, Those Terminator, franchises are Alien, and still going, Predator movies and sequels but they kind dominated. of suck now. WINNER: '90S

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Mad Max: Fury Road

THE FLAMETHROWER GUITAR THAT DOOF WARRIOR PLAYS IN MAD MAX: FURY ROAD S0FC0 0000 WAS MADE FROM BEDPANS. Director George Miller explained, everything

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The Spy Who Loved Me

The plot of The Spy Who Loved Me was going to heavily feature acupuncture. Somehow, James Bond was going to use acupuncture skills to operate on the Queen of England to remove a bomb implanted into her body. CRACKED.COM — Source: New Statesman

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Vivian Kubrick

IN 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, FLOYD HAS A VIDEO CALL WITH HIS DAUGHTER SQUIRT. That young girl is Vivian Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick's daughter, whom he regu — Business Insider, TV Guide

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Pirates of the Caribbean

PIRATES Disney the of CHRIBBEAN CRACKED.COM Anamaria is a pirate who knew Jack Sparrow before the first movie, confronts him for stealing her ship, disguises herself as a man to join his crew and later takes control of the Black Pearl. She didn't appear again after the first film. Where is she now? — Source

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The Dark Knight

Hollywood Rumors and Myths EMERGEN Did Heath Ledger DENT improvise the hospital explosion scene in The Dark Knight? While Ledger's improvisational skills have been widely praised, the scene was actually planned and rehearsed. Special effects supervisor Chris Corbould worked with Nolan to come up with a scenario that would allow for the destruction of the building while keeping Ledger safe. CRACKED — Warner Bros.
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Seth Meyers

Seth Myers on drinking. This cutting sarcasm is what Weekend Update is all about. New studies show that heavy drinkers experi- ence damage to the part of their brain that processes emotion, which, if I'm not mistaken, is the point. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Cheezburger

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Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters got its name almost accidentally. Columbia couldn't get the rights to the name from Universal, since there was an old TV show called The Ghost Busters. By chance, an exec involved with the movie left Columbia during production and became head of Universal, and he let Columbia use the name. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Steam

37 percent of all registered Steam games have never been played. This equates to 288 million of the 781 million games registered on the platform (as of 2014). Meanwhile, Dota 2 players have accu- mulated 3,828,000,000 hours, which equals 456,000 years. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — PC Mag / Wikipedia

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Darlene Cates

CRACKED DARLENE CATES WENT FROM A DAYTIME TALK SHOW TO THE OSCARS. WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE? After seeing her on the Sally Jessy Raphael episode Too Heavy to Leave Their House, Peter Hedges wanted Cates to play Bonnie Grape. Depp called her performance without flaw, and DiCaprio called her the best acting mama I ever had. — Telegraph

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Megan Fox

CRACKED.COM Megan Fox was fired from Transformers: Dark of the Moon for a Hitler remark. In an interview in 2009, Fox said of director Michael Bay, Не wants to be like Hitler on his sets,and he is. Transformers series. producer Steven Spielberg told Bay to fire her right now. — Source

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Crime Show Myths

Cops don't investigate crime scenes. CENE DD NOT CROSS The people who collect and analyze the evidence do work for police departments, but they're not police officers rather, they're civilian technicians with no badge. CRACKED.COM — Deseret News

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Pez

Before they became the iconic dispensable candies of our collective childhood, R were originally invented in 1927 to be anti-smoking mints SUPER PEZ SUD - SUPER MINT aus CRACKED.COM — 22 Foods That Have Changed And Morphed Over Time

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Will Ferrell

COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM Will Ferrell in The Office Universe No but MADE TOES THUS WED FRI SAT OF WBLI - - New KITA health CA Y - - VISION The Office In The Merger Michael pays a tribute to Night at the Roxbury with Andy. However, When Will Ferrell joins the cast in season 7, Mlchael doesn't recognize him at all. Do you think Michael Scott and DeAngelo Vickers have seen Anchorman? — Source: 16 Plot Holes In 'The Office'

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Jessica Walters

JESSICA WALTERS WAS SLOWASINEDS-3HL-ONIH39 YELLED AT ON THE SET OF ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. CRACKED.COM After Jeffrey Tambor went off script and was improvising in a take, Walters tried to reset the scene and take it from the top - her being a more traditional actress. Tambor went off on her and she apologized, but she was clearly shaken, later saying it was the first time she was yelled at like that on set. — Source

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Marilyn Monroe

WROVG AGAIIV If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe No one knows who actually said this, but it wasn't Ma

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Seinfeld

The main cast of Seinfeld dated a grand total of 212 GIRLFRIENDS AND BOYFRIENDS over the course of the series. 27 73 50 62 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallout: New Vegas

YOUR FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS CHARACTER WATCHES CUTSCENES IN A ROOM. Whenever a cutscene plays, your character is teleported in front of a screen that plays

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The Andy Griffith Show

JIM NABORS GOMER PYLE In the years after playing Gomer Pyle on the Andy Griffith Show, Nabors recorded and released 28 albums. He came out in 2013 at the age of 83 and married his partner of 38 years. — Source: NY Times

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Charlie Chaplin

CRACKED.COM Andy Samberg Не lives in Charlie Chaplin's house. Samberg and and his wife purchased the Moorcrest estate in the Beachwood Canyon area of Los Angeles, California a - a place that Chaplin himself called home once. — Source: The Things

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Defibrillators

Movies keep lying to you about defibrillators. No matter how many movies you see where flatlining patients are shocked back to life- defibrillators just don't work that way. What they do is restore normal function to a heart during certain types of cardiac arrest they can't start a stopped — More: 6 Medical Myths Hollywood Needs To Stop Using

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Star Wars

France's last execution by guillotine happened the same year Star Wars came out. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hook

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Vomited Under Duress Like a Startled Turkey Vulture — Source

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Crash Bandicoot 2

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back CRACKED COM A death animation that shows Crash getting crushed into a wobbling head/feet abomination was removed from the Japanese version. Around that time, a Japanese serial killer had left a severed head and a pair of shoes as kind of a gruseome calling card. — 15 Video Games That Had To Change Bizarre Details (In Different Countries)

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Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle

The fart sounds in Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle's battle s**ts scene are real. Sound engineer Jeff Kushner couldn't find the right fake fart effect he wanted, so he recorded actual poop and fart noises in a truck stop bathroom. NOW YOU KNOW — Source: Uproxx

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Jamie Waylett

Jamie Waylett was busted with gillyweed. HARRY POTTER CRACKED.COM Malfoy's sycophantic yes-man lost his role in the Deathly Hallows films after he was arrested for marijuana possession in 2009. Не later did jail time after the 2012 London Riots. — Source: 15 Freakouts That Got Actors Fired

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Vera Wang

Vera Wang was an ice skater and fashion editor Vera Wang was a national competing ice skater who went on to work at Vogue as one of the youngest editors. She started her incredibly successful bridal wear line at 40 years old. CRACKED.COM — Source: People

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UFO

Forgotten Sci-Fi and Horror Shows 1970-1971 UFO After Thunderbirds' success, the Andersons created this show about an international military agency working to prevent an alien invasion. Unlike Thunderbirds, it wasn't a puppet show aimed at children, so it could tell more complex stories. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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Stephen King

Stephen King wrote (and Stan Winston directed) Michael Jackson's 40-minute horror movie. MJ as the Mayor Ghosts is about a mob, led by a middle-aged white mayor (played by MJ), storming MJ's castle because he's corrupting their kids. In the end, the kids insist MJ is innocent, so the parents let him keep doing what he does. MJ made this movie after he got accused of molesting kids. CRACKED.COM — Source: Projects That Celebrities Definitely Didn't Think Through

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Cameron Diaz

CRACKED.COM An injury prevented cameron Diaz from being sonya Blade. Diaz started martial arts training for Mortal Kombat as soon as she finished filming The Mask. Alas, testing her might broke her wrist before shooting started. Bridgette Wilson took her place, and we never got to see Princess Fiona kicking Outworld ass. — Source

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The Legend of Zelda

Nintendo thought TLOZ would be too hard for Americans. CRACKED.COM ...and they were basically correct! Nintendo of America set up a toll-free number that gave hints and tips for the game. It got to be so popular that they expanded it to other games (and started charging for it on a 1-900 number). — 14 Behind-The-Scenes Zelda Facts

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Roseanne Barr

CRACKED as ROSEANNE BARR Roseanne Barr was once a liberal Green Party candidate for President of the United States and, in her time, she was a pioneering actress who played a nuanced female main character (back when that was pretty rare). — The Daily Beast / USA Today

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Michael Jackson

When Michael Jackson died, Google mistook millions of searches for a DDoS attack. CRACKED.COM Users received this mes- sage: We're sorry, but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. — Cnet

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Fender

Leo Fender is a legend who perfected the electric guitar. But he couldn't play, and didn't like rock'n'roll. Despite the fact that his entire business revolved around manufacturing and constantly improving guitars and amps, Fender never actually got around to learning how to play them and didn't have any interest in doing so. When Fender was testing an amp with a guitar, other people in the shop had to go in and tune the instrument when they couldn't take the noise anymore. Yet his creations are the guitar of choice for legends such as Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. CRACKED.COM — Source

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