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The Rihanna Curse

Terrible weather hit the UK, New Zealand, and Romania when Umbrella topped their charts This became known as the Rihanna curse. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Charlie Day

Charlie Day turned down the sitcom Life on a Stick to do It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. - ALWONS SUNNY PHILADEL It was a major network show, and IASIP was a small project he made with his friends. Life on a Stick ended after one season, and IASIP became one of the longest-running sitcoms ever. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Macaulay Culkin

CRACKED After his 1994 movie Richie Rich. MACAULAY CULKIN told his parents, I'm done, guys - 1 hope you all made your money, because there is no more coming from me. Не took his parents to court to stop them from controlling his $17 million in earnings. — Source

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Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker learned the language Kiswahili for The Last King of Scotland. Не also spent 3 and a half months doing extensive research in Uganda, learned to play the accordion, and put on over 50 pounds. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Actors Who Went Way, Way Beyond The Call Of Duty For A Movie

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Will Smith

Will Smith was happy Keanu Reeves accepted the role of Neo in 'The Matrix' after he turned it down for 'Wild Wild West.' GRAGKED.COM Smith says, When you see somebody do it like Keanu, you think, 'Thank God.' I don't think I was mature enough as an actor at that point to get out of the way and just let it be and allow the directors to make the movie. — Yahoo

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Spider-Man: No Way Home

ARKER TIMID MAN Spidey TEEN- GER... WILL . MARVEL Amazing - THE ESOME BOTT OF. DER-MAN! Fantasy #15 1962 Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021 From too-skinny kid pursuing wrestling to the greatest superhero(es) of all time. CRACKED.COM

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Dying Light 2

INSIDE DYING LIGHT 2 In the game's tutorial, Spike plays the piano. Hang around long enough and he'll start playing the haunting theme song from the first game. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Ultimate Warrior

EVERY MAN'S HEART ONE DAY BEATS ITS FINAL BEAT, HIS LUNGS BREATHE THEIR FINAL BREATH. AND IF WHAT THAT MAN DID IN HIS LIFE MAKES THE BLOOD PULSE THROUGH THE BODY OF OTHERS, AND MAKES THEM BLEED DEEPER, THAN SOMETHING LARGER THAN LIFE, THEN HIS ESSENCE, HIS SPIRIT, WILL BE IMMORTALIZED BY THE STORYTELLERS, BY THE LOYALTY, BY THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO HONOR HIM AND MAKE THE RUNNING THE MAN DID LIVE FOREVER. - THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR - CRACKED.COM — Source: 39 Surprisingly Profound Quotes from Unexpected Sources

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Dolly Parton

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THERE'S A REJECTED SNL SKETCH INVOLVING A CHARACTER CALLED DONNIE PARTON. That's where you're the boy version of Dolly Parton but you have huge balls, explained SNL writer Tim Robinson. — Source

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Blinded by the Light

Blinded by the Light In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat. Eeeeewwwwwww! And you thought I was going to say something about being wrapped up like a douche. GRACKED.COM — 20 Backstories To Lyrics In Famous Songs

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Mario

A new Mario Easter egg in a Sega game has been found. CRACKED.COM It took 26 years for a player to spot Mario sitting in one of the files of the game Astal released in 1995. — Source: SVG

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Sean Penn

Sean Penn wanted to name his son after his favorite food, which is steak. That's special even by celebrity baby name standards, and the mother (Robin Wright) totally nixed the idea and named the kid Hopper. CRACKED.COM — Source: People.com

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Monty Python

Monty Python And The Holy Grail $380K They blew their first attempt at a feature film with 1971's And Now For Something Completely Different. But they scraped together less than half-a-million dollars in funding for Holy Grail, and turned that into a $5 million theatrical run.

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Precious

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Movie Tropes

It is hard to take a movie seriously when the main character has an obscure hobby that gives them the exact skill needed to advance the plot. Billy-fr

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John Lennon

WASTDUD Y ) John Lennon and Dimebag Darrell were both shot by fans on December 8th. CRACKED COM

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Super Speed

SUPER SPEED WOULD BURN YOU TO A CRISP. Whoa, speedster! You're on fire! No, We mean it, you're literally on fire. That's what rubbing at high speed ag

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Ninja Turtles

TEEMMGE MUTANT NINA TURTLES 1990 The final battle focuses on martial arts and personal conflict STENACE MuTEAT NNDJA URTLES5 2014 The final battle foc

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Captain America

CRACKED.COM In Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve asks Bucky where they're going, to which he replies: The Future. A Ain't that the truth.

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Bella Thorne

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Hot Tub Time Machine 2

Masterfully Subverted Tropes Hot Tub Time Machine 2 The unrepentant jerk Rob Corddry's Lou Dorchen is even worse here than in the first movie. He's annoyingly selfish, cruel, and aggressive, and we have to assume that's his shtick. Surprisingly, though, after Clark Duke's Jacob tries to jump from a building, he wholeheartedly apologizes and becomes much mellower from then on. Not bad for a widely disliked comedy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Watcher

Keanu Reeves was forced into starring in The Watcher after a friend forged his signature on the contract. GRACKED.COM Unable to conclusively prove the forgery, Reeves says that he fi- nally agreed to take the role rather than face a protracted legal battle. — Source

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Plan 9 From Outer Space

Plan 9 From Outer Space was actually financed by a Baptist church. The legendarily schlocky 50s sci-fi movie was an attempt by the Baptist Church of Beverly Hills to make money to fund religious movies. It failed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Captain Kangaroo

The first kids' show 1955 CRACKED.COM Captain Kangaroo was a show based on the warm relationship between grandparents and children and inspired all your favorite shows when you were a wee lad or lass. — Source

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Laptops

Media blunders 1985 The New York Times LAPTOPS ARE A FAD In 1985, a tech writer for The New York Times wrote that laptop computers wouldn't last long because they weren't very useful and were too expensive, and that they wouldn't significantly change in the future. CRACKED — Ground Picture/Shutterstock
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Charlie Sheen

Fourth of July Movies Born on the Fourth of July Oliver Stone apparently forgot he had cast Charlie Sheen. According to Sheen, Stone directly offered the lead role to him while shooting Platoon. Sheen wasn't happy when he found out (through his brother Emilio Estevez) that Tom Cruise had the part. CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss

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Howard Stern vs. Joe Rogan

CRACKED VS MID CAREER HOWARD STERN JOE ROGAN ake Me HOWARD STERN la CRACKED.COM tter.com/jpero E! Launches Host of a tapings of the podcast where subversive radio people get high show in the and watch mid-90s, bringing YouTube videos the raunchy of other people program to eating bull people's television sets testicles

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Thor: Ragnarok

Thor: Ragnarok cut a scene that showed Valkyrie was clearly bisexual. The scene would've showed a woman walking out of Valkyrie's bedroom, and Taika Waititi was onboard, but they had to cut it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Amazing Spider-Man

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The Force Awakens

The hardest VFX shot in The Force Awakens was the TIE Fighter in the sand. They had to build a full-size wrecked TIE fighter in the desert and light it on fire (after which CGI takes over) to make it feel totally real. CRACKED.COM — Source: CinemaBlend

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True Blood

In the True Blood books, Lafayette didn't make it he on got killed off. He's a totally different character, though-- author Charlaine Harris says that her Lafayette didn't have as much dimension and life and incredible lovable-ness. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

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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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Isla Fisher

Isla Fisher almost drowned. NOW YOU SEE ME CRACKED COM She had a quick-release mechanism in her hand, but the other, very real chains were still dragging her down. She signalled to the crew that she was under duress, but everyone just thought she was in the zone: They thought I

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Kesha

Kesha lCRACKEDCON Brushing your teeth with bottle of a Jack might make people question your brain function, but before becoming a pop star, Kesha rack — Source: Buzzfeed

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Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead has a reference to Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's TV shoW Spaced. AMIEA In Spaced, he played Tyres O'Flaherty- and in Shaun of the De

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Johnny Depp

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The Death Star

THE DEATH STAR TRASH COMPACTOR MONSTER IS A ORCE-SENSITIVE SLAVE. In a short story, we find out the monster (called Omi) was kidnapped and taken to th

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Metallica

CRACKEDcO Metallica's THE GOD THAT FAILED isn't a call to Devil worship. Lhear faith in your cries Broken is the promise, betrayal It's about James Hetfield's mom. Frontman Hetfield's mother passed away from breast cancer after refusing any medical treatment due to her religious beliefs.

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Live and Let Die

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Doctor Who

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