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February 23, 2025

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Marilyn Monroe

CRACKED.COM Marilyn Monroe Her public persona was an act. There are plenty of testimonies of Norma Jeane referring to Marilyn in the third person, talking about what her character would or would not do. — Source: Yhara Zayd/YouTube

39

The Shining

KUBRICK ALMOST LEFT THE HERE'S JOHNNY! PART OUT. The line was thrown in by Jack Nicholson - and Kubrick, being British, didn't get that it was a reference to The Tonight Show. He came close to cutting out the film's most iconic shot. — Source: The Independent

38

Cartoon Myths

MYTH Ostriches bury their heads in the sand when they're scared. TRUTH Ostriches run (at high speeds) when they're scared. They never bury their heads. CRACKED.COM — Source

37

Ghost of Goodnight Lane

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2014 GHOST OF GOODNIGHT LANE A movie about a haunted set filmed at said haunted set... had a haunted set. Before production, a specialized team considered Media World Studios actually haunted. Then, while doing the movie, lights flickered, things would move around, and disembodied voices could be heard. People felt slapped by invisible forces, and even reported visions of unknown figures. CRACKED.COM — Media World Studios, FTG Media
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36

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones' final Season 4 shot was SO expensive, it almost didn't make it in. It's the one of Arya sailing away in a big ship the studio hated spending SO much, but came around when they realized how important the shot was. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

35

Paul Rudd

Funny Celeb Commercials SETH ROGER, PAUL RUDD & BOB ODENKIRK's Samsung ad This almost five-minute ad has Rogen and Rudd hurl countless jabs at each other while competing for a spot in a Samsung ad. Odenkirk asks them to wear a diaper, and pitch a rap, before LeBron calls and clearly gets the spot. It's an entire sketch. CRACKED — Samsung
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Movie Myths

The FBI won't just swoop in and take over. F9 SPECIAL AGENT DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SERVICE LIGHT Tust APPEAR wanke SPECIAL Tel A - THE center to مشيقة e NT Smug feds won't walk all over the enraged cops, telling them it's their case now. They can't-police forces are not subordinate to the FBI. What they do is pool their resources with local law enforcement to work together in the case. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Exorcist

LINDA BLAIR AND ELLEN BURSTYN BOTH SUFFERED BRUTAL BACK INJURIES FILMING THE EXORCIST. The lacing the device Scarlest Movie OF AS Tate this Beturned on hA Version Never Seen used to thrash Blair on the bed came undone. causing the actress serious injury to her back as she yelled for them to stop. Burstyn was thrown off her feet, back- onto a table, screaming in agony. THE EXORCIST Both shots, and their real cries of pain, were used in the final movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Horror Movies (Even Scarier Behind The Scenes)

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Star Trek

In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the first version of the scene in which Spock decides to enter the inner sanctum of V'ger looked totally different. As originally shot, it was a corny, fake-looking spacewalk scene with actors obviously hanging from wires. So VFX director Richard Trumbull re-shot it as a scene about energy and infinity. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mr. Peanut

CRACKED.COM BARTHOLOMEW RICHARD FITZGERALD-SMYTHE And yes, if you're curious, the dead Mr. Peanut also has the same name. Even though Mr. Peanut and Baby Nut are two different people canonically. — Source: Esquire

30

Burger King

Burger King's sex toys Only on valentines Only from 6 PM KING BURGER Adults Meal - 18+ B+ CRACKED.COM For a few brief, sensual hours in 2017, ВК locations in Israel offered Adult Meals, which came with the mildest sex toys known to man. — 16 Bizarre Non-Food Stunts From Fast Food Companies

29

Red Dead Redemption 2

Red Dead Redemption 2 references a real (and very recent) massacre. D The murdered athletic team that makes the game's creepiest mystery? That really happened-and not in 1899, but in 2009, when an amateur soccer team was kidnapped and murdered in Colombia. — More: 6 Dark Creepy Easter Eggs Hiding In Video Games

28

Sacha Jafri

CRACKED In 2020, British artist Sacha Jafri produced The Journey of Humanity, a massive painting totalling 17,000 square feet. It incorporates hundreds of paintings made by children across the world, and sold to a crypto billionaire for $62 million. — Source

27

Dr. Strangelove

Set designers of the movie Dr.Strangelove managed to reconstruct an interior of a B-52 Stratofortress bomber without the assistance of the US Air Fo

26

PEZ

PEZ candy was invented as an alternative to smoking The word PEZ comes from the German word for peppermint. It was invented by Eduard Haas III in the 1920s. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: PEZ

25

Battlestar Galactica

Have you seen BOXEY? He's supposed to be aboard the Battlestar Galactica. Several plans were made for the kid, but after the initial 2003 miniseries, the writers couldn't really find a place for him. He appears in exactly one episode of Season 1, and then never again. — Source: Battlestar Wiki

24

Single Parents

Forgotten sitcoms SINGLE PARENTS This show starred SNL's Taran Killam, along with Leighton Meester and Brad Garrett. It actually got good reviews, but was often called a lesser version of Modern Family and quickly canned. 2018-2020 CRACKED.COM — Sources: Game Rant, Wikipedia, JoBloStreaming & TVTrailers/YouTube

23

George Brett

George Brett poops his pants Royab CRACKEDCO The legendary Kansas City Royals DH was caught telling a teammate about his battle with food poisoning from a bucket of crabs the night before. The 3-minute epic starts with I farted. I sh* my pants last night, and ends with a description — Source: YouTube

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22

Chris Brown

CRACKED + + + + In 2013, CHRIS BROWN told The Guardian, I just think I'm a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity. — Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock
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21

The Nightmare Before Christmas

A super macho guy brought Sally to life. As director Henry Selick says, the animator who was best at animating Sally and had this delicacy with her — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

20

Lovecraft Country

The Kumiho The kumiho (featured recently in Lovecraft Country) is one of Korea's biggest folk tale monsters and their interpretation of the nine-tailed spirit fox of Chinese and Japanese mythology. The Korean version, however, is devilishly dangerous, disguising itself as a woman to lure and eat men. The kumiho will also dig up graves to eat human flesh, and can consume people's memories to take on their form. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Creepy Urban Legends From Around The World

19

The Terminator

Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't tough enough for the German dub ofTerminator. Schwarzenegger wasn't al- lowed to voice himself be- cause the producers thought that his Austrian accent wasn't tough enough for the Terminator. He's never dubbed himself in all of his movies since. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — ESL Stories

18

South Park

Sitcoms and real world events South Park killed Osama Bin Laden way before America! Season 5's Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants aired on November 7, 2001, and in classic durka durka fashion, they revealed Bin Laden's microscopic penis and shot him, and blew him up Looney Tunes style. CRACKED — Comedy Central
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17

Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves Не never got his American citizenship. While he got his green card through his American stepfather, Reeves maintains his Canadian citizenship. Не grew up in Beirut, Sydney, New York City, and Toronto before settling in Los Angeles. CRACKED.COM — Whoa Is (Not) Me

16

Justin Roiland

BEHIND-THE-SCENES SFACTS JUSTIN ROILAND GOT DRUNK FOR AN EPISODE. Rick MoRtY M Season three episode Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender' features Rick getting blackout drunk. At the suggestion of Dan Harmon, Roiland actually got drunk while recording lines for the episode. — Digital Spy

15

Arrested Development

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14

Reservoir Dogs

Reservoir Dogs' title came from a video store customer mangling a movie's name. When Tarantino worked as a video store clerk, someone asked for Au Revoir les Enfants but pronounced it like Reservoir Dogs --apparently, the memory of that stuck with Tarantino for years. CRACKED.COM — Variety

13

BBC

Historical Pranks JUMPING TO EXPERIENCE LOWER GRAVITY On April 1, 1976, Sir Patrick Moore, an astronomer on BBC Radio 2, tricked people into believing that if they jumped at 9:47 a.m., they would feel the effects of Pluto and Jupiter aligning and temporarily reducing Earth's gravity. CRACKED — Ground Picture/Shutterstock,
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Time

12

Jell-O

JELLO IS MADE FROM BONES. Gelatin, the stuff that puts the jiggle in jello, is derived from collagen, a protein extracted by boiling animal bones and

11

Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers got their name from a packing company sponsorship. a 12 INFLI L CRACKED.COM Thanks to just $500 in sponsorship from the Indi- an Packing Company in 1919, the Packers came to be. The future NFL team's co-founder, Earl Lambeau, worked for the packing company at the time. — Source

10

Leonardo DiCaprio

Hollywood's Problematic People On Screen THE AVIATOR Leonardo DiCaprio plays eccentric millionaire HOWARD HUGHES. DiCaprio worked with director Martin Scorsese and a cast including Gwen Stefani and Cate Blanchett. DiCaprio plays Hughes as he descends into madness brought on by undiagnosed OCD. CRACKED — Miramax Films, Warner Bros. Pictures
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9

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS Apatow worried that Steve would lose a BODY PART CRACKED COM We were looking for who was a professional waxer, says Apatow. Somebody said 'this is the person. And the woman who claimed to know how to wax I think lied. She put the wax over Steve's nipple and we almost lost a nipple. That's all I'm going to say. — Source

8

Gigi Hadid

Model Gigi Hadid says that she got robbed while in Mykonos, Greece. In an Insta caption, she said Don't let insta fool u. Got robbed. Never going back lol. Wouldn't recommend. CRACKED.COM — Source

7

Kelly Osbourne

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6

Clueless

In Clueless, Cher realizes she's in love with her ex-stepbrother, Josh. Even though they're not related by blood, it would still be weird. They were living under the same roof as family for a while. If anybody asks them how they met, the answer will definitely raise eyebrows, no matter how they explain it. Also, their parents could go from being exes to in-laws. CRACKED COM — 28 Doomed Movie And TV Relationships

5

Hogwarts

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4

Aerosmith

Aerosmith HE O The coke- and heroin-fueled fights on the Draw the Line tour led to a full blown brawl. Joe Perry's girlfriend threw a glass of milk at Tom Hamilton's wife's head, and Perry quit. CRACKED — Source

3

The Mist

Easter Eggs in stephen King Movies The Mist There is a Dark Tower painting. David Drayton (Thomas Jane) is painting a picture of a cowboy next to a giant tower and rose. King fans recognize this as a portrait of Roland Deschain, The Dark Tower's main character. CRACKED.COM — Source: /Film

2

Iron Man 2

In Iron Man 2, Ivan Vanko tells Justin Hammer that the Hammerdrones will make salute. Vanko delivers on that promise in spades, considering that salute in Russian means Fireworks! GRAGKED.COM

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How to Train Your Dragon

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON The movie: Hiccup learns to ride Toothless. HOW TOTRAIN YOUR DRAGON The books by Cressida Cowell: Toothless is tiny, GREASTO CONTEL and he rides on Hiccup. CRACKED.COM — Source

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