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Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy almost played the titular character in Candyman. Some accounts say that Murphy wanted too much money. Others say he was ultimately deemed too short for the role that, in the end, went to the great Tony Todd. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Van Halen

Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar didn't just see UFOs-he got abducted. That's what he claims, anyway - and he also says aliens were wirelessly plugged into him. It was a download situation, way before wireless, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Norm Macdonald

GRACKED NORM MACDONALD IN NOTHING SPECIAL Like Chadwick Boseman, Norm's terminal cancer diagnosis was only revealed after he passed. Не filmed his final special in his home just months before he died, and impressively did the entire hour in one take. — Netflix

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The Macarena

The Macarena LOS DEL RIO CRACKED.COM The female singer gives he was out of town, and his two friends were so fine as a reason for why she cheated on her boyfriend. — PopCrush

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Valkyrie

The Tom Cruise WWII drama Valkyrie is set in 1944. Führer befiehl 2 Mir folgen Dir Activate Windows In 1941, the Nazis said the font in the sign above (called Fraktur) had Jewish origins, and banned it. CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Movies And Shows That Need Help With History

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Sony

In 2005, Sony illegally installed unremovable rootkits on 22 million computers to prevent the users from ripping copyrighted music. SON TRILUMINOS DISPLAY It also reported user's listening habits back to Sony. Ironically, the code itself contained open source software, and so infringed copyright. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — BBC

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Lou Reed

Lou Reed worked as a typist in his dad's accounting firm. One day in 1970, he quit the Velvet Underground right after a gig, and his parents picked him up and drove him home. Не stayed there, and joined his dad's company a few months later. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Eyebrow-Arching Early Jobs Of Celebs

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Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones asked for a 40-yard running track during the 2017 Coachella. The track was also air-conditioned. CRACKED.COM — 16 Extremely Specific Celebrity Demands

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The Mask

In the comic book version of The Mask, Stanley Ipkiss is a sadistic murderer. CAN NOW. YOU JWMY SPELL DEADMEATU2 Ahn, SHUT UP,YOU'LL THE WORRY KiD. For example, he visits an elementary school teacher who embarrassed him as a kid and stomps her face in, in front of her students. CRACKED.COM

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Mickey Mouse

CRACKED.COM THE NATION OF NIUE PUTS POP CULTURE ICONS ON THEIR MONEY. Niue, an island nation in the Pacific, is so tiny MICKEY that it doesn't have MOUSE much of an economy. A sizable portion of its revenue comes from the pop , oz 999 Fine Disney Silver culture coins they mint. While the coins are certainly legal tender, their true value comes from selling them as collector items. DOCTOR Drventh Toctor WHO - — Source

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Bratz Babyz

CRACKED COM BRATZ BABYZ SHOW YOU'RE NEVER TOO YOUNG TO BE A MINX. I These dolls went through the whole process of being conceived, designed, pitched, approved, manufactured, and distributed, and apparently no one along the line thought of saying, You know, maybe we really shouldn't sexualize babies. — Source

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Robert De Niro

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Dracula

101 pages were cut from Dracula before it was published. Bram Sion DRACULA They were taken from the start of the novel, and a bunch of other changes were made, including to what happened to Dracula and his castle. Those missing 101 pages still haven't been found -- we just have a few scattered pieces, that were published elsewhere. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sega

The lead designer on a Sega arcade game intentionally messed up the colors to get more time to develop. the CRACKED COM The president of SEGA insist- ed that if the graphics were done on Space Harrier, the game was ready for release. The lead designer rigged a switch on his desk that would mess up the colors whenever giving a demonstration. — Source

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Zac Efron

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J. Cole

J. Cole was a first-chair violinist in high school. From 5th to 12th grade, the emcee played violin, earning the top spot at Terry Sanford High School. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Puddle of Mudd

PUDDLE OF MUDD's REHEARSAL SPACE WAS TURNED INTO A LITERAL PUDDLE OF MUD. The band wound up naming itself after the flood that soaked the entire first floor of their rehearsal space, which was located next to the Missouri River. CRACKED.COM http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Puddle_of_Mudd.aspx — Source

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Mariah Carey

CRACKED COM MARIAH CAREY LOVES WHITE THINGS. According to co-star Rob Huebel, while on set for her cameo in The House, Carey demanded her trailer be filled with white roses and plushy white lambs. She also once demanded 12 white Labrador puppies to be put in her dressing room for an appearance on a British morning show. — Source

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22

The Breakfast Club

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES The Breakfast Club ILUNOIS EMC 2 JOHN HUGHES LEFT EASTER EGGS ON LICENSE PLATES. Nerd Brian's plate is EMC 2 because E=MC². And all the individual plate numbers on Jake Ryan's car add up to 16. - adidas 21850 KORNAK 16 Candles CRACKED.COM — Source

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Terrence Howard

TERRENCE HOWARD FALSELY CLAIMED TO HAVE A PH.D. IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING. any DE In 2013, Howard told Jimmy Kimmel that he got a doctorate from South Carolina State University. However, he actually only got an honorary degree after speaking at the school's commencement ceremony-scsu doesn't even offer a chemical engineering degree. CRACKED.COM — Source: Bizarre Lies 19 Famous People Thought They'd Get Away With

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Hot Tub Time Machine

Time Travel Methods Hot Tub Time Machine Get in a hot tub When it comes to experiencing time travel, this has to be the most relaxing option, right? Especially if you travel all the way back to the ice age or something. CRACKED.COM — More: Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers/YouTube
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Lady Bird

CRACKED.COM Lady Bird The original script was 350 pages long. Director Greta Gerwig's first draft was obscenely long. If shot at that length, the movie would have been over five hours long. — Source: Mental Floss

18

Mario

Movie and TV Himbos M Mario franchise Mario Plumber extraordinaire, defender of the Mushroom Kingdom, tennis star, kart expert, and actor. HIMBO CLAIM TO FAME General doofiness. Keeps losing princesses. HIMBO SKILL Multi-faceted. CRACKED.COM

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Revenge of the Sith

Deleted scenes Revenge of the sith Just before fighting a bunch of droids, Anakin and Obi-Wan discuss plans using eyebrow rubs, nose twitches and mustache twirls, like they are baseball coaches. CRACKED.COM — More: 10 Deleted Scenes That Would've Ruined The Film

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The Legend of Zelda

Video game movies we were denied The Legend of Zelda There have been a few attempts to bring the game to the big screen-most recently by Imagi Studios. However, the company went out of business, and Nintendo went another way. CRACKED.COM — Source: MovieWeb

15

Leonard Cohen

CRACKED.COM Leonard Cohen's record company, Columbia, originally refused to release his album with the song Hallelujah in the United States. They said it wasn't good enough. Cohen released Various Positions independently in 1984, to general indifference. So why is Hallelujah so popular? Thank this guy. Yes. A song full of religious and sexual imagery was made world famous by 2001's Shrek, a cartoon movie for children. — Source: 29 Hit Songs' Secret Backstories

14

Darth Vader

THE DARTH VADER GARGOYLE ATTHE WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL During the '80s the Cathedral held a design-a-carving competition for kids, with the third place winner entering the Darth Vader grotesque. These grotesques help deflect rainwater away from the stone walls by bouncing it off the heads and edges. CRACKED.COM — Cathedral.org, Extreme Craft

13

The Producers

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM The Producers 7 UF Who could forget Springtime for Hitler? Only the best song written about Hitler in the last thousand years. Two Broadway producers try to produce the worst play possible for the financial benefits in this Mel Brooks classic. — Source: The Producers

12

Mark Wahlberg

MARK WAHLBERG ISN'T A FAN OF THE HAPPENING In 2010, Wahlberg finally revealed his thoughts on The Happening. F**k it. It is what it is. F**king trees, man. The plants. F**k it. You can't blame me for not wanting to try to play a science teacher. At least I wasn't playing a cop or a crook. CRACKED.COM — 21 Roles Famous Actors Wish They Could Delete From History

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Back to the Future

Tom Wilson ad-libbed one of his best-known lines in Back to the Future. It was Biff's threat Make like a tree, and get out of here that and the word butthead were some of his many improvisations on the set, he says. CRACKED.COM — Source: Yahoo

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The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon became one of the greatest film noir movies - the third time it was made. Dashiell Hammet's novel was filmed in 1931 and 1936 (with different titles), before the definitive 1941 version starring Humphrey Bogart. — Source: Mystery Scene

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Robin Williams

AT A GLANCE ROBIN WILLIAMS Disney gave Williams a Picasso painting as an apology. Williams agreed to voice Aladdin's genie on the condition that his voice wouldn't used in advertising. The $1 million gift wasn't well-received. CRACKED.COM — Source: ArtNet

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

THE CABBAGE MERCHANT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO RETURN.The poor produce peddler was just another one-off character, but then he got unexpectedly popular with fans. James Sie, his voice actor, even got fan mail for playing him. — Source: Slate

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Snapchat

Snapchat Dysmorphia when patients seek surgery in order to appear like themselves with social media filters — Source: ScienceDaily

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Freaks and Geeks

BUSY PHILIPPS AND JAMES FRANCO DIDN'T GET ALONG CRACKED COM Philipps says that Franco was a bully and physically assaulted her on-set. — Source: Variety

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Movie Myths

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Peter Parker

SPIDER-MAN 2 Peter Parker's focus fOus He tells himself to focus, just before crashing down to earth... on top of a Ford Focus.

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Space Quest 3

NDAIV The bad guys of Space Quest 3 are the creators' real Bosses. In the game, you rescue two alien programmer slaves (named after the creators) from

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Batman

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Superman

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