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Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci scrubbed toilets that didn't have running water. RESTROOM At a young age, the actor worked at a park in Westchester, New York. Не called the experience too disgusting to describe. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Alone

Survival Horror Movies 2020 ALONE Director John Hyams clearly learned a lot from those badass Universal Soldier straight-to-video sequels, because he then turned his talent to this gritty, minimalist, and just brutal survival horror thriller. A woman is stalked and then kidnapped, which is already bad enough - and then it devolves into violence and horror. CRACKED COM — Trailer on YouTube

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Tom Cruise

WON'T ALLOW HIS LIKENESS TO BE USED IN VIDEO GAMES OR ACTION FIGURES PEAL ACTION HEROES Collester's Adidas MISSION EMPOSSIBLE GHOST PROTOCOL va 201 CRACKED.COM For an actor that embodies an iconic action hero that has his eighth film slated for 2024, Cruise is vehemently against his likeness being used in video games and action figures. One toy did manage to get released, so if you want to see how long toy-Ethan Hunt can hold his breath in the sink, that is your only chance. — Source: MTV News

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Malcolm in the Middle

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM VICTOR AND FRANCIS In Victor's Other Family we learn that Victor was actually not Lois's biological father. But, in the episode Christmas in season 3, Francis looks at a photo of Victor when he was younger, and he is identical to Francis. — Source: Malcolm in the Middle

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Real-life couple Mary Elizabeth Ellis (The Waitress) and Charlie Day met because he won an arm-wrestling match. They were at a bar. Day and his friend both thought she was cute and arm-wrestled to see who see who got to talk to Ellis. Day won. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM — Ellis' AMA

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Frasier

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO... Eddie FRASIER CRACKED.COM Moose the Jack Russell Terrier kind of petered out the last few seasons, and his son, Enzo, fully took over the role in the final season. At his peak, though, Moose was reportedly getting more fan mail than any other cast member. — Source: Fact Fiend

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Quentin Tarantino

QUENTIN TARANTINO COLLECTS BOARD GAMES The director collects film and TV-related games. John Travolta once said, All wanted to do was spend the evening playing board games of my old movies. CRACKED.COM — Source: News.com.au

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Arya Stark

Arya Stark from Game of Thrones (2011) is Bruce Wayne from Batman Begins (2005) -Born into privilege. - Parents killed. -Goes east and trains with an

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Rick and Morty

CRACKED.COM Rick & Morty's Council of Ricks is based on The Fantastic Four. A body composed of versions from different realities of a genius scientist? Reed Richards did it first. The Interdimensional Council of Reeds was founded by three Fantastic Men who finagled themselves an Infinity Gauntlet. — Source

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Starbucks

Starbucks 1971 CRACKED.COM The three founders were college friends who were instructed how to roast by Peet's Coffee and Tea founder. The company's name was picked out from Moby Dick...it almost was named Pequod.

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Kit Harington

CRACKED GAME OF THRONES ACTOR KIT HARINGTON GOT KICKED OUT OF A BAR, BUT НЕ MADE SURE TO MAKE AMENDS AFTERWARDS BY RETURNING TO PAY HIS BILL AND LEAVING AN EXCEPTIONAL TIP. Не was being 'drunk and disorderly' before eventually being dragged from the establishment. — Insider

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Julia Roberts and Steven Spielberg

Behind-the-scenes feuds Hook Julia Roberts vs Steven Spielberg Roberts' personal drama apparently seeped onto the set, which led Spielberg to say that while she was a good actress, he wouldn't work with her again. Roberts felt hurt, and they indeed haven't worked again since. CRACKED.COM — Source: CBR

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Violence Against Eyes

CRACKED.COM Edgy Movies Then vs. Now Eye violence One of the most brutal scenes in Eli Roth's Hostel features eye-gouging. Gross. Eye violence, however, has been a classic of edgy cinema since Luis Buñuel's 1929 short film An Andalusian Dog showed an eye being slashed (something pulled off by using a cow's eye). — Source: blameitonjorge/YouTube

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Dick in a Box

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE NOW-CLASSICDICK IN A BOX SKETCH DREW COMPLAINTS AT THE TIME. And some people also criticized the fact that Justin Timberlake, who had been in the news for Nipplegate two years earlier, was singing it. — Source

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Brad Pitt

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The Phantom Menace

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Stuffed One Inside the Other Like a Verisimilitudinous Turducken

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The Happening

CRACKED.COM THE HAPPENING was lambasted by critics and audiences for both the ridiculous premise, and the wooden acting. TOMATOMETER AUDIENCE SCORE 18

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Shazam!

Inconspicuous CGI Shazam! The production had trouble securing the right to shoot at the Philadelphia steps-and when they finally did, the skyline was obscured by fog, so they had to digitally recreate it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Mummy

It comer to life $1-1.5 million -amount of the highest valued movie poster. CARL LAEMMLE The poster for Boris Karloff's 1932 horror classic The Mummy went on auction in 2018, but TH wasn't sold. UNCAN GRACKED COM — Source

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Robert Pattinson

ROBERT PATTINSON TOOK AN OBSESSED STALKER OUT TO DINNER AND BORED HER. Не complained about his life the whole time, and he never saw her again. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Panic Room

In Panic Room, Jodie Foster lights propane then lies flat as it burns over her. Don't try that in real life. Propane happens to be heavier than air (as is butane, chlorine, sulfur dioxide, and a whole lot of other gases). Lie down under a giant mass of flaming propane, and you stand a good chance of getting some nasty burns. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Blockbuster Movies That Got Their Science Totally Wrong

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J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien was rejected for a Nobel Prize in 1961. Apparently LOTR had not in any way measured up to storytelling of the highest quality. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Tolkien Library

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Green Book

Mahershala Ali apologized directly to Don Shirley's family CRACKED.COM The family of legendary pianist Don Shirley have called his portrayal in 2018's Green Book rather jarring and a symphony of lies. Ali was shocked to find that there were close relatives with whom I could have consulted over the role, and made contact to apologize and help set the record straight. — Shadow And Act

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Harry Potter

Harry Potter EARTH FIRE SPIRIT CRACKED Obviously a book about witchcraft is a gateway to Satanism. This isn't news to anyone and many good Christian s — Comedy Central

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Jonah Hill

celebrity Besties This... We... Wait, what? Jonah Hill + The olsen Twins Unlike as it may seem, the Olsens have been apparently friends with Hill for years, even being guests at Hill's table at the Wall Street Journal Innovator Awards in 2018. They also spent Easter together. NI RTN 41 A 2 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Joel Kinnaman

Joel Kinnaman You might know the Swedish-American actor from 2014's Robocop or from shows like The Killing and Altered Carbon. Even though Kinnaman usually plays tough guys. he brings a lot of humanity to his hardass characters. Не also dominates on screen. We wouldn't mind seeing him in a franchise like John Wick, or even Star Wars. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tila Tequila

Celebrity Big Brother dropped Tila Tequila for being a Nazi. Cult In 2013, she wrote a blog post titled Why I Sympathize With Hitler Part 1: True History Unveiled, calling Hitler a man of compassion. Almost two years later, when she was on the show, the production company found out about it and booted her. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Steve Carell

Milestone Steve Carell Performances Vice Donald Rumsfeld This is the movie that asked the question, Can Steve Carell be a convincing Rumsfeld? To many people's surprise, the answer was yes. CRACKED.COM — Cinemix/YouTube

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Neve Campbell

Scream Queens Neve Campbell had her breakout role in Party of Five. Wes Craven first saw her on the TV show, and asked her to audition forScream precisely because of her ability to play innocent characters who still had emotional depth and physical strength. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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FIFA 12

In FIFA 12, the A practice goalie can turn enormous. SCOREBOARD GOALS 2 9 SAVES MINESES But his size doesn't help him tend goal. Attempting to score on the gigantic goalie causes him to fall over and flop around like a beached dolphin. Fixed versions of the game had the same giant goalie glitch, but without his head and arms. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/pLuDriewk8 — 12 Glitches That Are The Best Part Of The Game

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Rubik’s Cube

CRACKED.COM The Rubik's Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations... To solve all of them, even doing one per second, would take over 100 times the age of the universe. — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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Danny DeVito

In another universe, Danny DeVito is in the Indiana Jones franchise. Не was Spielberg's first choice to play Sallah in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but he couldn't afford him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss caught a whiff of his own mortality. SILVER CITY POSEIDON A month after silver City came out, he said I want to do something else. I'll only live once, and I am 10 years out of the hospital or retirement home, and promptly retired. He came back

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Chloe Grace Moretz

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Patrick Bateman

CRaCKEDco AMERICAN PSYCHO What Patrick Bateman seems to forget is that DEWALT a pneumatic nail gun is useless without an air compressor.

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Roseanne

TV Reboots and Revivals Then vs. Now POWER ANY WACC ACES 1988-1997 Roseanne Roseanne was a beloved sitcom, for some reason. The revival started off strong, until Roseanne Barr engaged in actual, real-life racism-so the show killed her off and morphed into The Conners. 2018 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Coachella

Coachella is owned by a right- wing billionaire. Like many of our hippest institutions, the Coachella Festival is owned by a rich old codger. In this case, it's 81-year- old oil mogul Philip Anschutz, who has thrown money at decidedly un-hippie causes like climate change denial and immigration panic, and has helped anti-LGBT politicians get elected. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mike Bloomberg

Mike Bloomberg bought a copper bathtub from France for $13,300. He personally commissioned a coppersmith in France to make the tub, delivering his exact specifications, and craftsmen spent 250 hours making it. CRACKED.COM — Source: Gawker

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Tusk

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Stuffed One Inside the Other Like a Verisimilitudinous Turducken — Source: Syfy

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The Wizard of Oz

CRACKED CON ASBESTOS WAS ONCE SOLD AS FAKE SNOW FOR HOUSE DECOR. AS88STOS Pure White eROOF FIRE SNOW It was used in this scene in The Wizard of Oz.

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