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February 23, 2025

The trainer that took care of Shadowfax during the filming of the Lord of the Rings films called him her “soul mate in a fur suit.” Aw?

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Trident Studios

The studio recordings HEy for JUDE and BOHEMIAN RttApsoDy Were done on the same piano. It was the 100-year-old Bechstein Grand Piano at Trident Studio

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J.R.R. Tolkien

CRACKED.COM J.R.R. Tolkien didn't care for all his fans Fans flattered him and made him rather wealthy, but Tolkien would call his fans 'my deplorable cultus and was especially critical of American fans who were involved in the stories in a way that I'm not. — Source: TIME

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The Boys

CRACKED.COM THE BOYS MOTHER'S MILK KEEPS HIS LOOK FROM THE COMICS. The showrunners wanted to keep the look and feel of the comic within the show's roots - so Mother's Milk's wardrobe has the same slogans and bands. — Source: CBR

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Diahann Carroll

DIAHANN CARROLL was the first Black actress to be cast in a role other than a servant in 1968. She was also the first Black actress to get her own TV show. CRACKED.COM — NBC News

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Bioshock Infinite

KEN LEVINE based the creepy Motorized Patriot in Bioshock Infinite on an old porcelain doll in his childhood home. It scared the f*ck out of me, he said- and it also gave him nightmares where the doll killed his mom. — Source: Engadget, Official GDC on Flickr

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Reno 911!

RENO BEHIND THE SCENES Facts 911! OFFICER REINISHA WILLIAM'S BUTT IS FAKE 9111 MILLM ATRES 23/07 HEAT RENO 911! Niecy Nash wore a prosthetic butt for all of Reno 911, including a special realistic butt for Reno 911: Miami. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Frasier

TELL US NOW. FRASIER Melissa H. shares, All the characters were set up to start on important yet rather diverging path... The last minute of episode revealed a surprise twist that left me feeling happy for a few hours after finishing it.

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Saved by the Bell: The College Years

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SAVED BY THE BELL HAD A COLLEGE SPINOFF THAT LASTED A TOTAL OF ONE SEASON. Saved by the Bell: The College Years only ran for 19 episodes, and probably part of the reason it got cancelled was that some members of the original cast decided not to join the new show. — Source: 13 Short-Lived Sitcom Spinoffs We Totally Forgot About

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Smooth Criminal

Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal was based on CPR training materials. Annie is based on Resusci Anne or Annie, a CPR doll --and asking Are you OK? is one of the first steps you take before you administer CPR. CRACKED.COM — Red Cross

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Mortal Kombat

Symbiotic Relationships Mortal Kombat Ferra & Torr They may seem like a knockoff Master Blaster from Mad Max 2, but these two are actually part of an Outworld species in which a rider merges with a mount, until the rider transforms into a giant near-mindless brute as their mount dies, needing a rider of their own. It's an odd circle of life (death?). CRACKED.COM — Mortal Kombat Wiki, THE TOO SWEET SHOW (TTSS)/YouTube

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Charlie Chaplin

In 1978, Charlie Chaplin's body was stolen and held for ransom. His widow refused to pay ransom demands of £400,000 ($2 million USD with inflation) because Charlie would have thought it ridiculous. His body was found 11 weeks later. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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The Return of the Living Dead

THE YELLOWISH SMOKE DURING THE OPENING CREDITS WAS PRETTY TOXIC IN_ THE RETURN of THE LIVING DEAD. Apparently the only way to get yellow smoke was for the production team to use sulfur. It took a few minutes of pumping that smoke to give most of the people on set terrible headaches. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine $8 MILLION CRACKED.COM Screenwriter Michael Arndt reeled in 2 oscars (and $101 million), on his first try, by portraying a disfunctional family on a road trip -- and showing us that Steve Carrell has some dramatic chops, in the process. — Source: Box Office Mojo

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Shaq

Wrestling Celebrities SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Shaq is no stranger to the squared circle, competing in the third André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal in WWE, and in a tag team match on AEW Dynamite. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Grand Theft Auto

GRAND THEFT AUTO Grand Theft Auto was inspired by a bug in + another game. Race'n'Chase Game Design Version 1.05 March 22. 1995 с 1995 DMA Design Ltd Rockstar released a driving game called Race'n'Chase, and early testers panned it until they found a glitch. It + was a bug that caused the police to try to run players off the road. So instead of running missions, players screwed around while the police tried to run them off the road. And GTA was born. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Games We Grew Up On (With Weird Backstories)

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Shadowfax

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO... Shadowfax LOTR CRACKED.COM Blanco the horse was purchased by his trainer, Cynthia Royal, who called him her soul mate in a fur suit. That's sweet! ...right? Not weird? Sound off in the comments. — San Diego Union Tribune

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

CRACKED.COM Buffy the vampire slayer The musical episode was born out of karaoke. Once More, With Feeling was conceived after the cast all did karaoke together. — Source: Buffyverse Wiki

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Chris Hemsworth

Chris Hemsworth used to clean breast pumps. Before making it as an actor, Hemsworth used to clean rented breast pumps for a pharmacy. Не has described the job as the worst one CRACKED.COM he has ever had, and no wonder: to keep the machines clean, he had to wash them by hand! — Source

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Comedy Advice

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM QUICK. CUTS. OAHLE . Hide the fact that you have no sense of timing, or any kind of joke to make, by getting the hell away from the set-up before the punchline has a chance to fall flat on its face.

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Coca-Cola

Back in the 80s, CRACKED COM Coca-Cola was forced to pull an ad after finding out that the artist snuck in... well, Coke a d*ck joke C@ce Col or shoul

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Jeff Spicoli

THE REAL JEFF SPICOLI WAS A TOTAL D**K. In the investigative novel Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Spicoli shows up in class one day waving a graphic ne

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Tony Soprano vs. Walter White

CRACKED VS FIGHTER PROFILES CRACKED.COM TONY SOPRANO WALTER WHITE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT CHEMISTRY TURNED CRIME TEACHER TURNED BOSS METH COOK SUFFERS FROM SUFFERS FROM PANIC ATTACKS LUNG CANCER ALIVE AT THE ALIVE AT THE END END OF THE OF THE SERIES: SERIES: DEFINITELY NOT PROBABLY

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Justice League

JUSTICE LEAGUE CRACKED COM 00:00:10 Feb 12 2015 0 LIS 11 The movie opens with Superman being interviewed by kids for their podcast. That's when I knew

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Promising Young Woman

CRACKED.COM PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN The director purposely cast nice guy actors. Emerald Fennell cast Adam Brody, Max Greenfield, and Chris Lowell due to their past screen appearances as nice characters to help sell the reveal when their movie characters were... Well, not nice. — Source

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Handheld Gaming

HANDHELD GAMING THEN VS. now DOES YOUR BACK HUAT ALL THE TIME You are young and You not only purchase an sprightly. Your joints are ergonomic chair but positively packed full of specifically research its cartilage and the type of lumbar support. If YOU pillow YOU own and sleep in the wrong position firmness of your mattress YOU can't move your neck mean nothing to YOU. for 2 days. CRACKED.COM

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Jerry Seinfeld

LESSONS FROM SEINFELD: USE FUNNY WORDS KEYy e ene alne Intr aou CRACKED Before coming upon Pop Tarts for the first time, jokes Seinfeld, clueless kids were like chimps in the dirt playing with sticks. The joke works, he says, because four of the seven words are funny. Chimps? Chimps — New York Times/YouTube

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Mick Jagger

In 1968, the Beatles signed a petition to get Mick Jagger in A Clockwork Orange. They sent it to Terry Southern, who was writing the movie adaptation's script, demanding to have Jagger in the lead role. Alas, it was clearly unsuccessful. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

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James Cameron

CRACKED JAMES CAMERON James Cameron was born in Canada in 1954 and then moved to the USA in 1971. After he graduated from California State University, he had to work as a truck driver to make money for his dream of becoming a screenwriter. — Empire Online / Twitter

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Goldfinger

Totally covering your skin can kill you. In Goldfinger, a woman covered in gold paint dies of skin suffocation, and the filmmakers worried that might happen to the actress. In real life, you can't actually suffocate someone by doing that. CRACKED — Eon Productions
Smithsonian Magazine

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The Omen

CRACKED THE OMEN WAS TAKEN ON A STRANGE RIDE IN THE NOVELS. David Seltzer's novelization changes some details, and it also spawned 2 sequels and 4 novelizations. 2 of those books have nothing to do with the movie, and in one of them, the Antichrist is born out of a butt. — TOR / The Guardian

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The Slap

THE SLAP The show The Slap, where a man hits his neighbor's child, was written by a Pulitzer Prize winner. CRACKED.COM — Source: IMDb

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Hunger Games

Hunger Games: Catching Fire was heavily influenced by Breaking Bad. Director Francis Lawrence binge-watched the show while making the movie, and its cliffhangers inspired him to end his own movie on a cliffhanger. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chappelle’s Show

CRACKED.COM Chappelle's Show predicted History Channel's Gangland. In 2003, audiences laughed at Dave Chappelle's skit that had the History Channel co

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The Glass Shot

Historical Firsts in Practical Effects 1907 The glass shot Known as Hollywood's first effects man, Norman О. Dawn shot real-life footage through painted settings on glass in 1907's Missions of California. This layering could place an in-studio actor on the edge of a cliff, like Chaplin in 1925's The Gold Rush. CRACKED — Source

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Katy Perry

KATY PERRY is into puppets Creative Consultant MATT GROENING CRACKED.COM In an unusually risqué Christmas episode featuring Muppet versions of the Simpsons, Perry drops by to nuzzle Mr. Burns into her bosom. Over the credits, Muppet Мое tries to kiss her belly button. That's not my belly button, COOS Perry. But I didn't say stop. — Reuters

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TARDIS

Doctor Who's TARDIS was originally supposed to change shape regularly to fit in with its surroundings. OTC THE IMPROVISATION: The series creators real

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The Human Centipede 2

IMMEDIATE SEQUELS THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 [FULL SEQUENCE) The Human Centipede movies form a cinematic centipede, with each sequel happeing in a universe in which the former film is indeed just a film. Full Sequence opens with its villain, Martin, watching the 2009 original-and getting ideas from it. CRACKED.COM — Ending, Patrick Burrow/YouTube

2

George Foreman

In 1994, George Foreman was approached by a corporate attorney about becoming the spokesperson for a new electric grill. Foreman was uninterested. Six

1

One Piece

Jamie Lee Curtis She loves One Piece. Curtis is a big fan of the anime, and has expressed interest in playing Kureha in a live action version. CRACKED.COM — Toei Animation, Tinseltown/Shutterstock
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