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Georgia O'Keeffe wasn’t painting that, you just have a sick mind. And so did her husband, who aggressively marketed her paintings as such.

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The Big Show

CRACKED.COM celebrities who play D&D Paul The Big show wight Wight enjoys D&D as a break from the 19 I daily strife of a wrestler, along with ا٤ being able to use his imagination with = SI like-minded nerdy friends. 5 18 — Source: Variety/YouTube
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Mass Effect

Fox News spread mass misinformation about Mass Effect. A Fox News show claimed in 2008 that the game featured full digital nudity and graphic sex. The claims were sure to enrage viewers- particularly those who grabbed the game to, ahem, do their own research. — Source: Wired

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Austin Powers

Sharks Movies & TV Austin Powers The sharks with frickin' laser beams were planned for the first movie. As life imitated art, there was no money in the budget for the special effects team to make them. After the series was a hit, they appeared in Goldmember. CRACKED.COM — Source: Cinemablend

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Pitch Perfect

BARDEN PITCH TREBLE PERFECT REBEL WILSON AND ADAM DEVINE IMPROVISED A LOT. Having worked together on Workaholics (and being two of the strongest comedians in the cast), Wilson and DeVine ad-libbed much of their performance. DeVine would even try to kiss Wilson, which led to their romantic plot in the sequel. CRACKED.COM — Vulture, Hollywood.com
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White Wilderness

The documentary White Wilderness captured lemming mass-suicides in action! WHAT THEY LEFT OUT Contrary to what the textbooks say, lemmings don't jump off cliffs. The documentarians found this out the hard way, and wound up throwing the lemmings off the cliff to get the scene. CRACKED.COM http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp — Source

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Marty Wayne

First comedian to be arrested for obscenity In 1946, Marty Wayne was arrested in Philadelphia for an obscene show VULGARITY including filthy HISTORY jokes at two local nightclubs. The venues were fined $25.13 each, and Wayne spent six months in prison. CRACKED — Showbiz Imagery and Forgotten History/Tumblr
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Princess Diana

Princess Di had a chicken dish named after her to celebrate her wedding to Prince Charles Keeping with a weird English monarch tradition, Princess of Wales chicken supreme was fed to 120 guests. The meal also included brill in lobster sauce, cream of corn, butter beans, and strawberries with cream. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source: Huffington Post

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True Detective

TRUEDETECTIVE was almost The Murder Ballads. Producer Cary Fukunaga thought True Detective was too pulpy and wanted to call the show The Murder Ballads. He dropped the idea after recognizing that a more all-inclusive title was needed for an anthology series. — Vanity Fair

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Star Wars

When Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford went up to Carrie Fisher in Star Wars' ceremony scene, they held hands. It was Ford's idea that way, their movements would be in sync, and Fisher could keep her eyes on one thing (their clasped hands) as the camera filmed her. NOW YOU — Source: ScreenRant

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The Olympics

The Olympics used to give out medals for art. CRACKED.COM between 1912 and 1948, medals were earned for painting, sculpture, archi- tecture, literature, and mu- sic. The competitive nature of the events clashed with the artists' creative pur- suits, so they ended. — Source

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Freaks and Geeks

LINDSAY WOULD HAVE ENDED UP AS A HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER But not before she was a performance artist in the Village, says show creator Paul Feig. — Source: Vanity Fair

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The Legend of Zelda

TLOZ was the first game to have a full second quest. LINK ZELDA Because they had a ton of space left over, they made a second, more difficult adventure. You don't even have to beat the main game to access it -- just name your file Zelda when you start

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Maya the Bee

Maya The Bee was created to suck up to the Kaiser. Published in Germany in 1912, Waldemar Bonsels' book was pretty much a cautionary tale against unconformity and rebellion, which explicitly kissed up to Kaiser Wilhelm II. When the Nazis came goose-stepping years later, Bonsels started pandering to them in his writing. GRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Tasty Random Facts to Spice Up Your Online Scrolling

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Jaws

JAWS I CRACKED.COM His obsessive drive to kill the shark without any outside help suggests that Quint is a pretty strange guy. A deleted scene in which he creeps out a young clarinet player confirms it. Delightfully weird. — YouTube

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The Clash

Terry Chimes is a chiropractor. After punishing the drums for The Clash and Black Sabbath, Chimes decided to start punishing human bodies instead. The

25

Hedy Lamarr

HEDY LAMARR made WiFi possible. Lamarr was a big-name actress in Golden Age Hollywood. She was also an amateur inventor. She came up with an idea for

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Jeremy Renner

Celebrity Side Hustles Jeremy Renner House flipper Renner's been flipping houses with Kristoffer Winters for a while, and says he's made more money than from acting. Не even worked on a house during the awards season, when he was nominated for Best Actor for The Hurt Locker. CRACKED — Denis Makarenko/Shutterstock,
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Pat Sajak

In 1969, Pat Sajak cut off Nixon to play Christmas music. Nixon made a very long pause in a Christmas speech to the troops in Vietnam, so Sajak cut off the broadcast and put on some music. When Nixon resumed talking, Sajak just left the music on, thinking soldiers would rather listen to that than the President. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tim Curry

CRACKED.COM Tim curry would have made a sick Joker. Mark Hamill's Joker is one of the best things about Batman: The Animated. Series. But Hamill was b

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Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody nearly had a part in the LOTR trilogy, but he said no. I, somehow, didn't grasp it. I don't know what part I would have been right for, but it was some Hobbit-like character. I was looking for something else, he said later. CRACKED COM — Source

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Star Trek

ST:THE ORIGINAL SERIES Let That Be Your Last Battlefield SPOCK DOESN'T UNDERSTAND EVOLUTION. The actual theory is that all life forms evolved from the lower levels to the more advanced stages, Spock says-wrongly. Evolution isn't a game where you level up. No beings are more advanced than others in evolution-all that matters is that you're able to pass down your genes to the next generation. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 'Star Trek' Episodes That Got Science Embarrassingly Wrong

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The Purge

The Purge's budget went from $8 million to $2.5 million. THE IMPROVISATION: The producer realized the movie shouldn't be that expensive, as it's set in one house. Не even got Ethan Hawke to take no salary (but a profit percentage) and crash on his couch during filming. THE RESULT: A surprise hit that kicked off a hugely popular horror franchise. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Grand Theft Auto 3

GTA 3 features a mission called Two-Faced Tanner, in which you're sent to kill an undercover cop called Tanner, who's described as strangely animated and more or less useless outside of his car. This is a shot at the protagonist of the Driver series, undercover cop John Tanner, and the series' lack of on-foot abilities compared to GTA. mage lony CRACKED.COM — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

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Quentin Tarantino

QUENTIN TARANTINO'S DJANGO CAMEO IN HIS OWN LNCHAINED D NOT ONLY REMINDS VIEWERS THEY'RE WATCHING A TARANTINO MOVIE, but the director's attempt at an

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The Rifleman

THE RIFLEMAN The Rifleman uses a rifle from the future. The Rifleman Не uses a Winchester 1892, but the show takes place in the 1870s and 80s. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe hated that people saw anything sexual in her paintings. O'Keeffe was adamant that she painted flowers, not vaginas. It was photographer Alfred Stieglitz (who eventually became her husband) who began promoting her paintings as softcore porn, against her objections. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hell’s Angels

FOUR PEOPLE DIED IN PLANE CRASHES DURING THE PRODUCTION OF HELL'S ANGELS. Director Howard Hughes hired actual Air Corps veterans to fly the dangerous — Read More: 12 Classic Movie Moments Made Possible By Abuse and Murder

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Joanne Woodward

JOANNE WOODWARD got the first Hollywood Walk of Fame star. OTOWARD The Academy Award-winning actress for The Three Faces of Eve (1957) was the first to receive this dedication in 1960. CRACKED.COM — History

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The Hangover

The HÄNGOVER Phil is cool and fun. Stu is a wimpy whiner. Phil is a troublemaker. Stu falls apart at the first sign of trouble. Why the hell are they friends? GRACKED.COM — 20 Onscreen Relationships That Should Never Have Existed

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Winona Ryder

CRACKED.COM Keanu Reeves Не may or may not have married Winona Ryder. When shooting Bram Stoker's Dracula together, a real priest officiated the wedding scene between the two, making it official in many people's eyes. Especially since it isn't known whether the priest used their real names or the ones of their characters. — The Guardian

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Robert Downey Jr.

Tony Stark passed silently thanks to Robert Downey Jr. The screenwriters of Avengers: Endgame wrote several possible final lines and presented them to

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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Anthony Hopkins paints canvases that sell for up to $80,000. BLK Не paints four times a week, for hours and hours, and he's made more paintings than he can count. CRACKED.COM — Source: 36 Bananas Facts About Fav Celebs

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LCD Soundsystem

Online ticket scalpers ruined LCD Soundsystem's farewell tour. Seconds after the tickets went on sale, they were all snapped up by bots. Minutes later, those tickets appeared on StubHub at a 1200% markup, dashing many fans' dreams of seeing the band perform for one last time. GRACKED.COM — Source

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The Mandalorian

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes 24 hours apart. Presumed dead after the second, he emerged from the jungle with a bottle of gin & some bananas. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

5

The Terminator

Skynet keeps failing to put a stop to the human rebellion. Throughout the Terminator film series, Skynet goes to ridiculous lengths to try to snuff ou

4

Mad Men

Don Draper comes up with the It's toasted slogan in 1960. LUCKYSTRIVE T'S TOASTED MAD MEN By that time, Lucky Strike had been using it for over 40 years. CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Movies And Shows That Need Help With History

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In the Night Kitchen

In The Night Kitchen NTHENICHTKIICEN MAURICESENDK BEANS A three-year-old kid appears naked in a giant milk bottle in one scene of the book. Apparently — Comedy Central

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Dale Gribble

Dale Gribble has always known that Nancy was cheating on him with John Redcorn, he just doesn't care. X9 AKO KING OF THE 0 HILL Dale has an easy life.

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Bradley Cooper

Bradley Cooper CRACKED.com Wet Hot American Summer was Bradley Cooper's feature film debut, as multi-poloed prepster Ben. Now, your mom knows him as the handsome Hangover guy.

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